ITV seem to have even more to fit in early next year, with:

Beat The Star
Saturday Night Takeaway
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Dancing on Ice
Piers Morgan Show
Primeval
The Last Van Helsing
The Colour of Money
Britain's Got Talent
All Star Mr and Mrs

All earmarked for early next year.

Surely Primeval and Van Helsing won't air simultaneously? I can see something that usually airs in Winter/Spring airing in the Summer (probably Mr and Mrs).

I reckon Primeval should run for the first 10 weeks of 2009, then in March Van Helsing should replace it.

ITV could have a string of Saturday night drama hits if Britannia High and Van Helsing take off.

I think the following will air from Jan/March:
Beat The Star
Saturday Night Takeaway
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Dancing on Ice
Piers Morgan Show
Primeval

DOI on Sunday. The rest on Saturday making up a very nice schedule with A&D at the heart of it.

And from April-June...
The Last Van Helsing
The Colour of Money
Britain's Got Talent
All Star Mr and Mrs

All for a Saturday if possible.

Indeed. They're clearly taking advantage of the lack of Doctor Who.

If Britannian High and Van Helsing take off, I'd commission 13 episode second series of them both, along with a 13 episode fourth run of Primeval, so drama would air on Saturdays for most of the year.

I have a feeling Van Helsing could end up being another Jekyll though

And Britannia High could possibly end up like another Rock Rivals depending upon its slot. However I do hope both shows do well, as ITV now have Saturday entertainment sorted apart from July/Aug with 2 new entertainment hits this year: Beat The Star & All Star Mr & Mrs.

Any particular reason why The X Factor peaked at 19.50, instead of near the end of the show?

That looks good, but there is too much crammed in. All Star Mr and Mrs should move to June-August, replacing Who Dares Sings. Film premieres should air in the Summer, too.

Merlin 5.92m (25.6%)
X Factor 10.36m (44.1%)

So rougly 23 million viewers were watching TV at that time.

End of Merlin. I'd imagine it stayed at 10.5-11.2m after that.

Ah, yes. Some people probably tuned over from BBC1 at that time.

What do you think next week's X Factor will rate? It will clash against SCD for 45 mins.

I hate to disagree, I reckon that X Factor won't break 10million in the show average, but will probably peak at 10.something. SCD should bounce back and I would think be in the high 8millions or low 9s.

Last year i'm guessing that the first live show of X Factor probably had a 5million lead in, but this year it was probably around 8million. Now thats a big diference, which might explain why there is such a big difference from last year.

Nothing surprises me with TXF anymore. 10m is great although I think next weeks wont be as high.

I really dont see why such a fuss is being made over BH. It really hasent picked up much anticipation at all, I can only see it doing really well if it picks up a post X Factor audience. SCD put in a dignified performance I s'pose all things considered a did Merlin.

Around 9m. It does have 75 minutes after SCD to bounce back.

12m actually.

Alexandra must be a huge draw.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...912407&page=30

Last year, the results show had a huge lead-in from the Rugby World Cup Final invcolving England. Yet got less than 7m viewers. This year, there's justa huge interest in the show.

BARB question:

Do they do it per member of the family that is in the program, or household? For example if The X Factor gets 10.3m, is that 10.3 million BARB households or could it be less, but 10.3 million total viewers in the BARB households (i.e. a family of 6 all counted individual). I hope that makes sense to someone

Disappointing rating for the footie IMO. A lacklustre first half and Strictly stiff competition in the second are likely causes.

But still, a great day for ITV1 and an impressive share.

Per person, not per household.

Apparently each person in the household has their own remote-control and they use it to log in everytime they watch something.

45 minutes of pre-match waffle probably contributed, too.

Neil, if you could bring us this rating (5:15am and 2:00pm; ITV1) that would be great as I want to know as well!

That didn't help. And I forgot about that when making my Ratings Game prediction.

I think as well when the game ended it should have gone almost straight into TXF if possible with all the post match analysis moved to a special programme on ITV4.

I forgot about the Rugby, but ask yourself is a rugby fan move likely to stay and watch the X Factor than a football fan.

Australian Overnights: Saturday 11th October 2008

ABC
19:00 ABC News 950,000
...
20:30 The Bill (Double Episode) 932,000

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1,275,000
18:30 Movie: Holes 935,000
21:00 Movie: Alien Vs. Predator 615,000

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1,025,000
18:30 Australia's Funniest Home Video Show 914,000
19:30 Movie: Oliver Twist 542,000

Ten
18:30 Movie: Evolution 690,000
20:35 Movie: Aeon Flux 590,000

SBS
19:30 Mythbusters (R) 307,000
20:30 Iron Chef (R) 263,000
21:20 RocKwiz 245,000
22:00 No Way, Get F*#ked, F*#k Off 276,000

Source: OzTAM

Well, I don't think it should make much difference. A lot of people who watched the final last year I assume weren't even that much into rugby- but only watched as England were involved.