ITV's short on talent

Anyone see the National Television Awards last night? Anyone other than me thinking that they really seem to be running low on celebrities?

So the show was introduced by Dermot O'Leary, who, had I not been forced against my will to watch several episodes of X-Factor, I would never have heard of. They then began the typical "and here to present the next award is [insert name of some unrelated celebrity here]". Then it started getting silly... "And next to present an award is Luis Urzua, one of the miners who was stuck down a hole in Chile a few months back. Oh and by the way, he doesn't actually speak a word of English". Er... yeah, nice sentiment, but who the fuck thought that would be a good idea? After Señor Urzua had failed to disguise the fact that he had no idea what was going on, it turned out that Dermot himself was up for an award so he actually left the stage and handed the mike over to Jonathan Ross for one poxy award, before coming back to continue the show afterwards. I'm guessing they knew before the show started that Dermot was up for an award, it's been on the web for quite some time, so why not get Jonathan to present the whole show? Oh, sorry, I forgot, ITV can't afford him, and Dermot is undoubtebly far cheaper. Amusingly, Ant and Dec won the award anyway, and they couldn't even be arsed to turn up - Simon Cowell collected the award on their behalf. But that didn't stop ITV from dedicating about 10 minutes of screen time to the idiotic pair via a supposedly live feed. At the end of the show they actually ran out of celebrities to present awards, so had to go up to the public audience and pull two kids out to present the award for 'Best Serial Drama', ironically won by Eastenders, a flagship show of ITV's rival, the BBC. Meanwhile, Dara O'Briain was tweeting from the event and informed all his followers that one of the people in the crowd was Gillian McKeith and the three women around him were all seat-fillers because the people who were supposed to be sat there hadn't turned up.

Remind me again... exactly why does ITV still exist?