Euro 2012 - Quarter Finals
- Czech Republic vs Portugal - Thursday 21st June (Q1)
- Germany vs Greece - Friday 22nd June (Q2)
- Spain vs Runner-Up Group D - Saturday 23rd June (Q3)
- Winner Group D vs Italy - Sunday 24th June (Q4)

* If England go through, their game will be on BBC. BBC has first & fourth picks, ITV has second & third.

I think ITV will take whichever of the Sat/Sun game does not feature England.

Then, as there is not really anything between the first two quarter finals, I reckon they will chose whichever game will decide who England would meet in the semi-finals.

With the BBC having both semi-finals (I'm still not sure how they've managed that), these four matches are basically the only uncertainties in the entire competition, usually there are days of Pattern A/Pattern B schedules (as there is in the World Cup and will be in the new look Euro 2016)

For a ratings perspective Thursday and Sunday would likely to be higher. ITV would however probably want a Saturday game as they struggle to hold up but would ITV want to go before or after England so they can either feature build up interviews or assuming England won, day after reaction.

So England winning and the BBC getting Sunday, ITV getting Thursday and Saturday and BBC getting Friday might be best?

Someone on here said ITV1 would not choose two consecutive matches, so if we assume that France win the group and England scrape a draw and face Spain in the Q3 on Saturday.

This would give us -

- Czech Republic vs Portugal - Thursday 21st June (Q1) ITV1?
- Germany vs Greece - Friday 22nd June (Q2) BBC1?
- Spain vs England - Saturday 23rd June (Q3) BBC1
- France vs Italy - Sunday 24th June (Q4) ITV1?

Personally I can see ITV1 selecting the Czech Republic vs Portugal and then show France vs Italy (This is all dependent on England progressing) If England go out then BBC1 would choose France vs Italy & be left with Germany vs Greece no doubt.

Either way we ought be in for some cracking matches...

If England win Group D, they will face Italy in the QF. The winners of that game will face the winners of Germany v Greece.

If France win Group D, England will face Spain in the QF and France play Italy.

If England top Group D, ITV will go for the Germany v Greece and the Spain v France games, but if France top Group D then ITV will go for Italy v France and Czech Republic v Portugal.

How is Smash on Sky doing?

Did it at least maintain its ratings?

I know it was up on the average %share for the channel and time slot when it premièred (0.38% compared to a usual 0.25%)

Just thinking about the 'lost episodes' for Corrie, we've had...

- week ending 3rd June: 6 episodes (6x30)
- week ending 10th June: 4 episodes (4x30)
- week ending 17th June: 2 episodes (2x30)
- week ending 24th June: 2 episodes (2x30)
- week ending 1st July: 5 episodes (as normal)

So in total it will lose 6 episodes, or 3 hours. It had half an hour 'extra' on Easter Sunday, so that's 2.5 hours. Take off an hour for Christmas Day, which is on a Tuesday, that's 1.5 hours.

Meaning there will probably be 3x30 Sunday episodes between now and Christmas, or what they will do during the Olympics is have six episodes with some on Thursdays too.

Other than having something which'll hold up opposite the Olympics I have no idea why they're stockpiling them. They could've easily fit them all in.

The BBC won the coin toss against ITV back in December, getting the first pick of the matches, and this was one poster's estimation of how the picks went after that (from this other thread on DS):

I really don't think you understand E4 at all. Although they do have areas where they have common interests and aim for a similar demo I think they both quite clearly have different directions - E4 is much more reliant on scripted content (both original and imported) with ITV2 more heavily reliant on unscripted, plus E4 knows it's identity and is pretty much a brand in it's own right while ITV2 still to an extent relies on it's association with ITV1 - though that is getting less and less with every passing year.


Or they could just show footage from Heathrow of them preparing for their return.


Mal Young also lowered himself to Desperate Scousewives too. I can't stand the genre myself - can't think who it was but read a quote the other day which sums it up - to paraphase it's basically a hybrid of a poorly produced reality show and a poorly scripted drama.

I would be much more inclined to watch something like TOWIE if it was a genuine fly on the wall documentary.

He was well out of the picture for a few years, though. He did a couple of pilots in the US while he was working for Simon Fuller but 19's scripted ambitions never really took off.

There does seem to be a trend towards a mix of reality & soap producers on these shows.

Predictably, an enormous number tuned in for The Voice Australia finale on Monday:

Mediaweek ‏@MediaweekAUS
Mon TV: #TheVoiceAU 3.23m (winner announced) 2.74m (Grand Final episode) These numbers time corrected
https://twitter.com/#!/mediaweekaus

Much better coaches and a much better presentation of the live rounds. BBC take note.

They truly are large numbers. Although the numbers are now 3.098m and 2.654m respectively. The peak was 3.36m and if you add in regional viewers, 4.34m viewers in total. Still, these figures are very impressive and mammoth.

People who predicted 3.5m or 4m, just from the 5 metro cities seemed a bit too optimistic. Don't forget that Revenge on Seven had a new episode that night as well, even if it got 1.192m, which is lower than their usual figures (they should consider themselves lucky that they got over 1m last night, as viewers were angry about last week's "clip show"). I read the interview with Nine's boss on TV Tonight and he said that he would be happy if The Voice Monday finale rated 2.5m, knowing Revenge's popularity. I don't think Nine's The Block finale will top this in a few weeks.

The Block is building momentum and got 3.37m for the winner announced compared to the Voice's 3.1m last year so it could improve. It all depends where they schedue the final, though as you say Mondays and Tuesdays have dramas that can rate above 1m for Seven (I include winners and losers in this) so unless they opt for a Sunday finishing before Downton then it probably wont beat the Voice. In terms of the voice the final wasn't much ahead of some of the auditions, infact I'm sure at least one audition was above 2.7m so the 2.65m for the main show was after the initial success probably below expectations. Then agaiin it is nothing compared to the 40ish% drop that the BBC will have experienced from highest audition to finale, so all in all a big success for Nine. The panel worked really well and apart from Darren McMullen as host there really isn't much that can be improved.

Quite a few changes next week, at least half a dozen big bang repeats for Nine (I guess this is the norm until the olympics are over), Amazing Race Australia replaces the damgage limitation documentaires at 7.30 on Mondays, with Mrs Brown taking the 9pm slot on Wednesdays. Route 66 airs on sundays at 7.30 and maybe GCB to air on Thursdays (though not sure on this last one). Rafters finishes tonight with Winners and Losers starting next week

I don't know what is Nine thinking with those TBBT repeats. Sure, they seem to rate well for a repeat, but you would think that once the channel has picked itself up from the ground, you will want to continue that momentum and not go back to where they were. I suppose the Olympic might lift the channel up again, but I am hardly counting chickens when Big Brother comes back. Their Up Late/Adults Only show will do favours for GO!, but I think that premiere week aside, their main show at 7pm (assuming that is what will replace The Block) might get The Biggest Loser numbers, which is between 800k-1.1m. Ten's Super Sunday might sink even lower, should Nine put the eviction shows airing on Sundays. Then again, Ten is already struggling with Last Man Standing and Touch. LMS is severely hurting New Girl, now in its 500k mark - much down from their 1.2m premiere. Nine's Tricky Business is moving to Mondays at 8pm next week, but again, their numbers will have little chance to make such improvement, let alone justify an extension or a season renewal.

I'm just wondering how you can be so against scritped reality, and praise the Bachelor and Big Brother? Is it just because they are on Channel 5 that they are beyond reproach?

How do Australian ratings work then? Are the overnights just based on the ratings in the 5 biggest cities, and the rest of Australia are added at a later date? If so I assume that the full all of Australia figures are always a fair bit higher than the overnights?

Well, I'm certain ITV can't choose both Thursday and Friday's matches because BBC1 and ITV have identical schedules on Thursday and Friday so BBC1 have to show a match on one of those evenings or they'll have to improvise an entire evening from scratch.

I'm not too sure entirely. But I know that overnights are always based on 5 big cities, the large city from each state being sampled (except Tasmania, Northern Territory). They do consolidated numbers later on in a week or two, but that might still be based on 5 cities. Dancc might know the formula more than I do.

I've seen alternative schedules in listings magazines so they wouldn't be improvising.

In fact, they always do this as I thought you, of all people, would have known

Link: http://www.tvblog.it/post/36833/audi...italia-irlanda

In Italy, their nail-biting match against Ireland did extremely superb for Rai 1, attracting 17.474m with 59,73% share.

Link: http://www.formulatv.com/noticias/25...-espectadores/

Meanwhile in Spain, their match vs. Croatia saw an incredible 14.265m/70.4% for Telecinco!

The ratings seem to be terrific across Europe, with the England ratings (although hefty) actually near the lower end of the share of the home tv audience. I wonder if that will change tonight.

well seeing as nobody seems to have posted these

Emmers - 5892 + 331k
Corrie - 6746 + 483k
MotD (BBC1) - 6331
MotD (BBC3) - 970k

Waltons - 2925 + 105k
Benidorm - 1941 + 53k
Natural World - 2191
King George - 2355
True Love - 2855 (slightly dull I felt, shame good cast)
Revenge - 514k

That is all right for The Waltons repeat but Benidorm is bad.