Is that two celebrity versions and a regular one each year?

The deal runs until 2018 in all, nine new series have been commissioned, with three airing a year as well as Bit On The Side spin-off.

Ben Cooper not prejudging the outcome then ?

Soap Ratings

Corrie 7.52m (36.1%) 8.30pm 7.37m (32.7%)
EastEnders 6.91m (30.9%) BBC Three 299k (2.4%)
Emmerdale 6.41m (33.0%)

Normal service resumes for the big 3

Does anyone know when the final Eastenders Omnibus is shown. I have it in my mind that it was towards the end of March

New TV Times and Soaplife magazine next time sections for the week 0f 4-10 April have Vera starting on Easter Sunday and 2 part Code of A killer with John Simm and David Threllfall starting on ITV on Easter Monday.

And for DW fans where has Gallifrey Base vanished to.

A run of poor episodes after the EastEnders live week will give you a rating like that. All of that work and promotion then not capitalising on it. That is the most impressive ball dropping I have seen in years!

And as I said before, if Corrie is still top dog why would ITV think it's in trouble and replace Stuart Blackburn? Only when ratings drop will anything happen.

I think Code Of A Killer will do well and Poldark faces its first real competition in Vera.

Gallifrey Base appears to be quantum locked and stuck with Gallifrey in a bubble universe!

Eastenders has felt like everything that happened a month ago, really didn't happen. All the big players disappeared with no follow up on any of the big storylines. Dean disappeared with no obvious reason apart from possibly panto for the actor.

However knowing all of this surely a bigger storyline could have been set to bubble away before the big Live episode to then take over these past few weeks. Oh wait, that would require some forward planning. Eastenders Producers assuming that the viewers would watch any old dull storyline and stay with the show.

Corrie is slowly finding it's new lower level and the others are falling into line with it.

Yeah but at least EastEnders kept Kathy's return a secret....we have yet to see her since but they kept a big secret! That's all right then! The episodes afterwards were mostly poor and the audience drifted away. They thought those episodes would hold viewers? Jesus wept! 30% shares on Monday are where it was for much of 2013. Now they have to start all over again to win viewers back!

Ineptitude!

Coronation Street would need to go to EastEnders levels of ratings to see a producer change. They haven't so I doubt they will for some time yet.

Nothing like a bit of variety on the channel then.

Eastenders have themselves to blame and the producers with crap episodes they have been feeding us for a month now. Eastenders viewers aren't loyal like corrie if they don't like rubbish they won't watch. I think killing of lucy of was a mistake and the whodounit made so many people angry they said they wasn't going to watch it.

After the live week they could have made the episodes more interesting and good to hook new viewers to able to watch but no they was making rubbish episodes now they have start all over again now.

So many were annoyed with the outcome of Lucy reveal. PO your loyal audience with fake suspect lists and incredulous outcomes and you lose viewers. They put themselves in a cul de sac and have reaped the outcome.

I don't think the storyline was a mistake, it just happened too early to culminate in the 30th Anniversary episode. They should've started the storyline in September and moved some of the September/October storylines (i.e. the wedding, the fire or the rape) to earlier in the year to fill the gap.

I agree with everything apart from the Lucy murder. There were still a few extra viewers around after the reveal. They could have been hooked in but EastEnders gave them nothing to make them want to continue watching. They'll get bumps in ratings here and there but they should be doing better on Mondays.

IMO I think the storyline was a waste of time to find out a child killed his sister wind of rubbish was that. They probably lost viewers for that.

Do you guys not get bored of repeating yourselfs over and over about the soaps??

Does anyone know how the ad soaps are doing consolidated??

Bit bizarre that the boss of Radio 1 is commenting publicly about this quite frankly.

It's like it's consuming the whole of the BBC.

I thought throughout the storyline many people would be watching and see increase but nothing until the like week. I think the outcome of the killer probably lost their loyal viewers as well.They need another big storyline so many people will be watching now.

Even more weird that Radio 1 target audience isn't the same that would necessarily watch Top Gear. Well, I don't know Radio 1 bangs on about Strictly and co, so im not so sure.

1.06m for Gotham, up slightly on last week's return.

Person of Interest followed with 716k (exc. +1) and an above average share of 4.8%.

I still think that the schedule disruptions of the last couple of weeks have been more damaging to EE than anything else.

The X Factor was back down to 237k for TV3 in New Zealand last night following last week's controversy and double firing.

It was comfortably beaten by TV One property show Our First Home (382k) and an episode of TV2's US sitcom The Middle (243k). It also finished behind another acquisition, TV One's Stalker (249k) to be only the fourth most watched show in peak.

That may be the first thing you have posted that I agree with !!

Agreed. We'll probably be told (yet again) that if it's good viewers would follow it around the schedule, but apart from anniversary week (with all the hype and promotion that came with it) we've seen very little evidence of this. Moving around programmes that have set slots week in and week out, like soaps, will catch people out regardless of quality. The Wednesday 8.30pm episodes really didn't help, especially the one that was scheduled at the last minute.

The Plane Crash should mean higher ratings for the news channels today.