Erm, Emmerdale would plummet during the Summer months. Not worth it at all.

Have you only just noticed that about me Glen? I thought I was flying the flag as loud and proud as possible.

Interesting idea but it sounds far too risky to me from ITV's perspective. I don't like ITV1's over-reliance on the soaps in prime either, but they are not going to change something that's not broken. If anything I could see an increase when the football rights change next year.

What is this 6.30pm weakspot you talk about? The ITV Evening News performs strongly

This is one of the worst ideas ever suggested

- The 5pm hour does well for ITV, why break it up
- ITV Regional News would bomb at 5.30, many people wouldn't be home to see it, you may as well axe it altogether
- Why put the ITV News up against BBC News. That has been a great success at 10
- Emmerdale would lose millions at 6.30 especially in summer
- Game shows like Family Fortunes? That's 10 episodes, what for the other 250 slots now available yearly?
- If The Lakes now airs at 7pm, what would you put opposite EastEnders?
- The One Show would be gifted a victory
- Why would they want to 'free up the schedule'

Besides all that, it's a good idea

What he said.

You're going back to the seventies there!!

ITV News at 5,40, local news from 6-6.20pm and then Crossroads until 6.45pm. It changed later on to a half hour local news and Crossroads at 6.30pm.

On BBC was Nationwide, national One Show type programme with local news inserts, from six 'til seven..

In those days the only primetime soap on ITV was two episodes of Coronation Street.

Mondays was traditionally light entertainment with Op Knocks from 6.45-7.30pm.

Wednesdays at 7pm was quiz shows like Name That Tune.

Sitcoms often got weekday 7-7.30pm slots on Thursdays and Fridays.

Those were the days, before soaps dominated and ruined UK early evening TV!!

ITV have got themselves into such a state now.

I bet they're wishing they could go back to the days of guaranteed audiences on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Corrie, Mon-Fri Emmerdale, Tue/Thu The Bill at 8pm getting 5m a time time...

And now, what? The Bill killed, pretty much all the Sunday night 8pm drama killed, Corrie at opposite ends of the week with an episode (not even) in the middle a large chunk of its fans forget about, Tuesday nights a total write-off, Wednesdays inconsistent, Sundays dire for 40 weeks of the year.

I've given up hope the ITV1 primetime schedule can even be fixed. The mess is too big. They may as well just count their chickens the death of linear TV comes as quick as possible, and focus on safeguarding Emmerdale, Corrie and any other returning series they have, while trying new things out in the 9pm slot.

Pre-9pm they've completely given it up to the BBC now, who have them in a checkmate pretty much all week long. If it's not EastEnders taking the 8pm junction when it can't have 7.30, it's Holby City on Tuesdays firing on all cylinders, and now even Waterloo Road pulling in 5m at 7.30pm on Wednesday, once a well established Corrie slot.

Blehhhhhhhh who cares anymore anyway? Nothing ever changes.

Could it be down to Alan Johnson being HIGNFY guest host?

I thought he did good actually. But politicians as guest host always drive ratings down. Even Boris - an HIGNFY legend - often saw ratings down week on week.

When they aired an HIGFNY promo by Johnson before EE, I thought "well that's a good 0.5m off the audience then"...

The Express reporting that there is a Strictly / X Factor scheduling truce.

A well-placed TV insider said: “It’s neither in the interests of the viewer or the broadcaster to go head-to-head. Strictly Come Dancing will go out slightly earlier, the X Factor will go later.”

The insider added that ITV programme controller Peter Fincham and BBC boss Danny Cohen were “on song with this one”, adding: “It’s good news for viewers.”

Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...#ixzz1N21UgQMY

ITV eyes deal with BBC star Graham Norton's production outfit

Broadcaster also said to be in talks with presenters Ant and Dec as it looks at a range of investment options

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...roduction-deal

So exactly the same as last year then (I think a couple of episodes ever so slightly clashed)? And the year before IIRC.

I think there two 15 minute clashes all series.

dont know if this has been on for a while now or not, but I just saw a promo for Angry Boys on BBC 3 tonight, lots of good stuff coming up on the BBC, just want some air dates now.

and putting to one side the issue of ITV seeking to make money from a program the BBC comissions in the private sector, wouldnt buying into Ant & Decs production company, further increases ITV dependce on Ant & Dec? cant help but feel for long term success, they should be investing in some form of talent agency, rather than the production company of people who are already on ITV.

It won't increase their dependence. I guess it would bring them in-house and as the article says, give ITV a bit more control over them. Rather than having to commission from Gallowgate, they'd find it easier to put them on other formats, including their own.

But they're already doing that with Red Or Black (Syco/ITVS) anyway - of course, that show is made by the team behind the early years of Takeaway which might be why they're more open to it.

As for a talent agency owned by a broadcaster - that wouldn't work. If it could, one of the big US media conglomerates would have bought CAA or WME.

Again using the US as an example, what might make more sense is to give experienced commissioners and producers deals to set up their own outfit in partnership with ITVS to develop new shows. When Stephen Lambert had to quit from RDF, All3Media backed him to launch his own outfit and it has paid off for them.

btu that deal is only logical if Ant & Dec continue to be a draw, if they dont then im not sure of the value of the production company.

I dont know of any Gallowgate hits that are not fronted by Ant & Dec

Looking at their website

http://gallowgatetv.com/

I have never even heard of The Wish List of The Beat Goes On, Beat The Star flopped.

Apart from bringing Ant & Dec in house, I am not sure Gallowgate provides, in the long run, that after all is what the re organastion of ITV is meant to be about.

that said I cant fault them for the Space Invaders game.

Don't BBC Worldwide and ITV Studios Global have stakes in indies, BBC Worldwide has a stake in Left Bank, Baby Cow to name but a few while ITV has Mammoth Screen. Superindies like TalkbackThames has stakes in indies like Projector Pictures which is Trevor Eve's company and Arbie which is Rob Brydon's company.

I think if Piers Morgan decides to launch his own indie, it'll be back by Syco or ITV.

In theory, they could bring back Pokerface. Duel or Takeaway but as in-house commissions. The latter actually seems possible if we assume that Push The Button is finished. I think they could really hype it up - they might even have left it long enough to try Undercover and Little Ant & Dec again.

I doubt it would be a particularly big acquisition anyway.

so ITV will buy Gallowgate, so they can bring back shows that have either had their time, or were not up to the usual standard of Ant & Dec?

If Gallowgate was making hits shows that were not fronted by Ant & Dec, I would understand the move, but it isnt.

Was Mammoth Screen a start-up? If so, that's what I'm thinking of.

Piers does have a production company (Insider Productions) but it's not particularly active and I doubt it will be now that his focus is on the CNN job. I think I've seen it at the end of some of the specials (the Alan Sugar one, for example). He supposedly has some kind of deal with Syco (some episodes of Life Stories carried Syco credits) but I have no idea exactly how that works.

That's just one option. Right now, it seems that they're limited to ordering shows from Gallowgate at the start of the year. Hence Push The Button.

If they buy Gallowgate, then Ant & Dec's passion for that project is likely to decline. They'll get a little bonus and ITV would have more freedom putting them on other shows at the start of the year.

Anyway, I happen to think Pokerface, Duel and Takeaway all have some potential!

Ultimately, I don't see this being a big strategic move in terms of global production or format development. I'm not entirely sure that it's worthwhile for ITV, but it depends how much they pay (and as I said, I don't think it will be much).

here was me thinking you were the one trying to sell me on the idea

Just think ITV will own the rights to Byker Grove, if that doesnt send the share price though the roof I dont know what will

I didn't know Piers had a indie TBH, most TV stars have production companies to produce their own projects. Talkback was one of the first and that was set up by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones and when they sold to Fremantlemedia, it made them along with Peter Fincham very rich, I believe Griff has his own production company called Modern Television which produces his shows.

You're being a bit pessimistic even though the situation is far from settled.

Champions League moving back to Tuesdays will mean a step in the right direction for Coronation Street - common sense prevail and it will be back on Wednesday nights at 7.30pm - why it isn't being put there when the football isn't on is beyond me.

While rzt has always disagreed with me, I think Coronation Street should lose not only its Friday 8.30pm episode, but it's Thursday 8.30pm episode. Short-term consequences might not be so good, but the 9pm lead-in everyone raves about is overrated.

If it's going to regularly compete with BBC One for viewers and be a big player in the future, ITV must sacrifice Corrie to protect its quality in the long term - four nights a week (Monday x2, Wednesday, Friday) is the perfect formula - I think there's a big consensus with that. Emmerdale is in rich form, unlike Corrie, and its scope is much larger and can cope with five episodes per week (with the occasional sixth on Thursday at 8pm for special occasions).

So, ITV will have to get back to the drawing board on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in my view...

Wednesdays should be the home of traditional family entertainment - a possible destination for a roster of pre-watershed sitcoms throughout the year. Will be easy for ITV to take control as BBC1 are pretty weak on the whole.

Thursdays is more tricky - but there's an opportunity for experiment - Benidorm could anchor Thursdays, while Only Way Is Essex and Celebrity Juice could be a pair in the 9pm hour - would certainly be a big draw for younger viewers - I think it could do 3m+ but could alienate ITV's core audience and would obviously leave ITV2 without its two breakaway hits.

That leaves Friday, which I feel should be sacrificed for the others. Nothing seems to work on Friday anymore, and with football, movies and events solving the Tuesday problem, all-year round classic drama could solve the Friday problem as it did in 2005-2007 when repeats of A Touch of Frost/Midsomer Murders/Inspector Morse was getting 4m+ and only last year repeats of Rebus were doing well in that slot - or perhaps some new drama (Law & Order: UK) in the winter months alongside classic 8pm drama (Heartbeat, final series of The Royal).

I'm guessing that the injunction won't be in place by the end of this week considering that a lot of people already know who he is.

The interesting thing will be if Sky show the match live, as it is one of the interesting matches or the BBC don't show it during Match of The Day for legal reasons because of crowd chants.

He's an idiot. Why on Earth would he take the advice to go after who named him on Twitter thereby confirming that it was him?

Saturday 21st May Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.4m (32.5%)
10:00- Saturday Kitchen Live: 1.7m (25.5%)
11:30- Football Focus: 1.4m (19.8%)
12:05- BBC News: 1.6m (22.5%)
12:10- F1: Grand Prix Qualifying: 2.3m (27.7%)
14:15- Rugby League Challenge Cup: 1.4m (14.8%)
16:35- Don't Scare the Hare: 1.5m (12.8%)
17:10- BBC News: 2.4m (18.5%)

17:35- So You Think You Can Dance: 2.6m (16.9%)
18:45- Doctor Who: 5.7m (29.3%)
19:30- So You Think You Can Dance Results: 2.9m (15.2%)
19:55- The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins: 3.6m (16.2%)
20:45- Casualty: 4.6m (20.0%)
21:35- John Bishop's Britain: 2.6m (12.3%)
22:05- BBC News: 3.0m (15.2%)
22:25- Deja Vu: 2.2m (17.8%)
24:20- Judgement of the Night: 0.7m (15.6%)

ITV1 (inc +1)
12:45- You've Been Framed!: 0.6m ( 7.2%)
13:15- Carry on Screaming: 1.2m ( 9.1%)
15:05- Moonraker: 1.3m (11.1%)
17:25- ITV Regional News: 1.9 (13.7%)
17:50- New People Do The Funniest Things: 2.6m (16.1%)
18:45- Sing if You Can: 4.1m (20.6%)
20:00- Britain's Got Talent: 10.0m (42.2%)
21:00- Piers Morgan's Life Stories: 4.4m (18.6%)
22:00- ITV News and Weather: 2.9m (13.2%)
22:15- Tightrope: 1.2m ( 9.1%)

BBC Two
13:40- Diagnosis Murder: 0.7m ( 7.8%)
14:25- Escape to the Country: 0.6m ( 6.5%)
16:25- The Heroes of Telemark: 1.0m ( 7.3%)
18:30- Flog It!: 1.9m (10.3%)
17:30- Dad's Army: 2.6m (13.3%)
20:00- Operation Mincemeat: 1.5m ( 6.4%)
21:00- Have I Got a Bit More News For You: 1.9m ( 8.5%)
21:45- Our 'Enry: A Tribute to Sir Henry Cooper: 1.6m ( 7.7%)

Channel 4
16:00- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 0.7m ( 6.7%)
16:30- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 1.0m ( 8.6%)
17:00- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 1.2m ( 9.3%)
17:30- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 1.3m ( 9.6%)
18:00- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 1.6m (10.0%)
18:30- Channel 4 News: 1.0m ( 5.7%)
19:00- The Restoration Man: 0.8m ( 4.1%)
20:00- Rover Cottage Heroes: 0.8m ( 3.4%)
21:00- The Million Pound Drop Live: 1.7m ( 7.7%)

Channel 5
16:50- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 0.7m ( 5.2%)
18:50- NCIS: 0.8m ( 4.0%)
19:40- CSI: Grissom's Greatest: 0.7m ( 3.1%)
20:35- CSI: Miami: 0.8m ( 3.6%)
21:35- CSI: New York: 1.6m ( 7.9%)
22:35- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 0.8m ( 5.7%)

Ratings include HD and are full-slot averages

does anyone have figures for individual CBBC programmes yesterday morning on BBC2?