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The commissioning part of the Broadcast website seems to be a great source for up-coming commissions that we don't see in the normal places.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/section2.aspx?navCode=470 Along with the usual tat from C4, Five and some of the digital channels, there are a few interesting commissions from BBC One. Two dramas developed by Criminal Justice writer Peter Moffat: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...006854.article And a business show fronted by Jo Malone http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...007190.article |
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Along with the usual tat from C4, Five and some of the digital channels, there are a few interesting commissions from BBC One.
Two dramas developed by Criminal Justice writer Peter Moffat: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...006854.article I'm not too sure how it would play with viewers as its a strange format - moving forward through history so quickly - but it could be a critical darling. In any case, I hope they don't just do the first installments (1913-1926) and abandon it if it doesn't get the numbers. Those sorts of projects should be committed too. |
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Great start to James Mays Toy Stories, beating Millionaire.
Very enjoyable show. ![]()
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That adaption of Heimat would be a super-ambitious project. The German original is a real epic - though I guess is added more weight by the tribulations of German 20th Century history.
I'm not too sure how it would play with viewers as its a strange format - moving forward through history so quickly - but it could be a critical darling. In any case, I hope they don't just do the first installments (1913-1926) and abandon it if it doesn't get the numbers. Those sorts of projects should be committed too. Toy Stories did really well but not a surprise as James May's other toy series have rated well, only Millionaire was hit as everything else either was up or on par with last week. CSI: Miami seems to have regained the audience it lost from the heavy competition, I do think it will take a hit from The F Word which does 2m+ normally. |
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I think BBC One's comedy output for next year is looking like this so far (I think):
Big Top - Series 1 Life of Reily - Series 2 My Family - Series 10 The Old Guys - Series 2 Reggie Perrin - Series 2 Outnumbered - Series 3 Armstrong and Miller - Series 3 Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Chips - Pilot Not Going Out has been axed; Gavin and Stacey will be finished; Harry and Paul are moving to BBC2. Not that inspiring a line up really. I think two things need to happen to reverse this current situation. First of all, comedy needs a new slot. Although Friday may seem like a good slot, for many it's their going out/DVD night so most new comedy (good or bad) is being missed. They need to move it to Wednesday or Thursday nights, where it's going to have a bigger chance of grabbing an audience. Jonathan Ross could take the Friday 9pm slot. Secondly, they need to be taking risks in what they're doing, and most likely, move away from the stuido based sitcom. If you look at recent comedy hits - Outnumbered, The Thick of It, Peep Show, Benidorm, Lead Balloon - they're all located outwith the studio. They need to get something like this on BBC One, as they'll most likely appeal to a wider audience that The Old Guys (yawn). Holby City has proved itself on Wednesdays without a EE lead in, and with no Cory it could anchor there night at 8pm. It has also shown that it can rate well against footy. When not showing footy ITV have also been able to beat the BBC by starting a two hour drama at 8pm, where the BBC is usually weak on wednesday, which then has a knock on effect to the 9pm programme. This would free up tuesdays (and offer an EE lead in) at 8pm for an hour of family comedy/ panel shows etc. This would give the BBC a slot for pre watershed comedy, while they would still have friday at 9pm for post watershed comedy. This would also give the BBC a place to put 30 minute programmes, which the BBC have seemed to get thereselves that 30 minute programmes have no slots other than against Cory. The only problem would then be Waterloo road. My solution would be to turn each episode in to a two parter (40 x 30 minutes instead of 20 x 1hour) and run them weekly at 7:30pm on wednesday. People are used to soaps at 7.30, so I think this would really boost its profile. This would also give the BBC a half hour drama slot that they could use. Look at The Diary of Anne Frank, and dramas like Land Girls that both seemed to lack a slot that people are used to seeing drama in) This would lead to Tuesday: 7:00 One Show 7:30 EE 8:00 Sitcom/Light Ent eg My Family/Outnumbered etc 8:30 Sitcom/Light Ent eg Big Top/Question of Sport 9:00 Drama Wednesday 7:00 One Show 7:30 Waterloo Road 8:00 Holby City 9:00 Apprentice/Travel Journals/One Offs |
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Official BARB ratings for week ending 18th October
Most watched programmes of the week
1 – 13.89m – The X Factor (Sun, ITV1) 2 – 10.08m – Coronation Street (Mon 19:31, ITV1) 3 – 9.49m – Doc Martin (Sun, ITV1) 4 – 9.49m – EastEnders (Mon, BBC1) 5 – 8.44m – Strictly Come Dancing (Sat, BBC1) 6 – 7.48m – Emmerdale (Mon, ITV1) 7 – 7.35m – Harry Hill’s TV Burp (Sat, ITV1) 8 – 7.05m – Football World Cup Qualifier (Wed, ITV1) 9 – 6.84m – Life (Mon, BBC1) 10- 6.64m – All Star Family Fortunes (Sun, ITV1) X Factor, Doc Martin and Harry Hill getting new series highs. Good week for ITV1 in terms of top 10. Alternative channels (BBC2, C4, Five) 1 – 4.13m – FlashForward (Mon, Five) 2 – 3.69m – MasterChef: The Professionals (Thu, BBC2) 3 – 3.37m – University Challenge (Mon, BBC2) 4 – 3.11m – Last Chance To See (Sun, BBC2) 5 – 3.09m – The Secret Millionaire (Wed, C4) 6 – 3.07m – CSI Miami (Tue, Five) 7 – 2.77m – Autumnwatch (Fri, BBC2) 8 – 2.54m – Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Thu, BBC2) 9 – 2.44m – Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two (Fri, BBC2) 10- 2.30m – Have I Got A Little Bit More News For You (Sun, BBC2) = - 2.30m – The Force (Tue, C4) Third week in a row that FF tops the list. University Challenge continues to impress in a difficult slot. Channel 4 had a weekly share of just 6.1%, the channel's 3rd worst week since BARB records began in 1992! Top 30 drama series of 2009 The top 30 drama series of 2009 based on official averages. Series must have a minimum of 3 episodes to be included in the list: Code:
Doc Martin - 8.75m* ... ITV1 (5x60) Whitechapel - 8.73m ... ITV1 (3x60) Wild at Heart - 8.03m ... ITV1 (10x60) New Tricks - 7.94m ... BBC1 (8x60) Waking the Dead - 7.18m ... BBC1 (8x60) Unforgiven - 7.13m ... ITV1 (3x60) Lewis - 7.04m ... ITV1 (4x120) Ashes to Ashes - 6.51m ... BBC1 (8x60) Torchwood - 6.47m ... BBC1 (5x60) Midsomer Murders - 6.42m* ... ITV1 (4x120) Lark Rise to Candelford - 6.39m ... BBC1 (11x60) Law & Order: UK - 6.38m ... ITV1 (7x60) Benidorm - 6.35m* ... ITV1 (3x60) Hustle - 6.07m ... BBC1 (6x60) Merlin - 5.87m* ... BBC1 (4x45) Trial & Retribution - 5.87m ... ITV1 (6x60) Inspector George Gently - 5.87m ... BBC1 (4x90) Blue Murder - 5.13m ... ITV1 (6x60) Heartbeat - 5.12m ... ITV1 (9x60) The Street - 5.07m ... BBC1 (6x60) Primeval - 4.99m ... ITV1 (10x60) Kingdom - 4.99m ... ITV1 (6x60) Criminal Justice - 4.97m ... BBC1 (5x60) Taggart - 4.96m ... ITV1 (4x60) Marple - 4.91m ... ITV1 (3x120) Demons - 4.79m ... ITV1 (6x60) The Royal - 4.78m ... ITV1 (7x60) Mistresses - 4.64m ... BBC1 (6x60) All The Small Things - 4.57m ... BBC1 (6x60) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - 4.16m ... BBC1 (6x60) * - still airing so averages will change . Just five of the top 30 series are brand new programmes: Whitechapel, Unforgiven, Law & Order: UK, Demons and All The Small Things. Of which, only 2 have been confirmed for another series. In terms of good rating drama series (5.5m+), BBC1 has 8 and ITV1 has 9 programmes. That accumulates to 55 hours for BBC1 and 53 hours for ITV1, so about the same really. I'd say both have done as well as each other in the drama department so far this year, though ITV has probably improved more compared to 2008. |
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And as thus, the most watched list for 2009 changes slightly
Most watched programmes of 2009 so far 01 - 18.29m - BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT (30/05/09) - ITV1 02 - 13.89m - THE X FACTOR (18/10/09) - ITV1 03 - 11.46m - CORONATION STREET (02/02/09) - ITV1 04 - 11.31m - DANCING ON ICE (22/03/09) - ITV1 05 - 11.05m - EASTENDERS (02/02/09) - BBC1 06 - 9.91m - JONATHAN CREEK (01/01/09) - BBC1 07 - 9.84m - COMIC RELIEF (13/03/09) - BBC1 08 - 9.76m - THE APPRENTICE (03/06/09) - BBC1 09 - 9.54m - DOCTOR WHO (11/04/09) - BBC1 10 - 9.49m - DOC MARTIN (18/10/09) - ITV1 11 - 9.26m - WHITECHAPEL (02/02/09) - ITV1 12 - 9.20m - KILIMANJARO: THE BIG RED NOSE CLIMB (12/03/09) - BBC1 13 - 9.06m - STRICTLY COME DANCING (03/10/09) - BBC1 14 - 8.78m - NEW TRICKS (16/07/09) - BBC1 15 - 8.54m - WIMBLEDON 2009: Murray v Wawrinka (29/06/09) - BBC1 16 - 8.54m - EMMERDALE (02/02/09) - ITV1 17 - 8.53m - COMIC RELIEF DOES THE APPRENTICE (12/03/09) - BBC1 18 - 8.52m - WILD AT HEART (08/03/09) - ITV1 19 - 8.44m - LET’S DANCE FOR COMIC RELIEF (07/03/09) - BBC1 20 - 8.31m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Barcelona v Man Utd (27/05/09) - ITV1 Notes: Duplicates removed. Accurate EastEnders rating used for its highest episode. So, its BBC1- 11; ITV1- 9. |
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Celebrity Wipeout coming this Winter apparantly...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-revealed.html And the Radio Times reports that Outnumber's Festive special is about the Brockman's Boxing Day, so expect to see the programme on Boxing Day. Nice.
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ITV Press Office appears to have partially updated down to Thursday 19th November.
It appears that once 'Countrywise' finishes, 'River Monsters' is taking over its Thursday, 7.30pm slot until 17th December. The X Factor is currently down from 20:00 to 21:30 on Saturday 14th November, although I think that may change depending on how BBC One's schedule for that night goes. The Sunday 15th November currently is: 19:15 - All Star Family Fortunes 20:00 - The X Factor 21:00 - TBA 22:15 - The South Bank Show I'm just thinking... how long is this part of Piers Morgan's Life Stories? What are the chances of Life Stories ending on 7th November, with I'm a Celebrity launching on Saturday 14th November? Would that work? That'd be one hell of a Saturday for ITV: 16:30 - International Football: England vs Brazil 19:15 - Harry Hill's TV Burp 19:45 - The X Factor 21:30 - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 23:00 - ITV News 23:15 - International Football Highlights |
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I think BBC One's comedy output for next year is looking like this so far (I think):
Big Top - Series 1 Life of Reily - Series 2 My Family - Series 10 The Old Guys - Series 2 Reggie Perrin - Series 2 Outnumbered - Series 3 Armstrong and Miller - Series 3 Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Chips - Pilot.
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BBC2 has a brand new sitcom starting on the 09th November - At 20:30! Really strange if you ask me, oppisite Corrie, but it may work! - It's called Miranda and stars Miranda Hart (Not Going Out).
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BBC2 has a brand new sitcom starting on the 09th November - At 20:30! Really strange if you ask me, oppisite Corrie, but it may work! - It's called Miranda and stars Miranda Hart (Not Going Out).
*Even the critically acclaimed Lead Balloon in its third series was failing to make BBC2's top 30. Only the Christmas special acheived the feat with 1.73m. |
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BBC2 has a brand new sitcom starting on the 09th November - At 20:30! Really strange if you ask me, oppisite Corrie, but it may work! - It's called Miranda and stars Miranda Hart (Not Going Out).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Normal story for 9pm on a Tuesday. I'm intrigued regarding where the extra 0.6m appeared from for Around the World in 80 Days. Last week it only achieved 3.6m, so I decided to compare it with the other terrestrial channels. Tuesday 20th October 2009 BBC1: Around the World in 80 Days - 3.6m BBC2: Horizon - 1.4m ITV1: Seven Days on the Breadline - 3.7m Channel 4: The Force - 1.3m Five: CSI: Miami - 2.6m BBC3: Don't Tell the Bride - 0.7m BBC4: The Real Cabaret - 0.3m E4: Ugly Betty - 0.4m Tuesday 27th October 2009 BBC1: Around the World in 80 Days - 4.2m (+0.6m) BBC2: Horizon - 1.6m (+0.2m) ITV1: Seven Days on the Breadline - 3.5m (-0.2m) Channel 4: The Force - 1.3m (n/c) Five: CSI: Miami - 2.7m (+0.1m) No digital ratings as of yet. I guess most of the audience came from there. Just to compare how many people were watching TV last night, Around the World received a viewing percentage of 15.9% on 20th October. In comparison, Seven Days recieved a viewing percentage this week of 15%. |
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ITV Press Office appears to have partially updated down to Thursday 19th November.
It appears that once 'Countrywise' finishes, 'River Monsters' is taking over its Thursday, 7.30pm slot until 17th December. The X Factor is currently down from 20:00 to 21:30 on Saturday 14th November, although I think that may change depending on how BBC One's schedule for that night goes. The Sunday 15th November currently is: 19:15 - All Star Family Fortunes 20:00 - The X Factor 21:00 - TBA 22:15 - The South Bank Show I'm just thinking... how long is this part of Piers Morgan's Life Stories? What are the chances of Life Stories ending on 7th November, with I'm a Celebrity launching on Saturday 14th November? Would that work? That'd be one hell of a Saturday for ITV: 16:30 - International Football: England vs Brazil 19:15 - Harry Hill's TV Burp 19:45 - The X Factor 21:30 - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 23:00 - ITV News 23:15 - International Football Highlights We've just had a lengthy debate on these pages on the merits of ITV running the X Factor final on Sunday rather than Saturday and turns out thats what they've opted for (according to Dannii Minoque on twitter). So why they would choose to run the launch of IAC at some strange time on a Saturday rather than Sunday at 9pm , the plumiest slot of the week, I don't know. |
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Normal story for 9pm on a Tuesday. I'm intrigued regarding where the extra 0.6m appeared from for Around the World in 80 Days. Last week it only achieved 3.6m, so I decided to compare it with the other terrestrial channels.
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Seriously though, pre-watershed comedy really is a problem. BBC One seem to have this obsession with centring sitcoms around families, despite the fact there's so many other possible scenarios.
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This may or may not settle the argument on this but I just spotted that Dannii Minogue told someone on Twitter yesterday that the X-Factor final is December 13th - which is a Sunday.
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Terry Wogan just complained on his Radio 2 show that the powers that be don't tell anybody anything, but apparantly the star-studded Children In Need concert due to be recorded on Nov 12th won't go out on Sunday 15th as first stated but goes out the day before CIN on Thursday 19th.
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Jay Leno's low ratings at 10pm are causing affiliates unease as the 11pm local news shows are suffering double digit declines versus last year, although NBC is throwing them some additional station time to sell ads in the 10pm hour to partly compensate them.
Plan B if Leno is axed is to give the 10pm hour back to the affiliates to run syndicated repeats which is unlikely to deliver much better ratings. Ultimately I think Leno will be axed and NBC will go to local news at 10pm followed by the Tonight Show at 10.35 although that might upset affiliates in the central time zone who would presumably need to add an hour of syndiated shows somewhere in the evening line up to keep their current 10pm news slots. Quote:
So, Babs is leaving EE next year.
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It's weird that BBC Two has three comedies but they're airing in different slots, surely having a comedy block of Buzzcocks, Miranda and The Thick of It would work well rather than have Defying Gravity, I'm starting to think the controller of BBC Two doesn't like comedy although I'm guessing that the pairing of QI and Gavin and Stacey on Thursdays could be another reason.
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The commissioning part of the Broadcast website seems to be a great source for up-coming commissions that we don't see in the normal places.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/section2.aspx?navCode=470 Along with the usual tat from C4, Five and some of the digital channels, there are a few interesting commissions from BBC One. Two dramas developed by Criminal Justice writer Peter Moffat: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...006854.article And a business show fronted by Jo Malone http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...007190.article While Ch4 group has lots of forward looking relevant programmes and some tat. |
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Episode 3 had the same audience as episode 1.
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Fair enough, but I am intrigued as to why 0.6m switched off between week one and week two, and then returned. Could it simply be a better celebrity pairing in week 1/3 to week 2?
From the comments I read, a lot of people didn't warm to ATW's first week pairing of Frank Skinner and Lee Mack so it wasn't a surprise to me when ratings dropped for week 2. The week 2 pairing of Nick Hewer and Saira Khan from The Apprentice had a more favourable reaction. Maybe the departed viewers heard this and decided to give the programme a second chance. Or maybe week 3 presenters Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury brought some of their very many CountryFile viewers to the programme. Although weeks 1 and 3 had exactly the same overnights (4.18m) week 3 had a lower audiece share than week 1. By my rough calculations 23.35m were watching TV at 9pm last night against 22.12m a fortnight ago, so maybe it's just down to more people watching TV. |
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I was looking back at the figures for start-of-year dramas Unforgiven, Whitechapel and Law & Order UK earlier this week. Alll 3 saw their ratings drop for week 2 only to rally again in week 3. Who's to understand the strange viewing habits of the GBP?
From the comments I read, a lot of people didn't warm to ATW's first week pairing of Frank Skinner and Lee Mack so it wasn't a surprise to me when ratings dropped for week 2. The week 2 pairing of Nick Hewer and Saira Khan from The Apprentice had a more favourable reaction. Maybe the departed viewers heard this and decided to give the programme a second chance. Or maybe week 3 presenters Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury brought some of their very many CountryFile viewers to the programme. Although weeks 1 and 3 had exactly the same overnights (4.18m) week 3 had a lower audiece share than week 1. By my rough calculations 23.35m were watching TV at 9pm last night against 22.12m a fortnight ago, so maybe it's just down to more people watching TV. ![]() Seriously, maybe it was the couple. At first, I thought Seven Days had suffered big time but that had held up pretty well. |
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I know when initially announced some affiliates were not keen and stated they'd do their own thing, but I think were won over in the end. Surely though any affiliate seriously concerned could stop showing it themselves.
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Wednesday 18th November : Celebrating The Carpenters will air, if anyone is wondering.
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CNN is in the unusual position of getting beaten by itself (Headline News) as it falls to number 4 in the ratings amongst US cable news networks meanwhile http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...820,full.story FOX - 2,819,000 MSNBC - 1,026,000 Headline - 677,000 CNN - 621,000 Even the famous Larry King is 3rd in his slot with less than a third of the viewers Hannity gets (the 3rd biggest show on FOX News) and Rachel Maddow is comfortably ahead (second on MSNBC). And he's the top show on CNN. O'Reilly is still hovering 3.5m-4m and Glenn Beck (who is on at 5pm) is getting more than 3m. Quote:
Jay Leno's low ratings at 10pm are causing affiliates unease as the 11pm local news shows are suffering double digit declines versus last year, although NBC is throwing them some additional station time to sell ads in the 10pm hour to partly compensate them. They also have problems with The Tonight Show. Scandal has helped Letterman who is now ahead in the 18-49 demo for the first time. And miles ahead overall. That's feeding into the next slot where Craig Ferguson is now neck and neck with Jimmy Fallon in the demo. A year ago, NBC were comfortable in both slots. Plan B if Leno is axed is to give the 10pm hour back to the affiliates to run syndicated repeats which is unlikely to deliver much better ratings. Ultimately I think Leno will be axed and NBC will go to local news at 10pm followed by the Tonight Show at 10.35 although that might upset affiliates in the central time zone who would presumably need to add an hour of syndiated shows somewhere in the evening line up to keep their current 10pm news slots. NBC really are in a terrible, terrible mess. Just now, they're just being propped up by Sunday Night Football. When that goes in January, they're in even bigger trouble. They don't have a single hit drama series. Shows like Heroes could well get recommissioned because of the even poorer performance of new shows. They have been rumoured to be in the running for The X Factor. While it can't be worse than the current situation, it would effectively turn NBC into a completely non scripted station with their schedule along the lines of: Sunday - NFL/ The Apprentice Monday - 2 hours open, Leno Tuesday - The Biggest Loser, Leno Wednesday - The X Factor, Leno Thursday - The X Factor, The Office/30 Rock, Leno Currently, Leno is doing not too bad versus expectations and in comparison to ABC's scripted offerings at 10pm. Tbh, I don't really know what NBC can do at this stage. Where do they even start?! EDIT: It is perhaps worth mentioning that ABC are down just as much as NBC from last year. Their main problems being declines for Dancing With The Stars and their 10pm shows even though some new programmes have started reasonably. I think NBC are being aided by increases for the NFL, though I can't say for certain. |
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And isn't the BBC constantly trying to revive The Generation Game?
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As for TXF final on Dec 13th.... ... Incidentally Sports Personality is on on Dec 13th. Oh dear for it.
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20:00 - Holby City: 5.87m (24.3%) BBC Two 20:00 - James May's Toy Stories: 3.54m (14.6%) ITV1 20:00 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: 3.22m (13.3%) How the once-mighty have fallen - 9 years ago it played to audiences up to 19m. Now it gets thrashed every week by Holby, and loses to BBC2 now too. A lesson in how making a programme so over-exposed and watered-down can kill it off. Simon Cowell take note... Quote:
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Tuesday 7pm Emmerdale 7.30pm Tonight 8pm Emmerdale 8.30pm The Bill 9.30pm ????? but what would work at 9.30pm - ITV dont really have many late evening 30 minute shows (panel, comedy or factual) that would deliver a decent audience Quote:
What a waste of cash when the telethon itself is just one long sequence of musical plugs.
to ITV1's diet of soaps, celebrity tits and worm-eating.
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