Well if the interest in the show was at it's peak (i.e. 2006/2007), it would probably be staying open beyond the five year lease, or would certainly be moving elsewhere.

Yes the second series was announced yesterday, there will be a new series in January 2017 and a Christmas special too, it was revealed by Professor Green on live TV and got quite a lot of media coverage too:

https://www.list.co.uk/article/86111...second-series/
http://www.tellymix.co.uk/tv/lip-syn...nd-series.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/p...e-news-9215415
https://www.entertainment-focus.com/...ync-battle-uk/

They've already started promoting it online and there is even a trailer:

http://www.channel5.com/mel-b-profes...sync-battle-uk
http://facebook.com/lipsyncbattleuk
http://twitter.com/lipsyncbattleuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4aKuElEJXI

It may still move elsewhere but there was never any prospect of it remaining open on the current site.

Wish this could have ended higher, fantastic series and the kind of thing BBC2 does so well. Dark Angel really dented it.


Thanks for this, very interesting reading. I used to watch Doctor Who around the Tennant/Smith period when everyone seemed to and Russell T Davies was an excellent Exec Producer, I think Moffat slowly lost the plot, the show became confusing which drove people away and let's face it, Peter Capaldi doesn't draw in many extra viewers.


Great to see Corrie hitting 7 million, seems like soap ratings were good all round last night.


Don't know who they're going to find to clog up the show with then.


Your opinion which you keep repeating.


It's tiring isn't it?

Why does IAC have fewer contestants this year? Looks an even worse lineup without Danny Baker.

It doesn't, they always start with 10.

Some more will go in after a few days, with football on Tuesday, I'd suggest 2 or 3 more will go in on Wednesday.

Both channels need a cop drama that isn't a murder mystery. Quite how UK and USA tv ended up with nobody solving more normal crimes I don't know.

Endeavour does 4 episodes a year, but at 2 hours per episode it covers the same amount of airtime as your standard 8 part drama.

Grantchester and Midsomer Murders also fit the bill of standalone story crime dramas (although the former isn't contemporary) so they aren't too short, but they could definitely do a with a few more. They've focussed more on crime dramas where one story spans the whole series recently, but they haven't all done well. They've got a few more of those coming next year too (Prime Suspect 1973, Loch Ness, Fearless plus Broadchurch 3 and Unforgotten 2). Feels like they've done a few too many, although those do sound better than Paranoid and The Level.

They do do a Christmas special, but like many of the specials on the lesser channels, it usually airs a number of weeks before Christmas itself to avoid getting lost.


Good to see Emmerdale still the second soap so long after the big week, and also good to see Corrie above 7 million.

Very poor for BBC1 last night, they should really have run that drama on a Sunday rather than starting it at 8:30pm.

ITV Regional News seems to be doing particularly well at the moment considering we keep being told by some here that it isn't even a viable option in any way.

Found the trailer earlier shortly after my post. Is that going out on air as well do you know? Talk about a long campaign if so! But I'm glad they are supporting it heavily.

A Christmas special is a decent idea, although it could be tricky to schedule effectively without knowing what else they have planned.

I see La Plante has left the Prime Suspect production. Stands a chance of being good now!

Murder sells, that's why most crime novels are murder mysteries. If there was a successful non murder mystery crime drama, it would have done already.


I'm not keen on them retitling Tennison to Prime Suspect 1973, I wonder if Lynda LaPlante departing the series forced them to change the title or if they thought having Prime Suspect in the title would help it sell abroad.

But the shows of yesteryear weren't like this. Starsky, Cagney, Magnum, CHiPs, Hill St, Sweeney, Professionals, Bergerac and obviously Miami Vice. They did well. Columbo and Morse were murder drama though the former wasn't a mystery.

You can make shows where they're dealing with drugs or prostitution or burglary or white collar crime or rape or kidnapping or armed robbery.... To some extent you'll get that in an NCIS or 50 but normally somebody needs to die in the opening scene.

I appreciate stories like people smuggling have been done lots of times and I guess producers just think it's better to start off a programme with a dramatic scene.

That thought had crossed my mind too!

Although behind the scenes drama often doesn't bode well for a show. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be on this year, so the troubles have definitely delayed production.


Probably the latter. It might help it get more viewers here too, for the launch at least. I think it was called Prime Suspect: Tennison at one point as well, they've changed it a few times.

I think they had issues with casting, La Plante also has had issues with storylines in Prime Suspect in the past especially Jane's alcoholism in the last episodes. I assume it's the same with Prime Suspect 1973.

It's not hard to fathom. People don't watch 'em.

Is it time for part 69 yet?

"sky Store are giving away Ice Age 4 dvd and free download. If youre a Sky customer just click on Sky store on your TV it's that easy plus free delivery."

The ratings for The Wire were not great.

Just a note that there's a very good chance we will see a huge timeshift for Planet Earth II. A lot of chatter from people I know who never normally watch TV a lot of the time.

I miss yog with his daily timeshift ratings, would be fascinating to see the day by day increase

The iguana/snake clip has had loads of media attention, could the second ep increase with the fantastic word of mouth?

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It does seem like anyone and everyone you speak to has seen it or got it to see. I don't know how accurate the ratings are but from a purely anecdotal viewpoint I would not be surprised if PE2 is the most watched TV show for years.

I think it'll consolidate to 12m.

Nature documentaries still can pull an audience and not just event ones like Planet Earth II but also smaller shows like Artic Live and last year's Loch Lomond.