What I think is likely to happen is Vera starting on DOI semi-final weekend, The Reckoning on 17th April (part 2 on 18th April - the week after L&O finishes), Suspicions of Mr Whicher on Easter Sunday, Lewis from 1st May, Scott & Bailey (with a BGT lead-in) from 29th May.


The previews for Monroe have been good so far. I can see it starting well but it might lose momentum for episode 2 when it faces that Comic Relief doc which is bound to do well. I guess it depends on how much the first episode grips the viewers which we won't know until the day it is shown!

Thanks for this Dancc . Not surprising that Shortland Street does better than all other non-news shows, although it was down quite a big week-on-week probably because of news coverage pulling away viewers. Do you know what Corrie gets in NZ? I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's shown there and it's "big" although that might've been an exaggeration.

That's okay, I thought people might be interested in how the rolling news coverage performed following the devastating earthquake in Christchurch.

Corrie brings in around 500,000 an episode. It is more popular than Shortland Street these days and is normally the most watched show after One News on the days that it airs.

To be fair to Robbie, he said 'again'. I remember him arguing the same point last year - why do the BBC continue to wait until the warmer months before airing Doctor Who considering it's potential pulling power and expense?

Except that this year half the series has been promoted to an Autumn slot.

True, which may result in the series being pushed back in 2012...but this one? And all those before it?

I dont think airing Doctor Who is too much of a proble, the BBC needs big hits spread out and perhaps DW is dented by the weather sometimes but at least when it drops low (like 4.5m last year) it will rebound and timeshift well. Putting a new or weaker show on at that time of the year could see it fall too low and get axed. Some might rightly say the BBC takes liberties with DW but its pretty much untouchable and can go anywhere and do well.


I wouldnt say its been promoted. The split has been designed to avoid a mid-series lull (both half-series should be wrapped up in 6 weeks) and help the BBC avoid shunting it around/taking it off for Eurovision.

Pretty good scheduale, it made no sense in having The Vanessa Show after The Wright Stuff, both similar in a way except one is very popular the other not. 12:15 a good slot for US imports. I wonder whether C5 will buy Murder She Wrote since it seems the BBC has let go of it to please its directors, after all even thoughh it finished 14 years ago it was still pulling in over 2 million everyday.

Going to alter that around a bit - Vera starts a week later; The Reckoning airs on Easter Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday; Suspicions of Mr Whicher on May Day Holiday with Lewis starting on 1st May.

I know that means a blank slot for 18th April, but it seems odd airing something over 2 nights the week before Easter, but not during Easter weekend itself.

OK!TV seems to have boosted Channel 5 according to the Daily Star

Here & Here

Seven
18:00 Seven News Special 1.35m
19:00 Today Tonight 1.03m
*double bill of Home and Away will air on Thursday to make up for missed episode.
19:30 My Kitchen Rules 1.63m
*highest rated episode ever.
20:30 Packed to the Rafters 1.80m
*most watched programme of the day in Total People and all key demographics.
21:30 (New) Conviction Kitchen 0.83m
*won its timeslot comfortably.

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.20m
18:30 A Current Affair 0.95m
19:00 Nine News Special Presentation: New Zealand Earthquake 0.70m
20:00 Top Gear 0.71m

Ten
18:00 6pm with George Negus 0.37m
18:30 Ten Evening News 0.31m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.70m
19:30 Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation 0.81m
20:40 NCIS 1.11m

GO!
19:00 Australia's Funniest Home Videos - Daily Edition 0.13m
19:30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 0.23m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.34m
*peaked at 0.42m.
19:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 0.24m
19:30 The Simpsons 0.17m
20:00 Futurama 0.14m

Shares
Seven: 38.5%
Nine: 21.1%
Ten: 20.7%
GO!: 5.1%
Eleven: 3.9%

Probably the first time a rating of 500,000 has been reported positively in a newspaper!

That looks really good, and leaves 5 Mondays after The Reckoning, which is perfect for Injustice.


That would mean Suspicions airing a week after the DVD is released, which I doubt will happen. Also, The Reckoning is a tough, emotional thriller and therefore not exactly Easter Sunday material, whereas Suspicions is a much lighter, period detective drama which will suit Easter Sunday.

Daily Star reporting a Channel 5 success, there's a surprise.


Aah, didn't realise that.

OKTV! had 348k yesterday. I think that's a bit higher than what LFSF was doing. Does Home & Away over-run by the way? The breakdown for OKTV! last night was:

18:25 583.9
18:30 392.1
18:35 338.5
18:40 309.6
18:45 264.3
18:50 288.5
18:55 260.4

I think it does, but even so it lost a huge % of it's audience between 18:30 and 19:00! Very poor, really.

I think it may a little. The ad break between the two programmes is very short as well. The Vanessa Show is trailed in between H&A and OK! TV, whilst The Wright Stuff is trailed in between OK! TV and 5 News. One or two other promos follow for select C5 programming, then straight to ident.

Thanks. Is the TV2 schedule it's usual line up, or has it taken content displaced from TV1?


It's bloody obvious really - it's in arguably the best slot it can be in. Autumn is overcrowded as it is and whilst the BBC may get away with playing Merlin against The X Factor (or alternatively, as early as 5.30pm), they would struggle to schedule Doctor Who in a slot which keeps everyone happy when it's got to fight Strictly for it's slot too.

And they rule Feb/Mar out because of the Six Nations and the hundreds of idiots who can't grasp the simply fact that major live events should always take priority over record programmes.


Even on a big news day Ten News is struggling then. Didn't take a genius to work out that plan was flawed - although the move of Neighbours has now well and truly been justified, regardless of the performance of the shows that replace it.

BTW, how is The 7pm Project doing now in comparison to when it had a Neighbours lead in, which presumably had a younger demo?

just comparing the Monday & Tuesday TEN Evening News ratings

Monday - 342,000
Tuesday - 311,000

Local news flopped even more in the wake of the NZ earthquake

The 6pm News with Geroge Negus flopped even more so

Monday - 418,000
Tuesday - 374,000

TEN just cant catch a break

The regular lineup. Not sure what will happen to the displaced content from TV1, I guess they will just catch up on things like Corrie with double episodes etc.


There hasn't been any real impact year-on-year. If anything The 7pm Project is slightly up without the Neighbours lead-in, surprisingly.

Someone was asking for a couple of wrestling ratings on Challenge TV:

Sunday Morning 01:00-04:00: TNA: 28,000
Monday Morning 01:00-04:00: WWE: 18,200

Mostly positive reaction to Silk on DS. Despite this I am not expecting huge ratings tomorrow. I think it will come in at around 4m - really doubt it will top the 4.4m that the series openers of Criminal Justice and Survivors have achieved on Tuesday nights over the past couple of years.

Home and Away tends to finish at 6.25pm, a short ad break and a plug for a Channel 5 programme, and OK TV starts around 6.27pm.

Clearly Channel 5 are moving Vanessa in hope it will gain with a Neighbours lead-in.

Vera should be a hit, the fact it was recommisioned before they even broadcast the pilot bodes well. I read that ITV were looking at Vera as a successor to Frost, Mr Whicher is a one-off which potentially could become a series in the same way DCI Banks was a pilot which could have easily become been a one-off had it not done well.

I'm sure ITV1 and the BBC will be looking at adaptating new and existing crime series, BBC One is doing a series based on the Jackson Brodie novels and I think ITV1 is planning to do a Roy Grace series.