[James2001]

Call The Midwife has no problem moving through the decades- it's been commissioned for episodes that will run into 1971 now, far past when the books the show was based on were set.

[Spencer]

Of course if Aidensfield time moved at the same pace as normal time, they’d be in the 90s now… which makes me feel very old.

[James2001]

I won't deny that seeing a Heartbeat set in the 80s and 90s would be very interesting! A shame they didn't let the show move on, it may well have prolonged the show by opening up new stories and themes.

[tellyblues]

There are a lot of big hitters coming up but a lot of it already existing IP, and shows not mentioned like Riddiculous which probably will have its last run, so it's easy not to get excited.

[Score]

There are a lot of big hitters coming up but a lot of it already existing IP, and shows not mentioned like Riddiculous which probably will have its last run, so it's easy not to get excited.

Riddiculous has only just issued a contestant call-out, so I guess that won’t be on air until early next year. 

I guess Jeopardy will take the 3pm slot and they’ve still got episodes from the last series of Lingo (and Tenable?) to show. The 3pm hour has seemed more repeat heavy than other daytime slots recently hence the backlog.

[eyeTV]

I wonder if enough time has elapsed since the Clarkson furore for them to air that series of Millionaire.

[nwtv2003]

I wonder if enough time has elapsed since the Clarkson furore for them to air that series of Millionaire.

Well Amazon have shown an entire series of Clarkson’s Farm and a new episode of The Grand Tour without any issue since the article was first published. (If anything both have been quite successful for Prime Video.)

[Neil Jones]

Well Amazon have shown an entire series of Clarkson’s Farm and a new episode of The Grand Tour without any issue since the article was first published. (If anything both have been quite successful for Prime Video.)

I suspect that was contractual more than anything else (or Amazon chose to ride that storm out) as Prime ordered all that before Clarkson opened his mouth and shoved his foot in it sideways, and Prime did order a third series last year of Farm. The ever reliable Wikipedia suggests they were still filming Grand Tour as late as May this year.

So even if his tenure is over at Amazon, it may have a while to run air wise.

[Score]

I wonder if enough time has elapsed since the Clarkson furore for them to air that series of Millionaire.

I would have thought so. Although it not being in the Autumn highlights pack might suggest it won’t air until early next year. As was suggested above, with them seemingly having enough episodes for 2 on air ‘series’ they probably don’t need to film more for a while.

Beat the Chasers is another one with a long gap between series. They filmed back in May but it looks like it won’t air until early next year, having not aired since May 2022. I guess the stripped reality shows (I’m a Celeb South Africa and My Mum Your Dad) and increased drama from ITVX have taken the stripped weeks the two gameshows might otherwise have had, and the Rugby blocks off Saturdays. They could have had them on air now but they seem to have taken a pretty minimal approach to Summer Saturdays for the past couple of years.

[eyeTV]

My Mum Your Dad sounds dreadful and to strip it over 2 weeks seems a risk. It feels like flop material.