Sunbeam probably thinks it'll become an ITV show along with the return of Wish You Were Here, The Price is Right etc

Haassan are you going to be able to post all day ratings during the main Christmas period (Xmas Eve, Day and Boxing Day)? It would great if we are able to get the full schedules (or most) if possible. It would be very much appreciated.

Btw, is BBC1 trailing the films they have this Christmas. A seperate film trailer? If not, I wonder if that will start this weekend.

Disappointed that BBC1 aren't meeting Endeavour at the junction. If Sherlock's not sitable for screening before the 9 o'clock watershed then cut it so it is. (With these things you only need to cut one or two unsavoury images to get a lighter certificate.) The original schedule of
7.00 Countryfile
8.00 Open All Hours
8.30 Sherlock
was much better.

I suppose BBC1's thinking is not to give DDD a head start on Countryfile, but they needn't worry. I've read the blurb for DDD and it's got flop written all over it. ITV are rubbish at these type of derivative programmes and there's only room for ONE dance programme on TV. They've been any number of dance shows on TV since Strictly started and they've all flopped. Apart from Let's Dance For Comic Relief which was a big pile of crap that got lucky thanks to Robert Webb. And, judging from the blurb, DDD is so similar to Let's Dance, the BBC should seriously consider suing for copyright.

If BBC1 wants to meet DDD at the junction and have Sherlock at 9 o'clock they should have gone with:
6.30 Antiques Roadshow
7.30 Open All Hours
8.00 Countryfile
9.00 Sherlock

They may be looking for Countryfile to give Roadshow a big lead-in and Roadshow to hold the audience passed the start of Endeavour. But Roadshow is a weak spot in BBC1's Sunday schedule as was so clearly demonstrated when Planet Earth took over the slot and doubled the audience.

edit: Not convinced Let It Shine is going to do anything either. Sounds rubbish. And we know how BBC1 make a hash of most of their light entertainment programmes. Would love to see The Voice bomb as well. I am totally mystified by how such a bad programme manages to rate so highly at least at the start. I can only put it down to a magnificent piece of cross-promotional hype by the BBC. The fact that the ratings plummet so far in the later stages of the programme prove how bad a format it is.

Antiques Roadshow weak? The minute its in a BBC1 Sunday schedule older viewers flock to it.

It might be getting less viewers than Planet Earth, but its still capable of 6m. Enough to dent Endeavour and push it under 5m.

The BBC want a strong schedule, but they also want to make sure they continue to dominate Sunday's. I think Poldark loosing the 9pm slot win to Victoria hurt them badly. The next series will move to Spring.

Endeavour consolidates well and I imagine the overseas sales are strong enough for ITV to keep it going

Cut Sherlock? Are you mad? Would you flatten the top of a Faberge egg to get it into a shoebox? Trim a Picasso to fit it over your mantelpiece?

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30th October: Antiques Roadshow 5.8m
6th November: Planet Earth 12.26m
Call The Midwife: 9.5m+

Weak! Weak! Weak! Weak! Weak!


BBC1 risk Sherlock having his ratings dented by giving Endeavour a 1 hour head start.

NBC's The Wall ripping off The Price Is Right's Plinko game?

https://youtu.be/ghLy9MoKljU

Which is great as a 5 minute segment in a half-hour game show, but I'm not sure you would want to watch it for the whole of the programme.

It's the BBC. It's not about ratings, remember!

It is on Saturday and Sunday. Twas ever thus.

In comparison to you, lots and lots.
We will have to see if it succeeds, I'd expect it not to but its Executive Producer is giving it a bit more of a chance. As for the prizes, I would think they'd be modified.


Well....


Come on down.

Tipping Point manages a version of it.

Just looks like a glorified Tipping Point to me. It would be ITV buying a similar format to one they already own. Would be crazy to do that! Mind you they bought The Voice so....

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that. Tipping Point, on the other hand .... ?

Principle are the same. Drop counters, lands on an amount. The Wall has the added twist of the money being taken away. It's Plinko plus another bit.

No, it's not ALL about ratings, but if they've got a programme capable of getting 11m+ viewers then SOCK IT TO 'EM!!

Besides Endeavour is a bit dull from where I'm sitting. Doesn't have the EVENT TV feel that Sherlock has and Inspector Morse had.

I wouldn't call 5.8m weak. Nearly 6m is solid. That will dent Endeavour, and the older viewers will watch BBC1 from CF through to the news. That is the audience Endeavor is aming for, and those viewers will already be locked in.

YBF is weak. Take Me Out is weak, even most BBC dramas are weaker than AR.

Tipping Point does great in daytime but it's hardly ratings gold when they put it out in primetime. (Shame! Deserves to get double the audience at least.)

Sherlock has been on at 8.30pm several times. The second episode of series one was the first time it happened. Second series started after 8pm on New Year's Day in 2012 as well.

Very true. That's why I look at The Wall and think ITV should avoid it, all broadcasters should. I will probably wrong but it looks like it won't have much longevity to me.

I'm going to have to repeat myself, amn't I?

30th October: Antiques Roadshow 5.8m
6th November: Planet Earth 12.26m
Call The Midwife: 9.5m+

Sunday night is the most watched night of the week and Midwife and Planet Earth show just how many viewers there are to be netted. (So, come to that, does Strictly). Roadshow's ratings look great until you compare it with other programmes in the same slot and now I'm no longer impressed.

The New Year's Day 2017 episode is scheduled for 8.30 and episode 2 was in the original schedule so it may just be this particular episode has an gruesome/explicit shot that can't be shown before 9pm.

Or they just want to start Countryfile at the same time of Dance and didn't have a suitable half-hour programme to fill the gap that moving Countryfile earlier created. Thus they brought in Roadshow pushing SOAH and Sherlock half an hour later.

The more I read the blurb for Dance Dance Dance they more I feel it's going to go the same way as Your Face Sounds Familiar.