Fans of the show are apparently saying Syfy might pick it up, but that seems unlikely.

Not surprising in the grand scheme of things. Far too expensive for the numbers it was pulling.


Unlikely is an understatement on that front.

it is interesting how much its being linked to Downton Abbey, rather than being sold in its own right. Which (looking into it) is odd as whilst it is written by Julian Fellowes, it isnt produced by Carnival Films (the production company behind Downton Abbey) so it may not be the equal to Downton people think it will be.

Also 4 episodes, whilst im sure it would do just fine (7 - 8 million easy) as a single or two parter, im not sure that will last over 4 episode. how many times do people really need to see the ship sink?


Talking of Carnival Films, Whitechapel ended its 3rd series run last night, I would quite like to see their take on Criminal Minds in the UK at some point, or at least the creative types behind Whitechapel doing Criminal Minds.

Just random Carnival Films shout out now, they did a good job on Sea of Souls for the BBC as well.

Shopping Terra Nova to other networks, after all the public talk of how expensive it is, is just about the funniest thing ive read this month.

Can we please all stop saying nice things EastEnders, and trying to spin its ratings so that they look good, we need Kirkwood gone, that kind of talk wont help that.

Sky will be disappointed, Terra Nova performed really well for them, with all the episodes getting over one million*.

*except the two that were shown as double bills. But that's the norm for them. Look at programmes like The Killing. The second episode of double bills never get as many as the first. Strange that so many follow these shows week after week, but don't watch the final episode!!

Number two is hardly an issue, who wants to see Paul Merson in HD? And they happily simulcast Soccer AM on Sky One which is surely just as big a deal as Soccer Saturday, especially as it's not the exact same stuff you can see on the BBC at the same time.


But people hate Alistair Campbell. This show is exactly the same as Play It Again, the BBC1 series where a celebrity learned to play an instrument which flopped massively and got its last episode flung out on a Bank Holiday teatime,


They're showing ALL the F1 season! Like they show all the Premier League and they're showing all of Euro 2012.


Unlikely, the reviews have said it's a terribly irritating programme, unsurprising given it's a Victor Lewis-Smith production and he fills his shows with stupid visual effects and non-sequituers that just baffle and bore everyone.

Knowing BBC scheduling it's final is probably scheduled to air midway through the Olympics. Based on the format though it should be about 10-13 weeks.


The Catalina will probably be the most formatted out of the lot. And you didn't mention Oh Sit! as musical chairs comes to primetime TV.


Tube Talk said last week it is still to be picked up, though RTE have picked it up for Ireland. I really don't understand why UK broadcasters aren't interested - it might not be a Glee style breakout hit but it's one of the few success stories of this season, so I guess it must be coming down to price and perhaps the length of rights to avoid Sky coming in and nicking season 3.


Ironic really that Nick Griffin is only the third biggest knob involved in this production. Sounds like C4 didn't really want to air it so actually surprised it got an 11pm weeknight slot rather than being buried after midnight - on More4.

It really is doing extraordinary numbers for Seven at the moment. You'd imagine it can't be long before this show proves irresistible for a UK broadcaster, too. My money would be on Channel 4.

The UK broadcasters have been a lot slower to pick things up this year. Person of Interest is also lacking a UK home and that's starting to raise serious eyebrows given the numbers in the US.

Exactly. They do not show "all" of any of these.

But they did show every minute of every lap of every session for the last three seasons. They have a nerve to run trailers that hold out the BBC as the home of F1, "we are the racing line", what a load of guff.

They should have had their expensive poncey marketing agency come up with something like: "BBC F1: Doesn't Tom Jones have a fancy swivel chair?"

The Apprentice is in the Coming next sections of the TV Times and the Radio Times so it on sometime during the week of 17-23 March.

Although Homeland is shown on Showtime it's owned by its production company Fox 21 (part of NewsCorp).

It's quite common for NewsCorp to sell its shows to Sky's competitors in the UK, so it's not "Peter paying Paul" and to give them more exposure and no doubt the possibiliity of Sky acquiring them in the future.

I trust all the Murdoch haters are boycotting this show!!

Somebody yesterday said the 28th. But with MasterChef finishing on the 15th, there is no reason I can think of that it couldn't launch the week before.

Ratings have been delayed, by the way, in case you were wondering.

Lord Sugar is guest editing the RT issue that comes out next week, which presumably is for that week and presumably will be the week TA returns? Makes sense to guest edit for the week he will be on the cover as his show comes back.

He has tweeted this morning to say he has an interview with Harry Redknapp on the England job - big scoop he claims. Probably just trying to wind Piers up...

Out of interest, is there any way of finding out the tv ratings for the day Diana Princess of Wales died?

Wonder if there is anything in the reports that Maggie Smith has quit Downton Abbey?

Always the case when you're waiting for a biggie

What are you waiting for?

Corrie?

I don't have them, but I don't recall any exceptional numbers. BBC1 did shift its entire evening schedule to BBC2 to air tributes and news on BBC1, but people had had enough by then. The ratings were poor and ITV was the big winner with it's business as usual line up. Michael Palin had a new series starting that night and it got shifted to BBC2 and got 2m iirc, meaning they repeated it the following Sunday in its usual slot.


Ted Danson of Cheers and his missus want roles according to the Guardian. So that will be ok then....

I've found the top 10 ratings for that week. The site (which I have linked) has some more mid 90s ratings if you search for them, pretty good site actually

Here's the full article:

MILLIONS SEE TRAGEDY.

ITN's rolling coverage of the death of Princess Diana*brought it two entries in the TV top 10.

Its evening news special and the programme Diana were watched by a total of almost 20million people on the evening of the Sunday when she died.

The 10 most watched programmes for the week ending August 31 were:

1 Heartbeat (ITV) 14.08

2 Coronation Street*(ITV) 13.77

3 EastEnders (BBC1) 12.65

4 Emmerdale (ITV) 11.00

5 News Special (ITV) 10.50

6 Beggar Bride (BBC1) 10.22

7 Lottery Live (BBC1) 8.89

8 Diana (ITV) 8.75

9 Neighbours (BBC1) 8.30

10 Vets In Practice (BBC1) 8.22

(Figures, in millions, from BARB)

Source: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/MILLIO...DY.-a061059412

She hasn't quit. The reports merely state that unlike other key cast members, Dan Stevens and Maggie Smith haven't committed themselves beyond the series that is currently being filmed.

A spokesman for Downton Abbey’s UK producer Carnival said: 'We are currently filming series three of Downton Abbey in which all the cast have returned.

'ITV have not yet commissioned a fourth and fifth series which, if they happen, would be a long way off.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...#ixzz1oKpyirfp

Of course - there's no other biggie is there?

Interesting to see ITV (or ITN as it was then) come out on top, though I suspect they had shorter scheduled bulletins while BBC News ("in London") just ran continuously from what I remember until Martin Lewis keeled over.


The pace though Downton is moving at they'll have to kill her off sooner or later - and perhaps even have a Skins style recast to jump to the next generation. Everyone is supposed to have aged at least seven years over the two series.

The 30th/31st August weekend marked the start of the new TV season (in the days when that meant something), so it was unfortunate timing that Diana died that Saturday night.

The episode of Heartbeat at the top of the list would have been the start of a new series, and ITV obviously decided not to ditch it, although I suspect the "Diana" documentary must have, contrary to my earlier recollection, replaced the planned 9pm drama after Heartbeat.

The ITN News Special would have been around 6.30pm when her body was brought back to RAF Northolt alongside Prince Charles and met by Tony Blair etc. We won't have a rating for the BBC coverage of that because I believe they were still in full-on rolling news mode having been such since the early hours of Sunday morning; the ITN figure was inevitably boosted by folk settling down for the 7.30 Coro Street which I think may have been ditched.

I have no recollection of The Beggar Bride, but it did very well for BBC1 in the last week of the summer school holidays. I found this link to the show - an all star cast clearly, but I am still none the wiser. I guess my memories of the last week of August 1997 are coloured by what happened in Paris on the 31st...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122395/

No, the ITV schedule was supposed to be...
6.30 Some doco or other
7.30 Corrie
8.00 Heartbeat
9.00 Alright on the Night's Cock-Up Trip (rpt)
10.00 News
10.15 Sharpe (rpt)

But it ended up with...
6.30 News Special
7.30 Corrie
8.00 Heartbeat
9.00 Diana
And I think Sharpe might have got on at some point. The reason ITV's news at 6.30 got the highest rating of the day was because a) it was on before Corrie and b) at the time BBC1 were showing a service which Songs of Praise had mounted, which I guess would have turned off viewers waiting for rolling news, and which had to be interrupted for the shots of the body being brought back.

You can see the BBC1 and BBC2 schedules for that day here...
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana.html
The MHP was my favourite website in my early days on the internet, I love how they've never updated it either. BBC1's planned schedule for that night was...
6.45 Oh Doctor Beeching
7.15 Antiques Inspectors - the second series was of course interrupted as Jill Dando died but the first series, presented by Carol Vorderman, started a week later because of Diana. That show must have been cursed.
8.00 Full Circle with Michael Palin - shown on BBC2 then repeated the following week on BBC1, as mentioned.
8.50 News
9.05 Airplane II, which I was very surprised at because they'd shown Airplane about a thousand times but I certainly couldn't remember them showing Airplane II before and I'd never seen it, and I was staggered such an old film was scheduled for such a prominent slot. In the end they didn't bother rescheduling it until it turned up late at night on New Year's Day 1999, I recall.

I'm getting frustrated now - where are the ratings?