I think you might be right. Starting the drama 10 minutes late is no biggie: PVRs adjust automatically these days, although manual recordings will be buggered.

As for Murray, it could be finished at any time between 8.30 and 11 - a real headache for the schedulers.

Why not? It's episode 39/41 so they can get rid of this 3 episodes and then once The Summer/Olympics ect is over the New Series can start an unbroken run

EastEnders & Corrie Neck & Neck last night Both dented by the Tennis it seems.

in that case, yes those are decent figures, pretty sure the Peter Andre show never used to do 1 million.

She was quite vague wasn't she. Roddick/Ferrer could be over by 7pm but could stagger on past 8pm, which then if they have the roof on might push us to an actual late night game rather than a "late night" game which ends at 9.15pm. I've a feeling though Wimbledon still send everyone to bed shortly after 10pm, roof or no roof.


Some show I will never understand the appeal of.

Yes there are 41 episodes this series and it should have actually finished mid-June as there was a month-long break in December to facilitate the move to Cardiff.

Back to BBC1.

Film scrapped, tennis now back on BBC1!

Tennis is back on BBC1 now

And all of a sudden with no notice, no EPG change, the Tennis is back on 1. You get the impression that was a very late call - I guess deciding that Roddick/Ferrer may not have that much longer.

But an exciting match anyway so good call. Still no EPG change - something very old on BBC2. EDIT - its TOTP2.

Wimbledon back on BBC One until 8.20 at least. TOTP: The 80s now on BBC Two. Today at Wimbledon still scheduled for 8pm on BBC Two.

One or two people moaning on Twitter, but I don't think BBC will care much if Murray gets a big peak later, as he inevitably will.

Was going to watch that but looks like the TV is staying off :yawn:

So we can be certain the Tennis will stay on BBC One for the duration now. It could be a late one... Lottery draws will be interesting, the rest is fairly disposable - although Casualty causes a few headaches with the Olympics coming.

She got about 2 million for the first series but I know Peter Andre My Life had dipped to 700,000 on occasions. Worrying that a million people still wanted to watch this tripe on Wednesday. Mind you was it any worse than that tedious football semi?

Yep. BBC One till Murray finishes.

There's no way there'll be doing anything to fiddle with The Hollow Crown's 9pm start time on BBC Two. It won't be reflected in the ratings, but that programme is one of the highlights of BBC Two's year, and the BBC's entire summer.

It has happened before where the lottery moved to BBC Two due to the tennis. Last time this happened was in 2005.

Well they could run a double-episode next Saturday from 21:10 to 22:50, or this Friday do what they did a few weeks ago and have Casualty on from 20:30 to 21:20 with a HIGNFY repeat after.

They can easily fit it in without falling weeks behind schedule.

Wrong decision, not everyone care about or wants to see that scottish cockend trying to play tennis, christ he is not even that good.

Good job there's thousands of other channels to choose from, eh?

Murray's match will be on in about 15 minutes, so good move by the schedulers.

Ferrer-Roddick finished, will they close the roof prior to the Murray match? It would probably make sense.

Nice messy changeover where BBC1 viewers heard Sue telling BBC2 viewers to move to BBC1 and then welcoming BBC1 viewers!

Oh no, BBC1 aren't showing a 31 year old film that I could have watched at the cinema, own the DVD or seen repeated dozens of times in the last few years.

Instead they are showing live sport that they paid a lot of money for and many millions to watch. Im going to cancel my licence fee immediately.

getting bored of Wimbledon jumping channels, throwing the schedule into question, never mind Casualty I have two lines in this weeks lottery, would like to see that drawn.

Come to think of it, why cant the Lottery air on BBC 2, is it just the contract?

According to Wikipedia (they list every episode for all 26 series going back to 1986 ) there are 42 shows in this series, compared with 47 in the last one. So that's 5 fewer weeks, and this 2011/12 series started 3 weeks earlier than in 2010/11. So you'd think it would end 8 weeks earlier, but actually it's just 2 weeks earlier (21 July).

Those six weeks of difference can be accounted for by: 3 weeks off in Dec 2011/Jan 2012 as mentioned by allthingsuk, 2 weeks off for the Euros this month, and 1 week because 3 episodes were missed because of special events during this series (the Proms, Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance and Eurovision) whereas only 2 were missed last series (Six Nations Rugby and Eurovision). In autumn 2010 Strictly was pushed back to 18.25 for the Proms and even to 18.00 for the RBLFoR, allowing everything to be squeezed in.

EDIT: Everyone's saying 41 episodes not 42 - is this because the series finale is a two-parter over 2 weeks?