What happened to the commercial breaks on ITV?

[WhiteBears]

anyone know why theres no adverts between the election results on ITV?

[Mr Veritas]

I get the feeling that these are illegal when shown in such a programme dealing with a General Election,much as adverts cannot be shown during a live Royal event.

[lardhelmet]

Nobody will see get to see them as we've all nodded off with boredom, so the advertisers may see it as a waste of money

[Buenchico]

I would have expected to find that Mr V's answer is correct but the rules only seem to exclude the showing of any advertisement featuring a UK politician during an election period:
http://www.ofcom.org....adv/part_sep_adv_prog

Perhaps advertisers simply don't want to pay for advertising at a time when some viewers will be falling asleep and others will either be throwing a party or throwing things at the telly?

[Mr Veritas]

I think Chris' answer makes more sense.
I suspect that (sadly) TV advertisers assume that politics is so boring there would not be much in paying exorbitant sums for ads when few people may be watching.

[madmaggot]

Politics boring?
Do you live in a bubble Mr V? Life IS politics!

[Mr Veritas]

madmaggot
I haven't lived for 87 years to start believing that politics(of the Westminser sort anyway) is anything but boring.
When you feel that you have no influence on any political decision etc(and it has been like that since I first voted in 1945) it DOES become boring.
At least when I first voted some MP's were in it because of what they could do to help people,now MP's are in it for what they can do to help themselves!