Disappointed they didn’t use this banger.
Same with Seven Tasmania when they IDs as TNT 9. 
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Interesting…
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It doesn’t really sound like he’s quit either - sounds like he’s been pushed but given an opportunity to choose how to phrase it.
Realistically, it was hard to see it going any other way
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Yes - pretty clear ITV made him step back. A shame it’s come to this but his position had become untenable and the show, and Holly Willoughy, had to protect themselves. Of course the press are spinning him quitting due to his supposed “feud” with Holly rather than blaming themselves for the pressure they’ve put him and the show under and the speculation around him.
Just hope this doesn’t end up in a Caroline Flack type situation (it’s the same hack leading the charge, who has had a vendetta against ITV daytime since being dropped as a showbiz pundit a few years back). Indeed he leaves in somewhat the circumstances he arrived given the previous host left in similar circumstances 21 years ago.
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Willoughby will be gone by christmas, the whole thing has felt like a broadcaster endorsed hit job.
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Oh, please! It’s absolutely nothing like what went on with Caroline Flack. There may or may not be very good reasons that the papers are putting out all this about Phil, and there may or may not be certain injunctions in place that prevent them from saying what really happened. This is why they have to dance around the story, with constant innuendos and insinuations. Nothing like the Caroline Flack thing, which was appalling.
The five-part series will see the married couple exploring Perth and the south west region of WA. It is supported by Tourism Western Australia.
Agreed. I have a bad feeling of it heading that way.
Oh come off it! You and @Brekkie have clearly been taken in by Schofield’s nonsense. I understand there is more to it - much more - than what has been printed in the newspapers. It’s not just something manufactured by bored hacks at The Sun (for once!). I suspect we will find out what really happened later on.
Anyway why would he do the unthinkable purely because of that? Caroline Flack was facing a very serious domestic abuse court case. If Phil really has done nothing wrong, as many of you seem to think, then he has nothing to fear. He’s 63 and he’s been on TV for many years, so he won’t exactly be down the foodbank anytime soon.
Unlike you I reserve judgement until I know the facts. What we know so far doesn’t paint him in a great light, but also doesn’t paint him in the light some are casting him in either. Also they are not new reports - they’ve been around for three years and known to his employers (and likely the press) for longer. In this post Me-Too era TV companies launch internal investigations into such matters if anyone as much as sneezes, so for three years on that to not have come to anything leads me to my own conclusion, but there is still a period in the timeline which I think needs explaining to make a judgement either way.
Back to the show itself and sadly nowadays such shows rarely make quick appointments when needing a new host. GMB still doesn’t have a permanent replacement for Piers Morgan over two years after he left in a strop, whilst The One Show spent about a year using guest hosts before appointing a new male co-host - in the end appointing two.
I suspect we may just see Alison and Dermot, who host Fridays, end up doing an extra couple of days each per week alongside Holly.
That is a very naive way of thinking, but carry on, by all means. To be clear, the alleged allegations aren’t of anything illegal - but they are, I’d argue, deeply immoral. I don’t know why he was allowed to stay at ITV as long as he did - perhaps it was because they themselves didn’t have much proof (if any). But anyway. He’s gone now. And not before time. I would be extremely surprised if there isn’t much more to be revealed about all this.
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The best disagreements are the ones where you actually ultimately agree, but are coming to the same conclusion from opposite angles! 
Channel 4 has new branding!
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British TV has some of the best collective on air presentations with BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5
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The overall package looks very good but unfortunately C4 have taken a BBC approach to this usually than rebranding everything in one day. One ident debuts last November (on it’s 40th birthday), the promos debuts about a month ago, along with a tweaked version of that ident (with the green 4 instead of white), the other presentation elements (menus etc.) have debuted this week whilst the idents aren’t due to air until the summer.
That has somewhat watered down it’s impact - had they launched it all together I think it would have felt like a significant relaunch.
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