High Street Dreams could also be dropped easily, and that could perhaps do with a relaunch anyway after the horrible start it made on Monday. It could slot in on Sunday at 8pm too, moving Countryfile and Over he Rainbow back to their normal slots (Antiques Roadshow finished last week and they've got some filler replacing it).

It didn't need to go anywhere though - they could have delayed it a week and then caught up later - they'll be plenty of opportunities during the World Cup to squeeze it in.

There's a two-parter next week though which surely makes things more tricky.

Latest from the Beeb:


Also tonight's BBC News at Ten has been extended by 15 minutes.

http://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/questi...update_12may10

Holby City does need to be re-scheduled at some point this week otherwise Scotland would be out of sync having already aired this week's episode on Monday.
Also it can't replace High Street Dreams next Monday because Scotland are already airing next Tuesday's Holby in that slot. So Scotland and the rest of the network would be airing different episodes of Holby in the same slot.

I would suggest put it after Casualty on Saturday, seeing as no Match of The Day, or boot out Watchdog.

That's a repeat of Graham Norton isn't it?

Edit: Sorry, I see thats been dealt with.

Great rating for BBC1's News Special. Once again I'm surprised that the BBC News Channel also did so well, as it was just a simulcast of BBC1. A good margin of victory over Sky News, though the latter did better than the usual slot average. Luther was in a brilliant sandwich slot so I thought it could've done slightly better, but it's still a pretty good rating. I said last week that the second episode rating would be vital, but considering the circumstances I think next week's rating will be the key - to see how much the drop-off is in a normal schedule.

Millionaire was predictably dented from the strong competition. The end is near for the show, but I do think it could rate slightly better in a Sunday 7pm slot (as shown by last year's Xmas Special). The Bill's rating is low, as usual, but it's better than last week's rating! So not a total disaster of a night for ITV1 (by their usual Tuesday standards!) but I echo what others have said, that they should've shown a news special, even just to replace Children's Hospital for 30 minutes.

Good figures for BBC2 and C4 at 9pm. Although CSI is up from last week it's still a shabby rating, and is being squeezed out by the two other cop dramas.

Tuesday 11th May 2010
Terrestrial
BBC One
13:00 - BBC News at One: 2.6m (36.4%)
13:30 - Regional News and Weather: 2.6m (36.1%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.5m (25.3%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.6m (28.8%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.2m (20.6%)
19:20 - BBC News Special: 8.89m (37.8%)
* 20:45 to 20:50 - 10.40m
21:00 - Luther: 5.31m (21.4%)
* HD: 0.04m (0.2%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 6.46m (30.3%)
22:30 - Regional News and Weather: 4.8m (26.3%)
22:45 - Children's Emergency: 2.12m (15.1%)
23:15 - The Graham Norton Show: 0.90m (10.3%)

BBC Two
18:00 - Eggheads: 2.0m (11.3%)
18:30 - Great British Menu: 2.0m (10.5%)
19:00 - Coast: 0.96m (4.5%)
20:00 - Theo's Adventure Capitalists: 0.54m (2.2%)
21:00 - The Story of Science: 2.00m (8.1%)
22.00 - Later Live… with Jools Holland: 0.60m (2.6%)
22.30 - Newsnight: 1.30m (9.4%)

ITV1
17:00 - ITV News Special: 2.09m (13.3%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.12m (29.6%)
* HD: 0.09m (0.4%)
19:30 - Children's Hospital: 3.0m (13.3%)
20:00 - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: 2.48m (10.1%)
* HD: 0.03m (0.1%)
21:00 - The Bill: 2.68m (10.8%)
* HD: 0.02 (0.1%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.1m (10.0%)
* 2.18m (10.1%) including HD
22:40 - Joanna Lumley: Catwoman: 0.84m (6.7%)

Channel 4
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 1.05m (4.9%)
* +1: 0.03m (0.1%)
20:00 - Supersize v Superskinny: 1.51m (6.2%)
* +1: 0.30m (1.2%)
21:00 - Heston's Eighties Feast: 2.38m (9.6%)
* +1: 0.30m (1.6%)
22:00 - Shameless: 1.93m (10.5%)
* +1: 0.25m (2.7%)

Five
18:25 - Live from Studio Five: 0.23m (1.2%)
19:30 - Zoo Days: 0.31m (1.4%)
20:00 - Cowboy Builders: 1.07m (4.4%)
21:00 - CSI: 1.91m (7.7%)

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Multichannel
BBC Three
21:00 - Blood, Sweat and Luxuries: 0.51m (2.1%)
22:00 - Russell Howard's Good News: 0.57m (2.7%)
23:00 - Family Guy: 0.56m (4.6%)
23:20 - Family Guy: 0.59m (6.5%)

BBC News
15:00 - BBC News: 0.36m (5.5%)
16:00 - BBC News: 0.58m (6.3%)
17:00 - BBC News at Five O'Clock: 0.90m (7.1%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 0.79m (4.6%)
18:45 - BBC News: 0.45m (2.5%)
19:00 - BBC News: 1.12m (5.4%)
20:00 - BBC News: 1.53m (6.5%)
21:00 - BBC News: 0.83m (3.5%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 0.65m (3.5%)
23:00 - BBC News: 0.35m (3.7%)

ITV2
14:35 - The Jeremy Kyle Show: 0.40m (6.3%)
21:00 - The Vampire Diaries: 0.49m (2.1%)

ITV3
17:05 - George and Mildred: 0.37m (3.0%)
17:40 - Heartbeat: 0.41m (2.5%)
18:50 - Born and Bred: 0.41m (2.1%)
19:50 - Poirot: 0.48m (2.1%)
21:00 - Wycliffe: 0.56m (2.3%)

E4
17:30 - Friends: 0.42m (3.1%)
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 0.40m (2.0%)

Fiver
19:00 - Home and Away: 0.43m (2.3%)

Sky1
19:00 - The Simpsons: 0.38m (1.9%)
19:30 - The Simpsons: 0.39m (1.8%)

Sky News
17:00 - Live At Five: 0.35m (3.0%)
17:30 - Live At Five: 0.39m (2.8%)
18:00 - Sky News at Six: 0.37m (2.1%)
18:30 - Sky News at Six: 0.45m (2.4%)
19:00 - Randall and Boulton Unleashed: 0.63m (3.0%)
20:00 - News, Sport, Weather: 0.56m (2.4%)
20:30 - News, Sport, Weather: 0.59m (2.4%)
21:00 - News, Sport, Weather: 0.44m (1.9%)
21:30 - News, Sport, Weather: 0.56m (2.3%)
22:00 - Sky News at Ten: 0.39m (1.9%)

Sky Sports 2
19:30 - Live Football League: 0.57m (2.5%)

Dave
21:00 - QI: 0.35m (1.5%)

Any figure for C4 News?

I've always resented the idea that C4 should pick up the slack when ITV shirk their PSB responsibilities, but looking at that Supersize v Superskinny rating, they might have been wise to stick with the news for an extra hour to cover Cameron shafting the nation.


And remarkable really Shameless is still pulling the kind of figures it was when it started considering how ratings for drama on the BBC and ITV have collapsed in the last six years.

Really pleased with those figures for Sky News. Top rated commercial multi-channel programme of the day for the 7pm bulletin.

A bit of good news for the channel in an otherwise miserable week.

http://www.c21media.net/news/detail....&article=55535

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Ofcom are to investigate the complaints over Burley and Bolton's bias on Sky News. Too right.

Cool. I look forward to them being cleared.

Is there a Michael "Bubbly" album or single going on sale the following day?

BBC1 NI & BBC HD still have Waterloo Road scheduled tonight

Brilliant figures for the BBC News Special last night, absolutely justifies decision to remove EastEnders and Holby City from the schedule. I'm assuming that is Millionaire's lowest figure ever, wish is unsurprising. The Bill must also be giving ITV massive negative profit signs, that HD audience is awful!

Luther did OK, but really thought it'd improve.

And below are the Primetime Shares:

BBC1 - 29.2%
ITV1 - 12.8%
Channel 4 - 7.9%
BBC2 - 4.9%
Five - 4.7%
Multichannel - 40.5%

Is that the lowest ever primetime share for ITV?

Not quite its lowest ever, an episode in 2006 sunk to 1.8m as it aired against the second half of England vs Portugal World Cup match. I think another episode sunk to about 2.5m around the same time too, possibly becauseit was on at about 5.30pm or something.

Also, Adrian Chiles will be making his ITV debut on Monday 24th May for England vs Mexico.

Nope. It's higher than a couple of their Tuesday primetime shares earlier in the year. ITV1's lowest primetime share on record is 9.5% on Wednesday 19th August 2009.

I wonder how it will work tonight
and surely EastEnders and holby won't rate as high because not everyone knows that they are on.

What a mess the BBC is making with Waterloo Road,the show is doing well and now it goes on another two week break.There's only a few episodes of this series left.

Robinson has been a little, erm, "emotional" at times in the last two or three days. The "Tory boy" instincts have come near to the surface on a couple of occasions.

Indeed, it's no way to treat a series, show 10 episodes, have a 4 month gap, then show 5, then a 2 week gap, then show another 5 and crash into the World Cup!

They deserve to lose audience for Waterloo Road. The next series will already be a challenge due to major cast changes, so this is no way to keep viewers on side.

Let me guess - non-English Champions League qualifier!

Talking of which, going back a few weeks now and I know we assumed the contract stated games had to be on ITV1, but for the first semi-final in one of the listings mags it stated that "schedules may change if this match is shown on ITV4", so perhaps that is an option, and one I suspect they may take up next season for any qualifiers not involving Tottenham.

What are they supposed to do NOT show election coverage?

Of course they should show election coverage, but it isn't election coverage taking Waterloo Road's slot, it's Holby City, which is nonsensical.