07-09-2023, 01:41 PM
(07-09-2023, 11:35 AM)AndyB2008 Wrote: Didn't Trisha Goddard have some drama with Dianne Nelmes, another ITV daytime executive, hence why she defected to C5?
Trisha wanted her show to be produced by Townhouse Television, a company formed by her and former Anglia Television executive Malcolm Allsop (who had hired her to take over from Vanessa Feltz), therefore giving her a bit creative control over it.
Nelmes refused to entertain the idea, so Trisha went to C5 when they were able to give her the creative control.
And then when she did defect didn't ITV stockpile whatever remaining new episodes they had, running repeats in their place, then put the 'new' episodes to air when they C5 show started?
ISTR that she went on air in C5 in the afternoons initially, pulling in lower ratings than what the Trisha episodes on ITV were getting, and only switched to mornings (which is where her audience was) when ITV ran out of Trisha episodes to air.