That's true, but Junior Apprentice seems a little out of place there, so I think they'd be better off with an archival repeat rather than a narrative one.

This isn't that relevant but the pilot of Midsomer Murders was a massive, massive hit, it got about fourteen million viewers and then another ten million when it was repeated, and when they did the first four-part series, they did two on Sunday and two on Wednesday purely so Carlton could show two of them and benefit from massive ratings, and not just LWT.

Fantastic night for FIVE last night, possibly their best ever! I don't think I've ever seen FIVE with all hours shares of 10% and to win the 9pm hour is astonishing really. Just imagine if Liverpool had been in the final! The bumper audience obviously boosted the film after which probably won its slot aswell, meaning FIVE were in pole posiition from 9-12.30.

As expected for BBC1 between 7.30-9pm. No-one seemed to know when Holby was so, you had the Waterloo Road audience turning off, after they realised it wasn't a crossover episode (someone from Waterloo Road was actually in Holby) and a lot of the Holby audience not tuning in.

The word Junior obviously put people off and they thought the Europa League Final was more of an event. I suspect the match going into extra time hugely dented JA's chances, because if the match had finished before 10pm I think they would have been a huge surge to around 6m for JA-similarly to what happened in the last main series. I think it will be 5m+ next week.

ITV have themselves to blame for Midsomer-why they didn't put the soap awards on I don't know when they would probably have got around 5m aswell-surely it's better to put those on which are cheaper to produce, and it's basically a 150 minute advert for Eastenders

Football did amazingly for Five last night with a brilliant peak. I think that means we can't read too much into the numbers for Junior Apprentice or Midsommer. We'll see where they land next week. I'd expect both to be about a million up - perhaps more for the former.

EastEnders did alright for a rescheduled episode. Holby was hit a bit worse thanks to all the confusion.

And I've not really been taking notice, but do those 'Jamie Does...' figures for Channel 4 seem very low to anyone else. Considering he's one of the channels biggest names, you'd expect him to be doing better than that, no?

Looks like FIVE made a fantastic come-back last night. After nearly being beaten by the BBC News channel all day share on Tuesday, it scored its highest all day share since March 2003 the day after.

Holby City fell to its lowest rating since May last year and I think last night was its 2nd lowest ever rating. However, not many knew it was on, so it was with good reason.

Interesting to see Waterloo Road is currently number 4 on the Iplayer chart despite the fact it wasn't even on yesterday.

Five doing brilliantly with the match last night, that peak of 6.1m is brilliant!! Never thought i would see that for a Five show, not even an important match!!

Quite poor for Junior Apprentice, would have expected around 5m, but that may be becasue of the competition which was strong. BBC1 didnt do too well, the change of slots and days for EE was not good, same with Holby City. EE getting almost 2m, lower than it would usually.

I'm not sure if this has been noted, but last month a 7th series of Waterloo Road was confirmed, despite the fact that we have not yet finished the 5th series. It also means it'll be on air until at least the middle of 2012.

Source: Shed Media, page 4

ABC:
8.30pm – The Middle – 7.51m (2.4)
9pm – Modern Family – 10.10m (4.2)
9.30pm – Cougar Town – 6.13m (2.6)
10pm – Happy Town – 3.21m (1.2)

CBS:
8pm – New Adventures of Old Christine – 7.19m (1.9)
9pm – Criminal Minds – 12.88m (3.4)
10pm – CSI: NY – 11.36m (2.5)

CW:
8pm – America’s Next Top Model – 3.75m (1.7)

FOX:
9pm – American Idol – 19.10m (6.4)

NBC:
8pm – Minute To Win It – 6.72m (2.2)
9pm – Mercy – 4.11m (1.1)
10pm – Law & Order: SVU – 8.51m (2.8)

Idol was pretty much flat with last week as Modern Family once again equalled its series high among adults 18-49 placing it as the #4 scripted show of the week after The Big Bang Theory, Glee and Two and a Half Men. CSI:NY continues to underperform at 10pm and lose out to Law & Order. Mercy was incredibly low while the season finale of America’s Next Top Model placed The CW as the joint #2 network among adults 18-34.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/05/13...its-high/51263

Modern Family has really grown into a hit and I suspect ABC will want it as a tentpole for the comedies they pick up for the new season.

CBS, ABC and The CW has been quiet about their pickups but it should be announce in the coming days and it will give us an idea what the UK Broadcasters should look out for.

Ride Along is a cop drama set in Chicago about a rogue cowboy cop and the city's first female police chief who vow to clean up the streets and take on the city's dirty political machine . It's created by Shawn Ryan who also created The Unit and The Shield and is currently showrunning Lie To Me.

Lone Star (prev Midland), is perhaps a slightly surprising order. It has always been in with a decent chance but hasn't generated a huge amount of buzz. It's a drama about a con artist juggling two lives in two texas cities with two different women.

Running Wilde (prev Wilde Kingdom) is a 30 minute single camera comedy about a rich beverly hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can't stand his lifestyle or values

Traffic Light is another single camera comedy, the series tells the story of three childhood friends, now in their early thirties, each in a different stage in his life, like a traffic light: the red light is for Itzko (Lior Kalfon) who is married with a child and whose life is at a standstill. The blinking yellow light is for Amir (Adir Miller) who is living with his girlfriend Tali and on an irreversible journey from bachelorhood to marriage. Only for Heffer (Nir Levy), the eternal bachelor, is the light still green and the traffic is flowing.

Keep Hope Alive is their third single camera comedy which is created by Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl). It's about a 25-year-old who winds up having to raise an infant with the help of his quirky family.

Despite losing its showrunner, Lie To Me will get another 13 episodes and so will Human Target, which gains a showrunner as Chuck Exec Producer Matt Miller moves over.

The biggest surprise is that they passed on Breakout Kings, a series about ex-fugitives who are recruited to work with u.s. marshals and tested very highly. It will now be pitched to other networks.

Series information sources:
The Futon Critic
The LA Times
Deadline Hollywood

Confirmation of this should come next week at FOX's upfronts, their comedies are likely to run alongside Glee on Tuesdays though how they accomodate Idol midseason is anyones guess.

Elsewhere at FOX, Sir Elton John has apparently passed on a $33m offer to replace Simon Cowell. And despite apparently being on the verge of a deal in January a deal for the future of Idol is still several months away as internal fallout continues at its owner, CKX.

Poor Happy Town. ABC has decided to burn the remaining episodes in the summer. This figure has got to be worse than Eastwick, right? Modern Family has been a big hit this season, and possibly the only new scripted show which did well throughout for ABC. The Middle and Cougar Town started out well, but faded a bit later on. Yet still, the figures are passable and with a bit of schedule change, they should improve next season. I will say it again, move Cougar Town to 10pm!

What will happen to Old Christine? I remember reading somewhere that ABC might pick up Old Christine, should CBS decide to cancel it. Criminal Minds is pulling decent numbers, as usual. What will happen to CSI: NY? ANTM did well for their two-hour finale last night. Although, compared with previous cycles, they are a bit far off. Still, being the Top 2 most-watched CW show (alongside The Vampire Diaries), there shouldn't be any problem.

I think we've seen in the last couple of days an expectation that if a programme can't be shown it will still be made available on demand, but that of course isn't the case, especially with the BBC where I suspect contracts prevent that happening.

EastEnders and Holby held up well considering the change of slot which wasn't advertised and Virign ect still had Diy sos and Waterloo road for the 7:30&8:00pm slots
plus i think the football dented them also.

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The challenge is where to put it. They'll probably want to put it at 9pm but from a scheduling perspective it would be easier to put it at 8pm, with The Middle following on. Then Mr Sunshine and Cougar Town at 9pm.


ABC would appear to have ordered their first drama. “No Ordinary Family”, a dramedy about a family with extraordinary powers. Created and produced by Greg Berlanti (Brothers & Sisters, Everwood). The parents are played by Michael Chiklis (Fantastic Four & The Shield) and Julie Benz (the stripper in the latest UK episode of Desperate Housewives). Autumn Reeser (Entourage, The OC) also stars as does her former OC colleague, Tate Donovan (Damages).

With ITV putting Zai Bennett in charge of acquisitions, I suspect it'll just be their digital channels which are in the market for US shows this year.

I'm not sure any of the FOX pick-ups will get quick reactions from UK buyers. I think E4 will be looking for some more comedies so they might be interested in them. Ride Along will probably end up on Five or Sky1. Not really sure where Lone Star could go.

on Tuesday EastEnders was the most watched show on Iplayer even though it wasn't on but somepeople did say they were able to view it via virgin media at first.

Last nights EastEnders on iplayer was actually DIY SOS

Sounds alot like Aussie/US series, Find My Family.

C14E, do you know if Body of Evidence (drama starring Dana Delany) has been picked up yet by ABC?

I think Eastwick was down to around 1.5 by the time it finished, ABC's midseason dramas (The Deep End and Happy Town) have both been huge flops. I don't think they've really promoted them much anyway.

Historically, comedy hasn't worked at 10pm and perhaps more importantly, the affiliates don't like 30 minute comedy at 10pm because it creates a junction at 10.30pm where people turn off before the news broadcasts.


Old Christine could go to ABC, another season would take it over 100 episodes and I suppose it could stay in its Wednesday 8pm slot which is vacant. I can't see it lasting, though, it's ratings are pretty poor.

My guess is that CSI: NY heads to Friday or Sunday nights, The Good Wife could find itself on the move as well with its recent dip in ratings.

Not yet. Like most ABC drama's, there hasn't been much said about it though it's definitely in the running particularly because it has a big name star. They recently did a deal with one of the Exec Producers of CSI: Miami, Sunil Nayar, which signed him to ABC Studios. One of the terms was that if Body of Evidence (now titled Body of Proof) gets a series then he will be the showrunner.

I see. That's such a shame. I would have thought it might have been better at 10pm since Cougar Town is more of an adult-themed sitcom.

It's the exact same show except the title . Apparently it rates really well in Australia (according to the article), so could do alright here.

It's definitely a bit lower than I had thought it would be but I don't think there was a huge amount of hype before it started and I think the "junior" aspect may have put some people off as well.

The soaps struggled a bit but it was to be expected with the short notice move.

Channel 4 announced pre-series Big Brother specials... to be shown on E4:

- Big Brother’s Big Awards Show (E4, 22/05, 22:15)
- Big Brother Exposed: The Inside Story (E4, 28/05, 23:05)

Just a pity Channel 4 could not find anyone on Channel 4 for them, really...

Sky News said that was the highest ratings for a radio show ever recorded.

ITV schedules for Week Beginning May 22nd confirmed:

Saturday 22nd May
17:45 - ITV News and Weather
18:00 - The Whole 19 Yards
19:00 - LIVE: UEFA Champions League Final
22:00 - NEW: Soccer Aid - The Teams
22:10 - The Prisoner
23:10 - ITV News and Weather
23:25 - UEFA Champions League

Sunday 23rd May
19:00 - The Seasons with Alan Titchmarsh
20:00 - Britain's Got Talent
21:00 - An Audience with Michael Buble
22:15 - ITV News and Weather

Monday 24th May
19:00 - Coronation Street
19:30 - LIVE: International Football
22:10 - ITV News and Weather

Tuesday 25th May
- as expected, only main 'difference' in that Emmerdale is 1 hour long

Wednesday 26th May
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - National Movie Awards

Thursday 27th May and Friday 28th May
- as expected

Unfortunately 19 Yards has no chance against Doctor Who and will almost certainly go under 4 million.

The NMA could actually do quite well though considering it has a Coronation Street lead-in and not too much opposition.

By the way, I didn't realise that The Million Pound Drop was live?