The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

have you been watching Downton? As I said earlier what was surprising was that Friday is usually the lowest rating day



I agree. The jib cam shots while nice for tv anoraks who like to see the full studio do nothing for the core audience. A lot of tv shows start out with lots of panning shots before cutting them back. Sky News when they relaunched back in 2006 or 2007 did a lot of those wide shots but soon cut them out. BBC News back in the late 80s & early 90's did quite a few too
 
Now what were people saying about last night stunt! :rolleyes:

Will be interesting to see how it does next week though now the momentum is broke. I think they'd have been better off running it for two weeks (Mon-Fri) rather than holding four episodes back for the next couple of weekenRAB as MPD is a show which relies on people basically getting addicted.
 
Million Pound Drop aside, another shocking night for C4....beaten by Five between 8pm - 10pm. This is a channel in intensive care.

Things just get worse for Daybreak. Presumably half-term isn't helping it this week - then again, BBC Breakfast's ratings seem to be unaffected.
 
Channel 4 (Inc +1)

1800 The Simpsons 1.82
1830 Hollyoaks 1.11
2000 River Cottage 2.02
2100 Child Genius 2.26
2200 Million Pound Drop 2.17

E4
2100 Hollyoaks Later 680,000
2200 Phoneshop 310,000

Film4
1900 Pink Panther Strikes Again 270,000
2100 10 Things i Hate About You 400,000

More4
2100 Help! My House is Falling Down 240,000
 
Good day for BBC1, with the possible daytime exception of Land Girls. I was certain I remember reading that was going to go in the 5:15pm slot, with Weakest Link moving to 2:15pm? Strong rating for The One Show as well, probably helped by the Regional News getting 6m directly beforehand.

BBC2 had a solid night, comfortably above 2m until 9pm. Their 9pm hour did alright, while Jools did well at 10pm.

Ouch at ITV. Their daytime line-up is doing OK, but a horrible, horrible, flop rating for Daybreak. It maybe half term, but I think all the 'new/returning' breakfast viewers will just tune into BBC1 like they used to. If it fails to increase back to 0.7m next week, then I won't be surprised to see the axe soon. 0.5m is unacceptable, given it's only Tuesday... just imagine what number we could be seeing for Friday. :eek: No idea why 71 Degrees North dropped for its finale either, I would have thought it would have increased. As thus, I think any remaining chance of recommission is dead now. Another strong rating for Emmerdale though, Tuesday is normally a weak night for them, so with that in mind I can see them edging towarRAB 8m tonight.

Solid for The Simpsons and Hollyoaks on C4, but bad until 10pm when Million Pound Drop did well, and probably looking likely for Series 3. No surprise about Wedding House being dropped mid-run though.

Good night for C5 for 8pm onwarRAB.
 
Just seen advert for I'm a Celebrity (basically a snake pulling the ITV1 logo apart).

EDIT: Instead of doing long 30 second promos, it seems they're doing 5 second promos of something pulling the ITV1 logo apart - a lot more effective, and means it'll air a lot more.
 
Plus the 25% of ITV Breakfast represents an asset on the balance sheet. Theoretically they can sell that on to someone else whenever they like, along with the 75% they already had.
 
I recall Five getting some good ratings with that show a few years back, so fair enough, but as I know it the Charlie Brown thing is just a 25 mintue long cartoon, not a full lenght movie.
 
Well that didn't happen did it. Always thought the Halloween affect was overplayed last year and was more coincidence than anything.

Is this the first year both Strictly and TXF have done a Halloween special - can't recall either going all out on it before.


Surprising, but bumping Soccer Saturday off Sky Sports 1 probably artificially inflates the figure too.


Only saw bits and pieces of Strictly but from what I saw I have to agree. Strictly actually looked like a professional TV show for once.


No, you tend to look for any excuse to slag off The X Factor and ITV in general, rather than the blatant facts.
 
I personally see Tess capable of the main presenter role if they get someone genuinely spontaneous to do the right hand man/woman job she does now. Tess can be a good presenter playing it more straight.

Claudia is very good at what she does best which is ITT in the Strictlyverse.

I agree with you that Anton is more suited to the old Strictly.

Graham Norton was good with the contestants in Strictly Dance Fever but with his chat show doing so well, I doubt they would risk him on the show, seeing he might turn off some viewers.

I bet Robbie is loving SCD being the focal point of today's convo for once. X-who? :D
 
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