How did I miss the second EE episode last night!

iPlayer to the rescue!


I guess the football tonight means it had to be on twice last night.

I dont understand why they are showing new episodes of traffic cops on "BBC3" is this the end for the show ? I only came across it by accident, most people will think there repeats, even though it had "new" on the epg I thought maybe it meant new to bbc3.

Poor for BOAF. As soon as something decent is shown as an alternative it just crumbles.

Serves them bloody well right for trying to kill of Birds Of A Feather. I expect another EE to pop up at 8.30pm on Thursday before the series is out.

It did 4.2m inc+1 against EE last time, which is not crumbling, but lets see what the HD and +1 makes up. Probably around 3.5m-4m.

Oh dear another show which has benefited by being scheduled against Dickensian. Not surprised though it was being beaten by 'Eat well for less' last year.

Thanks for the ratings guys

So just where were the BBC supposed to place Eastenders considering that Football is on tonight ?

ED was at 8pm on ITV and 9pm had a regular drama episode scheduled on BBC One.

BBC 6.30 regional 5.876 million
BBC 6 5.243 m
BBC 10 4.328
BBC 10.30 regional 3.835 m

Unfortunately ITV started all this by upping the EE/ED clashes last year, and the BBC is now (foolishly and pointlessly) playing the same game.

The reality is that the schedules are decided way in advance and it would be more sensible to just show fewer episodes of the continuing dramas, rather than make up missed slots with extra ones.

It has never aired against Dickensian. A fact check wouldn't hurt.

I don't like the Emmerdale, EE clashes either. Its pointless and damages both soaps. Hopefully Lygo will stop this nonsense.

Hopefully Birds will look a bit better when HD and +1 is included. It's a shame to see a comedy rate badly, as we need to see more comedy on TV. There's not enough funny pre watershed comedy, there needs to be more of it and less of the continuing dramas to keep the variety in the schedule. And low ratings may put channels off trying more comedy.

Birds has done really well so far this series though, so hopefully this week will have just been a blip and it'll be back to healthier figures next week.

I agree (another post on this thread that should be sent as a memo to Lygo).

Surely ITV has bigger things to worry about right now ...?

Speaking of which, what did Jericho get last night?

They're not though, are they? They *could* have scheduled an hour-long EastEnders last night so it clashed with the second Emmerdale, which *would* have been "playing the same game". But instead they scheduled EastEnders against an entirely different type of programme. What else are they supposed to do? I'm not sure why Birds of a Feather should be so sacred.

No sign of BOAF in the ITV Media top 10.
So below 3.8m incl HD and +1.

It has Dickensian for the next 2 weeks so I'm sure it will get an artificial boost those weeks. But as we saw last series against Eat well for less, quite a weak performer given the brand name and history.

That would have been a more inflammatory move. What they've done instead is go against the first episode of a new series of Midsomer Murders, then target a sitcom which is doing OK. A slyer move in both instances.

I'm not suggesting any programe should be 'sacred'. What I'm suggesting is that 'extra' episodes of any continuing drama, scheduled out of the slots they usually inhabit, just aren't necessary. What will happen if there are less than usual episodes of a continuing drama occasionally? Nothing - so why bother with them in the first place?

It has Room 101 for the next 2 weeks.

Even if BOAF was down to 3m incl +1 last night, that still leaves it above most other sitcoms on TV these days, and with tough opposition.

ITV help Birds out by repeating last night's episode tonight at 10.40, the first repeat screening of the series, I believe.

Budgets for the sopas are decided at the start of the financial year, though, surely.

"This is your budget for the year and we expect x number of episodes." Only then will they check out the schedule. Probably.

The articifial boost is minimal on ITV, unlike SOAH on Sunday BBC1. Put SOAH on ITV in that Thursday slot, and it'd be down to Birds ratings - or probably lower and been axed by now.

Its has Room 101 for the next two weeks.

According to the guide it's no. 4 (of 8) tonight.

Mediatel exc+1:

Dickensian: 2.5m (13%)
Birds of a Feather: 3.1m (15%)
Jericho: 2.3m (11%)

Birds Of A Feather had 3.21m with 190k on ITV +1 last night. Birds does well when the competition isn't strong, like most programmes really. Last year it was struggling in the overnights against Eat Well For Less. That was a head scratcher.

But schedulers will know the dates of major sporting events well in advance - so I can't believe this plays that much of a role.

Additionally, surely if EE, ED or CS undeliver one year, the extra money can come out of the budget for the following year? It's not like the future of any of them hangs in the balance.

Football on Friday, so no EastEnders. No different from ITV moving a displaced Friday Coronation Street to Thursday. You must have been out of the country when this happened.