Just dont mention Eastenders - I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. :yawn:

As I said at 6.37am this very day, instead of talking about EastEnders, ask yourself, If you had a pet giraffe, would you supply it with a litter tray? Beats getting into another never ending cycle of pointless EE in crisis/not in crisis posts.

Just something to ponder, for the first time since 1998, the BBC will not have all England World Cup 2014 knockout games to themselves. There will potentially be one England knockout game in World Cup 2014 to be shown exclusively on Itv. It is absolutely crucial to Itv that England win Friday and Tuesday's games and qualify for the World Cup as millions and millions of £££ of ad reveanue is resting on England's qualification. In addition to this, if England dont qualify to the World Cup or make it past the group stages, Itv will have lost their first and only opportunity in 16 years to show an England knockout game exclusively and this chance may not come again for years down the line. Friday and Tuesday's game will make or break next June/July's advertising revenue, Itv will be hoping all goes smoothly, England win and the minimum 7million+ tune in for both must-win games.

We could say the same about SCD and XF too.

Oh wait, I think we have. Must be somewhere in those 10+ pages on Sunday morning.

Right to renew it considering it was received rather well by those who did watch it, but like with all C4 shows a danger now it'll be milked for all it's worth.


Not seen any mention of it here but for what it's worth Hollyoaks Later has been hovering around the 500,000 mark all week. Can't really deduce much from the info on C4 Sales and the later slot means inevitably the audience is older, but be interesting to see if the audience is older than it was last year considering the main storyline centres around characters from the early days of the show.

Good trailer for the final 4 Poirot's. Not sure how it will do midweek but good that after 25 years in the iconic role David Suchet has had opportunity to complete the series.

http://youtu.be/UMkfJpKxlZA

Looks like Bletchley Circle will be post I'm A Celeb as it doesn't fit anywhere now, same for Midsomer. I expect factual will take over Monday 9pm's from 28 Oct for 3 weeks.

They've just been talking about Open All Hours on Look North. Apparently they haven't even blocked a slot to start filming it yet and are still casting. Timings might be a bit tight so it might look a bit rough and ready on air.

The BBC are a professional organisation. They will have everything in place and planned for it to be all filmed and thoroughly edited by Christmas Day. Dont worry about it looking rough, it wont.

I never hear you bigging up new BBC Three shows, even though you apparently prefer the BBC.

It is obvious what you are doing. No doubt if it rates low it will be a massive deal, when in reality nobody cares.

I'd seriously put him on your ignore list if his posts irritate you.

Tricked may have been trailed but there's no guarantee that it'll rate well. The Big Reunion may have gotten a million but there was something about that show that got people hooked. This show doesn't seem as interesting.

Not unusual, the Only Fools and Horses 2001 Christnas special was filmed not long before Christmas.

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Well, that would still be too many as well, given the highest rated programme of 1983 only got eighteen million viewers. To get that figure they must have either combined the ratings for an entire week of daily episodes, which would be a stupid way to do it (and even four million a day would have been very high for 4pm) or they've counted its entire worldwide audience because it was sold to America. Or someone made it up on Wikipedia a few years back, natch.


It's doing that now! It's been shown before Strictly since the results moved back to Sundays in 2010, Countryfile is always at its earliest in the autumn. Can I also remind everyone that the next time there are complaints about BBC1's "samey" schedule, Antiques Roadshow now won't be back until around Christmas.


There will actually, there's a full Premier League fixture list on 28th December. There isn't a Football League programme though. But indeed there's no problem with Atlantis finishing on that day. I remember Robin Hood finishing on that weekend in 2007 with a double bill. Or even in January, viewers can cope with programmes spanning Christmas.


He's billed in the Radio Times! He was always planned to be on it. Really looking forward to Norton being back, by the way, it's a great show. I really hope this is the series Brucie goes on it, I really want to see him there, he'll have a great time. Especially if he's on with some bemused Hollywood star. He's been on Carr and Ross a couple of times, I don't know why he's never been on Norton, which is a better show.


No, because it was an LWT production so in the late eighties and early nineties would of course always have been on a Sunday. It wasn't until the launch of the ITV Network Centre that you'd get LWT productions on a weekday and Carlton productions on a weekend.* But Wednesdays were always a big drama slot as well and things like Morse would always be shown there, and I've said this before but half of the first series of Midsomer Murders in 1998 was on Sundays and half on Wednesdays because the pilot had been such a huge hit that Carlton asked if they could show some as well to get the revenue.

* You would occasionally, in the seventies and eighties, get LWT and Thames programmes on the "wrong" days, I've got a HTV TV Times from 1981 where they're showing repeats of Thames' Jim Davidson Show on Sundays and I know Granada showed a series of LWT's Child's Play on weeknights because they wanted to show something else in its weekend slot. But that was only the individual regons being autonomous, it would never be networked.


Yes, they're not exhibiting any of the skills that made them famous on it, are they? Half the time the only criteria is that they're big and fat or look silly when they're diving. Bella Emberg would be a better booking on this show than Britney Spears. Splash is just messing around. The second you try and make it something other than relentless frivolity you're taking it too seriously. The whole fun is watching Z listers looking stupid.


No it doesn't, it's Panorama. Of course there was supposed to be a new episode of A Question of Sport at 8.30 the other Monday when Panorama was on at 10.35, but they did another last minute Panorama at 8.30 as well. Panorama does occasionally take weeks off because they don't commission it for 52 weeks a year and sometimes it has to go post-watershed to be more graphic or to be extended, but 8.30 remains its regular slot. A Question of Sport is the most shunted show in the schedule, it goes wherever there's a gap.


Presumably this is based on the dicussion during the Euros about how there's a gentleman's agreement that ITV get first pick in 2014. But as mentioned then, that is not a legally binding document, you even say yourself "potentially", and even if it were, there's no guarantee ITV would pick a knockout game over a group game. In 2006 ITV got the biggest audience of the entire tournament for one of England's group games because that was in primetime and the knockout games were in daytime. Same as in 2010, the match against Algeria in primetime got higher ratings than the Germany game in daytime, regardless of the importance of the fixture.

So there's no guarantee this'll happen at all. This time round England's group games could be 8pm kick-offs but their knockout games 5pm kick-offs. A no brainer which ITV would pick.

Yes, ITV want England to qualify for the World Cup, they always do. They'll get high ratings even if they only show England in the group. And if they don't qualify automatically this week, they get two high-rating play-off matches anyway, instead of two dull friendlies.
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Mr Selfridge is stronger than both Ripper Street (lead in from CTM yet is beaten by MS) and The Paradise (easy Tuesday default audience slot for BBC drama and yet drops below 5million for all episodes bar one of its run). With this in mind perhaps when RS returns ITV should hit is hard to crush it and kill it off so it is axed.

There was a bloke from Cosham
Who took out his balls to wash 'em
his wife said jack
If you don't put 'em back
I'll throw 'em on the floor
And squash 'em.

Has someone hacked into your account?

And remember how rubbish that was.

It seemed to be the mood of this thread today, so I thought I would join in. ITV drama is apparently fair game to crush because ts not on the BBC.

Itv Head of Sports was saying that if England get to the knockout stages, they will most likely show one of their games live and exclusive on Itv. Nial Sloane said: "The great thing about Brazil 2014 is that we have first pick of matches, which should ensure we get 2 England group games and one knockout game exclusively".: http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/2014-fifa-...up-sponsorship

That ruined my Christmas and 2002 and 2003. Rubbish way to end it the 1996 episodes were an absolute masterpiece and it was such a perfect ending. Those last three were not OFAH in my opinion, in fact I'v forgotten about them!

Ken

Just saw last night's ratings.. I'm gutted that Wentworth has dropped. That's a really poor figure. I hope it manages to bounce back and also get a good official figure for last night's episode, as it was the best yet!

I hope Channel 5 stay committed to the show whatever happens.

But as Malcolm Tucker once so memorably put it, "'should' does not mean 'yes'". We won't know until the draw as to what the best picks will be.

Same here - don't think I've ever seen the new final episode actually. For me it ended in 1996.

Who's Malcolm Tucker?

Don't ever watch it. That's why I agreed with what Renwick did to Victor in OFITG because it means it can be brought back ever, and I'll remember what a hilariously funny program it was.

But hey Only fools and horses was a great show for 99% of the time.

Ken

That very last episode of OFITG was too dark for me, it was good, but I guess the demise of a favourite character of mine was too much!

Out of interest, which camp are you in? The 'Margaret killed Hannah Gordon's character' camp, (I forget what she was called) or The 'Margaret DID NOT kill Hannah Gordon's character' camp?

I'm in the 'Margaret KILLED her' camp!