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Wonder how panorama special will do tonight?
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I'm confused. Do you disagree with Channel 5 picking up Big Brother in the first place or just the fact they are bringing it back this year? I guess they could have waited until 2012, but perhaps Endemol were keen to bring it back sooner and that was the sticking point in the negotiations, who knows? Next year there's other things like the Olympics to consider. When would there ever be the "perfect" time to bring it back? TV is evolving all the time and you never know when the next big thing is going to come along. So I think mid August about a year after it ended on Channel 4 is fine.
It would never happen but it would be interesting them adopt the US format which has no phone voting and discussion of nomination. That would be an interesting twist as it would change the dynamic of the show. |
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Right I'm off to do something uncharacteristic and watch Show Me The Funny on ITV1. See you later maybe for the Aus overnights.
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Talking of 2012 (hey, if we can do Christmas schedules...
) I think Channel Five should hold Big Brother back until after the Olympics have finished and run it slightly late again. I hope they have the sense to do this rather than pitching it against the rating event of the decade.
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Paul Merton and EP dont need a BB lead in and most likely have a different audience.
I imagine The Bachelor will get a BB lead in before being moved to a 9pm slot. This is why I think back to back BB is a bad idea, the summer is perfect for Big Brother because it's the time of year when BBC and ITV1 dont air their big guns. By airing in the Autumn, it faces indirect competition from X Factor, SCD and I'm a Celebrity in terms of column inches, The Daily Star will no doubt devote itself to wall to wall Big Brother. Quote:
Why do you think Big Brother is going to flop so badly? It left Channel 4 in quite a strong position with the series averaging over 3m so it has to go awfully wrong for it to ditch almost half its audience and sink under 2m. IAC won't be an issue, Channel 5 can just stick it at 10pm those weeks, something I think they'll do most of the time anyway.
Dancc - just had to do a search to see if I could trip you up on your current praise for Big Brother - but unfortunately not - you haven't sold your soul now C5 has bought it! Had to chuckle though at this though from this time last year: Quote:
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I'm looking forward to seeing how Don't stop believing does as I think that it'll do very well. I saw that they advertised during Magic Numbers (or was it Odd one in ?) so that will do it favours, I'm sure
I'm nervous but at the same time very excited about tomorrow night's launch. Sunday nights have been crying out for something fresh & different, so well done to Five for providing it. I think they could be onto a winner here! Of course the travesty is the crap that the BBC & ITV served up tonight between 7 and 9 will probably outrate it by default... |
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Programme change tomorrow for the Murdoch, Murdoch, and Brooks show...
BBC2, 2pm to 4.30pm - The Daily Politics Special. Sky News's coverage from 2.30pm will be commercial-free. |
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Programme change tomorrow for the Murdoch, Murdoch, and Brooks show...
BBC2, 2pm to 4.30pm - The Daily Politics Special. Sky News's coverage from 2.30pm will be commercial-free. |
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I'm genuinely gutted I won't be able to watch this live.
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IMO C5 (and previously C4) made a big mistake getting sidetracked by the celeb version (as ITV also did with Millionaire) - the core concept works best in it's traditional mould, and just as I believe (although to be honest in hinsight) C4 should have renegotiated the last couple of years of the contract to have three slightly shorter (11 week) version of the regular BB, rather than 2 main, 2 celeb editions, I think C5 would have been better off committing to the traditional format too - not using it to get a few zelebs on the channel for a couple of weeks.
If I remember rightly Channel 5 wanted Celebrity Big Brother long before Richard Desmond bought the channel, and it was also the one that the media were gunning for, whilst at the same time they were saying the main series has no legs. Had Desmond not bought Channel 5, I do believe that Channel 5 would have still picked up Big Brother but they would have ran 2 celebrity shows per year instead. Quote:
Although BBC1/ITV1 to C5 is a bigger leap, audiences for Neighbours and Home and Away nosedived when the switch was made, whilst Robot Wars (from the more comparable BBC2) didn't fair much better either. C5's current image won't help much either - it's obviously going to go for the trashy angle that actually most BB viewers didn't watch for - and it certainly won't help that the Daily Star will be the shows main cheerleader when frankly the often daily completely fictional stories the Daily Star especially made up about BB whilst it was on C4 arguably contributed to it's downfall, with barely a week going by without a fix scandal on their front pages, usually caused by just one person expressing an opinion on the Digital Spy forums - even if 30 people replied to say they were talking nonsense.
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I hope they have tied up HIMYM - that and The Big Bang Theory will be the best hope of Friends replacements.
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Come on Mr Murdoch - make amends to the nation by signing up Mr Barrowman on a 25-year exclusive deal with Sky.
As for the C4 purchases, ill be keeping an eye on how the shows go in the US, but I could see myself watching Allen Gregory, I enjoyed the trailor for it that I saw. The show im must looking forward to is NBCs "Awake", and if im feeling a need for girls in air hostess uniforms, Pan Am may well tempt me. |
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Let's Do Lunch... with Gino & Mel
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Just spotted that Torchwood is being repeated tonight at 11:20pm on BBC2, was that always a planned repeat slot for it?
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Just spotted that Torchwood is being repeated tonight at 11:20pm on BBC2, was that always a planned repeat slot for it?
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Does anyone know how the Womens world cup final rated in Germany? The figures for the group/knockout stages have been incredible for Womens football!
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Just watched Show Me The Funny. I really can't see this one taking off. I think it'll get c3.5m tonight but I won't be surprised if it's below 3m soon. It wasn't that it was a bad show because it wasn't but it was poorly edited and doesn't really strike me as Monday 9pm material on ITV1. There's potential there but the first half hour probably put quite a few off and whilst the second half was better it felt too rushed after the overlong first part of the show.
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Despite the out-of-the-way slot, the BBC have done a trailer for Sugartown. It looks very similar to Candy Cabs and we know what a load of **** that was, so I reckon the duff slot is fully deserved.
Candy Cabs Sugartown BBC1 comedy-drama can seriously rot your teeth. |
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Dancc - just had to do a search to see if I could trip you up on your current praise for Big Brother - but unfortunately not - you haven't sold your soul now C5 has bought it!
Had to chuckle though at this though from this time last year: Still can't quite believe how badly that flopped - and quite shocking to know that ITV have found something even worse for Sunday nights a year on. |
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Despite the out-of-the-way slot, the BBC have done a trailer for Sugartown. It looks very similar to Candy Cabs and we know what a load of **** that was, so I reckon the duff slot is fully deserved.
Candy Cabs Sugartown BBC1 comedy-drama can seriously rot your teeth. But it's still pretty bizarre that it has gone straight to a crap slot when the BBC are airing repeats elsewhere in the primetime schedule. Candy Cabs lost a lot of viewers across its 3 episodes but it at least started well and AFAIK all episodes won their timeslot at 9pm. |
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You know it must be bad when it's gone in the slot where Outcasts went to die.
But it's still pretty bizarre that it has gone straight to a crap slot when the BBC are airing repeats elsewhere in the primetime schedule. Candy Cabs lost a lot of viewers across its 3 episodes but it at least started well and AFAIK all episodes won their timeslot at 9pm. |
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Will most viewers care if its branded as a flop in the papers? If viewers like it, they'll watch it. If they don't like it, they won't. Viewers may be fickle but they won't be turned off just because the papers say 8m more watched 10 years ago, which is common knowledge anyway. Everyone knows it isn't as big as it used to be.
So many people on this thread got annoyed at the paper that criticised Corrie's ratings. Why get so bothered? Its not like everyone will suddenly stop watching. If anything the added publicity may have boosted Corrie with viewers tunung in to see if the quality was as bad as the paper was making out. |
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Does anyone know how the Womens world cup final rated in Germany? The figures for the group/knockout stages have been incredible for Womens football!
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Following great TV ratings for last year's Men's World Cup Finals and this year's UEFA Championships Final, yesterday's FIFA's Women's World Cup Final between USA and Japan drew 13.5 million viewers, the larges audience ever for a soccer match on ESPN. Overall, the game, which USA lost on penalty kicks after a 2-2 tie, was the second most watched women's soccer match ever behind the 1999 final between USA and China on ABC, which still holds the ratings record for a soccer telecast in the U.S. with 18 million viewers.
I think MLS may have it wrong with mens teams, maybe it should focus on the womens game, it will also give the new Miss Harper 7 Beckham something to aim for in life.
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I think there have been one or two past BBC One dramas starting out in a 10.35pm slot on weeknights. I think there was a romantic six-parter played out on Thursdays at 10.35pm during the summer one year: 2001 or 2002 or 2003, maybe.
Steve Williams will probably be able to tell us.
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Really bizarre. Even if it is an absolute stinker it's a complete waste to air it in that slot. It's only 3 episodes long so I don't see why they couldn't put it at 9pm. It would have probably got a decent launch audience and even if it did drop over 3 episodes it surely couldn't have done that badly. To air it at 10:25pm when, as you say, they have a repeat in primetime is a pretty poor show really.
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This is what I dont get, people who seemingly care about what the papers write. People have mistrusted the papers, especially the tabloids, for years and with the ongoing scandals, their reputation has never been lower. As you say, people will watch what they like.
So many people on this thread got annoyed at the paper that criticised Corrie's ratings. Why get so bothered? Its not like everyone will suddenly stop watching. If anything the added publicity may have boosted Corrie with viewers tunung in to see if the quality was as bad as the paper was making out. |
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This is what I dont get, people who seemingly care about what the papers write. People have mistrusted the papers, especially the tabloids, for years and with the ongoing scandals, their reputation has never been lower. As you say, people will watch what they like.
So many people on this thread got annoyed at the paper that criticised Corrie's ratings. Why get so bothered? Its not like everyone will suddenly stop watching. If anything the added publicity may have boosted Corrie with viewers tunung in to see if the quality was as bad as the paper was making out. |
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Charlie Sheen's latest project is a TV series based loosely on the Adam Sandler movie Anger Management. Sounds interesting. No network confirmed yet.
http://news.yahoo.com/charlie-sheen-...175630135.html |
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) I think Channel Five should hold Big Brother back until after the Olympics have finished and run it slightly late again. I hope they have the sense to do this rather than pitching it against the rating event of the decade.

