ABC:
8pm – Dancing With The Stars – 12.40m (2.5)
9pm – Lost – 10.24m (4.0)
10pm – V – 5.98m (2.4)

CBS:
8pm – NCIS – 15.26m (3.8)
9pm – NCIS:LA – 15.92m (3.3)
10pm – The Good Wife – 12.94m (2.5)

FOX:
8pm – American Idol – 18.70m (6.7)
9pm – Glee – 11.69m (4.8)

NBC:
8pm – The Biggest Loser – 8.42m (3.4)
10pm – Parenthood – 5.94m (2.6)

Nearly everything was up although Glee slipped 0.1 in the demo. Idol rebounded 12% after last week’s slide. NCIS was the biggest climber, up 23%.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/05/12...shows-up/51172

Elsewhere, New York Magazine reports Heroes will be wrapped with a 2 hour movie rather than the 13 episode run that had been hoped for. Not confirmed yet, though.

Fair enough and rightly so they did show the coverage.

However they can find time in the scedhule to air Eastenders and Holby, but not Waterloo Road.

Waterloo Road gets very good ratings, something very rare on Wednesday nights on BBC1 before WR moved from the Thursday slot and The Apprentice moved to BBC1.It needs these viewers for the major changes ahead in the next series, it will now most likely loose some of these.

Very Very Very mad with the BBC here and im not someone who normally get's angry with something like this.

I'm sure Waterloo Road will be just fine. It was the most logical move IMO. Someone somewhere would have complained whatever they decided to do.

Confirmed now C4 will air The Million Pound Drop nightly at 10pm from 24th May. Desperate Housewives moves to 9pm on the Wednesday, You Have Been Watching and Ricky Gervais to 11.05pm on Thursday/Friday respectively.

A Come Dine with Me Gameshow host special airs in the 9pm slot before it on the Monday, whilst to answer earlier questions Gok Wan's Fashion Fix is taking the Tuesday 8pm slot from the 25th, replacing Supersize v Superskinny.


On ITV1 the Champions League final coverage begins at 7pm, with The Prisoner following at 10.10pm. Corrie gets the 7pm slot on Monday with an England game at 7.30pm, and also an episode on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Emmerdale is on for an hour on Tuesday.


On BBC1 on the Saturday Doctor Who is at 6.15pm with Over the Rainbow at 7pm and results show (TBC) - Casualty is pencilled in as 9.30pm though so I imagine it'll be 8.50-9.30pm.

Lost is performing super well for their key adult demo. I am constantly wondering how Lost will perform for their series finale in a few weeks. V is going up, but is it too little too late? If it does get saved, will it get moved to Fridays? CBS can just relax for their Tuesday's schedule, as all of them perform fine. Whether that be in total viewers, 18-49, their key demo or all of the above. Glee is slipping slowly, which is a shame.

Very good for BBC One's News coverage last night. Excellent peak and the viewership was sustained better than I had expected it too. A good answer to some of the more irrational soap fans who wondered where EE had gotten too. Good numbers for the news channels too - it always amazes me how many turn on to BBC News Channel, even when One are simulcasting.

We'll have to see where Luther goes next week now. You'd guess, from the looks of those figures, that it'll be down below 5m, which would be a tad dissappointing. I was pleased they managed to get it on air though to offer it some consistency in scheduling.

No such considerations for Waterloo Road, but I suppose they view Holby as a higher priority, and there's not a surplus of available slots for it to take before next week. Thursday was a no go because Watchdog is live - and tank though they might, Modern Masters and High Street Deams wouldn't be pulled. I could never see them disturbing a 9pm slot when they could use an 8pm one instead.

They had no choice with Holby as with the two episodes next week being on successive nights and featuring a disaster with a character leaving they had to show this week's episode before them.

Waterloo Road is off next week anyway due to the above so taking a two week break instead of one makes sense.

They might even put both Waterloo Roads on successive nights the week after and axe Holby that week.

The Sky EPG still lists the HD version of Waterloo Road as being on tonight.

Anyone know if that is likely to still happen?

The other week chaos reigned when they had to delay the HD transmission of the last Heroes episodes to wait for BBC 2 and the snooker to catch up. But those were imports with a clause tieing SD and HD transmissions together. Do these apply to the BBC s own shows?

An emphatic return for the CSI there. Channel 4 Scheduling Idiots, in case anyone other than myself were wondering.

Putting on new shows on at 23:05 just in my view is really stupid - Channel 4 seems one of those channels which has a 'short sighted schedule' where it only focuses on the next 2/3 weeks instead of looking right ahead. BBC1 was a channel which had a 'long sighted schedule', I remember hearing a quote that the schedules are formed initially six months to a year in advance, but its clear in past months that its turned into a 'short sighted schedule', although arguably nights like last night do not help.

Regarding the Channel 4 schedule above, I think the original plan must have been to have Come Dine with Me Special in the Sunday, 8pm slot, but Britain's Got Talent on ITV1 left that a 'no go' area, which in turn appears to have scuppered the rest of the schedule, because in my view, The Million Pound Drop has no chance in the 10pm, but I think Channel 4 will be pleased with 1.5 million approx.


Well, The Prisoner I see on later, unsurprisingly. It'll be a mystery though to me why they have not dumped it, mind you, its a mystery how it even made the air!

As for Coronation Street, it might be a good idea if someone 'keeps track' of this, because it will almost certainly be jumping all around the schedule until the middle of July. At the moment, we have (should be >> will be):

24/05, 19:30 >> 24/05, 19:00
24/05, 20:30 >> 26/05, 19:30
27/05, 20:30 >> 27/05, 20:30, back in sync
28/05, 19:30 and 28/05, 20:30

EastEnders could go down to potentially a record low, whereas the BBC Three repeat could hit a record high.

I thought I'd e-mail ITV, by the way, to see if they had a proper reason for not having Election coverage from 19:30 to 21:00 yesterday. I sent them this:


To which they replied:


I've replied back since (with no reply off them), but its ITV that do their schedules for their channel, ITN would have no control over whether they go into an ITV News Special, would they? Its ITV's choice whether they choose to do so or not, even if they appear to have sent back what I'd call a "standard response" and actually totally ignored my question.

So let me get this straight, ITV1 are blaming ITN for the fact ITV did not provide live coverage of last night's prime ministerial handover?

That's low.

The Eastenders fans might moan, but this was an historic night for the country and a peak of 10 million viewers, about 1.5 million more than a typical EE audience figure, suggests the BBC was right for moving the soap. Same as if the Queen died, you would expect the BBC to suspend its programmes for that.

Ignore DS's report - ITV's ratings look like a mess: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...become-pm.html

They do look a mess!
I didn't think ITV did "15 minute reports". I assume by that they mean they lasted 15 minutes long? They only lasted 15 seconds if anything!

Alot of EastEnders and Holby fans would have been watching waiting for their shows to start as EastEnders was supose to air at 8:50pm someone said(and that was the peak of the news)

I think tonights EastEnders will be low
It's not trending on twitter as usual and the episode thread isn't buzzing like a normal episode

when and why would it?

Is there an "Engerland" footie match on ITV1 that night?

Are you obsessed with EastEnders? One of your posts I read earlier and you were 'moaning' that David Cameron as new Prime Minster was treated as higher priority than EastEnders.

As for tonight, it will probably be about 7/8 million, no major dip. Remember when it was on Wednesday at the end of February? It still had a very good figure. OK, tonight's will be lower, but I really don't envisage some really low figure.


Monday 24th May. It's on against England vs Mexico, which, even though football rates low in ITV, will almost certainly get over 10 million I would have thought. In the month before the World Cup, England games, even on ITV, go to astronomical figures.

Am I alone in finding this BBC One schedule ever-so-slightly uninspiring?

http://uk-tv-guide.com/list/BBC+1+London/23+May+2010

I'm surprised you even need to ask.

Actually i didn't say that,
I said the BBC should have let us know EastEnders was cancelled rather then leaving the viewers hanging on to BBC1.

Oh the lowest Eastenders is 3m or so isn't it
and can't see it getting lower then that.

Yeah the wednesday episode back in feb did well but people knew it was on.
Diy sos was still on according to the papers and sky and virgin

You haven't seen Jay Hunt's 'tactic' for the day before yet:

16:30 - BBC News
16:45 - Hole in the Wall (R)
17:15 - Junior Apprentice (R)
18:15 - Doctor Who
19:00 - Over the Rainbow Final
20:00 - Lottery
20:55 - Over the Rainbow Results
21:30 - Casualty
22:20 - BBC News

Why? Why is Junior Apprentice being repeated there?

Is the Chelsea Flower Show normally on BBC One? Have they 'stolen' it on from BBC Two? I know that ITV have an England game opposite it, but that will get demolished.

'Would I Lie to You?' is on Thursday 27th May @ 9:30pm, however its a repeat.

Unfortunately, the schedules (not so much for ITV because of England Internationals and Britain's Got Talent) go into meltdown with actual crap here there and everywhere...

EDIT: They're repeating Bruce Almighty @ 8:30pm on Friday 28th May!

EDIT 2: I should note that on Tuesday 25th May @ 10:30am is the State Opening of Parliament on BBC One.

It looks a bit out of place there. And why there's a Hole in the Wall repeat, when there's still one new episode (where Debbie McGee comes a cropper) is anyone's guess.


I think BBC One started showing it in 2005. There was a BBC strike on the first day, but the flower show coverage survived. Yay!

Typical of ITV to show an England match at the same time as EastEnders
(only Joking)

Will have to watch England from 8:30pm then as Eastenders will come first because im obsessed with it.

It's amazingly stupid really as due to the Champions League coverage that night they'll probably have ads to air in the 10pm hour, so would have made more sense to air something people might actually watch.


Ridiculously arrogant response from ITV, blaming ITN who are probably just as furious as us.

I don't think the England vs. Mexico broadcast will average over 10m. The pre-2006 World Cup primetime England match averaged 9.2m on BBC1, and that only had a buildup of 5 minutes or so. It didn't face Coronation Street either.

With the upcoming England broadcast having a half hour buildup, longer post-match analysis, facing EastEnders and being on ITV1 rather than BBC1, I'd imagine it'll average lower than 9.2m. It'll dent EastEnders but I think EE will still be able to get about 6-7m as Five Days held up well against an England match earlier this year (about 6m) so I can't see EE falling to ~5m levels.

Looks like the Europa League Final is going to go into extra time which is good news for Five. Should lift up the average.

Footie is going into extra time which is good news for Five.

Going to be a nailbiting finish.