[JLav25]

I would hope ITV consider more things than just the ratings of a poll on a website somewhere about whether to commission/recommission a programme.  Things like that are just snapshots in time about what's popular.

Long as a programme gets sufficient arses on sofas, that's the priority.

But of course formats can be tweaked or completely overhauled and then shows run for years themselves; its how they're packaged that makes the difference as to whether they live (and for how long) or whether they die, and how quickly.

In the 70s, 80s and to an extent the 90s game shows ran for years pretty much by default with a more captive audience, and most of them were complete crap in their early days, taking years to evolve into a semi decent format or package.  That doesn't happen these days, so if it doesn't work from the off, it goes in the bin.

Well ITV have been known to ignore the poll before. Alphabetical topped the Hall of Shame poll but got a second series, while 1000 Heartbeats topped the Fame poll but wasn't recommisioned after (got two series in the same year)