ITV’s flagship entertainment programme Britain’s got Talent returns to screens on Saturday (March 20) and brand new drama Red Eye starring Richard Armitage hits the channel on Sunday. However it appears that there is not much else in the way of new content for viewers of the broadcaster to watch in the coming weeks.
As Ant and Dec and the Britain’s Got Talent judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli and Amanda Holden, get set for the new season the channel has come under fire for scheduling numerous repeats in prime time slots at the weekend. An account called TV Zone on X pointed out the fact that Sunday 28th April has numerous repeats scheduled and claimed it meant the channel was “struggling”.
“If you wanted a sign that ITV are now starting to struggle to fill the schedule, Sunday 28th April is a repeat of #TheChase Celebrity Special, followed by a repeat of #DealOrNoDeal (one of the daytime episodes, not a celebrity special), followed by a repeat of #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire,” they posted.
They added: “Who wants to bet that they don’t re-edit the daytime cut of Deal Or No Deal so Stephen still introduces it as a ‘new week’ and ‘join us again tomorrow at the same time’.”
Their followers seemed to agree with them and flooded the comments with their thoughts. @adejacobsdj pondered: “I do kind of wonder if the way forward is more co-operation or pooling of resources between ITV and the BBC. I know they are much closer than they ever used to be.”