I can understand why The Bill is no longer a priority for ITV, but with all the weeks off, it'll end up stinking out the autumn schedules, not just the summer ones.

BGT week is just one week per year and I cant see any reason for the BBC to reschedule anything. The daft thing would be to run new series or drama from that week, but Eastenders will just take its chance as an alternative. No doubt the anti BBC press will have a field day by reporting declines in Eastenders but thats a given-BGT is a ratings freak in this era and there is not much to be done but soldier on.

I reckon they might throw it around the schedules, a la Brookside. Maybe ending up twice a week during the summer months just to clear it all out.

Probably - it seems to be one of those shows now fixed in the schedules every day of every week even though it would do it good to take a break every once in a while, and breaking for the World Cup makes so much sense (indeed I wouldn't bring it back till September!).

Good point. There'd be enough 9pm slots available, cos there's very little drama on ITV in July and August of a typical year.

Hopefully that means no place for Panorama. I don't think they should ever show Panorama on bank holidays.

Don't understand why we have an hour-long EastEnders now on Monday.
Id rather they save it and have an hour on the friday or just Have EastEnders run Mon-Fri for that week

There's very little drama on ITV all year at the moment! If necessary it can be burnt off at 10.35pm, but I suspect ITV will keep it in primetime to the end and probably at least stick some sort of special in the 8pm slot before the final episode.

They won't care too much if it runs into September and even October as we all know (yet seemingly forget) that long term planning in British TV seems to be pretty non-existent at the moment and I doubt ITV have got 16 weeks of content lined up for the Tuesday slot anyway.


P.S. Sports Personality has been moved to the 19th December according to The Mirror to avoid The X Factor final, which is predicted to be on the 12th assuming they go for Christmas number one.

True.


Maybe they were originally planning to have an ep on Wednesday at 7.30pm, but Talent put paid to it. I know EastEnders has the same opposition on Monday, but at least Monday has the advantage of being a regular EastEnders night. If that makes any sense!

ABC:
8pm - Dancing With The Stars - 13.06m (2.5)
9pm - Lost - 10.39m (4.1)
10pm - V - 5.87m (2.3)

CBS:
8pm - NCIS - 15.57m (3.2)
9pm - NCIS:LA - 15.23m (3.1)
10pm - The Good Wife - 12.17m (2.3)

FOX:
8pm - American Idol - 18.31m (6.6)
9pm - Glee - 11.59m (4.8)

NBC:
8pm - The Biggest Loser - 8.27m (3.1)
10pm - Parenthood - 6.24m (2.6)

Glee stays steady from last week for it's special Neil Patrick Harris starring, Joss Whedon directed episode.

Meanwhile Idol dips by 0.1 in the demo for its semi-final which is around 16% off from last year in total viewers and 14% among adults 18-49. A strong start to this season means the overall decline this season so far is a reasonable 9% in the key demo, in keeping with Idol's performance since its 2006 peak.

God knows why V was given another season, without Lost it's going to fail miserably next season. CBS' Tuesday line-up continues to look a bit pale these days, perhaps it's Idol, perhaps it's the weather or perhaps it's just all those breaks.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/05/19...ale-down/51825

Because there's no episode on Friday 11th June. We'll see whether the synposis for those episodes changes, and whether the episode that goes out on Friday 4th June really should have been going out on Monday 7th June.

At least these schedules make things interesting regardless of whether you like the shows in question or not

Weren't people complaining recently how boring and predictable the weeknight schedules were becoming?

In theory ITV could afford for BGT to be lower than last year as there will be many more ad breaks either before, during or after an episode. Stripping Corrie across one week is interesting too.

The fact that BBC1 have no room to manouvere is just the same as when they air a 5 part daily drama which ends up knocking out ITV1's entire week and damaging weekly programming. Remember Married, Single, Other's ratings.

V's actually not doing awfully, the demo is the same as CBS and not too far off NBC.

What killed V this season was the stupid decision to show 4 episodes, and then have a 3/4 month break. ABC are doing the right thing next season by keeping it off until it can run straight, and, as a new show, it has more of a chance to gain viewers/demo.

I agree. From a ratings perspective, its going to be an interesting week. OK, ITV will win - but it'll be interesting to see how much programmes like EastEnders will be dented, and what it does for the BBC Three repeat.

Also, if Coronation Street does get a boost - you need to ask, how much of a boost can it get?


I was going to counter argue you're point with Luther (in that a weekly drama could go from 5m to 2.5m in one week, but with MSO it was down and out from the get go), but there's a danger now that BBC1 for that entire week could be below 3m in the 9pm hour (possible exception Junior Apprentice depending on tonight and HIGNFY). Even if Coronation Street is slightly weaker competition, I still think the 9pm shows on the other channels will take a battering.

I didn't realise what Child of Our Time was, apparently it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072bk8


Also see: https://www.live.bbc.co.uk/labuk/exp...s/personality/

When it was last on in 2008, it had:

07/05 - 20:00 - 2.9m (14%) vs Soap Awards
14/05 - 20:00 - 3.3m (16%)
21/05 - 20:00 - 2.4m (10%) vs Champions League Final

Against BGT and Lewis? Not much hope....

FlashFoward is on at 2200 on Monday 31st May - confirmed.
The film Rush Hour plays 2000-2200.

Good decision - capitalises on the post-BGT non news seeking audience.

Surprised there's no show looking back on the series though but Rush Hour should be good for about 0.8m opposite BGT etc which will be decent enough considering.

We're going to be in this situation now for the next six weeks where the BBC and ITV wouldn't dare cut back on a few episodes of their soaps to accommodate the World Cup and instead will shove them all around the schedules and pull other content instead.

IMO for the BBC especially there is absolutely no excuse for commissioning episodes of EastEnders for nights where they know they'll have World Cup games and obviously deem it to be more in the licence fee payers interests to move such episodes so they're head to head with the most popular show on TV rather than drop them and divert the £500,000 an episode into something more worth while.

Is that Becuase you don't watch EastEnders?

The BBC have stripped Five Days across the week once. ITV have stripped 3, soon to be 4 series of BGT, countless series of Im a Celebrity and Collision. MSO was hardly effected by Five Days anyway so your point really cant be taken that seriously.


It cant do much worse that Modern Masters or High Street Dreams and it should be a decent alternative against BGT. Starting against Lewis on the sunday though isnt the best idea though.

As Married, Single, Other has been bought up again it reminds me i forgot to thank rzt for the information about it the other day (and now other thread!) So the decsion is being made today, so hopefully we should hear something soon?

yes you could argue that the BBC should cut the episode order, when there is going to be World Cup games, im guessing you would loose about 8-10 episodes over all, not much when you consider it aired 206 episodes. So it would not be that much of a saving.

Also incase you hadnt noticed the BBC is not shutting down its other programs in favour of becoming a 24/7 World Cup channel, the BBC has to provide for all, not just sport fans, even more so when there is a game on ITV 1, which is most likely when the episodes will be aired.

EE is a year round commission they don't commission for specific weeks. So the already commissioned episodes have to be rescheduled.

EE does not cost 500k an episode to make. That's an insanely inflated figure!

was just wondering the same thing. Anyone any ideas on how it did for Scotland? it was on at 22.35 last night.

Me too - everyone talking about it.

The Bill has been shelved until at least the middle of next month according to DS

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/sc...s-week-22.html