Love how while we're still debating when our Christmas specials might air that in the US they're showing theirs already.

"Those Charlie Brown things" apparently are a yearly tradition and pass down through every generation

Some good shares here, especially for the last two considering their length


Must be the best rating in 2 or 3 years

Yes, if people insist on doing it then posting as a spolier would be much better. But they don't belong in the Ratings Thread. Surely, its easier to create a new thread and not derail this thread with all these "fantasy schedules".

I don't get it, that show dates back to 1965

Like I said above, yearly tradition for families, young and old.

I'm sure there was a Thanksgiving one on just last week. And a Halloween one as well? And I think there's one for Valentines Day too.

What's amazing is that its 18-49 skew was 41% - which actually makes it quite a young show. I'm thinking parents with young children are probably the reason for that (those parents being in their 30's or early 40's, most likely).

Yea, if you search on twitter during when they were showing those specials a lot of American were tweeting about them and their parents watching the special. Anecdotes, but still...

People love Snoopy

On his Radio 2 show the other day Simon Mayo and his team were debating when we should start with all the Christmas stuff. The etiquette expert they brought in to give an opinion stated that America tend to start their Christmasness at Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November).

Hardly "a current affair" - it was a minor thing back in 2007 at the time when the Daily Mail were slagging off the BBC for absolutely everything, but essentially the only thing "fake" about it was they're producing a TV show, so surprised surprised some very familiar TV production techniques are required.

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itv is showing the Royal Variety Performance against Eastenders this Monday. Is this a test to see how it can hold up against Eastenders and then maybe in future years they will show part of it on Xmas Day against EE?

The short answer would be no. I still don't get why it takes them 2-3 weeks to show the thing, and really if holding it back to Christmas ITV would be better off using it on one of the weekends after X Factor finishes (I guess the 23rd this year to avoid both Strictly and SPOTY).

I do like though how ITV are increasingly allowing themselves to move the soaps in favour of other shows where scheduling benefits from it - though with all the moves this year ITV would have been justified in keeping Corrie regularly in it's Thursday night slot to cover the rescheduled episodes - I think it pretty much could have remained in the slot till the end of the year.

They've been running I'm a Celeb at 8.30 Mon-Thurs this year, so that wouldn't work. It would end up pushing the news back. They've rightly been restablishing it in the Wednesday slot.

BBC Breakfast and Lorraine
19/11 - 1.41m (33.7%) and 1.00m (20.1%)*
20/11 - 1.46m (34.8%) and 1.00m (19.9%)*
21/11 - 1.46m (34.6%) and 1.00m (19.9%)*
22/11 - 1.49m (34.9%) and 960k (19.0%)
23/11 - 1.45m (33.5%) and 986k (18.7%)

* 1.0008m, 1.0048m and 1.0010m!

It's hardly 'against EastEnders', it's against everything what with it being 2 and a half hours long.

I quite like the Monday scheduling, at least it's a bit different. TV schedules can be so predictable.

As it is, they couldn't have shown it Tuesday due to football, and showing it Wednesday would have meant they couldn't launch The Town. Thursday would be a bit odd.

They should be posting their fantasy Christmas schedules in the thread in the Broadcasting forum dedicated to that very topic.

But are these fantasy schedules, or a discussion about the contents and form of the most important, most anticipated, and most watched schedules of the year?

With obvious ratings implications for the most important and only widely reported ratings battle of the year!

But there's a limit Robbie. Its quite fun seeing a few but there comes a point when seeing dozens of virtually the same schedule with the slighest change from the last one becomes quite tiresome.

I don't think anyone's objecting to 'discussion' but endless fantasy schedules with slight amendments each time aren't really a discussion of any kind.

BBC One will win the night; while I enjoy the Christmas schedule debate I'm not sure it can be called a 'battle' just because ITV might be able to snatch one slot out of the lot.

I also agree with this. It was only the addition of Downton last year that suddenly made it a 'battle', but in reality BBC One will comfortably win the entire day. Downton will inevitably boost ITV's share but overall there's no real competition. The only real 'battle' will be between Downton and whatever it airs against. That's about it.

Not Call the Midwife and Corrie too?

Joyfullness, actually I seemed to be the only person watching IRT without the ice.

Aww Cash in the Attic was the only thing I watched on BBC1 mornings, shame on them for getting rid of it.

Screenwatch update:

The Chase - 3.55m [inc+1]
Tonight - 3.10m [inc+1]
Emmerdale (8pm) - 7.62m [inc+1]
Celeb - 9.09m [inc+1]

Continental Railways - 2.45m