More likely to be cuts I'm afraid.

PM, its an eastenders special according to pizzatheaction

We all cheered at the huge amount of drama BBC1 screened during the early weeks of 2010 (well up on the early weeks of 2009), but we knew we'd pay for it later.

I imagine BBC1 are building up to their next stripped drama. Got to wait for Survivors to finish. Five Days could start a daily run on March 1st.

At least it isn't another repeat of the Doctor Who one. I hope they don't trot that out again when the new Doctor Who series begins!

it is a late night repeat 00:50, Sunday 21st.

that said its 3 hours long on Wednesday 17th and 3 hours & 5 minutes on Sunday. Quite what they were planning to do with the other 20 minutes I dont know, I dont think the start time changed.

Its be on BBC One at least 4 times , it was on at Christmas as well

No Crimewatch Update on the Thursday, though.

Weird, Kirsty definately said it was supposed to air on the monday at the end of last weeks show and then the website changed today.Is it being prerecorded for the first time ever on the monday night?

WTF WTF WTF!!! That must be the most moronic scheduling by the BBC yet. They may as well shove Masterchef and The Weakest Link into one big pot of BSI overkill and splatter it wherever they want on the schedule.



Now, could anyone help me clear up my toys.

I'll go against the grain and say I like the idea.

BBC1 schedules are always pretty boring, its good to shake it up for a special episode.

Maybe. Or perhaps they forgot to alter the 10.35pm slot on the Thursday schedule.

I might watch it because I like EastEnders. I'm sure they've already done at least two EE specials, so I hope it won't be a repeat. Seems to be new, judging by the listing.

That would make a lot more sense.

I think it is new, they filmed a bunch of new celebrity episodes[and i think 1 was eastenders/soap special] last autumn.None of which have aired.

I can see why they've tried a later slot. I'm sure one edition got 2m viewers against The X Factor last September, so it might fare better in a later slot.

Someone please tell me what the job of a scheduler is?!

Total Wipeout series 3 began on Sat 30th Jan... next week, no show as Rugby. Fine.

Following week, back to Total Wipeout! Yay! But it's a repeat of a series 2 show?!!! WHAT?!

And according to digiguide, more repeats to follow in the coming weeks?!!!

ARGH!

Probably so they can drag out a new series and con viewers into watching the repeats. I bet most people won't notice!

And apparently it'll also take two weeks off once the Six Nations is over and episode 4 won't air till April 10th, two and a half months after episode 1. Ridiculous scheduling.

Except that we don't get accurate schedules that far in advance. The schedulers are always flinging in last minute changes (eg Crimewatch moving from Monday 22nd to Thursday 25th for F knows what reason).

Clearly, they have too much time on their hands. If the BBC need to save money, they could start by axing the schedulers. Scheduling should be the job of the channel controller. Isn't that what controller means? To control your channel. If I was a channel controller, I'd certainly bloody expect to decide where all the programmes go. (Traffic Cops off you go to 1am. On BBC4.)

Yes it will be a nice change.
I wonder iof it works will the BBC add a wednesday episode?

Interesting to note as well that Thursday's Corrie ended up with 11.68m in the official ratings, yet it usually seems further adrift from the Monday episodes when you see overnight figures. I guess when all the real ratings are in and finalised that the move to Thursday at 8.30 has been reasonably successful?

If they really want to save money they could hand the scheduling job to us for free. I'm sure a few of us would be willing to do it.

Nice to see New Tricks back. It's been too long without it on TV - and it's hardly shown anymore.

I guess as The Weakest Link is a special, it's getting a better slot. Why they're not airing it in an early evening slot and shoving everything else forward is anyone's guess, though.

At least ITV have given Married, Single or Other the best opportunity to succeed with a Monday 9pm slot. I hope it succeeds, simply because ITV1 need more non-crime drama.

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Good night for the Other terrestrial channels last night. Five again getting 1m+ (indeed, nearly 3m at 9pm) across the evening yet again, Channel 4 having a brilliant night for them, minus Hollyoaks which seems slightly down once again - I thought it was capable of getting nearer 1.5m?

BBC2 beat ITV1 from 8pm onwards (possibly from 7.30pm onewards but there's no rating for then), Channel 4 beat ITV in the9pm slot, possibly in the 10pm slot too depending how the post news programme did on ITV1. Five also beat ITV1 at 9pm. Basically awful for ITV1 and they just don't appear to be bothered with Tuesday's. Interesting to see News at Ten still getting 2m viewers despite the pathetic lead in.

Good night for BBC1 up until 9pm. With that kind of lead in and weak opposition, Survivors should be doing better really.

I'm surprised they haven't already TBH, as it'd give some stability on the night which seems to be slightly listless at the moment. If they (understandably) believe that they don't need a fifth episode, they should switch the Tuesday 7.30pm episode as Holby City already holds up Tuesday well enough, plus it's the weakest night in terms of opposition so BBC1 shouldn't suffer too much from it.

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It used to be capble of getting near 2m and in fact getting over that mark comfortably but it has really gone downhill with the last producer in charge. Now Paul Marquess is in charge I would expect it to improve in the next year.

Yeah I think they should use this as a test
imean there's no corrie and EastEnders is in Corries old slot so i could see some good figures
and a 5th episode of Eastenders is long over due i think but then again i don't see the BBC adding a 5th
but if they do id like to see it on Mon-Fri rather then double episodes.