They really should have timed Comedy Roadshow so that it was over by now. There was nothing stopping them starting in late summer - and it would have made things a bit easier now if they could push the rest of the schedule back 15-30 minutes. To be fair, thats about as much as you can fault the BSI for on Saturdays so far this autumn - and thats rare!

Thanks, I've edited.


It's the first time in 5 years that no new series has made it into the top 10. I think things changed last year - shows which had dominated for years (like CSI) became less formidable (particularly in the demo) and The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Undercover Boss and Modern Family came in as the "buzz" shows. They all seem to have come back strong and dominated the summer "hype" season while the new shows just couldn't generate interest. Maybe something will crop up in midseason, but there's certainly nothing starting with a bang.

Though the good news for the networks is that thanks to the strength of returning hits, the absence of Jay Leno and CBS' scheduling flips they're only down 2% overall - one of the best performances for years.

CBS has Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-O and to a lesser extent, Blue Bloods. All FOX's hopes are really on "Raising Hope" for now. ABC will hope "No Ordinary Family" holds up well tonight and NBC only seem to have LOLA.

Flops at FOX probably aren't a huge issue - they need to clear 3-4 hours by next fall for The X Factor and Terra Nova.


The problem with ABC seems to be that nobody (internally) had any confidence in its line-up of new series and on reflection, they may have been right!

No Ordinary Family was deliberately placed at 8pm to get a family audience - though I'd question why they picked the toughest 8pm hour of the week.

Deadline are reporting that Outlaw could be cancelled soon and The Apprentice might be moved from Thursdays at 10pm to make way for LOLA - with SVU going back to 10pm on Wednesdays. But they haven't made their minds up yet.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/nbc-...bc/#more-72693

Here's the September primetime averages for BBC1 & ITV1, provided by DS:

BBC1: 21.3% (Sep '09: 22.4%)
ITV1: 22.7% (22.9%)

Only the second month this year that ITV1's beaten BBC1. Both channels were down compared to September last year, BBC1 more sharply than ITV1 but I think Strictly began a couple of weeks earlier last year. It was ITV1's 2nd best month of the year, behind June (25.1%).

Overall 2010 Primetime Averages are:

BBC1: 21.6% (Jan-Sep '09: 21.8%)
ITV1: 21.0% (21.8%)

BBC1's been more watched than ITV1 in primetime so far this year. Both channels are down compared to last year but BBC1's only slightly down (-1%), while ITV1's been sharper (-4%). I think BBC1 will probably win primetime (by this definition) this year because +0.6% is quite a big gap at this stage and their October looks strong as it is anyway.

I was just wondering, as I catch bits of the increasingly desperate new-look Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (My mum watches it, I just happened to be in the room), does this programme now get less viewers than Tarrant's top turkey Man O Man?

(If it does then and )

Does ITV's include ITV1 HD?

Yep, Man O Man was getting 4/5m for its last series. Mind you, that's probably equivalent to 2.5-3m these days so pretty similar to Millionaire when taking growth of multichannel TV etc into account.


Yep it does.

Must Be The Music and Got To Dance are heading to Australia, they'll air on Foxtel.

Parker Spitzer got off to a fairly horrendous start for CNN, performing worse than Campbell Brown and the recently fired Rick Sanchez did in the 8PM ET slot.


http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...ediadecodernyt

Good news - might see it on Sky then.

Have they not seen the figures for The X Factor? Waste of money.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.30m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.21m
19:00 Home and Away 0.95m
19:30 Four Weddings 1.11m
20:30 Packed to the Rafters 1.67m
21:30 Parenthood 0.89m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.10m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.08m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 0.93m
19:30 Top Gear Australia 1.15m
21:00 Survivor: Nicaragua 0.72m

Ten & One
18:00 Commonwealth Games 0.74m
21:00 Commonwealth Games 0.93m
23:00 Commonwealth Games 0.29m excluding One

ABC1
21:35 QI 0.77m

They might as well stick with it, IMO. Campbell Brown was falling at such a rate that she would be doing little better by now anyway. These things take time to find an audience and it's not so bad that they can't put up with it for a while. Although, when measured in its slot vs the performance of FOX News (as I have done below), it's the worst performing slot on CNN.

Here's a ratings round-up with MSNBC & CNN measured vs FOX News. HLN has been included where it beat CNN.

Morning:
FOXN - Fox & Friends - 991,000
MSNBC - Morning Joe - 430,000 (43%)
HLN - Morning Express - 305,000
CNN - American Morning - 220,000 (22%)

5pm:
FOXN - Glenn Beck - 2,269,000
MSNBC - Hardball With Chris Matthews - 625,000 (28%)
CNN - Situation Room - 432,000 (19%)

6pm:
FOXN - Special Report w/ Bret Baier - 2,049,000
MSNBC - Ed Show - 845,000 (41%)
CNN - Situation Room - 463,000 (23%)

7pm:
FOXN - The Fox Report w/ Shepard Smith - 2,026,000
MSNBC - Hardball w/ Chris Matthews - 773,000 (38%)
CNN - John King USA - 471,000 (23%)

8pm:
FOXN - The O'Reilly Factor - 3,112,000
MSNBC - Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann - 1,115,000 (36%)
HLN - Nancy Grace - 468,000 (15%)
CNN - Parker Spitzer - 454,000 (15%)

9pm:
FOXN - Hannity - 2,097,000
MSNBC - Rachel Maddow Show - 854,000 (41%)
CNN - Larry King Live - 543,000 (26%)

10pm:
FOXN - On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren - 1,791,000
MSNBC - Last Word w/ L O'Donnell - 887,000 (50%)
CNN - Anderson Cooper 360 - 512,000 (29%)

MSNBC seem to have found something that works at 10pm instead of Olbermann repeats.

I agree that they should stick with it for now but the concern would be that following pretty poor reviews of last night's show, many people who watched it may not come back. I think there may be too much politics on US news and perhaps the gap in the market was not for the down the middle conversation show that CNN went for, but instead a news programme not dominated by often mundane and repetitive political discussions. Maybe promote some shows (admittedly not very prestigious shows) from HLN?

On another note lots of X Factor headlines in the papers tomorrow, suspect they will be delighted behind the scenes. The show really does strive on controversy, albeit in this case some ridiculous suggestion that Cheryl Cole is racist for not putting through a particular contestant. Incidentally the second XF live Saturday on October 16th show is also 2 and a half hours long, perhaps confirming it will be a top 16 (with the 4 wildcards) this year, rather than 12 or 13.

Last year's equivalent show lasted for 2 hours. You seriously expect them to fit in four extra acts in 30 extra minutes (minus commercials)?

To add to the BBC schedule posted last night, ITV's appears to have updated as well, as noted above by fodg09:

Saturday 16th October
BBC One
17:30 - Strictly Come Dancing
* earliest ever start
19:15 - Merlin
20:00 - The National Lottery: In It to Win It
20:50 - Casualty
21:40 - BBC News
22:00 - Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
* apologies, got these two the wrong way around in post last night
22:30 - Match of the Day

ITV1
17:45 - All Star Family Fortunes
18:30 - You've Been Framed!
19:00 - Harry Hill's TV Burp
19:30 - The X Factor
22:00 - Piers Morgan's Life Stories
23:00 - ITV News

I suspect that may still change slightly, but I think that's all but confirmed now.

- Fiddles, Cheats and Scams on ITV1 at 8pm on 19th October
- Traffic Cops on BBC1 at 9pm on 19th October
- The Graham Norton Show (new series) starts at 10:35pm on 22nd October

Two and a half hours of the X Factor ? You must be joking

It's also on for two and a half hours this Saturday, but I think we'll see the length reduced slightly as there will be less participants.

It's scary how popular Faux News is in the USA.

A few years from now each live show will last longer than Children In Need.

Another flop for Channel 4?:

Wedding House: 1.2m (4.9%)

Might've been the worst rating in its slot among the terrestrials. Last week C4 had 1.9m in that slot.

Oh dear. The only thing that's going right for them at the moment is The Inbetweeners, and that's not even on Channel 4 itself!

Made in England was fantastic and so is Grand designs

Channel 4 Tue 05.10.10

18:00 The Simpsons (R) 1.58m
18:30 Hollyoaks 1.11m
20:00 Wedding House 1.21m
21:00 Ramsay's Best Restaurant 1.62m
22:00 Seven Days 0.67m

Source: C4 Sales. All figures include +1.

Ouch at Seven Days. C4 need to pull this show NOW!! Very poor night for C4 as well.

Grand Designs is getting fairly dull these days