Great news !!!

The Fall has to be back on Wednesday nights. The Honourable Woman will still be on Thursday that week and Monday/Tuesday will have drama on BBC1.

Coronation Street - 6.68m (36.5%)
Coronation Street - 7.12m (33.5%)
Eastenders - 6.11m (31.4%)
Emmerdale - 5.33m (32.5%)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3...oM3D8VQ81XVzOt

Soaps

19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.33m (32.5%) / 5.43m (33.1%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 6.68m (36.5%) / 6.87m (37.5%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 6.11m (31.4%) + 275k (1.7%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.12m (33.5%) / 7.42m (34.9%)

I prefer seeing the ITV soap ratings this way with +1.

EastEnders back above 6m, but Corrie still leads the way. I'm an EastEnders fan but you can't deny Corrie is holding up well this Summer. I just don't understand all the Corrie is falling talk when it gets a lower rating on an extremely hot day.

Shares about where we would expect I think - CS must have had a boost with the return.

That would make a really strong (and perhaps unbeatable) Wednesday for the BBC - Bake-Off at 8pm on BBC one, followed by The Fall at 9pm on BBC Two.

Do we know that for a fact though because BBC seemed to have abandoned Drama on Monday this year. Are we expecting NT on Monday?

New Tricks is down as "Unplaced" for that week in the BBC's Programme Information, however, Wednesday 9pm on BBC one has Operation Wild scheduled.

Mon - not mentioned
Tue - in the Club drama
Wed - Operation Wild
Thu - WDYTYA
Fri - not mentioned

I cannot see either drama going out on a Friday, so that leaves NT for Monday, and The Fall Wednesday (assuming that they would not engineer a clash of dramas)

A good start for The 21st Question. I do think it's good for ITV to rotate programmes in the 5pm slot. I know Pointless gets the ratings but viewer fatigue for it might start sooner than for The Chase.

Win It Cook it? Stop it, axe it more like.

6 part drama starting on Sunday at 9pm, 6 part drama starting tonight, who do you think you are for 10 weeks on Thurday and new 6 part comedy starting (Boomers) a week on friday which leaves Monday and Wednesday so New Tricks and The Fall will probably go to which day the other is not on.

Lots of 6 parter new stuff starting on BBC1 at present the long drought is over on the BBC at least.

It depends how you look at it - CS is down yoy quite a lot and its something we are not used to seeing so its worthy of comment but its still ahead of the other 2 so seems to be doing OK in that respect at least.

Does anyone have any ratings for the new TruTV channel? Especially 'Conan' at 11pm given how US chatshows tend to flop over here.

Not sure, but Zap2it could have it, they are excellent at the reporting of US ratings.

That certainly would have been a great night for BBC2. Will The Fall match its series 1 highs?

New Tricks is definitely back on Mondays.

EDIT: See below.

Absolute no-brainer to have NT on Monday and The Fall on Wednesday, I'd have thought.

TruTV Launch Figures

15:00 Crime Stories: 26,000 (0.4%)
*peak: 36,000 (0.6%) at 15:45
16:00 I, Detective: 18,000 (0.2%)
17:00 Speeders: 19,000 (0.2%)
21:00 Hardcore Pawn: Chicago: 16,000 (0.1%)
23:00 Conan: 11,000 (0.1%)

http://m.broadcastnow.co.uk/5075915.article

It was only the first night and things might pick up but I'm still mad at how badly Conan did. What on earth is wrong with UK viewers ? They obviously want their digital channels rammed with repeats all day long of the same 2-3 shows.

It was a no brainer last year as well but NT ended up on Tuesdays.

My 'Theory of Broadcast TV' is that most people are primarily looking for a social experience with TV programmes.

That means watching with other people, the other people being the UK population.

So TruTV does not meet the criteria of a 'social meeting place', it's just too niche. Put Conan on ITV2 at 11pm and he's getting 500k I would guess.

You'd have thought so.

New Tricks would have been on Monday last year had it not been for Doc Martin.

I didn't realise this but Conan has even been in the UK promoting the show. I do hope audience figures improve because at the moment it's a disaster.

http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritai...h-conan-obrien

Thanks for that. Conan was on Radio 2 yesterday and there was an article on the BBC News website, along with other TV/radio/magazine publicity so that's not a good start. Poor for the channel all round, really.

Death In Paradise is really turning into another New Tricks for BBC1. Decent repeat numbers last night with 2.5m.