no update on Digiguide either,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programm...don/2010/01/06

Replacement schedule:

7:30 Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers
8:00 BBC News Special (on weather situtation!)
8:30 My Family
9:00 Old Tricks

Solid replacement schedule I guess. BBC will probably actually win from 19:30 to 21:00.

Lol, I just knew New Tricks would pop up ! It'll get a decent audience. I think the BBC News Special will do well also and beat You've Been Framed comfortably.

lol

ABC:
8pm - The Bachelor (premiere) - 9.5m (3.3)
10pm - Conveyor Belt Of Love (premiere) - 6.5m (2.7)

CBS:
Repeats

FOX:
8pm - Fiesta Bowl Pregame - 12.8m (4.0)
9pm - Fiesta Bowl - 12.9m (4.3)

NBC:
8pm - Heroes - 4.9m (2.2)
10pm - The Jay Leno Show - 4.8m (1.5)

The Bachelor was up 9% in viewers and 6% in the demo from last seasons premiere marking the second best premiere ratings ever (9 seasons) and its highest ratings for any episode since April 2007.

Conveyor Belt of Love is a dating show which makes Take Me Out sound classy! This was a one off trial but it did well. It looks like it could be Endemol's second dating show for ABC (Dating In The Dark did well after The Bachelorette in the summer).

Heroes did a 2 hour special and was definitely hit by the football on FOX. Chuck returns next week amid the news that NBC boss Angela Bromstad has ordered a record number of pilots. It seems unlikely that both of them will make it to next season.

Chuck will air at 8pm, where Heroes was airing for the fall season. It probably needs to do better than Heroes in that slot to get another shot.

The problem is that where a decision like this is probably going to be made quite late in the season, the series doesn't get wrapped up properly.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/01/05...s-at-9pm/37610

Would you say the football did well compared to what other football does in USA on Monday nights?

The viewers flocked back to Coronation Street partly out of habit, kind of "what did we used to do on Mondays before Christmas?" with added cold weather.
Great figures all round really, outstanding for regional news again and Celeb Mastermind easily matching the One Show. The weather should see some powerful news figures again tonight.

No, it was a few million lower but last night was college football rather than NFL.

And actually, I don't think there was any NFL on ESPN last night so that excuse probably can't be used for Heroes last night.

WWE and TNA Wrestling will have taken chunks out of the competition due to their big head-to-head battle last night.

8 million for the News Special?

Wouldnt be surprised at all.

Don't see why not. Nothing like the weather to get people tuning into the news. I expect tonight's bulletins will see a boost as well.

This weather is ridiculous. Don't know about anyone else, but we've been surrounded by snow for three weeks now, its not disappeared once. No-one can remember it ever being here for so long before.

some ITV m/c ratings from last night:

ITV2
9pm The Holiday 360,000 1.8%

ITV3
8pm Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 311,000 1.1%
9pm Billy Connolly's Journey to the Edge of the World 506,000 1.9%

ITV4
10pm Red Heat 124,000 0.8%

We're just not used to winter weather in winter anymore! Who knows, perhaps it'll lead to summer weather in summer, something we don't seem to have had for a few years as well.

Those US ratings always make me wonder how differently we'd consider some UK shows if we judged them by the same 18-49 criteria.

I guess XF and BGT would still be the behemoths, but I reckon we'd think differently about a lot of the dramas. Doctor Who would probably do quite well, but some of the other really big stuff like Doc Martin and New Tricks wouldn't suit the demographic so nicely. We'd be getting more Spooks and Hustle - and less Midsommer and Poirot. And as for BBC One's Sunday nights...

Not a bad line-up.

This thread will go into meltdown if 'Old Tricks' somehow beats 'Same Old La Plante'...


Nicely timed too with biblical quantities of snow heading south tomorrow.

God supports the BBC...

Wasnt so long ago that the BBC ignored the Cumbria floods on a Thursday night because the BBC deemed it non-newsworthy.

Seems like the BBC need a lot of advance warning of breaking news I suppose they will work in a global warming reference somewhere in the coverage as the BBC style guide mandates.

ITV will have their news special @ 7.30 of course.

2-1 to ITV

There will be nothing special about the news special though

No doubt it will be a simulcast of the News Channel with the same reports as seen on the Six, the same lives and a bit of 'worst is still to come' predictions

There will be nothing new at 8.30 compared to 6.00, schools will still have closed, commuters delayed etc.

I think the Beeb should do a Panorama special - "Global Warming: When's It Going To Start?"

Should put bums on seats. I'd like to know, for sure.

But not likely from the Beeb is it...

As for the Cumbrian floods, I'm sure the BBC covered it extensively on the Friday - when there actually was a story to report...

CBB is again trending on Twitter. This surely will cause Channel 4 a headache if ratings hold up around 3/3.5m? Not sure if it will improve tonight. On the one hand, many will be tuned into the News, but on the other hand, more people may be watching TV planning the 'I can't get to work' excuse tomorrow...

They are getting rid of BB for political reasons, it doesn't matter how many people watch it now. If BB was on and there was a Tory government, HMG would use it as a stick to beat C4 with, before attempting to sell it.

Edit: though in fairness, the Tories may have a point. Channel 4 gets benefits for being a public service broadcaster. What the **** is public service about Big Brother? It's probably more commercial than The X Factor.

It was always a millstone around their neck, I'm sure they'll be glad to be rid of it in the end.