The ITV Thread

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The initial press releases confirmed that UTV Ireland would basically take the schedule of UTV/ITV. So I'm not quite sure why there's any surprise. They will show the UTV/ITV schedule, without UTV/ITN News, replacing that with an Irish news service. They will produce a few one off shows in the same vain as "Lesser Spotted Ulster" - cheap to make and tick the local programming box.

One thing that TV3 never really did was to broadcast ITV's dramas (with the exception of Downton Abbey). UTV Ireland looks as if they are broadcasting the ITV dramas given they are showing Doc Martin. I'm not sure RTE went for the ITV dramas over the years - A Touch of Frost,Poirot, Inspector Morse, Fat Club, Broadchurch etc.

Are these ITV dramas popular in Ireland?

Also, just how popular is UTV/ITV's daytime lineup with Irish viewers? 'Lorraine', 'This Morning' and 'Loose Women' can't get any more British. Will this go down well with Irish viewers and will they stick with the '"Irish" daytime programming provided by TV3 and RTE.

I like a lot of the ITV dramas but am disappointed to read that UTV Ireland won't be showing the second series of Broadchurch in January, as they don't have the rights. Hope TV3 show it at the same time as ITV then.

Elmo

hotmail.com wrote: »

One thing that TV3 never really did was to broadcast ITV's dramas (with the exception of Downton Abbey). UTV Ireland looks as if they are broadcasting the ITV dramas given they are showing Doc Martin. I'm not sure RTE went for the ITV dramas over the years - A Touch of Frost,Poirot, Inspector Morse, Fat Club, Broadchurch etc.

RTÉ did air many of these dramas prior to 2001. TV3 by the looks if it had the rights to such dramas and choose not to show them. Bizzare considering they could have shown them on 3e or late night.

Even show ITV daytime during daytime hours of 3e rather than repeat TV3's stuff.

zorro2566 wrote: »

I like a lot of the ITV dramas but am disappointed to read that UTV Ireland won't be showing the second series of Broadchurch in January, as they don't gave the rights. Hope TV3 show it at the same time as ITV then.

TV3 have the rights haven't heard if they will start it on the 5 of Jan as ITV.

endakenny

hotmail.com wrote: »

One thing that TV3 never really did was to broadcast ITV's dramas (with the exception of Downton Abbey).

Well, TV3 has been in the red for the past few years.

irishfeen

endakenny wrote: »

Well, TV3 has been in the red for the past few years.

They managed to find money for the likes of Tallifornia and Xpose though...

irishfeen

Promos about to kick off on the channel again by the looks of it - no sound at the minute on the HD channel but there is on the SD variation.

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Elmo wrote: »

RTÉ did air many of these dramas prior to 2001. TV3 by the looks if it had the rights to such dramas and choose not to show them. Bizzare considering they could have shown them on 3e or late night.

Even show ITV daytime during daytime hours of 3e rather than repeat TV3's stuff.

Yes that seems odd or maybe the dramas aren't popular here?

Will UTV Ireland provide the news update during 'This Morning' or will they take the ITN report?

Any details yet on what kind of news programmes they will provide at the weekend?

irishfeen

irishfeen wrote: »

Promos about to kick off on the channel again by the looks of it - no sound at the minute on the HD channel but there is on the SD variation.

Yes spotted that at lunchtime, thought my telly was on the blink (no sound on channel 116) until I switched to channel 267 for the SD version!

icdg

It appears they will be running a weather forecast during the news summary timeslot in This Morning.

galtee boy

zorro2566 wrote: »

Yes spotted that at lunchtime, thought my telly was on the blink (no sound on channel 116) until I switched to channel 267 for the SD version!

Promos only running on Sky at the moment. Saorview is last for everything !

Gits_bone

Will the channel be bumped up beside RTE and TV3 on the sky listings? Would make the odds on me watching it higher.

Gits_bone

Gits_bone wrote: »

Will the channel be bumped up beside RTE and TV3 on the sky listings? Would make the odds on me watching it higher.

That won't happen,there isn't any other available EPG slot/number.The slot/number doesn't matter anyway,there are plenty of channels in the 100s,200s etc that people watch, so a higher EPG placing won't make a difference to viewing habits.

irishfeen

Gits_bone wrote: »

Will the channel be bumped up beside RTE and TV3 on the sky listings? Would make the odds on me watching it higher.

116 was the highest EPG slot open to UTVI .. The only way they will go higher is if sky reshuffle the EPG completly (highly unlikely) or if TV3 goes bust or closes 3e.

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icdg wrote: »

It appears they will be running a weather forecast during the news summary timeslot in This Morning.

So news at all until 6.30 PM on week days.

That's a little disappointing.

icdg

Well, given that TV3 have no news after 6:00pm, it appears the two of them together add up to one news service. On weekdays at least.

endakenny

irishfeen wrote: »

They managed to find money for the likes of Tallifornia and Xpose though...

Maybe they're cheaper than buying ITV drama.

Elmo

endakenny wrote: »

Maybe they're cheaper than buying ITV drama.

Even a cheap Reality TV programmes are more expensive to produce than to buy in programming. ITV Drama probably cost from 2,000 to 3,000 per hour, while a home produced Reality series could cost from 30,000 to 50,000 per hour (and that is on the very cheap side, realistically a well produced series would cost around 100,000 per hour).

Up until the end of Heartbeat TV3 nearly always had an ITV drama on at 8 on Sunday Night and took spin offs to such shows.

Piorot was always a big show for RTÉ repeating nearly as much as Murder She Wrote before ITV took their share in TV3. I don't think it has been shown on RTÉ since.

iseegirls

hotmail.com wrote: »

One thing that TV3 never really did was to broadcast ITV's dramas (with the exception of Downton Abbey). UTV Ireland looks as if they are broadcasting the ITV dramas given they are showing Doc Martin. I'm not sure RTE went for the ITV dramas over the years - A Touch of Frost,Poirot, Inspector Morse, Fat Club, Broadchurch etc.

TV3 did show a lot of ITV's dramas though over the past few years. They had Cracker, A Touch Of Frost, Bad Girls, Doc Martin, Wild At Heart, Mr Selfridge, Broadchurch, The Royal, Heartbeat, Cold Feet, Footballers Wives, Londons Burning, Life Begins, Lewis, The Knock, Kingdom, Prime Suspect, Rebus, Thief Takers, Time of Your Life, Trial & Retribution, The Vice, Where The Heart Is amongst others.

I wouldn't consider Fat Club as a drama.

Kermit.de.frog

I can't take Chris Donoghue seriously on the radio and I highly doubt it will be different on tv. I'd rather listen to someone who doesn't sound like a teenager that has not gone through puberty yet giving me the news and discussing current affairs when i'm tired and cranky in the morning. Don't think I could bare it in the evening either.

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iseegirls wrote: »

TV3 did show a lot of ITV's dramas though over the past few years. They had Cracker, A Touch Of Frost, Bad Girls, Doc Martin, Wild At Heart, Mr Selfridge, Broadchurch, The Royal, Heartbeat, Cold Feet, Footballers Wives, Londons Burning, Life Begins, Lewis, The Knock, Kingdom, Prime Suspect, Rebus, Thief Takers, Time of Your Life, Trial & Retribution, The Vice, Where The Heart Is amongst others.

I wouldn't consider Fat Club as a drama.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. I really didn't watch a whole lot of TV3. I stand corrected.

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

TV3 did show a lot of ITV's dramas though over the past few years. They had Cracker, A Touch Of Frost, Bad Girls, Doc Martin, Wild At Heart, Mr Selfridge, Broadchurch, The Royal, Heartbeat, Cold Feet, Footballers Wives, Londons Burning, Life Begins, Lewis, The Knock, Kingdom, Prime Suspect, Rebus, Thief Takers, Time of Your Life, Trial & Retribution, The Vice, Where The Heart Is amongst others.

I know that they did show ITV's return to both Cracker and Prime Suspect in the Early to Mid-2000s. I don't remember A Touch of Frost, Rebus, Lewis, The Knock, Kingdom or Trial & Retribution. I think they did show the first season of L&O UK. If they did show them the stop in the mid-2000s. The Knock was definately on RTÉ 2 when it ran itinally, it could have been repeated by TV3 when they got the ITV contract.

Infoanon

RTE Radio 1 had a feature this evening about the launch of UTV Ireland - approximately 5.40pm airing time, TV3 moaning a lot about Saorview carriage. ...

lertsnim

Infoanon wrote: »

TV3 moaning a lot about Saorview carriage. ...

What would a development in Irish broadcasting be without a good old fashioned TV3 moan about something.

iseegirls

Elmo wrote: »

I know that they did show ITV's return to both Cracker and Prime Suspect in the Early to Mid-2000s. I don't remember A Touch of Frost, Rebus, Lewis, The Knock, Kingdom or Trial & Retribution. I think they did show the first season of L&O UK. If they did show them the stop in the mid-2000s. The Knock was definately on RTÉ 2 when it ran itinally, it could have been repeated by TV3 when they got the ITV contract.

Yep, a lot of those they stopped showing on TV3 around late 2000s.
A Touch Of Frost ran from 2001-2010 (Series7-S14)
Rebus 2007-2008 (S2-3)
Lewis 2006-2009 (S1-2)
The Knock 2001-2003 (S6)
Kingdom 2009-2010 (S1-S2)
Trial And Retribution 2006-2009 (S1-S2,S7-S8,S10)

And for Law And Order UK they broadcast the first 2 series.

dublinman1990

There is a new short promotional video for UTV Ireland showing Chris Donoghue and Alison Comyn for Ireland Live at 10 on Saorview.

Elmo

If they did bid for Champions League its a big blow not to get the rights but it was TV3's to lose.

With the sports TV3 looks fairly safe, I can imagine that TV3 will decide to carry all of their sports on TV3 rather then pushing some of it to 3e. Purely to help boost audience share.

icdg

Elmo wrote: »

If they did bid for Champions League its a big blow not to get the rights but it was TV3's to lose.

With the sports TV3 looks fairly safe, I can imagine that TV3 will decide to carry all of their sports on TV3 rather then pushing some of it to 3e. Purely to help boost audience share.

Barring the Rugby World Cup, which is a one-off event, and their UFC coverage (which is bought in from the promoter and mostly pretaped), right now the Champions League (and the Europa League, if they retain it) is the only ongoing sports coverage TV3 have.

Elmo

icdg wrote: »

Barring the Rugby World Cup, which is a one-off event, and their UFC coverage (which is bought in from the promoter and mostly pretaped), right now the Champions League (and the Europa League, if they retain it) is the only ongoing sports coverage TV3 have.

Though week to week it is a major thing to have. And whos to say what other sports they might go after in the future. It will help to keep them closer to 10% IMO.

dublinman1990

There is an article here from the journal about Pat Kenny's new show on UTV Ireland.

http://www.thejournal.ie/pat-kenny-utv-ireland-1840947-Dec2014/

There is no plans for Pat to host a UTV Ireland toy show as he personally can't do any more of them.

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/pat-kenny-toy-show-1841507-Dec2014/

AwaitYourReply

Interesting to see the current promo loop going out on UTV Ireland showing a very brief introduction from their two main news anchors: Alison Comyn and Chris Donoghue welcoming viewers to check out Ireland's newest TV channel from 7:25pm onwards on New Year's Day Thursday 1st of January 2015. It appears that the channel is going out on all the major digital platforms including Saorview LCN: 06 but only in SD format.

I wonder if it is likely that UTV Ireland will push for their new channel in the Republic to go High Definition (HD) on Saorview ahead of TV3 and if so when it is most likely to happen?

I imagine those in TV3 Group HQ in Ballymount will surely try and have some form of compromise deal negotiated with 2RN to enable TV3 to go out on Saorview in HD in time for the Rugby World Cup television coverage as it would be the perfect opportunity to launch HD standard and further enhance TV3 given the increased competition from UTV Ireland on their home turf.