The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

Bare in mind that The Apprentice and Waterloo Road were shown on BBC2 in Scotland last night. At 21:30 BBC1 Scotland showed Helicopter Heroes which would have really dragged the network rating down. Football (St Johnstone v Celtic) was on at 19:30-21:30.

Also STV did not show the new 2 hr Poirot.
 
2008 averaged out at 5-6 million. Last year's was the highest rated IACGMOOH since 2005. It all has to do with the quality of the contestants. However, a few people are saying the format is becoming tired.
 
Solid evening for BBC1 and as usual BBC2 had a very strong 8-9pm hour last night. Quite low for Whitechapel which results in an overnight series average of 5.2m. Well down from last year's 7.6m overnight average. Timeshift has been hefty (almost +1.4m for episode 1) so the consolidated average should be 6.5m-ish which I would think should be enough for another series, but you never know.

Bad evening for Channel 4 apart from The Million Pound Drop which did okay. MPD had 2.2m (inc +1) for its first series opener and I was expecting it to rate at that level again or even slightly higher because by the end of the first series they had a bigger fanbase. The lead-in was poor though so it could rise in the next few days like the first series. Strong set of figures for C5 between 8-10pm, especially Paddy and Rory which I think is its highest rating yet.
 
I think the press just enjoy attacking high-earning presenters, as they did with Jonathan Ross. If all the GMTV presenters had stayed on to present Daybreak, there'd be a lot less coverage of any low ratings the show might have had.
 
One swallow and summer ..... ?

If there is a sustained upturn in the figures then you will have a point. :)

Judging by what I saw yesterday, they seem to have accepted that the wide expanse of sofa and studio was not working as everything was closer together, everything looked more cosy (and as a result more inviting to watch.......)
 
Well, it certainly wasn't their approach at the start, because they then showed CrossroaRAB and Night And Day, both of which cost loaRAB more than Home and Away but got a much lower audience, and so for at least three years that slot was a complete disaster, involving ten million repeats of You've Been Framed and hopeless shows like 24 Hour Quiz and The People Versus. It wasn't until Paul O'Grady showed up in 2004 that they actually got a hit in that slot, which they then promptly managed to lose.

If Home and Away's ratings were declining, it was probably thanks to ITV fiddling about with it. But Home and Away's ratings dwarfed absolutely everything else they tried in that slot for years and years and years, and it was utterly careless to lose it.
 
That'll be down to Strictly improving significantly, and they've really improved it this year, I was impressed with what I saw yesterday. Excellent for The X Factor, and well up on last year's Halloween episode. I can't see it doing much better tonight tbh due to it being Halloween. Very good for Merlin and TV Burp too, and whilst Burp is down on last year 5.6m is still impressive against Strictly.

Anything for Life Stories? Thanks.
 
The state Channel 4 are in is really overplayed. They have their bad nights but they also have plenty of shows with more than 2m viewers to keep them afloat. I agree that MPD novelty will wear off soon but they're kind of running it weekly for the next couple of Friday and Saturday nights. I think they could benefit from running it across the week at 9pm when there is little other competition (it would have got slaughtered this week).

With regarRAB to Monte Carlo or Bust, I'm not surprised at all. It possibly had one of the most annoying and overplayed ad campaigns on ITV which was enough to turn viewers away before even watching it.
 
ITV1 should invest more in factual as it can rate really well. The authored journeys have done decently for them as have docusoaps like Holloway and The Lakes. The Perpectives strand should be interesting but I hope it's on at 9pm rather than after the news.

Does anyone know when The Human Planet is meant to air, I'm guessing early 2011 as it was meant to air this year. Frozen Planet which is the follow up to Blue Planet and Planet Earth is either late 2011 or 2012.
 
If I understand correctly, what happens is this (times are made up):

The programme shown at the same time in Wales, as CF was shown in the rest of the UK, got more viewers in Wales than CF did. So, for a made up example, it may have been something like this:

BBC1W 1800-1900: 1m for CF
BBC1 1900-2000: 5m for CF
BBC1W 1900-2000:2m for local prog.

So, the overnight rating for 1900-2000 would be 7m, but the official rating for CF itself is 6m.

K
 
Thursday's soap ratings [including HD for ITV]:

19:00- Emmerdale: 7.02m (35.1%)
19:30- EastEnders: 8.37m (38.5%)
20:00- Emmerdale: 7.73m (33.5%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 8.03m (34%)
22:00- EastEnders (BBC3): 864k (4.3%)

Very close between Emmerdale and Corrie - when was the last time there was just a difference of 0.3m between the two on the same night? Emmerdale's 8pm episode was a whopping 15% (i.e. a million) up from the same day last year. Corrie up 4% y-o-y.
 
I'm pretty sure yesterday's overall 6-9:25am rating would be down quite a bit compared to how GMTV performed earlier this year in the Spring half-term.

Also just to do a ratings comparison, in the same week in 2008 which was also half term, GMTV's Monday, Wednesday and Thursday average for 6-9.25am was 1 million. This week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday between 6-9.25am ITV have averaged 0.7m, a decline of 30%. [I haven't included Tuesday because I can't find a Lorraine rating for that day]

BBC Breakfast is up 17% vs. same week in 2008.
 
Yes. Practically all ABC comedy shows this week are Halloween specials. Desperate Housewives are also having their Halloween episode this Sunday. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition are having a "Halloween Makeover".
 
I'm a bit surprised by that Life Stories rating because last Autumn, no episode post-XF had 5m+, not even Danni Minogue's. I was expecting it to get about 4.5-5m like how other episodes have done when featuring singers (except Cheryl of course).

Casualty did alright but I agree with what Robbie said last week, in that they'd be better off having Casualty follow Merlin directly. Perhaps, however, it's a National Lottery issue and they can't have it any other time? Okay for Armstrong and Miller - quite similar to how it performed last year in its other slot.
 
Not last year. By accident or design Christmas Day was at the normal Friday 8pm, and the 2nd New Years Day filled the 8pm slot (actually started 7.55pm) as with a normal Friday. All Mon/Tue/Thu episodes were as normal. So thats why I don't see it getting moved from normal slots this year

EDIT - Just go through some recent listings on The TV Room+. Eastenders kept it's normal slots on Christmas Eve/27th/28th/31st Dec 2007, 1st Jan/26th Dec 2008 as well. (The gaps are either for Christmas Day, Wednesdays, or no listings available)
 
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