It would rate better later on, but would also still be huge earlier in the evening. They have done two movies on Christmas Day before, so what about this:

I mean putting the interests of their biggest brand first. Not screwing it up by saturating the genre with pointless rubbish.
If it's classic Cowell TV, they should leave it to him. Who knows how low this turd will sink. Cancellation after the first series?

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was on Saturday nights for its final series in 1978. 'Allo, 'Allo was on various weekdays in its first few years. Moved to Saturday in 1987 and its final series was on Sundays.

I would definitely go for something like that, monsters university into frozen would be amazing.

Though - as you know I 100% agree that the BBC were daft not to see this - sshhh as Baz might not agree.

The final season of Allo, Allo actually went out at 20.00 on Mondays. Sundays was Last Of The Summer Wine, House of Eliot, and Birds Of A Feather so there was no room for it there.

I agree. It is barely suitable for teenagers. It is like a cross between Buffy and The Walking Dead.

Actually very watchable. Far more so than most recent Doctor Who. It did deserve a mainstream channel outing. But that would have to be post 9 pm.

If they put it late (ish) at night it might do quite well for that sort of slot. Especially as episode 1 has the doctor in it and in not just a short cameo appearance.

As the two halves of the sentence post to which you refer are mutually contradictory I either neither agree nor disagree or both agree and disagree.

But seriously, I do think a Christmas episode of Goodnight Sweetheart given how well it went down with (most of) the public who saw it would have silenced the annoyance at it not getting a new series. And been a useful balance to the Christmas programming where this kind of light comedy is what people want to see.

All they had to do was persuade David Jason to guest star in a Christmas special and the publicity alone from reuniting 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' at Christmas in roles that did not carry the baggage of another OFAH revival would have made it get a good audience.

Perhaps he would not have been interested. Maybe Marks and Gran wanted a full series not just a special (the reason they took Birds of a Feather to ITV as the BBC only wanted a single special to test the market). Or maybe there was not enough time from September to December to get this together this year.

But there is still 2017 - if Dave or Netflix have not committed to a new series by then.

So it returned to weeknights. Was still on Saturday for several series though.

Class is like a crap Misfits.

Early Misfits, maybe.

In any case it is more interesting than most recent Doctor Who or that godawful last season of Torchwood.

But for DW spinoffs it is basically The Sarah Jane Adventures on crack.

Any idea of how on line viewing figures for Class are going?

As I said in my first post on the matter then?

I believe that's correct. Being filmed in Amsterdam apparently, presumably using the set of the Dutch version. Must work out cheaper than building their own.

The one thing that makes me unsure that it'll be on in January is that it'll clash with the BGT audition filming. Depends how much work Alesha will be required to do for Dance x3 during the week I guess.

If Emmerdale airs many more episodes like last night's I can't see it maintaining its lead for very long.

You were right. It became a Saturday show from the mid eighties.

Class isn't as good as early Misfits. Doctor Who was been poor in recent years and the last Torchwood was embarrassing. Class isn't making much of an impression on the BARB TV player report. It doesn't appear anywhere.

http://www.barb.co.uk/project-doveta...e-06-nov-2016/

Piers Morgan has tweeted that GMB had a 'big' rating yesterday. He did however not give the number which makes me a bit suspicious. Earth calling Bushmills, can you help?

I expect BBC ONE will use an FA Cup 3rd round tie on the 7th to launch the Take That show?

Scheduling update: Channel 5 has two film premieres planned for Week 50 (w/c 10th December). Those titles are 22 Jump Street and The Expendables 3. Looks like one will air on Sunday 11th at 9pm and the other on Friday 16th at 9pm.

It had quite a big rating last Wednesday for the US election although nowhere near the BBC - perhaps Piers is getting confused.Piers is consistently claiming the audience has increased since he joined but the ratings themselves contradict that and show no increase at all !

Oh right, cheers. Maybe I'm thinking of repeats.
I was half thinking the likes of Just Good Friends, Dear John, Terry and June and something else but I think they probably weren't. Can't think of any itv sitcom on a Saturday evening.

If course you've got Rolf and Seville on BBC 1 too. And wasn't It's a Knockout? Eesh.

But BGT is only on for about 8 weeks. The Voice Kids should not be on at the same part of the year but you've got the summer when it could go on. It's only a short run and csn be shown in one week if they wished.

I don't think it's going to hurt BGT and I don't think itv need to be leaving LE's most popular genre to him. That would be hard to justify to the shareholders.

I imagine it will be a decent rating, they do get them occasionally even when it isn't a big news day (sometimes they even have a good week). But as you say the pattern over the last 2 1/2yrs has been that the numbers soon revert back to the high 500/Low 600's.

6am - 8:30am it was 700k