To think the world would be a better place without ITV

[Outtaker]

With it producing the TV equivalent of cheap fat-soaked pizza and chips followed by a deep fried mars bar (with a few exceptions - 'Victoria' being one)

We like Endeavour as well as Cold Feet, DCI Banks, Scott and Bailey, all ITV. Love watching Poldark then Victoria on ITV +1. There is room for all on our TV.

ITV 4 has loads of Motorsport on such as Moto GP, BSB, touring cars, as well as cycling & Ruby Union. It is great if you want to watch sport other than football.

Sometimes if you really fancy a deep fried Mars Bar, it doesn't matter you are offering me caviar it won't cure my craving.

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well unless you consider this lot to be the kind of low quality fare you hate so much

Victoria
The Bletchley Circle
Mr Selfridge
Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Whitechapel
Vera
Prime Suspect
Cracker
The Last Weekend
Harry Price Ghost Hunter
Poirot
Marple
The Job Lot
Foyle's War
Broadchurch
Cold Feet
Grantchester
Wire in the Blood
The Great Fire

not saying all of these were brilliant but that's about 15 years of quality drama there I think and that's off the top of my head.

YABU.

Simple solution, don't watch it.

The one and only thing I watch on the BBC is match of the day. Still pay the TV licence without grumbling much though. At least ITV is free.

Oh and I love the X Factor. And Ant & Dec. Does that make me some sort of lower being?

I love the X Factor and BGT. Horses for courses isn't it? We can't all like the same things.

I really don't get this mindset that if you don't enjoy something no one else should

Definitely this! And I dont get all the snobbery about certain shows either. Surely as individuals we watch what we want because we like them. I like Ant and Dec but hey I like "educational" stuff to - its not one or the other!

ITV4 has re-runs of The Professionals. YABU for that reason alone.

CITV has Lego Ninjago! What more do you want, OP?

Yanbu. Between the product placement and ads, I forget what I'm watching. It's so forgettable though!
I watch some bits on catch up to avoid the ads.
I don't see itv as a programme channel anymore. It's advertising with as little shit tv they can get away with before the peasants revolt and switch over.😀
Or they could just sell it to Simon cowell/syco. That way, we would know the number ones for the next year. Not just for Christmas.

Yabu and embarrassingly out of touch. And how do you know you like Victoria if you hate ITV so much? Because clearly you never switch the channel on or anything so shameful?

Silly person.

Some of their drama is great but it's a teeny percentage of their output. Vera is something like 4 x 2 hours every year. By the end of Downton, the programme was so ruined by commercial breaks and sponsorship that it was almost impossible to watch live.

According to some media person on the radio earlier, there is an ad break every 7 MINUTES on X-factor.

People are free to watch what they choose but I wouldn't miss ITV if it disappeared tomorrow. They have gone from being a quality broadcaster very similar in standard to the BBC to a second-rate outfit obsessed with reality talent shows and gameshows. Even things you'd think the kids would enjoy like Ninja Warrior are ruined by the intrusive ads.

And don't forget, this is the channel who think parents who are home during the day are so brain dead that they want Jeremy Kyle and Loose WOmen.

Luna, we have to pay a tv licence and only a tiny percentage of that goes to drama.

And don't forget, this is the channel who think parents who are home during the day are so brain dead that they want Jeremy Kyle and Loose WOmen.

Well, someone must be watching these shows, otherwise they wouldn't keep making them and putting them on the air.

The new cold feet is good. Not really a fan before though!

I wouldnt miss it and i do watch x factor ( only for the ladies on Telly addict thread tho, who are so funny and we can send it all up) but honestly, if ITV ceased i wouldnt miss it. The ads are annoying. Most of it is rubbish.

Itv covers crap which is why I want to keep it. I am secure enough not to worry about what you think. We have about a zillion tvs in our house pluses one outside and they are usually on and if not, radio 4 is. We don't do craft as a family or stop teenagers from going out with their friends because they would stop "family time". I guess that makes us everything wrong in MN eyes

NOOOOOO!

I've just discovered re-runs of Little House on the Prairie on True Entertainment and am currently re-living my childhood. Worth having a TV for the Ingalls & Walnut Grove alone!

And don't forget, this is the channel who think parents who are home during the day are so brain dead that they want Jeremy Kyle

I must be brain dead then 😂

I've been seriously ill and my concentration/energy levels have been too low, to read.

Tipping point, Upstairs Downstairs (which has led to me googling some of the issues/epidemics from that time period) and Monkey life, has filled my time. I've added in The Chase and a few other things.

I'm another Emmerdale and Broadchurch fan.

There are only alternatives, to television if you're healthy and don't have certain disabilities. I want light entertainment, at times. My ongoing bug bare is the amount of films that my DD with LDs can't enjoy because they're not dubbed.

Itv are a bloody strange channel. They can be fantastic for drama and comedy. They're also responsible for XFactor, BGT, Towie, Jeremy Vile, Loose Women and other utter crap. Haven't watched it since my partner was on The Chase, still waiting for something decent to come on.

Newzoids is entertaining.

I quite like ITV. Can't stand channels 4 and 5, though. Too many programmes with "benefits" in the titles, brainwashing people into blaming the poor for the state of the economy.

I don't watch anything on ITV
I wouldn't miss it

Good point, Birds. When I was at home convalescing for 8 weeks I watched endless episodes of House and Jeeves & Wooster, plus Tamsin Day-Lewis' cookery prig. Everything else took too much concentration.

Cookery prog, I mean!

Did anybody else read the thread title as "...better place without TV?" or is just me?

I barely ever watch ITV nowadays - most of my tv use now consists of watching nature and history documentaries on iPlayer, usually while exercising on the mini stepper or trampette. But I wouldn't dream if suggesting that ITV shouldn't be available to those that wish to watch it. What an odd suggestion.

Yabu.

You don't have to watch it and there are other channels available.

It's also perfectly possibly to watch a range of different TV. I watch all the channels equally.

"cookery prig"

I'm sure there're plenty of those around.