Well he can't be any worse than Sharon Osbourne, her chatshow for ITV was dire.

I think he's getting time off from Corrie to do this show as well so at least this means it should be safe to tune into Corrie for a while.

Aren't Katie Price and Peter Andre getting their own ITV chatshow?

This just sounds like nightmare television!!

I think that was a rumour that had very little substance. So at a guess - no.

I think it was a bit more than that, I remember Katie speaking about it on Paul O'Grady.

Sunday Night Actuals:


Channel 4:
6:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1.3M
7:15 Deal or No Deal 1.6M
8:00 Big Brother: On the Couch 1.9M
9:00 BIG BROTHER 3.4M
10:00 28 Days 1.7M

E4:
7:00 Big Brother's Diary Room Uncut 126,600
8:00 Friends 234,300
8:30 Friends 333,800
9:00 Brothers and Sisters 138,000
10:00 Big Brother's Diary Room Uncut 357,300
11:00 Big Brother Live 145,900

Anything for ITV up yet?

BBC1
7.00 Saving Planet Earth 4.7m 22%
8.00 The Chase 4m 16%
9.00 How We Built Britain 5.2m 22%
10.00 News 5.8m 29%

BBC2
5.15 Glastonbury 1.7m 11%
7.00 Summer Exhibition 1m 5%
8.00 Coast 3.8m 16%
9.00 Rome 2.5m 11%
9.50 Graham Norton Uncut 1.4m 10%

ITV1
7.00 Emmerdale 6.5m 33%
8.00 Heartbeat 7.3m 30%
9.00 Talk to Me 3.4m 15%
10.00 News Knight 2.3m 12%

From Media Guardian:

McDonald satire attracts 2.3m


Leigh Holmwood
Monday June 25, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk


McDonald: News Knight lost out to BBC1's 10pm news bulletin. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA

Sir Trevor McDonald's move into satire with topical ITV1 show News Knight attracted 2.3 million viewers last night.
The panel show, which also featured Marcus Brigstocke, pulled in a share of 12% over 30 minutes at 10pm, according to unofficial overnights.

ITV1's ratings in the 10pm half-hour were way down on last Sunday, when the results show of the final of Britain's Got Talent pulled in 10.6 million viewers and a 45% share.

Last night News Knight lost out to the news on BBC1, with the 10pm bulletin attracting 5.8 million viewers and a 29% share.

Channel 4's movie repeat of British thriller 28 Days Later scored 1.8 million viewers and a 14% share between 10pm and 12.10pm while BBC2's Graham Norton Uncut pulled in 1.4 million and a 10% share over 40 minutes from 9.50pm.

Earlier, BBC1's new series Saving Planet Earth attracted 4.7 million viewers and a 22% share across an hour from 7pm.

But Saving Planet Earth could not compete with ITV1 soap Emmerdale, which attracted 6.5 million viewers and a 33% share between 7pm and 7.30pm.

The last programme in BBC2's Summer Exhibition at 7pm attracted 1 million viewers and a 5% share.

ITV1 won the 8pm slot with Heartbeat scoring 7.3 million viewers and a 30% share while BBC1 came a distant second with 4 million and a 16% share for drama The Chase.

Coast on BBC2 at 8pm picked up 3.8 million viewers and a 16% share while movie repeat Fools Rush In on Channel Five attracted 900,000 and a 3% share between 8pm and 10pm.

On Channel 4, an evening of Big Brother saw the On the Couch show at 8pm pick up 1.9 million viewers and an 8% share, while the main highlights programme at 9pm pulled in 3.4 million and a 15% share.

BBC1 won the 9pm slot with David Dimbleby's How We Built Britain pulling in 5.2 million viewers and a 22% share while ITV1 drama Talk to Me scored 3.4 million and a 15% share.

The second episode of BBC2's HBO co-production Rome picked up 2.5 million viewers and an 11% share while Vanished on Five pulled in 700,000 and a 4% share.

Earlier, Dame Shirley Bassey's turn on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury helped BBC2's coverage of the festival pull in 1.7 million viewers and an 11% share between 5.15pm and 7pm.

ITV1 slumps to a 17.6% weekly share
11:45am: ITV1 fell to its second worst weekly share of the year so far as viewers shunned its new shows Tycoon and Holiday Showdown Extreme. More follows.

Broadcast finally updated:

ITV1 slumps to a 17.6% weekly share
Jon Rogers
12:00pm
ITV1 fell to its second worst weekly share of the year so far as viewers shunned its new shows Tycoon and Holiday Showdown Extreme.

Over the seven days from Monday 18 June the commercial network struggled to an all hours share of just 17.6%, its worst since the start of the year when it drew just 17.4%.

So far this year ITV1 has averaged a weekly share of 19.3%. The previous week, when Britain's Got Talent was a ratings bonanza for the channel, it secured a healthy share of 22%.

The channel had a tough time in the 9pm slot and twice in the last week barely surpassed the 2m mark.

Its new business-reality show Tycoon on Tuesday 19 June averaged a poor 2m (9%) over an hour, well below the slot average of 4.6m (19.8%). The situation wasn't much better two days later (21 June) when Holiday Showdown Extreme launched, also in the 9pm slot, with 2.1m (9.7%).

Problems go further

ITV1's problems extended further than just the 9pm slot.

The programmes either side of Tycoon also struggled. Trinny and Susannah Undress at 8pm had 2.8m viewers (13.9%). And Dara O'Briain's Tough Gig proved to be just that with a lowly 902,000 (4.4%), more than 3m viewers below the channel's slot average.

ITV1's new News Knight with Trevor McDonald on Sunday (14 June) also found the going tough at 10pm with an audience of 2.3m (12.3%), significantly down on the slot average for the year so far of 5.4m (25.7%).

ITV1 did manage to make some headway at various points during the week though. On Monday (18 June) it drew an all hours share of 22.6%. The 8.30pm edition of Coronation Street had 9.7m (42.7%) while the new drama series that followed, The Time of Your Life, picked up a solid 6.7m (29.3%).

Proving to be as popular as ever, Heartbeat returned after a couple of weeks off at 8pm on Sunday with a substantial 7.3m (29.9%).

Over the entire week BBC1 had a comfortable victory over its nearest rival with a share of 22%. Channel 4 took a share of 9.5% with BBC2 on 8.1%. Five trailed the terrestrial pack with 5.5%.

I'm not surprised really.

Their whole schedule needs an overhaul, apart from tried and tested thoroughbreds like Corrie and Emmerdale, very few programmes make a mark on ITV. They don't have a good success rate when introducing a new series. BGT was one of the rare flukes.

And Saturday's ratings from Media Guardian:

Nesbitt's Jekyll loses over 1m


Leigh Holmwood
Monday June 25, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk


Jekyll: 3.9 million viewers watched the second episode. Photograph: BBC

BBC1's James Nesbitt drama Jekyll slipped by over a million viewers in its second outing on Saturday night, pulling in 3.9 million.
The second instalment of the six-episode drama series attracted a share of 21% over 55-minutes from 9pm, according to unofficial overnights.

This was down from 5.1 million viewers and a 24% share for last week's series opener.

ITV1's Secrets of Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes attracted 3.4 million viewers and an 18% share between 9pm and 10pm.

A repeat of the first episode of new US drama Brothers and Sisters on Channel 4 at 9pm attracted 800,000 and a 4% share, while the second instalment at 10pm scored 700,000 and a 4% share.

On Channel Five, CSI:NY at 9pm picked up 2.4 million viewers and a 13% share, while Law and Order at 10pm attracted 1.7 million and a 10% share.

The first part of Channel 4's exhaustive analysis of Tony Blair's premiership, The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair, picked up 1.2 million viewers and a 6% share between 7pm and 9pm.

The penultimate episode of Doctor Who on BBC1, at 7.15pm, pulled in 6.9 million viewers and a 38% share, while Casualty, between 8.10pm and 9pm, attracted 5.7 million and a 29% share.

On ITV1, movie repeat Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed pulled in 3 million viewers and an 18% share between 6.20pm and 8pm; while Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, at 8pm, picked up 3.6 million and an 18% share.

The final instalment of the chatshow Parkinson, on ITV1 at 10pm, pulled in 3.5 million viewers and a 21% share.

BBC2's biggest ratings puller of the evening was a repeat of Coast at 8.30pm, which pulled in 1.6 million and an 8% share over an hour; while Glastonbury coverage between 10.30pm and 1am, featuring acts such as The Killers, picked up 900,000 and a 9% share.

I loved mobile and fallen angel, but since then haven't seen anything in their 9pm slot (not even Kingdom, which looked good).

Tycoon is a total turn off, but I think it would do okay-ish for a daytime slot. Kind of like "Mind Your Own Business" on BBC1 It's not prime time entertainment.

I've watched both Tough Gigs, it's quite good but falls between being a stand up comedy show and a louis theroux style documentary. Quite shocked by how badly it's doing though !

I expected Tough Gig to do well; maybe a new slot!

Talk to Me isn't doing very well.

Yeah I know. I think it sounds like a good idea but for whatever reason it just hasn't caught on. Its not like ITV1 haven't put it in a great timeslot or advertised it heavily enough. Its ratings are dismal for what the channel should be getting in the 9.00pm slot on a Sunday.

And even when it was sandwiched between Britain's Got Talent, it was still beaten by How We Built Britain.

It has one more episode to run. The problem is more to do with the audience not expecting edgier stuffon ITV1 on Sunday nights. After Lewis, Midsomer and Foyles War this is a different type of show.

She said they had signed a contract for ITV - or more accurately ITV2. Which is true. They have an exclusive contract because their shows on ITV2 bring in in excess of a million viewers. There was nothing about a teatime chat show on ITV1.

And I find that so annoying that people are so stubbornly set in their ways they won't try something new.

They could do an ITV 2 chat show that would pull in big numbers for multichannel perhaps.

This is interesting, considering people are always saying about 'ITV need to try new ideas', and then people don't bother to have a look to see if there are any new ideas actually airing

I think they were going for a similar audience that they got for Cold Feet - the final series of CF went out on Sundays and secured over 8 million viewers. Of course that was four years ago so times have changed and the ITV Sunday 9pm slot is now known for cosy detective dramas. I can't help thinking this would performed better mid-week. It's a good show. I'm enjoying it.

What are the ratings like for the Wednesday night repeat?

According to the overnights The Time Of Your Life got 4.7m on ITV1 last night, that's 2 million down on last weeks opening episode, a repeat episode of New Tricks on BBC1 at the same time got an avearge 5.5m for the hour, and the Henman 1st round at Wimbledon got an average of 3.3m and a peak of 4.4m just after 9pm on BBC2.

from media.guardian