They're talking about £2m a year which is the same as Graham Norton & Philip Schofield but they're far more adaptable.

Tbh, the article doesn't sound all that reliable.

Ant & Dec are meant to be on £5m each. Simon Cowell doesn't have an exclusive deal with ITV. There's no way his show pulled in 100% more viewers than forecast let alone 300%. Also, why would he care what Adrian Chiles is paid? That doesn't sound like a great bargaining position, it's not as though they'll be competing for jobs at ITV!

It might be a good idea to try and get him on some sort of "first look" agreement for any comedy series. But aren't they already stocked up on chatshows? Unless it's some sort of ploy by ITV to negotiate with Jonathan Ross?

That's going to screw any future Gavin and Stacey Christmas Specials over - I was sure there was going to be at least one...unless it airs on ITV instead.

Where have ITV got all this money from, anyway? I thought they were supposed to be destitute? Maybe they should start ploughing some money into dramas instead of offering multi-million pound contracts to every person who does a bit of work for them.

(Both paragraphs are written on the assumption that the article is true)

The World Cup: ITV should hold up slightly better on Saturday than they did yesterday. Midsomer Murders is going to be the fall programme against both matches (3-5pm then 8-10pm) which usually holds up well. Ghana v Uruguay shouldn't attract a massive audience, so I think the filler'll perform decently for both channels. Interesting choice from the BBC, but understandable. The TV Guide I have confirms that the Wimbledon Ladies Final will switch from BBC1 to BBC2 at 2.30 to accomodate the football.

Onto yesterday and great figures for the afternoon comedy on BBC1, while the football did well in the evening. ITV annihilated with the all day share, but primetime didn't do too badly considering. Top Gear's bizarre early comeback hurt it but helped BBC2's share.

To be fair, world cup matches are seperate events as opposed to it being a TV production, therefore each of the matches should end up in the top 10/20, only the 4 England matches and possibly the final would actually end up on the list.

I'd go for options 1 or 2 as they will be the way or a similar way in which BARB do things.

Still the curse of the BBC continues. Watch England lose on BBC1 complete with the soundtrack of a Peter Kay and Louis Walsh tribute act trying to be funny on the commentary.

Has he got a BBC contract? His most recent show was for Sky1 and I thought that had been renewed.

Incidentally are there many people who have won 'best newcomer' awards with a seven year gap? 2000, for Fat Friends and 2007 for Gavin & Stacey.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.56m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.47m
19:00 Home and Away 1.10m
19:30 Border Security (R) 0.97m
20:00 The Force 0.94m
20:30 Desperate Housewives (20/23) 0.94m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.51m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.38m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.15m
19:30 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.28m
20:00 The Big Bang Theory (23/23) 1.21m
20:30 Rescue: Special Ops (1/13) 0.98m

Ten
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.77m
18:30 Neighbours 0.76m
19:00 The 7pm Project 1.01m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.86m
20:30 Good News Week 1.07m

Shares
Nine - 24.2%
Ten - 22.6%
Seven - 22.1%
ABC1 - 14.9%
SBS One - 6.1%

Some sad Freeview news to report. 4TV Interactive is closing, as in the service that provides EPG data to various PVRs from manufacturers like DigiFusion, Sony and Thomson via overnight download. The contract to provide the EPG services to these boxes has not been renewed. Any Freeview PVR that uses listings from 4TV (14 Day Guide) except the Top Up TV box will be rendered virtually useless from 8th July.

I don't really like James Corden but he is flavour of the month, like it or not. There is a lot he could do at ITV, especially on ITV2 and ITV4. He's far more versatile than Adrian & Christine.

That is terrible news! (I use a Toppy so I'm not too concerned, personally). Surely Sony at least must have a proposed solution?

K

I think it is only one or two Sony models that are affected. And the problem is, nearly all of these boxes that use 4TV are discontinued and have been for some time now, except for the Top Up TV box, so continued support for these products is not likely to be a priority.

It's a great shame because my DigiFusion at least has served me very well over the last 4 years or so and has proved to be an extremely reliable bit of kit. I'm not sure the same could be said for some of the newer models on the market which seem to be riddled with bugs. Even the top of the range Humax PVR-9300t is known to delete scheduled recordings on a regular basis!

But unfortunately with no EPG data from 8th July there is no way I can continue with my DigiFusion. It is fundamental to the box's functionality and ease of use. Manual recordings are rightly a thing of the past! So I will be looking hard at alternatives from Humax, Topfield, Panasonic, etc. Favourite at the moment is the 3View box but it's not out until the end of next month.

Oh well look on the bright side George - at least they didn't go off air during a goal.

If they want to score they need ITV

No ratings yet.

I can't stand James Corden either! Another delusional arrogant TV personality who thinks he's worth more than he actually is Why would he want more than Chiles?! ... I'd say Adrian Chiles was better than him, but he is still overpaid! No way should he be ITV's third biggest paid star!

I really hope this article isn't true. His World Cup show has done average at best in the ratings, but he's hardly been a success like Simon Cowell has he!?

Another example of ITV wasting their money when they could have spent it on better things... (if this is true).

Ratings from last night - BBC Two got a new comedy hit on its hands?

BBC One
21:00 - New Tricks: 3.58m (15.5%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.64m (22.5%)

BBC Two
21:00 - Mary Queen of Shops: 2.80m (12.1%)
22:00 - Rev: 2.19m (10.7%)
* HD: 49,700 (0.2%)
* slot average: 1.4m (6.8%)

ITV1
19:00 - World Cup Live: 5.82m (27.0%) inc HD
* peak: 7.57m (33.1%) @ 20:55
21:30 - James Corden’s World Cup Live: 2.78m (12.2%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten: 1.99m (9.8%)

Channel 4
18:00 - The Simpsons: 1.51m inc +1
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.14m inc +1
20:00 - The Secrets Of Westminster Abbey: 1.73m inc +1
21:00 - The Untold Battle of Trafalgar: 1.55m (6.7%)
* +1: 155,300 (0.8%)
22:00 - Big Brother: 2.07m (11.9%)
* +1: 137,600 (1.6%)
* full slot: 2.18m inc +1

Five
21:00 - Extraordinary People: 1.39m (6.0%)
22:00 - Crimes That Shook the World: 880,000 (4.9%)

Source: Broadcast

Good rating for the football last night - but I'm really struggling to see why people feel Corden is a hit? 2.8m at 9:30pm, is not a hit.

Ohh no, thats poor for BB!

Fantastic for Rev-don't think anyone expected that. The good lead in certainly helped and that's 2 comedy hits this year with Miranda and Rev, providing it remains stable.

Pretty average for the football really, with England out and tougher Wimbledon competition the ratings are much lower. ITV getting the Monday match straight away hasn't really paid off I don't think.

Time Team special performing much better than Dispatches, but also benefiting from no soaps in the 8pm slot.

I can easily see why BB's ratings have gone down...at the beginning there were good storylines with the Mole, new relationships, new arguments...but now it's all being repeated and the highlights shows are very boring at times.

BB completely deserving of its rating last night. What a truly terrible series this has turned out to be and a huge let down for the last one. Its a shame that I've stuck with BB every year since BB3 (yes even 4 and 8!) but I've lost interest this late. The last 2 weeks can't come fast enough.

I completey and most people on the forums disagree, last night was brilliant, its a shame that ratings are gloing up and down like a yoyo. Hopefully will be back up tp 2.5-2.6m tonight as the weather is worse.

As bad as BB got last night, look at the other ratings, laughable for News at 10 on ITV.

BB was only a touch ahead of News at Ten when head to head, if it was even ahead at all (we'll only ever find out if we got the breakdown) so BB's is just as laughable. Only the timeshift is turning it into a bad rating and not a dreadful rating.

The forums are also split about this series.

The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that Mirror story has to be tabloid trash. Those ratings are not a hit (the ITV1 portion at least) and its pretty apparent to all that the show is entirely lead-in reliant. The idea is a decent enough one to fill half an hour after a match, but there's no indication Corden could front a non-football chatshow.

And incidentally, I'm not sure that the football did to all that well, really. What did Brazil matches in the group stages get? Wasn't it higher than that?

And about Rev on BBC Two - they could have. I've read a couple of very positive reviews over the past few weeks so I think they'll get behind it, and a good sample audience has found it now too.

Forums are split about the series, not about last nights episode though. Theres some people that just get satisfaction about it doing badly eg. even fans.

IMO it deserves more than what other BB's have got... people just liek to see it suffer, Im living in hope that its because most people were out last night with it being 31 degrees (and that reflects in most other ratings last night). Its not the HMs or the producers fault at all, its viewers that are so fickle who would switch off in the first 5 mins if an argument doesnt happen People who do that are not true fans at all.

The only other thing i hope for is that the previous 2 Monday episodes have got 2.4m, the lowest ratings except for Saturdays, and then have increased for the Tuesday episode, hoping that happens tonight.

Rev performed extremely well. I'll have to catch up on iPlayer.

Very lacklustre for BB. It was slightly up on the equivalent episode last year, but those numbers are nothing to write home about.

That figure for Corden makes his mooted £6m ITV deal seem laughable.

it was not laughable before that?

I count myself as a true fan but I think this series has hit the depths of BB4. Even the so called 'entertaining' ones would be classed as radar dodgers in any other series and this year has been so tedious, I just physically couldn't keep watching it last night.

I want it to do well but realistically its only going to do well if the series is half decent, and this year it just isn't taking off. Some of the core fans might love it, but that doesn't always translate to the public.

Last night wasn't good weather allover the country, where I live we had torrential rain from 7pm onwards (until about 3 this morning) and thunder & lightening.