That is so Lazy the sort of thing which should be on on a Sunday Morning not in prime time.

:yawn:

(Alison Graham, TV editor, Radio Times)...
Sugartown, Sunday 10.25pm, BBC1
After 10 minutes of this gormless show you'll feel as if you're caught up in a dreadful theme park ride that hurls you through dank tunnels of cliche....
....a nice chap owns the rock factory which is in financial trouble. By the time you get this far, you will have lost the will to live...
Sugartown is one of those 'comedy dramas' (that is, it's neither)....
Sugartown made me hurl, such are its powerful emetic properties...
It made me want to die.

that is going to flop so hard.

How can you have a "50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments" when chances are, they wont be alllowed to use of the moments from the final film.

Typical of her to sit on the fence.

How come Cops of Camera is being slammed as the ultimate in cheapo flop programming, when Traffic Cops on BBC1 is seen as a good strong show, it's practically the same format?

Running new drama in summer is a big risk. Even if you start it in June, you've got a good chance of Wimbledon overrunning knocking out a whole episode, a few weeks later, there's a heatwave, so nobody watches and then at some point during the run, there's a good chance many viewers might be on holiday, so many might not bother to watch at all as they know they will miss the last 2, middle 2 etc.

Next year, maybe ITV should commission a summer weather programme hosted by Sian Lloyd, Dan Lobb & Jason Manford. That should be good for 5m to tune in.

Emmerdale Farm used to have a six month break 30 years ago, but back then it was only considered a minor part of the schedule and only became a hit when the Farm bit was removed from the titles. I can't imagine ITV1 wanting to ditch a guaranteed ratings success for 2 months and replace it with New You've Been Framed.
Remember, the alternative for ITV1 is far worse than ditching two shows that guarantee at least 7 million viewers and putting in filler shows, that while probably very cheap to make, won't guarantee the same revenue.

Just saw a trailer for it

Emmerdale Farm hadn't even started 30 years ago. And for the first few years it was only on at lunchtimes along with Crown Court, General Hospital and a couple of other daytime soaps (Southern TV's 'Together' and Thames' 'Rooms').

Together's second series went out live!!

How does Only Fools do on BBC1 after Doctors?

It's being going since 1972, so that would make it 39 years since it started.

My mental arithmetic is poor. I was just about to edit. Thanks.

When did it go to evenings?

First broadcast on 16 October 1972. It was originally conceived and broadcast as a daytime programme in an afternoon slot, becoming an early evening programme in 1978 in most ITV regions, but excluding London and Anglia, both of which followed in the mid-1980s. Until Christmas 1988, Emmerdale took seasonal breaks; since then it has been broadcast year-round.

The 6000th episode is happening in August!! Thames didn't want it in primetime it seems, not sure why Anglia didn't show it - so much countryside there.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1046

BBC1 had a good night as always. ITV1 had a poor night as always. Maybe Channel Five shouldn't have repeated a show that had only been aired a few weeks ago.

Thankyou

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz1Sh7eHzKn

Moving News at Ten was probably the worse scheduling decision in ITV's history.

Both the article and the episode preview are funnier than I suspect the show is going to be.

It was Cameron's idea?

The good ol' Sun

Quick question for ratings experts.

Last night we watched from our Sky+ the third episode of Mildred Pierce and the first episode of Nurse Jackie from Atlantic and the two part opener of The Killing from C4.

All these were originally aired the week before last.

If I was a BARB panellist how would these 'viewings' be recorded? I know individual programmes are only counted up to seven days, but would that 3+ hours of viewing be included in the 'total viewing summary' for the w/e 24/7 when it's published?

No, your viewing would be recognised within the raw files but be classified in what BARB calls 'uncoded playback' which basically means playback viewing outside of the 7 day consolidated window. This viewing does not contribute to 'Total TV' that you see in viewing summaries. So a bigger questions is should 'shares' be based on all viewing on TV sets or just viewing to television within the 7 day window (as it is now)?

Wednesday 20th July 2011
BBC1
06:00 - Breakfast: 1.6m (35.4%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.2m (25.3%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.2m (29.1%)
19:00 - Best of The One Show: 3.3m (17.2%)
19:30 - The Great British Weather: 3.8m (18.8%)
20:30 - Sherlock: 3.4m (15.4%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.5m (23.5%)
22:25 - Regional News and Weather / The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws: 3.7m (22.3%)
22:45 - Not Going Out: 1.8m (13.4%)

BBC2
18:00 - Eggheads: 1.5m (9.15%)
18:30 - Great British Railway Journeys: 1.1m (5.9%)
19:00 - Rick Stein's Spain: 1.4m (7.1%)
20:00 - Top Gear: 1.6m (7.8%)
21:00 - Botham: The Legend of '81: 1.3m (6.1%)
22:00 - Never Mind the Buzzcocks: 1.0m (5.4%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 0.8m (6.1%)

ITV (inc ITV+1)
06:00 - Daybreak: 0.7m (17.0%)
08:30 - Lorraine: 0.9m (17.3%)
09:25 - The Jeremy Kyle Show: 1.3m (22.7%)
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.2m (17.3%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.5m (33.4%)
19:30 - The Corrie Years: 4.7m (23.1%)
20:00 - Lewis: 3.8m (16.9%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.2m (11.1%)
22:35 - Nature's Fury: 1.1m (8.6%)
23:35 - Homes From Hell: 0.6m (8.0%)

C4 (C4+1)
18:00 - The Simpsons: 1.7m (8.6%)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.2m (6.0%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 0.8m (3.5%)
20:00 - Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance: 2.1m (9.2%)
21:00 - 24 Hours in A&E: 3.0m (12.1%)
22:00 - 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut: 1.1m (5.0%)
22:55 - The Killing: 0.4m (3.2%)

Five
17:00 - 5 News at 5: 0.8m (7.2%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 1.1m (7.6%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 0.8m (5.0%)
18:25 - OK! TV: 0.3m (1.6%)
19:00 - 5 News at 7: 0.2m (0.8%)
19:30 - Garden ER: 0.5m (2.6%)
20:00 - The Removal Men: Pickfords: 1.1m (5.4%)
21:00 - NCIS: 1.1m (4.9%)
22:00 - The Man Who Sued God: 0.6m (4.9%)

All ratings include HD.

Looks like Channel 4 were the only broadcaster to benefit with BBC1 and ITV1 in repeat mode.

My point exactly. We watch a lot of TV, but apart from news and sport, it's all 'scripted' on catch up from a couple of weeks ago.

In this day and age, it does seem strange that BARB panellists with viewing habits like ours are being 'excluded' from the published data showing the number of hours the TV is being watched and what programmes/channels.

I assume the broadcasters get this 'hidden' data?

"Highlights" of The One Show only got 0.1m viewers less than Sherlock (yes, I know it was a repeat - but still!)? I really have to wonder about people's taste