Which braindead moron did that?

Sunshine did well to increase its ratings from last week and Cop with Cameras did solid business as well. WWTBAM has settled quite well in the Tuesday slot and I wouldn't be surprised if it remains there or gives ITV the opportunity to try out other gameshows and documentaries in this slot.

Five has a solid Tuesday schedule with Nature Shock doing better than expected and CSI Miami and CSI NY doing great business. Jamie's Ministry of Food drop from 3.1m to 2.5m is worrying considering the competition is pretty weak, I would have thought it would have gone up.

FULL (so that we don't become confused) ITV1 schedule for Sunday 26th October:

13:00 - FA Cup 1st Round Draw
13:30 - TBA
17:45 - News
18:15 - Britannia High
19:15 - Heartbeat
20:15 - A Touch of Frost
22:15 - News
22:30 - The South Bank Show.

Oh ITV, why do you want this to be a flop?! Even 7:15 wouldn't have been a suitable time, let alone 6:15!

The mind fully boggles, what would have been wrong with

7.00pm Heartbeat
8.00pm Britannia High
9.00pm A Touch of Frost
11.00pm News
11.15pm The South Bank Show

Yeh, very odd. ITV had a great opportunity, to sandwich it between the 2 X Factor shows on Saturdays (and have Family Fortunes on Sunday). Dear oh dear, regarding how they've schedule it currently. As for TOF, I agree that its ratings will go down. But I think it may also dent Strictly's audience, as I imagine both audiences are similar.


I think they did it 15 past the hour to keep it in sync with the BBC schedules which are also 15 past the hour.

I wonder what they'll do on the F1 Brazil week- not show BH or show it later, meaning that Heartbeat won't be shown?

The race due to start at 17:00.

Typical programme would be from 16:00 to 19:00, however, as it is not only the final race of the season but also ITV's final ever Formula One broadcast, I would hope for the programme to run from 16:00 to 19:15. That maybe why it's at a quarter past sync the week earlier.

Also, it's the final episode of ATOF the week earlier.

MY GUESS - NOVEMBER 2ND
16:00 - F1: Brazilian Grand Prix
19:15 - Britannia High
20:15 - Heartbeat
21:15 - ????/ITV News????

One thing I bloody hope doesn't happen is that ITV rush the post-race so they can get into Britannia High!

They'd be going from a ratings banker to a ratings flop.

I'm getting ready for "Britannia High follows this race.... Britannia High follows this race"

Little Dorrit starts in two weeks and it will be interesting how they schedule it. I think they schedule it Wednesday and Thursday or possibly Tuesday and Thursday and have Holby on Wednesdays.

I wonder if Britannia High will be at 6.15pm for the first show and then get scheduled later for future weeks?

Even established shows like Strictly struggle pre-7pm, I really dont know what ITV are expecting in that slot TBH.

I dont think it's good Heartbeat is going out on the quatre of the hour assuming SCD is on at 8.00.

More Tuesday
BBC1
20.00- Holby City: 5.8m (25.8%)
21.00- Sunshine: 4.0m (17.4%)
22.35- Imagine: 0.9m

BBC2
19.00- Grand Prix Snooker: 1.0m (4.8%)
20.00- Twiggy's Frock Exchange: 1.3m (5.9%)
21.00- British Style Genius: 1.1m (4.8%)
22.00- Later Live... with Jools Holland: 0.8m

ITV1
20.00- Who Wants to be a Millionaire?: 4.3m (19%)
21.00- Cops with Cameras: 3.5m (15.7%)

C4
18.00- The Simpsons: 2.4m [ inc. C4+1 ]
18.30- Hollyoaks: 2.1m [ inc. C4+1 ]
19.00- Channel 4 News: 910,000 (4.2%) [ +48,000 : C4+1 ]
20.00- The Sex Education Show: 1.7m [ +200,000 : C4+1 ]
21.00- Jamie's Ministry of Food: 2.5m (11.3%) [ +169,000 : C4+1 ]
22.00- Dawn Porter: Geisha Girl: 1.5m (9%) [ +100,000 : C4+1 ]
23.15- The Family: 470,800 [ inc. C4+1 ]

Five
19.00- Five News: 303,000 (1.4%)
20.00- Natural Shock: 1.7m (7.5%) * peak: 1.9m (8.1%)
21.00- CSI: Miami: 2.6m (11.8%)
22.00- CSI: NY: 2.0m (12%)

Multichannel
19.00- Hollyoaks (E4): 1.3m (7%) [ +59,000 : E4+1 ]
* highest rated E4 programme in 2008
19.10- Shanghai Knights (BBC3): 505,000 (2.63%)
20.00- Dante's Peak (ITV2): 400,000 (2.07%)
20.00- Stargate Atlantis (Sky1): 363,000 (1.85%)
20.00- Friends (E4): 282,000 (1.48%)
20.00- High Anxieties (BBC4): 193,000 (0.99%)
20.00- America's Next Top Model (Living): 112,000 (0.57%)
20.00- Richard & Judy (Watch): 53,000 (0.27%) * peak: 56,000 (0.29%) [ +16,000 : Watch+1 ]
20.30- Friends (E4): 323,000 (1.61%)
21.00- The Italian Job (E4): 290,000 (1.75%)
21.00- War on Knives (Sky1): 75,000 (0.44%)

Peaktime (18.00-22.30) shares:
ITV1: 24.1%, BBC1: 20.4%, C4: 8.5%, BBC2: 6.4%, Five: 7.1%
Multichannel: 32.9%, C4+1: 0.7%

All hours shares:
ITV1: 18.8%, BBC1: 20.6%, C4: 8.4%, BBC2: 6.6%, Five: 7.0%
Multichannel: 38%, C4+1: 0.6%

Sources: Broadcast, MG, C4Sales

Australian Overnights: Tuesday 14th October 2008

ABC
19:00 ABC News 1,137,000
19:30 The 7.30 Report 884,000
20:00 Two in the Top End 836,000

Seven
17:30 Deal or No Deal 755,000
18:00 Seven News 1,471,000
18:30 Today Tonight 1,316,000
19:00 Home and Away 1,242,000
19:30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R) 1,607,000
20:00 Find My Family 1,822,000
20:30 Packed to the Rafters 1,886,000
21:30 All Saints 1,202,000

Nine
17:00 Antiques Roadshow (R) 467,000
18:00 Nine News 1,181,000
18:30 A Current Affair 1,120,000
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1,269,000
19:30 The Chopping Block 879,000
20:30 Two and a Half Men 1,033,000
21:00 Two and a Half Men 1,023,000
21:30 20 to 1 992,000
22:30 Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs Favourites 415,000

Ten
19:30 The Simpsons 968,000
20:00 Kenny's World Toilet Tour 890,000
20:30 NCIS 1,336,000
21:30 Rush 927,000

Sources: OzTAM, TribalMind

Evening shares
ABC 13.8%
Seven 35.7%
Nine 24.4%
Ten 21.8%
SBS 4.4%

ITV are getting really good at flopping shows now.

They've got it down to a fine art.

Britannia High has literally no chance of success there.

Almost as successful as Richard and Judy.

Australia: Very good for Seven, and Nine also had a decent night. Ten did well with NCIS.

UK: Hollyoaks did very well on E4 and Shanghai Knights was a good performer for BBC3. BBC2's Tuesday schedule is very weak at the moment. Five and C4 had good nights. Holby City presumably came second on the day behind EE. E4 got 0.3m for a film shown in the same slot the day before.

As somebody pointed out to me a few pages back when I was moaning about the scheduling of Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor got a big audience at that time and so did Strictly last year. It might just work for ITV.

If it had a programme aimed at the same audience after it I may agree with you, but Heartbeat & Antiques Roadshow viewers aren't going to be watching Britannia High I don't think so it may just get lost in the schedules.

If ITV are going to air it at 6.15pm it may as well be shown on Saturday up against SCD or Merlin where tbh it would have a better chance.

Australian ratings wise, Seven had another solid night with Packed to the Rafters and Find My Family pulling in 1.8m+ and every other programme pulling in 1m. Nine had a good night though The Chopping Block was beaten by The Simpsons while Ten did well with NCIS and Rush did good as well.

Five should try and improve its daytime schedule because it would help boost its all hours share and perhaps beat Channel 4 on occassions.

BBC Two's Tuesday is weak considering the rest of the week is pretty solid. Perhpas Fashion is not the right choice for the BBC Two audience.

Tuesday 14th October 2008

8:00
CBS NCIS 17.86m
FOX House 12.82m
NBC Biggest Loser 7.20m
ABC Opportunity Knocks 5.31m
CW 90210 (R) 1.78m

9:00
CBS The Mentalist 14.86m
ABC Dancing With the Stars Results 14.37m
FOX Fringe 9.53m
NBC Biggest Loser 7.71m
CW Privileged (R) 1.24m

10:00
CBS Without a Trace 10.99m
NBC Law & Order: SVU 9.40m
ABC Eli Stone 8.82m

NCIS did very well as did House though The Mentalist and Fringe lost a good chunk of their lead in though for The Mentalist to beat DWTS is very good and CBS would be mad not to give it a full season order. Eli Stone did okay against WaT and SVU but I don't have much hope for its future.

Opportunity Knocks is doing very badly and I wouldn't be surprised if it is in danger of cancellation.

BBC week 44 info is updated now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk44/

I complete agree. Half hour breakdown:
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 10.07 million
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 7.57 million

Is there any info about EastEnders' scheduleing that week?

Nope, nothing. The 9pm slot is definitely filled with other shows Mon to Thu, though.

And it's not just Britannia High, either. What a total mess that is. They seem to have commissioned too much for autumn weekends. And I think they ought to have brought Saturday Night Takeaway back as it is one of the few shows that might do OK against SCD.

They also seem to have Heartbeat on nearly all year in varying slots and with random weeks off. Perhaps scale it down a bit and try and air it consistently.