Pretty quiet all round although another good rating for Long Lost Family.

Interested to see how that bizarre sounding animal reunion thing on ITV at 8pm did. Not sure if it will have bombed hard or done alright.

From ITV Media:

Wednesday Top 10 (inc +1)

1 ITV - 07:30 PM Coronation Street 6.244m 37%
2 ITV - 07:00 PM Emmerdale 5.145m 33%
3 BBC One - 06:30 PM Regional News and Weather 4.709m 32%
4 BBC One - 10:00 PM BBC News at Ten 4.666m 28%
5 BBC One - 08:00 PM Eat Well for Less? 4.343m 24%
6 ITV - 09:00 PM Long Lost Family 4.191m 22%
7 BBC One - 06:00 PM BBC News at Six 4.143m 30%
8 BBC One - 10:30 PM Regional News and Weather 4.138m 28%
9 BBC One - 09:00 PM Saving Lives at Sea 3.197m 17%
10 ITV - 06:30 PM ITV Evening News 3.158m 22%

Wednesday Top 10 (inc +1) (not including the five main channels)

1 E4 - 07:00 PM Hollyoaks 668k 4.3%
2 Film4 - 09:00 PM Knight and Day 584k 3.5%
3 BBC Four - 09:00 PM Masters of the Pacific Coast 574k 3.0%
4 Drama - 09:00 PM Death in Paradise 519k 2.8%
5 E4 - 09:00 PM Containment 443k 2.3%
6 ITV3 - 08:00 PM Agatha Christie's Marple 441k 2.4%
7 BBC Four - 08:00 PM Yellowstone 424k 2.4%
8 ITV2 - 09:00 PM Hell's Kitchen 416k 2.2%
9 E4 - 06:30 PM The Big Bang Theory 384k 2.6%
10 E4 - 07:30 PM Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza 383k 2.3%

Well something similar to this on BBC1 in the 8pm slot got 4m+, but ITV didn't trail it at all, so its looks like it was below 3.5m

Well we know it was below 3.158m as it didn't make the ITV Media top 10.

It's a cushy slot so shouldn't have been much lower. I'm not surprised though, it sounded bizarre.

#WildAnimalReunions started on ITV with a solid second place: 2.6m / 14.5% @TigressTV overnights.tv

In that slot that isn't solid, it's fairly poor.

Update on the Coronation Street producer situation:

It looks like Kate Oates' first credited episode is on the 15th August, not next week as originally stated.

So hopefully quality then should sky rocket

Well that bombed!

Hopefully the lull before a strong few weeks with all of the new programmes in the schedule along with CBB.

The only one of these shows I watch is the "Most Shocking Celebrity moments of the year" cause I just can't help myself.

I can't wait to see how Borderline, Impractical Jokers, Lip Sync Battle and Suspects do. Hopefully Suspects will be up Series-on-Series. Series 4 had dire ratings, no thanks to Channel 5's poor decision to air it away from Celebrity Big Brother.

Some exciting viewing tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

"Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall finds out how many cardboard coffee cups are actually being recycled"

Good job the weather isn't great today.

Bet it wins the slot though. The Investigator hasn't been doing huge numbers against the weak New Blood and loses the Corrie lead-in tonight. Celebrity Big Brother might dent a few shows as well.

Actually I have seen a preview of that bit and it's very environmental educational.

Dancc - Please can you clear some messages out of your PM box?

Public service broadcasting.

The Goodnight Sweetheart revival will be taped at Media City in Salford on August 14, tickets are available via sro.
Tickets for the SCD launch show are available via the BBC Ticket Unit, as usual there will be a draw.

I'll be on the edge of my seat for an hour then 😂.

In the event of which, Len Goodman gets the casting vote.

Nice one - they always have a ballot for the SCD tickets because of the huge demand but it's always worth trying if you're interested and it doesn't prevent you applying for subsequent shows.

Worthy programming in my book

So has anyone remotely famous gone into the Big Brother house? It's the easiest of all the reality shows (you don't have to rigorously learn dance routines or get covered in spiders, all you do in CBB is sit around and try not to get involved in something that becomes an Ofcom investigation and finishes your career) so it should get the bigger names.

Still can't believe they launch the celeb one just two days after the 10 week or so civilian one has just finished. No other mainstream channel would get away with that.

It's either that, or they show benefits shows, or "Pet x makes you laugh out loud".
But...but...Dancc told me Viacom are phenomenally overhauling C5's content???

The only good show C5 does is Suspects and they bafflingly only run it for about 4 episodes at a time.

BB was 6 weeks long...

and then you can get back to your reality TV schedule

A bit like how a mainstream channel wouldn't get away with airing the same film in primetime twice in six days. Though saying that...