Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“As for Jonathan Creek, this is a vastly underrated show which was always capable of pulling 8-9m viewers and even up to 11m at its peak, and the only reason it got 6.5m for its last outing was because it aired on the Easter weekend and opposite the final Frost. But that number is still great these days, and I reckon a new Creek next Christmas/New Year would be certain to get 8m at a bare minimum. It is also the creation of one of Britain's best and most acclaimed writers, who doesn't seem to have come up with anything since the last Creek in April 2010.
It wouldn't surprise me if he's fallen out of favour - criminally so - with the new brooms at the BBC. A real shame if that's the case.”
I dunno, I reckon if BBC1 were offered a new David Renwick sitcom they'd jump at it, and it would be a big hit as well. I don't know what he's doing now, if he'd fallen out of favour at the Beeb he would doubtless have turned up on another channel, he could have been doing adaptations (which he's done before with Poirot).
Creek was a huge hit, you're right, it was probably at Sherlock levels and ITV would put things like Alright on the Night opposite it to dent it - and the excellent rating for the new episode on New Year's Day 2009, five years after the last series, proved there was still an audience. I always wondered why Caroline Quentin wasted her time with rubbish like The Life Of Riley when she could have done more Creek. I guess the big problem is Renwick being able to write it and Alan Davies being available.
The last episode being up against Frost did for it but that was obviously going to dent it. Although that episode really wasn't very good.
Originally Posted by rzt:
“Ali: Still the Greatest (doc1) averages 374k on ITV4.”
I wonder if that would have done better or worse at 9pm without the lead-in from the football? Probably helped it out a bit.
Originally Posted by rzt:
“20:00- Stargazing Live: 3.62m (15.3%)
21:00- Stargazing Live: Back to Earth: 2.77m (10.9%)”
With this, and Autumnwatch, I'm wondering why we're now getting the spin-off shows straight after the main show, on the same channel. Would it not make more sense just to bill it all as one ninety minute programme, rather than at nine o'clock 850,000 people going "Oh, that's finished then" and switching off?
Originally Posted by AlexiR:
“I do wonder if they might be best served trying to turn Tuesday night into a male friendly night? When the football moves there they're going to have an in built male audience to work with and promote to so finding some shows that might appeal to them when footballs not on could potentially see some success and you wouldn't have thought it could do worse than what they're serving up now.”
The problem there is that on Tuesday nights where there isn't football, there's usually football on another channel, though I suppose it would work alongside the slightly female-skewing schedule on BBC1. Certainly the male-skewing Sundays on BBC2 are particularly successful. I suppose there must be umpteen unscreened episodes of Ultimate Force they can put there.
Although I'm going to mention again the time in 2001 when ITV decided to skew Mondays as the evening for younger audiences, trailing them as "Monday's My Day" and putting things like Bob and Rose there. Which lasted five weeks before they got nervous at Bob and Rose's ratings, shoved it to 10.20 and stuck Denis Norden's Laughter File at 9pm.
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