Decent peaks for Six Nations and MotD for BBC1 last night. Sky Sports winning a timeslot according to twitter sources, not sure that has happened many times in the last 20 years.
Some posters still like to think Corrie is in crisis even when it isn't!
People might have commented that 6m or whatever it got was poor for January but I doubt anyone was saying the show was in crisis based on one rating. If they were then more fool them. All Corrie needed was some big storylines to boost ratings and that has now happened.
On the other hand I've seen posts here making out EE is rating poorly when it's above 8m and making out Emmerdale is about to take over it when it's showing no signs of that at all.
Decent peaks for Six Nations and MotD for BBC1 last night. Sky Sports winning a timeslot according to twitter sources, not sure that has happened many times in the last 20 years.
I can probably guess which one... 12:45 to 14:45 or a period within that.
People might have commented that 6m or whatever it got was poor for January but I doubt anyone was saying the show was in crisis based on one rating. If they were then more fool them. All Corrie needed was some big storylines to boost ratings and that has now happened.
On the other hand I've seen posts here making out EE is rating poorly when it's above 8m and making out Emmerdale is about to take over it when it's showing no signs of that at all.
Obviously the veteran soap is unlikely to get back to the glory days of 17 million viewers as there is more choice now and it isn't must see television, but 9 million is very good in such a competitive market and we were saying in the pub last night, it will outlive all of us. I still think if ITV ran an April Fool on Daybreak and said it was being finished, the phone lines would be jammed with complaints as CS has a particularly partisan following.
- Celebrity Pointless starts in March for 8 weeks on Saturday evenings, probably from Saturday 17th March after the current run of Winter Wipeout ends
- With all the above in mind, Saturday 24th March can be pencilled in for the start of The Voice
The BBC still have 10 episodes of a regular Wipeout series filmed back in Jan 2011, though they could go 5.30/6.15/7.15 with Pointless/Total Wipeout/The Voice
Obviously the veteran soap is unlikely to get back to the glory days of 17 million viewers as there is more choice now and it isn't must see television, but 9 million is very good in such a competitive market and we were saying in the pub last night, it will outlive all of us. I still think if ITV ran an April Fool on Daybreak and said it was being finished, the phone lines would be jammed with complaints as CS has a particularly partisan following.
I can't see anything ever being announced on Daybreak jamming the phone lines!
The BBC still have 10 episodes of a regular Wipeout series filmed back in Jan 2011, though they could go 5.30/6.15/7.15 with Pointless/Total Wipeout/The Voice
I think they might keep Wipeout for the Summer/early Autumn as I don't think they'll have much else for then (other than Tonight's The Night!), and then they'd have more room earlier on for any longer episodes of The Voice. Also it'd give Wipeout a bit of a break which the flagging Winter ratings suggest it needs.
I'm another one who hates the use of these terms. It really is unnecessary - any hope of a constructive debate is brought down to childish nonsense.
I have to laugh when someone says channel snob, you could hardly say BBC One is elitist these days. Also I had to laugh when ITV was referred to as the people's channel, I think it lost that title in the nineties.
Celebrity Juice's rating stands out from last night; despite his popularity I don't think Keith Lemon will find his move to ITV1 quite so easy...why don't they give him a post watershed programme; it'd suit his audience more?
ITV1 presumably can't give him a post-watershed show because they don't do any post-watershed comedy anymore. I suppose it's impressive that Leigh Francis has managed to find another character to replace Avid Merrion, I dunno how many people know it's the same person.
The first time I ever saw Leigh Francis was in 1998 when he presented the C4 teen show Buzz as himself (with Dermot O'Leary as reporter) and I thought he was brilliant as a kids TV presenter, funny and enthusiastic, and I said he would be a big star. But then in series two he just did characters and a bland male model presented the show, and he's never done anything as himself since. And he's not been funny since, neither.
I believe there is a question mark over the 6.30 local news as the English regions no longer have the ability to opt-out of BBC2 (although the National regions do).
I'm sure when it comes to the regional news they'll do what they did dyring Wimbledon last year with a short five minute bulletin at teatime and then an extended bulletin after ten o'clock, if it comes to that.
BBC2 seems like it will just be a weird mish-mash of BBC1 and BBC2 shows. I guess we could see EE leading into Gardeners World or Holby City leading into Horizon
I think there'll be just as much Olympics on BBC2 as there is on BBC1, when there's swimming and athletics on at the same time BBC2 will be showing stuff as well. BBC2 benefit from having virtually no fixtures in the schedules apart from Newsnight, I think the channel will be mostly Olympics, the odd BBC1 show (although I seriously doubt Panorama and Holby will be on, and Songs of Praise moving is hardly news, it's moved to BBC2 about half a dozen times a year) and then films and repeats the rest of the time.
Strange goings on on BBC2 this evening ,Radio Times and all the papers say their is 2 ep of Pan Am this evening, but the Freeview EPG says that there is only 1 ep and the other is next week and everything else on BBC2 is now on 40 minutes earlier. Don't know what thats all about.
Well, that it was happened, and seemingly it was decided a couple of days in advance given that it was also updated on the Virgin EPG and that never normally updates on the day. I dunno if BBC2 miscounted and realised they needed to fill another week, or it's performing so badly it can't take up so long in the schedule (I see it's on at 11.15 next week), or for contractual reasons or what.
Graham Norton recorded an excellent figure and really seems to be going from strength-to-strength. Ross' departure was a blessing and Graham now seems comfortable on the channel - after a number of awkward years lurching from panel games, to BBC2, to Saturday Night entertainment. He could stay where he is for years now.
Yes, Graham has really turned it around because when he joined the Beeb everyone put the boot into him and famously they gave him a million formats, but now he's got a consistently successful show (the same format he did on C4 admittedly, but it still works) and he's made a success of Eurovision and he seems well at home at the Beeb now. And he's a proper company man, he took a paycut without moaning and he never slags anyone off, I can't remember him ever being in the papers. And I've always liked him, so hooray for Graham.
Not very well as they are almost all Championship games and they are up against PL games on ESPN.
I think they generally get approx 400,000 (programme average).
They clearly started doing these Saturday Championship games as a blatant spoiler for Setanta because they only began when they started, before that they were on Friday nights, and I thought they might stop them when Setanta finished. I don't know why they don't move them back to Friday, they don't rate very well and it's not very good for the Football League because they're almost always opposite a Premier League game so never get any radio coverage or anything.
Could I just point out that Upstairs Downstairs started on LWT in 1971 and was eventually picked up by the BBC. So I think we can see which came first.
Could I just point out that The Forsyte Saga started on the BBC in 1967 and was eventually picked up by ITV. So I think we can see which came first.
The BBC was actually doing Dickens adaptations in the 1950s. Re Forsyte Saga: It really should have been made in colour as they had the facilities to do so and would still be selling it abroad today if they had.
Does Harry Hill own the TVBurp format? In a few years time after his Channel4 career flops, could he move to BBC1 and do TVBurp for the channel?
I like the "after his Channel 4 career flops". I am almost certain Harry Hill owns the format for TV Burp and that's why I'm staggered at the number of people who suggest it could carry on without him. It's like doing Shooting Stars without Reeves and Mortimer. It's Harry Hill's show.
Could be good, although I do laugh when I read quotes such as "absolutely massive".
Whitney taking priority is completely understandable, but it clearly isn't draining all of the resources as they've still been publishing stories such as the one you've linked to. Still, DS are very good most of the time so I guess you're right.
As for that show, it basically sounds exactly like a show Ferdinand did in 2006 and it got slaughtered back then. Another one that I don't think has been mentioned on here yet is:
It'll be probably be used on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the Summer and rate poorly, but it might be vaguely interesting for ratings geeks like us!
In addition, Lionel Ritchie is doing a musical special for ITV according to Lost in TV. I'm almost certain it'll air on Sunday 18th March in the DOI sandwich as WAH ends the week before.
Looking ahead to the Spring, I wonder if ITV will repeat the same scheduling for BGT week as they have for the last couple of years, or whether they'll merge the shows into one 2 hour show per night, which would be much better for the show's ratings? Also do we definitely know that the stripped week will be w/c 28th May, as that's the week they normally go for, but the Bank Holiday/half term is a week later this year (but for obvious reasons it can't be that week).
This was to be expected in ITV1's dog days, they were churning out upper rubbish in the mid noughties. Bit worried when I read the article and the name of a certain reality show I said I wouldn't mention again appeared.
Looking ahead to the Spring, I wonder if ITV will repeat the same scheduling for BGT week as they have for the last couple of years, or whether they'll merge the shows into one 2 hour show per night, which would be much better for the show's ratings? Also do we definitely know that the stripped week will be w/c 28th May, as that's the week they normally go for, but the Bank Holiday/half term is a week later this year (but for obvious reasons it can't be that week).
I do wonder if it's still out of the question it taking the May Bank Holiday w/c 7th May but just doubling up the audition shows on Saturday and Sunday. Anything's possible.
GlennA are you the famous Glenn Aylett from Off The Telly who correctly predicted Neighbours' demise on BBC1 a couple of years before it happened? What do you think is going to happen to Hollyoaks soon?
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On the other hand I've seen posts here making out EE is rating poorly when it's above 8m and making out Emmerdale is about to take over it when it's showing no signs of that at all.
I can probably guess which one...
Obviously the veteran soap is unlikely to get back to the glory days of 17 million viewers as there is more choice now and it isn't must see television, but 9 million is very good in such a competitive market and we were saying in the pub last night, it will outlive all of us. I still think if ITV ran an April Fool on Daybreak and said it was being finished, the phone lines would be jammed with complaints as CS has a particularly partisan following.
I can't see anything ever being announced on Daybreak jamming the phone lines!
I think they might keep Wipeout for the Summer/early Autumn as I don't think they'll have much else for then (other than Tonight's The Night!), and then they'd have more room earlier on for any longer episodes of The Voice. Also it'd give Wipeout a bit of a break which the flagging Winter ratings suggest it needs.
I'm another one who hates the use of these terms. It really is unnecessary - any hope of a constructive debate is brought down to childish nonsense.
I have to laugh when someone says channel snob, you could hardly say BBC One is elitist these days. Also I had to laugh when ITV was referred to as the people's channel, I think it lost that title in the nineties.
ITV1 presumably can't give him a post-watershed show because they don't do any post-watershed comedy anymore. I suppose it's impressive that Leigh Francis has managed to find another character to replace Avid Merrion, I dunno how many people know it's the same person.
The first time I ever saw Leigh Francis was in 1998 when he presented the C4 teen show Buzz as himself (with Dermot O'Leary as reporter) and I thought he was brilliant as a kids TV presenter, funny and enthusiastic, and I said he would be a big star. But then in series two he just did characters and a bland male model presented the show, and he's never done anything as himself since. And he's not been funny since, neither.
I'm sure when it comes to the regional news they'll do what they did dyring Wimbledon last year with a short five minute bulletin at teatime and then an extended bulletin after ten o'clock, if it comes to that.
I think there'll be just as much Olympics on BBC2 as there is on BBC1, when there's swimming and athletics on at the same time BBC2 will be showing stuff as well. BBC2 benefit from having virtually no fixtures in the schedules apart from Newsnight, I think the channel will be mostly Olympics, the odd BBC1 show (although I seriously doubt Panorama and Holby will be on, and Songs of Praise moving is hardly news, it's moved to BBC2 about half a dozen times a year) and then films and repeats the rest of the time.
Well, that it was happened, and seemingly it was decided a couple of days in advance given that it was also updated on the Virgin EPG and that never normally updates on the day. I dunno if BBC2 miscounted and realised they needed to fill another week, or it's performing so badly it can't take up so long in the schedule (I see it's on at 11.15 next week), or for contractual reasons or what.
Yes, Graham has really turned it around because when he joined the Beeb everyone put the boot into him and famously they gave him a million formats, but now he's got a consistently successful show (the same format he did on C4 admittedly, but it still works) and he's made a success of Eurovision and he seems well at home at the Beeb now. And he's a proper company man, he took a paycut without moaning and he never slags anyone off, I can't remember him ever being in the papers. And I've always liked him, so hooray for Graham.
They clearly started doing these Saturday Championship games as a blatant spoiler for Setanta because they only began when they started, before that they were on Friday nights, and I thought they might stop them when Setanta finished. I don't know why they don't move them back to Friday, they don't rate very well and it's not very good for the Football League because they're almost always opposite a Premier League game so never get any radio coverage or anything.
Could I just point out that The Forsyte Saga started on the BBC in 1967 and was eventually picked up by ITV. So I think we can see which came first.
I like the "after his Channel 4 career flops". I am almost certain Harry Hill owns the format for TV Burp and that's why I'm staggered at the number of people who suggest it could carry on without him. It's like doing Shooting Stars without Reeves and Mortimer. It's Harry Hill's show.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt today seeing as there is a higher profile story for a website of DS's nature today.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a365304/footballer-prank-show-for-itv.html
Could be good, although I do laugh when I read quotes such as "absolutely massive".
When will they learn. Rio Ferdinand did one for ITV in 2006 and nobody watched it.
Yeah, a quick check via Wikipedia and BARB reveals it went out on Saturday 10th June at 10pm and got 3.47m viewers.
Whitney taking priority is completely understandable, but it clearly isn't draining all of the resources as they've still been publishing stories such as the one you've linked to. Still, DS are very good most of the time so I guess you're right.
As for that show, it basically sounds exactly like a show Ferdinand did in 2006 and it got slaughtered back then. Another one that I don't think has been mentioned on here yet is:
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/tvsmash/default.html
It'll be probably be used on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the Summer and rate poorly, but it might be vaguely interesting for ratings geeks like us!
In addition, Lionel Ritchie is doing a musical special for ITV according to Lost in TV. I'm almost certain it'll air on Sunday 18th March in the DOI sandwich as WAH ends the week before.
Looking ahead to the Spring, I wonder if ITV will repeat the same scheduling for BGT week as they have for the last couple of years, or whether they'll merge the shows into one 2 hour show per night, which would be much better for the show's ratings? Also do we definitely know that the stripped week will be w/c 28th May, as that's the week they normally go for, but the Bank Holiday/half term is a week later this year (but for obvious reasons it can't be that week).
http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/238748/jayne-middlemiss-livid-when-tv-prank-went-wrong/1
So now ITV don't just copy BBC shows they copy their own old shows.
This was to be expected in ITV1's dog days, they were churning out upper rubbish in the mid noughties. Bit worried when I read the article and the name of a certain reality show I said I wouldn't mention again appeared.
That'll almost certainly be on during the Olympics or around it as filler.
I do wonder if it's still out of the question it taking the May Bank Holiday w/c 7th May but just doubling up the audition shows on Saturday and Sunday. Anything's possible.
Then ITV can replicate the amazing success they had with Martin Kemp. :rolleyes:
Ha! I bet there on to it right now.
Ken