[Torpido]

Some shows taken live from itv 1 virgin media allow Irish viewers to vote and interact with and some shows the do not

[bilky asko]

One place it's also noticeable is on the Ideal World overnight slot, where ITV1 and STV are regularly mentioned, with separate mentions of STV on occasions where they join before ITV1 does.

Indeed, because ITV4 now has a repeat slot from 3am-6am (which started a few weeks ago), and because ITV1 and STV (almost?) never join at precisely 12am, there have been a couple of mentions of ITV4 at the stroke of 12am purely for the repeats.

[Milkshake]

It was a shambles but it had to happen, the old network agreement should have been changed will before 2011.. People also forgot STV dropped  Al Murray's Happy Hour, Moving Wallpaper, Benidorm and The Alan Titchmarsh show.

The latter was replaced by 5.30 show then shortly afterwards by the Hour, which actually rated extremely well.  It also meant the first two series of the Chase were also not screened in Scotland until the Saturday repeats a few years later

It was such a fascinating period to see STV really struggle, and frankly fail, to fill their schedules with some utter tosh while the rest of the country was gripped by hit series like Downton. ITV ended up putting Downton on ITV3 a few days after the broadcast so people in Scotland could still watch.

I remember they showed a 12 year old STV produced crime drama that no one remembered in place of some big new drama which wound a lot of people up, and I think they bought the Australian drama Underbelly to fill some gaps too. Didn't they fill the weekend daytime schedules with old STV produced kids shows as well?.

Was the 12 years Drama -  Missing with Gregor Fisher Which had been sitting on a shelf of 5 years waiting for a network slot, 

Downton Abbey Series 1 was replaced with Brand new Taggart., which STV had to pay out of its own pocket ( there the hint where most of the money went)  STV had to cut cost which resulted in Colin McCredie being let go, but the scripts were far superior not being under the control of ITV demands.  Breath of fresh air, makes me wonder what other dramas could have been better if ITV just buggered off..

ITV ended up playing Taggart 3 months later on a Tuesday and STV also repeated the series. 

By 2003?  All STV got to make for the ITV network was Taggart & Rebus which = 8 episode if they were lucky a year.    Before that STV had kids programmes, reglion,  high road ( its actually 30 years ago this month network dropped the series but most of ITV company's carried on )  2 Gameshows but then all gone. Of course STV not going to be happy with losing and having no say in the network.

[Brekkie]

With them generally using a QR code on screen now to link to the website I assume that goes to itv.com by default, or are they smart enough to divert viewers in Scotland to the STV site?

[gottago]

Was the 12 years Drama -  Missing with Gregor Fisher Which had been sitting on a shelf of 5 years waiting for a network slot, 

Going off that DS thread I think it was the American adaptation of Cracker from 1997 which was renamed Fitz here. They must've been seriously cash-strapped to be putting that on. 

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[Brekkie]

Do STV even opt out much at all nowadays - is it just the 7pm slot on Fridays?

[WillPS]

With them generally using a QR code on screen now to link to the website I assume that goes to itv.com by default, or are they smart enough to divert viewers in Scotland to the STV site?

A QR code itself couldn't do that - it could link to a page which attempts to determine position (using data from the user's device, should they opt to allow it, and/or IP data - which is a very flimsy way of determining locality) then redirects accordingly tho.

EDIT: Unless STV cover that QR code up and replace it with their own?

[excel99]

By 2003?  All STV got to make for the ITV network was Taggart & Rebus which = 8 episode if they were lucky a year.    Before that STV had kids programmes, reglion,  high road ( its actually 30 years ago this month network dropped the series but most of ITV company's carried on )  2 Gameshows but then all gone. Of course STV not going to be happy with losing and having no say in the network.

Since then STV have had some notable success on the production front. Catchphrase, and for the BBC Antiques Road Trip and Bridge of Lies come to mind. They seem to have turned themselves into a successful 'indie'

Do STV even opt out much at all nowadays - is it just the 7pm slot on Fridays?

There's Scotland Tonight as well. Mon-Wed post News at Ten, Thursdays at 2030, bumping Tonight to post News at Ten

[Milkshake]

And every so often they have 9pm slot on A Tuesday for local stuff, to help bump up the 90mins peak time quoter.  In election years there go all out on that slot.

I do remember STV opting out of the last series of 5 gold rings to broadcast a gameshow with Lorraine Kelly.


Of course back in 2009 when that dispute happened they did make idents for many of the output programmes like South park and even underbelly.

[JAS84]

Wise move in hindsight... 5 Gold Rings will either be cancelled or require a new host now.