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DOI must be much more limited in its choice of celebrities than Strictly because dancing on ice skates must be considerably more difficult than "regular" dancing.
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I still think that with a reduction in episodes and a bit of care Casualty can rate higher and do so more regularly. It could and should gave gotten 8 million on the overnights in my view based on the competition. And if it was the Casualty of old it would have done.
Casualty is more meh TV than must see TV. |
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The demise of Casualty tends to be overstated at this time of year - and has been each December for the last several years.
The fact is, it's been relatively steady at about 5m (in officials) opposite TXF all autumn. They're not great numbers, but in the circumstances, few shows could hope for much more. By the time we get to January, it'll be back up against Take Me Out or All Star something-or-other, and pulling 6m and more again - frequently winning its slot and being one of the top two or three shows of the night. In summer, it'll be pretty much the only show breaking about 4m on Saturdays across all the channels. I am partial to the idea that the episode order could be cut down to about 40, allowing the show to go on hiatus while XF is on air - but to be frank, I can forgive the BBC for not doing it. It'd alienate the hardcore and would be dangerous for such a long running show - tinkering around when nothing massive was wrong in the first place did nothing for The Bill, did it? |
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There is no doubt that the show is being harmed by the BGT and X Factor clashes and could do with being moved out of the line of fire. But, the show always seems to bounce back straight away. The question is what else could the BBC show in Casualty's slot and get the same figures? It will be interesting to see what the new BBC1 controller and schedulers decide to do about this matter, if anything.
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Casualty provides a valid alternative for those who can't stand TXF and there are a good few million. At least the BBC isn't wilting like it used to in front of strong ITV shows. I can remember when ITV was showing Game For A Laugh and the best the BBC could come up with was an obscure seventies film.
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Havent they used up every possible illness, disease and accident scenario by now though? I watch it ocassionally and the set up is so obvious you can see it coming several miles away.
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Casualty never used to be a soap though, it worked much better when every episode was more of a standalone affair.
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There is no doubt that the show is being harmed by the BGT and X Factor clashes and could do with being moved out of the line of fire. But, the show always seems to bounce back straight away. The question is what else could the BBC show in Casualty's slot and get the same figures? It will be interesting to see what the new BBC1 controller and schedulers decide to do about this matter, if anything.
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Corrie advertised the tram crash week as "Four Funerals and a Wedding".
Come the end of the week though, we only had 3 deaths (Ashley and Molly in the wreckage, and Charlotte murdered). Fans moaned on the forum, but to be fair to Corrie, nobody said the deaths would be THAT week. Quote:
Did anyone spot the little dig at Cowell in tonight's introductory preamble - the lookalike sat in his bedsit glued to the SCD final? See link below, about 20-30 seconds in. Quite amusing.
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Hmmm, I know where you're coming from, but couldn't the same be applied to the soaps. Casualty, when not against you know who, is still a reliable banker for the BBC.
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Casualty never used to be a soap though, it worked much better when every episode was more of a standalone affair.
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I saw them on Lorraine Kelly's show a couple of weeks ago and they said they were working with the contestants already so yep, they're returning.
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Million Pound Drop playing the celebrity card again tonight (Emma Bunton and boyfriend Jade Jones).
I have refused to watch since the episode where George and Larry Lamb got easier questions, and I won't be returning to the show. Quote:
Don't worry, in a few weeks Channel 4 will be playing the axe card and another show will be consigned to the trash.
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BBC1 should have aired a brand new Total Wipeout special 6-7pm IMO. The audience was there.
I'm not in the slightest bit surprised about Lotto and Casualty. In fact, I had hoped Casualty might clear 7m. ![]() And Total Wipeout so frustrates me - it's absolutely awful compared to the US version in practically every sense, but still brings in these fantastic figures even for repeats. Quote:
SCD will never better that; 1m of those viewers won't survive the winter
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DOI must be much more limited in its choice of celebrities than Strictly because dancing on ice skates must be considerably more difficult than "regular" dancing.
P.S. I don't suppose the BBC have taken a lead from ITV and been open and transparent about the Strictly voting - it would be interesting to see if it generally is the person with the lowest votes who leaves considering the person lowest on the judges scoreboard didn't go anywhere until a couple of weeks before the final. |
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People must have switched off in huge numbers during the Lottery draws - no wonder. The guest didn't show up and Jenni Falconer and Alan Dedicoat had to fill 15 minutes talking about the snow.
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They could have also put it out on Thursday at 9pm instead of the New Tricks repeat they've got in that slot. I know Casualty is 50 minutes long, but they could have easily padded it out to fill an hour-long slot with a 'Previously on Casualty' bit as has been done in the past.
Although, that wouldn't have been good for the Ratings Thread stopwatches, which need to be saved for BBC One's Christmas night. ![]() With all this snow around, you just can't get the batteries... |
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Yeah, they could have run the schedule a bit later than billed, starting with EastEnders at 7.35pm.
Although, that wouldn't have been good for the Ratings Thread stopwatches, which need to be saved for BBC One's Christmas night. ![]() With all this snow around, you just can't get the batteries... Is there a rumour that the BBC are going to make people late for ITVs train which leaves at 9pm sharp. The utter rotters if they do something so downright sneaky again this year on Christmas Day |
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Whats this?
Is there a rumour that the BBC are going to make people late for ITVs train which leaves at 9pm sharp. The utter rotters if they do something so downright sneaky again this year on Christmas Day
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But it's kept around to get a solid 5 million viewers when it could have more impact being a slightly shorter series with more event episodes. People don't really talk about it anymore. I remember when there was a siege in the hospital and Charlie got shot, that had people talking for weeks
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At least the BBC isn't wilting like it used to in front of strong ITV shows. I can remember when ITV was showing Game For A Laugh and the best the BBC could come up with was an obscure seventies film.
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You must be gutted at how poorly Strictly performed!
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Whats this?
Is there a rumour that the BBC are going to make people late for ITVs train which leaves at 9pm sharp. The utter rotters if they do something so downright sneaky again this year on Christmas Day
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There will be so few punters on the ITV platform, they might as well send a replacement minibus...
![]() I do hope there are some ITV employees reading this who can prepare some nice surprises
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I do hope there are some ITV employees reading this...
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DOI must be much more limited in its choice of celebrities than Strictly because dancing on ice skates must be considerably more difficult than "regular" dancing.
Must put a few people off even for £40,000. |
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Is there a rumour that the BBC are going to make people late for ITVs train which leaves at 9pm sharp. The utter rotters if they do something so downright sneaky again this year on Christmas Day Anyway, back to last night and the superb figure for Strictly Come Dancing. Coronation Street's timeshifts will probably mean it'll have to settle for fourth - but it still means it'll defeat Britain's Got Talent which no one would've predicted this time last year. I'm in two minds about Casualty. I think it should have performed slightly better than that but then it suffered from ridiculous scheduling - why does the lottery always have to air before it? Why not let Casualty benefit from the strong lead in - either from Merlin or Strictly - than some gameshow with a load of balls revealed at the end? (I know the gameshow wasn't on last night but...) ITV1 didn't hold up at all. Lazy scheduling gets lazy results. I suppose Take Me Out did reasonably and should see an increase next week, but otheriwse very poor. |
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Just looking at the key 9pm slots for next week and ITV1 should really win Mon-Thurs-easy BBC1 competition for all of them and I'm surprised at some of the BBC1 programmes, particuarly a New Tricks repeat and Panorama special. There's actually a decent range of programmes Mon-Fri on ITV1 which all look very watchable and imo their Christmas programming does look better this year.
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Channel 4 announcer before Deal Or No Deal -
"Countdown fans please note that from January 10th the show will move to a new regular start time of ten past three". |
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ITV flopped without Simon Cowell, just shows how overly dependt ITV are on him at the weekends.
As for Casualty I thnk the short Lottery show is hurting it, it certainly cant take advantage of the SCD lead in with the Lottery in the way. |
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Just looking at the key 9pm slots for next week and ITV1 should really win Mon-Thurs-easy BBC1 competition for all of them and I'm surprised at some of the BBC1 programmes, particuarly a New Tricks repeat and Panorama special. There's actually a decent range of programmes Mon-Fri on ITV1 which all look very watchable and imo their Christmas programming does look better this year.
With Come Rain or Shine attracting viewers of a certain vintage who will be dutifully waiting for their second dose of Corrie of the day (like they wait for nursie to dole out the second round of medication), and those who will tune in to see effectively a reprise of Jason's Del Boy role, I can see a 9-10m audience here - which may well outrate some or all of the BBC's big guns like Dr Who, Royle Family and Upstairs Downstairs and possibly even make the 2010 top 10!. And the BBC's white flag at the threat of a live Millionaire special is bewildering. So that will rate highly too I expect, with a Corrie lead-in and I imagine plenty of trailers all evening. |
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