Im not saying it is, but that could be the Global Edition from this weeks episodes, unlikely I know.

I wasnt too worried when it didnt show Week 1, but I am a little bit now.

He's not actually going to be doing XF US when the auditions take place so I doubt that's the only reason. I suspect he just wants to take advantage of having time away from actually being on TV to get on with the "day job". Plus, a I said before, they are trying to make the business less reliant on him as a TV personality.

I always favoured having a comedian on the panel and McIntyre is a good pick. The Hoff will be bizzare and has done 4 seasons of America's Got Talent so he knows what he's doing (you'd hope!).

The one disappointment has to be that Amanda Holden is back. Again, she's fine at playing her part, but I think they should have freshened up the whole panel rather than just keeping her on.

Also, I could see Cowell missing it altogether in 2012 if this series goes well.

Looking closer at the More4 listings, it seems likely they are going to dump the regular weekday version of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in the New Year after 5 years on the channel. Only The Global Edition remains, in a new 11pm timeslot every Monday night.


Sad news, but also inevitable that More4 would dump it in favour of repeats that rate higher such as Grand Designs.

At least they are not dumping it altogether.

I'm surprised it lasted that long considering the ratings - and always thought it would do better at 11pm than 8.30pm.


In other news - somebody mentioned "The Voice" here a few months ago and it's now been picked up in the US by NBC.
http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/12/...dol-rival.html

ITV1 +1 to launch on January 11th.
11/1/11. Even I can remember that!

News of changes to Radio 5Live. The hunt is on for their new breakfast presenter...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/201...reakfast.shtml

that is my guess as well, its possibel that Daily Show is returning later than normal, and its now going to air late night, but that seems unlikely.

That was me and I was just about to post that!

They want to get a jump start on X-factor US by starting in the spring. It's still doing the business here in Holland hitting the 2.5-3 million on a weekly basis for a 2-hour performance show + 2 mil for the results show which airs at eleven at night.

John de Mol mentioned recently that the format had been sold to twenty territories already which included the UK apparently but they didn't say which broadcaster.

Impressed at Michael McIntrye's appointment for BGT. Didn't think of him, or that there would be any chance of wrestling him away from the BBC. Glad it's not James Corden or Peter Kay.

Hopefully, it will move BGT more in a light entertainment / comedy direction, less on singing / dancing (XF territory).

Presumably the BBC aren't going to be doing 'golden handcuff' deals any more ?

i do wonder what will happen with BGT 2012. Will Cowell quit or will this judgeing for the live stages going to be a reguler thing.

It all depends on how it's received next year. IMO despite peoples opinions on Piers and Amanda - or perhaps because of them - that was the best judging panel around as they all complemented each other well and obviously genuinely got on. They all bought their own angle to it whether performer, music mogul or Piers. The new panel is just three performers - and losing Simon from the auditions is a big blow for the singers at least as BGT often attracted people who just wanted to get the chance to perform for Simon Cowell.

That may end up distorting ITV1's ratings.

Hasselhoff wasn't a surprise but Michael McIntyre is, I was expecting Paul O'Grady. Amanda can do the auditions but they have to work around her Shrek schedule for the final week.

The Voice of Britain could either go to The BBC, Sky, Five or even ITV1.

on the subject Fives new line up, just looking on the latest Digiguide update

Five
9:15 - The Wright Stuff
11:00 - TBA
11:45 - CSI

meanwhile over on Fiver

Fiver
11:30 - The Wright Stuff (rpt)
13:20 - The Vanessa Show

I find it amusing that sometimes the multi channel scheulde will give away what would otherwise be a TBA program on the main channel.

As for The Daily Show, its a shame its being reducded down to just the Global Edition, guess ill just have to find something else to watch now.

C4 are having a themed Derren Brown night on 8th January. Unfortunately, a new series of Grimefighters starts on Tuesday 11th January at 19:30 on ITV1.

Probably a mistake by DigiGuide, University Challenge is down for 150 minutes long on Monday 10th January.

Would ITV have it compete with X-Factor though? If none of their entertainment shows move out of their familiar places where would it go?

I personally like the Voice, it feels fresh in a familiar way. For the live shows the candidates besides their solos also do duets with the musical guests which brings forth some surprising results. This is not just for the final I must note. At present there are still 14! candidates in the show. So far they have eliminated two each week. One from each team with the teams alternating elimination weeks. January will see the final 12 candiates merge into one show where they will eliminate 4 before the semis and the final will have one candidate from each mentor. Oops that almost sounds a lot like Xfactor this year! Maybe it's ITV after all.

It will be interesting to see how The Wright Stuff fills that extra 15 minutes. Longer discussions would be my preference as sometimes they only have time for a couple of calls on some topics.

Ideally the programme would start at 9.30 and run until 11.00 but I think the reason they like to start at 9.15 is to complement BBC One and pick up some ex-Breakfast viewers.

I'm guessing more segments like the Book Club and the TV reviews and more topics to debate, longer discussions would be better though. Maybe they should ditch the paper review in favour of more topics although I would miss Mood of the Daily Mail when Steve Furst is on.

The Wright Stuff has been chugging along nicely, it does better ratings than Studio Five and Five News at 7 in the morning and I imagine is a lot cheaper. Princess Productions is also making The Vanessa Show as well so it seems Shine and Five have made up especially they will producing more content with almost three hours daily from next year.

DId the Daily Mail, watch the same Daily Show, as I did?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...un-Royals.html

I agree. The last set of ratings I saw put it at a 6% audience share - higher than a whole host of Channel 5 dailies including struggling Home & Away and the shows you mention.

If Vanessa can perform similarly well CH5's daytime schedule will be looking pretty strong, with Neighbours as well pulling in 1m+ at lunchtime.

If and its a big IF for Vanessa, I would like a 3rd, The Wright Stuff is a bit long, and CSI isnt really suitable for Daytime, a quiz show maybe, but a good one.

I liked Wordplay with Jenny Powell last year. I guess it didn't perform well though because it never returned for a second series.

I agree with you about CSI that it isn't really suitable for that timeslot, but I guess their options are limited and it's a stopgap until they find something else. I would repeat factual shows like Extraordinary People there.

I think CSI and other US shows are good filler because they have a lot of episodes which can be stripped across the week. Kind of surprised they don't repeat NCIS in daytime although with two or three airings on the main channel and the repeats on USA, it might be overkill. Maybe they can have a AFP programme for that slot like Channel 4 did with Cook Yourself Thin.

What's all this about
The voice of Britain
is it a show from the states

krempelwood.com has not got any shows listed at the moment, shame its actually a good source for finding out about future programs.

I suppose it's possible that ITV bought the format in order to prevent other broadcasters from taking up a format that might damage the X Factor. Did Fox used to do that in the US with The X Factor so that American Idol wouldn't be killed off by another network?

Mind you if that were the case, they probably would have renewed their Pop Idol contract but they didn't.