To answer my own query, Series One has never been repeated on BBC One. Series Two was given one repeat airing on BBC One, in the exact same Friday 21:30 slot I'm suggesting it for here, way back in 2008. Would not be at all surprised to see either series repeated on BBC One in the near future.

BIB 1: I heard (or was probably hallucinating) that they had already filmed it. If it's a two parter, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day probably seems right. It won't have a spot on Xmas Day as EastEnders & Call the Midwife will probably take that spot.

BIB 2: If Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber cannot accept the fact, that's their loss.

BIB 3: I'm not sure about Fridays. Big School has struggled a bit there. Mrs Brown's Boys and Miranda were coupled with each other on Monday nights in January, and were doing well there. I think Monday would be the best suit.


If it doesn't show any signs of improvement. XF does kind of need him.


We know you don't like Mr Cowell, but he holds together a show like X Factor.


MBB's most recent series is being repeated on Fridays so there's got to be some room for Miranda.


Thing is, American Idol increased in its first three series, rather than go backwards.

A lower TV audience here, X Factor managed better than 4m in series 3.

Given how much XF USA is mentioned in the press, how often the auditions are viewed on YouTube, I would have expected it to do better.

I hope I don't end up eating these words but those figures seem too low. Like, comically poor. I think I'll wait for the officials. But ouch, I hope I don't regret this post

Mount Pleasant last night, anyone?

Be interesting to see how it rated given the new cast additions of Nigel Harman and Samantha Womack and the plug on ITV This Morning yesterday.

Yes some doubts about those figures on the other thread. They've got to be wrong.

Call The Midwife bombed on Christmas Day last year. I think they'll just give that a sleepy slot on Boxing Day this time around, with Mrs Brown providing an alternative to Corrie in the 8pm hour where CTM died last year. If Mrs Brown is a two-parter, they'll stick the second episode on New Year's Day. MBB is far better suited to Christmas Day than CTM.

EDIT: Plus, they're probably going to want to squeeze Doctor Who into prime-time this Christmas Day, which means it'd be far easier to schedule 30 minutes of Mrs Brown than 75 minutes of CTM.

EDIT EDIT: Mrs Brown can't go before 9pm, silly me. That'll probably take the post-watershed place of The Royle Family, with Doctor Who going into CTM's slot from last year and something else in the 5pm hour.

So something like this looks likely at this stage:

5pm - News
5:15pm - TBC
6pm - Strictly
7:15pm - Doctor Who
8:15pm - EastEnders
9:15pm - Mrs Brown's Boys
9:45pm - TBC

With BBC One's annual special commissions going at tea-time and in the late-night slot.
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Yeah, I'll wait and see until the officials before I gloat.

I'm firmly in the Cowell is evil camp, ruined a large swathe of music and TV in my eyes.

Doesn't seem a particularly likable chap er.

Boring sob-stories, helping being horribly rude fashionable, shite manufactured pop, and ruining the xmas charts.

Mind you the other Simon, is just as much to blame.

Some more context on what was a fairly horrendous return for the X Factor in the U.S (hardly a surprise considering how poor the first two seasons were even before factoring in the judging line up this year),

http://www.tvmediainsights.com/forum...1#postid-53053

HIGNFY returns on the 4th, so Citizen Khan will probably air after that.

Simple really. We start watching about 6.30pm each evening and watch about three or four 'TV hours'.

Apart from sport/major news, nothing is watched live and about 99% scripted.

We download pay shows ad free from Sky's catch-up and tend to watch those weekly, the day after transmission.

Longer timeslot shows like Midsomer, Vera, Poirot, George Gently etc. are stored and usually watched on wet afternoons!!

Tonight's schedule is Ray Donovan and we're going to start Hannibal (we've got all 13 episodes stacked) and possibly What Remains.

It's a very time efficient and methodical operation. But unlike many, it seems, we're not flicking around channels looking for something to watch.

Bloody hell, I expected X Factor USA to return with 8m+, or at the very least 6.5m. Under 5m is a massive embarrassment, it's like the equivalent to 2.5m here.... imagine, X Factor debuting to 2.5m here.

Meanwhile, Sons of Anarchy returned to US screens with an all time high of 5.87m (3.1 in the demo) for FX.

Once the consolidated data is in, the network expects it to become the top rated single programme in its history.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...s-high/202198/

That X Factor USA rating is wrong. It actually averaged 6.17m and a 2.1.

Still a really, really bad start though. It seems highly unlikely to come back after this run.

Here we go, official ratings from Variety
http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/foxs...on-1200609041/

The Avengers aren't own by ITV, they're own by Studiocanal so it would have be a co-production with them, it would be interesting how they could update the Avengers formula because just copying it would be a disaster.

Thunderbirds I could will be fine, I'm not really bothered by the fact its CG as live action would have been very expensive.

If DA goes out on Christmas Day, so will CTM. Why? Because the BBC will not want DA to win Christmas Day. If CTM can dent DA and vice versa both shows will be in the 7m bracket again. That will be fine.

Perhaps this:

5.30 Strictly Come Dancing
6.30 Doctor Who
7.30 Call The Midwife
8.45 EastEnders
9.45 Mrs. Browns Boys

As someone pointed out on other thread, So You Think You Can Dance has been doing 4-5 million and has been renewed. Though I would imagine that's a cheaper show to produce so.. I guess we'll see.

We shouldn't assume the figures won't go up - last season they went up a million or two on the launch show for some episodes.

That's an absolute disaster for XF, just a thought, did the fact that it started on September 11th have an impact (less people watching tv etc...) as that seems awful?

BREAKING NEWS: Big Brother beats X Factor

http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/foxs...on-1200609041/

Call The Midwife didn't dent Downton last year. There wasnt even a clash. Downton's sub-7m figure was down to a full clash with EastEnders, which ended up the top-rated programme of the day. BBC One can dent Downton again this year without having to give up over an hour of valuable schedule time to a show which really isn't suited to Christmas Day.

Oh and Doctor Who will surely almost certainly win Christmas Day this year anyway.



Strictly's too early.

There wasn't a clash, but with both dramas on it affected figures for both DA and CTM and in the finals both shows had about 11 million viewers. There is no way that CTM won't be on Christmas Day if DA is. And why is Downton Abbey, a period drama, suited to Christmas Day, when Call The Midwife, a period drama, isn't?

Not as early as Doctor Who was last year. On Christmas Day nothing is too early or too late. OFAH has even aired at 3.10pm!

Breathless, Poirot

Hassaan!

I have some Wolfblood ratings for you. I've also DMd them to you.

Monday 281,500
Tuesday 282,000

Consistent!