Do you get bored of continually failing to slap down FM's who dare to have an opinion?:yawn:

The way you react you would think that's all I ever do, open your eyes and you will see my posting history on this thread runs to more than taking a pop at EE, my interest in all things Aussie tv/ratings is plain to see.

Now in your post you talk about the other two, well I'm not in a position to judge whether their ratings are a result of acting/scripts because I don't watch them so therefore I refrain from commenting other than the ratings figure.

Dear god it comes to something when some take the dissing of EE's ratings performance as a personal slight, chill out and debate.

where's the fun in that

it's probably not as interesting as I'm hinting at, but it will be very apparent

As I noted in my reply the other day - they DID in fact apologise on the show - at the very start of Friday's edition presented by Eammon and Ruth (as it always is on Fridays). It was a clear 'message from on high' type statement. And likely all that needs to be said.

Interestingly, This Morning features each day for a week on i player on the new Sky catch up but laast Thursdays has not appeared...

EE fans are very over the top. So much so it scares me how loyal they are to a 30 min depressing soap opera that has pretty much lost its identity during the last 3 years.

I would laugh very hard if X-Factor was ever beaten by Countryfile.

You have to think at that point, all the "im so cool I watch X-Factor" types, would be so horrified, they would turn off, and possibly watch Countryfile instead.

As for those Top 20 officals, despite everything EastEnders still need the top.

Surprised Russell Howard's Good News didnt time shift better than that.

Well she must have done something to provoke such hostility from you, along with any other member of the EastEnders production team. The way you endlessly savage them anyone would think they were all high-profile murderers.

From what I saw they apologised for holding the card in a way that people could see the names (they couldn't). It's the fact of doing the stunt in the first place that they haven't apologised for and they won't until they're ordered. But the fact most journalists and even non Cameron supporters are slagging Schofield and the show off for doing that speaks volumes.

hmm I disagree, had he given him a folded piece of paper I can't see what the fuss would be about.

What TM/Schof did was (poorly) try to negate any getting out clause Dave would have had (I've not seen the name you're referring to) by dumping the names in his lap

I don't think Pip should resign, but maybe he needs to make a sincere on-air (second) apology

Lost its identity-That pretty much sums it up .Perfectly phrased.

Why do you care so much?

If Cameron had been (for sake of argument) on The One Show and confronted by Matt Baker with a list of names cobbled together from a 3 minute internet trawl, not only would the story have been running for the past 4 days putting him under intense pressure to quit, the DG would probably have been forced to go too.

Look at the ridiculous brouhaha over Clarkson's One Show comments that dominated the front pages for days, led to questions in the House, and hand-wringing from pious lefties who were falling over themselves to complain. Had that happened in the current climate of open warfare on the Beeb, I think the outcome would have been different. And of course Sachsgate, possibly the most overblown bit of social media driven mock-rage we have seen.

It's fine to wage war on the BBC - with ITV's indiscretions hardly anyone gives a stuff.

FWIW, if OFCOM finds against This Morning/Schofield, I think Philip should do the honourable thing and quit. He still has DOI, and all his other "cosy slippers" ITV ventures.

Nobody made any predictions for Crime Stories (see my post yesterday). But as I noted it has scheduling issues given that it starts 10 mins before Doctors ends and the new time for Countdown from today is right in the middle.

From the thread on here it had some viewers (more than Bomb Girls seemingly!) But it seems to be rather quirky to promise it will hold onto most of whatever it gets today (just sub1 million?)

I thought it was an intriguing experiment - a sort of modern Crown Court, if that had used real judges and they ad libbed throughout.

The documentary/reconstruction tone of Crimewatch crossed with a Children in Need hastily written spoof episode of the Bill.

Could be an acquired taste though and worth a look on catch up just to see how a real detective with no acting experience almost out acts several ex cast members from Hollyoaks and Corrie playing the wronged and the wrong uns!

And I do applaud ITV for trying something really new. The problem is that after the superb spoof comedy documentary about the Olympics this was similar enough in format to have half a thought that it was intended to be hammy.

You just wish in the end they had brought back the Bill and told the same story that way. But - hey - it was very different and you have to give points for trying.

Pot and kettle spings to mind

I wonder how many people actually know it's prerecorded, though. Before there was that story about Louis revealing the result,I had thought it was live

The press pack for new 3 part ITV drama 'The Town' is now available. So I guess that will be airing between I'm A Celeb finishing and Christmas.

What Pip did was the equivalent of what Matthew Wright did to John Leslie on The Wright Stuff. I believe he's still presenting that show

I don't care for the hysteria surrounding the BBC at the moment. I happen to love the organisation much prefer it to the pay-tv sector of Sky (just like I do with ITV)

Clarkson furore was mainly about him and what an odious (in some people's eyes) person he is. Sachsgate was a quick way to attack Jonathan Ross for his allegedly large salary (despite the misleading use of figures to justify the attack)

Any attacks in Parliament are done by opportunist MP's wasting their privilege to make comments about 'news worthy' matters to try and impress their constituents. This isn't just a leftie tactic, I think you'll find that parties from both sides of the chamber do this

There may well be a vested interested in News International/Daily Mail and General Trust pathetic attempts at blaming the BBC for everything from Savile's alleged action and the moral state of journalism, but that doesn't mean the public at large fall for it. I daresay the majority of people don't really care about the news process within the BBC

John Bishop to star in ITV1 Christmas comedy-drama 'Panto!' with Sheridan Smith, Mark Benton, Samantha Spiro & Chesney Hawkes.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/1..._panto!_to_itv

doubt it'll be as good as this

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228306/

XF was scheduled 8:05 to 9:50 on Saturday and finished 7-8 minutes earlier. Does it go up against Strictly on Saturday?

No SCD finishes at 8pm, when XF starts.

XF only on 1hr 20 mins this Saturday.

I'm guessing a website layout change.

Stars Martin Clunes, so should do well for them, I'll be watching for Andrew Scott.

While ITV's dramas have improved it was mainly their period dramas that excelled imo (Mrs Biggs, The Scapegoat), their contemporary dramas are still lacking something (Leaving, Homefront, Monroe) so I have my doubts about it quality-wise.

I expect it is just a number of people who are bored of it because it's been on many years, yes as straight forward as that with no need for 10 pages of over analysis


So as well as EE being 1.5m behind Corrie and significantly behind Emmerdale, it's also lost almost 1.5m year on year.

Christmas Day will be interesting, the way things are going here it might get beaten by Downton Abbey AND Coronation Street.


Indeed, you only have to look at how over the top the EE discussions are in the soaps forum


So basically you are complaining that the media often create a storm in a teacup for the BBC but then also complaining that the media ARE NOT creating a major front page scandal relating to Schofield. It's quite obvious most people here who keep going on about Schofield being sacked, don't actually care about the incident but it's more about how they don't like Schofield and want him sacked for any reason. People saying "I hope smug Schofield gets sacked..." give this away somewhat.

Also you need to remember that the BBC get a lot of privilege in it's war against ITV. Things which you never take into account when comparing their ratings. (No adverts, radio cross promotion,guaranteed income, Button 1 on TV's etc etc).

You have to realise that there are a few negatives as well (greater scrutiny) so you can't moan on the few occasions they come into play.

Interesting to see if the initial rating for IAC turns out to be its highest. I think its happened before-it certainly has with DOI.

He wont go but had he done that on the BBC he would be gone already.

Er John Leslie didn't hand a list (which many could read) of suspected paedo's sourced from google/twitter to the actual bloody Prime Minister live on air. It's way more serious than that what Wright did.