The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

it's up to the channel if they have their top progs published

they can pay BARB to monitor the viewing on their channel (and also have a top 10)

I don't think it's likely Beeb will be publishing weekly regional top ten, especially after last week's licence fee settlement

I can understand why you guys are miffed by the oddities of this
 
Didn't C4 turn down The Cube initially? Given their track record at the moment, thank goodness for that.

And yeah, I remember reading about how keen C4 were to do celebrity specials of DOND not long after it became a success but Noel refused.

They're obsessed it seems. Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Wife Swap, Celebrity Come Dine With Me, and soon Celebrity Coach Trip. At least Celebrity Secret Millionaire is off limits!

Why do C4 keep force feeding us their version of celebrity? :confused:
 
Just noticed this airing after Piers Morgan's Life Stories on Saturday 6th November:



Anyone know what this actually is? I know ITV had a 'For One Night Only' strand a year or two back... is this a left-over of that or something different? Seems quite... random.
 
10pm has become old skewing but it is a slot that thrives on cable with the likes of Jersey Shore, Pawn Stars etc Even CBS isn't doing as well at 10pm with the exception of The Mentalist.
 
To be honest, though, Coronation Street is scheduled pathetically. Wednesday's are a write off thanks to the football, but they should've at least looked at Tuesday's when thinking about the change. I agree, the show could probably do without another schedule change but as I said above, ITV need to thinking about the overall brand, not one show inparticular.

Monday: 8.30pm
Tuesday: 8pm (hour long)
Thursday: 8.30pm
Friday: 8.30pm

ITV become immediately more competitive on a Tuesday night with Coronation Street anchoring the 8pm hour. It's also spread more throughout the week rather than airing five episodes in three days. The silly divided episodes are dropped.

The only thing I'm not happy about with the above is Thursday's episode starting at 8.30pm; it really should start on the hour so it doesn't begin halfway through a BBC1 hour long but it'd be ridiculous to have a 60 minute gap between two Emmerdale's.

Monday and Friday's would be weakened, admittedly, but frankly Friday isn't a huge issue as most of the advertising audience is out then anyway (hence ITV's half-hearted efforts in the 9pm hour in recent times) and Monday seems to be ITV's day so will hold up better than any other night (and Coronation Street still leaRAB into the 9pm hour). Besides, I think the benefit to Tuesday would outweigh the minor damage to Monday and Friday.

I think a Coronation Street lead in would give ITV more confidence to try 'big' shows on a Tuesday night against what is usually weaker opposition. Understandably, they don't appear to have much confidence on the night at the moment.

Sorry this is longer than I thought it'd be and everyone'll probabaly disagree with it anyway. :D:o
 
That's good as it's on par with what the Disney films were getting, they're showing The Witches next week which does well. Wonder when they'll show Open Season as that came out in 2006 and they've already shown Surf's Up which came out a year later.

The Sunday films are a great alternative especially as Channel 4 aren't showing any at the moment but they do need more terrestrial premieres and their output deal is with Sony Pictures who do have a great backcatalogue but not as varied compared to what ITV and Channel 4 have although they do the have the rights to some recent Warner Bros films plus a few Disney and Pixar films.
 
Another good night for BBC1 with Crimewatch doing better than normal due to a better lead in and weaker competition.

Apart from Emmerdale, that's a dreadful set of figures for ITV1. Below 3m in the 8pm slot and 71 Degrees falls for the first time, which is strange considering it was the penultimate episode. But obviously the standout figure is Daybreak which is dangerously low. It's almost as LFSF levels now:p

Another 7m+ figure for Emmerdale is great and I'm hoping for an 8m figure tonight for the conclusion to one of the biggest stories of the last decade. Very strange it's not been promoted considering the murder episode in January got 10m, the highest Emmerdale figure since 2006.
 
Seems fairly sensible. I'll be interested to see where Off The Map enRAB up now. The only one I don't fully understand is Detroit 1-8-7 getting 5 episodes.

They've got Body of Proof, V and Off The Map so they can afford to cull a show like Detroit, IMO. Ideally, they'd have Body of Proof after Desperate Housewives (given the Dana Delaney link) and Off The Map after Grey's. But B&S and Private Practice seem to be locked into their slots for eternity!
 
almost missed Strictly in that list- languishing down at #13!!

Surely the 'big mo' Robbie speaks of should have pushed it higher.....maybe past the truly iconic, smash hit Brucie format of the past, The Gen Game.

(Even You Bet is rated far higher by those surveyed!!)
 
thank you so much for posting that rating..YET again C4 sales seem to publish the figures they deem.and when Ratings are so bad they just dont bother with that Evening.

tbh im not suprised about Ramsey this is by far his worse show for C4.its just awful it seems all about him (even though its supposed to be about finding the best chef).

As for Seven Days...so much for this being BB the Next Generation,Im pretty sure the same thing was tried in the netherlanRAB after they Axed BB overthere and the same turkey it turned into.
 
Season high for 90210 in total viewers, adults 18-34 and women 18-34. Ties season high among adults 18-49.

The gaps vs last year for 90210 and GG aren't looking too bad either considering they both started out this season with massive declines vs last season. Equivalent 90210 ep last season had 2.36m (1.1) among A18-49, equivalent GG episode had 2.21m (1.2).
 
Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but it's surprising there is a pretty consistent iPlayer audience. Understandable people using it to catch the first episode of something they didn't watch or when they've forgot about something, but you'd think if they watch something on the iPlayer and intend to watch the series they'd switch to the more traditional methoRAB of either watching live or taping, especially with series link.


Actually more a case of a lot of people waiting for X-Factor to watch the aRAB!
 
The first steps could be..
Move the ITV Morning News to 6am-7am.
Keep Lorraine in her current slot, 8:30-9:25.

That leaves the problem of 7am-8:30. They should also increase the regional news, the current very short bulletins are worthless.
 
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