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And if i'm correct ITV was beaten in the Summer by Channel 5 in the Prime time shares. Well it has certainly not been a great year for the so called channel of the year. Beaten by channel 5 and a old dad's army episode.
Beat them by two whole share points too, making it a famous day for the record books: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s150/...day-night.html |
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Would anyone like to name the date that ITV1 next wins primetime? - My guess is January 2nd 2012.
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yes what were the X-Factor figures.
Much deserved for the Westlife special, however it might have done better with an X-Factor lead in. Only big fans tune in for one band, show many sure, but not one band/artist! |
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Yes, Channel 5 beat ITV1 in primetime on Sunday 28th August 2011 with a film repeat of 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Celebrity Big Brother.'
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Doubt it. Look at Text Santa. Westlife is just another poor ITV music show. They need to stop doing them.
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Would anyone like to name the date that ITV1 next wins primetime? - My guess is January 2nd 2012.
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Doubt it. Look at Text Santa. Westlife is just another poor ITV music show. They need to stop doing them.
Only big fans tune in for one band, show many sure, but not one band/artist! Plus it's got 'Christmas' in the title. Stick 'Christmas' in the title of anything at this time of year = high ratings. |
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Buble will do well tonight surely. The ladies can't get enough of him.
Plus it's got 'Christmas' in the title. Stick 'Christmas' in the title of anything at this time of year = high ratings. The Christmas Impressions Show Christmas Text Santa Christmas With Jeremy Clarkson Some programmes buck the trend for sure....
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Decent (but perhaps not quite the spectacular performance some expected) for Strictly. I do wonder if the final results show is on a little too late though. Pushing what is billed as a big family extravaganza to post-9PM seems odd and always has.
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Buble will do well tonight surely. The ladies can't get enough of him.
Plus it's got 'Christmas' in the title. Stick 'Christmas' in the title of anything at this time of year = high ratings. - 2 dramas, one a nice new BBC one that Just Henry should be against - Brian Cox on BBC Two should be good for about 3 million imo Bubbles will do what all these other shows have done. Flop. Maybe not as badly, but think a drama is good to get what? 5 million? Thats a general drama aimed at a widespread audience of all ages. This is a singer with a core fanbase. Sure others are appearing in it, but as well as 'Christmas' in the name its got bubbles there as the only identifiable brand. Its niche - it'd do well for a digital channel, not ITV1 sunday night. I expect Cox to beat him, especially with being all over the news and frankly Buble is a decent artist who sells alot, but in terms of 'group viewing' you'll watch Cox or the BBC drama cause not everyone will like him (in fact the bigger the fan, the bigger the spouse/kids/partner will hate him!). |
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The Christmas Impressions Show Christmas Text Santa Christmas With Jeremy Clarkson Some programmes buck the trend for sure.... ![]() |
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Doubt it. Look at Text Santa. Westlife is just another poor ITV music show. They need to stop doing them.
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He doesn't seem happy at all. It was a pretty dismal affair though, the audience just weren't going for it at all, some of the guests weren't great, there was no memorial segment, Freddie Starr was complete and utter car crash TV and looked as if he was going to die and to top it all off the show overran so it got bumped to E4 for the final 2 awards.
The show is longer than it used to be on ITV for the last few years when it was confined to ninety minutes. I remember back in 1998, though, it was scheduled for 9pm to 11.30 and underran by about twenty minutes and they had to show all the clip packages again. And way back in 1992, famously, they underran and Paul Merton, who'd won the phone-in award, was asked to stay on stage and do some stand-up to fill time. Quote:
Badly scheduled too, when you think about it. Wasn't it on a Sunday last year?
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It never rated well on ITV1, lest we forget. At least Ch4 does make a substantial contribution to British comedy.
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To add to that: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16216131
Blue Peter - Average viewing figures 2011 - 370,000 (year to date) 2010 - 440,000 2009 - 430,000 2008 - 580,000 (timeslot changes in August) 2007 - 920,000 2006 - 940,000 2005 - 1,080,000 2004 - 1,310,000 2003 - 1,520,000 2002 - 1,460,000 Quote:
I think it's been on and off the channel a lot in the last decade - at one point on every weeknight at 6pm, with some shows premiering on CBBC or exclusive to CBBC. At the moment I think it's just repeated at weekends.
In 2004-06, it was on CBBC five days a week, and BBC1 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with the two extra CBBC shows being clip shows and repeats (and the Wednesday show was first shown on CBBC on Tuesday), then for a bit in 2006 it was simulcast but with an extra five minutes on CBBC, which must have been a pain. In the fiftieth anniversary book, Richard Marson bemoans the fact that in recent years it shuffled around BBC1 all over the place, I think this series was the first in about five years that was on the same days as the previous series. The scheduling for CBBC on BBC1 is awful, actually, it's a mess. |
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The Christmas Marriage Ref
The Christmas Impressions Show Christmas Text Santa Christmas With Jeremy Clarkson Some programmes buck the trend for sure.... ![]() |
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ITV are throwing the night away imo. Just Henry has a pretty dire slot, then Bubbles is against:
- 2 dramas, one a nice new BBC one that Just Henry should be against - Brian Cox on BBC Two should be good for about 3 million imo Bubbles will do what all these other shows have done. Flop. Maybe not as badly, but think a drama is good to get what? 5 million? Thats a general drama aimed at a widespread audience of all ages. This is a singer with a core fanbase. Sure others are appearing in it, but as well as 'Christmas' in the name its got bubbles there as the only identifiable brand. Its niche - it'd do well for a digital channel, not ITV1 sunday night. I expect Cox to beat him, especially with being all over the news and frankly Buble is a decent artist who sells alot, but in terms of 'group viewing' you'll watch Cox or the BBC drama cause not everyone will like him (in fact the bigger the fan, the bigger the spouse/kids/partner will hate him!). Whilst I expect both BBC offerings to be strong, ITV is offering something completely different so it should be able to grab a different kind of audience. I'd be very surprised if Cox beat him, but I'll be sure to lend my support. As for your argument that a mixture of artists might fare better, how do you explain the Comic Relief concert which for the channel it was on was a bit of a flop? |
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The slot actually changed in February 2008 but what also did for it in recent years is ITV stopping doing kids shows, so the competition was far fiercer. And the rise of the CBBC Channel, no doubt..
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As for your argument that a mixture of artists might fare better, how do you explain the Comic Relief concert which for the channel it was on was a bit of a flop?
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It's very unscientific this and I'm assuming all kinds of things here but the ladies at work have been talking about Buble in a mucho excited kind of way (can't think why, Woolworths music at best) so I suspect he will buck the trend for an ITV music special and post healthy ratings. It'll do 4m at least.
Whilst I expect both BBC offerings to be strong, ITV is offering something completely different so it should be able to grab a different kind of audience. I'd be very surprised if Cox beat him, but I'll be sure to lend my support. As for your argument that a mixture of artists might fare better, how do you explain the Comic Relief concert which for the channel it was on was a bit of a flop? |
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Fantastic for Merlin. Huge rating in the Strictly sandwich, personally I thought Casualty should have been there to remind people it still exists pending the re-launch -however no-one can argue with Merlins performance. One of the most unexpected hits this century imo-everyone behind it deserves plaudits -its avoided all of the pitfalls which plagued Robin Hood.
Dancc was kind enough to share the AI's of ep 5 and 6 a few weeks ago. Does somebody know the rest? (And if the official rating crosses the 8 million mark, I'll have to extend my stupid chart. )
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Decent (but perhaps not quite the spectacular performance some expected) for Strictly. I do wonder if the final results show is on a little too late though. Pushing what is billed as a big family extravaganza to post-9PM seems odd and always has.
It would almost certainly help the ratings and might well aid the quality of the show too. The finalists get a bit of recovery time (they always look completely knackered and/or semi injured by their fourth and final dance ) and they have a chance to insert extra pro/guest/judge spots that cut down on the number of repetitive VT's. And, by way of additional benefit, they could have even gifted Young Herriot the huge lead-in. Seemed like a win-win, so I was surprised they didn't decide to stump up for it. |
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This must be ITV1's lowest ever rating. It seems on Saturdays when TXF and BGT aren't around they're floundering. I can remember when they had a stable of hits like Beadle's About, The Gladiators, You Bet, Stars in Their Eyes, Blind Date and Baywatch that dominated Saturdays all year round.
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The most important thing to remember about last night's ITV schedule is that they didn't spend any money on it.
The Westlife show would have been paid for the record label, and they stuck Harry Potter on again. If ITV are to afford to continue making shows with big budgets like X Factor and Downton Abbey they have to have nights where they spend nothing. |
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I dont know if Harry Potter is a no money show, im sure ITV paid handsomely for the rights to show the Harry Potter moves X amount of times.
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I dont know if Harry Potter is a no money show, im sure ITV paid handsomely for the rights to show the Harry Potter moves X amount of times.
But yes, fair enough, there probably should be a cost factored in for those rights, but it would still be a very cheap night for ITV. |
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The most important thing to remember about last night's ITV schedule is that they didn't spend any money on it.
The Westlife show would have been paid for the record label, and they stuck Harry Potter on again. If ITV are to afford to continue making shows with big budgets like X Factor and Downton Abbey they have to have nights where they spend nothing. Its also important to remember ITV have other costs other than programme budgets, and these need to be met day to day or the likes of X Factor have to pay for it. Which in the end hurts their profits. I still think ITV should have started HP just as Strictly finished as Merlin was obviously a weak spot. Instead it was half way through. Stick a few of the usual saturday TV shows before it, and they'd do reasonably well. Then instead of Westlife? You know that Downton making of show would have done them pretty nicely. Just ideas, but certainly it wasn't a good night in any light. |
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Would anyone like to name the date that ITV1 next wins primetime? - My guess is January 2nd 2012.
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Dont get me wrong I think Harry Potter was a smart move by ITV skews younger than Strictly and at 2 hours 30, does as good a job as anything else, of holding the audience for the duration.
I cant say how many times ITV are allowed to air the Harry Potter movies, not seen the contract, but for the same reason I cant say ITV have the rights to show it an unlimited amount of times. |
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) and they have a chance to insert extra pro/guest/judge spots that cut down on the number of repetitive VT's. And, by way of additional benefit, they could have even gifted Young Herriot the huge lead-in. 