ITV in the Face: Southern, TVS, Meridian (2 of 3)

[tokutom]

@DreadwindsGhost I actually skipped through it! I just couldn't watch it!

[tokutom]

@DreadwindsGhost It freaked me out the first time I saw it. I was 12,thinking ''Oh this'll be cool to see how it ended''!

[madcapoperator]

So the austier twee 1950's mediocrity of southern was replaced with the thatcherite bullshit of TVS. Yeah, not too bothered about this region really in terms of them being generic-ised by ITV plc because it wouldnt have made much of a difference in a place like that.

[rachel7000rf]

what was wrong with TVS? I felt it was fantastic especially the ident

[TheMasterNo6]

Brilliant work on all these ITV things you've done! But whys your voice echoey?

[Applemask]

@TheMasterNo6 Cheap microphone

[Markelby]

Whatever happened to Barry Westwood ? Did he ever work for TVS.

[MrElliotpaige]

Why is it, I cant hear the TVS jingle without thinking its about to go into the 73 theme song?

I'm the same way with 20th Century Fox and the Star Wars theme...

[Applemask]

HEY YOU!

[darrowby1972]

get ready get on your feet get into gear and hit the street! No73 only spoilt by the cock eyed dyke we love to hate, Sandi Toksvig

[Applemask]

@darrowby1972 I like Sandi Toksvig. I almost walked right into her once. In the lobby of BBC Television Centre.

[TashkentFox]

Am I weird for liking the song Portacabin TV? Could you upload the whole thing for a laugh?

[Applemask]

I might do. You're only missing one verse though. It sounds like the others and it goes like this:

We are Portakabin TV

Our approach is fresh & new

You won't see us making shows just cos they pay

There'll be no more 321

And Crossroads we will shun

At least for the first six months anyway

[Woollylinnet]

@TashkentFox You may already have discovered it since you asked, but the full Portakabin TV can be found at - watch?v=pWaQ2RaAqJw

[wakefieldoutlaw]

Yay Setanta! Great work again!

[baronscarpia1]

No wonder TVS rejected the ITV generic ident. The graphic designers clearly had no idea how to represent the channel.

[Applemask]

It's not as if it would have been hard to incorporate the TVS flower into the thing.

[docmagnus88]

At 3:15. what pathos!