Behold, Adam Crozier, new head of ITV has spoken. After leading the Royal Mail from shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service to shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service, he now has set out his stall (TM Terry Venables) outlining his hopes for the channel. Naturally he highlights the quality programming the channel currently produces, naming 'Britain's Got Talent' and the US remake of 'The Prisoner' as prime examples of that 'quality'.
Ummm, right. Over here in the US I wasn't even aware of ABC's 'The Prisoner' being on, I knew it was in the pipeline, then all of a sudden the 6 episodes had come and gone with zero publicity or fanfare. I know 2 people who watched it. Both said it was crap. I have no reason to doubt that being an accurate overview of the series. I have yet to see it, and would resent paying money for the DVD to discover it's as pants as everyone (well, 2 people) says. IMDB with its largely unintelligible comments section goes some way to cementing the shows reputation as being rubbish. The trailer makes it look like it would at least be 'interesting', but I'm sure somewhere somebody also uttered those words about the Ralph Fiennes 'Avengers' fiasco.
Oh wait...that was me...
Anyway, with shout outs like that, Adam Crozier certainly makes me think he can take ITV from a channel that shows mostly imported crap, homemade crap based on imported crap, gameshows, reality gameshows, and reality shows that might have gameshows in them, into a channel that ONLY shows mostly imported crap, homemade c...well, you can guess the rest...
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