I know the viewers have choice of two quality, well made dramas and they pick neither. And then complain when a new reality show turns up. Just unbelievable.

No today's papers say Reid asked to go on a break due to her "Marital" (she wasn't married) problems for this weeks 3 eps there is a difference. Whether or not she ever comes back is another matter of course.

LAst nights was the first Musketeers ep that I actually enjoyed.

Ah - your gradually coming over to the dark side.

For a start you could make it without hiring in a former BBC presenter which will obviously give rise to claims of plagiarism. You could then do something more focussed than someone wandering round the countryside or coastline talking about history and wildlife - plenty more to look at in the countryside, all sorts of environment issues, farming, destruction of the Green Belt by building on it. But those sort of programmes don't want to get involved in politics (although Countryfile does on occasions to be fair and takes politicians and others to task). Why is it virtually every new programme announced by ITV seems to be a re-working of a BBC idea - aren't we being promised a new ITV quiz ''inspired'' by the Generation Game (which was actually a Dutch TV idea bought by the BBC for Brucie).

"@Jake_Kanter: Susanna Reid to ITV deal done. She will front Good Morning Britain alongside Ben Shephard, Charlotte Hawkins and Sean Fletcher."

Are we going to recall last Mondays ratings discussion for this afternoons Consolidated's or shall we not bother heh.

It appears I have just invented the word Consolidateds's heh

Apparently Julia Bradbury has tweeted that she is leaving Countryfile but will continue to work on both BBC and ITV. She is freelance apparently - so just a bit of Daily Fail hype after all.

I started to watch the first series of Selfridge - on paper, it should have been something I would enjoy - but I just couldn't get interested in it - not really sure why - the characters (Selfridge especially) just didn't engage with me.
I haven't watched any of the second series.

I watched the first 4 eps of Musketeers - it was enjoyable enough - but the same thing, I just couldn't get really engaged with the characters - and the eps seemed very much a re-hash of each other.
Haven't got back into it again since the break.

I didn't watch any tv at all last night.

I don't find it unbelievable.

It's not unbelievable - quite the reverse.

Both TM and MS are flawed and viewers are quick to spot this. MS should be benefitting from TM's slow death, but it isn't. Which speaks volumes.

Drama starts with the quality of the characters and the quality of the writing, and both shows under perform in that area. Neither deserve to be recommissioned - but have been.

BBC News article confirming departure: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26351796

More news on Good Morning Britain.

ITV raided BBC Breakfast and Sky Sunrise

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...t#.UxRa6fR_v-Y

Good presenting line up, will be very interesting to see how this pans out.

Interesting that Aled has been given his own weekend show as well.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...v#.UxRahvR_v-Y

Well around 6m viewers are still watching both shows so they dont agree with you and neither do I.

Call the Midwife climbs to 8.9 million on Sunday

Call the Midwife easily won the Sunday ratings once again last night, according to overnight data.

BBC One's recently-renewed drama climbed to 8.95 million (32.9%) at 8pm. The Musketeers continued by dipping 100,000 to 4.40m (18.9%) at 9pm.

Earlier, Blandings attracted 3.75m (17.2%) at 6.30pm, followed by Countryfile with 6.76m (28.7%) at 7pm.

ITV's Dancing on Ice semi-final dropped around 400k to 5.02m (24.2%) at 6.15pm (245k/1.0% on +1). The results show brought in 4.23m (17.5%) at 8.30pm (254k/1.1%).

Mr Selfridge climbed from last week to 4.50m (18.1%) at 9pm (259k/1.6%), while All-Star Family Fortunes entertained 4.36m (16.9%) at 7.45pm (163k/0.6%).

On BBC Two, Top Gear fell by around 400k from last week to 5.10m (18.8%) at 8pm. Dragons' Den rose by 400k to 3.23m (13.8%) at 9pm.

Channel 4's Fish Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall interested 788k (3.3%) at 7pm (141k/0.5%). Time Team appealed to 952k (3.5%) at 8pm (185k/0.8%), while Angelina Jolie film Salt thrilled 1.18m (6.0%) at 9pm (229k/1.9%).

On Channel 5, Bruce Willis sci-fi classic The Fifth Element brought in 818k (3.3%) at 6.45pm (136k/0.5%).

ITV2's The Only Way is Essex gathered 672k (3.9%) at 10pm (187k/2.0%).

Sounds like the end of Garroway then

So DOI going out with an even bigger whimper than I thought - is the final going to see any increase?

NCIS: LA on Friday?

6m is not a great rating. For either show. It's distinctly average. Rather like both series …

The Mary Berry Brigade keep CTM surging on and on.

the "panel" is totally ruining the show the bias they are showing wanting Beth out even got Chris Dean angry last night and Schofield just confirmed on This morning First time ever he got angry with the judges.

It's good to see your'e still watching The Musketeers, to make that comment.

Strange then that about six million more of the "Mary Berry Brigade" watch CTM than actually watch Mary Berry! Traitors to Mary, clearly

Maybe - just maybe - the audience for CTM is not some kind of 'brigade' at all. Maybe they just watch it because it's a good drama?

Re: ITV Breakfast developments. Surprised Charlotte Hawkins moved considering Eamonn elected to stay with Sky. I'm sure he was supportive but they work well together on Sunrise.

Sean Fletcher seems like a bit of a random choice. I'd have promoted Matt Barbet from the 6am hour myself.

That would have made up a team of all white middle class presenters. Maybe they felt they needed a diverse team?