Pat Phoenix was on ITV at the same time and she's so old, shes dead.

Btw a programme called The Unforgettable should leave you asking who?? afterwards.......

I created a poll on the soaps forum and 80% of voters say they think ITV should instate an episode of Coronation Street on Tuesdays. The soaps would then, perhaps, run like this:

Mondays
19:00 Emmerdale
19:30 Coronation Street
20:00 EastEnders
20:30 Coronation Street

Tuesdays/Thursdays
19:00 Emmerdale
19:30 EastEnders
20:00 Coronation Street

Wednesdays
19:00 Emmerdale
19:30 Holby City
* eventually would probably move to here or 8pm when Corrie starts to dent it badly on Tuesdays

Fridays
19:00 Emmerdale (hour-long)
20:00 EastEnders
20:30 Coronation Street

Surely logical? Why the actual f*** is Peter Fincham not doing something about it? The absolute least he could do is put Corrie at 8pm on Tuesday, even if he leaves the double Emmerdale on Thursday.

The fans want it, Corrie's plot momentum wouldn't suffer, it would help out Tuesday nights on ITV massively... just DO it now, there are no downsides FGS!

Rant over, I'm just popping out to find a life.

Will be interesting how Mary Portas: Secret Shopper does for Channel 4. I loved Queen of Shops and I think Mary will make the transtition to Channel 4 quite easily like Heston,

Except I can't see BBC moving Holby City in a hurry.

As a short term solution, I would:

- move Coronation Street to Wednesday's at 7pm
- move Emmerdale's Wednesday episode to Tuesday's at 8pm.

So that the ITV schedule, at least has some kind of structure.

Holby can stay then. Coronation Street would easily beat it, by a growing margin.

Some multichannel ratings from yesterday:

BBC4
21:00- The Modern Age of Coach Travel: 298,900 (1.2%)
* down from last week's slot average of 648,200 (2.54%)

E4 (inc. +1)
16:25- Friends: 323k
17:00- Friends: 532k
19:35- Friends: 368k
20:00- Friends: 539k
21:00- Never Been Kissed: 348k

ITV2
21:00- The Bourne Ultimatum: 618,600 (3.3%) , +1: 130,400 (0.97%)

More4 (inc. +1)
21:00- Time Team: 305k
22:00- Time Team: 250k
00:00- Time Team: 71k

Sky1
21:00- Louie Spence’s Showbusiness: 259,100 (1.1%)
* down 18k from episode 1
* up from 3-month slot average of 214,900 (0.83%)


I don't think ITV are switching it because at the moment, Corrie provides a good lead-in for the programme at Thursday 9pm. If they were to do what you're saying: yeah it would boost Tuesdays, but Thursdays nights would be weaker and I think Corrie itself would rate worse up against Holby City than how it's doing on Thursdays at the moment and also the Thursday 9pm programmes would lose its good lead-in and rate even worse than how they have been in the last year or so.

Tram Week was an exception for obvious reasons. Holby would dent Coronation Street more than Coronation Street would dent Holby.

Extremely bad news from the BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12182834

Wonder how long it'll take for me to turn over or to smash my TV to get him off it. Actually, I probably won't watch.

i think its going to do well.
she was totally wasted on BBC2.the formats of the show just didnt suit her.If the show works out like the Trailer I can see it doing really well.

Him and Mat Horne were terrible when they last presented, I'm not sure why they can't go for a normal presenter like Dermot or Cat Deeley.

Will be interesting to the changes with the switch to the O2.

Unquestionably.

There's no real difference between a repeat on ITV1+1 and one on BBC1+1+1...

Pretty bland night of TV ratings. Bewilderingly good for Rip-Off Britain (Jay Hunt would be ordering a year-round series to air there if she were still in charge ). Also, very strong for Midsommer - it seemed to enjoy the lack of much opposition.

Finally, Film 2011 seems to have returned to its prior levels which make it quite a poor performer for a 10.45 slot. I actually think the format is quite accessible compared to the old Ross show, but its still evidently minority interest.


But while an EE-fuelled Holby remained, any Tuesday showing would do worse than the episode it replaced. And as I've already mentioned, ITV would be mad to risk provoking BBC One into a hostile scheduling conflict. So far, BBC One have just put up with any changes ITV have made. But if you threatened to kill Corrie, they'd be forced to respond - and the consequences of that could cause more problems than the initial change solved.

The Secret Shopper aspect should be an interesting twist but I worry that Channel 4 will make her present a Queen of Shops ripoff like they did with Ruth Watson. Mary Portas: Retail Rescue anyone? Would like her to tackle bigger brands who have problems rather than small shops.

Why-o-why am I continually subjected to this annoying prat every time I turn on my TV, when it appears he isn't really even particularly popular?

IIRC, the show he was in last year did rubbish numbers too - but somehow this man managed to lever his way into just about every show going. It's like TV execs listened to his own hype and completely neglected to check their BARB tables! I blame Harry Hill.

Considering the complete lack of promotion for the shows return i thought it did OK. But that was possibly the weakest show they've done since Claudia took over, too much to talk about and not enough time.

Peter Fincham was formerly the Controller of BBC1. Maybe he has a soft spot for Holby City.

The problem with your schedule is the half-hour slots created on Tuesday and Thursday at 8.30. Awkward to fill in as demonstrated by the half-hour gap on Wednesdays between Emmerdale and Midsomer Murders. Unless they're planning all year round The Best Of You've Been Framed or The Best of TV Burp. That's probably why they upped Benidorm to hour-long episodes; because they struggled to find other half-hour programmes to sit alongside it at 9pm - Moving Wallpaper and Teenage Kicks both flopped. Benidorm seriously bucked the trend in becoming a hit ITV1 sitcom.

If ITV1 did adopt this schedule BBC1 could move Holby City to Tuesday at 8.30 or, if they left it where it was, ITV viewers would have the option of watching Corrie at 9pm on ITV1+1.




Additional: ITV1 are also finding their Tuesday night flopzone occasionally useful.

They dumped The Bill there in its last few weeks in order to make sure it didn't have an embarassing late surge in ratings before they axed it.

They dumped The Fixer there when they realised they had a ratings turkey on their hands. (Lights blue touchpaper then retires.)

And now they're using it to give STV a kicking in their long-running dispute.

Good figures for Midsomer Murders. The next one should be interesting to watch (is it scheduled yet?) as this is John Nettles final appearance before handing over the reins to his cousin Barnarby.

Bound to get some boost to figures out of that.

Great to see Railway Journies doing well as it is a terrific series, especially in HD.

A third series is surely going to get the go ahead now.

Oh, and about Taggart, at the end of this on voiceover they said that next week Taggart moves to Wednesday.

I checked and the Sky EPG listings show it as Tuesday still.

Why this odd mistake? Wednesday would be a much better slot and I had just assumed they had quickly reassessed the clash with Silent Witness/CSI and moved it back 24 hours from episode 2. So surprised to find the announcement not matching what next week's listings show.

Maybe it will be moving in two weeks and the voiceover announcer was just a week out, But there must be some reason they made this comment.

Initially the Leeds Arsenal FA Cup, ITV's chosen game, was scheduled for Tuesday. It's now been moved to Wednesday for TV purposes, to fit in with ITV's planned schedule. Clearly nobody told the ITV announcer. and he though the Tuesday and Wednesday night programmes were swapping over.

Are there many more great British railway journeys left though?

Or will they follow the Coast approach, and just keep going round and round again, finding new angles and people to speak to, venturing off railways completely - and then in desperation, start exploring "British railway journeys" through northern France, Ireland, and Scandinavia?

Coronation Street is losing a lot of momentum between Monday and Thursday - which I think you seem to forget, instead focussing on how Thursday sometimes outrates Fridays - and isn't that bad.

Tuesday is not a good option in my view, but Wednesday 7pm could be a short-term move before the renegotiation of the football rights.

You're right of course that Thursday would probably lose a lot of its 9pm slot power - but then again - is 9pm really performing well at the moment? In hindsight, if only The Bill was still pulling in 4.5m-5.5m in that 8pm slot.

If Coronation Street remains on Thursday's, ITV might be persuaded to create some kind of Thursday night comedy drama rota consisting of Cold Feet, Benidorm, Doc Martin, Married Single Other as well as some fluffy entertainment to go inbetween (like Paul O'Grady Live and Comedy Rocks).

If ITV is able to switch Champions League/FA Cup Replays back to Tuesdays in the medium-term future, the schedule might look a little rosier, i.e (fantasy schedule alert):-

Monday
- World in Action returns to 8pm as the ITV's flagship current affairs platform, signalling ITV's commitment to serious public service broadcasting
- Monday Night Thriller seasons to air from January to March, kicking off the New Year - and later in the year if necessary. Law & Order, Taggart and other returning crime dramas to fill the void, as well as new ambitious six-parters perhaps.

Tuesday
- Emmerdale retains its half-hour episode, only doubling up as a lead-in for the Brits or in other special circumstances.
- Champions League, FA Cup and live internationals to air here from 7.30pm - if possible - if not, flop travel docs.

Wednesday
- 7pm soap hour returns, leading in to special events (award ceremonies, movies, occasional football match displacing Corrie, 90-minute drama one-offs with hour-Corrie lead-in to balance it out)

Thursday
- Single Emmerdale at 7pm, followed by regional programme at 7.30pm.
- The Bill returning at 8pm for ten-part series, swapping with other new 8pm dramas (possible Primeval move) OR Harry Hill's TV Burp and You've Been Framed
- A new comedy drama slate at 9pm, as mentioned above - as well as entertainment shows, and possibly a ten-week Hell's Kitchen.

Friday
- 7pm soap hour
- two-hour drama repeats between 8pm and 10pm, probably capable of consistent 3-5m average if it's Morse, Frost, Lewis, Midsomer, Rosemary & Thyme or Foyle's War.

yes I agree.
Going for the small indy shops would be a massive bad idea.
the secret part really does sound like a good idea.
seeing some of those snobby highend stores squirm

I don't see how moving Coronation Street from Thursday to Tuesday would help. How would Corrie get higher ratings against a rival soap than against Watchdog/DIY SOS or if we're talking moving Friday's episode then Question of Sport/QI? The last regular episode of Corrie (not Tram crash) to air against Holby City only had 7.5m and that was 1st December 2009.
Surely now that ITV1 +1 exists viewers of both shows would just watch Corrie at 9pm after Holby City anyway.
The BBC won't move Holby City to Wednesday in the short or even medium term, as where would that leave the 20 episodes a year of Waterloo Road?

ITV seem to have enough trouble filling their existing 9pm Corrie lead-in slots with hits as it is so why not concentrate on them before sorting Tuesday's out.

All the solutions create as many problems as they would solve.

All ideas focus on Corrie alone, they don't look at what ITV would do with the extra half hour slots or what it would do to Emmerdale's momentum (which you wouldn't want to damage at the moment)

Miranda will be back for a third series!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...third-run.html

& looks like it MAY be on BBC1!

There is certainly enough for at least another series. Michael Portillo has really grown into the job and makes the thing work regardless of him being on an interesting line or a branch line to Wigan. I think he could make anything sound romantic.

If you look at the thread on the programme you will see how high an audience appreciation this hidden gem is gathering.

Pity if that is all that there is to this. A Wednesday move might save the series. Otherwise the next one might end up on Sky.