The success of Gracie! and Enid on BBC Four does prove how popular these types of biopics do on the channel especially with names like Helena Bonham Carter and Jane Horrocks. Would like to see them tackle a drama series or one-offs which are aren't biopics like Fanny Hill from two years ago but they must be over the moon how well they are doing.

Interesting how Margot does, I'm thinking it break the million mark like Enid and Gracie.

ITV mixing things up a bit...

Ant & Dec just announced they are going to reveal who's doing the next bushtucker trial on ITV2 in 15 minutes and lines will close during the ITV2 show. Trying to boost the ITV2 show no doubt.

Also bit of a balls up on Ant & Dec's part...they managed to get in they aren't on tomorrow but said they are back at 9pm on Thursday. ITV announcer then announced 8.30pm.

Is there still an eviction on Thursday? Or is that trial live?

It'd mean the lines on Thursday would only be open for ~1 hour if there was an eviction on Thursday.

Oh, by the way, Five are probably having a party tonight given Liverpool are out of the Champions League, and as thus now in the Europa League, which is broadcast on Five.

I'm not 100% sure but I'm guessing there's no eviction on Thursday because to fit in with numbers for the final there can't be an eviction for TWO of the days, and that doesn't include any more walkers.

I think the reason A&D are going into the jungle now is so they can pre record the trial now.

Also with the show being off air tomorrow I would have thought it would have been a good idea to move the ITV2 spin off to 9pm and advertise it well, because I bet it could get a good audience of loyal IAC viewers. But it should still do well at 10pm.

That'll leave ITV1 with at least one slot without a British team (Rangers are out too) then for the second round as I believe it's been rejigged so it's played out over 4 weeks, so rather than four games on Tuesday, then four on Wednesday, it's two each night with the other four matches the next week.

Also leaves ITV1 with a meaningless match next week.

Just read this on Phillip Schofield's Twitter:

"...The programme is rocking, we got 30% yesterday woooohooooo. " "Sorry to confuse. 30% in an exam is pretty poor ... 30% of everyone watching tv (all channels) is REALLY good. (X-Factor/DOI get 45% plus)"

I didn't realise that This Morning was attracting a bigger percentage of the audience these days...

They've just said that they'll show the trial on Thursday - not live. And they've said the show starts @ 9pm on Thursday - hope someone actually tells them that they are on air from 8:30!

Not sure how they'll fill an hour and 30 on Thursday without an eviction.

The trial's being recorded today so it won't be live.

And they have to skip at least one if not two evictions somewhere down the line because otherwise they won't have enough people for the final.

But surely if there was no eviction - they would just open the lines on Thursday and do a live trial ( showing Wednesday's trial , picked by themselves, early on in the show )- & not have to change the soaps around to fit it in ( not at 9 like A&D said for about the 3rd time!!) Why an 1h 30mins show with no eviction??

God if i'm confused i can't help to think the voters are confused!!

Robbie won't be happy. Welcome to the IAC thread!

That is very good. The second most recent rating I can find on this thread was back on October 9 when it had 1.28m. (26.8%)

There are other recent examples though where it was as low as 22% and even 15% back on September 4.

Obviously I'm only cherrypicking from a limited amount of data since that's all we have to go on, but on the face of it that is definitely impressive growth over the past few months. Was there something special happening on This Morning yesterday?

Just xacuse to move he soaps to take some of EastEnders Hour-long Special Viewers
but hey what can you expect from ITV anyway

Were John & Edward on by any chance ?

I take back my earlier prediction of 8.5m for IAC. It will be below 8m tonight.


Sounds like an ITV2 spin-off!

This Morning
Monday 23rd November
10.30am - 11.25am & 11.30am - 12.30pm

Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. There are chats with Jeremy Kyle and with comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, plus James Morrison performs live, Sharon Marshall takes a look at the soaps, and there is all the latest X Factor gossip.

Nothing outta the ordinary on the RT billing (I presume John and Edward were on) it's good to see the show is doing well regardless

Well, I was right about Gracie nearly getting a record BBC4 audience. Life held up OK in the event, probably because there was no big "last chance to gawp at Jordan's tits" boost to artificially inflate ITV1's ratings.

I wonder where Tits Out goes from here now it's lost the lucrative (?) Men & Motors audience?

It might take a further knock (-er) tonight from Paradox - which has hooked me in for the next 4 weeks on account of its sheer bloody awfulness. Christ, this was as bad as any drama I've seen in a long time. I can see why BBC1 aren't stripping this across a week (which presumably is the reason for commissioning a 5 part drama). Did Collision and Paradox get mixed up in an editing suite somewhere, with Collision sent to ITV and Paradox to BBC1?

Mouth to Mouth was a massive flop, in ratings terms, for BBC3 but has gained some good reviews. Rightly so - but what were the Beeb thinking of, launching it against Jordan and the Z-lebs?


Hm.

I don't recall any party on this thread because a peak of 12m watched Children in Need...

Yes they were.

It was a bit lacklustre, wasn't it? Probably the worst possible time for them to be taking a "night off." Could just drive the switchoff, and Ant & Dec getting the start time wrong won't help matters!

They had to dash though, they've got a special Piers Morgan's Life Stories to record. They're co-hosting News at Ten all next week too...

Should be on the following Sunday tbh. Would've been nice for Frost to round off on a Wednesday with a Corrie lead-in. Could've seen 9m+ for both that way.

Alternatively maybe it's because they have Wednesday's and Thursday's highlights in one package, which'll include two trials? If there's an eviction on top of it then no surprise it's longer.

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Monday 23rd November 2009

The Usual Suspects: I'm A Celebrity performed strongly - that'll probably be it's highest ratings until the final, or possibly the whole series. Coronation Street performed well too, though I do laugh how the audience dips at the end of it - probably a different audience watching I'm A Celebrity... to Coronation Street. EastEnders attracted a good audience combining both BBC1 and BBC3 - the BBC1 audience was reasonable if not spectacular for this time of the year. Life performed as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Monday's really are Five's night with The Gadget Show and FlashForward continuing to perform for them against tough opposition. University Challenge and Miranda did well on BBC2.

The Soap Filler: Tonight seemed slightly up on it's usual performance. Panorama did ok; maybe it deserves an easier slot then the one it's being given.

Channel 4's Nightmare: Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear. Lack of structure and yet again Channel 4 fails miserably. They're a channel in freefall currently, and seem to be doing nothing to turn their fate around.

The News: Obviously people still prefer BBC1 to ITV1 - it's possible an I'm A Celebrity... audience aren't the most ardant of News fans, hence losing 5m viewers in the ad break. Still, 4.1m is good - if only News at ten got that all the time. Ten O'Clock News is performing strongly though.

Monday:
8pm - House
9pm - 24

Tuesday:
8pm - American Idol
9pm - Our Little Genius/Glee

Wednesday:
8pm - American Idol
9pm - Human Target

Thursday:
8pm - Bones
9pm - Fringe/Past Life/Fringe

Friday:
8pm - House (repeat)
9pm - Kitchen Nightmares

Saturday-Sunday are the same.

HOW IT WILL WORK:

Glee will take a 4 month hiatus from its winter finale in December until it returns on April 13th. When it returns, it will go head-to-head with the last few episodes of Lost.

Fringe will take a 2 month hiatus from its winter finale in February until it returns in April in its usual Thursday 9pm slot.

Dollhouse will air out its final episodes in January, with the series finale on January 22nd.

Lie to Me has had a back 9 pick-up, announced today. Yet on the midseason schedule (also released today) there appear to be no slots open for it at all. 24 will, as usual, take 9pm from January so it won't be in its usual slot. Eyes on Past Life and Our Little Genius because if they bomb, I think Lie To Me will slot into one of their spots.

American Idol premieres Tuesday January 12th with a 2 hour special featuring guest judges in place of Paula Abdul at the auditions. Wednesday will be an hour long. FOX have not specified if they will have Thursday broadcasts this year. If it does, they will interrupt Bones. Early indications are that the ridiculous rush of last year will continue with the Tuesday shows scheduled for just 1 hour.

WHAT'S NEW:

Well, the cherished American Idol lead-ins go to Our Little Genius and Human Target.

Our Little Genius is a gameshow involving really smart kids which is made by Mark Burnett (he of Survivor, The Apprentice and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader/Ten Year Old). It debuts following the first Wednesday episode of American Idol and from the following week, moves to Tuesdays at 9pm where it will be subject to some interruption when Idol takes a 2 hour slot.

Human Target, unveiled in May at the upfronts, is an action drama series based on a comic book. It is getting a real push by FOX, airing a "series preview" following the NFC Football Playoff on Sunday 17th and premiering a few days later on Wednesday 22nd after American Idol.

Past Life gets no such push, airing Thursdays. It will have a 2 hour premiere from 8pm in February once Fringe wraps up for the winter. Then it airs at 9pm Thursdays after Bones in the slot where Fringe is getting crushed every week.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/24...uncement/34547

8pm
Holby City 5.74m (24.1%)
A History Of Scotland 1.86m (7.8%)
John Sergeant On The Trail 3.15m (13.2%)
The Old People's Home Show 1.51m (6.3%)
Sea Patrol UK 1.34m (5.7%)

9pm
Paradox 4.13m (16.3%)
An Iranian 'Martyr' 640k (2.5%)
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 7.82m (30.9%)
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation 2.2m (8.7%)
CSI: Miami 1.78m (7%)