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The Ratings Thread (Part 26)
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The CW have given Ringer a back 9 order. It'll produce a full 22 episode season.
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Wow New thread Page 26 it's amazing how many great ratings are among those Parts. Do we know if and when we can read Part 3 again?
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Checking in - archive is here, mods, you know the rest
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It only seems like yesterday when I was on Part 13
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Facebook - Miranda
Series finale guests on The Jonathan Ross Show (Sat 22 Oct): Miranda Hart, Michael Sheen & Noel Gallagher (also performing new single). Such Fun. |
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NBC have order 6 more scripts of both Harry's Law and Prime Suspect. Harry's Law feels like an attempt to keep David E Kelley and Kathy Bates onside. The Prime Suspect one makes no real sense at all.
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Come on Digital Spy - these new threads every fortnight are getting ridiculous. I know there are justified benefits when a thread gets to a certain size but I think you could brave getting closer to 200 pages you chickens! Quote:
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Good point. And yet ITV used to dominate Tuesday nights many moons ago. I can't help but feel that if The Bill was kept on Tuesday nights instead of being moved in 2002, maybe ITV might still have a solid Tuesday night performe, as some people have already said. Moving The Bill from Tuesdays and Fridays not only gave Holby City a clear run, but paved the way for EastEnders to add a fourth episode on Fridays.
In my view though if Downton Abbey had been kept to a 60-minute slot the Tuesday 8pm slot would be perfect for a quick repeat airing. |
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Amanda Knox, the American who won her appeal over the killing of British student Meredith Kercher, is to be the subject of a fast-turnaround documentary for Channel 5.
As revealed yesterday it will be broadcast on October 25th at 8pm. Does that mean Inferior Interiors is being pulled or just delayed? That slot would have been the series finale. |
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Come on Digital Spy - these new threads every fortnight are getting ridiculous. I know there are justified benefits when a thread gets to a certain size but I think you could brave getting closer to 200 pages you chickens!
EastEnders would have got it's fourth episode in somewhere - either Wednesdays or Sundays I guess, and arguably for ITV having it on Friday is less of a problem to them than Wed or Sun. In my view though if Downton Abbey had been kept to a 60-minute slot the Tuesday 8pm slot would be perfect for a quick repeat airing. As regards to Downton Abbey, I don't think it would work as a repeat airing on Tuesdays. I think Wednesday is a good day for feature-length drama. |
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Watched the first half hour or so of High Stakes last night, but found it rather dull and boring. Maybe a daytime show with lower prize money it could work but I can't see why ITV1 thought it would work in primetime
Looking on Barb at the Channel 5 officials for week ending 2nd Oct. The Bachelor at number 13 with 1.24m - not a huge time shift but shows how it has done solid, if not spectacular business for Channel 5 being their 12th most popular show of the week (there is a film split into two parts in the Barb officials, hence 13th place really being 12th) |
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True but ITV could have done a better job in keeping Fridays out of bounds. The combination of Corrie at 7.30pm and The Bill at 8pm was a ratings banker with Corrie usually getting 15/16 million and The Bill getting 10-13 million with Corrie's lead-in (this was around 96/97 time). Moving The Bill away opened a gap for EastEnders to exploit.
I suppose there were sensible reasons why they moved The Bill from Tuesdays to Wednesdays, which they did in 2002, it was allow them to move the Champions League from Wednesday to Tuesday, which had the benefit of them not having to keep moving Corrie on Wednesdays, and also it had the same benefits as it has now - keeping Tuesdays, traditionally a strong BBC1 night, competitive and allowing them to put more stuff on Wednesdays, traditionally a weak BBC1 night. Also of course it meant it didn't go up against Holby. |
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Of course ITV moved The Bill before it became an hour long, in 1998 it was looking a bit ragged and they moved it to 8.30 on Fridays to allow other shows to get the luxury of a Corrie lead-in, Airline was the first to go there. At the time Friday was really weak pre-watershed for BBC1. Then after six months the whole thing was revamped as an hour long show, of course, though for a while they did run it on Fridays again.
I suppose there were sensible reasons why they moved The Bill from Tuesdays to Wednesdays, which they did in 2002, it was allow them to move the Champions League from Wednesday to Tuesday, which had the benefit of them not having to keep moving Corrie on Wednesdays, and also it had the same benefits as it has now - keeping Tuesdays, traditionally a strong BBC1 night, competitive and allowing them to put more stuff on Wednesdays, traditionally a weak BBC1 night. Also of course it meant it didn't go up against Holby. All of this coincided with a new producer, Richard Handford, coming in to replace Michael Chapman in 1998. He spearheaded the move to hour-long episodes, but the first eight months of his tenure (which was still half-hour eps) was quite bad. |
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I think The Bill was best on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm. I remember it did well in the ratings back then.
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I think The Bill was best on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm. I remember it did well in the ratings back then.
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Does that mean Inferior Interiors is being pulled or just delayed? That slot would have been the series finale.
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It was one of those typically snobby situations. People complained that The Bill was too soapy, too much about the officer's private lives, less about policing, so they changed it and ratings went down. They then changed it to be grittier like a proper drama, and ratings went down even further.
As we see from Waterloo Road, Holby City etc, people like the soapy, relationships stuff, even if the TV snobs don't. (It is compulsory in Waterloo Road that the Headteacher has at least one affair with another teacher at least once per series, and every few series they throw in a teacher having a relationship with a student story!) |
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Link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...ixie-cw-247485
CW's new dramas, The Secret Circle and Hart of Dixie received a back 9 episode order for a full season, alongside Ringer. The Secret Circle was expected, but was quite surprised at Hart of Dixie. I thought CW was going to wait a few weeks before making any decisions about Hart of Dixie. |
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I think The Bill was best on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm. I remember it did well in the ratings back then.
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It did well when it moved to Wednesdays, on account of the fact that that era of The Bill was very sensationalist and soapy. I prefer it on Tuesdays to be honest. It's suited to Tuesdays and it got good viewing figures.
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It was one of those typically snobby situations. People complained that The Bill was too soapy, too much about the officer's private lives, less about policing, so they changed it and ratings went down. They then changed it to be grittier like a proper drama, and ratings went down even further.
As we see from Waterloo Road, Holby City etc, people like the soapy, relationships stuff, even if the TV snobs don't. (It is compulsory in Waterloo Road that the Headteacher has at least one affair with another teacher at least once per series, and every few series they throw in a teacher having a relationship with a student story!) It was on twice a week like a soap but wasn't really like a soap back then. More like a half hour police drama. When it got more soapy it lost its edge for me. Losing great characters like Tosh Lines, Roach, Dashwood and Burnside didn't help either. |
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Yeah I agree James J - it was best suited to Wednesday's and Thursday's. The Corrie lead-in on Wednesday's always meant it did well and Thursday it performed solidily too. During that time it was one of my favourite shows. Its sad the way the show went especially after the re-vamp when they moved it to Thursday's at 9pm - just dreadful then IMO.
It did have a more soapy feel and viewers did like that. More people apparently wanted it to be more police-y, but when they did that looked what happened there. Ratings went down and it got moved to Tuesday flop-zone and got axed. |
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Last Man Standing did very well for ABC, think having Tim Allen helped intial interested, think if it can do hold with say 11-12m then it'll be renewed for season 2. Not sure who would picked it up here as it's more family orientated compared to say 2 Broke Girls or New Girl.
Comedy seems to have made a comeback in the US, wonder if that'll occur over here? |
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X Factor not airing on FOX tonight due to rain delayed baseball coverage. I guess ITV2 will just have to air something else. FOX will air tonight's planned episode on Thursday night.
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X Factor not airing on FOX tonight due to rain delayed baseball coverage. I guess ITV2 will just have to air something else. FOX will air tonight's planned episode on Thursday night.
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X Factor not airing on FOX tonight due to rain delayed baseball coverage. I guess ITV2 will just have to air something else. FOX will air tonight's planned episode on Thursday night.
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. Series 2 should air in August or early September to get a head start,
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