ITV1

ITV1
ITV1's logo.
Headquarters	England
Launched	September 22, 1955 (as ITV)/ August 11, 2001 (as ITV1)
Owned By	ITV plc

ITV1 is a United Kingdom TV a public service network station, is currently owned by ITV. This Channel used to show the Kanto and Orange Island Episodes of Pokémon anime. At the time of Pokémon's Transmission, ITV1 was known as ITV, or by the Local Programming company name. ITV1's official name is Channel 3. It is funded by Advertisements, and companies.

This is the only station that shown Pokémon in the UK on terrestrial TV.

Since ITV has not shown Episodes for several years, it is unknown if ITV still has the License to transmit Pokémon anime at this time. However it's Daughter Channel CiTV, that is also own ITV does show Pokémon.

GMTV

GMTV is the early morning Programming Block of ITV1, that ran a episode every Saturday, starting around 8:50am and always ended by 9:25am. Pokémon had replaced the Power Rangers-type show. It was shown in this time slot, from September 1999 until sometime after the Red and Blue Gameboy games was released in the UK.

SM:TV Live

SM:TV Live was a live Saturday morning show, that started at 9:25am. Pokémon usually started after 9:30. SM:TV had Host segments, around the advertisements, and instead of "Name that Pokémon", the had skits, in which the hosts, Ant and Dec, had their own "PokéFight". Some later Segments featured Ant & Dec's PokéRap.

The PokéFights sketches featured "non-official Pokémon" and Ant as "G-G-G-Gary", and Dec as Ash or Misty. They used "Pokémon" as a move. For example, 'Embarrassmon' involved one dueller telling a secret about the other, who would turn red and their health would diminish; or Ant unleashing HeWhoSmeltItDealtIt - "HeWhoSmeltItDealtIt is an Air Pokémon, and the first person to smell its pungent aroma shall be blamed for its origins!" (Fart jokes where commonly used by SM:TV Live as other sketches named "FartBeat" and "F'Art Attack") Dec as Misty would often comment about Westlife's Bryan.

The Pokérap, featured the pair as Rappers with a UK car Registration Plate (a reluctant Ant) and a Skoda Badge (energetic Dec) as pendants. They both wore red knitted Jumpers with Pikachu and their names on the front. Allways starting from the cue "Hit it!" Their rap usually in ended with: "Pikachu, Pikachu, P-P-Pikachu!" chorus and the last line "SMTV will make you Poke-tuff; 9:25 every Saturday - don't be a Jigglypuff! Aww yeah, UH!" This sketch was killed off as Dec was crushed by a "10-ton weight" much to the rejoice of the studio, the producers, Richard and Judy host of "This Morning" in their studio, and weather forecaster Siân Lloyd.

This Rap has been claimed to be done on the streets on Japan, during the First Movie Launch in the UK, when a competition winner went to Japan to get a Mew.

Missing Episodes of Shows

ITV has noticeably than once skipped episodes, or pulled TV Shows Mid-series, Re:boot and Card Captor Sakura before Pokémon, and following Pokémon, Digimon (Season two). ITV1 has recently had to reconsider not showing Episode Two of Pushing Daisies, the resulting action placed the missing episode online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7423268.stm

Pokémon, has been stopped twice, the first during the Orange Arc and the second just after the Hoenn Arc started.

External Links

• ITV1 on Wikipedia
• Official site

This article is part of Project TV, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each TV channel and programming block that airs or has aired the Pokémon anime.