Better to put it at 7pm where it'll do minimal damage then putting in peak where it would do pretty badly.

It'll be interesting how MPs Behind Closed Doors did, it got positive reviews from the broadsheets so I imagine even if it doesn't rate well, it's another critical success for the channel.

Exactly, I expect people in this thread are more interested in ITV doing well at 3:10 than ITV are themselves. Everyone knows the BBC will clean up regardless, and even if ITV did do well, they are still only making tuppence from advertising revenue from DFS.


It alternates every 2 years between the BBC, ITN and Sky News, 2016 will be ITN followed by 2017/2018 Sky and 2019/2020 BBC.

SCD is 75 minutes recorded last night.
Michael McIntyre is confirmed on Christmas Eve. - -and recorded as that so out of place Christmas Day.

So SCD and CTM both 75minutes? Way too much for Christmas Day. I'm sure SCd used to be 1hr?

I think the BBC try to squeeze too much in. The problem is I think they will never now move CTM for fear of whatever replaces it doesn't do as well and ITV take advantage. Considering how much effort the BBC put into Christmas, it would be pretty ebaressing for them if they were beaten by a commercial channel. It was close in 2010, so its not out of the realms of possibily.

SCD has been 75 minutes since 2012. And every year since 2011, ITV have had the top rating Christmas Day programme with Downton Abbey, so hardly embarrassing. The Beeb win the whole period quite comfortably.

ITV showing Harry Potter every night over the Cristmas period? Sorry but they are sitting on a big budget. Invest ffs!! It should be illegal.

New celebrity cycling challenge #TourdeCeleb got off to a slow start on C5 with 516.3k/2.5% @STVProductions http://www.overnights.tv

Has your Broadcast app stopped updating Ray?

Overnights.tv ‏@overnightstv 19s19 seconds ago
#thebigfoodrescue and its focus on saving fresh food binned by supermarkets drew 1.3m/26% to BBC1 from 9.15am http://www.overnights.tv

Yes, it hasn't updated for five days now.

Could you not get in touch with Broadcast to find out why? Maybe it is just a glitch?

New fix-rig doc #insidetheambulance made a strong start on @LiveOnW with 162.3k/0.72% @brownbobprod http://www.overnights.tv

They wouldnt have had much to fear this year - they could have just swapped in GBBO for Midwives. Given that the latter only pulled in a 5.8 million overnight last year, I don't think there's much prospect of that move damaging them.

I really think the Christmas Day schedules are as much to do with internal politics, as they are about balanced scheduling or even ratings. Despite the figures of the last few years, moving CTM to another day would likely be perceived as a 'snub' - at least by the press and possibly by the producers. Given that they've just been negotiating a huge 3 year renewal, I imagine that's the kind of tension they'd be happy to avoid.

The Chase (incl HD and plus 1) 3.61
Pointless (r) 3.14

From Broadcast:

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!: 9.1m (39.8%) Peak: 10.3m (43.6%) at 9.30pm
The Last Miners: 2.2m (9.6%)
Our Guy in China: 1.6m (7%)
Back in Time for Brixton: 920k (4%)
MPs: Behind Closed Doors: 500k (2.2%)

inc. +1 where applicable

Russell Howard has signed a 2 year deal with Sky 1, meaning Good News is over.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/234...ard_sky1_show/

Surprised at that IAC increase, thought it would've been knocked starting at half eight. It really is a beast

Has to be up on the slot average. Obviously not great for it though.


Terrible rating.

Ben Frow did say at TV Fest it wouldn't rate - well, he certainly wasn't wrong.

Wow over 9m on a non Sunday at an earlier time is fantastic for IAC.

Wow. I didn't expect IAC to match Sunday especially with the earlier start. Looks like this week won't see a drop off it usually does. I can't help thinking its rating so well because its been a calmer series with more laughs than arguments.

Its attracting an older audience who don't watch for drama, and arguments. My grandma has started watching it, having never seen it before and is loving it. I never though she's like something like IAC, but clearly the nice atmosphere is paying off.

Could the final match the launch?

Not too bad for the slot. I'm pretty sure Ch5 av. around 300-400k in this slot for rpt's.

that rating for IAC!

This is what Aurora13 said about IAC last year

"IAC is suffering I think with the arguments/negativity. BB / Jeremy Kyle demographic may love it but I know a few who've had enough. Fine for a few days but it's bringing down the morale of camp having to tread on eggshells. IAC fed off light hearted fun like SCD but it's not this year."

And last years rating thanks to Score.

#ImACeleb scored the top audience of the night from 8.30pm on ITV, with 8.7m/37.6% @antanddec overnights.tv

That's really good. Same night last year got 8.7m/36.9% so the audience is flat and the share is up.


So I'mACeleb is up 400k YOY are up in share points.

Obviously it does help that BBC1 (and other channels) are showing very little of note.

Yes, and here it is - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules...don/1987-12-31

I've mentioned this before, but someone from BBC presentation posted on some other forum that there was some kind of issue with crossing over to Big Ben live so they filmed it striking midnight a few nights before and played that instead, and none of the big bosses knew about it until much later.


There's new material on this show as well, so no worse than Peter Kay in an earlier slot on Christmas Eve. Most years they've given up before eleven o'clock anyway. In 1998 they showed the pilot of the Alan Davies sitcom A Many Splintered Thing - a pilot on Christmas Day!


This is what happened last time New Year's Eve was on a Saturday -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programm...don/2011/12/31

There'll be plenty of time after MOTD before midnight, they can start it before 10.30. Graham Norton was on the night before, which would seem logical given it's also its regular slot.


As I mentioned, Robin Parker from Broadcast liked my tweet moaning about it the other day, so they know about it.

That's great news, sky 1 need to do more of this. Give newer talent a chance to grow and one day make it to the big2 channels. With RH on sky, hopefully that'll mean Comedy Central will look to other comedians for new programming.

He's now in the Championship with hope of one day being promoted to the EPL.