A Brush with Fame is a light hearted ITV daytime television show, featuring a nationwide search to find Britain's best amateur portrait painter. It was presented by Carol Smillie, and the last episode was broadcast on 11 November 2005.
Sunday Feast is a cookery show on British television channel ITV. The show's hosts are Andi Peters and Anneka Rice. Their two resident chefs, who alternate week by week, are Ed Baines and Paul Merrett.
The show is made by Prospect Pictures, who produce other food shows including Saturday Cooks!, Great Food Live and Food Uncut, and have previously produced Taste for Sky One.
The show features a special guest each week, a look at the Sunday newspapers, and up to 3 recipes cooked by that episode's chef.
Sunday Feast aired on Sunday mornings at 10am. The first series has now finished, and it will not be returning due to poor ratings.
ITV News Channel TV is the flagship regional news service on ITV Channel Television, co-produced with the independent production company, Newsline. The news service is produced from the main studios of Channel Television in St. Helier, Jersey. Reporters and camera crews are also based at Channel's Guernsey studios in St Sampson's. Freelance correspondents, camera crews and videojournalists are based on Alderney and Sark.
From tea-cup Chihuahuas to miniature pigs the demand for mini-pets is growing but is it a lucrative business or a cruel genetic mutation? This documentary goes behind the scenes of what is fast becoming a multi-million pound industry. Candid interviews with breeders and owners reveal the extent of the demand which now extends to supplying tiny cows, pigs, rabbits, horses and even goats. Probing and insightful, Super Tiny Animals is a compelling look in to a world of incessant human intervention.
Totally Senseless is an upcoming game show for ITV. The pilot episodes were hosted by Steve Jones and Brian Dowling with team captains Keith Duffy, Sinitta, Heidi Range, and Joe Swash.
Vanessa was a British talk show presented by Vanessa Feltz. Vanessa Feltz was eventually sacked for asking for much money. Vanessa Feltz's show was replaced by Trisha Goddard.
All Star Mr & Mrs is a British television show which first began airing on 12 April 2008 on ITV. The programme is currently hosted by Phillip Schofield, although Fern Britton co-hosted the show alongside Schofield between 2008 and 2010.
It was confirmed in December 2007, that a revived version of the original show would air on ITV from Spring 2008, presented by Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton. The revived series features celebrities and their real-life partners playing to win up to £30,000 for their chosen charity.
The Last of the Baskets was a British television situation comedy produced by Granada and starring Arthur Lowe that ran for two series in the early 1970s.
Created by John Stevenson the programme was about a factory worker Clifford Basket who inherited a title of the Earl of Clogborough, a rundown mansion at Little Clogborough-in-the-Marsh and a faithful servant Bodkin played by Arthur Lowe.
Rain on the Roof is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast by ITV on 26 October 1980.
It is the second in a loosely-connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal produced for London Weekend Television by the independent company Potter and producer Kenith Trodd established after a breech in the playwright's relationship with the BBC. A psycho-sexual thriller, the drama is an example of the visitation motiff: a key theme in Potter's work. The title of the play is taken from the 1932 Al Bowlly song of the same name.
The Wall Game was a 1985 children's television game show produced by Thames Television for ITV. The show was based on the idea of a theatre workshop and would see two groups of contestants building sets from pieces of a giant wall, then improvise a play. The programme was presented by Helen Bennett and also starred Hal Lehrman, Anthony Johns, Sinitta, Deborah Goodman, and John Ramm. The series was chosen to represent Britain at the 1985 Tokyo World's Fair.
First Tuesday or This World is a monthly television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on the ITV network and was produced by Yorkshire Television. The subject matter was mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world. It ran from 5 April 1983 to 2 November 1993, with programme being shown on the first Tuesday of the month, hence the title. In 1993, Network First was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
My kind of people is an ITV television show presented by British entertainer Michael Barrymore broadcast in 1995. Barrymore travelled around the country in his customised sports car visiting shopping centres, where amateurs performed on a stage for the programme unrehearsed.
Some acts were simply shown performing together with the audience reaction, whereas others were interviewed by Barrymore or shown inter-dispersed with footage of Barrymore to the side of the stage engaged in foolish behaviour in order to get reactions from the audience. Often, Barrymore would join the act on stage and continue the tomfoolery.
Notably, Susan Boyle performed on the show before she became famous worldwide for her Britain's got talent audition in 2009. Barrymore mocked her as she performed "I don't know how to love him" from Jesus Christ Superstar at the Olympia Mall in East Kilbride, lying on the stage beneath her and pretending to look up her skirt as she performed, attempting to sing with her during the end of the song and the
No. 1 Soap Fan was a one-off gameshow hosted by Bradley Walsh for ITV on 29 December 2007. The show consisted of an audience of soap opera fans. The show had four rounds, the fist was naming barmaids from the Rovers Return. The second saw three soap stars com on stage and quiz a contestant about their character. The third round showed some of soaps classic or highest rating moments of all time and then Q&A followed. The winner from each round progressed to the final - the Soapstar Superboard that saw the 3 finalist given 90 seconds to answer 12 questions asked by 12 soapstars.
The show was made by Talent Television Limited and devised by Stuart Shawcross.
24 Hour Quiz is a British game show that was broadcast on ITV in early 2004, presented by Shaun Williamson and Matt Brown and created by Richard Osman for Endemol UK. It was shown from 5pm to 6pm. Several protest groups complained after several nude scenes appeared and a contestant was ejected due to offensive behaviour.
ITV2 provided live streaming from the "quiz pod". The series was axed after one series by ITV due to low ratings.
In October 26, 2012, Richard Osman, writing for The Guardian named 24 Hour Quiz among four of UK TV's worst ever gameshows.
Dear Mother...Love Albert later retitled Albert! was a British sitcom broadcast between September 1969 and June 1972. It was created by and starred Rodney Bewes. Bewes co-wrote and produced the series with Derrick Goodwin. The show proved popular and regularly made the TV ratings top ten throughout its three year run.
The theme song was sung by Bewes, co-written by Mike Hugg. Hugg had also encouraged Bewes to sing the theme to his previous sitcom The Likely Lads, but Bewes recalls "I think I drank a bottle of port in the end, but I couldn't get it".
There were 26 episodes, including the three Christmas specials, all three broadcast as part of All Star Comedy Carnival. The fourth and final series was broadcast as a sequel entitled Albert!, which ran for a further series of seven episodes. Series 1 was produced by Thames Television, while the subsequent series 2-4 were produced by Yorkshire Television.