With 4 channels showing the debate simultaneously, could be quite a big total. BBC News' simulcast will probably outrate Sky News HD but not Sky News or Sky3.

I don't think it will rate all that well on BBC Two overnight - probably only about 300/400k.

You need to stop reading the Daily Mail!

The Mirror's front page tomorrow is all about GMTV and possibly up to four of its presenters getting the chop - Emma Crosby, Kate Garraway, Anthony Castle and Ben Shephard - after ITV's big money signing in Chiles.

If all 4 are going, who will they bring in as Chiles' co-presenter? Could Christine possibly jump ship?

That would be a massive coup for them - I'm sure they've already tried!

Here is the story

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...5875-22197723/

Least it rates better then Hollyoaks which is losing viewers nearly every single episode.

Good news on Chiles joining the ITV1 team.

Busy, busy day on here.

Not really surprised at the Chiles move to be honest. Although, how is he going to be doing GMTV five days a week and also ITV's Champions League coverage. If they've got a home game, then that'll be fine, but an away game would surely result in having the Wednesday and Thursday off. In terms of replacements, I can see Chris Hollins for The One Show and Colin Murray for MOTD2. But will Christine be sticking around?

Stable figures all round last night. Almost a year after it moved to primetime, Countryfile continues to surprise us all. Horrible figures for Survivor – I don't think it's really the right slot though. Surprised to see Over The Rainbow increase from the result show, but the scheduling really has been mad. So far we've had 6:15, 8:15 and then back to 6:15, with 7:15 next week...and 8:15 the week after. Utter madness! Personally, I think the 7:15 slot in Countryfile/Antiques Roadshow sandwich will be best, but we'll see how it turns out next week.

Good timeshifts all round, especially for Doctor Who and Ashes to Ashes. We can be very reactionary on here at times to ratings (me included) but I suppose we forgot sometimes how many people have PVRs or catch-up online these days.

Looks like BBC One are starting to get their new slate of dramas in order for next year. The eight episode order for Outcasts (?) a few months ago will probably take Ashes to Ashes slot next year, with You Again taking Survivors slot, although I can see the later as being a very tough sell.

And finally, thank you to whoever discovered the work around on Broadcast’s subscription system

I hope that insider twaddle was made up by the paper and not genuine insider comment.




The daggers are out now. I'm beginning to think Adrian will be better off at ITV.

BREAKING NEWS

Australia: MasterChef returns with 1.69m viewers and is the most watched programme of the day.

It's nice to see the BBC have been calm, rational and understanding about the move.

EDIT: I couldn't have been concentrating properly though - I never realised Christine presented Match of the Day 2 and You're Fired alongside him.

Actually, regarding the Mirror source above:


Considering how the two shows did in the ratings he may have to have a rethink.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.58m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.52m
19:00 Home and Away 1.15m
19:30 The Zoo 0.86m
20:00 Find My Family 0.76m
20:30 Desperate Housewives 0.85m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.40m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.28m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.06m
19:30 Two and a Half Men 1.38m
20:00 The Big Bang Theory 1.16m
20:30 Carl Williams - The Baby Faced Killer 1.06m
*Fast turnaround documentary following the real life death of Underbelly inspired gangland killer.

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.96m
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.62m
18:30 Neighbours 0.69m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.97m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.69m
*Peak audience: 2.1m;
*60 minute season one opener averaged: 1.42m.
21:00 Good News Week 0.85m

Nine scraped a win with a 24.8% share of viewing.
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Excellent for MasterChef, well up on last year's premiere despite the longer runtime and if it follows the same pattern as last time it will build progressively throughout the run. After a miserable first quarter, it is just what Ten needed.

Unfortunately it wasn't all good news for Ten. The 6pm hour effectively cost them the night.

However there was better news at 7pm where The 7pm Project pulled in its best figures since its very first week on air. One of those rare cases where lead-out has had a clear impact, although you get the feeling that Neighbours could probably do with it more right now.

Nine did well with the fast turnaround doc on Carl Williams winning its slot once MasterChef finished. Two and a Half Men seemed to hold up well in spite of MC but Big Bang Theory was more affected.

Seven quite simply had a miserable Monday once MC started.

I think if he were just moving to do GMTV then it would be a step down. But he's also getting some big football events as well, good money and he obviously wasn't happy at the BBC.

I doubt Christine would move just for GMTV. Longer and far less convenient hours and a lower profile on a show that will probably always lose out to Breakfast and is already limited in its reach and impact by the time of day and the fact that many people probably have it as background noise.

Funnily enough, what she probably needs is a bit more time off from The One Show to film some other shows. She has been tipped for Xtra Factor but it looks like Holly is staying. Plus, anything that Ben Shepherd can afford to quit isn't that big a show. She would surely be looking for something on the main channels.

It was doing OK until December, IIRC. It certainly started off a bit lower than last year but unusually for an older show, its ratings were pretty solid for the next few months.

The problem now is that they won't be able to reverse the damage done. It's quite incredible how what was a "growing problem" for ABC before Christmas has so suddenly turned into something that is a very immediate issue that could have a significant effect on their planning for next season. The need for new hits (both comedy and drama) is now quite urgent or else they will go into a slump.

Although the future of many shows is already known, the upfronts should be very interesting this year. ABC's problems are outlined above and you wonder if they will move some things around (Brothers & Sisters is just getting by on the DH lead-in). There's talk of a Matthew Perry sitcom being paired with Cougar Town (starring Courtney Cox) as well.

NBC are almost going to be relaunching the entire network and it'll be interesting to see how they go about that. Do they shuffle their existing schedule a bit? Will Chuck & Heroes get any kind of order for next season? And are they planning to build a revival on drama or comedy?

I'd put a small bet on FOX announcing Cowell's successor on Idol. They also have several gaps in their schedule now but some of them are only temporary until X Factor starts in 2011.

Unfortunately, I doubt CBS will be that interesting. The only point of interest surrounds the future of Two and a Half Men. Aside from that, I doubt we'll see too much change.

well CBS has to confirm the end of Numb3rs, but from what ive heard about the finale, the show answers that question for itself.

Heroes is the big question, I want answering.

I wonder if we'll get figures for tonight's debates on STV/Border (Digiguide claims it's on Border Scotland and Border England) and ITV Wales? I notice that BBC Parliament are showing the Welsh one with a half hour delay, but don't seem to have the Scottish one listed - wonder if STV haven't allowed it? All of the politicians in STV's are relatively unknown, it may not do too well because of this.

Share comparison with The Bill will be interesting if we get it. Also, I can't see a repeat of The Bill for Borders/Wales - thought it would've gone out after NaT.

I remember Des Lynam did a column for one of the papers during Euro 2004 and expressed his dismay at having to link into a trailer for Fantasy Football as "ITV are desperately trying to prop up this ailing show". I know Frank was so disillusioned with the ratings that he announced he didn't want to do it again, but it was a good series and I enjoyed it. They did it in the 1998 World Cup as well, of course.

In 2002, of course, the Beeb did Johnny Vaughan's World Cup Extra, which was on BBC Choice at about 10pm and then repeated on BBC1 about an hour later (not straight after the games, of course, as they were all on in the morning), which was quite good. But we know what effect Johnny Vaughan has on ratings.


In Wales it's on Thursday at 10.35.

Monday 19th April 2010
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.58m (22.2%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.2m (24.5%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.7m (30.0%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.8m (23.4%)
19:30 - Bang Goes the Theory: 4.0m (18.4%)
* includes HD which had 10,000 (0.04%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 9.2m (38.8%)
* highest figure since March 29th
20:30 - Panorama: 2.8m (11.6%)
21:00 - New Tricks: 4.0m (16.5%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 5.0m (24.0%)
22:30 - Regional News and Weather: 4.7m (26.8%)
22:45 - The Graham Norton Show: 2.2m (18.2%)
* includes HD which had 8,000 (0.06%)

BBC Two
18:00 - Eggheads: 2.0m (11.4%)
18:30 - Great British Menu: 1.9m (9.8%)
19:00 - World Championship Snooker: 0.9m (4.3%)
20:00 - Hidden Houses of Wales: 1.4m (5.9%)
20:30 - The Hairy Bakers: 1.7m (7.2%)
21:00 - Out of the Frying Pan: 1.2m (4.7%)
22:00 - Have I Got News for You: 1.4m (6.8%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 1.0m (7.1%)

ITV1
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.5m (18.1%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 7.1m (34.6%)
* 19:00 to 19:25 - 6.98m (34%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 8.7m (40.1%)
* 19:35 to 20:00 - 9.05m (41.7%)
20:00 - Countrywise: 3.7m (15.7%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 9.0m (37.0%)
* 20:30 to 20:55 - 9.77m (39.9%)
21:00 - Joanna Lumley's Nile: 4.7m (19.1%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 3.1m (15.4%)
22:35 - FILM: Stepmom: 0.9m (10.7%)

Channel 4
18:00 - The Simpsons: 1.6m (9.4%)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.2m (6.3%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 0.8m (3.8%)
20:00 - Young, Autistic and Stagestruck: 0.7m (2.8%)
21:00 - Blitz Street: 1.7m (6.9%)
22:00 - The World's Most Identical Twins and Me: 1.1m (6.1%)

Five
17:30 - Neighbours: 1.3m (9.1%)
* 17:30 to 17:55 - 1.37m (9.9%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 0.9m (5.3%)
18:25 - Live From Studio Five: 0.3m (1.4%)
19:30 - How Do They Do It?: 0.4m (1.6%)
20:00 - The Gadget Show: 1.3m (5.5%)
21:00 - FlashForward: 1.5m (6.3%)
22:00 - Justin Lee Collins: Good Times: 0.3m (1.8%)

BBC Three
22:00 - EastEnders: 788,000 (3.8%)

E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 344,000 (1.7%)

Fiver
18:30 - Home and Away: 566,000 (3%)
19:00 - Neighbours: 170,000 (0.8%)

considering the couple of low episode EE has had recently that 9.2 million is refreshing to see, won the night as well, however the first Corrie had a higher share

Very good night all-in-all for ITV - the soaps held up reasonably well, also Countrywise did not perform too shabbily in the sandwich.

As for the documentary, it's performing solidly. It's probably a ploy to boost the travel documentaries, which saw low ratings in the last quarter of last year and first quarter of this year.

News at Ten also performed extremely well, and shows that the documentary lead-in is quite beneficial. ITV must be doing well with ABC1s in that 9pm slot.

I'm surprised that neither BBC1 nor ITV1 have launched any real brand new dramas on Monday nights this year, in comparison to last year anyway - especially ITV1.

Hopefully next year, ITV hatch a plan for the 9pm slots, which are a bit of a mess at the moment. I hope looks something like this:-

Monday
Thrillers
Law & Order: UK
Identity

Tuesday
Hell's Kitchen
71 Degrees North

Wednesday
7:30pm-10pm - Football/Awards/Movies

Thursday
Travellogues
Drama

Friday
8pm-10pm - Classic Dramas

Saturday
9:30pm-10:30pm - Entertainment specials, music specials, compilations, cheapish fillers

Sunday
During DOI, BGT and TXF
9pm-10pm - Drama (Family, Comedy, Teenage)
Intervening Periods
8pm-10pm - Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Aftermath, etc.

As for BBC One's 9pm slots, which also needs a bit of a rethink in order to stamp out those annoying New Tricks repeats:-

Sunday
Documentaries (with Professor Brian Cox, Stephen Fry, more)
Monday
Weekly Drama, or two-part drama

Tuesday
Documentary series (like Traffic Cops), or two-part drama

Wednesday
Being Human, Torchwood, The Apprentice, Junior Apprentice, female-skewed Movies from 7:30pm-10pm during bulk of football

Thursday
Comedy Zone (9pm: sitcom; 9.30pm: panel show/sketch show)
9.00pm: Outnumbered,
9.30pm: Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Would I Lie To You?, QI, Russell Howard's Good News)

Friday
Casualty

Saturday
Live at the Apollo, comedy/variety

I think Luther will be Monday night

Glee returned to E4 after a three-week hiatus last night (Monday) with a record audience, early figures suggest.

The second half of the musical comedy's first season pulled in 1.6m (6.5%) to E4 in the 9pm hour, with an additional 351k (1.9%) watching an hour later on E4+1.

Somehow 1.6m (6.5%) watched it on E4 yesterday. Highest rating of the series.

can someone who knows, tell me what Glee got right, that Britannia High didnt?

Britanna High was British. We just can't do these types of shows