Odd scheduling? A new series of Asian Provocater starts at ten to midnight on Saturday night

Good grief! What a surprise!

https://twitter.com/bbcstrictly/stat...747612672?s=09

Is that the first time in its history that one of the celebs has quit Strictly?

No. Jimmy Tarbuck did due to high blood pressure. And John Sergeant famously quit as he felt he could win even though he was awful.

Wonder if we will be seeing "PR stunt" posts as we saw pages of when a very similar thing happened on XF last weekend?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...e-dancing/amp/

Staggering.
Sounds like really nasty comments from the head judge....
Why does TV have to be so nasty...
Maybe this is a desperate ploy for publicity...
The press are having a field day....
Surely the producers should check contestants better...
This is a fix so Blank Blank wins....

The show is in crisis. 😉

Except they're totally different scenarios.

Same principal. SCD is seemingly untouchable.

I think the jovial posts here should take into account the health of Will.

On Monday this week it was mental health day.

One person has quit a show, quite an over reaction, and completely different to events on other shows.

" Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next."

I think the majority will wish him well. SCD had celebrities leave before....

People with conditions like cancer and depression should be allowed to take part in anything they feel they should. Connecting that with other talent show incidents is quite disprespectful.

Fair point about Cheryl! Mrs O certainly wasn't quiet on Saturday. I think it was the moment when she started fondling Nicole's breasts about 15 minutes in that it became clear she was in a lively mood! I think it was definitely the issues going on with her marriage that resulted in her being more subdued at the auditions. She perked up a bit through the bootcamp/six chair phases and was on fine form at the weekend (as is the marriage now it seems).

As for Louis, no, probably not. You know what you're going to get with him and they definitely missed him last year. His six chair was a car crash but it is whenever he does that round. It was classic Louis at the weekend when he announced that "Tupac will be happy" with Honey G's performance (with Sharon screaming "Tupac's dead!" in response). Him asking Dermot "where's Olly?" at the start was another. You can tell Simon is enjoying the panel too, he seems much happier this year.


Yes I think so unfortunately. A way around it could be to run adverts in shows at 6pm and then not during whatever they run at 7pm (which almost certainly rates poorly against Strictly anyway). The stuff they put at 6pm wouldn't have to be that expensive. X Factor certainly wasn't in its first year and it's often not the shows that have had a load of cash thrown at them that break out,


They'd look ridiculous axing Louis again. Same goes for Dermot (although if rumours are to be believed Dermot's got a multi year deal). Sharon and Nicole have both expressed a desire to return too so they should sign them all again.

I kind of agree about six chair. I've defended it before and it rates well, but it did stick out a bit like a sore thumb given the gentler, warmer feel the rest of the series had. There was some sort of attempt I think at softening the edges of six chair slightly in the edit but it still seemed odd compared to the rest of the series. It does rate well though and there's a real jeopardy to it, so they'd need to replace it with something that can also do that as just extending bootcamp again wouldn't cut it.

I wonder if it might be worth keeping the six chair challenge but axing the arena audience. Just do it in front of the judges (and the other acts). The other pre-recorded stages worked well with no audience this year and the main criticism of six chair seems to be the baying mob. You'd still have the jeopardy but without such an unpleasant atmosphere if they did it without an audience.

When was there ANY suggestion it was to do with mental health? Honestly worse than a tabloid. I think speculating about why he's quit is more disrespectful. Furthermore, you were all for bashing two 17 year olds on Saturday - but now as he's a contestant from a BBC show you've leapt to his defence. You couldn't care less about the wellbeing of the contestant. Double standards.

Another riveting half of football from England with 0 shots on target.

Will still get an undeserved 5m+ rating no doubt.

Its 4m more than ITV would normally get on a Tuesday

Crazy to think of it like that. That Parking Wars / Car Wars double from a few weeks ago doesn't seem so unappealing now.

I won't be bothering with the second half that's for sure. Westworld is on anyway. When England start playing like they care one iota, I might take more of an interest. Until then, not for me!

They are being paid well enough, so there is no desire to win.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/love-is...stmas-special/

Love Island Christmas Special. I can't help thinking this is a bit too far, but I suspect it'll rate well anyway.

Yes it is, with The One Show at 7.30. And highlights of the parade at 8.30. Of course Channel Four are showing it as well.


Brave is one word for it, yet. It's a dreadful line-up on ITV next Tuesday, though, factual from 7.30 until after the news, it looks like a leftover Perspectives film at 10.40. As I will argue in a moment, there is a place for factual in primetime, and I don't lead-ins are all that when there is a lot of churn about in the evening, but line-ups like that make the channel look so tedious, and like they're just flinging stuff on with no real thought.




Yes, and the obvious reason they don't promote BBC3 programmes on BBC1 and 2 is because the idea is you're supposed to watch them on BBC3. If you promote them so heavily on BBC1 then they become BBC1 programmes and there's no point in having them on BBC3. And also the genres and types of programmes mean that it would make no sense in having them in a specific slot. The shows themselves are all different enough. I think the obesity autopsy might be quite a big draw if and when that's shown on TV. But you can't argue that the shows are ghettoised and the Beeb are ignoring younger viewers if they're all on in late slots, but then also complain it's a waste of a slot if you show one in primetime. One of the benefits of last night was that 1.8 million people know BBC3 exists as a going concern.

Anyway, I know it wasn't much of a draw last night, but BBC1 have always done shows like that at 9pm, there are the various hour-long Panoramas they have to show there as well. And of course in these straitened times it can't be big shows every night. Last week we had The Forgotten Children on ITV and it got a low rating and everyone said it didn't matter because it was on a worthwhile subject. The same is surely true here as well. And it's not like both BBC1 and ITV haven't had much lower ratings with far more populist fare.


How do you know they don't put drama on Monday at all in autumn? It's only early October! There are weeks left! And if we have drama on several other nights of the week, and nights where the ITV competition is much weaker, what's the problem? And there is good factual and bad factual, some of it rates extremely well, much like drama and comedy can vary wildly.


Indeed, meaning Match of the Day 2, which is on Monday next week to take in Liverpool vs Man U, is on BBC2 in Wales. I see ITV Wales are also doing a programme on Aberfan next Wednesday at 8pm as well.


You'd think, though, that given it's ITV's Mad Week Of Soap, they would actually be able to justify showing a few extra episodes but they've not done that at all. It seems bizarre that they're happy to fritter away hour-long and additional episodes just to dent 'stEnders or Strictly, or for the sake of it, but when the storyline appears to justify it they're all stuck in their usual slots. I'm not suggesting we need a million more episodes of soaps in the schedules but you know what I mean. At least they could justify it as saying the storyline demanded it.

I know I always seem to say it, but it used to be that you knew something big was happening in the soaps because they would do an hour-long episode or a double bill, and the casual audience spotted that in the schedule. But now they do that every week, so how do you tell the casual audience that something's happening?


No, because it's a BBC3 programme which is available first on BBC3 online. Anyway, you can get a decent enough audience in that slot, there's still quite a big audience around after Match of the Day.


Lots of others have dropped out as well, Kelly Brook did so because of a bereavement and there are others like Jade Jones who dropped out due to injury.

Yes seems odd when there is regularly repeats at 10:45 and entirely repeats at 11:15 during the week.

Mentioned in another thread, the flop doc "Anne Robinson's Britain (episode 2: cats)" has now been renamed "Britain's Pets with Anne Robinson" this week, in a change to printed listings.

Next week "Anne Robinson's Britain (episode 3: body image) has now been renamed "Britain's Body Image with Anne Robinson"

The following week... well you get the idea.

Taking the edge off of the Anne Robinson bit it seems

There isn't a following week. It might be a new series of Watchdog on after that. Or as it's now been renamed.....

Watchdog Previously Presented By Anne Robinson But Not Anymore.

I think its more to catch the viewers eye, more than Anne Robinson's Britain. Pretty bland factual, but make it less bland with a hint of what the episode is about. Obviously like me, they expected it to do better than 2.6m.

Its odd. Last year GBBO lead out into a Anne Robinson factual series and that pulled in 5m+.

The Will Young that had to deal with Simon Cowell on Pop Idol. That Will Young?

The wink said something.

They aren't that different. Both are unfortunate and not that big a deal.

Different reactions, though. Totally.

ITV to spice up Tuesdays be moving The Agenda to Tuesdays at 8.00 pm

They launched the new Milk Tray man ad in X Factor on Satutday. Other ads have launched specifically during the show too not just Christmas ones.


Tipping Point and The Chase won't become 5m shows opposite Strictly. 2/3m is most likely. The Voice is already a 5m+ show, BBC1 don't want it becoming an 8/9m show. Will be interesting to see what BBC1 does next year. Doctor Who back in the Spring/Summer. Will His Dark Materials be ready to go on Saturday nights?

The Voice Kids might be cruel if they do spinning chairs.

So a group get thrown out as one of them likes whacking girls and the other quit for personal reasons.
Yes. It's the same............