Hm, that's a turn up....

I suspect CTM may not experience the same growth. But still....


Nah, Wednesday mornings are always a good laugh...

Ever get the impression The One is just filler until Panorama comes back as the BBC would be unwilling to launch anything big in this slot

It's strange filler, running a comedy show in a slot usually used for current affairs.

In What's on TV magazine there is a feature "What do you think about xxxxx?" which features two letters from viewers giving their opinions on a programme.

Most of the time there is one positive opinion and one negative opinion.

The programme discussed in next week's edition is "What do you think about The Royal Bodyguard?"

Both responses are extremely negative

Doesn't seem to work as Griff Rhys Jones as a comedian is a long time ago.

digiguide has updated

Does the ITV 1 Sat, Sun and Mon seem confused to anyone else? and for some reason there is 6 episodes of Pan Am, which is either a mistake or repeats.

No sign at all of Whitechapel.

Celebrity Juice seems to have a regular Saturday repeat slot at the moment after the late news


It's down a little from last week. I wouldn't say it's very good, more like good. Must be around the slot average

The Cruise Ship 5 News Special seemed to be a good decision for C5 last night. Will have to see if normal bulletins at 6.30pm rate better now Home and Away is back


Cornwall was ITV1 only (UTV had a farming show and STV a holiday show), and the 10.35pm slots would have seen changes by UTV, STV, BBC1 Wales and possibly BBC1 Scotland/NI too

On the subject of opt-outs, ITV1 at 8pm tonight may be boosted a little in the overnights by UTV showing 'Lesser Spotted Ulster' which seems to be their flagship local show. The Exit List is shunted to 11pm

Brilliant result for Stargazing Live on BBC Two - wasn't sure whether it would be able to come close to last years impressive debut, but needn't have worried. Brian Cox has become a huge ratings asset for BBC2, and they're using him well. I think he's going to be a staple of BBC science programming for years and years to come.

Solid second episode from Above Suspicion - while The Royal Bodyguard just plumbed further depths for BBC One. In the circumstances, Mrs Brown's Boys is doing really well. It'd be pushing towards 6m if it had a steady comedy lead-in, I reckon.

This is a bit early for a 16 year old film repeat on BBC One isn't it?


CSI: NY's season premiere has an easy ride by the looks of things against this plus Pan Am, J Ross and The Drop. Even a chance it could win its timeslot if the schedules stay like this and assuming they push it back to the 9.30 junction.

BBC one have a great week but this is ruined by Monday. Silent witness will sort it out. Master chef is coming back soon I suspect the normal 4-5 million.

US Ratings Monday January 16

Fox's new drama Alcatraz (coming to Sky soon I would have thought) delivered a so-so debut performance last night in its two hour premier. But despite not setting the world alight it can still lay claim to Fox's best drama debut in 3 years, since Lie To Me and I suspect if you look for a show that didn't have an American Idol lead-in you have to look a little further back (probably Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which debuted in the middle of the writers strike so isn't exactly like for like either). Its also tied second for the best drama debut of the season so far second to ABC's Once Upon A Time and tied with ABC's Revenge.

Elsewhere the CBS comedies returned with original episodes and were all up apart from Mike & Molly which was even. This comedy block has become completely unstoppable this season and given how badly things could have gone with Charlie Sheen departing Two and a Half Men CBS will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. Over on NBC Betty White lifted the network to its best Monday night performance of the season and the preview of her new hidden camera series Off Their Rocker's shows promising signs of life. Rock Center meanwhile seems to have benefited from 'The Colbert Bump' climbing up a few tenths.

The Bachelor continued its passable performance this season on ABC whilst Castle continues to flounder.

ABC
8PM: The Bachelor – 2.4 [7.36]
10PM: Castle – 2.3 [9.40]

CBS
8PM: How I Met Your Mother – 4.4 [10.12]
8:30PM: 2 Broke Girls – 4.5 [11.29]
9PM: Two and a Half Men – 4.6 [12.90]
9:30PM: Mike & Molly – 3.8 [11.17]
10PM: Hawaii Five-0 – 2.8 [10.50]

Fox
8PM: Alcatraz – 3.3 [9.97]

NBC
8PM: Betty White's 90th Birthday – 2.7 [13.86]
9:30PM: Betty White's Off Their Rocker – 2.6 [12.23]
10PM: Rock Center with Brian Williams – 1.3 [5.57]

So no Match of The Day that weekend. Just checked it is FA Cup weekend. I guess there is no Live At The Apollo either. The Rock is a good film, could rate 3.5 million I guess.

Only a 2.3 for Castle? I thought it was a little more robust than that.

Isn't Revenge, still shockingly without a UK home, doing better than that on Wednesdays?

Wow, um...I know I said they should change their schedules around but that's some change! For anyone who hasn't got digiguide, Dancing On Ice and Wild At Heart have been switched to Monday; Primeval-Take Me Out-Benidorm are airing in the Sunday night slots while Take Me Out pops up again on Saturday alongside The Talent Show Story and The Jonathan Ross Show. Tuesday has Monday's schedule which'd mean a Coronation Street clash with EastEnders though The Biggest Loser appears at 9pm.

1/4 for accuracy isn't bad I suppose...

Quite a good rating for the Cornwall show up against EastEnders. Isnt is double what Caroline's India documentary got last year?

Very confused, and on closer inspection I think I'm right I saying that's last year's schedules.

Not much better.

Revenge's last original episode (last Wednesday) scored a 2.4 in the demo and its airing on what is undoubtedly ABC's strongest night at this point. Although arguably has stiffer competition with CSI and SVU on CBS and NBC - although it was The People's Choice Awards on CBS last week.

In fairness to Castle this does appear to be basically in line-up with its January performance last year although I suspect ABC might have hoped it would hold up a little better this year.

Somehow they've beggared up Sunday; I'm not quite sure how as it's pretty certain to be 6.30 DoI; 8.30 WaH; 9.30 DoI; 10.00 TSNS. Unless ITV1 are reshaping the schedule in parts to try and get some viewers back...I suppose Dancing On Ice airing on a Monday would be an interesting move.

While we ponder whether George Dixon has taken over as head of ITV1 scheduling (not that the person in question is much better at times)...

EastEnders and Mrs. Brown's Boys are the bright spots from BBC One's schedule. The One Griff Rhys Jones and The Royal Bodyguard resulted in the channel reaching ITV flopzone levels - the potential is there for BBC One to lose an audience unless it creates decent programming, seemingly. The One Show performed well and The Question Of Sport is a reliable show to air in the post news slot.

Those are healthier figures for Coronation Street and the first episode's share looks especially good. Cornwall yet again benefited from the Corrie sandwich and Emmerdale is performing consistently at the moment. Above Suspicion did well but possibly should've done better considering the lack of BBC One opposition? Then again, BBC Two did put up a good fight.

The fight came from Stargazing Life and that could result in a horrible looking flopzone come tomorrow. The show recorded a superb figure, and kept a fair share of viewers for the Back To Earth programme. I'm not even going to question the 10pm scheduling now, but Have I Got News For You did well enough. The 7pm hour seems slightly lower than usual but Great British Railways Journeys picked up another strong figure.

Channel 4 will be pleased with their night; Coppers and Secrets of the Shoplifters both claimed decent figures above the 2m mark and Richard Wilson on hold held on to a reasonable rating considering it was up against the big two soaps. Hollyoaks is finding some consistency in the 6.30pm slot and, most importantly, staying above the 1m figure.

Channel 5 will also be very satisfied with their night; Celebrity Big Brother has found it's level above the 2m mark which'll mean the broadcaster may have to prepare for the normal series resting around 1.5m at best. When Paddy Met sally retained half of the audience; a result which could've been much worse. Police Interceptors performed well at 8pm considering the tough competition and the 7pm hour didn't disgrace itself with World's Toughest Trucker.

its no wonder Digiguide offered people a big discount to renew, its gone totally down the drain since the take over.

I dont think this is down to ITV itself.


would we have it any other way?

A funny comment taken from the Daily Mail, via the Borgen thread:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=450

K

what I was saying about a ITV Sherlock, maybe they just need to "borrow" the CBS Sherlock


http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/cbs-...l-drama-pilot/


i also didnt know CBS aired this lets hope we never see this for the X-Factor finale commercials.

So that's where ITV got Ads Of The Year from!

Agree about the V signs but expect you to change your tune should it do well. The set is just for the audition stage (and possibly a revised version for the Battles), so is plenty adequate and modelled on the original. It could go either way - it'll definately debut well I suspect and could go anyway after then.


Ultimately Heartbeat and The Royal aired for a couple of years after filming finished, and in all honesty Heartbeat couldn't be stuck in 1969 forever. I'm surprised though we're yet to see a 70s spin-off.


Wonder if they'll be 2.3m more cases of shoplifting this week then - though in theory everyone will get away with it. I suspect Anthony Worrall Thompson might have boosted the show too, making it seem a bit current rather than random.


Interesting - if that's true I think the BBC will walk it.


Exactly. For years people have said they want The X Factor to be taken a bit more seriously but the biggest criticisms this series were that the new judges (Kelly and Gary especially) took it too seriously and the show was lacking a Jedward/Wagner type act in the live stages.


The fewer changes the BBC can make the better - presumably John De Mol has seen what the BBC has done to other formats and how they seem to strip back the things which make the show special in order to appeal to the middle of the road Saturday night audience.

I have a image in my mind of ITV watching "Elementary" and saying "Lets buy the format and remake it, but set in London?"