Spurs, Villa and Man City going out of the FA Cup over a six-nations weekend could have spelt disaster for ITV’s future FA cup ratings in the UK. As it turned out replays could be a blessing in two ways. The ITV hierarchy do not want us to see workman-like Birmingham City (or is that the coaching genius who is Alex McLeish) win dour games. However, ITV do like an angry Neil Warnock. Chelsea’s next round match against Stoke or Man City should be televised and the ITV shareholder should be hoping for Man City to beat Stoke from a financial viewpoint as well as Spurs and Villa getting through. However, there may be some tasty replays and clichés still to be seen and heard on ITV1 and ITV4 before the next round commences.
Meanwhile, SkySports News are always keen to remind us after each round how average attendances are generally falling at FA Cup ties compared to league fixtures...
thoguh Southampton's rose which they also pointed out as regularly.
FIVE up their game this week with Liverpool FC (in the Europa Cup) and The Mentalist, alongside NCIS which is struggling to compete with Midsomer Murders when it is shown on ITV1. Even, I watch the latter and I am a big NCIS fan as I still watch virtually all the repeats on FIVE and most of them on FIVE USA. The reason for watching Midsomer is that the ITVPlayer does not show Midsomer but Demand FIve and my VCR allow me to watch NCIS. The current big guns in FIVE's tv armoury are brand new CSI and CSI:NY, brand new The Mentalist, new to Five "NCIS" and the UEFA Cup. Brand new NCIS is the top-rated programme on FX. Also LIVING has first-run rights to CSI:MIAMI another of FIVE's top-rating programmes
NCIS is restarting again from the beginning this time on FIVE USA, and is alongside the CSI franchises, also a top-10 programme on that network. NCIS is also probably the best value programme on FIVE. Repeated very often on second-run rights nowadays, the US success of the show is phenomenal - miles ahead of other dramas even while up against American Idol.
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