Originally Posted by ftv:
“ITV's Daybreak is to be renamed Good Morning Britain from next Monday. It will be presented by Susanna Reid (ex-BBC Breakfast), two male and one more female presenters. Aled Jones will leave the show and Lorraine Kelly reverts to her 8.30 Lorrain show. None of this has been confirmed by ITV.
- The Sun”
I think people are getting the wrong end of the stick here, The Sun story says it will be rebranded "next week" but that certainly doesn't mean the whole thing launches next week, I take it to mean they're going to announce it next week. I know they might want a soft launch but there's no way they'd do it like this, not even billed in the Radio Times and with a team of presenters a complete secret. Susanna Reid hasn't even officially left the BBC yet - and you'd have known if she has - so there's absolutely no chance she'll be in situ on Monday, without any kind of pilot or even a rehearsal. Totally impossible. 100% it is not launching next week.
Originally Posted by centauri72:
“I like Creek too and hope it does well but 8.5m? On a regular Friday? Really?
Friday is the weakest night of the week for EE. BBC1's usual Friday fare at 9 and 9.30 struggles to top 5m in the overnights or 6m in the finals. ITV dramas in the slot repeatedly crash and burn. There are fewer viewers around than on a Sunday or Monday, for example.
So Creek could and should do well, but I think we should regard any overnight above 6m as a success. It might well consolidate to 8m, and that would be doing exceptionally well. Let's not set it up for a fall by overpredicting.”
I dunno, though, it has the chance to do very well, when it was a regular series it would always win its slot, and against some half-decent competition on ITV too (I remember it thrashing Poirot for its final episode with Quentin in January 2000). The first one that failed to win its slot was the second special, which obviously had the excuse of being opposite Frost, then the last one was opposite Broadchurch and did pretty well, having been rescheduled at the last minute.
As mentioned, the competition tonight is very weak and also I think it skews pretty old, my grandmother used to love it and I would suspect the majority of the audience would be quite old because it's quite an old-fashioned show. It is an old series, too, it started seventeen years ago so although it's rather Sherlock-esque (indeed, I would suggest in its original run it had the same kind of impact and appeal as Sherlock does now) I don't think it's a massive draw for younger viewers so I don't think a Friday slot will do any damage at all. I think it's exactly what the older audience want to watch on a Friday night. You're right to say Fridays is a weak night for BBC1 but HIGNFY aside they don't put much top drawer stuff there, and even HIGNFY is paired with a weaker show. I think it'll do easily as well as Silent Witness, probably better because it's a much-loved show. Not what it was getting in its pomp, no, but probably the best BBC1 have had on a Friday for a long time.
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“Actually I do agree with that and the specials before the last one were good. It would be nice to see Caroline Quentin turn up in one as a guest star though - that would be great.”
I always wonder why she doesn't, I could see why she was too busy to do it when she was doing big dramas like Blue Murder and Life Begins but less so now, if she could do Life Of Riley, a sitcom underserving of her talents, she could surely come back for one episode. Especially as in the past David Renwick has been happy to constantly hire his favourite performers, casting Brian Murphy, Owen Brenman and Sheridan Smith across various of his series.
Originally Posted by aberdaberdonian:
“II'm guessing people tuning in because of the tensions in Ukraine? Or is 5M now the norm for the 10 o'clock news?”
Originally Posted by
aberdaberdonian:
“...and just as I post....D.M.N helpfully offers up the consolidated numbers from last week where the BBC 10 o'clock news posts another 5M+ rating....thus answering my question for me 
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Of course, both of those two occasions were when ITV News was on later, and after low-rating football as well, so it seems obvious that most people would stick around after George Gently. Repeats on BBC2 and C4 as well, so where else were they going to go?
