The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

The Event seems to have held up well, only losing 0.52m from episode 1.
Ratings so far for the event:
The Event: Episode 1 - 2.32m (9.5%)
The Event: Episode 2 - 2.06m (9.1%)
The Event: Episode 3 - 1.80m (7.6%)

Does anyone know the ratings for the channel 4 Wednesday repeat of The Event?
 
Plenty to choose from. :D

I suppose with lots of those, many of us guessed it would flop. James Corden and Dining Stars come to mind here.

In terms of falling under expectations, flop of the year (so far) has to be The Prisoner - which sank to horrific depths despite the budget, big promotion and BGT lead-in.

(Blimey, that list was popular - ratings thread junkies love nothing more than a good flop :p)
 
Well it couldn't just grow every week until Christmas! The overlong Saturday shows have probably harmed it a bit and that will have had a knock-on effect on the Sunday shows. Last night's show being shorter probably cancelled out the Halloween slump which is why it remained level as opposed to the drop that most people expected. The Sunday shows have dipped a bit from that huge judges houses rating but they have grown every week of the live shows so far, and I can't see it running out of steam a bit like it did in the last few weeks last year.

I do agree though that Strictly has done brilliantly this year. They've revamped it and the viewers have returned, and last night's rating was it's highest non-final rating ever I believe. I hope the producers of Dancing on Ice have been taking notes for next year as that also felt tired this year and dipped in the ratings.

As for ITV's 'exciting news', I suspect it'll be one or more of: the announcement of the I'm A Celebrity line up, more info on ITV3 and 4 HD or some announcements for the Christmas schedule.

Also, provisional schedules on the Radio Times website have the Take That documentary down as airing on Saturday November 13 at 9:30pm, displacing Life Stories. Very good scheduling, it could do extremely well there.
 
What's the point of ITV3/4 in HD? Most of the programmes will still be in SD (maybe with a tiny upscale) as they're so old, like Morse, The Saint, The Professionals, most of Heartbeat etc. The only reason I could think of is for football.
 
I actually expected Million Pound Drop to decrease, in was on far too late and was far too long. That's also not too shabby for The Event, I expected it to be down a lot more than that. Anyone know what the last Hollyoaks Later got?
 
Regarding The X Factor, I'm not sure what will happen:

+ clocks went back, maybe more people will watch TV now, which I think normally does happen
- halloween
 
Don't know if it's been confirmed anywhere else but in the Attentional overnights.tv news section it says: "ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD will begin BARB reporting on 15th November, 2010." So I'm guessing that's the date they launch.
 
I'm thinking a bit of a dip on last week, but nothing too major. The possibility of Jay Kay repeating his foul mouthed rant from The Sun live on air might draw a few in too. ;)
 
It's obvious that ther reason The X Factor isn't growing week on week is because all the extra viewers joined the show from the word go.

Has everyone forgotten the massive increases for the auditions, judges houses etc?

Instead of people suddenly deciding to watch 10 weeks in, they decided to watch from the start.
 
I believe the plan with ITV3 HD is for it to increase the number of HD programmes it shows over time as ITV re-master their extensive back-catalogue.

At launch only a select few recent programmes will be shown in HD, such as Lewis, Marple and various celebrity travalogues.

So I agree that in its early form, it will be a pretty pointless channel. Over time once the HD content increases it will have more of a use but I'm not sure how much demand there will be to see such shows in HD.

ITV4 HD will be of more use to pay TV customers when it launches due to its increasing sports portfolio. (cricket, football, cycling, snooker, darts & more)
 
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