I agree completely.

Please has anyone got any recent daytime programmes ratings (individual programmes not audienc share) for BBC1,2,ITV1,4 and Five.

If Endemol insisted on the budget remaining the same or not cut too much then there would be no difference in the production values, it would just be on a different channel.

No Davina on a new channel isn't necessarily a bad thing, as much as I like Davina.

It would give Justin Lee Collins something to do I suppose

BBC One

EastEnders
Perfect.

Waterloo Road
Although it would always take a summer, Christmas, half term and holiday breaks, it would be nice to have it airing in a 30 minute format in the Wednesday 7.30pm slot - which would have a ready made audience against ITV's football coverage.

ITV1

Coronation Street
I have never seen worse scheduling for such a top show...but there aren't many alternatives at the moment, but I would go for:-

Sunday, 7.30pm
Monday, 7.30pm/8.30pm
Wednesday, 7.30pm [bar Champions League, awards ceremonies]
Friday, 7.30pm

So, there's be an average of around 4.5 episodes per week.

Viewers always expect Coronation Street to start at 7.30pm every night, and that's down to sheer routine. When has any 8.30 audience (even on a Monday) been higher than a 7.30 audience - even though it technically should be...

Emmerdale
Its very good scheduling has led to some good ratings this year, though it probably needs a slight re-think

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday @ 7pm - with the occasional 8pm episode on Tuesday/Thursday depending on special events.

Though, in the long term, it may be worth it to scale it back to a nice round five episodes per week - though at the moment for some reason - six isn't overkill.

Channel 4

Hollyoaks
It does look a bit out of place on Channel 4 these days, and it may be worth making it purely E4, or moving it later in the schedule, or turning it into a weekly drama.

There isn't the scope to have these daily soaps for younger viewers. There's a lot of 14-year-olds who watched it, but 16-34s simply don't have the time to tune in every weekday.

Five
Neighbours and Home and Away are scheduled perfectly, I belive.

Davina IS Big Brother. Who else would do it?

It's just not worth it. I have a horrible feeling that Five would end up killing it off for good.

The show needs to be rested. Simple as.

I really like Davina and can't imagine anyone else doing it, but imo if BB goes to another channel it HAS to be fronted by someone else in order for it to move on. If they had an adequate replacement, perhaps even being as unimaginative as using Emma Willis, then it will be fine.

BB will never return anyway so it doesn't need resting. The format may come back but I don't think the Big Brother name will. In the wider picture and outside of the BB circle, it just isn't popular anymore and there isn't any demand for it. Celebrity Big Brother, however, is another matter.

Coronation Street on Sundays would work during the part of the year when ITV aims towards it's traditional audience, such as now, but how would it work around the 6 months when they aim for the younger audience?

Would it sit well before BGT Results?
How would it scheduled around Dancing on Ice?

In any case Sunday wouldn't solve the main problem. There needs to be one episode on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and all slots would have cons as well as pros.

One question, do FA Cup replays and the other non-Champions League football that ITV show on Wednesdays have to be on Wednesdays or could they be moved to Tuesdays within the terms of their contract?

70% of the X Factor audience is over 35. BGT skews older and isn't on on a Sunday anyway.

Dancing on Ice has had lower ratings since Corrie was removed from Sundays.

I think the soaps on ITV are a mess and not helped by Eastenders as there is no way they can be scheduled without the BBC co operating too. And then that would leave no compromise either, one would be at a disadvantage. ITV could be allowed to schedule their soaps 7-8pm every week night where they would rate well, but if Eastenders moved to 8pm they would immediately lose a lot of that audience for the 8pm slot, and more crucially the 9pm slot. It would also leave the BBC with an awkward half hour slot to fill and would strip them of 2 hour long 8pm slots.

The other extreme would be for Eastenders to go daily at 7.30pm and ITV airing Corrie at 8.30pm with Emmerdale at 7pm or 8pm. But then both ITV soaps would rate lower and unless Emmerdale aired at 8pm, it wouldn't inherit the Eastenders audience.

I think its curtains for Big Brother. Also I can imagine the mostly male audience for Five later at night not being happy with seeing their Steven Seagal films replaced by a reality show. I know Five seem interested, but it is more likely they'll opt for the higher rating Celeb version.

Another strong Saturday night for BBC One. I know the raw numbers are nothing to write home about, but the share's for the likes of 101 Ways and TTN are more than satisfactory. Indeed, 101 Ways always seems to pick up the audience as the show goes on and hits a decent peak. Casualty is really invaluable for the channel at this time of year and just quietly goes about topping the day without anyone really realising.

For Friday night, well the primetime ratings seem pretty dismal - as they're all like that I can only assume that its just summertime at work on Fridays more than other weekdays. On the other hand, WILTY did excellently at 10.35pm. The BBC have a nice slot there for comedies like this that don't quite justify themselves a primetime berth (Though it'd hardly do worse than The Old Guys, would it...).

Regarding Doctors, with BBC 1 HD launching soon it will get simulcast in the afternoons in HD so should see its ratings on there rise.

Much better performance from Casualty compared to last week's 4.7m and back in line with last year's July average of 5.25m. Hopefully it can get a good run in over the next few weeks before it goes on the annual 4 week break. If they run to the end of this current series before breaking then the last episode should be on 21st August.

Sorry if it's already been mentioned on here. But just came across this on ITV Press Centre.

http://twitter.com/birtlesskynews

Wonder who it could be?

It rules out Jo Brand then!

Sky's Alistair Bunkall also saying :

The new Presenter of The One Show looks uncannily similar to her predecessor, Christine Bleakley. Will try and find a photo and post it.

Has there been a secret press meeting today then? Or is it an Sky News presenter, or ex-presenter?

I think it'll be a fairly unknown presenter like Alex Jones .. She fits that description and is the same age as Christine Bleakley (video included): http://www.5x60.org.uk/video-lounge/alex-jones

From reading Jason manfords tweets, it looks like you're right.

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/ic...-618936307.jpg

they look scarily alike.

Emma Crosby?

They look quite alike

Melanie Sykes

Yep, almost as if they're twins! I think the One Show will definitely continue to rate well with this new lineup and be on par with last year. It's been holding up fine in the last couple of weeks with guest hosts which suggests the majority of the viewers tune in for the show itself not the hosts. It's the perfect programme to follow on from the Regional News. The new duo are a 'safe' pair so I can't see them putting off any of the current viewers from watching the show. TOS will coast along fine.

They'e not exaggerating it - they look like the same person. I thought they'd have a similar face but look very different, I guess the Beeb are hoping that no one notices that she's been replaced.

Remember this is the show that the BBC has used to damage Emmerdale and some times the audience figures are only 1 million apart. Can't see Auntie ditching TOS for a while.

Interesting new choice of presenter for The One Show. Looks like the only real difference will be the switch to a Welsh accent!
What has she done previously? I can only find a couple of S4C (Channel 4 Wales) shows in her name.