Film
- Peter Bogdanovich to adapt Turn of the Century
- 24 movie finally underway
- Katherine Heigl to star in One For The Money
- Rachel Weisz to star in Dream House
- Tim Robbins joins Green Lantern
- Steven Soderbergh to direct Contagion
- Trailer for Neil Jordan's fantasy movie Ondine
- William Fichtner and Amber Heard join Drive Angry
- Mr and Mrs Smith rebooted as Mr and Mrs Jones
British TV
- Two Freeview slots up for grabs [subscription required]
- Sky sells 10.4% of ITV
- Heroes hits series low
- 24 hits season low
- Alibi looking for crime writers
US TV
- Additional casting on ABC, NBC pilots
- Bones creator joins Fox's Pleading Guilty
- Minka Kelly joins True Love pilot
- Spartacus and Caprica ratings up
- Eli Stone's Laura Benanti to star in Open Books
- Christopher Lloyd to guest on Chuck
- Michael Shanks to play Danno on Hawaii 5-0?
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February 9, 2010 | Reply
Some interesting stuff regarding ratings, there. If Heroes is now pulling under 750k, that cannot be considered good value, and perhaps explains its move to a later slot. I also suspect this is it for Heroes on BBC2 - they'd be crazy to continue it.
However, nice to see QI XL getting 1.85m, given that it's one of the most intelligent and good-natured shows on the box (and one that's made every other panel show look positively ancient by comparison format-wise).
February 9, 2010 | Reply
"Some interesting stuff regarding ratings, there. If Heroes is now pulling under 750k, that cannot be considered good value, and perhaps explains its move to a later slot."
Which came first - the low ratings or the time slot? It's late on a Saturday and is followed on BBC3 by next week's episode: as the article says, the BBC3 showing gets 545k so that takes the episode tally up to 1.3m, and given the season opened with 1.4m, that's pretty consistent.
With all the pirating of Heroes, the long delay between transmission in the US and the UK (about 15 weeks) means geeks will probably have already seen it. So to a certain extent, the BBC's making Heroes have lower ratings than it might otherwise have done.
Nevertheless, no season five of Heroes yet, so the Beeb might not have to make any decision.