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Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

From September - Show to be renamed "Peston" (June 2018)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
noggin posted:
London Lite posted:
noggin posted:

What ratings does Ridge get? I'd have thought the bulk of the hoovering was by Marr not Ridge?


Not enough to get into the Barb Top 10 for the channel. The most rated non-news bulletin shows are the evening Press Preview editions.


So fair to say that Ridge wasn't hoovering up that many ratings against Peston.


Even Sky's most rated programmes are all under 200,000.
JA
JAS84
dvboy posted:
I thought the Newsnight repeat on NC had been dropped?
Well, it did keep getting pre-empted.

8 days later

RE
Reece24
'Peston' will launch Wednesday 26th September, 10:40pm on ITV.

17 days later

JK
JKDerry
Peston will air Wednesday 26th September at 10.45pm on ITV according to the ITV Press Centre today. I suspect UTV and STV will shift it to a later slot.
AN
Andrew Founding member
It will air 20 minutes later on STV, but at the same time as everywhere else on UTV
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Peston says (from the Press Release) :

“And for those of you unaware why the show moved from Sunday to Wednesday, it was for no other reason than that the repeat of Peston on Sunday on Sunday nights was watched by twice as many people as the morning live show. So I and ITV thought we should convert it into a proper night time show. I could not be more pleased to be broadcasting after News at Ten on arguably the most important political day of the week."
UB
UBox
Some preview pics of the new set:





watchingtv and London Lite gave kudos
RD
RDJ
So it's a slightly altered Lorraine set. That's probably the reason why she got the huge video wall in her set and I suppose it's the most flexible set.
BR
Brekkie
Is it going out live or pre-recorded earlier in the evening?
DV
DVB Cornwall
Brekkie posted:
Is it going out live or pre-recorded earlier in the evening?


I really can't see it being recorded. It'd need to be reactive to breaking press stories as Thursday's papers publish around 10pm. Otherwise it'd have egg on face.
BM
BM11
Especially on Wednesday where they are big political stories which are front pages on all the papers - the Budget in November for example. The press reaction to them is crucial to the success or failure of a budget.
JK
JKDerry
PMQs, The Budget, and all the best political news happens by Wednesday night, it will be live. The show will be over by midnight, and the studio team in TC2 will have 7/8 hours to get Lorraine's set ready, and it should be no problem, as TC2 manages to get the Loose Women set in and ready each weekday with less than 3 hours to get it done.

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