I'm pretty sure they featured on the BBC News as I saw a clip but never watched the actual event.I think they also featured subsequently in ''TV C**k up'' type programmes.
I notice News at Ten can be knocked back for football matches but not other types of events. Tonight we have a match on ITV with two non-British teams which could easily overrun and affect NAT which seems ridiculous.

The rating for the BRITs makes it look like a ridiculous move to wrap it up quick considering it won from 8pm to 10pm. Excluding football, BGT and I'm a Celebrity, when was the last time ITV did that? I'm thinking during Corrie's 50th week but I may be wrong.

that Brits ratings looks good in text, until you realise that 6.2 million people, are all going to feel pretty annoyed with ITV, its most likely damaged the ITV in their eyes.

New sitcom pilot being made for ITV set in a Job Centre.


http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...038349.article

Who remembers the other ITV sitcom set in a Job Centre, The Worker, with Charlie Drake and Henry McGee?

I doubt 90% of posters here were born when that started. I was born 1969 and I have never heard of it until I googled it. Who said ITV1 was short of new ideas? Sadly the 2012 reincarnate of Charlie Drake is Joe Swash - geeze that accent grates.

It wasn't 1987, it was 1989. They're unlikely to show 1987 again, it was presented by Jonathan King. Mick and Sam's show is on YouTube in full, and it was fantastic, and Smash Hits the following week did a brilliant big feature about what a mess it all was, asking "Who chose the winners?", "Why was it all such a mess?" and "Who is Randy Newman?". I remember someone from the BPI being quoted in it saying that he wondered if they should even bother televising it again.

Anyway, this exact same thing happened in 1988 when Rick Astley was on his way to the stage to pick up his award but The Who started playing and so he never got to do a speech or anything. I don't see what a disaster this was, at least she was given the award.

It's the internet though, and specifically Twitter, which always blows these things way out of proportion. It only takes a few people to start tweeting hysterically and it becomes a 'controversy'.

EastEnders really is struggling atm. It's going to be in for a bad summer I reckon.

this summer is going to be a really wildcard for EE, TBH this summer would have been a good time for the between producers episodes to air. I suspect its too late for that now.

Excellent rating for Brit Awards, the show was poor I thought, some popular music is so bland - last night we had it in spades. Cutting Adele off let her know that ITV1 won't be needing her for An Audience With..... Shame Prisoner's Wives dipped, deserves a lot more viewers - having said that, I watch it at weekends myself.

Could you define struggling for us?



All 4 episodes 10m+ consolidated rated

For comparison



Only 2 episodes 10m+ consolidated rated

Just to put on record, by the way, the worst scheduling in the history of television on Sunday when BBC1 are showing highlights of the League Cup Final at 11.05pm - ten minutes before Match of the Day finishes on BBC2! What's happened there? The bizarre thing is that MOTD is followed by a repeat of Three Men In A Boat which is exactly the same length as the League Cup highlights, so it could have fitted there perfectly.

I can see why they do the highlights of the final and I can see why they have to do them in a separate show for contractual reasons. But football against football!

To be honest, from June 8th to August 12th, there is little point in looking at any of the soaps ratings in great detail given that the main three will vary wildly due to Euro 2012 and then the Olympics. Year to year comparisons will also mean that the three big soaps will be recording probably double digit drops.

Perhaps you should drop a line to Danny Cohen and point it out to him, the solution does seem rather obvious

BBC1 23:05 - The League Cup Show: Liverpool v Cardiff City, most viewers will have seen it live, but keeping it on BBC1 will increase viewing share. Also the last minutes of MotD are waffle as are the opening minutes of TLCS, very little if any action will be missed. As long as Liverpool win 3-0 or better, who cares?

You don't need hindsight to tell you that a two-hour show will last precisely 120 minutes.

They have people in the control room with stopwatches, so they must have known they were "over running" well before they got to Adele. This was the absolute climax of the event, the equivalent of Oscar for "Best Picture". They should have cut the time from earlier performances and acceptance speeches, or else made the decision to have two Blur songs instead of three. But they didn't, so Adele was cut off after 12 seconds.

ITV got a great rating, but it deserves the PR kicking its taking today. At least when it famously cut to a TicTac advert and missed a goal in an FA Cup match a few years ago, it was the result of technical error. This was amateurish production, pure and simple.

Some Mothers Do Have Them starring Michael Crawford regularly featured his spectacularly unsuccessful attempts to get a job

What would The Brits be without amateurish production! Its their calling card.

You dont half sound like you have a complex about how this thread's so called double standards against ITV.

Give it a rest and go and see a doctor about your paranoia.

ITA it's very tiresome now.

I disagree that the Brits needed to be two and a half hours. I'm not reading much criticism that the show itself was rushed but rather that the last five minutes was a shambles. The issue here is that the Brits needed an additional 5 minutes not another 30.

The Worker ran for two series in 1965, was revived in 1969 and then again in 1978 as part of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night which is where I first encountered it, aged 12.


I believe that one of the reasons that Benidorm is a hit is because its style harks back to a bygone ITV age of shamelessly unsubtle working-class comedies such as On The Buses, Nearest And Dearest, Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour. And it's a very close cousin of eighties smash-hit sitcom Duty Free. So doing updated versions of old comedy ideas from the past doesn't sound such a daft idea for a channel that has struggled badly with sitcoms over the past 15 years - Benidorm is just about the first ratings hit sitcom ITV has had since The Upper Hand ended in 1996.

Grimm looks like a hit for Watch.

Just heard from an insider that the first episode has consolidated at 1m plus (inc +1, not including repeats).

ITV are set to axe Wild at Heart, assuming The Mirror are to be believed: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tv-film-...t-heart-736938 Although I do think it deserves a last send-off next year (or maybe a two/three part series ender) instead of having it axed after the last episode has been shown.

One thing that has already been axed, and quite unsurprisingly is Eternal Law: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...ne-series.html

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...038326.article