Originally Posted by rzt:
“While we're on the topic of David Dickinson, ITV's signed up for another series of 'Real Deal'. I'm not sure if it's the daytime or primetime version, but it looks like he's staying put.”
Apparently the primetime episodes are only re-edited versions of the daytime episodes with the odd new bit thrown in, so I guess they've just signed him up to do a daytime run, which isn't surprising as the last series did really well in the 3pm slot earlier in the year (I remember seeing it get about 1.8m a couple of months ago).
The chatshow clearly isn't working though, and only ITV know why they picked him to do it. As for The Chase, Divided built over it's run quite a bit iirc (from 1.0m to 1.5m or something, and then it kept the audience for repeats), and 1.5m isn't too bad at this time of year at 5pm if it can build to that, which is about where the last series ended up. The 1.2m it got isn't great though.