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there must be a certain irony in this seeing as you must have done 5,000 fantasy schedules for ITV..
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I've been looking at the overnights recently in full, as you all know, and I've come to realise that the 6pm-7pm slot on weekdays has so much potential...
No longer is it completely dominated by the BBC News at Six, which has plummeted from around 5m to 3-4m. ITV News has also dropped. I think one of the networks, probably ITV being in the weaker situation at present, should start primetime at 6pm-7pm. It's no secret that ITV has always performed well earlier in the evening with its light entertainment. What I am proposing is a 6pm slot leading into Emmerdale, which can have shows like this:- - The Paul O'Grady Show (15 weeks a year) - Britain's Got More Talent (10 weeks a year) - Xtra Factor (15 weeks a year) - Heartbeat (10 weeks a year) Something like this, spread across a whole year, could provide a massive boost to the whole of primetime, with Emmerdale being boosted, and therefore Coronation Street, with older viewers perhaps skipping The One Show. This is just a thought, but what does everybody else think of this? |
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Extra Corrie on Saturday according to Dan Wooton from NOTW.
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I've been looking at the overnights recently in full, as you all know, and I've come to realise that the 6pm-7pm slot on weekdays has so much potential...
No longer is it completely dominated by the BBC News at Six, which has plummeted from around 5m to 3-4m. ITV News has also dropped. I think one of the networks, probably ITV being in the weaker situation at present, should start primetime at 6pm-7pm. It's no secret that ITV has always performed well earlier in the evening with its light entertainment. What I am proposing is a 6pm slot leading into Emmerdale, which can have shows like this:- - The Paul O'Grady Show (15 weeks a year) - Britain's Got More Talent (10 weeks a year) - Xtra Factor (15 weeks a year) - Heartbeat (10 weeks a year) Something like this, spread across a whole year, could provide a massive boost to the whole of primetime, with Emmerdale being boosted, and therefore Coronation Street, with older viewers perhaps skipping The One Show. This is just a thought, but what does everybody else think of this? |
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I've been looking at the overnights recently in full, as you all know, and I've come to realise that the 6pm-7pm slot on weekdays has so much potential...
No longer is it completely dominated by the BBC News at Six, which has plummeted from around 5m to 3-4m. ITV News has also dropped. I think one of the networks, probably ITV being in the weaker situation at present, should start primetime at 6pm-7pm. It's no secret that ITV has always performed well earlier in the evening with its light entertainment. What I am proposing is a 6pm slot leading into Emmerdale, which can have shows like this:- - The Paul O'Grady Show (15 weeks a year) - Britain's Got More Talent (10 weeks a year) - Xtra Factor (15 weeks a year) - Heartbeat (10 weeks a year) Something like this, spread across a whole year, could provide a massive boost to the whole of primetime, with Emmerdale being boosted, and therefore Coronation Street, with older viewers perhaps skipping The One Show. This is just a thought, but what does everybody else think of this? All it would achieve is make the BBC News at 6 even stronger and ITV would lose even more ground. Then you'd have a situation like News at Ten where ITV would realise their mistake, try to put it right, but never be able to compete properly at 6pm again. |
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Kevin O'Sullivan (Mirror.co.uk TV Critic) says that ITV are moving the episodes to next week, with an official announcement tomorrow. I'm guessing they'll announce the schedule changes and stuff tomorrow as well.
One thing that does puzzle me though is why they won't just combine the two BGT shows for the remainder of the week. Such a simple solution to prevent a dropoff like we saw last night. |
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I've been looking at the overnights recently in full, as you all know, and I've come to realise that the 6pm-7pm slot on weekdays has so much potential...
No longer is it completely dominated by the BBC News at Six, which has plummeted from around 5m to 3-4m. ITV News has also dropped. |
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Depends on what these "shots" are that she talks about. Whether they are moments that can be cut or edited to make more acceptable to an earlier time slot, or whether they are integral to the storytelling and they have no other choice but to air them as is. The latter will probably mean post watershed.
It's like the "We fillmed x number of endings" guff we hear trotted out by soap producers on a regular basis. |
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If Murray was playing on any day when EastEnders is on, as you can see it'd cause scheduling chaos.
They moved one EastEnders ep to BBC Two last year, but I'm not convinced they'd do that with any hour-long episodes, cos it the match then finished quickly, they'd be left with half an hour or more of run-of-the-mill tennis on primetime BBC One. |
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Melrose Place wrapped up with a miserable 15,000 viewers (0.1%) last night on FIVER, according to MG.
That show will not be missed! |
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Complicated by the fact that ITV has a regulatory obligation to do 30 minutes of local news in primetime between the hours of 6-10.30pm
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The BBC said on Points of View that the World Cup will take priority over any Murray matches. He'll have to make do with BBC Two most of the time this year.
They moved one EastEnders ep to BBC Two last year, but I'm not convinced they'd do that with any hour-long episodes, cos it the match then finished quickly, they'd be left with half an hour or more of run-of-the-mill tennis on primetime BBC One. |
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What about:
18:00 ITV Local News 18:30 ITV News 19:00 BGMT 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 BGT |
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Complicated by the fact that ITV has a regulatory obligation to do 30 minutes of local news in primetime between the hours of 6-10.30pm
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Melrose Place wrapped up with a miserable 15,000 viewers (0.1%) last night on FIVER, according to MG.
That show will not be missed! |
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if ITV continues to have problems with Corrie, and cant find slots, could BBC offer to air some, until ITV catches up with itself.
You know out of the kindness of its heart, and to help ITV out of this hole which keeps getting bigger & bigger. |
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I've been looking at the overnights recently in full, as you all know, and I've come to realise that the 6pm-7pm slot on weekdays has so much potential...
No longer is it completely dominated by the BBC News at Six, which has plummeted from around 5m to 3-4m. ITV News has also dropped. |
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ITV held up well in the 9-10pm slot all things considered. Obviously any discussion on whether this week's schedule has worked or not is now void.
Regarding Corrie, how about airing at 9pm Tuesday to Thursday next week, pushing back Father & Son until 9.30pm and the news to 10.30pm. Thus guaranteeing Father & Son has a Corrie lead in every night and ITV dominating the 9pm hour every night. Plus as the next episode will be at the established 7.30pm Monday slot, everyone will be able to be told, rather than sloting an episode in at random. The idea of moving the ITV News hour is pointless, a bit random to even be being discussed at the moment. It would just make the BBC stronger and ITV weaker. Would'nt it just be a mirror image of what happened at 10pm? |
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Waterloo Road wasn't too good but expected. Hopefully more people will wtach next week. I don't know how BGT merits those ratings.
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if ITV continues to have problems with Corrie, and cant find slots, could BBC offer to air some, until ITV catches up with itself.
You know out of the kindness of its heart, and to help ITV out of this hole which keeps getting bigger & bigger. |
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forgive me im sleep deprived
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What some have forgotten about the Coronation Street episodes is that, unless ITV heavily edits them, they are not suitable for before the watershed. ITV therefore may have to run Coronation Street at 9pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday even if it means Father and Son running at 9:30pm for those days with News at Ten being dumped?
I suspect Channel 4 would not like the above at all, as it sends what looked like 'OK' opposition for Big Brother out the window. Edit: Apologies, never seen Andy23's post, which suggests similar. |
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Will be interesting to see if Five 7pm rating goes up tonight. The second half of Live from Studio Five replaced by a news special
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^ Why is it not suitable for pre-watershed? Is there strong language in the episodes? Quote:
What some have forgotten about the Coronation Street episodes is that, unless ITV heavily edits them, they are not suitable for before the watershed. ITV therefore may have to run Coronation Street at 9pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday even if it means Father and Son running at 9:30pm for those days with News at Ten being dumped?.
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It's quite obvious next year's knockout Talent shows should be shown from 8-10pm on weeknights. Emmerdale stripped at 7pm, possibly with a Tuesday or Thursday double-lengther, if they're still doing six eps per week by then.
Coronation St on Mon, Wed and Fri at 7.30pm, with two episodes slotted into the previous or following week's schedules to make up for Talent week. The world won't fall apart if there are two fewer episodes, just for one week. |
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