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There were more Ten shenanigans at the weekend: An episode of Out of the Blue aired on Saturday night after 11pm! It didn't appear to be in any of the online TV guides so it seemed to be a last-minute decision. Perhaps, like the first Blade/Bec episode, it was considered to be unsuitable for an early evening slot. It's quite an unsatisfactory situation though if episodes are going to be aired all over the place due to content restrictions. How anyone can follow the storylines this way is a mystery.

In other news, the show's first outing in a 30-minute 5.30pm slot attracted 278,000 viewers on Sunday night, a fall from the previous week. This was the kind of figure that it was getting on a bad night when it aired at 10.30pm, so it would seem that this kind of number reflects the show's core fanbase and no new viewers are tuning in.

Only time will tell whether a soap that's supposed to air 5 nights a week can build up its audience in a once-weekly Sunday 5.30pm slot with no promotion, no network support and with decisions being made that seem to make no sense...