Someone scheduled the Lottery show later than it was allowed to be shown? Whoops!

OK there for Gotham but very strong for MIC - I've hardly seen this premiere promoted (although it followed on so soon after MIC NYC that they didn't really have time!).


Because the peak is better? It's a perfectly valid measurement of a TV shows performance.


Fincham is like Alex Ferguson - been around the block and he'll not be forced out on one bad year. Some years will be better than others and then he'll start rebuilding a new line-up. I doubt Crozier will be pushing him out any time soon.


They've been asking producers to pitch male skewing series to them.


What's the point in marking your words? When someone is wrong as often as you are, those statements become totally empty.


It's Wednesday - right in the middle of the week. If ever there was a day to drop the XF agenda then this should be it. And the whole "SLAMMED" crap has been blown out of the water anyway on this thread although you persist, as ever, with your misinformation.


You don't know any of this to be true. Maybe they thought it was the best option they had available to them at the time from ITV Studios? All new commissions are "risks", GYAT is no more a risk than any other series.

The Apprentice has much stronger competition tonight from ITV with Scott & Bailey and Channel 4 with Grand Designs. If it stays level to last night or grows it will be a shock. Lots of positive feedback to last night's launch which will help The Apprentice.

I suppose the new contract with no Wednesday shows must be a bit stricter. Maybe there are exemptions for live sport, but not for Donny Osmond.

We used to laugh and point at ITV going under 3m on Tuesdays, but now they're sometimes barely over 1m.

And it was up to 13.4m the last time I asked Yog for an update a couple of days ago. The final rating is out tomorrow. It will be big.

Going under 2m on a weeknight is inexcusable. It's like they put zero thought or effort into non Champions League Tuesdays.

Do we have a rating for yesterday's Bad Education?

Will BBC1 maintain the week on week ratings at 8pm tonight, I wonder?

Is there 20 episodes of a Waterloo Road left, is that correct?

I must be the only few people that can see through he Apprentice for what it is, Cheap TV.

If they end up having an hour of ED on Tuesdays, they should split it and show the second half at 8pm. It should at least keep the programme in the 8.30-9pm slot over 2m because viewers have nowhere obvious to go with no junctions on other main channels.

Denting EastEnders has no financial benefit if everyone turns over at 8pm to watch Holby or whatever's on BBC Two/C4/C5.

You do like to post in extremes don't you. The Sound of Music will be a multi-hour live event for which they will likely demand rather large ad rates particularly given the success of the exact same idea in the US last year. To suggest that no one within or without ITV gives a damn about it or three part dramas (one of which has been among ITV's biggest success of the year this year) is utterly ridiculous. Its posts of this nature that force people to dismiss everything you have to contribute to the thread.


The prime Sunday night January slot? You make it sound as if this is some historically huge night for ITV not where they've aired the slowly dying Dancing on Ice for a couple of years too many. Are we really already in the business of creating unrealistic expectations for a show that doesn't launch for months yet?

The Apprentice launched with 8.1m in 2009! I forgot about that one! DAMN!

You must have missed that daily posts he made about Rising Star, which now looks quite ridiculous.

Tue 7 May 2013
21:00 - The Apprentice: 6.01m (26.2%)
* total TV audience: 22.9m
21:00 - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: 2.03m (8.8%) / 2.14m (9.3%)

Wed 8 May 2013
21:00 - The Apprentice: 5.21m (21.8%)
* total TV audience: 23.9m
21:00 - Scott & Bailey: 4.67m (19.6%) / 5.07m (21.3%)

= = = = = = = = = =

Tue 14 October 2014
21:00 - The Apprentice: 6.66m (29.7%)
* total TV audience: 22.4m
21:00 - Spandau Ballet - True Gold: 1.27m (5.7%) / 1.41m (6.3%)

Wed 15 October 2014
21:00 - The Apprentice
21:00 - Scott & Bailey

Interesting that it's found itself up against Scott & Bailey again, 17 months later.

Plus Grand Designs at 9pm on Channel 4 and Can't Pay, We Take It Away on Channel 5. Factual competition for The Apprentice. And all rating much higher than The Apprentice's Tuesday competition. Logic dictates that the rating will be down tonight.

Everything is the same in today's update, except Strictly ending five minutes later.

The Missing confirmed to start on BBC1 on Tuesday October 28 at 2100 - BBC Media Centre

Is that I'm a Celeb tease just generic or are we meant to read anything into the Wizard of Oz/Kansas theme in the two images?

Perhaps they have got someone (vaguely) connected to the film.

Options: - Lorna Luft?

Or, as its ITV, Toto?

Looks intriguing. I'll be watching it.

It does sound a lot like the Madeleine McCann case from the BBC publicity albeit a boy rather than girl.But I like anything with Jimmy Nesbitt.

No I don't think so. Its just a way or promoting the show.

I'm a she and thanks for the response. Didn't realise it was 4 years ago. Thought it was more recent.

Its a shame for you then that Monroe was axed.

I liked Murphy's Law, but I think that's the highest-rated show he's ever topped the bill in. I think this series will struggle in the ratings.

For a few of us! Monroe was a great series.