[Matt]

I have been doing some sleuthing work, and while it contradicts everything Heat says (I have learnt not to believe anything until it has been confirmed as official), I have been studying Channel 4's schedules and here's what I found.

On Thursday 17th May, according to their schedule, there is a huge gap in the Channel 4 schedule between 8pm and 3.55am. This large gap could be enough to accomodate all necessary launch night action, including the launch show itself, and live footage in the early hours. This seemed even more plausible when we discovered there were large enough holes in the Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th schedules to accomodate Big Brother highlights shows.

So then we looked at the E4 listings for the same days, and interestingly we found gaps which could accomodate BBLB and BBBM on both the 17th and the 18th (no data was available for after that), but no space for late night live action.