Sunday 22nd November 2009 Overnights

BBC1
7.00 Countryfile: 6.0m (24%)
8.00 Antiques Roadshow: 5.4m (18%)
9.00 Garrow's Law: 4.1m (14%)
10.00 BBC Ten O'Clock News: 6.2m (28%)

BBC2
8.00 Ray Mears Northern Wilderness: 1.6m (5.5%)
9.00 Top Gear: 5.3m (18%)
* down 200,000 and one share point on last week
10.00 Miranda: 2.0m (10%)
11.30 Argumental: 0.7m (9%)

ITV1
7.15 All Star Family Fortunes: 6.8m (26%)
8.00 The X Factor: 13.7m (46%)
* peak 14.4m (47%) between 9.45-10.00 according to Media Guardian
* peak 15.9m (51.1%) between 9.45-10.00 according to Broadcast
9.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here: 10m (34%)
* up 200,000 viewers but down 2% points on last week's launch
* peak of 10.3m (36%) between 9.15-9.30
10.00 The Osborne Family Adremaline Junkie: 2.0m (10%)
10.00-10.15: 3.4m. By the end of the show: 1.2m

Channel 4
8.00 Come Dine With Me: 1.3m (5%)
* plus 158,000 viewers on Channel 4+1
9.00 Embarrassing Old Bodies: 1.5m (5%)
* plus 256,000 viewers on Channel 4+1
10.00 Derren Brown Presents the 3D Magic Spectacular: 400,000 (2%)
* plus 68,000 viewers on Channel 4+1

Five
6.20 Spiderman 3: 2.6m (10%)

Sources: Media Guardian; Broadcast

BBC News did really well. If ITV had kept its news coverage at 10pm yesterday, I think ITV News at Ten would have got around ~3.5m.

Miranda reaching over 4m per week is excellent. Another series must be on the cards.
Last edited by rzt : 23-11-2009 at 16:49

BBC have made a mistake with both Strictly and SPOTY, and as thus ITV1 have a head start of 15 minutes on both nights.

Cheryl Cole's thing starts 15 minutes before Strictly, while Family Fortunes on the Sunday starts 15 minutes before SPOTY.

ITV ad revenue lifts by 11%

So it's to be up 12% on ITV1, 11% across the channels. Previously, it was said ITV1 would break even between September and December IIRC, so I guess now there's to be an increase year on year. I'll be surprised if ITV don't have a better year overall in 2009 to 2008, considering that they've had a half decent year this year compared to last.

Possibly even more. I don't understand why they'd sacrifice a chunk of that audience to show some ITV2 repeat. Bizarre.

I know a certain somebody's not going to be too pleased with ITV's 'aggressive' scheduling.

More films on BBC1 this Christmas

The Incredibles
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Over The Hedge
Flushed Away
The Santa Clause 3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...hristmas.shtml

Surely Cheryl Cole and SCD appeal to different audiences?

Incredibles at 3:10 after The Queen surely?
POTC on boxing day night i would think aswell.

I agree, I can't see either show being hurt. Cheryl Cole has the TV Burp lead in/The X Factor lead out to bump it up, and to many she is the 'Nation's Princess'. Strictly will be coming to the end of the contest, and the 9m+ who are following it won't be ditching it just because Cheryl Cole is on the other channel.

The Susan Boyle thing seems to have changed from what was originally mentioned in the tabloids. It now sounds to be more like a documentary than 'An audience with'

I did have my doubts considering Susan is not very good at live interviews.

Usual master of publicity Jordan has dropped a clanger going today as all the publicity will be about Jedward. Waiting until tommorow would have been better.

True. She struggled with the 60 seconds she was granted last night on The X Factor so how on earth she'd cope with a full hour I'll never know.

Heartbeat's set has been destroyed so ITV will not resume filming in 2010 as they suggested.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertain...5875-21843572/

Clever moves ITV. They killed the show by tossing it about the schedules.

What set are they talking about, aren't the sets of all programmes taken down and then put up again?

They still have Heartbeat stock piled now don't they, so probably wouldn't need new episodes until 2011 if they were going to make new episodes

Seems my suspicions were confirmed as I knew Ratatouille was too early for a terrestrial premiere and before Cars and The Incredibles, wonder if Enchanted and National Treasure: Book of Secrets will be shown or is it too early?

Wouldnt they have announced all the films to premiere today? Does anyone know how many film premieres the BBC usually show over the Christmas period?

The annoying thing is that I think Heartbeat would be perfect Tuesday night filler. Certainly better that the tripe that they usually air in that slot and it should bring in a good 4m. It'd never beat Holby, but not much would. If they started it at 7.30pm, straight after Emmerdale, then just use something like Countrywise/Grimefighters as filler until 9.00 - think that'd do better than what they're trying out at the moment.

Usually the full list is listed next week or the week after, we had the likes of Superman Returns and Narnia last year, Over the Hedge and Flushed Away I could see on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve, The Incredibles at 3.10pm on Christmas Day and The Santa Clause 3 at 11am on Christmas Day which is similar to what The Santa Clause 2 schedule.

Based on the information in the BBC Press Office, I've put together what the schedule will probably end up looking like: http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9350/bbch.jpg

- black indicates areas outside of peaktime, or spaces where there is nothing to fit in
- green = repeat
- red = film



Knowing my look, it'll end up something totally different!! Some shows will not end up on the day they are normally shown, for instance I've had to move Total Wipeout to Sundays @ 7pm as Saturday's are chop a block.

I think its pretty shameful what ITV have done with it. It could have done fine on a tuesday or just kept on sundays at 8 for an uninterruptd run. It could easily still get 6 million and be useful when X Factor and DOI are off air.

Good schedule D.M.N., I'm thinking with Cranford, Monday and Tuesday after Christmas and Turn of the Screw on the Sunday before Christmas, I think Mid Life Christmas will get Christmas Eve but it wouldn't surprise me if they opt for Christmas Day.

I like The Royle Family but I wish they had opted for another comedy.

If you ask me, BBC have too many comedies this Christmas and not enough drama...

They could easily stick Waters of Mars on Christmas Eve as filler against the soap. Then End of Time Part 1 on Christmas Day, and End of Time Part 2 on Boxing Day - placing the trilogy together. It'd mean slight changes over Christmas Day and Boxing Day to fit everything in:

Christmas Eve
7.00 Celebrity Mastermind
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Doctor Who: Waters of Mars
9.00 Gavin and Stacey (Double Bill)

Christmas Day
6.00 The Gruffalo
6.30 EastEnders
7.00 Doctor Who: End of Time Part One
8.00 Strictly Come Dancing
9.00 EastEnders
9.30 The Royle Family Christmas Special
10.30 Catherine Tate - Nan's Christmas Special

Boxing Day
6.00 Total Wipeout Christmas Special
7.00 Doctor Who: End of Time Part 2
8.00 EastEnders
8.30 Casualty
9.20 Outnumbered Christmas Special
9.50 The Lottery
10.00 BBC News and Weather
10.20 Match of the Day

Alternatively with Boxing Day they could move everything back half hour to fit in The Impressions Show:

5.30 Total Wipeout Christmas Special
6.30 Doctor Who: End of Time Part 2
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Casualty
8.50 Outnumbered Christmas Special
9.20 The Impressions Show
9.50 Lottery
10.00 BBC News and Weather
10.20 Match of the Day

Yeah, 1994. Although the cartoons didn't appear in the listings. They had Neighbours down from 7 until 7.30, except for one Friday where they had a film at 7.20pm.

I think the Saturday Eastenders will actually air on Weds 23rd Dec
and i don't thinl they will have a Double Bill on new years eve this year with it being a Friday(unless its a 9/930 start)
so i think it's safe to say EastEnders will air Weds 23rd and Weds 30th