With the right promotion it'd do quite well and given that The Killing got a 9pm slot, Homeland should but I think content wise it's more likely for 10pm.

New Girl has got possibly the worst slot ever, it should have been paired with another comedy. Is 2 Broke Girls going to air on Channel 4 or E4, think Channel 4 has a potential winner with 2BG.

I'm only a few episodes in but I think some of the content makes it a 10pm show - plus there's the scheduling issue.


On one hand, I do like the idea of them putting US sitcoms on Channel 4. But sometimes I think they'd be better on E4. Or else airing The Big Bang Theory at 9pm on Channel 4 with New Girl following (although I'm not a big fan of taking away digital channels biggest hits). Friday at 8.30pm is, as you say, an awful slot for it.

Considering the main channel competition, Lenny Henry, Mastermind, Coronation Street, World's Toughest Trucker - it is actually a plum slot with nothing else going after the 16-25 demo, E4 are showing Desperate Scousewives though. I have gone for 1.3m viewers in the RPG - but it could so easily better that, before millions switch to C5 for CBB at 9.00pm.

I managed 14 mins on the turgid ITV Player before it decided to buffer then continue but also play the audio from the beginning over the video. At least I have had a reminder why never to use this piece of crap ever again.

From those 14 mins, I thought it was pretty poor, I think weird is the kindest word I could use to describe it.

Fair play to ITV for airing something that isn't just a basic cop drama but there is making something a bit different and going totally left field. This is certainly the latter.

2011 was the year really seemed to grow with the mainstream audience. It's up for a National TV Award for Favourite Drama so the viewers are really responding to it.

I agree with the awful scheduling for New Girl- it just gets lost in the line up. Channel 4 are promoting the hell out of it though so it might pull decent numbers.

I didn't realise they had picked up 2 Broke Girls, if that is so, then surely they should have waited and done a comedy double header on a Thurs/Fri night from 9-10...

Or at the very least started with a double episode- so it runs for a full hour.

Anyone know what this is?

http://twitter.com/#!/drcasio/status...971073/photo/1

Can broadcasters track live audiences now?

FOX have cancelled the results show of So You Think You Can Dance?

From Nigel Lythgoe's Twitter:


It follows declining ratings for the show over the past couple of years. No word on whether or not FOX will expand its reality output next summer.

I tweeted Christian about its source (a web site or his own custom software?) but he hasn't replied yet. I think it's counting tweets, or some other data aggregation thing.

Well it seems to be webtrends. They have zero access to BARB computers, the guy was on BB BOTS some months ago and he claimed his company can track algorithms regarding web trends, ie. how many people are talking about CBB or a football match or a big news story.

I read this 2 days ago, on DS or twitter. Best to keep a declining show as short as possible, so not to deter more viewers.


http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/i...nce_res_2.html

Since he's a social media analyst who works for a company called WebTrends (I read his Twitter background), he's almost definitely looking at stats relating to how much each show is being talked about on the various social networks.

His stats were extremely dodgy on BOTS

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has signed a deal with ITV for a programme hunting for a leading man for his remake of the West End musical Jesus Christ Superstar.He will also search for a performer to play Judas.He has fronted four similar search shows for the BBC but apparently they weren't interested in this latest project.The remake will not play in the West End but will tour including the 02.

Source: The Sun

In 1993 I'm pretty sure it was beating GMTV every day, I know its highest audience was in September 1993 when it had a regular audience of two million, with GMTV and Breakfast News nearer one million (GMTV started off with the same audience as TVam but it plummeted). I remember it was Easter 1994 when GMTV pulled ahead, one reason being that they'd bought Power Rangers and all the kids started watching that instead. Of course, by the end of the decade The Big Breakfast had declined to the point it was the fifth of the five main channels.


They already do ten a year, and I'm staggered they can find forty people willing to do it. It's all very well saying they should shake up the 7pm schedules and run The One Show less but that just brings back the problem they had before which is you get a mish-mash of stuff, some of which will flop horribly, and with The One Show particularly nobody will know when it's on.


Hmm, they kept The Weakest Link at 45 minutes for its entire life, even though it was on BBC2 for many years. The Beeb seem to find 45 minutes the right length for its quizzes, Perfection is 45 minutes long as well.

The success of Pointless before Christmas, where it benefited from limited competition and a better lead-in, is almost an exact repeat of when The Weakest Link first took off, because that started in August 2000 but started to pull in really big ratings in September during the Olympics, as it got a decent lead-in from the Olympic coverage (which ran up to 5.15 on BBC2) and there was no Neighbours on BBC1 either.


I would have thought most of the audience for that programme would have moved over to BBC1 for the news, hence BBC2's role at 10pm is to offer an alternative. That's why when the news was at nine they used to do lots of comedy at 9pm and documentaries at 9.30, but since it moved to ten it's always been documentaties at nine and comedy at 10pm.

What is a bit hopeless by BBC2 this week is that I think they're showing repeats of panel games every night at ten, which is pretty weak in the middle of winter. And also Delivering Quality First suggested they'd be showing fewer panel games, which would leave a bloody big hole.

Overnights delayed it seems. How predictable!

Nooooo!

I'm hoping for around 3 million or more for CBB Launch

Typical isn't it?! Always happens on the days when the ratings are most interesting!

It's agony. Data delays do my head in. And like you say never does it happen on a quiet day! It can't be a coincidence, can it?

Oh well. Back to work for me. I'll be one of the last to find out again!

It could be because new channel Chart Show TV +1 began reporting for the first time yesterday and it takes time for BARB to put it into the system? Hence, delayed overnights.

Oh damn, delayed? When they are delayed, what time are they usually released?

When overnights have been delayed previously, they've eventually been released all sorts of different times. Sometimes an hour later, sometimes in the afternoon or evening of that day, sometimes the following day! It's a bit of an unpredictable one.

The Daily Express said the other day that ''TV experts'' had predicted CBB woul get its highest audience ever for this series. I wonder who these experts are - Robbie Sykes perhaps (or Richard Desmond)

I think they may also want to check Channel 5 +1 as I suspect it may be the first time the channel has gone up into several hundred thousands, okay, there wasn't massive competition at 9pm, but the +1 airing may still have got ~300/400k.