Why did Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth air an hour long Home and Away yesterday? Did they miss out on an episode somewhere down the line?

They will miss one tomorrow. Seven is showing extended coverage of the AFL game between Geelong v St Kilda from 6:30pm-10:00pm in those cities, but in Sydney and Brisbane it will run a normalish schedule with the AFL shown on delay from 9:30pm.

This also means no Today Tonight for Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth tomorrow.

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The Matty Johns Show is an NRL show so it would rate well in NRL heartland, Sydney and Brisbane but not Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide which is AFL heartland. Bit strange to put on delay in other states, I would just not show extended coverage and start it at 7.30 so it's almost live.

Thanks. Channel schedules soap sensibly in order to keep on track shocker.

BTW, love the promotion going on.

Yeah, it does strike me as an odd way of doing things. Especially now we are getting near the end of the AFL season so there should be more interest generally. Tomorrow's clash is quite a big one.

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Indeed. ITV would have gone for something far less straight forward, I'm sure. Not that they schedule differently in the regions these days.

Why thank you! It's a big week this one so I thought I'd spread the word in a somewhat desperate bid to boost player numbers.

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Why is Friday not as good as another weeknight? It is for New Tricks. Silent Witness played on Fridays (and Thursdays) and registered a 22 per cent increase on the previous series.

Last year NT was down slightly cos it was up against The Bill (a clash of police procedural dramas). This year it's on against Paul O'Grady Live. Complementary schedule. Up against another ITV Friday night entertainment format. O'Grady will get trounced. New Tricks will have double his audience.

NT has an older skewing audience who are more likely to stay in on a Friday especially as this time of year. The last two episodes will air in November (Brrrr!). I predict a peak audience (in the officials) above 10m.

I think this is brilliant scheduling by the Beeb.


(Incidentally, I notice NT is still not in HD. I can only assume producers think that Dennis Waterman's teeth would be too scary in high definition.)

Same as the new series of Merlin. They're both still shot on 16mm film, which the BBC won't re-master in HD.

From Attentional's blog:

Channel 4
21:00 - The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Traffickers: 1.6m (7.4%)

BBC Three
22:30 - The King Is Dead: 479,700 (3.1%)
* weeknight slot average: 499,600 (3.1%)

Fiver
22:30 - Secret Girlfriend: 57,100 (0.4%)
* 12 month slot average: 120,600 (0.75%)

Why would you use a weeknight slot average for BBC Three but a 12month slot average for Fiver.

Edit: Why would attentional do that?

Not my figures, sorry. They've come from Attentional's blog.

Ah yep, i've just edited my post lol, sorry

I agree that the scheduling is good and complementary to what ITV are showing. The point I was trying to make is that in terms of number of viewers available, Friday is not as good as the other weeknights. Yes, Silent Witness rated excellently on Fridays. But it's Friday episodes consistently rated lower than the Thursday episodes (by about 4%) despite airing against easier Light Entertainment competition.

You're right - NT will still rate very healthily and double what Paul O'Grady gets. I don't think anyone expects anything else tbh.

From Broadcast:

Thursday 2nd September 2010
BBC One
20:00 - Waterloo Road: 3.93m (17.4%) inc HD
* slot average: 4.4m (18.7%)
21:00 - Motorway Cops: 4.50m (20.5%)

BBC Two
20:00 - E Numbers: an Edible Adventure: 1.84m (8.2%)
21:00 - Digging for Britain: 2.23m (10.2%) inc HD

ITV1
20:00 - Emmerdale: 6.39m (29.6%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.25m (30.9%) inc HD
21:00 - Real Crime with Mark Austin: 2.42m (11.0%) inc HD

Channel 4 (inc +1)
20:00 - Location, Location, Location: 2.58m (11.5%)
21:00 - The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Traffickers: 1.80m (8.4%)

Five
20:00 - Egypt’s Lost Queen: 930,000 (4.1%)
21:00 - FILM: The Shepherd: 1.16m (5.7%)

I think the only 2 channels happy with those figures are BBC Two and Channel 4. ITV's soaps were dented by BBC One and Channel 4, but I think BBC will be regretting putting that episode of Waterloo Road against the ITV soaps.

And not often a soap sheds 2 million viewers and 7/8 share points in the space of 3 days despite being in the same timeslot.

Quite low for Waterloo Road. They shouldn't be airing episodes against the ITV soaps because in a decent slot it's capable of ~5m. Solid for Motorway Cops.

The ITV1 soaps didn't rate too well (share-wise it's poor), looks like Waterloo Road and them dented each other. Good audience for Location, Location, Location - first time in a few weeks that it's broken the 2m mark on C4 alone.

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Was that a new Location episode? Thats quite high! And low for Corrie IMO, i thought it would be almost 1m higher.

What we've been discussing above -

New Tricks v Paul O'Grady - complementary scheduling

Waterloo Road v Emmerdale & Corrie - same type of programmes = same audience, BBC dimwits.

Yes it was

May I ask, really, who's idea was it for this?

It has Best Moments? (Mind you, I do spot ITV are airing an episode of You've Been Framed! at 12:30 on the same day which seems a tad strange)

Thank you

Any Ultimate BB ratings, if it increases yet again, would be a brilliant sign.

It was the last "Location, Location..." of the series. C4 are running UBB in that slot next week - which may take quite a few 16-34 viewers off Corrie.

2.5m / 13.9% on C4....I don't have the HD figure.

I'm sure that 2.5m figure is with +1 though.

Yeah, it includes +1. 2nd most watched show on C4 of the day, 2.54m for Ultimate Big Brother vs. 2.57m for Location, Location, Location.