If you believe that Danny Cohen deserves articles like that to be wrote about him because they called The Voice the number one show on TV then you need to get a grip.

It's also funny how you call people precious and defensive when you aren't seen round here for days after ITV takes a pummeling.


Doesn't matter how many number ones or records she sells, the fact she's bisexual will always come first in judging her when it comes to the Daily Mail and it's readers.

The DM piece on Cohen is nowhere near as bad as the pieces Lorraine Heggessy got in the job and Jay Hunt got worse abuse too. I seem to remember her being called a ‘shameless thin lipped dumber downer’.
It goes with the job and I doubt anyone at the Beeb is giving it a second thought.


So as wll as being an ITV fanboy you endorse Homophobia and casual racism. Well done you

Big Brother launch date - Thursday 7th June, 21:00 to 23:00

Also, for next week, Corrie is down as:

- Sunday 3rd June, 20:30
- Monday 4th June, 19:30
- Monday 4th June, 20:30
- Wednesday 6th June, 19:30
- Thursday 7th June, 20:30

So EastEnders may be moved on the Wednesday to elsewhere.

Didn't he invade Poland.

looks like we have a launch date for Big Brother

Tuesdays 5th

20:00 BIG BROTHER: THE AUDITIONS
21:00 BIG BROTHER: LIVE LAUNCH
22:45 BIG BROTHER'S BIT ON THE SIDE

that said Monday 4thi s looking no better

18:30 POLICE INTERCEPTORS
19:35 WORLD'S MOST EXTREME AIRPORTS
21:00 ROBSON'S EXTREME FISHING COUNTDOWN

at least NCIS is still on Wednesday, no CSI that week

Kitchen Wars is Thursday 7th, after Cowboy Builders

20:00 NEW COWBOY BUILDERS
21:00 MARCO PIERRE WHITE'S KITCHEN WARS

and two hours of NCIS on Friday, before BB Eviction

20:00 NCIS
22:00 BIG BROTHER: LIVE EVICTION

I did wonder if Danny's surname, and presumed religious background, played a part in the Mail's unwarranted tirade of lies...


Yes, I do as I had quite a big weekend of outdoor activities that year. We had a week or two of nice settled weather beforehand, increasingly hot, but it broke during the course of the weekend. I remember watching England's opening World Cup 2002 game on the Sunday morning (11am kick off) having gone to the pub in shorts and a t-shirt and left to a cool and damp afternoon. Then it rained most of Monday, reaching London I think later in the evening as the Party at the Palace concluded (did that help the big ratings I wonder?).

Tuesday was better and warmer though for the celebrations in the Mall, and that pulled in stellar all-day numbers.

The England game, btw, averaged about 10m on ITV on the Sunday morning.

EDIT: Found this via Google, from The Independent, re the Jubilee 2002 weather:

Interesting Channel 5 scheduling. They kept very quiet about launching BB that week as it wasn't even in the press pack they issued on Friday. But the amount of TBA's in the schedule did suggest something wasn't quite right.

Tuesday 5th looks like a reasonably good date to launch. Also Kitchen Wars has the best possible chance of success on the Thursday night in between Cowboy Builders and Big Brother. That Friday schedule looks weird though - two hours of NCIS and then BB Eviction at 10?

I think BB's ratings will be the news story for C5 over the summer.its been confimed the live coverage is back on 5* after the evictions this was basically after suggestions from Daily star reporters that if ratings were good (which they were) extra coverage would follow for the 2012 season,that isnt going to happen.Last year many gave C5 a chance because of this

Demographic Breakdown
4. DIY SOS: 7.5

Yes it's skew always surprises me, iirc Watchdog has a similarly surprisingly young skew. Who knew Anne Robinson was such a hit with 16-34s!

I'm gutted Kitchen Wars is being presented by MPW, just my type of show, but he is rotten, cannot take to him at all.

Certain tweets trying to play that angle as well - Daisy Goodwin (self styled Head Girl of indie prod co Silver River) claims to be horrified by the anti-semitic undertone of the article. I can only presume that as far as she is concerned any criticism of someone who is Jewish automatically has an anti-semitic undertone.

The article is rather odd in some ways and likely plays loose with facts but that someone has written a negative article on a BBC1 Controller reeling from a high profile failure isn't exactly surprising. Particularly when he has a colourful reputation (deserved or not) and featured in a few press pieces already (the Cowell tweet, subsequent Cowell defection stories, potential "coach" firings and then the Jessie J dressing room story).

But everything in it has been documented before, including criticisms of BBC3 programming (something put at the door of Stuart Murphy and Julian Bellamy too). The only "exclusive" is the utterly bizzare account of his support of some unknown 80's band! I actually had to read that bit again, a real "huh?" moment. Presumably I was meant to read it and feel a great sense of anger and loathing towards him - were they a particularly bad band?

Did I introduce the Daily Mail article to the thread? As i said previously, I dont need to read the DM to form my opinion of The Voice's performance.

As for the rest of you, you claim to be outraged by the DM yet keep posting articles from it on DS. If you dont like it, dont read it and link to it. End of story. And stop all the mock outrage stuff.

I think the Daily Mail is the embarrassing uncle that some people have, you need to keep an eye on him as you know he is prone to racist/homophobic outbursts for attention. I am glad a lot of the comments below the article are pointing out the journalistic errors.


Maybe 3 x 9m+ ratings for BBC1?

BB launching on a Tuesday will benefit it as I doubt Martin Clunes on ITV on that day (flopzone) will even reach 2.5m. It's up against Silk, but it skews a completely different audience to BB.

I'm also intrigued by "self-confessed bisexual"

Is being bi something to "fess up" to?

I personally think it should be encouraged, amongst feisty female pop totty anyway...

How many episodes is Kitchen Wars? I'm wondering where Person of Interest and Dallas will fit in as I don't see either going to Fridays.

7 episodes.

wow Digiguide has updated, and is in disagreement with what I got from Channel 5.

Long wait today for any ratings, US ratings have been released before UK, yikes.

Glee 7.6m (3.0) was a pretty good finale

DigiGuide is wrong again.

Channel 5 ‏@Channel5Press
And #BigBrother is trending! We can confirm that our favourite reality show is back Tuesday 5th June, 9pm on Channel 5.

hopefully it improves with tomorrows update.

American Idol 14.4m (4.2)
Dancing With The Stars 17.5m (3.2)

The BBC should stay put.They confirmed that slot 2 weeks ago and it was Posted on their Official Site(Enders Webcam page) back in March

Fox
American Idol - 14.4m (4.2)
Glee - 7.6m (3.0)

ABC
Dancing With The Stars Repeat - 8.8m (1.3)
Dancing With The Stars Result - 17.5m (3.2)

NBC
America's Got Talent Repeat - 5.3m (1.6)
America's Got Talent - 9.3m (3.2)
Dateline NBC - 5.1m (1.6)

CBS
NCIS: LA Repeat - 7.5m (1.1)
NCIS Repeat - 9.2m (1.6)
NCIS Repeat - 9.3m (1.8)

CW
Hart Of Dixie Repeat - 0.9m (0.3)
The LA Complex - 0.4m (0.2)

Glee Season 2 Finale (4.6)
Glee Season 3 Premiere (4.0)