Should be plenty of room for both, though, cos it's a short SCD, and the results will probably only be up against the filler in the X Factor sandwich.

Are the ITV schedules for that night on the ITV website yet?

http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/XFact...1/default.html

7:10 to 8:40 for live show. Results not yet on.
8:40 to 9:40 - Girls Aloud Party - http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/TheGi...y/default.html

They wont clash.

I think it was done more to inflate Strictly rather than reduce TXF.

These are the schedules for Saturday 13th December.

BBC1
6.10pm Strictly Come Dancing
7.10pm Merlin
7.55pm The National Lottery Draws
8.05pm Casualty
8.55pm Strictly Come Dancing: Results
9.40pm Outnumbered
10.10pm BBC News
10.30pm-11.50pm Match of the Day

ITV1
6.10pm All New You've Been Framed
6.40pm Harry Hill's TV Burp
7.10pm The X Factor: The Final
8.40pm The Girls Aloud Party
9.40pm-10.40pm The X Factor: Final Results

So no XF/SCD clash, then.

SCD's results are on Saturday because of Sports Personality, which airs on the Sunday between 7pm-9pm.

The Girls Aloud Party will do good business in the XF sandwich imo.

The Royal, meanwhile, returns on Sunday 14th.

Thanks.

No clash, then.

Someone mentioned it.... a few minutes before you.

My post has the full schedules, though.

I've edited it slightly, too.

Sunday 23rd November 2008

7:00
FOX NFL Football Overun 17.86m
CBS 60 Minutes 14.53m
NBC Football Night in America 6.71m
ABC American Music Awards Red Carpet 5.52m
CW In Harms Way (R) 0.72m

7:30
FOX The OT 12.81m

8:00
FOX 24: Redemption 12.04m
ABC American Music Awards 12.38m
NBC Football Night in America/Game 11.51m
CBS The Amazing Race 10.13m
CW Valentine (R) 0.64m

8:30
NBC Sunday Night Football (8:30-11pm) 12.29m

9:00
ABC American Music Awards 13.04m
CBS Cold Case 12.07m
FOX 24: Redemption 11.72m
CW Easy Money (R) 0.41m

10:00
ABC American Music Awards 11.17m
CBS The Unit 9.99m

Highest rated show of the night was NFL Football Overun with 17.86m.
Lowest rated show of the night was Easy Money (R) with 0.41m.

24: Redemption (FOX)
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 12.60 million
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 12.13 million
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 11.66 million
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 11.77 million

American Music Awards (ABC)
8:00 p.m. - Viewers: 11.88 million
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 12.87 million
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 13.29 million
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 12.78 million
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 11.78 million
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 10.57 million

ps. Sorry I haven't done the American ratings for a while.

Girls Aloud Party?

Cheryl must be flavour of the month at ITV! It will be interesting to see how it does contending with the SCD results. Probably a 16-34 success anyway, maybe about 5-6m?

Outnumbered will have a boost from SCD, I think.

I'd be surprised if Girls Aloud didn't top 6m in the slot it's in. I think the Take That special would have done better there, though.

As for Outnumbered, SCD won't boost it imo as it will be up against XF's final results (Outnumbered hasn't been up against XF yet and it's still doing horribly, so I dread to think how low it will be against the XF final).

I was talking about Boxing Day.

Both X Factor and Outnumbered should get a boost from that.

ITV just made a PR blunder saying IAC is "NEXT" when it starts at 9pm.

Ok...calm down lol

Australian Ratings: Sunday 23rd November 2008
Headline: "Australian Idol" bows out to 1.6m

ABC
19:00 ABC News 1,079,000
19:30 Natural World: Eagle Island 907,000
20:30 Movie: Little Fish 725,000

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1,543,000
18:30 Kath & Kim (R) 1,327,000
19:00 Movie: Over the Hedge 1,102,000
20:40 Movie: National Treasure 942,000

Nine
13:30 Cricket: First Test - Australia v New Zealand 409,000
18:00 Nine News Sunday 1,159,000
18:30 20 to 1: Girls on Film (R) 1,147,000
19:30 60 Minutes 1,411,000
20:30 CSI: Miami 1,162,000
21:30 CSI: Miami (R) 942,000

Ten
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 510,000
18:30 Thank God You're Here (R) 772,000
19:30 Australian Idol: Live from Sydney Opera House 1,301,000
20:30 Australian Idol: The Final 1,489,000
21:00 Australian Idol: Announcement of Winner 1,566,000
21:30 NCIS (R) 768,000
22:30 Californication 447,000
23:05 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Global Edition 233,000

SBS
19:30 Who Do You Think You Are? 293,000

Evening Shares
ABC: 16.4%
Seven: 27.5%
Nine: 26.7%
Ten: 24.1%
SBS: 5.2%

I don't see why people are saying that Outnumbered is doing badly, IIRC its ratings are higher than in its first serious.

Also I think Gavin and Stacy did well on Friday, with it already have been watched by over 2 million people, to get over 3 million is brilliant for a comedy being repeated on a terrestrial channel.

Finally I could see Hole in the Wall getting another series. Chris Moyles this morning persuaded Chris Martin from Coldplay to go on it. But i think a non-celebrity version with just fat people would be brilliant.

Given that the home-grown cupboard is bursting at the seams with treats this Christmas, I think it's safe to say any film on BBC1 is going to have to be shown some time between 3.10 and 6pm. It's quite a coup landing Superman Returns though, and in the past that would have been a prime time Christmas Day banker. Mind you, it is 2hrs 20 mins long.

POTC - Dead Man's Chest seems a certain Boxing Day movie after the first one got 10m+ two years ago against what seemed a very strong ITV1 line-up, and 7m with a Christmas Eve repeat last year. But maybe the Christmas Eve re-run last year was an advance attempt to see how well it could do on Christmas Eve.

It's an embarrassment of riches though for BBC1 this year, it's going to be hard to place it all. I shall have to get my thinking cap on with my scheduling predictions...


A flop? It got over 10m viewers, with over 12m for most of its last hour. Its length, and the fact it was seen by millions in the pictures and on DVD before broadcast certainly dented its ratings, but "a flop" it was not.

10.2m for the SCD results show is astonishing, btw. Can't be explained by the Sergeant bounce, as he left the night before, and suggests that the show is really on a roll and not becoming "stale" as some have said. And that's against a show pulling 7m on BBC2 too.

From September 2008:

Any more predictions, George?



EDIT: Update on the weekly SCD v TXF 'weekend average' ratings contest:

SCD:10.18m
TXF 9.90m

The "stale" SCD wins this week's bout...

Have to agree. I'm always thankful for the BBC at this time of the year because they do pull out all the stops.

Regarding ITV's scheduling of the music shows Sundays at 8pm

ITV are probably just trying to get a more younger feel to Sundays during the next few weeks

As was said on here, Heartbeat in the middle of a sandwich between Brittannia High and I'm a Celebrity was out of place

Heartbeat works better paired next to a Drama

Regarding moving The X Factor results to Sundays, I can understand why they haven't done this

Pro's
It would boost Sunday's schedule
Con's
It would weaken Saturdays (just look at BBC1's drop off)
It would pretty much double studio production costs to do 2 nights live

In my opinion they should do the 2 days for Dancing on Ice though, as they could get away with recording Sunday's results after a Saturday show

I'm already beavering away on my BBC Christmas scheduling predictions, and notice on the BBC Programme Information pages that there will be ELEVEN editions of EastEnders during the Christmas fortnight. I imagine these will run:

Mon 22: x1
Tues 23 x1
Xmas Eve (Weds) x1
Xmas Day (Thurs) x2
Boxing Day (Fri) x1

Mon 29 x1
Tues 30 x1
New Year's Eve (Weds) x1
New Year's Day (Thurs) x1
Fri 2nd x1

= 11

I expect ITV will run just one Coro at 8.30 on the Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with extra hour long editions on Xmas Day and on New Year's Day.

Dancing on Ice should definitely stay Sunday nights next year, but paired with the soaps, saving all of the dramas for an uninterrupted run later in the year in a 7pm slot with the soaps seasoned in an 8pm-9pm slot OR a 2 hour drama from 8pm-10pm, or 9pm-11pm.

Regarding Saturday's, ITV actually have quite a lot available, and it's been a case of fitting it all in, remember they never could fit in that Harry Hill annual show, which is a shame as it was a ratings banker, they should have slotted it on a Sunday or even Thursday 8pm, shame to miss out on that.

On the 11th of December, is 'The Pregant Man' on Channel 4 new or a repeat? Thanks in advance .

Haven't had access to DS since last Thursday and was just wondering why the Ratings Thread now says Part 3?

DS have been splitting all the big threads into smaller parts (each part- 400 pages long). I think it's something to do with ensuring there's less strain on their server (or something similar).