ITV, the troubled UK television network company, has announced plans for a new show. The programme will be hosted by Simon Cowell, Jeremy Kyle and Sir Michael Grade, and this panel will view one-minute acts by all 4,500 ITV employees. At the end of each programme the public will be asked to vote off several employees, with the aim of reducing the workforce by 600 in total.
An interval round is envisaged where the Friends Reunited website is reunited with its original owners for less than half the price ITV paid for it only two years ago.
In the second half of the new programme the public will be involved in amalgamating many of ITV's top shows. Emmerdale and Coronation Street are prime contenders, and they are likely to be paired up with Dickinson's Real Deal and Taggart respectively, with new plotlines written for free by contestants.
At the end of the show, members of the public will compete for unpaid roles in their favourite programmes; reading News at Ten or commentating on Champion's League Football, for example.
In other news, ITV said that from next week The Bill would definitely not be cancelled, but will be cut back to a five minute slot on Harry Hill's TV Burp.
