I think Wednesday/Thursday but you have to factor in baseball and it has to finish by early December so I wouldn't be surprised if it launches in late August/early September. NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles and DWTS have seen gains since Idol moved out of Tuesdays so they not be happy if X Factor airs on Tuesday/Wednesdays.

Some commissioning news - The BBC have renewed Not Going Out for a further two series. Not bad for a show that was originally canned.

The full story is here http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...-bbc1-lee-mack

Good news for ratings fans is that STV and ITV have settled their long running dispute. As a result we are likely to see less STV opt outs on major ITV shows and hence larger ratings for shows such as Downtown, Doc Martin and other dramas.

i thought stv didn't show series 1 of downton - so they're unlikely to show series 2 - unless of course they schedule a quick first showing of series 1 there beforehand...

i dont think stv will let such small inconsistencies trouble them

Ratings for the Champions League Match Schalke - United from Germany:

Free TV (Sat 1):

First Half: 8.8 Mio. (25,7 %) / 3.66 Mio. 14-49 years (26,7 %)

Second Half: 9.64 Mio. (31,5 %) / 4.02 Mio. 14-49 years (30,1 %)

Pay TV (Sky):

Whole Game: 0.5 Mio. (1,5 %) / 0.26 Mio. 14-19 years (1,9 %)


And some british content from german Television yesterday:

The ZDF (like BBC) showed yesterday the documentry Wiliam & Kate at 20:15.

3.1 Mio. (9.5 %) / 0.6 Mio. (4,8 %)

For most Scots, this new (to them) drama will look like it's cashing in on the success last Christmas of Upstairs Downstairs...

A very sad day for regional broadcasting reflecting the social, political and cultural diversity of the UK's nations.

bull****!

I take it you weren't leading the negotiations with STV then?

Link: http://www.mediametrie.com/eurodatat...rds.php?id=439

The 6th annual International Audience TV Awards nominees have been announced. Part of Monte Carlo TV Festival, the awards are determined by the measurement of show's audiences in 2010, from 67 countries.

Nominees:

Drama Series: CSI, CSI: Miami, House

Comedy Series: Desperate Housewives, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory

Soaps/Telenovela: Asi (Turkey), El Clon (USA/Brazil/Colombia), The Bold and the Beautiful (USA)

Winners will be announced on June 10, during the Monte-Carlo Television Festival awards ceremony.

From Attentional:

BBC Two
21:00 - A History of Celtic Britain: 1.7m (7.0%)

ITV1
21:00 - When Kate Met William: 2.4m (10.1%)

Channel 4
21:00 - The Secret Millionaire: 2.2m (9.0%)

New Saturday night show for BBC1:

Also a new one-off drama for ITV1, most likely to be shown in the run up to Christmas:

Lee Macks variety show sounds a lot like ITVs attempt to revive the variety format last year - For One Night Only.

Don't know why ITV just don't show a film on a Tuesday night all other shows always seem to flop really bad.

When Kate Met William rated poorly, with Secret Millionaire running it close. I suspect CSI and Champions League football were pretty close too. To be honest, I'm not surprised it rated so low as there's so many documentaries about it at the moment and ITV1 have been struggling in that slot with 2's and low 3's becoming the norm recently and I couldn't see it doing much better than that. Although with that said, I do think it's one of those things which probably would've rated in the mid 3's had it been used as a 30-min filler up against EastEnders sandwiched between two soaps. They've got something like that on Thursday, which'll probably rate a million better.

See - the Celtic diversity stuff can do ok against mainstream ITV1 output.

That 2.4m might well turn out to be ITV1's most-watched wedding programming this week...

Sounds like it may be more in the spirit of the Generation Game. Interesting.

Any new Saturday night entertainment show that doesn't involve Graham Norton/Lloyd Webber, Nick Knowles or dancing dogs has to be welcomed, surely?

I wonder if Ask Rhod Gilbert will be returning? That show had a bit of a "Saturday night fun" feel to it for me, not boring winter Mondays late night. I think it could work well in a 7pm Saturday slot, away from the SCD/TXF-airing months.

well I suppose poor ITV copies may please some

Tuesday 26th April Overnights
BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.36m (18.9%)
19:30- EastEnders: 8.74m (39.7%)
20:00- Holby City: 5.58m (24.1%)
21:00- MasterChef: The Final Three: 5.05m (20.7%)
* 15-minute peak: 5.61m (23.1%) at 21:45

BBC Two
19:00- Live Snooker - The World Championship: 1.22m (5.1%)
20:00- Britain's Next Big Thing: 1.49m (6.4%)
21:00- A History of Celtic Britain: 1.71m (7.0%)
22:00- Later Live... with Jools Holland: 850k (4.3%)

ITV1
19:00- Emmerdale: 6.49m (33.4%) , +1: 117k (0.5%)
19:30- Military Driving School: 2.32m (10.6%%)
20:00- Countrywise: 2.47m (10.7%)
21:00- When William Met Kate: 2.53m (10.4%) , +1: 193k (1.1%)

Channel 4
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.06m (5.8%)
20:00- Supersize vs. Superskinny: 1.97m (8.5%) , +1: 192k (0.8%)
21:00- The Secret Millionaire: 2.20m (9.0%) , +1: 464k (2.6%)
22:00- Campus: 428k (2.5%)

Channel 5
13:45- Neighbours: 640k (8.8%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.31m (9.6%)
18:00- Home and Away: 883k (5.3%)
19:30- Extraordinary Dogs: 574k (2.6%)
20:00- William and Kate: The Story So Far: 1.04m (4.5%)
21:00- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 2.13m (8.7%)
22:00- CSI: Miami: 1.41m (7.8%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 24.2%
ITV1: 12.8% (+1: 0.5%)
Channel 4: 6.1% (+1: 1.1%)
BBC Two: 6.1%
Channel 5: 5.2%

Ratings include HD and are tape-checked where necessary

Multichannel
Alibi (inc +1)
21:00- Murdoch Mysteries: 277k

BBC Three
21:00- Meet The Multiples: 716k (2.9%)
22:00- EastEnders: 1.23m (6.1%)
22:30- Two Pints of Lager and a Packet Of Crisps: 895k (5.8%)
* above previous series opener rating of: 556,800 (3.18%
23:00- Two Pints of Lager and a Packet Of Crisps: 807k (7.1%)

BBC Four
21:00- Royal Wedding: 114,200 (0.5%)

Dave (inc +1)
21:00- Qi: 425k

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 409k (2.1%) , +1: 107k (0.5%)
21:00- 90210: 216k (0.9%) , +1: 162k (0.9%)
22:00- The Cleveland Show: 255k (inc +1)
22:30- The Ricky Gervais Show: 166k (1.1%)

Film4 (inc +1)
19:00- Hero: 269k

5*
18:30- Home and Away: 492k (2.7%)

ITV2
21:00- The Vampire Diaries: 472k (1.9%) , +1: 140k (0.79%)

More4 (inc +1)
22:00- True Stories: 187k

Sky Living
21:00- Katie: 273k (1.1%)
22:00- The Hunks: 95k (0.5%)

Watch (inc +1)
20:00- No Ordinary Family: 246k

Source: Broadcast, C4Sales, DS (1) (2)

Another awful Tuesday for ITV1- I wonder if Countrywise will be pulled and moved back to Mondays where it's capable of ~3.5m? I can see now why Millionaire aired in that slot for so long, because there's not much else capable of 3m+. Apart from reintroducing the hour long Emmerdale I'm not sure what else could boost the night, although that wouldn't be a popular move with soap fans and an episode would need to be displaced from somewhere else. Not surprised the royal doc flopped with all the terrestrials airing one over the course of this week. Ch5's performed OK by their standards.

The Ch5 soaps rebounded to decent levels, as did Hollyoaks back over 1m. CSI back over 2m which is good and decent return for Secret Millionaire with 2.7m inc+1 which should boost Tuesdays for the next few weeks as there isn't many 2m+ hits for Ch4 right now. It may also increase in future weeks with weaker factual competition.

Well, poor BBC copies certainly don't it seems...

Looks like the Champions League semi-final dented the PSB's last night.

I think the Masterchef final will be slightly higher than last year's final, it's a success but nowhere near as big as The Apprentice or its Australiah counterpart.

Funny that the Channel 5 William and Kate doc did alright but the ITV one flopped, it didn't help that it was the third documentary in two days. The Secret Millionaire did well, I think Channel 4 have learnt their lesson of overexposing their shows.

Campus is dead, I'm surprised Channel 4 didn't move it to 11pm.

Not good for ITV.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...1&postcount=13

ITV are to get CLs first picks again on Tuesdays in the next rights deal. Cue Coronation Street's return to Wednesdays at 7.30 perhaps? Although perhaps they will retain the Thursday 8pm soap hour & move the Friday 8.30 show?