Not betting your house on it this time then, Robbie?

Seriously, I hope Top Gear doesn't beat it. Clarkson's crowing would be unbearable.

Peter Andre has pretty much confirmed Katie is going on IAC by tweeting that he is getting the kids for a whole month.

Sounds like she is entering a few days into the show as the big 'surprise' - which every celebrity on the show will already know about.

I have a very good feeling about this series of IAC - I think it could be right up there with the top rated they have ever had. Especially if they use the X Factor launch pad well.

I really feel they should consider no adverts, like the American format. ITV has a little more freedom now in where it places advertising, I'm sure it could re-distribute it within X Factor and I'm a Celebrity.

Not sure if its been posted, but a couple of formalities over the recomissioning of two BBC One ratings bankers:

Who Do You Think You Are? has been given another two 10 episode orders to be aired in 2010 and 2011. They split the series into 2x5 episode blocks this year - not sure whether they'll do that again.

New Tricks also has another two 8 episode series, securing it until 2011 as well.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...007719.article

Always good to get the mainstays nailed down. I do wonder, if The Apprentice airs over summer, if we could be seeing New Tricks shifted later to a more ratings-friendly time of year.

I guess you mean just no adverts on Saturday/Sunday night (albeit The X Factor could drag on quite a bit by taking up the quota!). There's no point I'm A Celeb having no adverts any other night because it probably has the biggest 16-34 pull of weekday programming. What's the point of having 16-34 programming then axing the adverts for it?

October monthly ratings now out.

BBC1 Monthly shares:

Jan 2009 - 20.7% (Jan 2008 - 21.8%) Change = Down 5.0%
Feb 2009 - 21.2% (Feb 2008 - 21.8%) Change = Down 2.8%
Mar 2009 - 21.5% (Mar 2008 - 21.2%) Change = Up 1.4%
Apr 2009 - 20.8% (Apr 2008 - 21.7%) Change = Down 4.1%
May 2009 - 19.9% (May 2008 - 21.5%) Change = Down 7.4%
Jun 2009 - 21.3% (Jun 2008 - 22.0%) Change = Down 3.2%
Jul 2009 - 21.6% (Jul 2008 - 21.5%) Change = Up 0.5%
Aug 2009 - 19.6% (Aug 2008 - 24.4%) Change = Down 19.7%
Sep 2009 - 20.8% (Sep 2008 - 20.8%) Change = Unchanged
Oct 2009 - 20.8% (Oct 2008 - 21.2%) Change = Down 1.9%

Average BBC1 change = Down 4.2%

ITV1 Monthly shares:

Jan 2009 - 18.0% (Jan 2008 - 19.1%) Change = Down 5.8%
Feb 2009 - 18.7% (Feb 2008 - 19.0%) Change = Down 1.6%
Mar 2009 - 18.1% (Mar 2008 - 18.6%) Change = Down 2.7%
Apr 2009 - 17.4% (Apr 2008 - 18.6%) Change = Down 6.5%
May 2009 - 19.3% (May 2008 - 19.7%) Change = Down 2.0%
Jun 2009 - 16.2% (Jun 2008 - 17.8%) Change = Down 9.0%
Jul 2009 - 16.0% (Jul 2008 - 17.3%) Change = Down 7.5%
Aug 2009 - 15.1% (Aug 2008 - 16.1%) Change = Down 6.2%
Sep 2009 - 18.0% (Sep 2008 - 18.3%) Change = Down 1.6%
Oct 2009 - 19.1% (Oct 2008 - 19.4%) Change = Down 1.5%

Average ITV1 change = Down 4.4%

Multichannel monthly shares:

Jan 2009 - 40.1% (Jan 2008 - 37.3%) Change = Up 7.5%
Feb 2009 - 39.5% (Feb 2008 - 37.8%) Change = Up 4.5%
Mar 2009 - 40.1% (Mar 2008 - 39.3%) Change = Up 2.0%
Apr 2009 - 41.6% (Apr 2008 - 38.7%) Change = Up 7.5%
May 2009 - 41.3% (May 2008 - 38.2%) Change = Up 8.1%
Jun 2009 - 42.2% (Jun 2008 - 37.9%) Change = Up 11.3%
Jul 2009 - 42.7% (Jul 2008 - 39.8%) Change = Up 7.3%
Aug 2009 - 44.5% (Aug 2008 - 39.5%) Change = Up 12.7%
Sep 2009 - 42.1% (Sep 2008 - 40.0%) Change = Up 5.3%
Oct 2009 - 41.3% (Oct 2008 - 38.9%) Change = Up 6.2%

Average Multichannel change = Up 7.2%

Observations:

1) This is the 2nd month in a row when both BBC1 and ITV1 have performed extremely well. There is now pretty strong evidence that the "big hitter" programmes this Autumn have made a real impact in stemming what had appeared to be a never ending decline for the main two terrestrial channels.

2) But at the same time, multichannel still showed solid growth - growth in September and October is only slightly less than the average growth for the year.

3) It is Channel 4 that is suffering worst - down 13.5% in September and 12.9% in October. Five was down 9.8% in September and 5.9% in October. BBC2 was down 3.9% in September and 5.3% in October.

Pretty positive for the big two (it says something about the overall trend that we call any sort of decline "positive"). ITV have certainly had a good couple of months in primetime which will have boosted their overall share, but evidently BBC One have held rather steady across the board too.

Channel 4 have big problems and 2010 is going to be vital for them. They desperately need to discover a couple of big new hits, both to rejuvinate a tired-looking daytime and provide some centrepeice programming in primetime. If they don't, then once Big Brother dissapears in 2011, their entire schedules are going to look very sparce.

Julian Bellamy is promising a "wave of commissioning" for 2010, using that freed up budget.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...007763.article
They need it to work.

Not a good enough excuse to mess around with the programme given it still is their golden goose, IMO.

I agree. I have no idea who most of them are. I can't believe Lucy Benjamin and Jimmy White were desperate enough. They're about the only two I have heard of and that annoying cleaning lady.

Sorry, didn't explain myself very well at all there.

I just meant cut the one advert break between the X Factor results show and the premiere of I'm a Celebrity on Sunday.

It's only 4 minutes-ish of ads to redistribute and it should reduce the number of people that switch off after X Factor - they'll get to see the excellent intro video IAC always does and get drawn in.

I quite agree there is no point axing adverts during the show - pretty pointless.

Agree with this. I know the line-up is never stellar but they have had quite a few celebs in the past who at least most viewers will have heard of. This year there isn't one. (it's a female orientated show so most won't know who Jimmy White is and I know Lucy Benjamin was in EastEnders and Camilla did Strictly but they're hardly household names are they, the one most viewers will probably know is that annoying cleaning obsessive).

It should all change when Jordan comes in though. Comes to something when you draft Katie Price in to give a show a boost.

Good idea Cent. It's something they've done before but not in recent times.

I like the idea of the live link-up between Dermot and Ant & Dec during the XF results show as well. Might as well make a big event out of it as it's not often they get the chance.

Of course if ITV did a weekday spin-off you'd be the first to whine.

Eggheads another ITV production propping up the BBCs ratings. Do they have anything not made by ITV?

Didn't IAC's highest episode last year not come from the final or the opening, but from a lead in from the XF on a Saturday? And wasn't this above 10m?

Also consider the XF was a lot more low profile last yearf and probably only inherited 12m max, this year it will be inheriting around 17m viewers.

It will have an XF lead in 2 days of every week and it always does well with a Corrie lead in (except CIN when it will suffer). Therefore it should be performing very well this year .

The truth of it is that, for the commercial channels, the overnights are more important than the final timeshifted figures as the overnights give a more accurate figure for the numbers watching the ads. For the Beeb, the final numbers are more important because they give a better indication of the numbers watching the shows.

K

Sabrina Washington was in girl group Misteeq along with Aleesha Dixon, so it was hardly a non group though I think she was a bookend in the group rather than main singer.

Wednesday 11th November Overnights
BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.69m (22.9%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.7m (24.9%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 5.8m (28.3%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.7m (22.8%)
19:30- Jimmy's Food Factory: 4.1m (18.4%)
20:00- Waterloo Road: 5.2m (22.9%)
21:00- Spooks 4.5m (19.0%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.8m (24.5%)
22:25- Regional News and Weather: 4.7m (26.5%)
22:35- The National Lottery Draws: 3.3m (21.2%)
22:45- Brought up by Booze: A Children in Need Special: 1.5m (14.5%)

BBC Two
18:00- Eggheads: 2.4m (12.6%)
18:30- Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two: 2.6m (12.8%)
19:00- Passing of a Generation - Highlights: 0.9m (4.1%)
20:00- Natural World: 2.4m (10.7%)
21:00- Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain: 2.5m (10.5%)
22:00- Never Mind the Buzzcocks: 1.6m (8.5%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.9m (6.6%)

ITV1
18:30- ITV Evening News and Weather: 3.6m (17.4%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 6.9m (33.6%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 8.4m (38.1%)
20:00- An Audience with Donny and Marie: 4.2m (18.7%)
21:00- Collision: 6.0m (25.2%)
22:00- News at Ten and Weather: 3.0m (15.8%)

Channel 4
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.4m (6.9%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.7m (3.1%)
19:50- 3 Minute Wonder: Young Carers: 0.9m (4.3%)
20:00- Country House Rescue: 1.8m (7.8%)
21:00- The Family: 1.8m (7.7%)
22:00- True Blood: 1.1m (7.1%)

Five
17:30- Neighbours: 1.44m (9.1%)
18:00- Home and Away: 914k (4.9%)
18:30- Live From Studio Five: 0.3m (1.3%)
19:30- Highland Emergency: 0.5m (2.5%)
20:00- Britain's Best Brain: 0.6m (2.7%)
21:00- The Longest Yard: 0.9m (4.9%)

E4 [inc. +1]
19:30- How I Met Your Mother: 380k

Film4 [inc. +1]
19:00- Picture Perfect: 140k

More4 [inc. +1]
19:00- Grand Designs: 360k

Fiver
18:30- Home and Away: 437k (2.3%)
19:00- Neighbours: 193k (1%)

ITV2
23:45- Coronation Street: 157k (2.7%)

All Day Shares
BBC1: 20.4%
ITV1: 19.8%
BBC Two: 7.7%
Channel 4 [inc. +1]: 7.7%
Five: 4.3%
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I'm quite surprise that Collision beat Spooks by 1.5m. I know Spooks had its first run on BBC3 last Friday which got around 600k, but I still thought the gap would have been closer. Very good for Collision once again, and there's a good chance that the audience could rise tonight.

Waterloo Road performed strongly, in line with the previous two weeks. Five had a terrible evening, with no programme in primetime over 1m!

ITV1 and BBC2 did really well last night, nice to see Natural World and Making of Modern Britain both with 10%+ shares, Corrie seems to do well despite not in a regular slot and Food Factory seems to be down because of it.

Ouch at Spooks, though I suppose many will probably tape it and watch Collision since if you tape it last night and don't get chance to watch it by tonight then you are an episode behind. Clearly Stripped drama will work better for ITV1 with less people timeshifting thus maximising ad revenue.

Not great for the Osmonds on ITV1, otherwise ITV should be happy. Still it was an interesting experiment and probably did better than it would have on Saturday or Sunday night.

Channel 4 axes Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House:

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...008027.article

Not a bad decision by Channel 4 as the two were past their sell by date and i think it was time for them to end.

Five really need to sort out Wednesdays as having no show over 1m is not good. Collision is still doing well for ITV1.

The problem is Channel 4 seem to be axing everything with no viable replacements in sight.

Great for Collision.

I normally would catch the first run but on BBC3 but the Friday night is stupid scheduling imo.

I've stuck this weeks in the planner, I won't have time to catch up on Collision so I watched that instead of ol' Spooks

I knew it was not going to work. Entertainment specials will not work there. It probably would've got over 5m on a Friday, over 6m on a Saturday, and over 7m on a Sunday night.

However, I think they're letting the franchise go to waste. It's a very strong franchise, and ITV should be using it more to fill in the gaps.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is also a wasted franchise for ITV. It needs to go back to its original look, because the revamped version looks really cheap. If ITV were to make a marathon out of it for 6 days in mid-December, it would be a very cheap way to make some money. Maybe ITV could make a big campaign out of it: "Who could be a Millionaire this Christmas?". No celebrity/no bullshit. And live shows, with advertising every evening 15 minutes before the start of it. I think it could hold 6m+ in the 9pm slot, and possibly build to a good climax.

So, a real waste. Give Millionaire a two year break before implementing these changes. And with 'An Audience with...', make the shows more often and more poignant. Perhaps, if Robbie Williams appears on Life Stories, air 'An Audience with Robbie Williams' the day after.

I think 'Celebrating...' could also be a popular franchise for ITV, if they do it right. Amanda Holden and Ronan Keating make me less confident. This would be a show more similar to 'Stars in their Eyes' really, with actual musicians. It's quite a nice thought, but whether they can pull it off.

Good night for ITV. An Audience With... did well, and Collision did well again. Slightly surprised Spooks fell to 4.5m although I guess the audiences overlapped a lot.

Great Ratings for WR.

This series looks like it's going to a great one. 5.2m is up on last week aswell.

I was expecting Spooks to drop to 5m, but evidently Collision had an even bigger impact than I was guessing. It'll be OK with timeshifts, but one wonders why they continue to steal their own thunder just to deliver a couple of hundred thousand to BBC Three.

Apart from that, I think it was a pretty healthy night for BBC One, Two and ITV1. Waterloo Road continues to impress this series and Jimmy's Food Factory even held up very well against Corrie. The soaps were OK for ITV, and I think the Osmonds thing was at least satisfactory.

Natural World and Andrew Marr are very solid indeed for BBC Two, though Buzzcocks appears to be limping badly after all the changes - perhaps time for the long-running show to be put out of its misery.

The Family seems some way down on its last series for Channel 4, and Britain's Best Brain has been a dissapointment for Five too, who always look fragile without US imports anchoring the line-up.