A relief for the ridiculous Broadcasting forum which thought late night Channel 5 was going to turn back into a boobs and bums festival.

TBH they spend so many years trying to shake off that image, I doubt they would ever go back to it. They need to build on their strength and expand into others.

I wonder if Shetland will air on Sundays after The Secret of Cricketly Hall? Cricketly Hall starts on the 18th and ends on the 1st December which would leave a gap of three weeks before Christmas week, I reckon Shetland could slot in nicely on the 9th and 16th December as it's a two parter,

Maybe we should just say it got 16m.

It's been snapping at them for 27 years.

ABC:
8pm - Dancing With The Stars: All Stars - 11.95m (1.9)
9pm - Happy Endings - 4.75m (1.4)
9.30pm - Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23 - 3.18m (1.1)
10pm - Private Practice - 3.66m (1.1)

CBS:
8pm - NCIS - 16.89m (3.0)
9pm - NCIS:LA - 15.68m (2.8)
10pm - Vegas - 10.41m (1.6)

FOX:
8pm - Raising Hope - 3.82m (1.6)
8.30pm - Ben & Kate - 2.48m (1.1)
9pm - New Girl - 4.34m (2.2)
9.30pm - The Mindy Project - 3.23m (1.7)

NBC:
8pm - The Voice - 10.98m (3.8)
9pm - Go On - 6.32m (2.3)
9.30pm - The New Normal - 4.75m (1.8)
10pm - Parenthood - 4.74m (1.8)

CW:
8pm - Hart of Dixie - 1.68m (0.7)
9pm - Emily Owens MD - 1.43m (0.4)

NETWORKS:
#1 - NBC - 2.6 - 7.06m - up 30% from same night last year
#2 - CBS - 2.5 - 14.32m - down 22%
#3 - FOX - 1.7 - 3.47m - down 42%
#4 - ABC - 1.4 - 6.52m - down 39%

tvbythenumbers

Abysmal night in general with nearly everything down from their last original airings (on 30th October - everything took an election break last week). Overall the big 4 were down over 20% from the same night last year. An alarming number of shows with ratings beginning with a 1.

NCIS is down 25% from last year. NCIS:LA was down 15% and Vegas was down a whopping 33% from the cancelled then revived Unforgettable.

FOX's 8pm hour averaged a 1.35. Both those shows actually have full season orders, believe it or not. For the hour, FOX was down 53% from the 2.9 Glee scored in that hour last year. At 9pm, New Girl was off 37%, The Mindy Project was down 23% from what Raising Hope did in that slot last year.

On ABC, Private Practice is really going out on a low note, DWTS continues to struggle and that 9pm hour is atrocious.

FX's Sons of Anarchy will likely have won the 10pm hour again.

when corrie was moved back to wednesday nights at 7.30 it was stated that the thursday 8.30 slot would be used for sitcoms on itv, when will this happen???? seems like far too many fillers have padded out the rest of the year to do with people in soaps.

on tuesday night when itv has no footy on it seems the money show with martin lewis does well in the slot wouldnt it be better as an hour long 8pm show to screen against holby on bbc1 ??

as that corrie thing that was on flopped on tue at 8pm and tue seems itvs worst night when no footy and has been the case for many years.

a prime time addition of the chase at 8pm on tue would also do better against holby.

pretty sure I normally type ITV, but that is out of habit, but after reading the ITV memos concerning branding, maybe its time I started to type "itv" as their logo says. Who am I to argue with itv itself?

Don't know if anyone has seen this, but The X Factor final will apparently air on 9 December

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/s1...rt-battle.html

That was confirmed a while ago I think.

Was it? Must've missed that.

Wow that's incredibly poor. Wonder what the Networks are thinking, quality shows on Cable channels are killing them. Maybe it's time they thought of making shorter series, which can keep up on quality, rather than quantity, of course leaves holes in the schedules, but things like NCIS can still stick around for a full run.

I think that was going to be the case at the start of the series if they were going to follow the same pattern (6 weeks of auditions, 8 audition episodes, two episodes of bootcamp, judges houses and so on).

I think it was, yes. It must have been if they've been giving tickets away for it. Although I may have just assumed that was the date anyway based on the pattern of scheduling. Usually 10 weeks of live shows inc. the final so it works out.

I thought the 8.30 Thursday slot would have something different to replace CS, but what have we this autumn The Corrie Years and Emmerdale at 40, cheap filler that is below 3 million?

Yes, it has been mostly filler and I've not heard of any new commissions coming through that would suit that slot. I know the Ian McKellen comedy is 30 minutes but it doesn't sound very pre-watershed to me.

The Russell Tovey one (The Job Lot) is 30 minutes and I saw it mentioned somewhere that it was pre-watershed, so that would be the obvious slot for it, although plans obviously can change.

Haven't heard about anything else - it'll probably end up being cheap filler a lot of the time and in turn the 9pm stuff gets dragged down. If they aren't prepared to try more half hour stuff they should try 90 minute shows running from 8:30-10pm instead.

For some reason I thought The Job Lot was 60 minutes. Glad to hear it's 30 minutes. That slot seems like it may be suitable, unless they decide to pair it up with Vicious at 9pm.

They could well pair it up with Vicious although I remember Fincham saying something about airing two new comedies back to back in the 9pm hour would be very risky for them and he prefers the idea of a sitcom at 9pm and then something like a panel show at 9:30pm to lessen the risk a bit, although we haven't heard about any panel shows or anything they could run alongside a sitcom yet.

Their other new sitcom for early next year, Great Night Out, is 60 minutes. Personally I think 30 minutes works better (Benidorm suffers from being stretched out to an hour) though.

Talking of Emmerdale there is an Emmerdale /EastEnders clash tomorrow so when Emmerdale comes out by quite some way there's no need for people to wet themselves

Back to Normal on Monday though...

Is that the opposite of Not Going Out?

Which makes it even more baffling why they aren't squeezing an episode in tonight - they could easily schedule one from 9.30-10.30pm, pushing the news back half an hour(rather than airing it at 9.45pm) and probably bringing a decent 8m to the channel for an hour where in reality tonight they'll get 2-3m for the news and football analysis.

Well when 700k is being rounded up to 1m. Why not

Another excellent rating for IAC with 8.8m inc +1. And 700k on +1 is a huge figure. It never went that high last year on +1 for any episode. The highest was 600k - with an average of 400k watching on +1 in 2011.

If it follows last years pattern - it will fall again on Thursday and then again on Friday due to CIN but then rebound on Saturday and Sunday. So far its averaging 9.3m (inc +1: 9.7m). Its hardly panic stations is it?!

IN BRIEF Lambeth Council is considering an application by broadcaster ITV plc to allow it to install LED light fittings on the Kent House office block at the London TV Studios.

The installation of the lights is planned to coincide with next year's big rebrand of ITV's output across all of its digital channels, which will see its flagship channel revert to being known as "ITV", dropping the "1" that was added to the channel's name in 2001.

The lights would run along vertical lines from the 4th to the 22nd floor of the 1970s block, originally built for London Weekend Television (LWT) and famously sited on the South Bank of the Thames. The complex is the current home of Daybreak, Lorraine and This Morning.

According to the application "the lights will be directed at the facade and project different coloured lights - blue, green, pink and yellow - during the night time hours".

ITV proposes to install the lighting for early January 2013, in time for the on-screen rebrand.

Hoping Hollyoaks tops multichannel for tonight. Brillant triple death episode