Although next week Real Crime: Tesco Bomber he is presenting it , although i think this may is a repeat.
It's an increasingly common strategy now to try and sneak a few repeats into a new series, but just repackage them in some way to pass them off as new.
Although next week Real Crime: Tesco Bomber he is presenting it , although i think this may is a repeat.
It's an increasingly common strategy now to try and sneak a few repeats into a new series, but just repackage them in some way to pass them off as new.
ITV seems to be plodding along at the moment. Upcoming shows that look promising include The Fixer, Wuthering Heights and Collision (the 5 part drama to be stripped across a week).
Changes like the introduction of News at Ten on Friday are welcomed, and the revamping of the presentation of the earlier bulletins. The News on ITV is in splendid shape.
The new Thursday schedule is a good move, and they seemed to promote it well so ratings were strong. However, I think they should alter the schedule further slightly to make it better:
Monday
1900 Emmerdale
1930 Coronation Street
2000 Tonight
2030 Coronation Street
Tuesday
1900 Emmerdale
1930 Factual/Whatever
2030 Coronation Street
Wednesday
1900 Emmerdale
Thursday
1900 Emmerdale
1930 Grimebusters
2030 Coronation Street
2100 The Bill
Friday
1900 Emmerdale (1 hour)
2000 Tonight
2030 Coronation Street
Changes:
- Coronation Street gets a new episode on Tuesday nights, replacing the first Friday episode.
- Emmerdale's second Thursday episode is moved to Friday's forming an hour-long 7pm edition.
It's simplest this way - it means that Corrie has a more regular rhythm (rather than the big gap from Monday to Thursday) and Emmerdale loses the silly 2 episode thing.
I'd also look to eventually restore Emmerdale and Corrie to Sunday nights, abolishing the hour-long Friday episode and Corrie's first episode, giving Corrie a fixed 8.30pm runtime on Sun/Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri (one half hour episode a night) and Emmerdale a fixed Sun-Fri slot with one half hour episode a night.
The schedule would look like this:
1900 Emmerdale
1930 Wild at Heart
2030 Coronation Street
2100 The X Factor Results LIVE
Just my ideas.
On another note, it's about time we got some new idents (as has been mentioned in another thread) Yes, I know we're in a global economic downturn. Yes, I know the programming is more important. But these drab idents, while being OK, lack variety and oomph, especially preceding a show like The X Factor.
Let's see a new set of presentation on ITV1 with some new menus and trailer endcaps and a variety of idents for all moods, for example an explosive, exciting ident for live shows, a sombre, sad ident for serious drama, etc...
So ITV's crown jewels The X Factor returns a week Saturday.
With all the viral hype surrounding the live auditions/bootcamp I envisage the highest ratings ever for the show. The premiere will bag about 11 million I think, and the rest of the auditions should rate between 10-12m easily.
I can see the live shows between 10-12m again, with the Sunday results getting about the same.
So ITV's crown jewels The X Factor returns a week Saturday.
With all the viral hype surrounding the live auditions/bootcamp I envisage the highest ratings ever for the show. The premiere will bag about 11 million I think, and the rest of the auditions should rate between 10-12m easily.
I can see the live shows between 10-12m again, with the Sunday results getting about the same.
ITV is so lucky to have this show!
I for one can't wait - quite a few changes this year !! - hopefully refreshing it a bit and bringing even better ratings.
Some people may moan about the likes of BGT & X Factor , but there aren't very many tv shows that get such good ratings and get people talking about it.
:-(
A former member
I still think there should reduced emmerdale to 5 per week,
So ITV's crown jewels The X Factor returns a week Saturday.
With all the viral hype surrounding the live auditions/bootcamp I envisage the highest ratings ever for the show. The premiere will bag about 11 million I think, and the rest of the auditions should rate between 10-12m easily.
I can see the live shows between 10-12m again, with the Sunday results getting about the same.
ITV is so lucky to have this show!
It might get even higher on the Sunday. Sunday night means more people in, so if ITV are clever enough ITV2 will screen the Sunday repeat (usually gets about 1m viewers) at around 6pm- direct lead in for the results show (switch over now to find out who goes and that exclusive performance from ________ ). That in itself could get more people watching the show, and there is a lot of hype around this year due to the auditions changes which can only be a positive. I think they could be on for 15m for the final. That sounds crazy now, but who would have thought 17m for the BGT final?
Heat magazine's TV editor Boyed Hilton(!) mentioned on his Twitter that contrary to popular belief ITV haven't actually decided whether or not to include a Sunday show yet.
I quite like the idea of the results being on Sunday - it spreads it out a little more. The Saturday results, although good viewing, was sometimes a little difficult to watch (seeing as a lot of people go out on Saturday evenings). Plus it's something decent on a Sunday night to watch (which is pretty rare).
It has to be live though - the Strictly results didn't feel quite the same knowing they were recorded the evening before.
I quite like the idea of the results being on Sunday - it spreads it out a little more. The Saturday results, although good viewing, was sometimes a little difficult to watch (seeing as a lot of people go out on Saturday evenings). Plus it's something decent on a Sunday night to watch (which is pretty rare).
It has to be live though - the Strictly results didn't feel quite the same knowing they were recorded the evening before.
With Strictly now back on a Saturday they'd be stupid if they didn't. Not only does it give percieved control to viewers that are usually out (hence they can get into it more) but X Factor is a show driven by the tabloids. The Sunday papers are the most read of the week and that would be a golden opportunity for printing stories based on the night before, with the results that night and theoretically boosting the ratings.
). That in itself could get more people watching the show, and there is a lot of hype around this year due to the auditions changes which can only be a positive. I think they could be on for 15m for the final. That sounds crazy now, but who would have thought 17m for the BGT final?