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Old 04-07-2011, 22:07
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From the last thread


ABC have now overtaken NBC at 11.35pm with Nightline
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/...y-sweep_b69478
Nightline only runs for 25 minutes. Leno and Letterman run for an hour.
Both lose viewers when they go to the interview portion of their shows in the last half hour.

The last time I saw ratings for Leno, [a few months ago] he was well ahead of Nightline when they were head to head but his average was below Nightlines because the last half hour pulls it down.
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Old 04-07-2011, 22:33
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Dancc are you expecting CSI Miami to return on 26th, or will Big Brother get in the way?
Miami is 99% certain to launch on the 26th in its usual Tuesday 9pm timeslot.

(Celebrity) Big Brother is not likely to arrive until the 2nd week of August according to recent rumours.
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Old 04-07-2011, 22:38
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I wonder when the first Big Brother 'flashes' will start on Channel 5. Think they should start the flashes in a week or two if you ask me.
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Old 04-07-2011, 22:41
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it woulnt hurt to start building some buzz for Big Brother in the next couple of weeks.

thank Dancc
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Old 04-07-2011, 22:44
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ITV tried a variety show with For One Night Only. Less said the better, maybe?
Id have

7.45 Bradley Walsh's Big Summer Show
Entertainment series
What would be the hook to cause people to come in from their gardens and watch that?

At the moment it is just a title!
Well I think we'd put that idea in the miss category.
Okay fair enough, I came up with that idea in just 2 minutes. A decent variety show would be good for 4 million viewers. There are 20 million+ viewers on a July Saturday evening watching tv - people expect light entertainment. Keep it simple keep it fast moving - even add a quiz show element somewhere. Penn & Teller & The Marriage Ref are poor formats, the first is Has Britain Got Talented Magicians? and The Marriage Ref is Mrs & Mrs without the D-list celebs or a £30,000 prize for charity.

Just hypothesising here anyway - ITV1 can look forward to low ratings on Saturdays until TXF can stop some of the rot in around 6 weeks time.
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Old 04-07-2011, 22:52
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Why not bring back a revamped version of 3-2-1. This incorporates a game show and a variety show and could easily fill an hour or 90 minutes on a Saturday night. It was a huge hit in its day and its return, if done properly with the right presenter, could initially pull in a fair chunk of viewers on the nostalgia factor alone....

Game shows appear to work well for ITV and a summer Saturday could easily consist of something like:

6.15 Catchphrase
6.45 You've Been Framed
7.15 Family Fortunes (real contestants, not celebrities)
8.00 3-2-1
9.30 ITN News
9.50 Saturday Movie

Couldn't do worse than what they have now in my opinion...
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Old 04-07-2011, 23:16
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Huge improvement year on year, but not too surprising considering what is on offer on the main channels at the moment. Indeed perhaps the digital channels here would be wise to follow the example of the US cable channels and put a little bit more effort in over the summer when the main channels are taking a backseat.
Dave are certainly ramping things up over the next few weeks. New programmes include Seaside Rescue (Mon 8pm), Dragons' Den Canada (Tue 7pm), Improvisation My Dear Watson (Tue 10pm), Dragons' Den Ireland (Wed 7pm), Amazon with Bruce Parry (Wed 8pm), New Gadget Show (Thu 6pm), Shark Tank (Thu 7pm) and from the beginning Shameless (Mon 10pm).
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Old 04-07-2011, 23:35
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Agreed.

I think it is going to take something really revolutionary now for a reality show to take off. The format seems to be exhausted, and although people may be put in different settings, singing different music genres, doing different "tasks" there is an underlying similarity there, which I think the public are growing bored of.
It's a digital format now. No doubt Geordie Shore would have done well on ITV2 a few years ago, now even they are bored with the format. Channel 5 will struggle on with Candy Bar and BB, but with diminishing returns. It's cheap disposable television for the digital channels.
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Old 05-07-2011, 00:11
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It's Magic Monday for Nine as The Block soars to nearly 1.5 million viewers;
And Teen Wolf is thrashed by a resurgent Rescue Special Ops.


Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.35m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.32m
19:00 Home & Away 1.05m
19:30 Border Security (R) 0.88m
20:00 Border Patrol 0.82m
20:30 The Amazing Race Australia 1.03m
21:30 New Series: Teen Wolf 0.49m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.22m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.17m
19:00 The Block 1.47m
20:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.94m
20:30 Rescue Special Ops 0.89m
21:30 Rescue Special Ops 0.83m

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.65m
18:30 6:30 with George Negus 0.40m
19:00 7pm Project 0.63m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.59m
20:30 New Series: Can of Worms 0.93m
21:30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 0.53m

Corporation Shares (inc. diginets)
Nine: 28.1%
Seven: 27.0%
Ten: 23.0%
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Old 05-07-2011, 00:19
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Negus seems a bit low

28 6.30 With George Negus Ten 401,000 83,000 128,000 103,000 38,000 49,000
29 Neighbours Eleven 400,000 78,000 129,000 91,000 60,000 42,000
not good for a show facing cuts.
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Old 05-07-2011, 00:23
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I think The 7pm Project will be more of a concern. It's been badly hit by the success of The Block.

Negus has been at these levels before recently so not too much of a surprise. But The 7pm Project had been chugging along quite nicely until The Block came along and spoiled the 7pm party.

Home & Away is holding up fine in comparison.
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Old 05-07-2011, 01:47
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Anyone find it bizarre that, excluding Corrie and Emmerdale, The Royal is the 3rd highest rated programme of the week on ITV1 (w/e 26 June)?
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Old 05-07-2011, 02:06
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Odd One In seems like it'll get another shot. Things like the All Star shows or Gameshow Marathon seem like they could get a shot to fill an hour in summer. 3 entertainment series on one night is probably a stretch. ITV can barely fill Saturday nights "in season" let alone in July. It'd seem wasteful to put any big project on at this time of year when it'd be lucky to do 4m.
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Old 05-07-2011, 05:23
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Anyone find it bizarre that, excluding Corrie and Emmerdale, The Royal is the 3rd highest rated programme of the week on ITV1 (w/e 26 June)?
No. ITV gets by on a few big hitters. Corrie, Emmerdale XF/BGT. Its not surprising at all the Heartbeat/Royal/WTHS genre of programming was a massive success for 2 decades and still is, just not in the right demos
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Old 05-07-2011, 07:54
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Interesting BBC HD figures in the officials and marked differences in SD/HD shares.

Top three - Top Gear, Glastonbury, Wimbledon.

Top Gear - 5.27m SD, 950k HD - 15% HD share.

Glastonbury - 1.25m SD, 393k HD - 24% HD share.

Wimbledon - 3.33m SD, 293k HD - 8% HD share.

A quarter of all viewers watching Glastonbury in HD must be a record share for BBC HD, yet only 1 in 12 for Wimbledon, which benefits enormously from HD.

I assume Glastonbury's demos are more in line with Sky HD subscribers (40% 18-34 and 60% ABC1), whereas Wimbledon attracts more older viewers?
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Old 05-07-2011, 09:02
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Anyone find it bizarre that, excluding Corrie and Emmerdale, The Royal is the 3rd highest rated programme of the week on ITV1 (w/e 26 June)?
It's not the third highest rated programme, but you're close. Although it's quite startling what happens to ITV1's chart when you strip out everything with multiple airings:

ITV1 excluding HD and +1
01 - 8.72m - Coronation Street
02 - 7.08m - Emmerdale
03 - 6.35m - Scott & Bailey
04 - 4.29m - Four of a Kind
05 - 4.22m - The Royal
06 - 3.92m - Lewis (R)
07 - 3.57m - Penn & Teller: Fool Us
08 - 3.55m - Odd On In
09 - 3.20m - Poms in Paradise
10 - 3.19m - New You've Been Framed!
11 - 3.12m - Countrywise
12 - 3.03m - ITV News
13 - 3.02m - Love Your Garden
14 - 2.98m - Popstar to Operastar
15 - 2.90m - Baby Hospital
16 - 2.89m - The Dales

It's only in August when the TV audiences shrink, so we could be in for some dire figures then.
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Old 05-07-2011, 09:51
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I hope low ratings wont be a problem for Torchwood.
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Old 05-07-2011, 09:59
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From Attentional:

BBC1 - 21:00 - New Tricks: 8.3m (35.0%)
BBC2 - 20:00 - University Challenge: 2.4m (11.2%)
BBC2 - 20:30 - Antiques Master: 1.8m (7.8%)
C4 - 21:00 - Embarrassing Bodies: Teen Special: 1.97m (8.4%) + 379,658 (2.1%)

Superb for New Tricks.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:06
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New Tricks actually UP 200k and 1 whole share point on its series launch roughly this time 2 years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...cks-tv-ratings

Brilliant performance. I felt sure it would be below 8m last night, as did many on the DSRPG.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:13
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Fantastic for New Tricks.

8 million for a non sport non soap programme is great these days.

It could easily make 9million in the officials.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:21
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So new tricks finally back in it's Monday summer slot, and it's back in the 8s. The last 2 years seeing it getting high 6 s was just annoying.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:22
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Brilliant rating for New Tricks, especially given the warm weather yesterday evening.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:26
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All hail New Tricks! It doesn't always get a Radio Times cover, isn't deemed worthy enough to be included in the "Original British Drama" trailer but it's one popular show! I love New Tricks and the way it shoves two fingers up at the critics with its popularity. And it's back on its spiritual home of Monday nights. Jay Hunt pissed away so many viewers for dramas with her Friday scheduling of them.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:32
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So new tricks finally back in it's Monday summer slot, and it's back in the 8s. The last 2 years seeing it getting high 6 s was just annoying.
Yes I had forgotten how high New Tricks was capable of after the last couple of years of 6million ratings, but it really is a weekly 7.5m - 8.5m puller in the right slot, which is exceptional in this day and age. New Tricks has even been known to beat same-day broadcasts of Coronation ST in the past.
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Old 05-07-2011, 10:45
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With that rating I bet all the other channels will be under 2 million or really low as there really was not much on.
Again ITV will have another bad night tonight.
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