Ant & Dec Scoop More Tele Awards

 I see  that those loathsome Geordies that seem to infest any crap television show on ITV have won some awards. This time they really did win them apparently. The allegedly popular telly presenters picked up a hat-trick of prizes at London’s Dorchester hotel, including Best Entertainment Show for Saturday Night Takeaway and rather hilariously, an Outstanding Contribution award to mark their 20 years on our screens.

 

The pair said it was ‘a huge honour’ and said they ‘feel very privileged to work in telly’, adding that they’d like to continue for another 20 years. What a ghastly thought…. I’d pay good money NOT to have Ant & Dec on my television. It takes their tally of TV Quick trophies since starting out to an impressive 16.

Now I have to admit that I have no idea what a Quick is… but it can’t be too impressive if two studiously amiable Geordies keep winning them for being themselves interspersed with some unwatchable television.

Maybe there is a link here between Ant & Dec’s awards and the catastrophic decline in ITV’s viewing figures and advertising revenues.

Every year we are told by an overpaid executive who pockets a huge salary to accelerate the decline that people have more choice nowadays.

Well yes, Mr Man in Suit, we do… but if you could actually get around to producing something not totally puerile you might actually find that people quite like to watch it. I can’t remember a show on ITV that I actually want or wanted to watch.

And Ant & Dec aren’t the answer… it only takes the sight of them for me to kick the dog and throw the remote controller at the screen.

Seeing this Ant & Dec fest – which presuamably only exists to fill some yardage in a hideous ‘celebrity’ magazine got me thinking. How come the silent majority don’t get their own awards.

These would actually be genuine and mean something. Perhaps they could be gilded dog turds – which is just about the only award Ant & Dec and their ilk actually deserve.