Sorry I meant Christine...

It's such a god damn funny show and american comedy is more often miss than hit for me...

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Probably a bit much to hope that in 3 hours a deal will be made to bring Christine to the "alphabet" network?

I think 6 nights of expecting people to go away for 30 minutes then come back at 9.30pm is too much to ask and gives competitors an easy ride by allowing them to draw in viewers at 9pm. Many will switch off at 9pm and not come back. Also, the BGT results are rarely interesting or tense affairs and last year were usually done in 15 minutes.

I don't think it makes much sense to dent BGT over 90 minutes (a show which sells spots at a higher price per viewer than Corrie) just to try and prop up Corrie for 30 minutes. For every viewer BGT loses, Corrie needs to gain 3 to make this worthwhile (so lets say BGT loses 1.5m on average over the 90 minutes - Corrie would need to add 4.5m). And they're also going to have gaps at 7.30pm dragging down their primetime share.

ITV realy should have gone BGT 8-9.10 Corrie 9.10-9.40 and BGT results 9.40-10.10. Pushing the news at 10 until 22:10. This way they could squeeze 4 sets of adverts into the first BGT. People wont want to move to another station 10 minutes into the hour and News at Ten will avoid BBC News hopefuly giving it a boost.

I agree, it'd be a silly move. So I wouldn't be surprised if that is what they have planned.

I doubt they'll make a deal but they could either rule it out or else give some hope to viewers by saying that they're looking at it.

ABC are said to have been watching the progress of negotations for both shows so they should have a good idea of what they'll do next. If they're going to pick up either of them, they don't have long to do it.

That sounds better, and if they do go with the split plan (which I'm beginning to dislike) then I hope they do this.


Yeah I see you're point, and I'm rapidly going off this plan tbh, as I didn't weigh it all up when I made my initial judgement. If they're prepared to move BGT to 8:30pm on Monday and Friday, and do as Wyrip has suggested then they may be onto something, but otherwise, for the reasons you have stated it does seem pointless. If they do split them, the results shows will need to be a lot more dramatic than they have been in the past in order to bring viewers back

Hang on...


Does this mean that High Street Dreams is going to be yanked from the schedules? (or moved day/slot)

BGT will be 8pm start time for Tuesday - Friday shows...
I would imagine it will wipe out Eastenders. However, I expect Eastenders on BBC Three at 10pm to improve - albeit up against More Talent on ITV2...

I'm going to assume 8:30pm for Monday then, with Coronation Street... somewhere?

It will be interesting to see if BBC move EastEnders to counter attack it. Mind you, from the initial spoilers I've seen, that week of EE seems horrid.

The CW renews Life Unexpected (yes!) and One Tree Hill.

They pick up Nikita and Hellcats

I doubt they will. If anything, I think they'll move the Friday 8pm episode away from BGT to Wednesday at 7.30pm or something.

Just a thought - is BGT week also the week of Corrie's big Tony storyline? I read the stunt was the most expensive in the show's history.

I know it's the week that Corrie switches to HD as well so they may want to turn it into a bit of an event.

I'm pretty sure it is, so it'll probably be billed as a week of huge events or something along those lines (and more catchy).

Not necessarily. It will dent both shows.

well that is all of the CWs fall season hours filled, like CBS, its now just a case of what goes where.

Seems a safe bet Melrose Place has been axed.

Agreed. She's turning BBC One into a wishy-washy light factual channel.

Yes, it is. Hence why I said at first it was scheduling genius because of the big storyline...

I didn't see that post D.M.N., hence why I asked.

And if that is the case then I agree it makes sense to schedule it that way. I'd have agreed with C14E if it was just an ordinary week but it is a pretty big week for the show that they've been banging on about for ages...

Ha, doesn't matter - we're going at a fast pace tonight.

I don't think that would be possible due to the 'Children not allowed on TV after 10pm' rule.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/woul...ost-whisperer/

More on the situation with the cancelled CBS shows.
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Nikita seems to have been the frontrunner for The CW for months so that's no surprise. It's quite a step out from what they have been doing but changing direction worked well for them last year with The Vampire Diaries.

Hellcats I'm less sure of. One review I read of the pilot script was particularly scathing and said the whole plot is almost identical to that of Glee but not as funny. I think there could be a show there and Ashley Tisdale could be a draw, but not if it's too much of a rip-off.

http://travisyanan.blogspot.com/2010...-hellcats.html

I'm sure they could show the results on a 10 minute delay, as it would still be pretty much live and wouldn't be pre-recording them like Over The Rainbow does or Strictly used to.

I think it was a safe bet from mid season!

My CW prediction/what I think they should do

Monday
8pm - Hellcats (possibly at 9pm)
9pm - Gossip Girl (possibly at 8pm)
Tuesday
8pm - One Tree Hill
9pm - Life Unexpected
Wednesday
8pm - ANTM
9pm - 90210
Thursday
8pm - Vampire Diares
9pm - Nikita
Friday
8pm - Supernatural
9pm - Smallville

Seems more likely that Ghost will get the nod and not Christine.........

Does BGT really need half an hour for the result? It's not like TXF where there's a sing off.