Interesting to note on Doctor Who it went up in 4-15, not by much but very stable sign there when I thought it was a bit low last week.

X Factor Sundays meanwhile, well, you can see where their base comes from. Rise in 16-34 on Saturday (not entirely unexpected, but its still doing well where it matters), every other group is slightly up or slightly down, except in 4-15.

Possibly 'your up early tomorrow' being a big factor there and also Saturdays have Doctor Who and R/B, both do well within the childrens demo.

Yes, but it shows the type of viewers who are watching. And the timeshifters will skew the figures even younger, male and upmarket.

I thought Shetland was a two parter.

Indeed it is, I wouldn't be surprised if Shetland along with Case Histories are pushed back to 2013 to fill the Sherlock gap.

That doesn't add up to a whole lot though.


It shows the types of viewers who are watching and being counted in the overnights which somewhat undercuts the argument those viewers timeshift and therefore aren't counted in overnights...

I think it could be a potential returner, it looks good and sound similiar to As Time Goes By but as a comedy-drama not a sitcom, I still think Sunday 8pm is it's best bet either way.

How many episodes is Ripper Street? I have a feeling it's 8, with DA not finishing to 11th November that would have it running into the new year. Taking New Tricks slot would have it starting on the 5th November and ending on Christmas Eve, which is preferable.

There is no way "Ripper Street" would conclude on Christmas Eve. The BBC will want guaranteed ratings pullers on Christmas Eve. While it is likely Ripper Street will be a hit, the BBC wouldn't want that risk. But it might air on Sunday and Mondays once DA has finished!

I wish good luck to all those trying to work out how the hell the BBC are going to schedule their current surplus of drama. It looks like they might have no option but to use pre-watershed slots if they can and perhaps open up a later Saturday night slot. Maybe the fact that the opening two episodes of Doctor Who have been bundled with trailers for Hunted is telling of its scheduling? The BBC1 schedulers have a big task ahead of them.

Also I know this has been brought up already but the BBC have to be doing backflips about Sports Personality of the Year this year. Its been an incredible year for British sport and Andy Murray has only added to that with his US Open win. Anyone brave enough to take a punt on who's going to win this year? Hell anyone brave enough to take a guess on the shortlist?

Digiguide is rather sparse on detail this far ahead at the moment: presumably this will be filled in later?


I like this guy's website. Did his previous ITV outings do much? I've got a feeling he popped up on Tonight a few times.


I presume this is something to do with Guinness World Records, and may have been piloted/had a series before? I only have hazy memories of past ITV schedules.


I'm hoping this isn't Gordon Brown.


This should be interesting, although I'm not sure it will appeal to a wide audience. At least C4 are doing something different with the 10pm slot.


Remember timeshifting before 2am counts in the overnights. The skews indicate Doctor Who is favoured by viewers who are more likely to timeshift (whether same-day or later): 54% ABC1, joint-second in that list and only beaten by the Proms on that measure; and 45% 18-49, higher in that demo than everything in the list apart from the two X Factors, and the post-X Factor Red or Black? and Jonathan Ross.

I would say that 18-49s and ABC1s are among the most likely demos to timeshift, although we rarely get consolidated demo splits so it's hard to say.

My Thursday nights sorted

I hope he doesn't do too much compilation episodes.

I doubt Hunted will go on Saturdays, think Thursdays is the most likely slot for it. Think BBC One will show it first before Cinemax.

Having Ripper Street split across two nights is possible but it does throw the spanner where The Secret of Cricketly Hall will go as I would imagine that'll be airing around October.

Not sure. But I'm a big Martin Lewis fan so I hope it goes well.

He had a series on Five back in the day called It Pays to Watch. It did quite well but was cancelled after 3 series around the time Dawn Airey rejoined the channel as chief executive and they had a bit of a clearout. Martin wrote an interesting article at the time about its cancellation:

http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/20...pays-to-watch/

The points about sponsorship and repeatability are interesting and presumably apply to Money Matters too.

I did like It Pays to Watch and IIRC was successful in its slot, I think it would had lasted a bit longer in the Desmond/Jeff Ford era as they sort of need shows to anchor 7pm now that the News is at 6.30.

OK, I know it finished at 2.30am but that's rather underwhelming even for Sky. Not expecting great ratings after midnight but thought it would have found a bigger audience for it's first couple of hours.


Have to agree. Although I've no issue now with the daily slot being axed I do think they should retain some kind of weekend showcase slot, whether that's just one or two shows individually on Sunday afternoons on BBC1 or a block on BBC2 in the morning. Personally I'd restore a Saturday show to BBC1 and have a block of CBBC shows on BBC2 on Sundays.



Any ratings for the More4 episodes of Deal - it's aired there throughout the Paralympics.

And great figures for C4 yesterday - they could so easily have decided to just let the BBC do it.


I suspect an ITV breakfast show will always be in the mould of TVam/GMTV - sometimes viewers will buy into it, other times, like with Daybreak, they won't. The problem with Daybreak was they broke the mould and IMO had they stuck with it I think they would have weathered the storm - but sadly they paniced and went back to chasing GMTV viewers pretty much as soon as the first set of overnights came in.

As for C4 - I agree there probably isn't a better time for them to re-enter the market at breakfast, though what with is a mighty difficult question. As a huge Big Breakfast fans I've reservations about them resurrecting that, but also if they were to commission another entertainment based show it's hard to see beyond the Big Breakfast format as it's influence even a decade on from the axe would make it very difficult for a new show to develop it's own identity and they could very easily end up with a RI:SE style sanitised version of The BB instead.


P.S. Is it just me or is the new US season starting early this year. I thought it was normally the last week of the month.

I can see Crickley Hall airing on Wednesdays once WDYTYA? finishes, which would have the second episode airing on Halloween, it was their intention to air it then I think.

It would be better stripped Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of Halloween week, but The Paradise will rule out Tuesdays, and by then Thursdays will have a drama on (most likely Hunted.)

If last night was the "first night of TV back to normal" in the UK, then I think both ITV and BBC will be satisfied. ITV did well with relatively unheralded programming which held up strongly versus good competition. POG's show being the obvious highlight. The BBC will be satisfied with New Tricks too - oddly, it always has seemed down while airing in the autumn (presumably to do with competition) but its overnights are still pleasing. That said, it feels like a fading show and unless they're worried about the potential of the new slate of dramas they're rolling out, you feel like it's time for New Tricks to bow out with its core cast next year.

Also, C4 can be pleased with their parade coverage which split the audience very effectively (the overall numbers would feel much more impressive if they were gathered in one place). Obviously the momentum of the Paralympics worked for them. They also secured a good number for 999: What's Your Emergency? (which sounds like such an original idea for a C4 show...) so maybe some afterglow there too.

One other noteworthy thing, Panorama seemed to perform much more strongly than usual with a mid-3m as opposed to your usual low-2m. That might just be the subject matter which does affect it substantially, but does 7.30 not feel like perhaps a more natural fit to anyone else. It certainly strikes me to have a better 'flow' between TOS and EE, than it would between EE and NT. Maybe something to think about for the BBC.


Nice problem to have, I suppose - especially seen as the majority of this drama seems to be brand new.

That said, I'm already a little unnerved by the decision to run The Paradise on Tuesdays. Seems like a rather definite Sunday show, and are they not worried the Downton press (and inevitable stretched comparisons) will smother it? They were clearly keen to get it out ahead of Mr Selfridge early next year (The Paradise was originally slated for 2013), but I've a feeling they've run into an even bigger problem. It's been so long since something has genuinely broken out in a weekday slot, you feel that they're looking at 5-6m at best. When it might have pushed beyond that at a different time of year on Sundays.


It's incredible just to think about the sort of athletes that won't make the shortlist. Take Alastair Brownlee. Best Triathlete in the world by a considerable distance, has dominated the sport for several years, capped it off with a convincing Olympic Gold medal and has a great story with his teamwork/rivalry with his brother Johnny. In any other year, he'd have a good shout at winning it. But this year I'd be stunned if the poor guy makes it near the final 10!

Same as usual, just that FOX and particularly NBC are starting early with some shows (NBC partly to capitalise on The Olympics). Officially the season gets underway on Monday 24th. CBS will, as usual, premiere just about everything they have in that week. ABC mainly that week but they're holding some back. The CW, which usually started around now, is starting late this year with most of its shows.

In regards to the Australian Breakfast shows, they are heavily influenced by the US breakfast shows. The figures for Sunrise and Today are very good considering Australia's population. I think the British breakfast shows are more news based rather than light entertainment like This Morning.

I also don't get why BBC and ITV don't invest in children's programming because it can be profitable as evident by Disney, Nickelodeon and to an extent Cartoon Network. If shows like Doctor Who and Merlin can be successful worldwide, I cant see why they can't go a bit younger and sell maybe the British iCarly or Good Luck Charlie. CBBC do have the upcoming Wizards vs Aliens which I could see being sold to broadcasters internationally.

I’m surprised with video gaming being bigger than movies and music, none of the broadcasters like BBC, ITV, C4, C5, Sky etc have got computer gaming programme that would make event TV, remember there was shows like Gamesmaster, Bad Influence and Games World, maybe is it because of current economic climate?

Betfair is a pretty good guide to SPOTY.

There are 3 people below 5-1 (Wiggins, Murray, Farah) then only 2 between that and 100-1 (Ennis, Weir) and then just another 6 between 100-1 and 999-1 (McIlroy, Simmons, Hoy, Ainslie, Storey, Hamilton).

Ditch Hamilton (unless he wins the title) and the above 10 will be very close to the actual shortlist. Indeed other than Storey I think the other 9 would all be pretty much dead certs for the shortlist (which is 10 people - unless it's increased this year for obvious reasons).

It looks like a pretty clear cut 3 horse race for the winner.

I love this data. Cheers for posting.

Red or Black looks a little stronger in the context of demographics, but I don't think it'll be enough to save it. I heard Ant & Dec playing the "no decisions have been made yet" line on the radio today, which pretty much confirms it's gone!

That list also makes it even more obvious how Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys are still growing into really important shows for BBC One. Repeat showings, and they've run rings around all of BBC One's weekly drama (barring EE). And wow, George Gently skews older than anything I think I've ever seen.


Yes, it is a bit of a shame. I fully support the decision to axe the after-school block (it's ratings performance was terrible even in comparison to the CBBC channel) but I hoped they might make more effort to air even occasional 'crossover' programming. More stuff along the lines of Lost Christmas. And given how badly the slot has performed of late, I can't see any harm in handing over an hour early Saturday evening, where it's proven you can accumulate a kids audience. Still, if they didn't take this opportunity when the Sarah Jane Adventures was on air, then they certainly won't now.

So are there any overnights available for Wolfblood on CBBC yesterday? From what I've seen, it's something which many adults would have also watched.

And for the record, ITV Wales and UTV had opt-outs in the slot. STV are a week behind so showed last weeks episode. Very good rating though


C5 need to pull Cowboy Builders IMO and hold it back for a better slot. Thats appalling for a show that could be comfortably over 1.5 million at 9pm with different competition - or that could be doing a solid job at 8pm. To get beaten by Frontline Police just shows what stupid scheduling C5 have done


Used to like that show

We don't even get Movies, Games and Videos any more.


I dispute that the BBC fails to invest properly in kids' TV: CBBC and CBeebies cost £111.1m in 2011/12, and children's programming has been protected from the cuts.

Wizards vs Aliens is a BBC Cymru Wales production so this could indeed be a money-spinner for the BBC if Russell T Davies and Phil Ford (both of whom worked on Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures of course) have stayed on form. Wolfblood is a co-production between CBBC and the German public-service broadcaster ZDF (plus its commercial arm ZDFE) so any return from international sales would have to be shared. We're still to see any ratings for that; I expect we'll have to wait for the consolidated numbers a week on Monday.

Not really. Online has taken over this niche massively; online shows, youtube personalities; commentaries; news sites; online forums; etc. etc. etc.

It'd struggle to do anything 'new' imo and the gaming audience wouldn't turn up.