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Jictar ratings for 19-25 December 1977
1. The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show (BBC1, Sun 20:20): 21.4m 2. The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show (BBC1, Sun 20:55): 21.3m 3. Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game (BBC1, Sun 19:15): 19.95m 12. This England: House of the Stars (ITV, Mon 20:30): 14.75m 17.= Pub Entertainer of the Year Grand Final (ITV, Tues 21:00): 13.95m I always used to say that BBC4 should repeat those top three shows back to back one Christmas. I'll say it again when it's the fortieth anniversary next year. Quote:
Yes I've been encouraged by what Lygo has been saying too. It'll take some time and I'm sure there will be flops along the way but he at least seems willing to try different things, which they've not down enough of late. The 2017 schedule looks fairly promising from what has been announced so far and I think there's a lot more to come. They've announced a lot of new drama but I think both light entertainment and fact ent need new hits and fast. He's identified both as priority areas so let's see what happens.
What doesn't work is what we had a few years ago when Peter Fincham said they were going to do more entertainment in midweek, and promptly stuck two crap quizzes in The Exit List and High Stakes at 8pm on Tuesday with no publicity and no support, both of which died on their arse, and that was the end of it. Doing it half-arsed like that is no better than not doing it at all. You could say the same about Jekyll and Hyde, I suppose. That had the publicity but none of the support in the schedule, and it was just unsuitable for the slot they gave it. Quote:
Well you wouldn't know it wasn't a BBC magazine going by the content which is still incredibly pro-BBC.
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There's no obvious room there. Who dares Wins is slated for 13 episodes and Casualty ad infinitum. And Strictly can't easily be moved forward because Pointless Celebrities is only halfway through the run. All very odd!
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I don't think BBC1 would have much of an issue with interrupting either Pointless Celebrities or Who Dares Win mid-series. I'm sure In It To Win It has had series split into two runs in the past.
It's like I say up there, it's always worth shaking things up every so often and creating a bit of an event in the schedules to make the channel look more interesting. It's like when the late and much-lamented Samuel used to say it was "physically impossible" to show something in a certain slot. You can show anything anywhere, if you want! |
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Nov 19 could look like this
5.40 Pointless celebrities 6.30 Strictly Come Dancing 7.45 Michael McIntyre Big Show 8.30 Who Dares Wins 9.20 Casualty 10.10 BBC News 10.30 Match of The Day Strictly could reduce by 5 minutes every week as another celeb is voted out I just hope the BBC has something worth watching after New Year. |
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Jictar ratings for 26 December 1977-1 January 1978
1. This is Your Life: Bob Paisley (ITV, Wed 19:00): 17.25m 2.= Crossroads (ITV, Thurs 18:35*): 16.5m 2.= Film: Escape of the Birdmen (Premiere) (ITV, Thurs 19:00): 16.5m 2.= Crossroads (ITV, Fri 18:35*): 16.5m 5. Crossroads (ITV, Wed 18:35*): 16.3m 6. Coronation Street (ITV, Wed 19:30): 16.2m 7. Bruce's Choice (BBC1, Sat 19:15): 16.05m 8. Wednesday at Eight (ITV, Wed 20:00): 15.95m 9. Disney Time (BBC1, Tues 17:25): 15.2m 10. The Good Life Christmas Special (BBC1, Mon 19:35): 15.0m 11. Film: Doctor in Trouble (ITV, Sun 19:45): 14.9m 12. Max's Holiday Hour (ITV, Tues 19:30): 14.7m 13.= The Two Ronnies (BBC1, Mon 20:05): 14.5m 13.= Film: Fear is the Key (Premiere) (ITV, Tues 20:30): 14.5m 13.= Dudh Kosi: Relentless River of Everest (ITV, Wed 21:00): 14.5m 16. Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (ITV, Tues 19:00): 14.35m 17. Mind Your Language (ITV, Fri 19:00): 14.2m ![]() 18. Crossroads (ITV, Tues 18:35*): 14.05m 19. Jim'll Fix It (BBC1, Mon 17:25): 13.8m 20. Film: Support Your Local Sheriff (BBC1, Mon 18:05): 13.6m * Crossroads was shown at a different time in some regions . "Christmas is ours, ITV. Eff off!"Number 7: Shades of the recent Bruce's Hall Of Fame? But look at all the people watching TV on NEW YEAR'S EVE. edit: Or was it Bruce's choice of best bits fron the Generation Game?Number 19: {Shudder} |
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Escape of the Birdmen premiere joint 2nd in the charts for 1977. The film was released in... 1971.
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Michael McIntyre’s Big Show begins a new 6 part series on Saturday 19 November time to be confirmed
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Who Do You Think You Are confirmed again for Thursday November 24 at 8pm - 1 of 5
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Escape of the Birdmen premiere joint 2nd in the charts for 1977. The film was released in... 1971.
BBC1's alternative was 7.00 The Superstars 8.10 Secret Army Not sure why the viewers would have such a downer on these two. |
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Jictar ratings for 26 December 1977-1 January 1978
1. This is Your Life: Bob Paisley (ITV, Wed 19:00): 17.25m 2.= Crossroads (ITV, Thurs 18:35*): 16.5m 2.= Film: Escape of the Birdmen (Premiere) (ITV, Thurs 19:00): 16.5m 2.= Crossroads (ITV, Fri 18:35*): 16.5m 5. Crossroads (ITV, Wed 18:35*): 16.3m 6. Coronation Street (ITV, Wed 19:30): 16.2m 7. Bruce's Choice (BBC1, Sat 19:15): 16.05m 8. Wednesday at Eight (ITV, Wed 20:00): 15.95m 9. Disney Time (BBC1, Tues 17:25): 15.2m 10. The Good Life Christmas Special (BBC1, Mon 19:35): 15.0m 11. Film: Doctor in Trouble (ITV, Sun 19:45): 14.9m 12. Max's Holiday Hour (ITV, Tues 19:30): 14.7m 13.= The Two Ronnies (BBC1, Mon 20:05): 14.5m 13.= Film: Fear is the Key (Premiere) (ITV, Tues 20:30): 14.5m 13.= Dudh Kosi: Relentless River of Everest (ITV, Wed 21:00): 14.5m 16. Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (ITV, Tues 19:00): 14.35m 17. Mind Your Language (ITV, Fri 19:00): 14.2m 18. Crossroads (ITV, Tues 18:35*): 14.05m 19. Jim'll Fix It (BBC1, Mon 17:25): 13.8m 20. Film: Support Your Local Sheriff (BBC1, Mon 18:05): 13.6m * Crossroads was shown at a different time in some regions Quote:
Number 10 - The Good Life, on Boxing Day, presumably going up against Coronation Street and knocking the episode out of the top 20. Aggressive scheduling there from BBC1.
. "Christmas is ours, ITV. Eff off!"Number 7: Shades of the recent Bruce's Hall Of Fame? But look at all the people watching TV on NEW YEAR'S EVE. edit: Or was it Bruce's choice of best bits fron the Generation Game?Number 19: {Shudder} How different those Christmas 1977 figures look with JICTAR compared to the BBC figures, which had 21m for The Two Ronnies and 18m for The Good Life. They also had 22.5m for The Dirty Dozen which doesn't feature in this list at all! |
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Number 7: Shades of the recent Bruce's Hall Of Fame? But look at all the people watching TV on NEW YEAR'S EVE.
edit: Or was it Bruce's choice of best bits fron the Generation Game? (They were impressionists.)And after Brucie it was Val Doonican's Old Year Music Show. "Okay, everybody, that's enough television. Let's go and find a New Year party to gate-crash.".
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Michael McIntyre’s Big Show begins a new 6 part series on Saturday 19 November time to be confirmed
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TWD performing well for it's second episode of it's new run (although after last weeks season opener, last night was somewhat boring, but not totally unexpected as this is the general trend for TWD). We watched it tonight, so I expect the consolidated numbers will be much closer. |
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Add in Planet Earth 2 and BBC1's schedule starts to get a bit meatier as we move towards winter.
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How do you think Planet Earth 2 will do?
It will be interesting to see how its sits alongside the BBC's older skewing line-up. Will it appeal to this demographic as AR does, to give it its big ratings. It'll certainly dent TXF which I think will be under 6m. But tbh, I would pefer TXF to be knocked than IAC. |
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Add in Planet Earth 2 and BBC1's schedule starts to get a bit meatier as we move towards winter.
That said, I don't think the schedule's been particularly bare for a while now. There was a lot of hand-wringing about uninspired schedules in September - but the Autumn season always takes a while to get going. Since October began, Mondays have been the only weak spot. There's been three 9pm dramas on air - plus Strictly, Bake Off, The Apprentice and HIGNFY. |
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The weekend schedule is looking as stacked as I can remember it, really. They've clearly taken the decision this year to try and embrace the Strictly lead-in, regardless of the opposition.
That said, I don't think the schedule's been particularly bare for a while now. There was a lot of hand-wringing about uninspired schedules in September - but the Autumn season always takes a while to get going. Since October began, Mondays have been the only weak spot. There's been three 9pm dramas on air - plus Strictly, Bake Off, The Apprentice and HIGNFY. Davina on itv tomorrow in what is an important show for them and then Buble on Thursday also intriguing me. |
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Will Michael McIntyre's Big Show be in place of Pointless or follow Strictly? Last series did well until it went up against BGT. For all the talk of X Factor being weaker, it still gets 5/6m and McIntyre appeals to a similar audience which is why he took a a hit opposite BGT.
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*yawn*
Yeah because loads of 10-12year old kids watch eastenders What a terrible episode too.. I'm still not buying into the crisis some say it's having. As apart from a couple of dodgy Friday ratings (never its strongest day, but it's the ep with the highest timeshift or second highest IIRC) and this most have rated quite typically for recent times. The other two have just had a boost from airing stunts. As for it being a terrible episode, no one would know that before they tuned in. I disagree anyway, the story with Dot is very moving. Quote:
Corrie is actually doing well with nearly 7m overnights and pushing 9m for the odd episode after 7 days. I'm surprised how well it is consolidating. EE I'm sure will top 6m tonight. I do wonder if even the soaps take a hit from IAC because people make IAC their daily habit and don't feel the need to download a missed soap episode.
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Losing Bake Off is only the top of it when you bear in mind things like the decision not to do more Goodnight Sweetheart, despite it being the overwhelmingly requested returnee in polls carried out post the recent sitcom series. Their reason being to give the few slots to something new and modern it was hinted. And this was an old traditional sitcom that was probably why such a high percentage who were asked wanted it to come back as that sort of show is largely AWOL from the BBC these days.
The highest rater (AYBS) of the sitcom season isn't going to series so I'm not surprised about GS. I liked it though. Quote:
Emmerdale doing well and now certainly the second soap, good figures for Corrie last night as well, disappointing for EastEnders, however Gavin Shipman tries to spin it, they should be doing much better than that.
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EE will certainly have its usual New Year boost if the two big exits are to be believed as happening then. Christmas will probably be close between EE and Corrie with Emmerdale a bit behind as usual.
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I see next Tuesday ITV is showing a Midsommer episode which is S18 Ep4. This is another UK drama I've never actually seen but I'll be interested to see if a repeat can challenge Holby. It has more chance than normal flop shows.
A MM repeat will have minimal impact. What ITV need to do is move the double Emmerdale evening from Thursdays to Tuesdays - and watch Holby flounder … |
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Holby City is more of a prime target than it ever has been given that the show being put out to tender could create some instability behind the scenes - I've heard talk of writers being pulled off the show to work on the BBC Studios bid.
A MM repeat will have minimal impact. What ITV need to do is move the double Emmerdale evening from Thursdays to Tuesdays - and watch Holby flounder … |
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So has PoB Awards topped 4m and has it topped Holby? Maybe even brought OLies to below 5m. I'll go for 4.2m, 4.2m and 4.9m.
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Arctic Live: 2.59m (12.0%)
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The Choir: Gareth's Best in Britain: 1.89m (9.1%)
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The #PrideofBritainAwards on ITV won more than half its slot and averaged 4.1m/19.4% @itvstudios http://www.overnights.tv
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EastEnders: 5.95m (30.3%) Holby City: 4.10m (19.0%) The One Show: 3.90m (20.7%) |
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Arctic Live: 2.59m (12.0%)
I do love these programmes, but this one had very little happening of note. Big Blue Live was more interesting. |
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edit: Or was it Bruce's choice of best bits fron the Generation Game?