The whole point about a soap is it has a fixed place in the schedule and viewers know where to find it. The BBC has weakened EE by the constant chopping and changing (a few weeks ago it was running a trail for EE without saying what time it was on:o) I can't believe a Commonwealth Games event at - say - 8 pm on a Tuesday would get a bigger audience than EE. The games should be moved to BBC2, not the BBC's flagship soap (is there anywhere that can receive BBC1 but can't receive BBC2 ?)
Celebrity MasterChef 3.90m (19.7%)
Pointless 2.34m (20.9%)
The Chase 2.32m (21.5%)
Bargain Hunt 1.62m (28.0%)
Big Brother 1.42m. (8.9%)
Couples Come Dine With Me 0.89m (8.3%)
Eggheads 0.85m (6.1%) Perfection 0.71m (12.2%)
Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 0.51m (5.7%)
Deal or No Deal 0.34m (5.5%)
Ultimate Dealer 0.27m (3.2%)
All including HD and +1 where appropriate.
This is from Botherbar. Well, looking at those ratings, it seems BB should be OK after all after the world cup? That is very low for DOND!
Based on those figures, EE could have a nightmare time over on BBC 2. What on earth are the BBC thinking. The Commonwealth Games are not the Olympics. The BBC News Channels constant talk of the Batton Relay implying that it is similar to the Olympic Torch smacks of desperation as well.
The soap figures are not great. Corri especially doesn't look to great.
I think people are enjoying the weather, casual soap viewers are gonna be doing something less mind numbing in warm weather. I havent seen any non world cup primetime tv in 4 weeks....
Asuming your figures are correct its still a fair number. I mean 6 months of the year is 26weeks and 9 clashes is on average 1 every 2 weeks or so and it does seem to happen all the time.
There should be a major overhaul on "EastEnders" it would shoot the ratings up. Just get a massive explosion going on, kill off some of the cast and viewers would soon come in. Ridiculous that BBC One are moving it to TWO. It's going to rate the lowest figures if its year. A shame they can't seem to support it more over the summer.
"Emmerdale" could easily be scheduled elsewhere, its definately being used to bring it down.
The best the BBC can hope for now is to stop throwing EE around the schedule as soon as possible and come back with big story lines and a lot of promotion in Autumn. If they replicate the shares it was getting in late April and May, it should be on course for 9-10m in Autumn in the overnights.
There should be a major overhaul on "EastEnders" it would shoot the ratings up. Just get a massive explosion going on, kill off some of the cast and viewers would soon come in. Ridiculous that BBC One are moving it to TWO. It's going to rate the lowest figures if its year. A shame they can't seem to support it more over the summer.
"Emmerdale" could easily be scheduled elsewhere, its definately being used to bring it down.
An explosion will only provide a short term boost, unless there are the storylines to keep viewers hooked afterwards. What they should do is speed up the Lucy murder storyline for a big reveal at Christmas as well as planning and starting some good stories around this time to give the added viewers something to stick around for.
The BBC One competition semi-finals attracted 3.90 million (19.7%) at 9pm. Earlier, Traffic Cops brought in 2.54m (12.9%) at 8pm, while Question Time interested 2.48m (21.5%) at 10.35pm.
BBC Two's Mary Berry Cooks appealed to 1.12m (6.2%) at 7.30pm, followed by the RHS Flower Show coverage with 1.51m (7.7%) at 8pm. The Honourable Woman continued with 1.54m (7.8%) at 9pm, and Mock the Week amused 1.61m (9.3%) at 10pm.
On ITV, one-off programme Champneys intrigued 2.11m (10.7%) at 9pm (121,000/0.8% on +1).
Channel 4's Amazing Spaces attracted 1.04m (5.3%) at 8pm (416k/2.1%), followed by Embarrassing Bodies with 1.00m (5.1%) at 9pm (318k/2.0%).
On Channel 5, Black Market Britain brought in 833k (4.3%). New show OAPs Behaving Badly was seen by 1.69m (8.5%) at 9pm (226k/1.4%), while Big Brother continued with 1.28m (8.1%) at 10pm (122k/1.3%).
On E4, the Big Bang Theory season finale entertained 1.21m (6.3%) at 8pm (465k/2.4%), followed by How I Met Your Mother with 879k (4.4%) at 8.30pm (264k/1.3%).
Is there any reason why the BBC are running a 90 minute episode of Masterchef tonight? I love the show but 90 minutes is surely overkill. The 60 minute ones are long enough.
Is there any reason why the BBC are running a 90 minute episode of Masterchef tonight? I love the show but 90 minutes is surely overkill. The 60 minute ones are long enough.
They probably didn't have any 'spare' 30 minute slots and nothing else to show after EE on Friday before 9pm. It's the same next Friday as well for the final.
Not showing the commonwealth games on BBC1 would cause a political row with people saying its because its in Scotland its coverage is less.
I think people are going to be surprised at some of ratings. Swimming finals could reach 6-7 million on a weekday 8pm. Some of them are likely medal hopes so I ca understand that it best to put eastenders o BBC2 at the regular time. rather than it being moved times or delayed from schedules to fit into quiet periods.
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EastEnders - 5.43m (30.3%), BBC3: 288k (2.0%)
Emmerdale (8pm) - 5.53m (28.9%) / 5.74m (30.0%)
Corrie - 5.94m (29.4%) / 6.15m (30.4%)
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a583516/coronation-street-brings-in-59m-with-michael-gail-latest.html
Pointless 2.34m (20.9%)
The Chase 2.32m (21.5%)
Bargain Hunt 1.62m (28.0%)
Big Brother 1.42m. (8.9%)
Couples Come Dine With Me 0.89m (8.3%)
Eggheads 0.85m (6.1%) Perfection 0.71m (12.2%)
Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 0.51m (5.7%)
Deal or No Deal 0.34m (5.5%)
Ultimate Dealer 0.27m (3.2%)
All including HD and +1 where appropriate.
This is from Botherbar. Well, looking at those ratings, it seems BB should be OK after all after the world cup? That is very low for DOND!
The soap figures are not great. Corri especially doesn't look to great.
Pretty low all round, particularly for the BBC3 EE repeat.
Well if out of slot and different day Corrie doesn't look great what does that say about the rest?
Still you would have thought Corri would have got better then that. That's the soap that's supposed to be more resilient.
Well it is less than 200k down on Wednesday's in slot episode. I'd call that very resilient.
Still looks low for it though.
Based on those figures, EE could have a nightmare time over on BBC 2. What on earth are the BBC thinking. The Commonwealth Games are not the Olympics. The BBC News Channels constant talk of the Batton Relay implying that it is similar to the Olympic Torch smacks of desperation as well.
I think people are enjoying the weather, casual soap viewers are gonna be doing something less mind numbing in warm weather. I havent seen any non world cup primetime tv in 4 weeks....
An out of slot Coronation Street still top of the soaps. Low ratings all round but good luck on BBC2 EastEnders because you will need it!
I don't know why they don't take a month off altogether, leave it on a cliff hanger then come back a month later all guns blazing.
They're CORRECT!!
Out of slot Corrie tops the night and that's the figure that needs mentioning?!
How about how both Emmerdale's beat EE yesterday. That's noteworthy.
"Emmerdale" could easily be scheduled elsewhere, its definately being used to bring it down.
If an out-of-slot (and yet still victorious) Corrie looks shit, I'd hate to see what you think about the rest.
An explosion will only provide a short term boost, unless there are the storylines to keep viewers hooked afterwards. What they should do is speed up the Lucy murder storyline for a big reveal at Christmas as well as planning and starting some good stories around this time to give the added viewers something to stick around for.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a583525/celebrity-masterchef-semi-finals-attracts-39m-on-bbc-one.html
They probably didn't have any 'spare' 30 minute slots and nothing else to show after EE on Friday before 9pm. It's the same next Friday as well for the final.
I think people are going to be surprised at some of ratings. Swimming finals could reach 6-7 million on a weekday 8pm. Some of them are likely medal hopes so I ca understand that it best to put eastenders o BBC2 at the regular time. rather than it being moved times or delayed from schedules to fit into quiet periods.