[iaindb]

Congratulations to Only_You for a superb posting for Post #4500. I think he/she speaks for most of us on this thread.

On the other hand, maybe Kyle's prime-time show will flop spectacularly as we can all take great pleasure in his failure, just as we did when Trinny and Susannah's ITV shows flopped and when smug Peter Jones' crappy ITV1 also deservedly bombed.

[Cent]

Isn't it a year early for Ratatouille?

I was expecting The Incredibles or Cars.

[Score]

Originally Posted by Cent

Isn't it a year early for Ratatouille?

I was expecting The Incredibles or Cars.

I thought that, although there's nothing stopping them from showing both, with perhaps one on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day and the other on Christmas Day.

I'd actually show both The Incredibles and Ratatouille on Christmas Day and give Christmas Eve or Boxing Day to Shrek 3, as it isn't a particularly good film and wouldn't do as well as the second one did a couple of years ago (see how Shark Tale underperformed last year). As for Cars, it's Pixar's one and only dud, and so I wouldn't be surprised if it popped up on a random day between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day (New Year's Day itself might be an idea).

EDIT: Trying to do a schedule, but Ratatouille and The Incredibles are too long to fit both them and The Gruffalo in, so I'd go with The Incredibles and Shrek 3, and put Ratatouille down as speculation, as I don't think it's been confirmed anywhere.

[Jonwo]

Originally Posted by Score

I thought that, although there's nothing stopping them from showing both, with perhaps one on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day and the other on Christmas Day.

I'd actually show both The incredibles and Ratatouille on Christmas Day and give Christmas Eve or Boxing Day to Shrek 3, as it isn't a particularly good film and wouldn't do as well as the second one did a couple of years ago (see how Shark Tale underperformed last year). As for Cars, it's Pixar's one and only dud, and so I wouldn't be surprised if it popped up on a random day between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day (New Year's Day itself might be an idea).

Cars although not as good as Pixar's other films is quite popular and would draw in a decent audience, I don't expect until next year though as Disney/Pixar films generally take longer to arrive on Terrestrial television.

The Incredibles would and should get Christmas Day, I wonder where Over the Hedge and Flushed Away should go as both are Dreamworks and both came out in 2006.

[mattpinder]

Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123

Good to see SCD recover from the F1 over-run, with close to 10m at its best, but it's still suffering from ITV's scheduling and massive hyping masterstroke. It's just not able to build the momentum of previous years.

Well, after 4 weeks, the averages seem to tell a different story.

SCD average (6 shows) - 8.81m (2009)

SCD average (8 shows) - 8.56m (2008)

Both include HD figures.

[Dancc]

Originally Posted by Score

EDIT: Trying to do a schedule, but Ratatouille and The Incredibles are too long to fit both them and The Gruffalo in, so I'd go with The Incredibles and Shrek 3, and put Ratatouille down as speculation, as I don't think it's been confirmed anywhere.

The Daily Mirror article referred specifically to Ratatouille as the Beeb's "big Christmas Day movie." Shrek 3 was very much an "and also..." so if either is going to get bumped I'd put my money on the latter, especially since the former was so well received.

[NorfolkBird]

Hasn't The Incredibles already been shown on Five, or did I imagine that?

[solenoid]

BBC Newsreaders performance

Get the tissues ready for Fiona and Sophie.

[RobbieSykes123]

[quote=scotch;36237957]

Originally Posted by rzt

Jeremy Kyle is reportedly getting a primetime show on ITV :

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eugh, how tacky

Would it be any worse than Real Lives: My Teen Wants a Boob Job?

Which, you'd have to say, was not exactly in the same tradition of ITV's proud heritage of World in Action, This Week, 7 (etc) Up, Death on the Rock etc...

Originally Posted by Score

I thought that, although there's nothing stopping them from showing both, with perhaps one on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day and the other on Christmas Day.

I'd actually show both The Incredibles and Ratatouille on Christmas Day and give Christmas Eve or Boxing Day to Shrek 3, as it isn't a particularly good film and wouldn't do as well as the second one did a couple of years ago (see how Shark Tale underperformed last year). As for Cars, it's Pixar's one and only dud, and so I wouldn't be surprised if it popped up on a random day between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day (New Year's Day itself might be an idea).

EDIT: Trying to do a schedule, but Ratatouille and The Incredibles are too long to fit both them and The Gruffalo in, so I'd go with The Incredibles and Shrek 3, and put Ratatouille down as speculation, as I don't think it's been confirmed anywhere.

The other Shreks have done excellent Christmas Eve business against ITV1's soaps (c9m), so that would seem to be the natural home for Shrek 3's premiere?

Originally Posted by mattpinder

Well, after 4 weeks, the averages seem to tell a different story.

SCD average (6 shows) - 8.81m (2009)

SCD average (8 shows) - 8.56m (2008)

Both include HD figures.

I'm surprised by that, but great news if true.

What are the HD figures coming out at then?

[mattpinder]

Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123

I'm surprised by that, but great news if true.

What are the HD figures coming out at then?

Averaging around 150k with the highest just short of 200,000. Compared to around 50k last year.

Also, Strictly is timeshifting far better this year.

[RobbieSykes123]

Any news on The Thick of It and extended HIGNFY?

Just wondered how BBC2's Saturday night offerings for people with a brain got on...

[iaindb]

Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123

The other Shreks have done excellent Christmas Eve business against ITV1's soaps (c9m), so that would seem to be the natural home for Shrek 3's premiere?

The natural home for Shrek 3's premier is Christmas Day. Two years ago the premier of Shrek 2, on Christmas Day aat 4.40pm took 9.36m in the officials making it the 12th most watched programme of Christmas week ahead of the Strictly Christmas special, 1 episode of Eastenders and everything on ITV1 bar 3 episodes of Corrie.

Last year in the same slot Wallace & Gromit's Curse Of The Were-Rabbit had 7.46m so see how brilliantly Shrek 2 did.

ITV1's Christmas Eve will be heavy on the soaps (cos it's a Thursday). With Eastenders going out at 7.30 the likely Shrek 3 Christmas Eve slot would be 6pm, overlapping with the 7pm Emmerdale. Last year a repeat of Toy Story 2 filled that slot and failed to make BBC1's Christmas week top 30 (30th most popular programme had 5.16m).

[itv sucks]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

Or Merlin (or Strictly) could just move to Sunday nights. If the results show does return, I think it would be on the same night, rather than recorded to air the next night.

I wouldn't want to see Merlin move to Sunday. The Saturday family drama slot has been successfully re-established in recent years and it would be a shame to see it pushed aside again. We don't all want to watch dancing/singing shows on a Saturday.

[Cent]

Originally Posted by Score

As for Cars, it's Pixar's one and only dud, and so I wouldn't be surprised if it popped up on a random day between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day (New Year's Day itself might be an idea).

Cars wasn't that bad. Disney asked them for a sequel, as the first one made them a lot of money, mainly through merchandise sales. I think I read it actually topped Winnie the Pooh as their biggest seller and made them much more money than they got through the box office.

[D.M.N.]

Originally Posted by rzt

Jeremy Kyle is reportedly getting a primetime show on ITV :

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-21772565/

Is there any smiley in the world that can describe this?

http://www.anaitgames.com/wp-content...ader_nooo.jpeg

• Admin Edit: This thread is continued here: Ratings Thread (Part 5)