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If, on the very slim chance, X Factor isn't back next year, I'd put a hell of a lot of money on Channel 5 ressurrecting Pop Idol to try and cash in.
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Anyone know how Must Be The Music did? Guessing upwards of 400k thanks to the extra publicity Pepper & Piano got the show?
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Both the Sun and Mirror running with stories tomorrow about the X Factor's future with The Sun saying Cowell will quit X Factor and the Mirror speculating that Cowell might axe X Factor and BGT.
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and the Mirror speculating that Cowell might axe X Factor and BGT.
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Both the Sun and Mirror running with stories tomorrow about the X Factor's future with The Sun saying Cowell will quit X Factor and the Mirror speculating that Cowell might axe X Factor and BGT.
Surely Simon is not stupid enough to cut the British shows while the American programmes are still growing. While he may not judge either The X Factor or Britain's Got Talent I cannot see him saying ITV cannot air them next year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITV's schedule seemed to be supported well by Coronation Street at 7pm, with Heartbeat and U Be Dead performing after it finished. BBC1's complementary schedule also did well and UItimate Big Brother held up. |
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that might be going a bit far
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Sunday 5th September 2010
BBC1 (inc BBC HD) 19:00 - Countryfile 5.0m 21.3% ITV (inc ITV HD) 19:00 - Coronation Street 7.1m 30.2% 20:00 - Heartbeat 5.8m 23.4% 21:00 - U Be Dead 5.2m 23.8% ![]() . No major surprise - for me at least - for U Be Dead. A 2 hour crime drama premiere, 9pm slot, September, well promoted, big name lead - I suspect 5-7m was what they expected, and just about got. Heartbeat doing too well for a show about to be axed. Bound to get a reprieve with those numbers. Surprised the axe is so near as well - didn't they have dozens of stockpiled episodes to play out? Quote:
The quote is also speculation “There is no way ITV would let The X Factor go from our screens for one year, it is one of the most successful ITV shows ever....”
I wonder where TXF's largest audience ranks in the all-time list of TV ratings? I bet it wouldn't even make the top 50 shows. Quote:
Both the Sun and Mirror running with stories tomorrow about the X Factor's future with The Sun saying Cowell will quit X Factor and the Mirror speculating that Cowell might axe X Factor and BGT.
![]() I'm off to stock up on fizz just in case... |
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Here is the Mirror article, http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-22542711/ Quote:
Music mogul Simon Cowell is threatening to axe next year’s X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
Revealing X Factor will not go out in its usual slot between August and December in 2011, the judge said the only deal he has is to make a US version and is undecided whether he will do any for ITV. He said: “There has got to be a mood here for these shows, and I have always been very conscious of that. You can’t force anything. “It has got to be fun. The minute it stops becoming fun, bye bye. “At the moment you are going to see me doing one show. And not in England.” He is doubtful about Britain’s Got Talent as it would clash with plans to show next year’s X Factor from November to February. The warning will be a bombshell for ITV bosses as the X Factor is attracting 12.5 million viewers and Cowell’s shows generate millions in advertising revenue. Cowell added: “Yes X Factor will have to move, and we have to decide whether we can make the show better. Do people want it back? |
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And then he'll strip naked and run through Clapham Common.
Surely Simon is not stupid enough to cut the British shows while the American programmes are still growing. While he may not judge either The X Factor or Britain's Got Talent I cannot see him saying ITV cannot air them next year. Congrats on 40,000 posts, btw.
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Why on earth would he axe Britain's Got Talent? It sounds a bit far fetched. The ratings seem to suggest there is still an appetite for both shows.
Congrats on 40,000 posts, btw. ![]() ![]() EDIT: On your first point, he's probably just trying to get more money out of ITV by making idle threats. I do wonder if ITV should call his bluff because he may have a problem if The X Factor doesn't take off in America. |
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And then he'll strip naked and run through Clapham Common.
Surely Simon is not stupid enough to cut the British shows while the American programmes are still growing. While he may not judge either The X Factor or Britain's Got Talent I cannot see him saying ITV cannot air them next year. Quote:
Why on earth would he axe Britain's Got Talent? It sounds a bit far fetched. The ratings seem to suggest there is still an appetite for both shows.
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Perhaps he's seen how news of the axe boosted the ratings recently for clapped-out, knackered old shows like Last of the Summer Wine and Heartbeat, and thought he might try the same to up the numbers for his own jaded shows?
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Thanks - I talk far too much.
![]() EDIT: On your first point, he's probably just trying to get more money out of ITV by making idle threats. I do wonder if ITV should call his bluff because he may have a problem if The X Factor doesn't take off in America. Also, BGT isn't too time consuming either, unlike X Factor. If ITV were really sneaky they'd leak a story that they've "had meetings with Simon Fuller" and Cowell would quickly come into line!
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And then he'll strip naked and run through Clapham Common.
Surely Simon is not stupid enough to cut the British shows while the American programmes are still growing. While he may not judge either The X Factor or Britain's Got Talent I cannot see him saying ITV cannot air them next year. Also, if Cowell is too busy in America then he may not want the British shows to go ahead if he's not personally involved. He's the sort of person who cant accept second rate shows and may think that without him both shows will lose viewers. |
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What Australia Watched: Monday 6th September
Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.54m 18:30 Today Tonight 1.51m 19:00 Home and Away 1.04m 19:30 The X Factor 1.31m 20:30 Criminal Minds 1.19m Nine 18:00 Nine News 1.30m 18:30 A Current Affair 1.28m 19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.04m 19:30 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.09m 20:30 Rescue Special Ops 0.85m Ten 18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.67m 18:30 Neighbours 0.67m 19:00 The 7pm Project 0.95m 19:30 Undercover Boss 1.08m 20:30 Good News Week 0.94m |
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Don't think they need much boosting looking at their current ratings. I know it's diabolical that The X Factor doesn't get a 100% share like you expect but it's still doing well.
![]() If it was getting 20m a week, he'd still be burning the midnight oil to find a way of getting to 25m... |
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Cowell doesn't strike me as the sort who would be happy with 10-11m each week even if it is topping the charts with that.
If it was getting 20m a week, he'd still be burning the midnight oil to find a way of getting to 25m... |
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Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.54m 18:30 Today Tonight 1.51m 19:00 Home and Away 1.04m 19:30 The X Factor 1.31m 20:30 Criminal Minds 1.19m Nine 18:00 Nine News 1.30m 18:30 A Current Affair 1.28m 19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.04m 19:30 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.09m 20:30 Rescue Special Ops 0.85m Ten 18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.67m 18:30 Neighbours 0.67m 19:00 The 7pm Project 0.95m 19:30 Undercover Boss 1.08m 20:30 Good News Week 0.94m |
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Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.54m 18:30 Today Tonight 1.51m 19:00 Home and Away 1.04m 19:30 The X Factor 1.31m 20:30 Criminal Minds 1.19m Nine 18:00 Nine News 1.30m 18:30 A Current Affair 1.28m 19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.04m 19:30 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.09m 20:30 Rescue Special Ops 0.85m Ten 18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.67m 18:30 Neighbours 0.67m 19:00 The 7pm Project 0.95m 19:30 Undercover Boss 1.08m 20:30 Good News Week 0.94m |
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Should Seven's news hour be beating X Factor?
A sad time for aussie drama really because I can't think of a single one currently on air that is pulling in respectable figures. There is obviously Packed to the Rafters and Offspring but they are more comedy than drama. On the other hand you have straight drama like Rush, City Homicide and Rescue Special Ops... all of which are tanking. It's a cross network problem and not likely to improve. I think it's sad that viewers are not getting behind homegrown drama because I don't think it's necessarily the case that these shows aren't any good, but it could just be a case of too many cop shows at once with little between them. You have to wonder if Seven made a huge mistake in getting rid of All Saints which was ultra dependable, pulling in 1.2m or more a week at 9:30pm when all of the shows listed above are consistently below 1m at 8:30pm. |
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Neighbours is down on the past two Mondays, that were both 700,000+
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Neighbours is down on the past two Mondays, that were both 700,000+
To be honest, I am not keen on Ten's idea of creating their own 6pm news hour at all. All three of the main channels showing news at 6pm doesn't sound like a very good idea to me and it reduces choice for viewers that want something else early evening. I know Seven and Nine's bulletins happily co-exist in that slot, but they're both very well established. I simply can't see how a national Ten bulletin is going to fair much better against Seven and Nine's regional bulletins and current affairs shows than The Simpsons and Neighbours are currently. |
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Did you hear the latest? Ten are quickly coming to the conclusion that they might have to repeat Neighbours on the main channel anyway in order to meet local drama quotas! Are they chickening out already? Of course, this won't be a problem if the rules are relaxed to include multi-channel contributions.
Not sure what repeat pattern they want to use, I dont see any point at all on Neighbours beign on ELEVEN if it will repeat on TEN, that just creates confusion, ok Hollyoaks does similar. Its certianly intersting that they are considering a TEN airing, would seem to suggest, they dont expect it to get good ratings on ELEVEN. However that seems hard to predict at this stage. However TEN still seems to support Susan Bower, which is what I find odd. |
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I would have been tempted to try something like this:
1700 Ten News at Five (as normal) 1800 The 6pm Project (rebranded from 7pm) 1830 Neighbours (as normal) 1900 Ten News at Seven 1930 Regular Programming I know the method of having two fixed bulletins at 5pm and 7pm hasn't worked very well for Five over here, but I think it could potentially work for Ten as there seems to be a much bigger appetite for TV news over there. It would still have to compete with ABC News but that's nowhere near as bad as trying to take on both Seven News and Nine News simultaneously. The 7pm Project meanwhile has grown steadily since it began and built its audience to respectable levels. If it could replicate its current success at 6pm it could be a real coup for Ten. As for Neighbours, I would keep it at 6:30pm for at least 2011 to see if there was any improvement with the new lead-in and lead-out. |
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I dont know if moving 7pm Project back an hour like that, is going to be as easy as you make it out to be, still it would be nice to think Neighbours could get a boost from its ratings. The Simpsons was not really helping it.
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