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With the first of this afternoon's matches on Centre only just finishing, and with a potentially lengthy second match to come, it looks like the BBC will have some difficult scheduling decisions tonight with the Murray match.
Will BBC One start Raiders of the Lost Ark? If it goes past 9pm, what will go - Casualty or the big Shakespeake adaptation? And if they have to put the roof on, they'll have an awkward half hour break in the middle of primetime, perhaps an opportunity to squeeze in the Lottery draws. It will be interesting, but currently very unlikely to start until 6.30 at the very earliest, but possibly much later. |
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Just to round off my earlier post, the series average for The Bachelor series 4* was 1.20m overnight (~6.7%), 1.36m consolidated.
* There were three 'civilian' series on BBC3 between 2003 and 2005. Amusingly, the bachelor didn't pick a winner in series 1 and 3! |
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Maybe The Batchelor is a wake up call to Channel 5 not to try and outdo ITV2 in rubbish programming. Channel 5 really needs to do better as it does a lot of the time.
Anyway though, whatever can be said for normal BB, it's worth of getting ratings as a lead-in seems to be negligible. |
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With the first of this afternoon's matches on Centre only just finishing, and with a potentially lengthy second match to come, it looks like the BBC will have some difficult scheduling decisions tonight with the Murray match.
Will BBC One start Raiders of the Lost Ark? If it goes past 9pm, what will go - Casualty or the big Shakespeake adaptation? And if they have to put the roof on, they'll have an awkward half hour break in the middle of primetime, perhaps an opportunity to squeeze in the Lottery draws. It will be interesting, but currently very unlikely to start until 6.30 at the very earliest, but possibly much later. Just another thought on last night's scheduling - the BBC would have saved quite a bit by dumping the New Tricks repeat. Not sure if it's still the case but I think actors used to get 60% of their original acting fees for primetime repeats. [EDIT: after a bit of research it looks like it's not a flat percentage. But still pretty costly] Continuing tennis on BBC1 will have cost - what, a bit of overtime for presenters/crew? |
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With the first of this afternoon's matches on Centre only just finishing, and with a potentially lengthy second match to come, it looks like the BBC will have some difficult scheduling decisions tonight with the Murray match.
Will BBC One start Raiders of the Lost Ark? If it goes past 9pm, what will go - Casualty or the big Shakespeake adaptation? And if they have to put the roof on, they'll have an awkward half hour break in the middle of primetime, perhaps an opportunity to squeeze in the Lottery draws. It will be interesting, but currently very unlikely to start until 6.30 at the very earliest, but possibly much later. |
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Maybe The Batchelor is a wake up call to Channel 5 not to try and outdo ITV2 in rubbish programming. Channel 5 really needs to do better as it does a lot of the time.
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well I warned Channel 5, told them not to do this, I even offered my services as a replacement. Now they have a flop on there hands.
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Hmmm, I'd keep Wimbledon on BBC One throughout, and have the BBC News and BBC Regional News bulletin in the gap between match 2 and 3 on centre court. Is that possible?
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Well Roddick is currently flying so Murray might be on earlier than expected. Only 18 minutes gone and 5-2 in first set.
Quite like that idea DMN, not sure if there's really enough time between matches however. |
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Whereas you have a flop in your hands?
That said the good folks at ITV 1s, Real Crime, seem to value my opinion very highly when it comes to there show, they asked me about casting yesterday
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There's no point writing off The Bachelor yet though to lose 0.6m on the lead in is slightly concerning considering the lack of opposition from the other main channels.
It's quite interesting actually how closely last night's results with two entertainment shows mirrored the results of two back-to-back US dramas earlier in the year. Very similar performances, but obviously very different audiences. |
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Million Pound Drop 1.7m and 8.4% share, C4 must be pleased to have beaten a BB eviction.
Re cost of programmes is this factored in on commercial channels when they look at the ratings? I was thinking of some of the shows made for ITV2 or C5. If an hour of TOWIE costs £100k and The Batchelor costs £150K and they both get similar ratings, would The Batchelor be regarded less succesful because of its cost? |
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If that's the highest rating BB in two weeks I don't get why you're here constantly trying to defend the show - even Dancc seems to have realised that's a losing battle!
I must admit I haven't particularly enjoyed the past week of Big Brother but ratings wise I think it's done fine. I'm fast coming around to the opinion that these day-to-day fluctuations based on competition are not worth getting too worked up about as it seems to recover ok afterwards. Next week's task does sound promising so hopefully they can get this series back on track, and with the football out of the picture bring a bit more stability to the ratings. |
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Not at all. I think given what's occurred this week and how poor last night's episode was, 1.48m is not a bad figure at all. It was significantly up on the 1.26m that watched the equivalent episode last series.
But the last series did not have +1 which can make it appear more people are watching when it looks likely to be the same people viewing the show twice. As you can see from the ratings BB fans aren't really interested in anything else C5 has to offer, did they desert The Batchelor for +1? |
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You mean "Yet Another" wake-up call. Henson worked because he was a celebrity with a talent, every other of these type of shows when they've tried to throw in talentless z-listers and built a show around them has failed, Amy, Josie, Tamara, now it looks like this bloke, and they all get masses of publicity and often great lead-ins.
Anyway though, whatever can be said for normal BB, it's worth of getting ratings as a lead-in seems to be negligible. |
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But the last series did not have +1 which can make it appear more people are watching when it looks likely to be the same people viewing the show twice.
As you can see from the ratings BB fans aren't really interested in anything else C5 has to offer, did they desert The Batchelor for +1? The rating excluding +1 was still up on last series so it's a bit of a moot point anyway, but the argument you are putting forward there is just bonkers. |
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With the first of this afternoon's matches on Centre only just finishing, and with a potentially lengthy second match to come, it looks like the BBC will have some difficult scheduling decisions tonight with the Murray match.
Will BBC One start Raiders of the Lost Ark? If it goes past 9pm, what will go - Casualty or the big Shakespeake adaptation? And if they have to put the roof on, they'll have an awkward half hour break in the middle of primetime, perhaps an opportunity to squeeze in the Lottery draws. It will be interesting, but currently very unlikely to start until 6.30 at the very earliest, but possibly much later. And why on earth is Casualty scheduled tonight - it's been off air throughout Euro 2012 and really should have wrapped up it's season before Eurovision rather than coming back for a week and then having a few more weeks off before returning for just a few weeks once again. I thought they had cut the number of episodes too. |
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Peter Andre My Life gets around a third of the audience Katie and Peter did.
9 PETER ANDRE: MY LIFE (WED 2200) 156,000 Pretty sure Katie didn't do three times as well as that. |
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1 PETER ANDRE: MY LIFE (WED 2100) 1,034,000
9 PETER ANDRE: MY LIFE (WED 2200) 156,000 Pretty sure Katie didn't do three times as well as that. |
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At least two more sets now between Roddick and Ferrer, so it'll be 7pm onwards for Murray.
Decisions, decisions... |
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sorry im confused is that 156,000 the +1 figure?
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At least two more sets now between Roddick and Ferrer, so it'll be 7pm onwards for Murray.
Decisions, decisions... |
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Tennis moving over to BBC2, as scheduled.
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Tennis now over on 2, no mention by Sue of coming back on 1 after the News. Looks like we could be having Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Roddick/Ferrer could still go on for a good while, then they may decide to put the roof on before the Murray match which takes 30 mins - so if BBC1 join at 8.20 they would probably not miss a huge amount. |
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They will probably stick to the schedule until they can't, either moving to BBC1 at 9, or a bit earlier after a short Lottery (just the draws.)
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