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Post by LtD73 on Jun 22, 2011 10:46:30 GMT -5
Several international sources have informed us that there might be an opening in the UK television market for World famous youtube up and comers, LCW Wrestling. We are to believe that UK television tyrants Granada feel with the decline in Saturday night entertainment (mostly due to Simon Cowell relocating the X-factor to America) Granada are interested in going back to their roots and having Wrestling based programming. ITV executives Granada built their programming in the 80’s around ITV’s World Of Wrestling. Showcasing the very best of the British Wrestling scene. Including now world famous former Wrestling champion Fit Finlay. Interns at Granada were tasked with surfing youtube for potential money makers, and LCW was one of the few that were positively received across the board. ITV are slotted to make an announcement on the subject shortly. It is unknown at this time whether or not LCW owners have commented ---------------------------------------- ringratsrus.tumblr.com/post/6790565036/lcw-wrestling-coming-to-a-tv-near-you |
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Post by totti on Jun 22, 2011 10:54:14 GMT -5
seems legit..
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 22, 2011 10:55:16 GMT -5
I can remember the last time ITV showed a Wrestling themed show...
Aslong as ITV doesn't touch the product then I hope it does well.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jun 22, 2011 11:02:36 GMT -5
Sounds good to me
Where are they based?
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Post by hbkjason on Jun 22, 2011 15:15:18 GMT -5
Sounds interesting but I would put money on that after a month at most ITV would move it to ITV 2 or 3 at some stupid time slot.
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Post by LtD73 on Jun 22, 2011 15:42:18 GMT -5
Sounds interesting but I would put money on that after a month at most ITV would move it to ITV 4 2 or 3 at 2am some stupid time slot. |
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Post by Dan88 on Jun 22, 2011 16:23:15 GMT -5
ITV will probably ruin it by making them do some kind of prize so they can earn money from phone calls like with just about every other show of there's..
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Post by GBGav on Jun 22, 2011 17:36:01 GMT -5
ITV will probably ruin it by making them do some kind of prize so they can earn money from phone calls like with just about every other show of there's.. Which of the following is a wrestling move? A) Shining Wizard B) Luminous Witch C) Glow In The Dark Goblin Just £3 per minute* * Calls may last 15 minutes. |
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Post by Lewscher on Jun 22, 2011 18:12:35 GMT -5
ITV will probably ruin it by making them do some kind of prize so they can earn money from phone calls like with just about every other show of there's.. Which of the following is a wrestling move? A) Shining Wizard B) Luminous Witch C) Glow In The Dark Goblin Just £3 per minute* * Calls may last 15 minutes.pure win on the question  ;D |
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Post by Sam on Jun 22, 2011 18:30:34 GMT -5
Awesome news if it does happen. My dad was just talking to me about the wrestling he used to watch on ITV when he was a kid the other day as well.
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Post by Dan88 on Jun 22, 2011 18:52:59 GMT -5
ITV will probably ruin it by making them do some kind of prize so they can earn money from phone calls like with just about every other show of there's.. Which of the following is a wrestling move? A) Shining Wizard B) Luminous Witch C) Glow In The Dark Goblin Just £3 per minute* * Calls may last 15 minutes.C ;D |
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Post by JedsWorld on Jun 23, 2011 11:30:02 GMT -5
I can remember the last time ITV showed a Wrestling themed show...Aslong as ITV doesn't touch the product then I hope it does well. Featured Jack Osbourne and Roddy Piper and some hot chick? Roddy Piper was the only good thing. The rest was disgraceful. |
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Post by Jord on Jun 23, 2011 13:03:51 GMT -5
ITV will probably ruin it by making them do some kind of prize so they can earn money from phone calls like with just about every other show of there's.. Which of the following is a wrestling move? A) Shining Wizard B) Luminous Witch C) Glow In The Dark Goblin Just £3 per minute* * Calls may last 15 minutes.lmfao at B |
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Post by 2x4 on Jun 23, 2011 18:10:02 GMT -5
Get it on the TV
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jun 24, 2011 7:42:22 GMT -5
I can remember the last time ITV showed a Wrestling themed show...Aslong as ITV doesn't touch the product then I hope it does well. Featured Jack Osbourne and Roddy Piper and some hot chick? Roddy Piper was the only good thing. The rest was disgraceful. Are you talking about that programme that had D'Lo Brown and Joe Legend as trainers to "celebrities"? And Kate Thornton as presenter? She was fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit  |
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Post by Ste on Jun 24, 2011 19:08:09 GMT -5
Ugh, this would be shit...
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Post by DTP. on Jun 26, 2011 20:00:43 GMT -5
As popular as wrestling is over here, I doubt it would achieve too many viewers
And also, keep in mind that most (well, ALL UK promotions) UK wrestling promotions don't have the best production quality...they'd be on ITV, which uses a HELL of a lot of production values...
EDIT: World famous LCW? There's several different LCW promotions on YouTube...some of them are backyard...out of every promotion I watched, only one is British. The others are American.
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Post by moogie101 on Jun 26, 2011 22:27:50 GMT -5
Never going to happen.
By being on ITV it would have to stand up to be compared with obvious competition which is clearly WWE & TNA both available in the UK.
No way some tiny UK Indie group can compete with the bigger shows presentation, star power or talent level & they aren't going to be financed by ITV.
Do people not remember just how terrible the small UK wrestling groups looked on TWC?
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Post by Daryl on Jun 27, 2011 1:59:05 GMT -5
They'll need, decent cameras (preferably HD), decent venue (possibly TV studio), good size crowd. Most UK promotions have none of these.
In theory, ITV could fund the first two and if it's in a TV studio get some extras to fill up the rest of the crowd. But would it be worth it for ITV to fund such a niche product?
ALso, they'd need to contract the talent. This may sound stupid, but if the show did get fairly big, and WWE/TNA came knocking it could ruin the show losing top talent.
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Post by Red Dragon on Jun 27, 2011 2:46:18 GMT -5
Not going to happen. Although, when i first saw it I thought I read LDN wrestling which got me thinking they could probably do a decent show on ITV4. Wrestling would fit in perfectly with all the other man programes they got. And LDN are pretty decent. I'm saw they'd get a decent enough audience to keep it running.
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