ITV cuts The Bill to once a week

The Bill moving to 9pm is nothing new. It used to be on at that time many years ago, especially during the Beech specials and Jim Carver's alcohol battle... although it'll be interesting to see how the new storyline set-up will work post-watershed.

Maybe they'll be able to include some swearing, always seemed a bit weird criminals speaking very nicely to the police. Can't see much changing to Corrie & Emmerdale in terms of episode numbers. This change is more about finding a consistent drama to fill a 9pm slot.

The Bill was at 9pm as well just before Christmas

While The Bill is not the most glamorous of programmes it is a consistent ratings winner. And I hope the change of slot does not mean too much change, such as swearing. It may be unrealistic not to have it but its always nice to have a programme without it sometimes

Hopefully though it will be axed/moved about less often. With football, awards shows, I'm a Celebrity its often only just once a week as it is.

Any word on when the change will happen and what night it will go out on?

Also what football will be shown regularly on Wednesday nights? Is Champions League moving back to Wednesdays?

Yes, from next season I believe.

Yup, and only 1 game (out of 16)

hmmm

sounds interesting and will probably work and it will posiibly garner more viewers than now - I wonder if it will be on Tuesdays at 9pm???

here I go, yet again (a lot of you will say!! LOL)


5pm Winner Takes All, Temptation (based on Australia's updated version of Sale of the Century), Jeopardy
530pm ITV Evening News; Weather
6pm ITV Regional News; Weather

Monday
630pm Gameshows
730pm Coronation Street
8pm World In Action
830pm Airline, Jimmy's other fly-on-the-wall series'
9pm British Drama

Tuesday
630pm Emmerdale
730pm Coronation Street
8pm "Family Drama's" e.g. Demons, Primeval, Britannia High
9pm The Bill

Wednesday
630pm Emmerdale
730pm Coronation Street, Champions League
8pm Feature-length Drama's, Award Ceremonies, Champions League

Thursday
630pm Emmerdale
730pm Coronation Street
8pm Wheel Of Fortune, Play Your Cards Right, Coronation Street (if Champions League is shown on Wednesdays)
830pm Regional Programmes
9pm British Drama

Friday
630pm Gameshows
730pm Coronation Street
8pm Tonight
830pm Wish You Were Here?, We Can Work It Out, Other British Magazine Series'
9pm British Drama

Saturday

6pm Dancing On Ice, The X Factor, Britains Got Talent, Beat The Star
715pm Dancing on Ice, The X-Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Saturday Night Takeaway
730pm Various British Entertainment Series', Entertainment Specials, Saturday Night Takeaway
830pm Results shows, You've Been Framed
9pm Reality Series' e.g. From Ladette To Lady, Bad Lads Army
10pm The Frank Skinner Show, Al Murray's Happy Hour, Other British Comedy/Chat/Entertainment show
11pm News (to 1130pm)

Sunday
615pm The Chart Show
715pm The Krypton Factor, Family Fortunes, Blankety Blank, Wheel Of Fortune
8pm Heartbeat, The Royal, Wild at Heart
9pm Trial and Retribution, Taggart, Ultimate Force, other British "Hard" Drama's
10pm British Comedy Hour
11pm News (to 1130pm)

No tv burp??

also I don;t think emmerdale at 6.30pm will be good

I do think ITV needs to revert the Tuesday episode of Emmerdale back to half an hour and this petty battle with EastEnders doesn't really work as both shows lose a lot of viewers.

As for the extra episodes of Corrie on Mon & Fri, pure lazy scheduling. I use to be an avid Corrie fan but now I can't be bothered to watch it as it's on far too many times. I hear the plots are padded out too now.

If anything it could be the soaps moving to the 8pm hour and new programming going in the 7pm hour, though I doubt they'll do anything too drastic - at most possibly move Wednesday's Corrie to 8.30pm.

And as much as I glanced over that fantasy schedule one thing did stand out there - using the 8pm slot on Wednesday for drama premieres, football and award shows. In the olden days that's where things like Sharpe, Hornblower and Morse usually played out, and they are ideal for filling a slot which won't be available weekly.

lol. I remember Jimmys but like Children's Hospital, those shows are not allowed to air again because a senior doctor was against the idea of unwell kids becoming "celebrities".

Something like that anyway, so I guess it'll just be Airline forever and ever.

TV Burp - to be shown either at 730 or at 8pm on a Sturday evening - get in proper primetime!!!!!!

Emmerdale - it used to work in the old 630 slot (well it did for a long period - excluding STV who used to show it the next day at 510pm!!!) - during the time when ITV did not know what to show in the arly eving slots (i.e. 510pm and 630pm) - in fact same as now!!!!