Wednesday 17th October, one hour long.

Do you know whether Coronation Street is moving from the 7.30pm slot or are they airing it in the 8pm hour? If they're airing it in the 8pm hour they may as well have moved it to 8 o'clock on the day itself.

There's an England football match on Tuesday 16th October which prevents an hour long episode airing that night.

Thanks. Typical it falls in that week of all weeks! I guess Wednesday is logical...just will it fill the 7pm hour or 8pm hour. Or, knowing ITV1, will it be split around Coronation Street?

That might be handy for the cast when it's a live episode.

I should have mentioned this before, but the Broadcast article about Simon Cowell cookery show, do you think its intentional the picture is of him eating a pen?

It'd give them a breather and a chance to move around the set, I suppose. Especially when there's a distance between the indoor sets and the outside sets.

If The X Factor runs a long time won't it run a risk of viewers getting bored with it and tuning out?

Dear god that's some poor ratings all round , Emmers below six, EE just scraping seven and Waterloo Road has eroded again, very surprised that the B Code suffered a drop of 800k.

The nights are drawing in yet ratings are stagnant or in decline for certain productions.

What is not helping things is the tussles between Rheinhert and Murdoch, Ten is caught in the middle.

Fox adding X Factor repeats to Friday nights for the next 3 weeks.

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You could well be right.

My own non-scientific survey: my brothers were both watching Being Liverpool but they're both Liverpool fans. When I asked them if they would have been watching if it had been "Being Manchester United" the reply was "No way!"

And the Channel 5 scheduler has been a bit naughty following Being Liverpool with the film The Dead Pool.

Gina hasn't held shares in Ten all that long, and I doubt that she has bought shares for any other purpose than to influence news/current affairs, plus she only owns 10.6% of the company, and thats only been the case for about 3 months now. Ten's major problem is the influence of the two prodical sons, Murdoch Jr and Packer Jr. Just because their fathers knew how to run a network sadly it doesn''t look llike the two of them do. Murdoch with 18.7% stake is useless, he was the one who hired Paul Henry for Breakfast and clearly wanted a right-wing firebrand to dominate the show. He was the one who will have allowed his wife to host Everybody Dance Now. Just because his dad knows how to run a pay tv network successfully doesn't mean the son can run a FTA station. And if he learnt one thing from his dad it should have been that sport is the key to success, selling AFL rights has been the worst decision Ten have done in the past few years.

Worth mentioning that NBC have quite a lot left on the bench for midseason including three new comedies plus I think they renewed Off Their Rockers for a second season as well. When it comes to 30 Rock that's scheduled to return in October after this run of SNL Thursday Updates (and why they keep scheduling those I don't know) so it won't be available midseason unless they rethink that plan. As things stand I'd guess their midseason schedule ends up looking something along these lines:

Monday: The Voice / Revolution
Tuesday: The Voice / Go On / 1600 Penn / Smash
Wednesday: The Biggest Loser / Notorious
Thursday: The New Normal / Parks & Rec / The Office / Save Me / Hannibal
Friday: Community / Off Their Rockers / Grimm / Dateline
Saturday: Repeats
Sunday: Dateline / Celebrity Apprentice / Do No Harm

I'm guessing Fashion Star and Rock Center are held back until they're needed to replace something and Next Caller was only six episodesso they slot it in where ever they can. I'm also assuming that Animal Practice, Guys with Kids and Chicago Fire don't survive and that Parenthood doesn't get any more episodes ordered.


I think Tuesday 10PM is the right slot for Vegas. Its a slot CBS has had incredibly difficultly with and their procedurals aren't working there so trying something a little different there makes sense. Plus I think it sits quite well with the NCIS block. What I've found weird about their Thursday scheduling is Elementary at 10PM. That probably should have been at 9PM leading into season two of Person of Interest.

The X Factor is down two tenths because it went from a two-hour show on Wednesday to a one hour show on Thursday in the lower PUT hour. Generally speaking the hour one hour shows for these reality shows tend to be lower rated which is why its quite remarkable that The Voice was a 4.7 both nights this week.


This sounds awful although I'm also surprised Channel 4 haven't already made it... I suppose if they could add an element where the different real estate agents scored each other out of 10 they'd have snapped it up. In fact I might pitch that to Channel 4 – Come Dine With Me meets Location, Location, Location.


Couldn't they just buy Breaking Bad instead?


Creative renewal my friends. Creative renewal.

Because they're going to need Kitchen Nightmares on Monday night...?

I believe it's all being done on the outdoor set with a few 'indoor sets' actually put into the normally empty buildings. Should be fun for the cast and crew given how parky Yorkshire is at that time of year

I see the full Australian end credits are now airing on Neighbours, albeit with the short vocal Sandra De Jong theme and speeded up.

Has Richard Desmond decided he wants to request the Eleven Australian credits (short Monday-Thursday, full credits on Friday) now rather than what FremantleMedia give him, or is FremantleMedia doing this as a new thing for international viewers?

Must be the first time we're seeing the full Australian end credits for good, the episode on the day of the Royal Wedding excepted.

BC lost a bit of momentum as the killer was effectively revealed at the end of episode 2 - it became more of a whydunnit than a whodunnit at the end.

For some reason, the people who post about USA ratings go on about them at great length. Almost seems like they like to show off their knowledge. But, for info, the rest of us don't care.

Agree. Can we have an International Ratings thread. I and others have no interest in international TV ratings. I am only bothered about the programmes I watch in my country.

Sorry, I muddled up Vegas and Elementary's scheduling. But because The X Factor will only be on for an hour on Thursday it's a moot point anyway.


Thanks. The Voice certainly has one up on The X Factor at the moment.

Not sure if it's been reported already but C5 has picked up the rights to the first series (100 episodes) of Trisha Goddard's new US chat show. They will air it after The Wright Stuff as they used to do with the UK version, starting on October 7th. It should improve ratings for the slot as previously repeats of her UK show were doing close to 200k.

And probably most of the people on the thread don't care about the channel contests that seem to go on here but they're not going to be moved in a hurry.

There's only so much that can be said about the UK ratings and some shows have been done to the death over and over (The X Factor and Doctor Who are two which spring to mind). The international rating talk tends to be on topic which is more than can be said for some of the UK debate - and I know I'm as guilty of this as much as anyone.

certainly going to be an interesting experiment, I dont remember her C5 doing all that well, and its only real claim to fame, was its appearance in the Doctor Who episode, Army of Ghosts. That said the US show will be cheaper,f or C5 to buy, but a more professional presentation.

Thanks.

Since you're up on C5, what's the story with the Neighbours end credits?

Has Richard Desmond decided to request the Australian format of credits now as seen on Eleven or is Fremantle doing this as a new thing for international broadcasters?

Still it's nice to see the full ones now, albeit speeded.