Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“The only problem with Thursdays was that it is up against Question Time, effectively splitting the potential audience.”
Not really - 10 o'clock Live's potential audience is surely the people with an interest in politics and world events, but not interested in seeing old men in suits talking about it.
The 15-part series is it's biggest problem - a break midway through then coming back with a few tweaks would help a lot. It's improved since they changed the running order, having Charlie Brooker after the opening monologue rather than David's interview - but figures haven't changed since.
Originally Posted by rzt:
“ITV has recommissioned Odd One In (8x45') for a second series, to air this summer:
The first series averaged only 3.3m (19%) in the overnights so I think most of us thought they wouldn't bringing this show back. Its ratings did grow throughout the series from 2.9m for the opener to 4.2m for the last episode but the last 3 episodes were paired up with The X Factor which helped boost its ratings. I think ITV are being optimistic if they think it'll be getting 4m+ on its own without leading into TXF next series.”
Actually a fairly smart move by ITV. Whatever they air in the summer usually flops, so they might as well give one of last year's shows a second chance rather than have yet another flop on their hands. A shame though the same logic wasn't applied to The Whole 19 Yards and before that Duel.
Originally Posted by Andy23:
“Push the Button is Ant & Dec's vanity project, it's obvious ITV would rather just have another series of Takeaway.
Push the Button will bounce back once Let's Dance finishes.”
It's only six episodes though isn't it, so only the last episode will air without it.
It's just a show that doesn't work - the idea was good, but the execution not quite right and by using the excuse of making it live as the "improvement" for this series, they've neglected the game play even further - and indeed the new Accumulator round has none of the tension the final head to head round had last year where the families battled to stop their clock counting down to zero.
Takeaway was tired too for it's last couple of series and if ITV were to bring a show back in the place of Push the Button, I would prefer Pokerface. Alternatively I've always felt the Ant vs Dec feature from Takeaway could be expanded into a spin-off of it's own - although it's the sort of format which would fit nicely into a half-hour slot, but we know nowadays most things get expanded to a full hour whether they need it or not.
ITV also don't really need the show in it's schedule - I'm ignoring factoring in the opposition here but ITV could run TV Burp at 7.30pm (as they do in the autumn) and Take Me Out at 8pm, then the Bond movie at 9.15pm - and Push the Button isn't really missed. A bit more filler perhaps required earlier in the evening, but repeats of All Star Family Fortunes or Mr and Mrs could fill a gap there - and indeed I've said before they should just record a bunch of regular 30-minute editions of Family Fortunes which can easily fill a gap in the Saturday night schedule, as indeed they did in the late-90's/early 2000s.
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I told you it was stupid scheduling by ITV, and it seems I was correct. I guess they are making people push buttons, just that they are pushing the... err, wrong buttons.