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Old 24-11-2011, 19:15
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As for Christmas Day, my revised guess is:

BBC1
3:10 FILM: Ratatouille
4:50 FILM: Monsters vs Aliens
6:15 BBC News
6:30 The Gruffalo's Child
7:00 Doctor Who
8:00 EastEnders
8:35 Strictly Come Dancing
9:35 EastEnders
10:15 The Royal Bodyguard
10:45 Michael McIntyre's Christmas Roadshow
11:45 BBC News

With ITV basically forced to go:

3:10 FILM: Mamma Mia
5:15 ITV News
5:30 You've Been Framed
6:00 Emmerdale
7:00 Coronation Street
8:00 Downton Abbey
10:00 ITV News
10:15 FILM: Love Actually

BBC1 could have a really good night with this, with Who keeping Corrie in check and double EE wrapped around Strictly given TRB a terrific lead in at 10:15pm against little competition. Having said that Love Actually could do well at 10:15 mopping up younger EE viewers who aren't interested in TRB.
Neat little BBC1 schedule here, although Dr Who has never faced Corrie on Christmas Day before. It faced Celebrity Millionaire in its first year (2005) and has gone head-to-head with Emmerdale every year since.
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:20
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9:30pm for EastEnders on Boxing Day? I'll put money on it airing at 7:00pm with 7:30pm being the latest
I'd be pretty certain it will be at 8pm like every other Monday

Wednesday's overnights:
EastEnders 8.1m 35.6%
Did well in an unusual slot

Here's what I reckon, probably going to be way out:

22:00 Absolutely Fabulous
22:30 Mrs. Brown's Boys
23:00 Michael McIntyre
23:45 Movie: Serendipity
You've missed out the late news, and I can't see the BBC scheduling it for as late as 2345 (this isn't ITV), and I can't see them having new programming finishing as late as midnight.

BBC have won back the rights to the World Athletics Championships for 2015 and 2017.
Fantastic news
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:20
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Frozen Planet did ok, relatively speaking, but possibly it was dented by That's Britain! considering it had little in way of opposition. I think having I'm A Celebrity... against it last week has seen it's audience drop a bit. Grand Designs also did well but seems slightly on the low side. The football did as expected; unless Manchester United are playing many matches are simply filler at this stage so ITV1 will be hoping United don't do the unthinkable and faiul to qualify. Channel 5 will be desperately hoping that they drop into the Europa League - though Chelsea and Manchester City are tasty back ups.
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:31
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My Christmas Predictions

BBC One
5.25 BBC News and Weather
5.35 The Gruffalo
6.05 EastEnders
6.45 Doctor Who
7.45 Strictly Come Dancing
8.45 EastEnders
9.25 The Royal Bodyguard
9.55 Absolutely Fabulous
10.55 BBC News and Weather
11.05 Michael McIntyre

ITV1
5.20 ITV News and Weather
5.30 Text Santa! Highlights (I can see ITV1 running this is primetime!)
6.30 You've Been Framed
7.00 Emmerdale
8.00 Coronation Street
9.00 Downton Abbey
11.00 ITV News
11.10 Film

The only thing is, will the two broadcasters accept a 15 minute soap clash?
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:39
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Well they wouldn't need too - obviously if the BBC had that schedule ITV would bring theirs forward by 15 minutes.
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:41
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Well they wouldn't need too - obviously if the BBC had that schedule ITV would bring theirs forward by 15 minutes.
I think ITV1 will want to try and work it so Downton clashes with The Royal Bodyguard rather than EastEnders - potentially sacrificing Coronation Street in the process. I think, if Downton is on Christmas Day, we'll see a lot of tooing and froing going on. So if anything I think ITV1 will shove the schedule back; even taking out ad breaks to ensure Downton finishes before 11pm.
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Old 24-11-2011, 19:42
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ITV's Christmas idents to be based on these Text Santa animated characters.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/thewor...CMP=ILC-SEARCH

http://www.lambie-nairn.com/news/cel...9s-text-santa/

An animated promo campaign for ITV's new charity initiative kicks off this weekend.

The first phase of it kicks off on 26 November, with a call to action featuring celebrities launching on 3 December. The animated characters will also take over ITV idents from 10 December.

Lambie-Nairn developed the brand identity for the campaign, both on and off air.

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Old 24-11-2011, 20:27
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Odd looking things. The one on the left looks like a Pac-Man ghoul.
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Old 24-11-2011, 20:42
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BBC winning back the rights to the World Athletic Championships for 2015 and 2017 I suspect means that Channel 4 won't be throwing a huge budget into their coverage of Moscow 2013. However, if they're looking for a presenter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9y9ApEkG0
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:07
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if EastEnders does not clear 9 million (BBC 3 not included) tonight, there will be no justice in the world, it was a stunning episode, totally spell bounding, and the best of the year so far.

Im sure dan2008 will agree with me.

Dont really understand this Text Santa show, so im just going to use my default position, and say it sounds dreadful
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:10
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Radio Times's Christmas edition to be available from Saturday 3rd December (depending on where you live).

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-...-december-2011
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:34
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If only we had a Christmas TV Prediction thread...
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:37
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if EastEnders does not clear 9 million (BBC 3 not included) tonight, there will be no justice in the world.
It won't clear 9m with a 30 minute Emmerdale Farm clash.
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:53
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Radio Times's Christmas edition to be available from Saturday 3rd December (depending on where you live).

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-...-december-2011
One for Christmas and another for New Year?
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Old 24-11-2011, 21:57
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Advertisers aren't willing to pay top rate though which is why ABC was the only network with a full slate of originals (and not cheap filler specials and repeats). Beyond that even if advertisers were willing to pay top rates one of two things happens:

1 - ABC now owes a lot of make good because everything was down 15-20%
2 - 'Top rate' actually translates to selling spots at a 15-20% reduction

The significance of the black Friday advertising is massively overstated in why ABC continue to do this as evidenced by the fact none of the other networks are bothering. If ABC were still pulling top ad rates on Thanksgiving Eve then everyone else would be business as usual as well.
But if they weren't able to charge full rates on Thanksgivings Eve why would they do it? They could argue no competition + all new originals = pretty decent ratings (even with deductions).

I'm not saying that I would do it, especially with a very serialised programme like Revenge, which is best suited to being week after week. The only reason X Factor was on last night was because it needs to get rid of people (2 this week, 2 next week).
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:01
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It won't clear 9m with a 30 minute Emmerdale Farm clash.
well it should have done, Im willing to bet it Emmerdale was not 1/100th as good.
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:06
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Radio Times's Christmas edition to be available from Saturday 3rd December (depending on where you live).

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-...-december-2011
Hope it doesn't have Hugh Frigging Bonneville on the cover...
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:10
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ITV's Christmas idents to be based on these Text Santa animated characters.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/thewor...CMP=ILC-SEARCH

http://www.lambie-nairn.com/news/cel...9s-text-santa/

An animated promo campaign for ITV's new charity initiative kicks off this weekend.

The first phase of it kicks off on 26 November, with a call to action featuring celebrities launching on 3 December. The animated characters will also take over ITV idents from 10 December.

Lambie-Nairn developed the brand identity for the campaign, both on and off air.

I wonder if BBC1 will do likewise and launch its idents on 10 December too?

I do hope they wait till SCD Final Saturday. That's when Christmas really starts.

Do we know what time Text Santa airs on Christmas Eve yet?
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:11
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One for Christmas and another for New Year?
Well it was either that or have an issue from 24th December to 6th January, which would be slightly strange considering most people will be going back to work on 2nd January.
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:19
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Hope it doesn't have Hugh Frigging Bonneville on the cover...
It'll be a festive drawing like every year. What's on TV etc will no doubt have EastEnders on the front. TV Times might have a Downton cover though.

It's funny hearing you getting annoyed at the thought of Downton Abbey being all over Christmas TV adverts. Remember David Tennant's last Doctor Who, you couldn't get more overkill than that, he was even in the idents for 3 weeks!
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:27
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It's funny hearing you getting annoyed at the thought of Downton Abbey being all over Christmas TV adverts. Remember David Tennant's last Doctor Who, you couldn't get more overkill than that, he was even in the idents for 3 weeks!
That was OTT, clearly.

I do however wonder how many thousand times we will see whatever super-sickly Downton trailer they come up between now and 9pm on 25th December.

I suspect it will appear in almost every ad break on ITV during December...
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:28
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I suspect it will appear in almost every ad break on ITV during December.
there is an easy way to avoid that.
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:31
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well it should have done, Im willing to bet it Emmerdale was not 1/100th as good.
Im at wotk so didnt see it but ive heard good things about it. some people that stuck with Emmer regret it they said. Enders had a few trends on twitter also.Emmerdale was just 2eps together
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:36
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Tomorrow's Telegraph features Bruce and Tess on it's front page with the headline: "Why Strictly beats X Factor"

Sir Bruce says that The X Factor is losing viewers because of the 'scripted rows' between the judges.
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Old 24-11-2011, 22:38
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Im at wotk so didnt see it but ive heard good things about it. some people that stuck with Emmer regret it they said. Enders had a few trends on twitter also.Emmerdale was just 2eps together
oh sorry, didn't realise, I wont mention any spoilers. I hope you get to see it. PM me when you do.

and for the rest of the thread, what is this Text Santa show? I am pretty sure Santa does not want ITV viewers texting him on Christmas Eve night, given that he will be very busy giving out presenters elsewhere in the world.
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