Will be interesting to see how it does on catch up.

Sorry guys, I over-reacted. I'm just a bit miffed EastEnders has hit BOAF when it was doing so well.

I know the BBC aren't trying to kill off BOAF, but it just seemed so conveniant.

Ohh...good news about Hassaan.

I'm miffed that BOAF was doing so well this year anyway. Apart from Leslie Joseph, I find it totally unfunny. Leslie is carrying the show.

I think 10,000 BC came back because it showed a lot of promise initially last year, starting really strongly. Viewers drifted away from it, but lots of things went wrong with the first series, so the decline was understandable. I can see why they gave it another shot, with the Two Tribes twist. And to be fair, it's not a bad show at all.

Is 600,000 really that horrendous? It didn't launch with many more than that, thanks to them picking the worst weeknight in the whole of January to launch it. There are half hour sitcoms on C4 getting 400,000 and nobody says anything about those.

I don't expect it'll be back, but it's not as big a flop as is being made out. 10pm is really really hard nowadays. BBC2 finds it hard to pull in 1m+ in that slot now too, even with half hour shows. And 10,000 BC probably does better with 16-34s compared to C5's average programming.

Speaking of 16-34s, I wonder how young skewing is LSB UK? Probably not as good as CBB but I think it must be doing well.

Not much to report from C5's Programme Information this week. Heroes Reborn starts Tuesday 16th February at 9pm on 5*. But that's about it.


According to Broadcast 32% of the pilot episode's audience was in the 16-34 bracket, so just under 600,000.

I suppose that's a good skew, I hope tonight's episode is on par with last week's. It'll be interesting how it does without the CBB lead in. The lineup left apart Vegas v Reeves isn't great.

The first week post CBB is Vegas v Reeves. It's almost like they thought this through.

It will probably fall further but the format works which is the main thing and I think viewers will return depending on who's appearing.

I'm expecting the highest rated CBB eviction night of the series tonight, so that should help.

Tonight's Top of the Pops on BBC4 was first shown on 26th February 1981.
This is the TV top 20 for 23rd February to 1st March 1981 :

1. Coronation Street (M 19:30) (ITV): 17.75m
1.= This is Your Life - Bernard Cribbins (W 19:00) (ITV): 17.75m
3. TV Film - Magnum (F 19:30) (ITV): 17.6m
4. Coronation Street (W 19:30) (ITV): 17.2m
5. Hart to Hart (Su 19:45) (ITV): 16.85m
6. Open All Hours (Su 19:15) (BBC1): 16.2m
7. Family Fortunes (F 19:00) (ITV): 16.15m
8. Partners (Th 20:30) (BBC1): 15.55m
9. Hi-De-Hi! (Th 20:00) (BBC1): 15.45m
10. 3-2-1 (Sa 18:35) (ITV): 15.2m
11. Film - Doctor in the House (Repeat) (W 19:30) (BBC1): 15.05m
11.= Crossroads (Tu) (ITV): 15.05m
13. Crossroads (W) (ITV): 14.95m
14. Top of the Pops (Th 19:20) (BBC1): 14.6m
14.= Jim'll Fix It (Sa 18:35) (BBC1): 14.6m
16. Nature Watch (M 19:00) (ITV): 13.8m
16.= Nine O'Clock News (W 21:00) (BBC1): 13.8m
18. Holiday (Su 18:05) (BBC1): 13.6m
19. That's Life (Su 21:25) (BBC1): 13.35m
20. The Royal Engagement (Tu 22:30) (ITV): 13.1m
20.= The Professionals (Repeat) (Sa 21:15) (ITV): 13.1m

I think the FA Cup may dent it tonight just because Man U are playing. I think it will be 2.5m for the first show.

In regards to LSB I don't understand why Vegas and Reeves. I tune out of everything Vegas appears in

I'm the opposite. I like Vegas but I cannot stand Reeves and actively avoid anything he's on.

Apparently that particular episode of LSB is one of the better ones in this run, but I'm going to have to give it a miss.

Evidently, Take Me Out isn't good enough for ITV. So, they now want another dating show: https://twitter.com/ITVDatingShow

On ITV and not ITV2? I don't understand!

The FA Cup is the cause of this year's, and some of last year's. They don't seem to want FA Cup matches on Saturday evenings. They prefer weeknights and Sundays. I think they might use Saturdays next season, though.

It's fairer than running an hour of EastEnders with a head-start on the 8pm Emmerdale, even though EastEnders would rate better that way.

There are quite a lot of 8.30pm Thursday EastEnders over the course of the year but most are caused by Emmerdale often running from 7-8pm in spring, summer and autumn.

I don't understand why Bergg doesn't intersperse the Feather run with repeats when EastEnders loses its Friday slot. Thursdays at 8.30pm on ITV will be a write-off most weeks from March until Grady comes back in the autumn, so it seems madness to waste new episodes.

I guess it depends on whether there's another round of the FA Cup before Feather ends, and whether the Friday night Six Nations match takes place before Feather ends.

I would agrue that Pauline Quirk is also carrying it with Lesley Joseph. They are the better actresses.

In any case, are you miffed Still Open All Hours is doing well? That's not funny at all anymore after the 1st amusing series but is still get over 7m.

Which would have opened up a nice 8-9pm slot for EastEnders.

An Elaine Beddell commission? Than goodness she's left. 1 dating show is enough, since it has its own spin off as well.

And another show with an ITV face.

Had they run the extra EastEnders on Wednesday at 8pm, they could have given a nice lead in to Celebrity Bake Off instead of attempting to kill off BOAF again.

There were loads of extra EE over Christmas so they didn't have to make up tonight's missing one anyway.

Doesn't say it is ITV, it might be ITV2

This Thread has already declared EastEnders cannot go at 8pm on Wednesdays because it's "sly" and "unfair", due to Midsomer Murders being on ITV.

I'm predicting 2.8m Inc +1 for the first CBB tonight.

Thanks for the question.

No, I don't watch anything on BBC One hardly, so I cannot say.

Extract of a page from the Ratings Thread Rulebook.

EastEnders (section 32, relating to unusual scheduling):
- must never have any extra episodes.
- displaced episodes automatically become "extra" episodes.
- must not overlap with Emmerdale, despite Emmerdale being allowed to overlap with EastEnders.
- displaced (i.e. "extra") episodes cannot be scheduled against any ITV programmes.
- must give up its regular slots to Emmerdale and/or Coronation St if the ITV soaps are displaced by a summer football tournament or the Rugby World Cup.

Eat Well For Less:
- must always be described as "lazy".
- must not be scheduled against Emmerdale.
- must not be scheduled against Feather...

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