Decent ratings last night considering no CS or EE, BBC1 nice and steady - I went the pub at 8.30pm and it was jam packed (they have a big screen TV tuned to BBC News Channel!), the Arsenal match was basically 'over' by then. Lucky for ITV1 they got the 1st leg, only Gooners will bother with the home tie.


Winning his timeslot quite comfortably.

spotted this on Broadcast, cant say im surprised.

BBC1's 4.6m average across pretty much all its shows does look strange, but at least its consistent. Emmerdale held up well (tape-checked rating of 7.7m as it ended at 19.25 last night), and a decent rating for the football too. One Born Every Minute is a massive hit on C4, and like BFGW on Tuesday night, it picked up a massive +1 figure.

Emmerdale is airing for an hour tonight against EE due to the football. Emmerdale should win when head-to-head as its a fairly big episode which means it could be close 8m tonight. EE is probably looking at about 6m.

How is a Jedward show moving beyond its Factual and Fact ent core. And what is a factual and Fact ent core anyway

THe BBC press office week 10, 3-9 march says that Dirk Gently starts on BBC4 for 3 eps and White Heat is on BBC2. There is also a special 3 part Casualty story, it doesn't say if all 3 eps are on that week or just on Saturdays.

What on earth's happened to EE on BBC3 at 10pm? It used to get 1m + at one time did it not??

not really no, that rating is pretty much standard, it only gets 1 million when EE airs against an hour long Emmerdale, or a special episode has aired.


looking at the BBC websie, I think its 3 episodes over 3 weeks.

At least they finally seem to have realised the celebrity reality shows belong on the digital channels and not the main one.


Should be noted that a lot of that is down to Lorne Michaels who has developed quite a remarkable eye for talent and without whom SNL would be dead in the water.


At this stage I would agree that its the only Tuesday 10PM drama that seems to have a fighting chance of returning. The problem is that its floundering at a mid-1 with (for NBC) relatively strong support from Biggest Loser which would suggest moved to another much more competitive timeslot it would completely collapse. At this stage I would think its best hopes reside in on of two options:

-After the relative success of Grimm on Friday night this season NBC opt to go for two hours of scripted there next year. That would give them Parenthood / Grimm / Dateline.

-Monday night at 10PM in the Fall. Assuming its renewed I suspect they'll want to keep Smash paired with The Voice and I don't think there's any chance of them doubling up on The Voice next season so they'll need something relatively disposable airing Monday nights in the Fall. My guess would actually be something along the lines of Fear Factor / Parenthood


I don't think its quite that big a task

Fall 2012

Monday: Fear Factor / Grimm
Tuesday: Biggest Loser / New Drama
Wednesday: Community / Parks & Rec / New Drama / Law & Order: SVU
Thursday: 30 Rock or Up All Night / New Comedy / The Office / New Comedy / Awake
Friday: Unscripted / Rock Center / Dateline
Saturday: Repeats
Sunday: Football

So Monday is essentially disposable filler until The Voice (and at this point Smash) returns midseason at which point Grimm can either return to Friday or move to another open slot on the schedule. Tuesday is essentially what they have now but with something new replacing Parenthood. In the incredibly unlikely event Fashion Star takes off then it may very well cut Loser down to an hour or replace it completely and cut Loser down to one cycle a year. Wednesday has the 'syndication hour' at 8PM followed by a drama (maybe Hannibal given that name recognition should give it some traction in a tough slot) and SVU. Thursday is basically what it is now (although I remain somewhat undecided on the fates of 30 Rock and Up All Night) and unless it bombs out of the gate then I suspect Awake will get a renewal just so they can renew something for Fall. If it does bomb then Parenthood gets another season and takes Monday night and Grimm goes to Thursday.

So that's two new dramas and two new comedies in the Fall then probably the same again for midseason.


I still think (if they insist on renewing it) Private Practice would be better served with a move to Thursday 8PM where it would still have the Grey's halo to sustain it. A lot of people raise content issues when I suggest this but they'll just have to work around that because I'm fairly sure (and I suspect everyone at ABC is as well) that it will bomb away from Grey's.

ABC however needs to go back to the drawing board on Tuesday nights. In particular they need to work out what they're going to do with Dancing on Tuesday and just as importantly what they're going to do when its not on. It amazes me that they have The Bachelor to fill the Monday void but they've never put any effort into finding something to do the same on Tuesday.

That's true enough, there's a massive Wikipedia page on Saturday Night Live and it talks about the 1980 revamp when Michaels left and they got in a new producer, who apparently had no sense of humour, and a new cast who were rubbish, including someone recommended by Woody Allen who he only recommended because he hated Saturday Night Live and knew she'd be crap at it. Then the producer turned down Eddie Murphy because they already had a black person on it. The ratings plummeted and then one of the cast said the F word live on air which NBC took as the cue to fire everyone and start again.

Great rating for NCIS and that lead in has boosted Law and Order: Criminal Intent by about 33% compared to what it was averaging on its own in the 9pm slot late last year. Benidorm ER meanwhile might be over for this series but looks certain to be recommissioned with those numbers, finishing third in the competitive 8pm timeslot.

Thanks for the reply. Hopefully the powers that be will hope to see it up around the 1 million mark tonight!

it may increase but i would not expect it to be 1 million.

I think with the Emmerdale clash tonight, 1m is almost a cert for the BBC3 repeat at 10pm.

I think many people will be glad of the chance to not watch

I did not think Alex Polizzi : the fixer would rate that good, 2.3m is good, did the hotel inspector rate simular on CH5?

Quarter-finals:

BBC - 1st and 4th picks
ITV - 2nd and 3rd picks

The whole point is that the BBC chose QF 1st pick as their overall tournament 1st pick, thus allowing ITV to get 2 England group games.

The timeslots can't be known for certain yet as if England make the QF it will be on BBC yet we don't know where England will finish in their group.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16137701

Final episode data added.

Despite the constant adverts on Sky these last few weeks - the series has started really low. Just goes to show that no matter how much you plug a show - it'll never always be a success.

well at least it stayed above 3 million, is not much but it could have been worse.


well S1 did air on ITV 4.

Is another show built around something that is very American, and not something many Brits understand, and yeah the pressure put on those high school students is totally unwarranted.

Its one of those rare TV shows, that is a genuine look at another culture.

Interestingly I'm sure it was on Netflix UK when the service first launched last month but it seems to have vanished now. Typical Sky hoovering up exclusive rights.

In any case, I don't honestly think Friday Night Lights is the sort of show that was ever going to find an audience of note here so quite why they went for it I don't know. Like Six Feet Under which they started reshowing in the 9pm timeslot to disappointing ratings, it will probably get pushed out of primetime before long. In the case of the latter I see tonight's new to Sky Atlantic episode goes out as late as 12.45am. Clearly these are not programmes suited to a linear channel like Sky Atlantic but streaming services like Netflix, Lovefilm and even Sky Go.

Top 100 overnights (w/e 12/02/12)

Top 30 overnights BBC2, Ch4, Ch5 (w/e 12/02/12)

Top 30 Timeshifted programmes (w/e 05/02/12)

Demographic Focus - (w/e - 12/02/12)

At its peak on Monday nights in the summer of 2009 (which, by the way, is where they should schedule it every year if they want to maximise the numbers) The Hotel Inspector was pulling in over 2m in the overnights. It peaked at 2.6m in the officials.

More recently in more competitive slots it has tended to rate around the 1.4m mark, rising to around 1.8m in the officials. Still excellent figures for C5, but admittedly not as good as The Fixer's current numbers. Worth noting though her new show broadens the net a bit to cover all different types of businesses so that could partly explain the increased appeal, as well as the lack of adverts and the fact she's on a higher profile channel now. She is of course a highly watchable TV personality and so it doesn't come as a surprise to me that she's been well received on the Beeb.

However, it doesn't always work out so well. The previous Hotel Inspector to jump ship Ruth Watson now works on a programme called Country House Rescue on Channel 4 which regularly attracts lower ratings than what she used to get on C5.

For me that programme was thoroughly wasted by her use of the F word. Totally unnecessarybecause she was strong at getting her point over anyway, and for a lady quite disappointing.

I wonder who'll they are going to replace Alex with on The Hotel Inspector, I think they should go for a male inspector or even Alex's mother Olga Polizzi who's a very successful hotelier.

The Restaraunt Inspector is returning as well soon.

It's a weird one the channel hopping. Channel 4 poached Watson from 5 and was replaced by Polizzi. Watson bombed on 4.
Then 4 poached Mary Portas from BBC2, and she did a tweaked version of Queen of Shops which did not work, and which bombed too but to a lesser degree.
Now BBC2 have poached Polizzi from 5 and she's basically doing Queen of Shops under a different name, The Fixer.
She's doing better than at 5, but less that Queen of shops was getting on BBC2 before Portas left.
Talk about musical chairs

Have to say I do like Polizzi, especially since she invested in decongestant, she used to sound as if she had a constant blocked nose.