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ITV's main Christmas trailer makes their Christmas programming look a lot better than it probably is. I particularly like the bit where Jonathan Ross says "Santa is giving you what you want this Christmas". Well, he is isn't giving you what you want, Jonathan, cos ITV have stuck your Christmas special on against the Strictly Final results show.
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Presumably they still do the music specials for reach or demographics. If they never did any and just aired The Chase, wouldn't they be slated for relying on the same few shows all the time?
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Whatever happened to the woman who won the show. She disappeared into thin air.
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Rumours in the US that Dancing with the Stars will switch to one series a year, airing in the Spring - saving Bruno and Les a few air miles and possibly giving the BBC the option to do the Strictly results show live - though I suspect the added costs mean that won't happen.
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The Voice production team should look at the X Factor dip and be concerned. The X Factor is a slickly produced and expensive entertainment brand and if it cannot sustain an audience for three months in autumn winter then how will the Voice regain ground on the viewers it lost by May and June. I think it may have a hard fight from the start of the next series as it offers nothing fresh to the genre, do viewers simply want something different.
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Anyway the fact is the state of BBC One's light entertainment is awful and it has been for a very long time. Actually it's better now than it was. There seems to be no intent there to try to do something new. It's just Lottery Game shows and casualty with something new early in the evening.
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Don't Scare The Hare is quite possibly the worst television show I've ever witnessed. I'm still baffled over how it saw the light of day - I came to the conclusion that whoever commissioned it was really drunk or really high on drugs and thought what they were seeing was amazing.
It bombed which wasn't surprising in the slightest! Although in fairness to Don't Scare The Hare you can see what the BBC were going for with it. They wanted something that had a broad family appeal that kids would like and that parents wouldn't detest. They missed by a massive margin but the general intent of the show is probably what they should be doing with that Saturday teatime slot. |
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I'm still convinced that it was commissioned for CBBC and the budget just got so wildly out of hand that they felt compelled to air it on BBC1.
Although in fairness to Don't Scare The Hare you can see what the BBC were going for with it. They wanted something that had a broad family appeal that kids would like and that parents wouldn't detest. They missed by a massive margin but the general intent of the show is probably what they should be doing with that Saturday teatime slot. |
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Don't Scare The Hare is quite possibly the worst television show I've ever witnessed. I'm still baffled over how it saw the light of day - I came to the conclusion that whoever commissioned it was really drunk or really high on drugs and thought what they were seeing was amazing.
It bombed which wasn't surprising in the slightest! While people go on about ITV's flops, and quite rightly in some cases, BBC One, Channel 4 and Channel 5 can be just as bad at times. At least, though, Channel 5 saw the error of their ways and gave Amy Childs and Tamara Ecclestone their marching orders and whoever decided Shipwrecked should deserve another chance has probably been sacked. |
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I've always wondered why (given its sustained success in the US) neither the BBC nor ITV have really gotten behind the idea of a SNL like format. I actually think that could be quite a strong companion for the likes of Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor on ITV. It would also potentially give them the chance to do what the US version has done and groom comedy writers and comedy actors that they can go onto use elsewhere.
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BBC LE has been a shambles for a long time. Most recently they had that disaster Don't Scare the Hare, which made ROB look good. Bill Cotton, who did so much to build up BBC LE in the sixties and seventies, wouldn't be impressed. Mind you ITV aren't much better with their string of flops.
Don't Scare The Hare is one of the lowest points in British television. The BBC LE department under Bill Cotton was the envy of UK television, now it's a joke. |
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The X Factor - Final Results Overnight Ratings inc +1
2004 - 8.1m, peak: 9.9m 2005 - SAT 21:10 to 22:10 - 9.3m (36%), peak for evening: 11.8m (48%) at 19:55 2006 - SAT 21:30 to 22:30 - 10.37m (43.96%), peak: 12.57m (56.25%) at 22:20 2007 - SAT 21:35 to 22:45 - 11.36m (49.10%), peak: 12.74m (55.05%) at 22:30 2008 - SAT 21:45 to 22:50 - 13.46m (54.41%), peak: 14.59m (61.37%) at 22:40 2009 - SUN 19:30 to 21:25 - 15.62m (53.20%), peak: 19.11m (61.92%) at 21:15 2010 - SUN 19:30 to 21:30 - 17.16m (54.92%), peak: 19.45m (60.47%) at 21:20 2011 - SUN 19:30 to 21:30 - 13.10m (45.05%), peak: 15.54m (50.35%) at 21:20 2012 - ??? 2006 through to 2011 are tape-checked and five-minute peaks. 2004 and 2005 sourced from Media Guardian. I think the peak should be somewhere within 2006 and 2007, possibly scraping into 13 million. The average should be in the same year region as well, although that is more difficult to predict in my view as the Sunday results show have not done as well this year. |
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Before The X Factor and Dancing On Ice stumbled ITV had four huge LE hits along with BGT and I'm A Celebrity. That's a bit unfair as TXF and DOI are still doing decent business. BBC1 only has Strictly. That's it. Their LE department is so awful that Danny Cohen felt the need to buy The Voice as in-house wasn't delivering. There were rumblings in the corridors of power a few years ago about how bad the BBC LE department was at delivering hits.If The Voice stumbles again BBC1 will just have one big hit again in Strictly. That is simply not good enough.
Don't Scare The Hare is one of the lowest points in British television. The BBC LE department under Bill Cotton was the envy of UK television, now it's a joke. |
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It was probably to BBC One what Celebrity Wrestling was to ITV1 in the noughties, a complete disaster that was moved around the schedules and died unnoticed. I think even Big Top did better than this.
While people go on about ITV's flops, and quite rightly in some cases, BBC One, Channel 4 and Channel 5 can be just as bad at times. At least, though, Channel 5 saw the error of their ways and gave Amy Childs and Tamara Ecclestone their marching orders and whoever decided Shipwrecked should deserve another chance has probably been sacked. Quite frankly, I find it deeply worrying that the BBC would employ anyone in a position of responsibility who was incapable of spotting that this was the biggest load of shit ever. I stand by my belief that this was intended to be a children's programme until CBBC turned round and declared "Excuse me. We've got standards".
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Prediction for me for TXF is 10.6m, peak of 12.3m.
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Auntie is pretty strong in other areas but LE is a joke. SCD is good and deserves it's big ratings, but bear in mind Brucie is over 80 now and could anyone else do as well as this veteran of BBC One's Saturday glory days. They really need to look to game shows and quizzes to get the audience back.
Strictly would be fine with Graham Norton as host. Bruce of the 1970s was peerless. Now, he isn't. But BBC1 really do need some more high rating studio shows. |
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Who would notice?
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Or, just keep A Question of Sport there!
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You mean Saturday Night Live? As in Channel 4 in the 1980s and ITV in 1996. The 1996 series flopped IIRC. According to Wikipedia ITV also did a one-off in 2007 which presumably also didn't do too good if it went no further than one episode.
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BBC LE had a bit of success with the Andre Lloyd Webber musical shows. with Maria being their biggest but apart from that they haven't delivered hits. And even those musical shows had diminishing returns with each series.
Strictly would be fine with Graham Norton as host. Bruce of the 1970s was peerless. Now, he isn't. But BBC1 really do need some more high rating studio shows. |
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ITV's main Christmas trailer makes their Christmas programming look a lot better than it probably is.
i.e most of it airs before Christmas and on Christmas/Boxing Day, rather than the 27th onwards. |
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Undoubtedly The Voice is going to have to work hard in series two. I think they've probably shot themselves in the foot by bringing the judging panel back as is. One or two new judges would have given them an obvious shake-up at the start of the run before they launch into format changes after the auditions. For what its worth I think the format tweaks in the US have worked pretty well and the BBC plan seems to be to copy that.
And NBC kept the same panel and refreshed the format following Season 2's decline and it worked so hopefully the BBC can capture this as even in the old flawed format it was ten times better than this years X Factor
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But BBC1 really do need some more high rating studio shows.
I'm also going to say that I don't think the problem is poor light entertainment development the problem is poor talent development. Its much easier to develop big studio shows in the 70's, 80's and even the 90's because you were developing shows for someone. Now if you're working in the BBC light entertainment department or the ITV department who are you developing shows for? There aren't these big personalities and these big hosts to build formats around or who can make a dire format work. It speaks volumes that the BBC is looking at the very real possibility that they can't replace an 84 year old man on their biggest entertainment show. That is a staggering situation for any broadcaster to be in let alone the BBC. Additionally lets say you have a big new studio show format who are you going to approach to host it? What safe pair of hands exists in British television right now that you'd instinctively say that's who should be fronting this new format? That their presence will make viewers believe this is something they should watch? The lack of people to develop for or hosts that broadcasters have faith in has led to the situation were people are developing stupid gimmicks (like robotic hares) to sell shows because they have nothing else to hang their hat on. |
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Before The X Factor and Dancing On Ice stumbled ITV had four huge LE hits along with BGT and I'm A Celebrity. That's a bit unfair as TXF and DOI are still doing decent business. BBC1 only has Strictly. That's it. Their LE department is so awful that Danny Cohen felt the need to buy The Voice as in-house wasn't delivering. There were rumblings in the corridors of power a few years ago about how bad the BBC LE department was at delivering hits.If The Voice stumbles again BBC1 will just have one big hit again in Strictly. That is simply not good enough.
Don't Scare The Hare is one of the lowest points in British television. The BBC LE department under Bill Cotton was the envy of UK television, now it's a joke. |
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It is a blackspot for the BBC when you think in the past they had massive hits like Noel's House Party. I do hope The Voice remains as a success for them.
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Possibly, I do think a big name new coach might have helped relaunch it but I do think The Voice was very unlucky with very early scheduling in the height of summer so possibly has a larger audience than people think.
And NBC kept the same panel and refreshed the format following Season 2's decline and it worked so hopefully the BBC can capture this as even in the old flawed format it was ten times better than this years X Factor ![]() |
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Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have quite good chemistry as a presenting duo. Itv should give them a gig on the main channel.
Itv have been giving quite a few of XFactor and Towie contestants presenting gigs like Stacey Solomon, Mark Wright, Amy Chiles, Ryland, Johny Robnson. Ollys probably the best of them. |
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I've always wondered why (given its sustained success in the US) neither the BBC nor ITV have really gotten behind the idea of a SNL like format. I actually think that could be quite a strong companion for the likes of Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor on ITV. It would also potentially give them the chance to do what the US version has done and groom comedy writers and comedy actors that they can go onto use elsewhere.
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UK TV networks though don't seem that interested in "grooming" talent anymore - they sign a couple of established acts and that's about it. The same few faces generally appear and when the odd opening to new talent becomes available they're often thrown straight into the limelight thanks to a lucky break rather than having the chance to develop a fan base in a lower profile slot.
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Did they get a winner on txf then or did they give up due to lack of interest?
![]() Usually the Ratings Thread would be awash with txf final comment on txt final night, but instead you're discussing a possible Gen Game revival. Did anyone see any of the Rod Stewart album promo show? I saw snippets and it looked quite possibly one of the worst programmes I have seen in years, especially the excruciating bits with Holly in between the songs. Hope it tanks! |
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