News at Ten - Weeknights on ITV1

ITV News was mentioned last night, but it was in the middle of a report so it was hardly noticeable, not a signing off or promotion or anything like that. It was just "..... ITV News has learnt that ...."

If Mark is a part of the News at Ten team, I fail to see why Julie was sent out the Heathrow as well.

Radio Times list it as "The Late News and Weather" on their website - so I assume the sign-off will be "The Late News".

Will be interesting to see if they introduce it as the News At Ten as well - or "News At Ten Late" or something.

I fail to see why they couldn't just have it at 10pm five nights a week....

Yea, Mark was at the scene with Mary in the studio for the Evening News, yes? Seems odd to send Julie there a mere 3 1/2 hours later when Mark could've easily have stayed on.

Well if they're trying to promote Julie as the face of News at Ten this makes perfect sense, a story like this always brings in more viewers and therefore many viewers would've seen the new News, and Julie, for the first time last night.

Same here. Credibility wise after the last time putting it on five nights a week would show a commitment, while when you look at the current schedules at least it would make sense to switch Al Murray on Fridays with the Saturday film, so on Friday you have News at Ten followed by an (uninterrupted) film, and then on Saturday at 10pm you have Al Murray and then the Weekend News, and then either a late film or US drama or something.


I know they might plan to run films on Fridays later in the year, but very few fit in the two hour slot anyhow, so will probably still have half an hour or so to screen after the news - or push back the news even further.


And given the way TV channels treat films, a couple of months down the line they'll have forgotten they've cleared a night or two to run them uninterrupted (by news) and put them on around News at Ten anyway.

There should be no Late News on a Friday. News at Ten should run Monday-Friday. Friday is a weekday, so should be in uniform with the rest of the weekdays.

Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper are just a burden in the Friday night schedules. They shouldn't be on at that time, they suit an earlier time slot. If they rehoused both shows then they could put Al Murray on at 9pm with the "entertainment weekend" continuing at 10.30pm (they could shortern it for a Friday if they insist on not having 'real' news).

Al Murray performed badly on Saturday night

They obviously want to go after the Jonathan Ross/Friday Night Project type of audience, which ITV have not had a part of for years

I agree - and while I am backing the BBC Ten o'Clock News, I am saddened that News at Ten seems to be slipping in ratings so soon!

I also think that the programme is far too short. It is on for a shorter period than the BBC's programme - should News at Ten run longer and then have their 10.30 show start later following the regional news?

Whatever they need to do to make it have a fighting chance - they need to do now or it will be a laughin stock , especially after all that hype at it's relaunch.

Slipping? It got 4.2m last night against BBC One's 4.7m. When the national bulletins went head to head, ITV had 4.5m against BBC One's 5m. Very good. Obviously it has a lot to do with inheritance but we still shouldn't knock it. There was a combined audience of over 9 million watching the news at 10pm last night. ITV is obviously brining in extra news viewers from somewhere because the BBC hasn't been dented.

Fair enough - I am going on Media Guardian reports - that is the figures I have to hand.

Whatever the figures yesterday they did bottom at just under 3 million during the week and the BBC still hovered between 4 and 5 million thoughout the week...you get my jist.

The fact is the BBC Ten o'Clock News is beating it to a pulp in the ratings.

Er - I really don't think that's what the figures suggest. If both programmes manage 4 million plus on a semi-regular basis I think it will be a very good thing for all concerned.

That is my take on the ratings.

"News at Ten slumped to 2.6 million viewers on its third outing - 2.1 million behind its BBC1 rival." However, it was 3.8 million on the first night...if you were a politician seeking election second place means you do not lead. If you were a football team second place on a consistent basis is no achievement - it is the same in TV land.

Let us remember pundits were saying at the start of the week that it would be the BBC who would feel the pinch and they were wrong.