There are only six Takeaways a series, hardly overkill, when you consider House Party ran to 22 a series.

So they do an intensive run of Takeaway, three weeks solids of IAC Live, live Text Santa, BGT Live week, BGT auditons, and you think ITV don't get enough out of them?

12 would be overkill though. Plus Ant & Dec don't want to do it so end of. There's an awful lot of work that goes into Takeaway which people don't realise. Ant & Dec have to plan and film all the undercover/pre recorded segments etc and they've said before that Takeaway is the show with the biggest workload out of the ones they do.

Interesting that +1 is included but +1.5 isn't. (4.2m v 5.5m)

Watchdog and POG did well against the soaps garnering 4m each.

First Dates top for Channel 4 with 1.3m exc.+1.


Emmerdale constantly provides a decent lead in to Corrie which Corrie always builds on. There is a big crossover in viewership for the ITV soaps which is evident in the soaps forum.

Younger viewers are more likely to catch up at a later date.


Corrie is in Emmerdale's slot so it'll be fine. Many will probably watch their recording at the normal time too.


Emmerdale hasn't crossed 7m since 18th February 2014. Corrie hasn't passed 8.7m this year. It's a sign of the times.

It's easy to spin things; EastEnders is the only soap to cross 8.7m this year. It did so for a whole week.

Tonight is a big episode, let's see if it can deliver.

I'm not saying they should do more. I'm just saying that there is room in the schedule to do so. Someone else said they thought they didn't*do enough.

If ITV's soaps were on at their regular times tonight, what would the BBC have done with their hour-long EE?

Another misfire for November and co, and another flop for Trevor Eve. He hasn't had much luck recently with this and Interceptor, and that risible Kidnap and Ransom revival.

They wouldn't have shown it. They used tonight because they saw an opportunity, thanks to the consolation game at the Rugby Union World Cup.

Sounds like the EastEnders need to move to 13:00 on Christmas Day and put something else in its timeslot, Or show the Christmas episode at 15:00 on Boxing Day. Soaps are so annoying and should be on at daytime anyway.

If show was on BBC it would have at least million more. ITV has lost its audience for 'more' complex drama. The problem here is not the actual drama it's the channel. It's become soap / celebrity focused. Drama with a celeb actor with painting by numbers plotting is what works.

Latest panic idea from SyCo to try to prop up the ailing X Factor. There may be scores given on each performance for how it was sung and the overall performance. Talk is, in what would be a highly original idea for SyCo maybe the judges to add a bit of drama, and suspense to hold up paddles with the score on them.

John Whittingdale was contacted on this and if X Factor does this. SCD will have to be shown at 2 am, as viewers prefer it, (ITV words; Unfair completion of a show that's better than theirs).

Have you watched J&H yet ADP? Without comparing it to DW.

How dare they consider a scoring system when the sacred Strictly is on! Strictly is definitely the first ever show to score its contestants! The BBC are SO innovative and SUCH an innovative cornerstone of our society!!1!!!1!!!11!!

Not to 7-8 million.
Anyways soaps are the only show that gets 6-8 million every week and boost the channel share.

How true, - copycats!

Thanks for asking, I gave it ten minutes and gave up, I can see the ratings fall. It cannot be in that slot, and needs to be on far later, if ITV show episode two at 7 pm, I can see them getting in big trouble over it.

To be fair I can't compare it to Doctor Who, one is a quality drama with suspense and well written, the other is not, and got 800 complaints.

There wouldn't have been one.

Any rating for the new Thursday Xtra Factor? Seemed to work much better than the weekends and gain momentum for the live show.

BIB - so clearly nobody paid attention to the Daily Mail's puff piece or Alison Graham's hysterical praise in the Radio Times (and on Twitter) …

BIB - it should never have been in that slot from the start … but clearly Bergg and Fincham are happy to sacrifice a new high profile drama commission to the BBC's biggest entertainment show. Clueless doesn't even come close.

You gave up because it was in the wrong timeslot?

Less than 0.24m (exc. +1), so worse than the Two and a Half Men repeats normally do there.

Not a great surprise to see it tank. It's been rating quite poorly with the support of the main show, so without it only the diehards are going to be tuning in.

Well who could have predicted that

I knew you wouldn't continue with it, are you really that stubborn that because its on ITV you don't give it a 2nd look. You can bet your bottom dollar if it was on BBC1 you'd be watching it. In fact its forgone conclusion really.

What did you not like about it then? Why was the quality not up to DW's standards?

The complaints were for its early slot, not its quality.

A pity they didn't. It's really good, but hasn't found a particularly large audience sadly.

It seemed to work well on air but ratings-wise it was a disaster waiting to happen. Did they even promote it? If they thought it had any chance they'd have gone for 8pm. 7pm just made it seem like an afterthought.