'7 Days on the Breadline' will take ITV1's Tuesday 9pm slot from 20th October for 3 weeks: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/7days...1/default.html


Yeah, brilliant timeshift considering the STV opt-out.

It's certainly eye-catching, but the text at the bottom is too small.

By the way, I've seen ads for True Blood on the Five channels over the past 24 hrs. Good to see C4 going all out on promoting it...you know a channel is serious about a show when you start seeing ads elsewhere...looks good.

Meanwhile Sky News has been doing a bit of shameless plugging for In Treatment this morning, much to the dismay of The Grauniad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/medi...s-mdeia-monkey

Funny that Media Monkey choose to attack this in particular when BBC Breakfast and GMTV do this every morning. It's almost as if they have an axe to grind...surely not!

Waking The Dead gained 1.14m on timeshift. DM's officials are 800,000 above the overnights. Taking off STV's share of the overnights (which wasn't much by all accounts) his timeshift is probably about the same as WTD.

Big gains for both, but that's what happens when you put two very popular programmes on against each other.

..and with it continues the 'Tuesday Night FlopZone'!

Murderland confirmed for three-weeks from Monday 19th October: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/murde...3/default.html . And ITV have done something which is confusing.

The first TXF results show is on from 20:00 to 21:00 - but the second one, on the 18th October is on from 19:45 to 21:00 - with Family Fortunes on from 19:00 to 19:45. Not sure what's wrong with this weekend's schedule....

So much for the standard 8pm time.

BBC Press Office has updated - but now has left things confused.

It confirms that the Formula 1: Brazillian Grand Prix Qualifying is on BBC One, however, Casualty is moved to Sunday (with nothing on the Saturday), and Merlin doesn't appear to be no where.

There's nothing that suggests that Casualty is a two parter that weekend. Here's the current confirmed schedule:

Saturday 17th October
13:00 - Gymnastics – World Championships
16:30 - Final Score
17:05 - BBC News
17:20 - Formula 1: The Brazillian Grand Prix Qualifying
19:15 - Strictly Come Dancing
21:25 - Lottery [presumably]
21:35 -

Sunday 18th October
16:00 - Formula 1: The Brazillian Grand Prix
19:10 - Countryfile
20:10 - Casualty (note - the date on BBC PI is also in red - meaning it has been moved from the Saturday)
21:00 - Emma

Holby City I should note is also down for Tuesday and Wednesday of that particular week.

I watched 1 epsiode on FX and thought it was woeful. Having read online others felt the same. So I reckon it could get a big initial audience for C4 but then drop, as thousands like me just won't 'get it' and I usually like American drama's

maybe next weeks will be a double eviction?

1hr 15mins would be a long results show otherwise

On the other hand I thought it was brilliant and it's proved to be quite popular, with a third season planned.

I think following the huge popularity of the Twilight books/film syndiacte, it could prove a success. Vampires are big business at the moment esp with late teens and early to mid twenties .

Well I'm pretty sure Merlin's been dropped for the week - so it'll now finish on the same Saturday as SCD. But Casualty makes no sense at all. Why throw it under the bus against the X Factor on Sunday when AR holds up nicely there. Surely 9.35 on Saturday isn't too late - I guess it would shove MOTD back to 10.45 or so but thats happened before.

I could see ITV sticking with the 1hr15m results show. They'd only need to find 5 minutes or so more content - the rest is extra provision of adverts...

UK TV Guide* appears to have updated for that week and has quite a different schedule to what BBC Press Office has:

17:20 - F1
19:05 - SCD
21:15 - Lottery
21:25 - Casualty

UK TV Guide does not list Casualty at all on the Sunday. One is right and one is obviously wrong. (again!)

* note - I can tell its updated because Holby is down twice in the week, and the F1 on that site was originally down for 17:15 to 19:15.

I see they are making the most of that priceless F1 lead-in. :yawn:

RadioTimes has Lottery 9:15, Casualty 9:25...

K

I think we'll have to wait for a few hours for 'final confirmation' - there must have been a reason in the first place for moving Casualty to the Sunday.

UKTV Guide won't update fully until tomorrow. The BBC Press office will have the correct timings as it's from the horse's mouth.

Maybe Casualty's being moved to Sunday as there is reportedly a contractual obligation regarding Match of the Day, that it must start by 10:30pm apart from special circumstances (Last night of the Proms etc). If Casualty were to stay on Saturday starting at 9.35pm, MOTD would probably have to start after 10:30pm which isn't allowed.


1hr15mins does seem too long. It wasn't that long ago that the results shows were just 30mins. I personally don't think they'll have a double eviction as the 3-finalist format works well. And having a double would result in just 2 finalists.

Five should bring Spider-Man forward from 8pm to 7:10pm to capitalise on the millions of viewers departing the BBC en masse at that time.

Natasha Kaplinsky is pregnant again.

Got to give her credit for timing. Sign a £1m contract then use 2 fully paid 6 month maternity leaves.

Maybe they should extend Live from Studio Five by half an hour and push everything back a bit - that's got to work.

Yeah, very weird decision not to announce who the first guest is. Surely it would be better to promote the show with a big name guest instead of no name at all!

The second guest of the series is: Boris Becker.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...a/default.html

Really silly. The fixed 8pm start time is working well and people are getting used to it now. Why mess with a winning formula?

75 minutes is far too long for a results show. It's going to be padded beyond belief.

Piers Morgan is interviewing Boris Becker on Sat 17th Oct, although still non the wiser about this weeks interviewee.

The Five bosses must love her.

Didn't her replacement actually pull just as good figures, anyway? Don't think she'll be getting another million pound contract anytime soon.

I agree it's too long although I don't think time change is anything to worry about. It was 8pm last week and 7.30pm the week before.

The 75 minute duration is absurd though.

Sigh. I hope they tap into some of the presenting talent at Sky News while she's away. I don't see why they can't share Sky's evening presenter, i.e. whoever does the 8-10 on Sky also looks after the 5pm bulletin on Five. One way to keep costs down.

First guest of the series is Cilla Black. Confirmed on Piers' site. It also confirms that there's 6 episodes in this mini-series.

The Sunday show has varied a little, you're right, but the Saturday shows have all started at 8pm since Sept 19.

I don't see why they can't carry this through for once instead of going back to their old chop and change ways.