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Car Share - The Finale added 2.32m additional viewers in the seven days since transmission on 28th May, to total 8.45m.

Peston on Sunday is moving to Wednesdays, after ITV noted that the Sunday late night repeat was getting a bigger audience than the morning orgination. Producer Vicky Flind cut her teeth on late night political broadcasting with This Week, with Andrew Neil.

Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid get to play out in peak-time during the World Cup, with an hour-long live special after the England/Belgium match on 28th June. This pitches Piers against the quality broadcasting of Love Island.

The BBC Ballot on pay and new conditions of service closes on Friday, with the management side somewhat nervous about the outcome. A 2% rise for the current year is not looking so inviting with CPI at 2.4%, RPI at 3.4%, petrol and food prices on the march. Staff will have not forgotten that the licence fee is linked to inflation for five years from April 2017.