Bingo Night Live is an interactive television programme featuring a free-to-play bingo game, broadcast in the United Kingdom (except in northern and central Scotland) on ITV & UTV. It aired between 4 June 2008 and 15 November 2008. Background ITV had introduced ITV Play to some criticism, attracting significant negative publicity for the group, initially for the perceived poor quality of the shows provided. More criticism was to come when several British TV companies were caught up in a series of scandals related to the manipulation of phone-in quizzes, and the significant revenues generated from Premium rate telephone numbers. Following investigation by UK regulator Ofcom, the ITV Play channel was axed shortly afterwards but with programmes retained on the ITV Network after midnight. It was announced on 12 September 2007 that ITV was to close the ITV Play brand and its shows on the ITV Network 'by the end of 2007'. The final edition of Glitterball was broadcast on 30 September 2007. Make Your Play was then extended to 6 nights a week, until the closure of the brand on 23 December 2007. ITV Play on digital channel ITV2 ended at the start of November 2007. The ITV Play website was renamed as ITV Games in September 2007, with the ITV Play brand only used for itv.com's Bingo, Casino and Poker websites. Having introduced a documentary series Nightwatch with Steve Scott to fill the slot, ITV advertisers wanted a return to a more youth-oriented game show format. Format Bingo Night Live was a simple and free bingo game, split into: Four (originally three) games of bingo (green, orange, blue and - added later - purple cards). Prizes were given for: One line Two lines A "Golden Jackpot" prize, starting at £25,000 on launch night, given for a full card with less than 32 numbers called A full ticket ('Full House') The show originally aired five times per week (Tuesday to Saturday), and were presented by a total of three presenters: a game caller (Anthony Crank, Michael Underwood or Mike Toolan) a statistician (Nichola Dixon) a supporting presenter for the phone-in segments of the show (Melinda Messenger or Jenny Powell) Before play started, UK astrologer Russell Grant gave a pre-recorded view of the players' possibilities of winning according to their astrological sign. At moments during each bingo game, the game was stopped and statistician controller Nichola Dixon provided player statistics, lucky