This Time Next Year not get getting much of a boost from the CS and IAC sandwich.

it was 3.5m

Why is it good to see? Too many competitions, celebrity rubbish! It's good to see a proper breakfast programme on the BBC doing so well!

They make Konnie Huq on Xtra Factor look competent. Dire. Who decided to hire them? Chris Ramsey is OK I guess and from the bit I saw last night he seems to be anchoring it slightly more, but the other 3 are terrible. They need to ditch them. I remember years ago they ditched the presenters of the IAC spinoff mid-run, although I don't know if they'd find it too embarrassing to do that nowadays. They need to change it though as it's not working.

Thanks.

Solid enough, but unspectacular. So far it has gone 3.8-3.5-3.5. I imagine they'll renew it.

Oh it's definitely worse.

They used to have a good thing going on with IAC! Now. Over 1m most nights wasn't it?

The rot set in last year and this is very much a continuation of that. Essentially they've dumbed it down and viewers have quite rightly responded badly to that.

I used to really enjoy it when Durders and TPT did it. An odd combo maybe on paper but it worked for me.

Had almost forgotten that Aussie comedian they had on one year. Brendan Burns was it? Bit of a disaster to say the least!

Now Whitmore is off Strictly they could always fly her over. Competent at least, unlike the gruesome foursome.

Yes, that was the one! How many days did he last? Must have only been 3 or 4.

Yes, that's an option. I imagine they'll definitely look to hire her again next year. Sucks a bit for her that she quit to do Strictly and got voted off early enough that she could have kept her old job anyway.

Can't Pay?: We'll Take It Away!: 1.2m (5.1%) including +1

Not bad considering at least half of the episode was a repeat. Held up well.

I assume he gets access to the full figures and not just the slot average.

Breakfast skews older with viewers watching longer. GMB skews younger with viewers watching for less time.

Just 3 according to Wiki.

Even Zezi Ifore lasted a series.

Gee whizz, thanks for yet another sarcastic post. Mustn't criticise your precious X Factor must I when all I said was it doesn't add a lot on +1. My god.

Yes, the height of IACGMOOHN was when Caroline Flack presented it, with Russell Kane doing the comedy parts.

Last year it was bad, this year its bottom has dropped out. Why do they keep hiring Joe Swash? He must be cheap!?

Vicky Pattison is not a presenter. This experiment make VP a presenter has gone too far.

I would drop them mid run, and get Caroline Flack back on board.

I think Chris Ramsey and, dare I say it, Vicky Pattison are fine though the latter is a bit stilted when handcuffed to the autocue. Joe and Stacey are the problem - I think they need to be placed on a celebrity panel instead of leading presenting. Of course Andi Peters is over there at the moment; he's very much an experienced presenter.

I'm A Celebrity continuing to show declines and even I have to admit last night was heavy going with far too much time given to the Stranded trial, which sounded good on paper but didn't really live up to expectations. Although I like a lighter series I can't help but wonder whether they need something to happen to keep the interest of some, especially with the next three nights offering opposition in The Apprentice and Children in Need followed by the later start on Saturday.

The Missing and Watchdog held up very well and BBC One are really good in general at holding up against strong shows when they put a little bit of effort in. Supervet also performed excellently and possibly stopped This Time Next Year from seeing a further boost from the Coronation Street/I'm A Celebrity sandwich. Is it doing enough for renewal? I'm not so sure.

Andy Murray was playing in the tennis on BBC2 yesterday afternoon.

But Vicky Pattison is not a presenter, ad is just not working at all.

I'm pretty sure Joe Swash thinks he has this job for life, despite being an absolute irritant. Stacey does not work on this either.

I agree with you on the 2nd paragraph. They really need someone to cause a few frictions, otherwise they'll start seeing a drop YOY after an excellent launch.

An observation from Lorraine Kelly this morning - that the jungle-dwellers will get ratty when they're hungry. Maybe you just need to wait for a few failed bush-tucker trials.

Well yes that is very true. Last night one task invloved Adam Thomes from Emmerdale, and he was very jumpy in a shack with spiders, soI imagine he's now going to be the publics targe for trails, therefore failing in many and coming back ith less food. Thus they go hungry.

Presumably for the GMB advertisers the key demo will still be 'mums'. I wonder if it is possible that GMB could have been meeting their targets for this demo while still producing a poor slot average of around 600k for the last 12mths

Yeah, Mark and Tara was the best version for me. Not liked any other version really.

I wonder how many people switch over just for the Ant and Dec chat at the start? That's what I do, and to be honest, with the new team, even that's almost unbearable to watch now.

In regards to the main show, I highly suspect Danny Baker is going to shake things up a bit. Hopefully that'll be entertaining. The live trial is also tomorrow night, against CiN. It's been on the Sunday for the past few years hasn't it?

Yes, this began last week, and was announced a few months back - http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/1...h_new_captains. Although I only spotted the series was actually beginning a few days before it was.

It is a bit weird, obviously it's the first full series for nearly two years with Catsdown now the behemoth it is. What's perhaps surprising is that, new captains aside, it is the same programme. You'll note that it says it will "first air" on More4 which led me to assume it would be repeated later in the week on C4, but it isn't. And because it isn't I wondered if it might be non-topical, as has sometimes been the case with this series, so they could show it on C4 in a few weeks, but it isn't, it's still about the week's news. So seemingly it will never be on C4 which seems a bit of a waste, especially when C4 themselves are showing Gogglebox and Catsdown repeats at 10pm.

Also, I wondered if on More4 it might skew a bit older, but that's not the case either - the panellists if anything have got younger so far. Obviously in that piece it says one of the main points is to spotlight new talent, which is fair enough, but who'll see them on More4? As you say, it would make more sense on E4, especially given the people they're booking who mostly seem to come from E4 programmes. So I have not got a clue what the idea is.

It's sort of going back to the original concept of More4 when it began a decade ago, which was going to have lots of ABC1-skewing comedy and had Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Daily Show and so on, but that's not what we've had on the channel for many years so I don't know who'll even know it's there.

I don't mind the series, mind, though I didn't like the comedian on the first episode who delivered all her gags facing the audience. I know the whole point of the show is just to recycle your stand-up material, but at least try and make it look like a natural conversation and look at the other panellists!

I saw who was presenting IAC support show and haven't bothered. ITV just don't seem to get these support shows right. ITT is a gem of a show in support of SCD. Apprentice / GBBO do a decent job. DOI suffered with no support show to follow the contestants. IAC has always been naff playing to the younger audience. The best ITV support show was the daily show alongside Pop Idol.

They were pretty much neck and neck with the BBC for Mum's yesterday, slightly ahead actually, but even so that will still be a big come down from the best years of GMTV.