ITV Play goes off the air!

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

ITV2+1 will replace Play on Freeview. Sorry. Repeats of repeats of things you didn't want to watch in the first place.

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Heartbreaking, isn't it?

They have hundreds of hours of old races, football matches, comedy shows and even Coronation Street from day one, yet they simply stick on a repeat of earlier shows that only about twenty people watched anyhow :mark:

Even Play's games were better than that - at least we could laugh at the people calling to say "A film title with an animal in it" could be Black Beauty and "A film title with a day of the week in it" could be Independance Day :laugh:

By the way, I don't believe anything like 14k calls an hour. More like 20ish per minute (they used to say at the bottom of the screen I'm told) and the other revenue was from advertising, etc.

I've heard a similar figure to tintin's on MediaGuardian, but I can't find the link right now.

I do believe it, sadly. There are plenty of stupid people willing to phone in repeatedly, and plenty more with addictive personalities who don't know any better. :s

But don't they put the number of players in the past minute or two at the bottom of the screen, so you know (for example) that 28 people were daft enough to try their luck for each call answered?

I did see it once myself, but can't remember which channel it was. I simply cannot believe there's 14,000 calls an hour - we're not that stupid a nation are we? :crazy:

Just remembered I read on teletext that ITV Play lost money overall anyway, according to an ITV spokesperson.

So it's a pointless argument anyway :p :

The dedicated channel struggled because of carriage costs; but overall it's making a mint. Or a glitterball, I forget which.

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Originally Posted by Kneeslider

A good example of the crapulence of ITVplay and their ilk was illustrated by the piece on the BBC News Magazine pages today.

A question on ITV Play went like this:- To win £30,000.

Add the pence!

Two Pounds, 25p, £1.47, 16p, fifty Pence.

Simple you may think, but the 'correct answer according to ITV Play is 506, but they refuse to give any explanation!

Harumph!

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Well, the good folk at The Times are just as confused as you, as this story on Media Guardian shows:

The sorry state of phone-ins


Wednesday March 14, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk


Number crunch

It has baffled boffins at Mensa as well as lateral-thinking pioneer Edward de Bono, but ITV today claimed there was a legitimate way of getting the answer to a mind-boggling quiz it set on the premium-rate phone-in show Make Your Play. The Times reported this morning that it was finding it tough to get anyone to reach the answer of 506 in the quiz headed Add the Pence, which listed "Two pounds, 25p, £1.47, 16p, Fifty pence" as its options. A Bletchley Park cryptanalyst finally came up with a way of reaching 506 but ITV said it was wrong. Monkey was today taken through the puzzle, but not being a maths enthusiast is not really any the wiser. But for all you puzzle fiends out there, here is the answer, apparently. Two pounds = 200p, count the letter p on its own as well plus the portion of the phrase that alludes to 2p, and that makes 203p. Then you add 25p plus the 5p separately and the singular p which makes 31p. Then add £1.47 and the singular p, making £1.48; 16p plus the separate 6p and the singular p makes 23p. Then Fifty pence is taken as 50p plus 50p plus the single p. And all of this makes 506. Allegedly. Monkey only asks that you hassle ITV and not MediaGuardian if you don't get it either.



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I heard that ITV Play will still broadcast at weekends, in the wee small hours. I think they should ditch all these stupid quizzes.

"Now for the big prize, just answer this question: What are Jensen Button's initials?" "Hello is it 1974?" "Yeah, you've won, you're the nearest!"

Remember the good old days when it was "Answers on a postcard please!"

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

I think we might be about to see the end of ITV Play once and for all.

Edit: The digital channel is being scrapped, but the overnight crapfest on ITV1 will continue for the forseeable future.

Still, it's a start :)

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That came on the TV last night as I was going to bed. I only paid attention because I heard a bloke calling to solve one of those word puzzles say "well as I like sex, I think the answer is 'sacs' ". :rotflmao:

I do wish that programme would be dropped as well though. They used to show some decent stuff at night, including the legendary Weir's Way.

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Originally Posted by ATF

ITV Sport would be awesome - but how about just ITV Motorsport? F1, BTCC, WRC, BSB and they could pick up the rights to WSBK and WTCC...am I dreaming a bit... :eek:

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that will be sweat itv sport channel again

also, no more itv play, yeeeeeeeees

:rolleyes: :bandit: Hang on, you haven't heard the best bit yet. Blue Peter presenters were forced to apologise becasue one of the phone-in competitions had been rigged. Well, I never, fancy corrupting all those little kiddies. Dear oh dear, whatever next.