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🎯 Strictly causes controversy with three presenters 🎯 ITV postpones a number of primetime shows 🎯 Tom Jones slams ITV after axe 🎯 BBC removes eleven Mitchell & Webb sketches from iPlayer 🎯 BBC reboots Play School 🎯 RTE launches The Random Driving Test 🎯 ITV begs companies for free furniture 🎯 How many of ITV's Saturday night flops do you remember?

August 2026: Holly Willoughby's YouTube disaster, Strictly Come Dancing returns with worst line-up ever, Christmas TV channel launches in August, Ann Droid named BBC's biggest comedy of 2026, ITV's Voice UK drops under two million, Netflix launches Last Person On Earth dating show, Disney+ reboots Blind Date

July 2026: Holly Willoughby's YouTube gamble, Sky buys ITV for £1.6bn, ITV sends the The Neighbourhood packing, Bradley Walsh launches The Chase Around The World, Rebekah Vardy's ITV reality show flops, ITV plans I'm A Celebrity spin-off, Channel 5 orders Britain's Best Service Station, UKTV launches Prison Wives Of TikTok, BBC orders Stacey Dooley Cleans Up, ITV plans Let's Play Ball game show, Josh Widdecombe takes over Strictly Come Dancing, Half a million drop BBC licence fee, Claudia Winkleman quits BBC chat show

March 2026: Saturday Night Live UK costs £2M per episode, Scott Mills sacked by the BBC, Paramount+ commissions Celebrity Ex On The Beach, ITV orders another wine series from Gary Barlow, Sarah Ferguson develops corgi-cloning reality show, BTS comeback concert on Netflix pulls in over 18M viewers.

February 2026: ITV in crisis talks as Britain’s Got Talent hits an all-time low, ITV cancels You Bet, Jeopardy, the Fortune Hotel and the British Soap Awards, Netflix builds the largest talk show network in television, QVC on the brink of bankruptcy, Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC goes ahead, classic BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart criticised for encouraging infidelity.

January 2026: Nigella Lawson joins the Great British Bake Off, Channel 4 sends Francis Bourgeois to space, Britain’s Got Talent returns for its 19th series with Stacey Soloman, Bruce Forsyth’s abandoned mansion, Disney+ buys a castle for Alan Carr, ITV criticised for dropping Loose Women audience, Netflix tells producers to ‘dumb down’ movies, ITV finally launches The Summit with Ben Shepherd, Celebs Go Dating returns for its 16th series with David Potts, Celebrity Traitors dream line-up revealed, Channel 5 commissions The Downfall of Huw Edwards with Martin Clunes.

December 2025: Strictly's Thomas Skinner sues BBC over voting allegations, David Walliams scandal, ITV plans Love Island movie, Sky commissions documentary on X Factor scandals, Channel 4 launches Britain's Favourite Railway Station, Ofcom reveals most complained-about shows of 2025, ITV launches The Box with Gary Lineker, BBC fails to find celebrities for Celebrity Mastermind, Fremantle develops Christmas dating show with super-sized Advent Calendar.

November 2025: Celebrity Traitors breaks records with 15M viewers, I'm A Celebrity returns for its 25th series, ITV commissions Blind Matchmakers, BBC Children In Need criticised for wasting money, Channel 4 launches puppet show with Mel Giedroyc, Kim Kardashian's legal drama All's Fair voted worst show of all time, Channel 4 investigate Hitler's DNA, Donald Trump sues the BBC for $5 billion.

October 2025: The Inbetweeners set for epic comeback, MTV closes all music channels, Channel 4 orders Find The Foreigner, ITV flogs memorabilia on eBay after budget cuts, Disney+ quietly hikes prices again, Channel 4 launches 'Killer' protein bar with Joe Wicks, ITV faces financial challenges due to succession of flops, Baywatch returns, the ghost of Bruce Forsyth haunts the London Palladium, Hallmark Channel announces 28 brand new Christmas movies, Sky History goes witch-hunting with Rylan Clark.

September 2025: ITV replaces Saturday night line-up with repeats, Stranded On Honeymoon named BBC One's biggest flop ever, Simon Cowell joins Netflix for The Next Act, Channel 4 brings back Brookside, Mel & Sue's comeback flops with Win Win, Alison Hammond launches new singing contest for Channel 4, Sky poaches Gemma Collins, Gary Lineker beats Ant & Dec at the NTAs, Channel 4 orders dating show for blood donors.

This month, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of ITV's Quizmania. Launched on the 12th August 2005, Fremantle's Quizmania went on to become the world's most successful interactive game show, with international versions in Australia, Poland, Colombia, France, Portugal and China. Quizmania creators Chuck Thomas and Debbie King revisit ITV's late night phenomenon with Greg Scott and Flash Sawyer.

July 2025: The BBC drops Gregg Wallace's final series of MasterChef, Channel 4 orders The Bonnie Blue Story, the BBC reboots Hole In The Wall, ITV launches Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters, ITVX merges with Disney+, Amazon gives Phoebe Waller-Bridge $100M for nothing, who killed Saturday morning TV?

June 2025: ITV cuts hundreds of jobs in daytime 'bloodbath', ITV Quiz reveals launch schedule, Britain's Got Talent loses 15 million viewers, Channel 4 commissions Handcuffed with Jonathan Ross, BBC launches Love At First Laugh, Genius Game named ITV's biggest flop ever, BBC documentary explores the world's weirdest reality show, Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain

May 2025: Sky launches UK version of Saturday Night Live, ITVBe replaced by ITV Quiz, Channel 4 commissions Virgin Island, Gavin & Stacey voted most overrated show ever, ITV cancels Pictionary, Simon Cowell tops TV Rich List, Celebs Go Dating announces line-up, AI predicted to replace presenters within ten years, Channel 4 axes Naked Attraction, Britain’s Got Talent accused of fakery

April 2025: Apple TV loses $1 billion a year, Channel 5 changes its name again, ITV commissions Win Win with Mel & Sue, Dermot O'Leary returns with Silence Is Golden, Channel 4 reboots Bad Dog Academy, Gwyneth Paltrow slams intimacy co-ordinators, BAFTA winning producer Spencer Millman reveals the secrets making behind TV Burp