The younger audience seems to have melted away though. The shape of the future looks like Splash. You take people with lower asking prices, and give them something like a reported 10k (for the one we have any reports on anyway) Thats a lot cheaper than what they would get on IAC or SCD or DO1. You don't have the overheads for music, or changing costumes, or props, or professional partners, or even 4 judges. They train less, achieve less and the same numbers of people tune in as do to DOI.


There's probably a search going on for a new cheap format. There's probably too many singing shows, and too few new celebs to use who can sing. Horse jumping was a bit niche. The Games was a bit too injury prone, but had merit. The modern Olympic equivalent of T and D would be cycling - but taht doesn't look too promising. The cooking shows are taken by the BBC. Whats the equivalent of watching gravity in action on Splash?

Splash gets fewer viewers than DOI and the figres have unsurprisingly fallen this year. I doubt Splash will last as long as DOI - probably no more than 3 series.

TOWIE doesn't even get half that! PMSL!

TOWIE gets less than a million viewers. So what's yours?

Brilliant

And that's no trifling matter is it?

I doubt it. Still not as bad as eating live bees washed down with sulphuric acid though

As far as I know it's never been on Saturday nights. I'm sure it's been Sundays since series 1.

It has not always been on a Sunday night the first couple of series were on a Saturday night. Then it moved to Sunday nights I think from Series 3.

The show was on Saturday nights when it first started, I was in the studio for one of the nights in series 2 and it was a Saturday.

And Primeval was the show inbetween. I loved Primeval