I really hope our Zoo gets a nice boost as it really deserves it.

A great finale to Bake Off.

It really has been first class entertainment. It's a brilliant series.

I hope it does well tomorrow!

Roll on next year!

It'll be interesting if Bake Off does 10m+ if other broadcasters worldwide will look at the format again, it failed on CBS despite having Paul Hollywood although it was the American Baking Competition as they couldn't use Bake Off and it wasn't a hit for Nine in Australia either, The Great Irish Bake Off on TV3 did well but I imagine that's because viewers in ROI has seen the original. I wouldn't if a cable network like Lifetime, Bravo or Food Network acquire the format because it would be more suited to those networks.

I'm surprised they didn't film a Christmas special at the same time as the main series - maybe the final four doing some Christmas cakes and the like. Would have easily got 6/7m in the festive period and would have been a very cheap hour of TV.

BBC1 or 2 have been happily repeating Dad's Army since it ended in 1977, currently on BBC2 on Saturday nights and delivering audiences of 1.5 million.It would be rather difficult to revive the series now as only three original regular cast members are still around - Ian Lavender (Pike), Frank Williams (The Vicar) and Pam Cundell (Mrs Fox).The BBC does show the Dad's Army film from time to time.

Bonkers that they didn't add an extra episode for Christmas.

I wondered if they would consider a remake with new actors in the roles and new writers since it was such a success.

There are 77 episodes in the BBC archives. What would be the point - you couldn't improve on the original which some critics regard as the best British sitcom ever made.

Ratings success for comedy. Surely there has been a long enough gap to tell new stories to a new audience with new actors. The old series wouldn't need to be damaged by the new as it would be a different era project.

I don't think Dad's Army would work now as a series, at least a film has a way of expanding what can't be done in a 30 minute slot plus I doubt Universal would want a TV series if the film ends up being successful.

I was thinking the poster was meaning why not bring back Dad's Army repeats back to BBC1, rather than showing them on BBC2.

The 5:30pm slot on Saturdays was home to this and a few other vintage comedies for years. Are you being Served getting a long run out as well.

I suppose it would look so out of place on BBC1 these days.

agreed but what's the betting there isn't a celebrity Xmas Bake Off already on the cards?

I'd love nothing more than see Our Zoo get a massive boost from GBBO, but I just can't see happening at all sadly. 0.5m extra at most is my guess, and the drop off from the final will probably be the focus of certain posters.

Yes, it doesn't seem to have great appeal - perhaps evidence of this is that in week 2, ITV quite bizarrely (on the face of it) ran 3m flop Superstar from 20:00-21:30, so that the pop list show started half an hour later than the previous week and away from all the other channels' junctions. Despite this, it rated almost a million up week-on-week, apparently denting Wallander. Its share shot up more than five points, helped by running on until 23:00. Looking back at the first two series:

Series 1 officials (Nov/Dec 2008, Sundays, 21:00-22:30 approx.)

ep 1 - 6.54m (#8 in the week)
* v I'm a Celebrity (21:05, 8.46m)
* preceded by Strictly Come Dancing (20:15, 9.95m)

ep 2 - 5.90m (#10)
* v I'm a Celebrity...Coming Out (21:05, 6.36m)
* preceded by Strictly Come Dancing (20:15, 9.68m)

ep 3 - 5.66m (#12, behind The One Show with 5.70m)
* v The Old Curiosity Shop (21:05-23:00, repeat, less than 3.44m officially, overnight of 2.5m/11%)
* v preceded by BBC Sports Personality of the Year (19:00, 6.75m)

Series 2 officials (Jan 2010, Sundays, 21:00-22:30)

ep 1 - 6.18m (#18 in the week beginning 28 December)
* v Poirot (20:05, 5.52m), ITV News (3.27m)
* preceded by Antiques Roadshow (6.33m)

ep 2 - 5.86m (#28)
* v Wild at Heart (20:30, 8.55m), Dancing on Ice - The Skate Off (21:35, 8.24m), ITV News (22:05, 5.64m)
* preceded by Lark Rise to Candleford (7.49m)

ep 3 - 5.12m (#29)
* v Wild at Heart (20:35, 7.81m), Dancing on Ice - The Skate Off (21:35, 7.61m), ITV News (22:05, 4.60m)
* preceded by Lark Rise to Candleford (7.07m)

Sources: BARB, Overnights.tv Programme Search, MediaGuardian
All episodes of Wallander in series 1-3 were fully networked

Perhaps not, but no doubt the film will be successful and I think a series would make the BBC money and audience share.

I really really don't think the BBC should remake Dad's Army. It might be good for a film (having doubts about it tbh) but for a series on TV? Nope. Leave it in the past and don't let it tarnish its glorious reputation. To me, a potential revival of it on TV would smack of desperation, can't the BBC or any other broadcaster come up with new and original ideas instead of having to hark back 30 or 40 years before for ideas.

LOVED the Bake Off tonight! So happy with the result, that baker really deserved to win (trying not to spoil it for anyone). I'd love a 10m overnight but I think it might get 9.5m overnight. Twitter went nuts about it. No pun intended there.

I imagine people would complain if they showed repeats of these sitcoms in primetime, they can just about get away with repeating Mrs Brown's Boys and Miranda but I think it's fine on BBC Two as an alternative to the light entertainment shows.

Not to mention, WWII as a sitcom setting isn't exactly contemporary for modern audience, it was fine in 1968 when it was fresh in people's minds and it worked in the 80s for Allo, Allo and as a time travelling device for Goodnight Sweetheart but I don't know if you could pull off a period sitcom successfully, it works for Plebs because the characters are essentially modern people in Ancient Rome.

I agree. I think that's why the Open All Hours and Birds of a Feather revivals were successful as you can set them in a contemporary setting but with Dad's Army obviously you can't as its set in WW2. I don't know, I just don't think it can work.

Fantastic picture from Sir David's new BBC1 series Life Story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro.../42/life-story

Eeeeek there's a lion in Our Zoo. Really love this hope it gets a nice boost tonight.

Its next to impossible to recreate an original piece of magic, but that is a tremendous cast. Seems like a bells and whistles project and Im already looking forward to it,

Just think, ITV2 could have been created 50 years ago instead of BBC2, if ITV had not seemed so trashy in the eyes of the authorities:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two#History


Hi-de-Hi! on a Saturday teatime - happy days.

That is fantastic and I saw the trailer tonight for the first time and there was what looked like a shark with a bird in its mouth - it was stunning.

Wallander has a stock of nine episodes and only one has been repeated, once, on BBC One. Overnights:

Sunday 6 February 2011

BBC One
21:00 - Wallander (r): 2.34m (9.4%)

ITV
20:35 - Wild at Heart: 7.32m (26.1%) / 7.42m (26.5%)
21:35 - Dancing On Ice: The Skate-Off: 8.14m (28.0%) / 8.32m (28.6%)

That'll be why they haven't repeated it again.