Coast must be a schedulers dream!

I was sort of hoping for Dads Army myself.

No BBC Look North at 6.30pm, yet more reason to see why ITV is hammering the BBC with regional coverage in the North East.

It's a shame really considering the lunchtime news promised a full update of the services disrupted tomorrow by the strike. 10.25pm might be pushing it for the older and (indeed some younger viewers)

Though I can understand the BBC's wish to chase ratings

Just seems silly to me. Are they going to have the 6:30 newscasters wait around for 4 hours because they won't move The One Show or rest In With The Flynns for a week?

As long as this match is over by 7:30pm, which it almost certainly will, Waterloo Road and 9pm onwards needn't be affected, minus a potential half hour delay for the former.

For those that missed it - in our region we've just had a caption stating 'BBC Oxford News will follow at 7.00'. Did other regions get anything?

It's just occured to me that the episode of My Family postponed from last Friday and Sunday could be postponed twice more this week, if the BBC ask for Murray to be second on court on Friday, and if the Men's final overruns on Sunday.

Would four postponements in ten days be a record for a single episode of a series?

It'd be the only useful thing Andy Murray will have ever contributed to British society

Did Scotland ever air last week's edition of Holby City by the way?

Even if it only affects Friday they'll still take the Sunday repeat off like they did last week.

BBC One EPG shows a 5 minute Look East at 7pm.

That's true.

Same in BBC North East.

And the match is over

I wonder how Scotland, Wales (and Northern Ireland?) will fill 7.00-7.05pm on BBC1?

I'll let you know what happens in Wales.

We've now got the situation where The One Show is seen as a higher priority than the regional news, which could have been shown in full at 7pm.

The Regional News is 20 mins at 10:25, Lottery follows at 10:45 apparantly.

Wales is getting Simple Suppers at 7pm

Just the one supper, presumably.

We seem to have stopped talking about ratings again! So what do people think Wimbledon will get this evening. My guess is 5.5m with a peak near to 6m for 18:00 to 19:00

gender based comments aside, I could get all you mentioned from The Wright Stuff, and now TWS: Extra, its an ideal show to have in the background, and despite the celebrity panel, it can tackle the days news well.

Yup I'm in Oxfordshire and had the BBC Oxford News will follow at 7pm a few minutes ago. Seeing as BBC Oxford News is only 10 minutes long normally (then joins South Today) then perhaps they will cut into the One Show half way through.

Oh please is this discussion really still going on?

We get it, you don't like This Morning!

New Tricks could be on air for at least another couple of years:

Source: Broadcast

A most surprising move, in these situations I dont see why the newshour doesnt simply move from 6 to 7, but I guess the whole wales studio having 2 uses causes problems...

I'm slightly surprised they ditched the regional news 6.30 slot - but glad they had some balls and went with it, cue Daily Mail article on the outrage this has caused (or not...)

5 minutes of Look North and a weather caption.

Slightly wading back into this debate, This Morning is the same now as it was in the Richard & Judy days. Its an urban myth that the format has changed. You just need to look at clips on youtube to see that.

One other obvious issue is being overlooked too. Pre-Holly Willoughby, the ratings were about 900,000. When Holly joined, they went up and fluctuated from 1.1m-1.5m (bigger rise amongst males, surprise). Holly has temporarily left and the ratings have gone back down, and paired with the good weather they're a little lower than they have been in previous years. If the figures are still like that in a few months then its an issue, but until then it doesn't need 15 pages a day. Can't wait for when Eamonn & Ruth take over in the summer and the ratings drop a bit further, there will be some rivetting discussion in this thread ...

I'm going for 6 million for Murray. If the match was rumbling on into peak time, 7 million could be a feasible figure and very respectable.

yeah, i think 6 million is the top end for this match. it ended before 6pm and there was never really any doubt about the outcome. At least in my opinion lol

The production standards and the overall tone of the show has gone very much downhill over the past couple of years, anybody can see that.