Not confirmed, as far as I'm aware although I've seen it rumoured. I'd imagine CBS and FOX will want it to keep going as long as possible.

I think I read that it's definitely the last season that the cast are currently signed up for, and I'm not sure if they could get them all to renew again.

Especially now Cobie Smulders is bound to be wanting to break into movies after her Avengers success.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1661888

I've always thought if they cared about it the same way as TBBT and TAAHM then it could easily be as big a success, but it's always played second fiddle to them and probably always will. I think it's too late to move it now even after it's had an excellent season (ratings-wise not so much quality-wise) which I think has been it's highest rated season yet.

As for Partners, although we haven't seen the trailer yet, I think it could do pretty well, it's from the creators of Will and Grace and seems to have a good cast. That said it doesn't have a mammoth rating to launch after like 2 Broke Girls did.

EastEnders airs Fri. 1 June at 9:00-9:30

The episode will be shown at 9pm due to A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
Confirmed for Friday 1 June on BBC One at 8.00-9.00pm
As part of the Diamond Jubilee weekend, BBC One will be broadcasting a personal tribute to Her Majesty The Queen by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

Friday's One Show Olympic special (arrival of the torch in the UK) to include David Beckham according to the Radio Times...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-...n-the-one-show

This One Show has been heavily promoted. The last time the BBC promoted a One Show was for its edition from Buckingham Palace and that boosted ratings to 5.2m viewers. Although that was on a Tuesday rather than a Friday where it has two disadvantages.
1) It partly clashes with Corrie and
2) Chris Evans is the co-host. (Letter in this week's Radio Times from a One Show fan who won't watch on a Friday because they think that Evans is "a good presenter but he shouts which makes everyone else shout".)

What do you think is wrong with the Sunday schedule? I think that is a pretty well thought out set of shows. They are all older-skewing, and all get similiar levels in the ratings. TAR and TGW are two of the best shows in America imo though so I am slightly biased!

Just watched the ABC trailers, a bit late with this!

The Neighbors... oh dear. Anything else would have been better. The new Sarah Chalke comedy (which doesn't look good, frankly, but still better!) or The Middle or Suburgatory moving to 9.30pm would have been better decisions. Happy Endings and New Girl are both very 18-34 targeted - makes even less sense when DWTS is now going to be against The Voice.

Last Resort looks like an idea for a film rather than a TV series and I can't imagine it being more out of place on any other network although I was kind of hooked on the trailer and will probably check it out. 8pm Thursday hasn't been easy for ABC either.

Revenge to Sundays was a surprise - it's doing well in a tough slot for them on Wednesday nights so I thought they'd have gone for stability. Plus, Nashville looks like good soapy fun with a nice angle. Good cast too. I'd have put that on Sundays at 9pm. Not really sure what to make of 666 Park from that trailer.

ITV have stopped airing new content on Tuesdays at 8pm after their well documented catalogue of low ratings, where practically every genre has been tried.

As the slot won't really exist in it's current form for much longer, and a lot of that time will be effected by Euro 2012, Olympics etc, they've obviously thought they'd be best to just show repeats now and save any new programmes until the new schedule is introduced in the Autumn.

The repeat rated not much lower than new stuff has been doing, and the cost will have been practically free.

The Media Show on BBC Radio 4 today was talking ab out The Voice's plummeting ratings and what can be done. Should be worth a listen.

It might rate better if it was billed as a seperate programme rather than part of The One Show.

Chris Evans is the co-host, but Alex Jones isn't exactly the least annoying presenter around. Most viewers will be debating who they dislike the least/or most.

Well yes it will, but will they fill the slot with something new or just the usual Daytime filler that already airs on BBC2 at the same time. More repeats of Cash in the Attic etc?

What they will fill many hours of BBC2 every morning will be a question as well.

The link between Revenge and Once Upon a Time/666 Park Avenue is already tenuous enough, which is "struggle between good and evil" according to Paul Lee, Nashville definitely wouldn't have fit there.

ABC:
8pm - Cougar Town - 3.35m (1.0)
8.30pm - Cougar Town - 3.31m (1.0)
9pm - Dancing With The Stars - 12.94m (2.2)
10pm - Private Practice - 7.05m (1.8)

CBS:
8pm - NCIS - 18.70m (3.5)
9pm - NCIS:LA - 15.12m (3.0)

FOX:
8pm - Glee - 6.03m (2.4)
9pm - Glee - 6.03m (2.5)

NBC:
8pm - America's Got Talent - 10.41m (3.4)
10pm - Fashion Star - 4.92m (1.6)

Series lows for Glee, down from a 2.7 at 8pm last week. The 9pm performance is rather weak - you'd expect a bigger gap between the two hours. The 8pm hour was down 31% from the same night last year.

America's Got Talent delivered NBC's best time period (8-10pm) performance of the season and comfortably won the 9pm hour. Fashion Star rebounded a bit as well at 10pm for its season finale.

Cougar Town did horribly - Last Man Standing had a 1.7 at 8pm last week. Dancing With The Stars won't have cheered them up either as it hit another series low and is down an alarming 37% from the same night last year. Private Practice closed out its penultimate season with a respectable number at 10pm.

3 hours of NCIS franchise season finales was enough to give CBS the nightly win. The difference maker was Fashion Star at 10pm which rated way below NCIS:LA's second hour. NCIS was down 8% from last seasons finale, NCIS:LA was down 6% from last seasons one hour finale.

Tvbythenumbers

still missing the final episode in the series of Would I Lie To You (not the best of)

Dragging Rules of Engagement out like this, is not cool CBS. As for is this the final season of HIMYM, I tend to think we would know if it was, since the show has a set end it needs to write, so maybe next season.

I don't think ABC have ordered shows that can be paired off particularly well whatever they did. If anything I guess 666 and Once Upon A Time would go best. But I don't see Nashville being any more out of place than Revenge, tbh.

Don't really see them axing CBBC on BBC One a good thing. Would prefer them catering for all ages and viewers instead of another 2 hours of Escape to the Country, which it probably will be.

As we approach 100% digital television, schedules will change permanently. BBC now have dedicated Children's channels, there is no need to keep showing kid's programmes these days on BBC1.

Of course it would be good to show family suitable programmes between 3pm and 515pm rather than 'older' themed shows.

They probably do right and also salvation will be coming in the form of the Champions League and FA Cup replays for part of the time., also helped by IAC and BGT for 3 Tuesdays. I think viewers would be just as happy with a mixture of football, repeats of crime dramas, films and the odd Lewis than some of the dire stuff they've tried like 71 Degrees North.

Or just old shows full stop. At least there's currently some originality in the BBC One schedule between 3pm and 5.15pm. If they're not careful they'll just become another glorified ITV in the slot.

Speaking of ITV - p*** slits, boobs and b*ll*cks wouldn't do much worse than their current fare. They left the 8pm slot too exposed for too long and now people just can't be bothered. Scheduling repeats there hardly helps, of course. Dirty Britain wouldn't probably get 4m plus on a Monday night at 9pm but it joins a long list of Tuesday failures.

BBC One, on the other hand, had a very strong night with EastEnders and Holby City both bouncing back from Britain's Got Talent week and Silk launching with an excellent figure. Great Ormond Street picked up a very good rating on BBC Two, building well on the 8pm hour. Hidden Talent saw a small boost on last week for Channel 4 but Embarrassing Bodies was the highlight of their night. Channel 5 had a steady night with their CSI approach.

Look forward to Boyd Hilton spinning that one. This series has been sort of OK but it hasn't helped that it's an identical format to Room 101, and I think it's been too silly for general consumption. Taking the piss next week was a Best Of in the same slot.


This is a bit of-topic but they started back in 1999 when they used to opt out of the Evening Session on Thursday nights in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and at the start I remember they did extra coverage of T In The Park in Scotland alone. Colin Murray and Huw Stephens both made their Radio 1 debuts on the regional shows. In recent years though they've moved them to Sundays at midnight.


Well, I think Holby's got a loyal audience that will stick with it week in week out and maybe a million or so who will happily desert it if something more interesting comes on, but I doubt it has much appeal to a casual audience, I don't suppose many people would choose to watch it as a one-off. It's never going to go much higher. Yet what baffles me is why ITV seem to treat it as the World Cup Final and never show anything worthwhile against it, the thing that baffles me about ITV Tuesdays is that it's not as if it's a completely thankless slot, but they just write off the whole night.


Of course, there used to be far more repeats in primetime than there are now, BBC1 used to repeat all its sitcoms and more or less all its dramas, but you wouldn't get, say, repeats of Silk or Hustle anymore.

ITV are in a vicious circle with Tuesdays. If they've got a programme capable of attracting a big audience on a Tuesday then they won't want to waste it by sticking it out on a Tuesday.

As someone said elsewhere people sniggered when ALW cast Frank Spencer in Phantom. People wouldn't snigger now at Michael Crawford being cast in anything.

I agree though the show is going to flop as it's going to get lost in the summer. I'd hold it back myself and air it in late Aug/Sept through to TXF live shows beginning, airing either on Sundays or midweek.


They'll be nothing unexpected about a mega rating for the opening ceremony, but when it comes to the 2012 top ten a lot comes from how the BBC will schedule it. I suspect they'll go for an all in one scheduled show from 7.30pm-12m'n rather than airing the pre-show (starting at 20:12) as part of a 7.30-9pm show then the main ceremony from 9-12m'n - though history shows that late night tubes or not, these opening ceremonies rarely come in at less than 4 hours - so expect an over-run.


So is The Job the same show as The Intern which is due to air on C4?

I doubt it'll happen but with CBS struggling for slots for new content I'd have been tempted to cut both Survivor and The Amazing Race back to one cycle a year, sticking them in either the Sunday or Wednesday slot, freeing up the other one for drama or comedy.


I'd rather all these key Olympic moments were handled as BBC Sport productions. The lighting of the torch last week wasn't even covered live on BBC1 or BBC2, the ceremony in Greece tomorrow is on BBC2 - but just a BBC News simulcast, and then on Friday it's just a One Show special.

It does seem though the regional shows will be separate 7pm specials rather than extended editions of the 6.30pm regional news.

The Amazing Race will probably hold up well enough but I suspect The Good Wife and The Mentalist are going to see declines. Its worth remembering that CSI: Miami had a much bigger audience than The Mentalist when it moved to this Sunday 10PM and it dropped like a stone. The Good Wife continues to find it impossible to find an audience to go along with its critical acclaim and Emmy's. I imagine that problem will get worse when ABC ramps up promotion for their Sunday night line-up. Having said all that I have no other solutions for what CBS could do on Sunday that would get better results so...


I don't think the night needs an overt link like the one ABC are trying to create for it – mainly because said will just make everyone roll their eyes. I think just having a female skewing line-up to counter football and Fox's animated comedies is all they need and just about everything on the ABC schedule fits that criteria.


If it is the final season of How I Met Your Mother (and I'd be surprised if it is) then CBS will announce it at the up fronts. I'm still not sure why him meeting the mother would be the end of the series though. Surely they can get another couple of years out of them dating and then eventually getting married and probably even push the story right up to the birth of the first kid if they wanted to. People put far too much stock on the idea that once he meets the mother the show is over.

On the subject of Rules the hold up isn't just on CBS' end. There's issue with cast deals and how much Sony want for it. I'd be amazed though if it doesn't get another short order to bump it up to 100 episodes especially since CBS own the international syndication rights.