Interesting its already being advertised despite not being listed in the September schedules for the first 2 weeks.

Interestingly The Jury isn't a new show, its first series aired about 8 years ago. It was brilliant but rated poorly in comparassion to the other ITV dramas of the day, so it wasn't recommissioned.

Delighted it's back it was really good. A nice blast from the past. There is still hope MSO fans but it may take 9 years.

XF seems to thrive on publicity whether its good or bad-its in the enviable position at the moment where people who hate it cant help tuning in.

There's also the famous story that Michael Grade's teenage daughter gave him the idea of switching the repeat to 5.35 after complaining that she missed both morning and lunchtime showings while at school.

Exactly - XF proves the adage that any publicity is good publicity.

A record for "longest time taken to recommission a show"?

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jury_(TV_serial)

The show ended in 2002 with 4.99m... I'm sorry, but what hope does it have it 2010?

The BBC now show an advert for the 10th september and shows a fire in the background.

The episode is supose feature sequence of huge fireballs
so if promoted well could top 12million and really dent corrie and BB if they've not moved them allready

Is it the same show? I think it may be a remake, and I get the impression it'll be a 3 part thriller as opposed to a full series.

Also from the Press Centre:

Information on the new documentary strand Perspectives
Autumn/Winter highlights

Perspectives sounds worthy enough but some of them just scream flop.

It's a five parter http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...1/default.html

The Jury will probably be stripped across a week which should help it retain viewers better than airing as a weekly series like last time. I doubt it'll rate as well as the crime thrillers though and I'd expect it to rate in the Criminal Justice bracket of 4.5-5.5m .


Yeah, perhaps some of them (the more arts based ones) will air at 10pm on Sundays or after the news so that its ratings look a bit more respectable. Robson Green's in one of them - expect 2-3m based on his Swimming documentary performance!

I doubt anyone will remember it from 2002 to be honest, it will do as well as the writing and marketing is

Actually, a quick check of the BARB website reveals it ended with 5.35m.

The first 5 episodes went out on Sundays at 9.30. ITV's schedule was:
6.30 Michael Barrymore's My Kind Of Music
7.30 Corrie
8.00 Millionaire
8.30 Heartbeat
9.30 The Jury.

Episode 5 of The Jury went out on Sunday 17th March and had the 4.99m you mention. Episode 6 went out the following night at 9pm and "rallied" (ahem!) to 5.35m. The first episode had 8m so that's quite a drop.

I'm assuming everyone at ITV has forgotten this programme ever existed and writer Peter Morgan has sold this as a brand new idea. (which it wasn't even in 2002, cos I remember BBC1 doing a show called Jury several years before that.)


Incidentally, Barrymore's show was getting just over 5m at this time, which was a bit of a flop by his standards, but a quick check on Wikipedia reveals this was after the infamous drowning at his party.

bump.

Yeah I suspect it'll do OK but not brilliantly. Although with The Jury, Injustice and The Oaks ITV have got plenty of five part dramas to strip across a week. I suspect one will air in the Spring, one in the Summer and one in the Autumn, and Above Suspicion will probably be stripped in January again too so that'll be one per season which seems OK. Injustice will do well if Collision is anything to go by and The Oaks sounds promising. Scott and Bailey sounds good, and as it's filming from November I suspect it'll air in the Spring/Summer.

Just reading through ITV's Autumn press pack and they've got a fair bit of drama and with the stuff already announced for next year I think the future's looking bright for ITV drama.


Yeah I suspect some of them will take a 10pm/10:35pm slot as whilst one or two of them seem OK for 9pm some of them would tank badly.

X Factor finished at 8.39pm.

Xtra Factor followed immediately - 6 minutes earlier than billed.

Yeah - Odd One In finished at 7.23pm, X Factor itself started at 7.28pm. So DS will knock 5 minutes off the end for both shows.

Who's even going to remember that?

As far as ITV are concerned it's a new show. I wouldn't start basing predictions on how it fared eight years ago.

Sorry, but could somebody tell me witch channel came top prime time yesterday and 2, 3rd, 4th and 5th.

Thanks

=1. BBC1: 25.5%
=1. ITV1: 25.5%
3. C4: 8.3% [+1: 0.7%)
4. BBC2: 6.0%
5. Five: 5.3%

If The X Factor does move in 2011 then that'll be a brilliant move from the BBC. If not, then that'll give them a scheduling headache and a Daily Mail reporter's wet dream.


Please tell me the ITV dramas are series rather than 1/2 parters. Is Perspectives going to be basically a revamped South Bank Show? As already stated on the thread, Big Brother's Little Brother revealed that this series shouldn't be the last aired.


Exactly what I was thinking.


I didn't think the adverts looked that bad. But if it gets aired in a Tuesday slot it'll be slaughtered.

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The second Coronation Street's share is pretty poor. EastEnders did well. Doc Martin performed better than norml as a repeat. My Family dipped after the ridiculous break it had. Ultimate Big Brother is performing strongly.

Just on The X Factor - the DS episode thread only had 645 posts by the end of the episode. The launch show has 1340 by the end of the episode, and that's a big dip. Any indication that that'll result in a dip in viewers? (I know DS is not a usual indication but that is a loss in terms of posts).

Sherlock was a no-brainer, just a shame it is still for only 3 episodes again. I thoroughly enjoyed Luther, the last couple of episodes were superb.


Idris Elba mentioned in an interview that if the show came back it might be a different, shorter format. I suspect the fall in ratings as the series progressed made the BBC a bit wary about a recommision but this way they can schedule the show without commiting to 6 weekly slots.


I presume this is the same "Touch" that had a pilot earlier in the year? If it is then good news, it had a lot of promise.


They may as well bring back the original show as they have spent 7 years trying to make a successful copy but all have failed.


Moving Doctor Who is something the BBC should do but im not sure about the Autumn. Clashes with the X Factor arent what is needed and the BBC have Strictly to hold up the schedule at that time of year. Starting the series in Jan or Feb seems better. It follows on from the Christmas special, can help boost new talent/entertainment shows and will avoid clashes with BGT and being bumped for shows like Eurovision.

For one the launch normally gets more posts than the remainder because its.... the launch which is pretty self explanatory. Plus it was 90 minutes compared to 75 minutes tonight.

Probably means nothing then - though there will be always a dip after a aunch show. I reckon ITV will be delighted with a mid 10m performance, especially after the furore this week.

Should we be expecting a drop to 5m then?

It was so dull tonight anyway, a drop-off is inevitable.