Oh, FFS, I only just got over the purile load of unentertaining, unfunny drivel that was served up for 'Cheeeeldren in Need' and now I find that ITV are going to jump on the Charity - sorry, I meant Christmas - bandwagon...
Announcing 'Text Santa', Peter Fincham, ITV Director of Television said: “This is a superb opportunity for us to throw the weight of the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster behind a brand new charity initiative and event. And it's incredibly cheap to produce 'cos it's for charity and everybody appearing does it for nothing .
Text Santa will be a fantastic entertainment centrepiece to the ITV1 Christmas schedule, but more importantly we also get to fill four hours of our otherwise overstretched schedule which would otherwise be showing repeats - sorry, I mean classic episodes - of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and Coronation Street or old black and white films.”
The first show kicks off on 11th December with a live, one-hour special hosted by Phillip Snowfield and Christine Blankly, co-hosted by Ant and Dec who have promissed to end the show by doing something that their viewers have always wanted them to do. I'd like to suggest perhaps jumping naked from an airplane over the Atlantic without a parachute!
The second show is on Christmas Eve. With further victims to be announced, both shows will combine unbelievably untalented attempts at entertainment with seriously unfunny attempts at comedy in order to exploit the spirit of Christmas in a cynical attempt to seperate you from your hard earned money.
Enough! Please! I'm all charitied out...
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CIN passed me by entirely unoticed as will ITVs effort, not watching telly helps in this regard.
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