Sky were running with it as Top of Today's picks last night. It is now no. 2

It's going to be interesting to see how much impact their Today's top picks have on catch up viewing figures. Victoria was Top Pick on Sunday.

Will they move The Apprentice back to Wednesdays from October 12th and putting WDYTYA in the Thursday slot

Seeing as they have been trailing The Missing already either that will be Monday at 9 or Tuesday at 9

Lewis was going to end anyway since the lead actors didn't want to do it anymore, given it was a huge seller for them internationally, I imagine they would have renewed it.


The Apprentice doesn't need the Bake Off lead in and it's a 5-6m performer on it own so its better that it goes to another night.

Well BBC1 did have a series like this called Parking Mad. It launched on a Thursday to 4.6m. Then last year BBC1 repeated the series aftter the news and the rpt's gor 2m.

That is why some shows the BBC plays, will never do well on another channel. The BBC has that, though many deny, instant fallback of viewers who will watch as casual viewers. DIY SOS being a prime example. Its an easy watching programme, if there's very little on.

With ITV2 picking up The Great Indoors and ITV Lethal Weapon, I wonder if more pickups are on the cards? Bull has launched very well on CBS as has This is Us on NBC, Bull I think could be eyed by FOX, Channel 5 and Sky since it has Michael Weatherly of NCIS fame, not sure on This is Us but it strikes as a Channel 4/More4 sort of show.

I am starting to get bored of Great British Bake Off now, May be good news for the BBC: http://wp.me/p7CZB3-3l

The Mirror today reports that WDYTYA? is getting an 8pm slot from November. This contradicted the "Next Week" column in the TV Times, but it now looks like the Mirror was right.

So WDYTYA to replace Bake Off by the looks of it.

Mirror also says the series is being split into 2 batches of 5 with the second batch to go out in January.

I predict The Missing will replace Our Girl, which would give it 3 weeks sitting alongside Bake Off.

That doesn't look like a boast to me. It looks like a simply statement of fact.

So one viewer getting bored will be good news for the BBC? Right...

WDYTYA move to 8pm is a long time coming, it does well but it's not the big hitter it once was.

It will be if other people feel the same, Don't think so but we will never know.

Of course it did. That's explains it.

Wow! That's a very good start for National Treasure. Did not see it doing that well. I wonder if it will be able to hang on to those viewers over the next few weeks?!

I'm a Celebrity promotion starting already: https://twitter.com/imacelebrity/sta...07423628398592

I really hope this series is free on reality show types. After CBB, it wuld be a mistake to go down this route.

Why the exclamation mark then ?

ITV shouldn't be tweeting about their Tuesday night ratings full stop. What they hoped to achieve with that tweet I have no idea.

I think if it settles to around 2-2.5m including plus one then I think Channel 4 will be more than happy.

Channel 4's drama slate is strong with No Offence, Humans, National Treasure and the upcoming The ABCs, I wonder what will fill the gap left by Indian Summers though. I wonder if their long in development adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities will be ready by next year or the year after.

Speaking of Humans, I wonder if they're planning to air it this year or are they saving it for 2017? No Offence I assume will replace National Treasure once it's done.

Oh there's no doubt that BBC1 has an easier job than the others. It's number 1 on the EPG, it's got no adverts and it has an older demographic.

But... ITV has gained a reputation for being tacky and trashy and it has to rebuild its brand. Tuesday night TV won't do that.

ITV was always going to find it harder to compete in the digital age. They probably lost more viewers to sky and they don't have 20m people listening to their radio like the BBC does.

Maybe ITV should launch a popular radio station.

And in those days, they were just plain old Producers or Series Producers rather than Executive Producers or that dreadful "Showrunner" term we've imported from America: doubly silly when you think what a Runner is on a British TV show.

EastEnders would stay at 7.30pm. If 18 months of Emmerdale couldn't shift it, Coronation St wouldn't.

There's a reason why ITV keep Coronation St away from EastEnders, except under extremely rare circumstances. It dies on its arse when it starts at the same time as EastEnders.


No more vulnerable than CS.


Or before.

Eat Well For Less follows the Ratings Thread's magic formula of food, supermarkets and BBC One, but it died on its arse last Friday at 9pm.

Well clearly you're a fan of EE and not the other two. Fair enough.

You may be right but I'd guess if Corrie was moving to 7:30 every night you'd see EE shift. It would be a permanent move rather than an occasional Emmerdale special and it'd be five days a week.

The show that is always on at 7:30 is going to be the one people get used to watching at 7:30. Especially when that show is the the British televisions GOAT.

It's all speculation on my part because ITV wants the flexibility to parachute soaps in to all hours.

Yes but it has done extremely well before that so I don't you can let 1 weeks ratings dictate a whole series' ratings, especially as Friday isn't the day it is usually aired.

Emmerdale hour-longs overlapped with EastEnders every week from the beginning of 2007 until mid-2008 (or was it 2008-09?), with some Thursday ones thrown in for good measure. EastEnders stayed in place.

The Tuesday line-up of...
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Holby
9.00 Drama/Factual

...works well for BBC One, so they wouldn't tear it up to accommodate ITV.

No, but the point I was trying to make was that BBC One programmes about food and supermarkets are not automatically guaranteed 4m+ viewers.