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Yeah, Jonathan's ratings are all over the place, and they will be for as long as he's bounced all over the place on Saturday nights. The shares are poor, too, and they'll only get worse without the Factor lead-in after Christmas.
Jonathan thrived at the BBC with a regular slot, and a regular lead-in, and, arguably a fresher, better show, with better guests and no adverts. ![]() I dunno if ITV will be happy with a base around 3m. It seems a little low coming out of their second most watched show of the week. O'Grady does better than that on Friday nights. |
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Back to tonight and do we think Downton will be up on last week or might it fall slightly - will the pre-series hype continue across to episode 2?
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Oh dear - as if reviving a beloved format and throwing celebrities at it wasn't enough...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-the-star.html Quite apart from Bleakley, did ITV not see what Louis Spence did to a 11m XF lead-in on Ross yesterday... :roll eyes: How does that man keep getting TV jobs?! |
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Expensive or not, its a real long shot that any new show can grow in the pre 6.00 schedule these days and putting them there does not display much confidence imo.
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Oh dear - as if reviving a beloved format and throwing celebrities at it wasn't enough...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-the-star.html Quite apart from Bleakley, did ITV not see what Louis Spence did to a 11m XF lead-in on Ross yesterday... :roll eyes: How does that man keep getting TV jobs?! I guess ratings for Ross always went up and down, depending on the guest, but 3 weeks in and the best they can do is Louis Spence? |
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Hasn't Knowles got one of those ''golden handcuffs'' deals with the BBC and they are desperately looking for work for him ? Whatever he is suited to it isn't a game show
![]() I thought Secret Fortune had potential when it began, but it takes too long to get where it's going, and the journey itself is a tedious one, stopping at "Confusion Central" along the way.
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True! It is the worst of the lottery quizes, what happened to 1vs 100?
Although, to be fair, there was a very good basic idea at the heart of 1 Vs 100, but all the excitement was sucked out of it by the way it was executed. |
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Next week ITV are keeping it very network friendly with X Factor's Gary and Tulisa appearing on the show, so expect another rally, only for it to sink again the following week when it's bumped to a much later slot. Erratic is definitely the word to describe this show.
![]() I dunno if ITV will be happy with a base around 3m. It seems a little low coming out of their second most watched show of the week. O'Grady does better than that on Friday nights. Quote:
Oh dear - as if reviving a beloved format and throwing celebrities at it wasn't enough...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-the-star.html Quite apart from Bleakley, did ITV not see what Louis Spence did to a 11m XF lead-in on Ross yesterday... :roll eyes: How does that man keep getting TV jobs?! Incidentally it's been scientifically proven that all the people who can tell which one is Ant and which one is Dec are the only people who can understand the rules of Secret Fortune. Quote:
It shows what a good job Hole in the Wall was doing, particularly for its first series, before it followed the well worn path of the BBC's game shows: "Let's tinker with it, move it to Scotland, and balls it up!"
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Next week ITV are keeping it very network friendly with X Factor's Gary and Tulisa appearing on the show, so expect another rally, only for it to sink again the following week when it's bumped to a much later slot. Erratic is definitely the word to describe this show.
![]() I dunno if ITV will be happy with a base around 3m. It seems a little low coming out of their second most watched show of the week. O'Grady does better than that on Friday nights.
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Even if Dale Winton had remained as host, I think the novelty value of this series would have worn off very quickly.
I wonder if we'll ever see the missing episode.
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Just seen the Comedy Central promo for Friends, highlighting the fact its going to be in HD
Quite a good advert actually and will np doubt boost there ratings share when it begins. |
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I noticed Harry Hill was on the guestlist last night. No doubt Ant and Dec will be popping up as guests when I'm a Celeb draws near.
![]() Can't wait for Graham Norton's show to return. Anyone know when?
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Yeah, not great for BBC One last night. BBC One's autumn Saturdays used to begin in the first week of September, but now they don't really get going until the first week of October. Then again, at some parts of the last decade, BBC One's autumn Saturdays didn't get going until mid or late October!
![]() Every autumn from 1995 to 1997, too, in the post-Casualty slot, BBC1 would normally show a crappy TV movie at 9pm, usually starring Lynsay Wagner, every week from September to December. They didn't do so badly for BBC1 either, they used to pull in a good five million or so, but looked a bit hopeless when ITV had An Audience With or a proper film, and it meant Match of the Day always started pointlessly late. In the end the Beeb promised they'd put Match of the Day on at 10.30 except in exceptional circumstances so they ran out of space for the TV movies. |
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Yes XF was down quite a lot BUT it will be at around 11.2m tonight I reckon. FF is doing very well, ITV have a good schedule, after FF finishes and TMO comes back, they should be able to get 5m+ every night, as towards the last few weeks of the second series, it kept gaining viewers.
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It has been an expensive nine days for Channel 4 as Remarkable Television's (Endemol division) two shows have given away over £1,1 million. Also the Jack & Michael Whitehall £300,000 win last night recorded the second biggest charity win on UK television. Second behind the Llewelyn-Bowen's £500,000 win on Millionaire.
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Also, the last auditions episode was atrocious. It would be a far better idea to stack it with talent and interesting characters right before bootcamp rather than fill it with people we'll never see on the show again. There seems to be quite a few stories going around today about the contestants which is probably good news on that front assuming some of them make the top 16. Although someone being kicked out for having a criminal record isn't going to do anything for ratings. Much as Ceri's 4th failure at the auditions isn't going to get anyone watching bootcamp either.
I think too the ITV2 Boot Camp episode last night seemed better than the ITV1 stuff - concentrating on the singers preparing in their groups seemed to get more of their personalities across than the approach ITV1 took. Quote:
I still think Millionaire Manor was the worst-IITWI is the best imo.
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No they don't. The first round features two hour long shows for the dances - which given there's fourteen of them gives them well under ten minutes to be introduced, dance and be judged - and then there is a half hour results show. Even if you were to count the launch show, which presumably you are, that still doesn't make up four hours. And of course that's without mentioning the fact that the first X Factor live show is also about the tenth episode of the series.
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ITV have another flop on their hands, Christine Bleakley most be desperate to take this on.
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Just seen the Comedy Central promo for Friends, highlighting the fact its going to be in HD
Quite a good advert actually and will np doubt boost there ratings share when it begins. |
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Oh dear - as if reviving a beloved format and throwing celebrities at it wasn't enough...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-the-star.html Quite apart from Bleakley, did ITV not see what Louis Spence did to a 11m XF lead-in on Ross yesterday... :roll eyes: How does that man keep getting TV jobs?! . It will flop. I don't see the harm in just bringing back Celebrity Stars in their Eyes and rework the format so its live and has a public vote. If its done properly and is a bit tongue in cheek like Lets Dance for Comic Relief it could be really good, but knowing ITV it will be all wrong. |
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The first round is over two weekends - performances split Fri/Sat the first week then all in one on the Saturday the next, with the results on the Sunday. Still a better format I guess though than the five hours of so of Dancing on Ice back in January where we were told the celebs were competing to be on the show they were already on.
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I doubt she gets much choice about it - that's what signing a multi-million pound deal when you have very little talent does to ones career. Indeed even when you have talent by the bucketload you get what you're given - see Graham Norton's first few years at the BBC!
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TV in the UK seems to have morphed into the american film industry.
Rather than aim to have a range of good programmes that rate quite well there is this total neurotic obsession with TV block-busters that get mega-ratings. It's not even in a channels best interest to do things that way, relying on mega-hits is a very risky business plan. The type of people who run TV nowadays just can't do it any other way it seems. Even BBC1 is going that way with "The Voice" coming soon. And frankly I’d hate to think about what kind of trouble ITV would be in without The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, I’m A Celebrity… etc. These shows are incredibly important in terms of giving them the freedom to invest in anything else. Quote:
Well, An Idiot Abroad was the latest star of the billboard I drive past every day on the way to work which always has a Sky advert on it, and I certainly saw about a million ads on Sky Sports.
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I don't see what was massively wrong with that schedule...
I said it last week but I'll say it again the very best thing that can happen to BBC1 Saturday nights is for them to ditch the Lottery and dramatically reduce the number of Casualty episodes a year. They need to breathe some life into their Saturday nights. The Voice feels like a good start to that but if its just going to be slotted into the same paint by numbers schedule then I'm not sure what the point is. |
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And didn't Llewelyn-Bowen actually lose that before he was invited back because there were doubts over whether his answer was actually incorrect.
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What was the one Tess Daly did - that was pretty awful.
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Can't wait for Graham Norton's show to return. Anyone know when?
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Oh, you could bet your house on it. Trouble is, I used to watch it for the wide-ranging guests, including the likes of Michael C. Hall whom you never see on UK TV normally. Now guests wise it feels like just another ITV chat show. And with the ads the interviews feel just as rushed too, so it's probably a good thing the guests haven't been up my street so far. I wondered if there was a possibility of them doing an uncut version on ITV2 like they used to do for Piers Morgan's programme? That might improve things slightly.
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That's true, I'm reminded here of the autumn of 1995, when the Gen Game and House Party both returned in mid-October, and from the first week of September, the early evening line-up was a film a la Three Amigos or Ghost Dad at around half five and some leftover episodes of Big Break at 7.20 before the lottery turned up. In fact September always used to be a funny month for Saturday night telly, on boith channels, at least one Saturday night would just be back-to-back movies with maybe one new show.
Every autumn from 1995 to 1997, too, in the post-Casualty slot, BBC1 would normally show a crappy TV movie at 9pm, usually starring Lynsay Wagner, every week from September to December. They didn't do so badly for BBC1 either, they used to pull in a good five million or so, but looked a bit hopeless when ITV had An Audience With or a proper film, and it meant Match of the Day always started pointlessly late. In the end the Beeb promised they'd put Match of the Day on at 10.30 except in exceptional circumstances so they ran out of space for the TV movies. ![]() I remember those TV movies in the mid-1990s. Karl Kennedy from Neighbours popped up in one of them, crashing a plane.
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Yes. The question wasn't researched properly and there were two correct answers. They gave them a space question upon their return but decided not to go for it twice and walked away
This Time Tomorrow. The second show to be recorded at Pacific Quay and the second show (first one was Jet Set 2012) to have an Olympic theme. I always remember The Voice of the Balls kept saying "going for gold" Didnt Julian Clary present one too?-dont think that lasted long. |
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Oct 14th or the 21st, I can't remember exactly, but it's one of the two, Graham likes his holidays...
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I wonder if we'll ever see the missing episode.

. It will flop. 