Latest programming and scheduling info:

New Series
The Restaurant Inspector (1/6): Commencing this week on Five is a new reality makeover show on struggling British restaurants. Fernando Peire, the Michelinstarred director of London's world-famous Ivy restaurant, goes undercover to sample the venue, food and service before revealing his identity and offering advice. Each restaurant has asked for his help, but will they find his drastic changes palatable? First on the menu is a 23-year-old Italian family business in Ramsgate.

Season Finales
CSI: New York (22/22): A gripping finale for season seven of the New York-based spin-off of the popular crime drama series. Saturday time TBC.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (22/22): The 11th season’s finale of the forensic crime drama reaches an intense, chilling and controversial climax. Tuesday at 9pm.
The Mentalist (24/24): Hit US crime drama following the work of a reformed con artist who works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation. Series concludes Friday at 9pm.

Movie Premiere
Rambo 4 (2008): Revival of the bloody military action series. The eponymous commando is coaxed out of retirement to act as a guide to a group of aid workers on a humanitarian mission in Burma. However, when the Burmese army captures the group, he mounts a violent one-man rescue mission to try to save the missionaries.

Neighbours
Harold Bishop returns to Ramsay Street, weekdays at 1:45pm and 5:30pm on Channel 5.

Not again!

Rambo should do well and will probably be repeated to death on 5USA. Unsure on The Restaraunt Inspector as a similar spin-off with Hilary Devey flopped.

Provisional schedules are in

Sat 4th June

BBC One

16:45 Don't Scare the Hare
17:15 BBC News; Regional
17:45 So You Think You Can Dance
18:45 Doctor Who
19:35 National Lottery Who Dares Wins
20:25 Casualty
21:15 So You Think You Can Dance Results

ITV1

16:15 Euro 2012 Qualifier
19:00 Britain's Got Talent Final
21:00 TBA
21:30 Britain's Got Talent Final Results
22:00 ITV News; Weather
22:15 Euro 2012 Highlights

Any ratings for 'V' last night?

In possibly more surprising news, ITV are actually going to show the final episodes of The Royal starting on Sunday 5th June.

I would love this to be the confirmed schedule.

That's a long series! Is it on all year round now?

What's the Sunday 5th June provisional schedules? Also anything interesting for the rest of the week? Thanks in advance


Nope. Two series of 13-16 episodes per year.

Looks good from the BBC's p-o-v. Why is Dr Who 50 mins?

I used to enjoy Bottom and similar stuff when I was young, but now I enjoy Bargain Hunt.


Thanks.

Its the last episode of the series or last episode before the series split if you want to look at it that way.

Oh right, cheers. That's gone fast.

I don't think either side can be too unhappy with that. Doctor Who gets in 15 minutes earlier than BGT against the analysis which works for the BBC, and splitting BGT works better for ITV as it means the results show can get a bigger headline figure, and they can give Operastar a boost (that TBA will be the preview show). They can't complain too much about a 2 hour show having a 35 minute overlap with Doctor Who. As I said earlier I think Doctor Who will knock about 1-1.5m (slightly higher than I suggested earlier as I was being a tad harsh) off BGT whilst they're head to head, but that should only mean a dent of 0.3-0.4m for the show overall, which should be OK. I think BBC1 might shift 10 minutes earlier anyway as the match should be done by 6:35pm, which will work out even better for both sides.


I'm really surprised at that. I didn't think they'd show them at all. I wonder how they will fit it in with Scott and Bailey and Operastar also on that night. Maybe:

19:00 The Royal
20:00 Popstar To Operastar
21:30 Scott and Bailey

What would ITV show in that 30-minute gap though - a Saturday Corrie perhaps?


Blatant Kitchen Nightmares rip-off then, a time when people actually watched Gordon Ramsey on C4.

It's almost certainly going to be a Popstar To Operastar preview show ahead of the launch the following night, as SRO Audiences are offering tickets for it.

Might the BBC show a film on Saturday night, and put the final episode of Doctor Who up against The Royal or Pop to Op on Sunday night?

Would be shame for the final episode to get squeezed between football and Talent's final.

rzt, it's a poor update really, nothing else of any significance, no Sunday stuff or 9pm's.

All we know is that Injustice is stripped across the week at 9pm on ITV1. (Oh and Love Your Garden starts 8pm on Fridays )

Well, we got moans that The Apprentice starting on Tuesday was confusing, God help us moving the day of Who for the final episode.

I do think a "preview" of Popstar to Operastar is the most pointless thing imaginable, especially in that brilliant slot. Surely the only plus point of Popstar to Operastar is that it's not a behemoth, it's over and done with quite quickly, so why stretch it out far beyond its natural length? It's not even a very long series, and the participants are hardly the kind of people you're waiting with bated breath to see. They may as well have shown a preview of Home Is Where The Heart Is or something,

If the Beeb were in the mood, they could shove an episode of EastEnders at nine and clean up.

If they're really going to put Popstar to Opera Star in that slot it's pathetic. No way should a second rate reality show get the strongest sandwich of the year. We've seen Life of Reily falkter despite a good lead in and lead out...I feel the preview show could go the same way. Horrific scheduling. It's good that Britain's Got Talent results show is being split from the main show and Doctor Who has the best slot possible.

Celebrity Juice performed brilliantly last night and Long Lost Family seems to building momentum against weaker opposition. Watchodig is excellent filler opposite the soap hour.

It's not even a proper episode, that's what gets me. It might make sense if they were to do a proper show and get people hooked. It'd be like BBC1 doing a So You Think You Can Dance "preview" on Christmas Day.

If the football is a 4.45pm kick-off they should go BGT at 6.45pm and then have an hour-long slot from 8.30pm to play with before the results at 9.30pm. Presumably ITV have something wonderfully awful lined up for Saturday nights this summer.

Obviously the BBC's ideal scheduling would be for them to put BGT from 7.30-10pm as they did last year, with ITV caving in opposite Doctor Who and airing the news or You've Been Framed.


And in other news notice Primeval begins on Watch this week (Tuesday I think) so will be interesting to see how that performs as I'm not sure viewers will click it's airing there - and even if they do spot it in the schedules possibly just assume it's a repeat considering it's an ITV show. The listings also suggest it is 1/10 - I thought it was just 6/7 episodes, with S4 + S5 being 13 episodes.

Not sure when ITV are due to screen it - I think they might go for an early evening 6.30pm slot in the autumn before Harry Hill and The X Factor. Certainly doubt it'll be in as peak a slot as it has been previously.

At least the BGT results are being split again this year - one scheduling improvement over last year.

ITV's main offering for Saturdays this Summer is a full series of Penn and Teller: Fool Us which has been filmed this week. It is provisionally due to start on 18th June, but I don't see why they can't bring it forward to the 4th. The scheduling is pretty much perfect for BGT though - splitting it into 2 shows is much better for the final. It'd be even better if they hadn't split the semis into separate performance/result shows though.


Radio Times says it's set to air 'later this year' so I think you could be right. Primeval versus Strictly could be embarrassing for ITV though.

Saturday 11th June should be interesting, I expect it will be a combination of these shows on ITV1.

Odd One In, The Marriage Ref, Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

Although I have no idea in which order, or how long the shows are on for.

Or maybe they'll just shove on a Harry Potter