Nope! EastEnders has beaten Emmerdale quite a few times even thought ED started First i just find it annoying
I've actually just started to get back into Emmerdale aswell.

Tonight's can't be helped though

Certainly hit the past 50 Diana mug owning viewers

Vince Cable MP to appear on Christmas Strictly Come Dancing (which this year is for those who couldn't commit to being in the main show for 3 months).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11767413

The IAC situation is getting a bit bizarre now. If the John Lennon show airs there there is no slots free at all during that week. And I doubt ITV would miss out on a Coming Out show, knowing how well they perform.

And thanks for that-reminds me of a better time in the ITV schedules

Apparently Living simulcasted with Sky News for their special programme at 7pm.

that is some sort of joke right?


I would think so

Jesus Henry Christ.

That's going to go down well with the British public, will he be waltzing past the students he lied to as they smash up his HQ?

Playing well into Tory hands here

That was a bit OTT by Sky there, Living viewers tuning in for CSI: Miami wouldn't have been impressed with that. I see they didn't ditch high rating Simpsons on Sky1.

Yep its on Living +1 now.

Surprise surprise, they also did that on the thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries as well, and I don't know why they're doing it again, because first episode or not, it's an utterly primitive stagey black and white half hour which is nothing like Coronation Street today, so I dunno who's interested. In 1990 it was a bit of a novelty, not now. But more monochrome on primetime ITV!

Anyway, on the fortieth anniversary, they shoved loads of extra Corries in the schedule, although it was actually the week before the anniversary they did the most. So in the week beginning Sunday 26th November, we had...

Sunday, 7.30-8pm
Monday, 7.30-8pm
Tuesday, 8-8.30pm plus documentary 9.30-11pm
Wednesday, 7.30-8pm
Thursday, 8-8.30pm
Friday, 7.30-8pm
Saturday, 9.15-9.45pm

The following week we had the usual half hours on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, though the latter was at 9.45 because of the Champions League, then on the Friday, we had the first episode 7-7.30, then Emmerdale, then the live episode 8-9pm.

In that week when it was on every day, I recall my mum completely forgot the Saturday episode, which was stupid scheduling, on the wrong day at a completely unmemorable time (it was shown in the middle of the Stars In Their Eyes final). And if you're interested, the extra Tuesday episode was opposite Animal Hospital, the Thursday one against This Is Your Life (Holby was on Thursdays at nine at that point) and the live Friday show opposite Ground Force, a revisited one, and the ever popular Castaway.

That week of Corrie was a big week for ITV as they also had the premier of The Full Monty and they launched a few new dramas off the back of it, which was a repeat of a mental week they had the previous November, in 1999, when they had Emmerdale every night (when it wasn't normally every night), Millionaire every night and that Brighton-set Corrie spin-off every night at 10pm. ITV used to have a lot of swagger in those days.

It was on CNN as well.




Apparantly Vince Cable and Peter Mandleson were both asked to be on the Christmas special to counter any accusations of BBC bias with Ann Widdecombe being on the programme.

I think the media would have been told/briefed yesterday about an announcement today - they normally are informed beforehand I think about any 'major announcements' so they can make prior plans.

And ITV would not broadcast their own exclusive interview half an hour after the remainder of the channels.



What are ITV playing at exactly? My only guess is that straight after The X Factor Final on 11th December, they're going to have live "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The Reunion", like they had after the first ever series instead of the usual Coming Out show, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWr6peL5IQ

Typical ITV, I hope the Lennon documentary timeslot is a typo, because that's bizarre.

IIRC the EE Live was only for half an hour in the usual Friday slot, so would have been against Dancing on Ice Friday (which I'm assuming won't be back next year!)


Was quite surprised to see ITV2 get in on the act!

Vince Cable is not only an MP, he is also the Business secretary, the man charged with finding people jobs, I fear a man of his postition, should not be waltzing around TV studios.

Yes ITV2 & current affairs are an unlikely match really. What next, a nightly world politics slot?

Some of us like a bit of nostalgia. Though I've seen episode 1 loads of times.



Ten years ago the first episode of Corrie got 10.69m.

I'm sure I have no idea what you mean Pizza!

As the for Corrie schedule for the 50th week, it's pretty much what I expected. Wasn't expecting the 19.00 episode on the Wednesday though and I still have concerns about that live episode going out on the Thursday.

Yeah, I'd too like to thank rzt, mike teevee and D.M.N. for doing such a great job with posting the ratings everyday!


Excellent for the all the soaps once again last night. Monday night is such a strong night for them all. Corrie is going to have a bad week though with the remainder of it's episodes as it'll experience the usual Thursday slump, and is then hit byt CIN on Friday night.

As for IAC, it held up very well and good to see that it matched last year's rating. It will be down tonight though, but it's Tuesday so was bound to happen. Maybe something like 7-7.5m I would estimate. Accused held up well and pretty much in line with my expectations.

So do I actually.

I'm not justifying his appearance, I'm just explaining it.

that he said yes.

Oh god!

So 3 celebs confirmed now.

Vince, Ferne and John.

There will be 5 in total and they will be doing 2 dances each.

Does anyone know how many celebs took part in previous Christmas Specials and how many dances they danced each? (I have never watched a Christmas Special!)

I'm just thinking that this years Christmas Special may be longer then the usual hour. 10 dances and all the other stuff is a lot to fit into an hour.

Perhaps Royal Weddings are of more appeal to women?

But CSI: Miami was scheduled. Nobody was going to tune in especially for the royal interview on LIVING when there were more obvious places to watch it.

In previous years around 6 celebs have danced 1 dance each, and then (because it's not live) the studio audience decide who win the glitterball.
Judges are normally extremely generous with the marking.

But a lot of women would have been watching Charmed and Four Weddings before, seen the promos and stayed with the channel. I don't suppose they're typical Sky News viewers. so they wouldn't want them switching to ITV/BBC.

I wonder how the first-ever episode will look on ITV1 HD?

That's the point, it has been on loads of times, and it's a bit of a novelty but not something you need to see over and over again. It would have been better to have shown some other classic episodes, like Ken and Deirdre's wedding or something.