The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

Thank you. Do they include HD or not? It looks like they do but not 100% sure.

Strong rating for The X Factor which was its joint most watched Saturday episode this series and up 18% vs. same night last year. TV Burp was up 6% vs. same night last year.

Excellent for Strictly Come Dancing - a new series high rating and a very good rating for Merlin too, same as last week.
 
You're right, in the final few months they showed it, in the spring of 2000. They were really rationing it in those days, presumably to drag down the figures since they were about to lose it - much like when the Beeb swapped aroud Neighbours and Doctors when Neighbours was about to go. That was the same time they dropped the lunchtime showing in most (but not all) regions, as part of a brilliant daytime revamp in March 2000, when they moved Loose Women to 10am and Trisha to 2pm, and then two weeks later, moved them straight back again. Ha ha ha.

The year before they also had to drop it for a month as they were catching up too quick, but not in the summer, during April I think. They replaced it with Lie Detector, the series from L!VE TV, which flopped massively and they took it off before the month was out.

I've said this before, but since we've started a new part I'll say it again, also in 1999 they took the lunchtime showing off for a week for snooker and William Phillips in Broadcast referred to "a real display of true viewer loyalty" because the teatime ratings skyrocketed, it had almost the same number of viewers for that one screening than it usually did for both put together, suggesting that absolutely everyone who normally watched at lunchtime watched at teatime instead, the difference presumably only being those people who watched it twice.

It used to be Home and Away had a massively loyal audience, they can't be many shows that could cope with a year's break, as it did when it moved to Five. And ITV should never have dropped it as it left a right chasm.
 
Maybe it will shed another 300,000 then. Perhaps viewers have thought, I'm A Celebrity with snow and deserted it. ITV1's record in reality, barring IACGMOOH, has been very patchy in recent years: Marco and All At Sea probably won't be seen again and Hell's Kitchen was dropped after less than spectacular ratings for the last series.
 
On the same weekend last year, X Factor was 1.9m ahead of SCD. Yesterday's gap was virtually the same.

On Sunday nights, though, X Factor has been about 4m ahead of Strictly so far this series.
 
For all the criticism Who Wants to be a Millionnaire? gets, it does seem to hold up Tuesday's when it is on as it claims a stable, if unmagnificent 3m+ in the 8pm slot. I think the failure of Fiddles, Cheats and Scams had a knock on affect on 71 Degrees North, which I think does have potential on a better night.

I don't get why ITV are loathed to move Coronation Street to Tuesday's, just to give the schedule a bit of bite (even if it only manages around 6m because of change of night it's still double what anything else gets there). Monday night and Friday night really do not need two Coronation Street's to hold an end up so it's not as if an extra episode would need to be commissioned.

Disaster for Daybreak for what, all in all, was an awful day for ITV1. In the run up for Christmas they should be improving, not limping along pathetically.

It was a good night for BBC1, and Masterchef is performing excellently for BBC2. Million pund Drop is doing well for Channel 4 and CSI is achieving reasonable figures on Five.
 
Not sure why the ABC comedy block was up so much, did they have Halloween specials? CBS I think was affected by the baseball but Criminal MinRAB is still doing solidly as is Survivor.

NBC have a Shrek special which should do given how well Shrek the Halls does for ABC and Dreamworks specials have performed decently for them and of course like Charlie Brown are very repeatable.
 
Echoing what D.M.N. said-all 3 main primetime shows above 2m for CH4:eek:. MPD has really boosted their schedule this week and I reckon it should be brought back as a weekly series, because the 'event TV' novelty scheduling of having it run every day throughout a week will wear off soon. Awful 6.30pm figure for Hollyoaks though, but I have noticed they really are going all out to make sure the fire episodes are the episodes to save the show. London tube billboarRAB, classy adverts. I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two aRAB popping up on ITV1 either. CH4 need those episodes to be a success. On the other hand Hollyoaks Later is performing excellently imo for E4, increasing its audience aswell is great. Only 0.4m behind the main Ch4 showing aswell.

It will be interesting to see what the full ITV1 inc HD figures are, but a 0.3m gap between Emmerdale & Corrie:eek:. Thursday always seems to be the day where the big 3 are quite close. Very poor for Monte Carlo and I reckon it's time for ITV to stop with these celebrity type reality shows, because they are cheap and tacky and don't do any good for the ITV brand. They're best to sticking to quality factual like The Lakes and the prison documentaries. They could do with a couple of food shows aswell. I think the exception though is 71 Degrees North, which I reckon has potential. The audience has been very stable in the weakest 9pm slot of the week and I reckon if it was given a 2nd series, more promotion, better celebs and a better slot it would easily increase. But I'm not sure if ITV will think an average just over 3m is good enough.

Thursdays on CH5 are a bit hit and miss when the footie isn't on, because it's always one off docs and repeats, but the football certainly makes up for it.
 
The reason Hollyoaks is suffering IMO is because young people have so many other sources of entertainment to choose from these days. A daily soap is too much of a commitment.

Ratings might improve if it went back to airing just a few nights a week, but I can't see them going back to that. So I reckon it will be axed next year.
 
Yes I always thought it was a complete waste to have Nortons previous shows on BBC2 which just got lost imo, though I guess Ross has created an entertainment expectation on Friday nights and I assume many of Ross viewers now tune into Norton.
 
It used to be Home and Away had a massively loyal audience, they can't be many shows that could cope with a year's break, as it did when it moved to Five. And ITV should never have dropped it as it left a right chasm.[/
It was in steady decline on ITV1 and was only attracting 4 million viewers at the end, very poor even for 2000, and 11 million down on its peak in 1989. Also ITV1 had seen how Australia had fallen out of love with soaps, cancelling all but the big two in the nineties, and didn't want to be associated with a failing product. ITV1's approach to daytime since has been a mixture of chat shows like Alan Titchmarsh, quiz shows, the veteran This Morning and the morning favourite Jeremy Kyle. They would argue that this works just as well as showing imported soaps .
 
it would be a slow death like Brookside. Soaps are commissioned for a year or so ahead, so it'd probably go down to an omnibus only (like Brookie) to see out its demise.
 
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