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So Jed lets discuss the jet set lifestyle of Carolyn. Where is she sunning herself this week on 60k a week?

Spammers, corporate spin and now German nationalism..... This forum is going way off topic.

Trupcard you will find an ally in Pogo. Babyn Yar.

1 million profit does not even cover the ITV BoD's expenses claims.

This is a company that used to spend 100 million on BGT but has been forced to cancel that as they cannot generate the revenue to cover the commissioning of another series.

Dire times at ITV and this forums most dishonest commentator wishes to distract everyone.

Winnie you dropped the facade that you filter my posts!!!!! More evidence if required that you deviate from the truth.

So a pre tax profit of 1 million £ gets Winnie excited. That will not even pay half of the CEO's greatly reduced pay package for this year. Dimwit McCall needs to sell more studios to finance her bling lifestyle.

Genuine question. What are the half year results that Winnie is wittering on about? I see an ex divi date and then results in november on my calendar.

Is that Winnie's GP health check that popped up?

Pogo is the gambler who bet his life savings on a rather dubious tip he got from a man in a pub. Turns out he bet everything on an old nag whose last win was 10 years ago.

Still nobody focussed on the main news about the TV industry over the weekend. Rampers cannot stay focussed on the real issues.

Oh and Romesh was on BBC last night doing some murder detective show on Sid Vicious and Nancy. Someone here told us he was "poached by ITV" for a 3 episode game show.....

The good news is sthin on the ground right now. Audience shares in the Netherlands for broadcasters who have bought an ITV drama and the old dears filtering.

The Dame is due to speak an industry event this month. Maybe we can get something positive there rather than her usual pessimistic outlook.

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Please ignore the old lady who follows with her comments about filtering. Her nursing home confirmed she is cranky with everyone.

Lots of discussion over the weekend in the industry about future of BBC, license fee and the two year consultation period from January 2025. It could really transform UK TV and have a profoind affect on ITV.

Slimming down commercial tv offerings, Reduicng the number of buyers in ITV's markets. Studios only having the one big broadcaster to sell to outside of ITV.

Change is gathering pace in the UK PSB industry but sadly some of the people carrying big losses here would rather filter and ignore such discussions. Posts about how ITV is scoring rating winnings in the Netherlands is all we get for the weekend from the Carolyn sychophants.

No good news anywhere here because Winnie spams the board with messages about her filtering which she thinks we all need to know.

She is happy to post ITV spin but no comment on Radcliffe. No comment on where the Dimwit McCall gets to all summer.

I have a feeling that we are in to the autumn downturn now. 80p and above is about to become a thing of the past. Of course my knowledge of economics and markets is inferior to Cretin Kiev who bought a business MBA from the number 1 institute of Almaty.

Never heard of it. Too busy watching Race across the World and Freddie Flintoff. BBC on iPlayer trumps ITV every time. Did watch Clarkson Who wants to be a Millionaire but that was about it.

ITV has nothing worth watching.

so good to have the lse equivalent of fozzie bear dispensing financial advice.

pogo you fail to address any of the real issues put to you. the future of itv, advertising and free to air. not all the current broadcasters and studios are sustainable in a market where audience numbers have more than halved. itv has gone from being no.1 in the uk to 5th place in a decade. it is not moving fast enough to secure revenue streams and make a good return on its current assets. dimwit carolyn spends more time on holiday than addressing shareholders and the business press.

as for ukraine, you have to be blind to think either side are doing anything positive. ultra nationalists fighting ultra nationalists. ww1 scenario where both sides should have avoided the war or ended it when it became obvious that nobody could win. now neither side can offer peace without demanding large gains as they have wasted 500,000+ lives. war of attrition where if either side backs down they face revolution at home. global food shortages, brink of nuclear war, destruction of ukrainian economy and infrastructure. all for this silly dream of ukrainian nationhood.

imagine where ukraine would be today if it has formed a union with russia in 1991. cheap energy in return for ukrainian farm produce. a combined russia and ukraine would be the 3rd largest economy in the world. maybe even would have rivalled china. ****** fools like pogo wrecked the ukraine

Sadly for the rest of the board the muppets filtering people means we now have silly carry on where they all discuss their filters ad nauseum. Good of them to take the moral high ground and then **** on everyone else.

Anyway Radcliffe has gone to STV. The rumours in the other place was that he had fallen out with the EZJ cronies. Now it looks to be more a career progression and garden leave.

The cretin from Kyiv is still in denial. Nobody playing games or manipulating the SP. Just investors losing confidence in the future of ITV advertising and the failure of the Dimwit to invest more in studios and to sell more content to streamers.

Like an Ancien regime CEO she continues to quaff champagne whilst the world is moving on. Nvidia is the only show in town worth watching. Soon AI generated gameshows and reality shows will be the only thing anyone is watching.

Winnie fills the forum with her spam but then sees fit to instruct everyone else as to what is appropriate posting.

Church lady.

Who made Winnie the forum monitor? She posts garbage from the Daily Fail!

Politics is okay as long as we stay on topic.

The worst thing I saw was the implementation of IR35. They moved so many freelance and contractors back onto Pay as you earn. Previously we were incentivised to work 80 hour weeks knowing we were only payin 10-20% in tax. That is why all the haulage drivers packed in a miserable job and moved back to Poland.

I paid more tax outside IR35 than I will ever pay as an employee working through an agency on their payroll. I generated so much money for HMRC, for the clients and all the agencies and suppliers. European companies would hire me for projects on a fixed contract rather than hire permanent employee.

UK was so well positioned as a base for mercenaries like myself so register for tax and then go work in the EU with no labour rights and protections.

Not just this country. AI. Most people will not be needed. Big push to automate everything for last 30 years. My accountant only gets involved now when the figures do not match up and the portal refuses to let me post a tax return.