Looking peaky

The BBC1 scheduling team must be itching to see Wimbledon on their screens - and running on into peak-time.

In the week ending June 2, 12 ITV shows (four Corries, 8 BGTs) rated higher than the highest BBC1 show in the overnights (Wednesday's East Enders, at 7.18m).

Since last Thursday, the 9pm slot has been something of a nightmare for BBC1. Thursday saw the Panorama Cash for Questions Undercover, returning 1.3m. Friday was a little better: The Voice, moved from Saturday to miss Hungary's Got Variety Acts, was the top scorer, but at a mere 4.21m. On Saturday, the BGT final duly produced 48.9% share of the audience, and Casualty was reduced to overnight figures of  2.9m. Sunday saw the first part of Dan Snow's D-Day documentary, at 2.3m, beaten by Poirot, at 4.5m. And last night, poor old Dan, moving up to 2.6m, was beaten by the last episode of The Fall on BBC2, at 3.7m.

The Voice has a clearer run this Saturday, with that nice Mr Fincham only offering a big screen animation Despicable Me to start. There may be more competition at the end of The Voice marathon (2 hours and 10 minutes - really) from Peter Kay's Goodbye Granadaland in ITV, and rugby on BBC2.

From Monday, the BBC1 9pm slot offers New Tricks (repeat), the last of Frankie (featuring lupus), The Apprentice, Life Savers and Miranda/Mrs Brown's Boys (repeats). Saturday sees another 2 hour 10 minutes of The Voice. Imagine The Queen sitting through that, Danny.