Mmm, the BBC could have lent them Coast which appears to broadcastable in any timescale.

Btw, if anyone does feel the need to fill in on The Big Quiz its on ITV1 on Tuesday at 10.35pm. ITV could now legitimately call it "A Bit More of The Big Quiz, or The Big Quiz extra!

Didn't he host The Magicians on BBC One?

Might have done. I only watched one episode and never came back to that particular programme.

Lenny Henry did the one I saw.

Thanks for clearing up the overrun thing. Darren McMullen was last seen on The Magicians, for a novice he was good on it, I thought he was better than Lenny Henry last year. Interestingly, Holly and Reggie were initially going to appear on The Voice UK auditions shows much more as they filmed lots of studio links (as seen here after 1min) during filming but the producers mustve decided later on that the auditions phase works better with more narration and less on screen presenting.

Or "Time For Bed Now. Nothing To See Here"

I almost feel sorry for the Benidorm cast, having to face the TOWIE lot all the time, first in Family Fortunes, now in The Big Quiz.

But only "almost". I'm not surprised Benidorm gets linked with TOWIE when the "quality" of the comedy makes On The Buses look like an Oscar Wilde play.

That as well

And with the BBC having a lot more time to fill per episode due to no commercial breaks, if anything you'd expect the opposite. They've done well to keep filler to the absolute minimum, and are now reaping the rewards as a result.

I haven't really seen enough of Darren to comment, other than to say I'm quite impressed by his rapid rise from relative nobody to a real somebody in the world of TV presenting. Now, let's hope he doesn't do a Steve Jones!

And not forgetting Channel 10 going all out and showing Avatar on 'super sunday'. I suspect 10 will live to regret that, but what else could they have shown, and they wanted to save Touch until the Logies were out of the way.

Is not just last night that was the big night, the whole week is set up to be interesting and Channel 9 may just win for the first time in maybe over a year. Reality overload which sees only half an hour of scripted content between the key hours of 7-9.30 sunday to thursday (if you don't include the voice which is very obviously scripted). In fact the fact that TBBT has only 1 episode this week shows how far 9 are pushing the boat out. Seven on the other hand have 3 episodes of Got Talent at 7.30 followed by Revenge on Monday, Rafters on Tuesday and Titanic on Wednesday. So it will be interesting to see if the Voice is strangled early on, or whether Seven lose some viewers. The Block will no doubt start excellently, and Celebrity Apprentice may not do so bad, especially as it has an episode on Thursday which is 7's weaker night, but it was probably better to leave that til the quieter spring months like last year.

The Logies will no doubt do well, a lot of hype this year due to 5 lads from England, quite what the obsession is I don't know but the media has gone into a frenzy over them and opening the Logies and then presenting an award is no doubt likely to have gained some tennager viewers along the way.


Massive overrun for The Voice, Logies was listed as starting at 7.30, didn't start until 8. I have to say I really didn't like the Voice, yes the host was poor, however that can be said of most Australian reality shows, 7's over reliance of home and away actors often leads to charisma less clones presenting shows, the X Factor being prime example. However he didn't feature much at all on the Voice, just stood around in the background, the real 'stars' were the judges. For me the show was far too gimmicky, tonight for instance Guy Sebastian (an X Factor judge's brother) will be auditioning, as well as a blind woman, and there are far too many sob stories, much more than back in X Factor UK's early days. And apart from Delta which is a massive signing for 9, the panel just lacked something impressive

It's Australian TV - nothing ever finishes on time. A programme billed for an 8.30 start can end up starting closer to 9pm.

It must be said that over runs are very common on Australian TV, My Kitchen Rules would not finish often until 8.50pm despite the next show supposingly starting at 8.30pm, with much fewer channels, and also no late news meaning the schedule has to stay between 7 and 10pm, I guess it is one way of keeping viewers longer and stopping people straying channels.

For Channel Nine last night advertising the Logies as 7.30pm meant that potentially upwards of 1 million people who may not have wanted to see the voice will have been exposed to it, and perhaps more crucially the key demos of young teenage girls with One Direction being heavily advertised as starting the Logies. The Voice will no doubt be tghe bigger show of last night on TV in terms of average, unless 9 split up the Logies. I stayed up until 11.30pm and by that point Tony Bennett had still not performed, and the Gold Logie needed to be announced, so a very late finish

It is ridiculous, especially when they have such strict rules over the sporting crown jewels, multi-channeling and original content on subscription TV (though of those rules only the last one is really in the interests of the viewers). Schedules down under are usually only announced days ahead of airing - and then ripped up or run late anyway.

Insane pile-up in Australia over the next few days! The TV environment over there seems viciously competitive - even more so than the US. Surely there's just a complete overload this week, and some shows are going to have to take a beating...


From everything that I've seen of Australian TV promotion, they really don't know how to do subtle.

This was how 7 decided to promote Downton Abbey, of all things, last year....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SRGi7nuUqY

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Not sure Julian Fellowes signed off on that one... It's like the guy who does the X Factor montages has taken over a whole channel.

It didn't light up the ratings board in quite the way I expected for Channel 4, so starting as late at 8.30pm against The Logies it's probably not going to be a roaring success for Ten. I'm just glad they dropped their previous idea of launching MasterChef tonight!


I'd love to see that. Channel Seven have had it too easy for too long. Nine clawing back audience share a bit and stringing a few wins together could really shake things up in the Australian market.


Oh my goodness. I assume there's about 50 episodes on GO! to make up for it.


Spot the weak link! Any whispers as to where Seven will schedule Once Upon a Time? That deserves a decent timeslot.


Yeah, I can see what Nine were trying to do in that spread, making out the return of Celebrity Apprentice is a big as those other two launches for them. It clearly isn't. But maybe it will surprise us and start better than normal.


It's got me baffled, I must say. International stardom is achieved with ease these days, it seems.


Thanks for the info. Good review. Not long until we find out how it went.

yes what is it with One True Voice, they seem to be world famous, but I cant say ive ever heard any of their songs, why are they apparently so famous?

My post was about live sport on the main BBC1 and BBC2 channels across the UK.

I'm not aware of 20 Pro 12 games being shown live on BBC1 or BBC2 across the UK. Indeed I'm not aware of any.

In Holland, there is a show called The Voice Kids with child singers. Do you think BBC One might pick that up? Its already been renewed for a second season in Holland.

I think you mean One Direction.

One True Voice was the boy band that lost out to Girls Aloud on Pop Stars: The Rivals.

One for CBBC possibly.

I hope not - only because that is not the image BBC One needs for The Voice. If a kid breaks down on stage a la Hollie Steel it'd no doubt tarnish The Voice's image and frankly it does not need to take the risk.

Besides, where will they air it? The summer will be too soon after the main show, unless they move that to the winter but it may suffer from singing show overload there. If they try and pitch it in the autumn it'll be up against The X Factor which won't be sensible - at least Britain's Got Talent is slightly different from the Voice.

EDIT: Didn't think of CBBC. Possible but I doubt the main show's judges would be used. Holly and Reggie, possibly.

oh yeah, One Direction, that is what may well be what I meant.

I am so out of touch with the youth of today.

I'm sure you have, even if you don't listen to radio (and in your case it'd be Radio 1 rather than Capital, Heart or anything like that), they were playing one of their songs in my local Boots last week!

They may have even been played in the background on EastEnders!

TV just doesn't run to time over here, you just accept it. If TV listings started showing programmes as starting at 8.50pm or 9.45 or 7.35 you probably wouldn't think to watch it, plus it exposes people to other programmes, and when the market is so small in Australia, any extra exposure is needed. Yes its irritating but when My Kitchen Rules was on yopu just don't turn on for the next programme until 8.45pm it becomes a habit


Channel 7 do not do subtle at all, but then again neither do NIne, the Logies was just one big advert for their shows, Hamish and Andy, The Voice, The block etc. But at least for 7 it appears to work.


I doubt Ten were going to launch Masterchef last night, Biggest Loser still has a few weeks left and as that is stripped nightly it wont start until after then. I think April 29th has been mentioned.

Channel 7 have only done so well because they put out popular programmes and not just comedy repeats or an over reliance on American programmes like Ten. I think Nine should have held back Celberity Apprentice, Tricky Business still needs to be slotted in somewhere and Thursday would have been a good night as 7 are weaker then. The only bright spot for Celebrity Apprentice is David Hasslehoff, that car crash alone will be worth some viewers.

Monday and Tuesday are out of the question for once upon a time, unless it goes at 7.30pm Monday once AGT moves to twice weekly, though it may be Monday/Tuesday split than Tuesday/Wednesday. Thursday seems pretty solid with the medical dramas, and presumably Downton will go on Sundays. Personally I think Wednesdays will be the night once Titanic is over, which will only be 2 weeks anyway. AGT will move to Monday/Tuesday with Revenge and Rafters benefiting from the lead in, and Wednesdays will be Amazing Race Australia followed by Once upon a Time. Both of these shows have yet to be heavily promoted yet though so its wait and see for now

Even for summer content it doesn't do that well. Last year was 6.9 million viewers and a 1.2 in the demo (and that was up from the year before that). Its not a disaster by any means but its far from popular. Which is a shame really because it is by far and away the slickest and most entertaining for the awards shows that get broadcast on network television.


I thought he did a really good job on The Magicians earlier in the year and would be happy enough to see him crop up on prime time BBC1 again.


That was epic. I demand ITV start promoting Downton in this fashion. It actually makes it look like stuff happens.

On the Downton note if the press reports today are to be believed it looks as if ITV have their big hook for this years Christmas special.

It involves midwifes?

Now you're just spoiling series 4 - Downton Abbey now with 100% more midwives!