The fact only 3.8m tuned in on Christmas Eve (even if Christmas Eve/Day ratings have been in decline) suggests there wasn't much interest in it in the first place. Compare that to the 10.3m (12.5m consolidated) that tuned into the first Come Fly With Me. Admittedly that was on Christmas Day but I think it would still have been between 8-10m elsewhere.

Surprised not to see the Twin Peaks revival in that list. Must be the new drama I'm looking forward to most.

You're being logical again!

Wow! That is amazing. I would agree. I have loved this season of BBC Strictly. The cast...the pros...the band...Claude...the Judges...the whole production has been awesome. Thank you BBC for providing me with so much enjoyment and pleasure.

Sounds quality. Looking forward to it already. Is Gareth fronting it?

Not surprised. Barring the odd sketch, it was rubbish. Not worthy of a premier slot on BBC One.

Are you looking forward to Dance, Dance, Dance?

We talked about Santa Claus the other day but it was certainly big news that Christmas for me as not only was it premiered on BBC1, it was also our Christmas film in school. That was the series, of course, where Allo Allo was 26 episodes long so they could flog it abroad easier, but seemingly it didn't work out as the following series were of a more conventional length. The TV Times for that year is very strange, because the film guide says that The Sign of Four is not the film but a repeat of the Granada series with Jeremy Brett, and then on the programme pages there's an apology that is actually is the film after all. Dunno what happened there.

Civvy Street opposite Corrie hardly seems the most intelligent scheduling. As Brucie mentioned in his book, they were quite excited about doing Bruce and Ronnie because they'd done the Royal Variety together, to huge acclaim, and that led to this special, but while they were rehearsing it the producer Marcus Mortimer came into the rehearsal room in tears and said "I've just seen the schedule and we're on at eleven o'clock", which rather put a dampener on things.

With Hilarious Consequences was notable as Denis Norden's only clipboard show for Thames, to mark their twentieth anniversary. That was the last episode of 321, while Cannon and Ball was their first show for Yorkshire after they'd been dropped by LWT. Not that it made any difference to the audience, because they were still on ITV and obviously LWT had to show them. Says much about the rest of the output it was the highest rated thing that night.


I think we're going to have to stop excusing poor promotion for ITV shows failing because this is the one time of the year where everyone buys TV guides, forget what day it is and normal plans go out of the window. So there should be no excuse for shows to be wanting for promotion, because more people are reading TV guides than ever before.

The other point is that sometimes channels don't promote things because they're a bit embarrassed by them and just want to get them out as quietly as possible without too many people noticing.

Sky Q taking a bashing on Watchdog,
Hope you're not watching Derek

That Strictly PR account is wrong, the most watched series was the 2010 series, that had an (if I remember rightly) 11.2m average.

But it is on course to be the 3rd most watched series and highest rated in 4 years.

Yes, pretty terrible, not working, won't reboot, or takes 40 minutes, and poor customer service or engineering that can't correct.

Is it a new series coming to the BBC?

Radio Times reported, The show premiered with a one-off special last Christmas, featuring guest star Joanna Lumley, and drew in massive audiences of 6 million

Does it sound like a show that the BBC would show? Does it really matter if it is on the BBC or not?

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-07-22/s...-new-itv-show/

Any similarity to Strictly is purely coincidental.

It didn't get 6 million though. In any case, it wasn't a "massive'" audience.

That's what Radio Times reports are rarely wrong. That's a direct copy and paste of the RT article if you wish to contact them, and tell them they were wrong.

Of course Six million isn't massive for Walliams and Freind, but according to you is for X Factor. !

Another user on a previous page said it got 3.83m on its first showing and consolidated to less than 5.4m. That's certainly not 6m is it?

EDIT: I've never defended X Factor's woeful ratings once this year, so you might want to factcheck that one.

The article


http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...ams-and-friend

Radio Times contact us, let them know that you feel they are wrong.

http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2011-05-09/contact-us

Write to Radio Times to tell them you think they are wrong.

3.8m is the overnight figure. That's the one I'm quoting. That doesn't mean my figure was wrong just because Radio Times mentioned an accumulated figure. Hence I mentioned the 10.3m figure for Come Fly With Me, which was also an overnight figure.

I was correcting you, not just the Radio Times. You quoted the RT twice, despite being told already it was incorrect on the previous page. Why don't you just accept you were wrong to use it instead of blaming the RT?

I was also correcting you about your incorrect X Factor claim.

What's wrong with any similarities to Strictly? Surely taking inspiration from something that's very successful is not an issue?

As you enjoy SCD, you'll surely enjoy something similar?

What's wrong with that? If anything it's more Let's Dance than Strictly, and it's not like this sort of show originated from either of those.

I'm not interested in an ITV copy-cat show. The tone won't be BBC will it. It sounds like a dance version of The X Factor.