BBC 1
13:45: Doctors - 1.25m (17.0%)
17:15: Pointless - 3.14m (26.0%)
18:00: BBC News at Six - 4.79m (32.0%)
18:30: BBC Regional News - 5.03m (31.0%)
19:00: The One Show - 3.19m (18.0%)
19:30: Traffic Cops - 3.17m (16.6%)
20:30: EastEnders - 5.95m (30.2%)
21:00: Who Do You Think You Are? - 4.37m (22.8%)
22:00: BBC News at Ten - 4.52m (27.0%)
BBC 2
19:30: Great British Menu - 1.72m (9.1%)
20:00: Building the Ancient City - 1.20m (6.1%)
Channel 5
13:15: Home and Away - 189k (2.6%)
13:45: Neighbours - 729k (9.8%)
17:30: Neighbours - 574k (4.6%)
18:00: Home and Away - 505k (3.4%)
20:00: Supersized - 471k (2.4%)
21:00: Trapped in a Cult - 687k (3.6%)
22:00: Person of Interest - 497k (3.3%)
23:00: Person of Interest - 455k (5.3%)
BBC 3
21:00: Live at the Apollo - 593k (3.1%)
21:30: Live at the Apollo - 565k (3.0%)
22:00: EastEnders - 530k (3.2%)
BBC 4
21:00: The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 568k (3.0%)
ITV 2
16:50: The Jeremy Kyle Show - 453k (4.1%)
ITV 3
20:00: Endeavour - 909k (5.0%)
E4
18:30: The Big Bang Theory - 517k (3.2%)
19:00: Hollyoaks - 556k (3.2%), +1 - 104k (0.5%)
20:30: The Big Bang Theory - 564k (2.9%)
More 4
21:00: The Billion Pound Hotel - 448k (2.3%)
5*
18:30: Home and Away - 323k (2.0%)
Sources - DS, ITV Media
Thanks lewi
WDYTYA? higher than last week despite Paul Hollywood being on. That'll have been helped by the EE lead in.
Are those ITV ratings and entire year of flops now is sack-able territory? Stephen Fry's new travel show is now going to have to fight to even reach 3m with a 1.5m lead in. Flockstars should have been pulled as soon as the 2nd ep aired. Replace it with Paul O' Grady FTLOD rpt which would add at least 1m to that figure.
Next year ITV will be looking at sub 1m figures for Summer as each year they drop another tonne of viewers.
Great figure for Endeavour on ITV3. Such a great repeatable drama: that and Midsomer, Vera and Lewis are strong dramas for ITV3.
So it's ok for ITV to dent BBC shows as long as the ITV show wins? Stay clear of Strictly and Bake-Off ITV because you won't win in a clash. Sunday Corrie only seems to pop up when Strictly is on. It's conveniently being used on Thursdays this summer causing another Emmerdale/EastEnders. It's very clear what ITV are doing. They've been doing it soap wise since EastEnders launched in 1985 so why should they stop now. Corrie is the most important show on ITV and they will make sure it remains top soap.
Yes, exactly. They shouldn't engineer clashes which significantly harm their own programmes. That would be nonsensical. I don't actually think ITV is specifically targeting EE. However they aren't afraid to clash with it as ED will win clashes so if they need to slot in extra episodes then they will do so. They are free to schedule programmes whenever they wish. As are the BBC of course. They can move EE out of the way if they wish to.
Its the last episode. And you seem to think ITV have given Julia Bradley a golden hand-cuffs deal to steal her away from BBC. The fact is she left Countryfle to have a baby, then returned to TV on ITV with a quiz and factual series, Unfortunately both flopped because they don't interest the audience.
So why do you think ITV signed her up to do basically what she'd been doing for the BBC ? Alas it didn't appeal to an ITV audience.
Its the last episode. And you seem to think ITV have given Julia Bradley a golden hand-cuffs deal to steal her away from BBC. The fact is she left Countryfle to have a baby, then returned to TV on ITV with a quiz and factual series, Unfortunately both flopped because they don't interest the audience.
I am sure she also made it perfectly clear she was freelance and would work on all channels.
Yes, exactly. They shouldn't engineer clashes which significantly harm their own programmes. That would be nonsensical. I don't actually think ITV is specifically targeting EE. However they aren't afraid to clash with it as ED will win clashes so if they need to slot in extra episodes then they will do so. They are free to schedule programmes whenever they wish. As are the BBC of course. They can move EE out of the way if they wish to.
Because it gets a 30 minute head start!
The BBC can't keep moving it's shows around because ITV want to over do it's soap out put weekly.
ITV is targeting EastEnders. That is plan to see. ITV just want to bring EastEnders average down in order to make Corrie further a head. The BBC need to work on Promotion for EastEnders anyway.
I think the BBC should try this.
Tuesday
EastEnders 7:00pm-
Holby 7:30pm
Room 101 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
The One show an hour on Weds
Or
The One Show as normal
Holby 7:30pm
EastEnders 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
Or even
Holby 7:00pm
EastEnders 8:00pm
Room 101 or something 8:30pm
New Tricks at 9:00pm
During the clashes with Emmerdale. Mind you the BBC and EastEnders have kept that 7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday slot for 30 years so why should they be pushed out.
Lets see ITV grow some balls and start Emmerdale head to head with EastEnders with no head start.
Because it gets a 30 minute head start!
The BBC can't keep moving it's shows around because ITV want to over do it's soap out put weekly.
ITV is targeting EastEnders. That is plan to see. ITV just want to bring EastEnders average down in order to make Corrie further a head. The BBC need to work on Promotion for EastEnders anyway.
I think the BBC should try this.
Tuesday
EastEnders 7:00pm-
Holby 7:30pm
Room 101 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
The One show an hour on Weds
Or
The One Show as normal
Holby 7:30pm
EastEnders 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
Or even
Holby 7:00pm
EastEnders 8:00pm
Room 101 or something 8:30pm
New Tricks at 9:00pm
During the clashes with Emmerdale. Mind you the BBC and EastEnders have kept that 7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday slot for 30 years so why should they be pushed out.
Lets see ITV grow some balls and start Emmerdale head to head with EastEnders with no head start.
You're missing my point entirely. If they want EE to keep being dented then by all means leave it where it is. But that won't help protect one of their biggest shows will it? ITV have every right to put ED on at 7:30pm if they wish to. There is no agreement to avoid clashes between these two. ITV will do what is in their best interest (a direct clash isn't but a head start clash is). It's got nothing to do with "growing balls".
Even a broken clock is right twice a day and that ep wasn't without its flaws. To this day I don't think it was wise to kill off a major and popular character when the actor hadn't decided to leave.
Cameron becoming not just a killer but a serial one and a psycho out of the blue is the sort of cheap development one might expect from Corrie. What made up for it was that ED used that initial cheap development to make a brilliant story, something Corrie is incapable of as pretty much all 'Killer Corrie' stories since Hillman have proved.
Blackburn's tenure on Emmerdale was mostly awful though. A decent live episode and the start of the Cameron story doesn't make up for that.
I thought the John Stape storyline in Coronation Street was good where he blundered from one crime to the next without rhyme or reason. Surviving and disappearing after jumping off the hospital roof admittedly defied logic.
You're missing my point entirely. If they want EE to keep being dented then by all means leave it where it is. But that won't help protect one of their biggest shows will it? ITV have every right to put ED on at 7:30pm if they wish to. There is no agreement to avoid clashes between these two. ITV will do what is in their best interest (a direct clash isn't but a head start clash is). It's got nothing to do with "growing balls".
And BBC does the same with Strictly - start it where they feel it works best. Though, whereas Emmerdale tends to hold up in an hour clash compared to a half and half split, Strictly seems to suffer slightly from the aggressive scheduling. It's been gradually bleeding viewers over the last few years, though not to the same extent as The X Factor.
Because it gets a 30 minute head start!
The BBC can't keep moving it's shows around because ITV want to over do it's soap out put weekly.
ITV is targeting EastEnders. That is plan to see. ITV just want to bring EastEnders average down in order to make Corrie further a head. The BBC need to work on Promotion for EastEnders anyway.
I think the BBC should try this.
Tuesday
EastEnders 7:00pm-
Holby 7:30pm
Room 101 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
The One show an hour on Weds
Or
The One Show as normal
Holby 7:30pm
EastEnders 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
Or even
Holby 7:00pm
EastEnders 8:00pm
Room 101 or something 8:30pm
New Tricks at 9:00pm
During the clashes with Emmerdale. Mind you the BBC and EastEnders have kept that 7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday slot for 30 years so why should they be pushed out.
Lets see ITV grow some balls and start Emmerdale head to head with EastEnders with no head start.
Next week itv have two 1 hour Emerdale Tues and Thurs but the bbc aren't moving eastenders this time. Yes I'd like to see who wins if they was a clash but both started at the same time.
Eastenders at 8.30 last night seemed to of worked it got pretty much it's normal rating usually it dips so with lots of reminders of a time change it was ok.
Not a vintage night for C5. Two new factual programmes from 20:00 to 22:00 failed to ignite, the earlier one not helped by the top two soaps appearing in unfamiliar slots.
So why do you think ITV signed her up to do basically what she'd been doing for the BBC ? Alas it didn't appeal to an ITV audience.
If she is doing exactly the same thing as Countryfile is doing, why would the BBC commission it? She said The Wonder of Britain was of her creation, and she took it to ITV.
Does this mean the BBC have stolen Dermot O'Leary from ITV? Will you be as gloating if his new BBC show flops?
How many times have we seen a presenter transfer from the BBC to ITV and their shows flop ? ITV should spend their money on developing their own talent.As for O'Leary I've never actually seen him doing anything so can't comment.
I thought the John Stape storyline in Coronation Street was good where he blundered from one crime to the next without rhyme or reason. Surviving and disappearing after jumping off the hospital roof admittedly defied logic.
Phil Collinson's era was packed full of sensationalist nonsense. It brought in the ratings however.
THE TWO RONNIES (BBC1, 21:00) 18.48m
THE QUEEN (BBC1, 15:00) 17.35m
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES : TO HULL AND BACK (BBC1, 19:30) 16.92m
WOGAN (BBC1, 22:00) 15.85m
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (BBC1, 16:55) 15.36m
TOP OF THE POPS CHRISTMAS PARTY (BBC1, 14:00) 14.74m
HI-DE-HI! (BBC1, 18:30) 14.01m
FILM : MOONRAKER (Repeat) (ITV, 15:10) 13.98m
MINDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (ITV, 19:30) 12.51m
CORONATION STREET (ITV, 18:15) 12.45m
FRESH FIELDS (ITV, 18:45) 11.81m
CHILDREN'S ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE (BBC1, 15:10) 10.7m
NAME THAT TUNE (ITV, 17:45) 9.66m
THE NOEL EDMONDS LIVE LIVE CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST SHOW (BBC1, 11:55) 8.44m
FILM : ABSENCE OF MALICE (BBC1, 22:40) 8.29m
THE QUEEN (ITV, 15:00) 7.73m
FILM : GREGORY'S GIRL (Repeat - shown on C4 in Jan '85) (ITV, 22:50) 7.69m
DES O'CONNOR TONIGHT (ITV, 21:30) 7.6m
FILM : THE GNOME-MOBILE (Repeat) (BBC1, 10:05) 6.45m
Ratings for news bulletins not known.
Christmas Day programmes in the regional Top Tens (The Queen wasn't included in any of the Top Tens, possibly because it was only ten minutes long) :
LONDON : The Two Ronnies 39%, Only Fools 35%, Wogan 30%
CENTRAL : All Creatures 31%, Minder / The Two Ronnies 27%, Top of Pops / Hi-De-Hi / Wogan 26%
GRANADA : The Two Ronnies 34%
YORKSHIRE : The Two Ronnies 38%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 33%, Hi-De-Hi 32%, Coronation Street 31%
TVS : The Two Ronnies 34%, All Creatures / Only Fools 30%, Hi-De-Hi 27%
ANGLIA: The Two Ronnies 35%, All Creatures / Hi-De Hi 33%, Only Fools 32%
TYNE TEES : The Two Ronnies 38%, Moonraker / Hi-De-Hi/ Only Fools 35%, Wogan 34%
TSW : The Two Ronnies 31%
HTV : The Two Ronnies 29%, Only Fools 28%, All Creatures 27%, Wogan 26%
SCOTTISH : The Two Ronnies / Wogan 36%, Only Fools 34%
BORDER : The Two Ronnies 46%, Top of the Pops 43%, All Creatures 42%, Coronation Street 41%, Fresh Fields / Wogan 40%
GRAMPIAN : Wogan 43%, The Two Ronnies 41%, All Creatures 35%, Name That Tune 34%, Moonraker 33%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 32%
ULSTER : The Two Ronnies 40%, Coronation Street 35%, Moonraker 33%
ITV will do what is in their best interest (a direct clash isn't but a head start clash is). It's got nothing to do with "growing balls".
Surely it's in everyone's best interests for there to be no clash at all and it's not like the clashes aren't avoidable. EE airs the least of the big three so is very easy to schedule around and ITV show enough low-rating rubbish at the moment that could easily be displaced for an episode or two of Emmerdale.
And BBC does the same with Strictly - start it where they feel it works best. Though, whereas Emmerdale tends to hold up in an hour clash compared to a half and half split, Strictly seems to suffer slightly from the aggressive scheduling. It's been gradually bleeding viewers over the last few years, though not to the same extent as The X Factor.
Emmerdale consumes the whole of EastEnders slot unlike SCD and TXF. The weekend programmes also have no fixed slots.
I don't think SCD's decline has anything to do with the XF overlaps it's dips are in line with the general declines across most of TV and at this stage don't allude to a crisis. Strictly starts first so has the advantage in any clash - tbh a 20 minute clash shouldn't affect XF that much. It's not the BBC's fault that XF went to pot and started bleeding viewers. The overlaps were seemingly fine when it was on top of its game.
Next week itv have two 1 hour Emerdale Tues and Thurs but the bbc aren't moving eastenders this time. Yes I'd like to see who wins if they was a clash but both started at the same time.
Even then the soap that moved to the other's starting time would be at a disadvantage out of slot.
I am sure she also made it perfectly clear she was freelance and would work on all channels.
Indeed but ftv will just ignore this and keep trotting out the same posts every time she appears in a programme. No doubt also mentioning that nobody ever does well moving from BBC to ITV and that they show develop their own talent.
EDIT: oh look he already has.
On another note, I'm not sure these discussions about EE & ED clashes ever get anywhere, you just get a succession of opposing views each getting more extreme as the discussion continues.
THE TWO RONNIES (BBC1, 21:00) 18.48m
THE QUEEN (BBC1, 15:00) 17.35m
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES : TO HULL AND BACK (BBC1, 19:30) 16.92m
WOGAN (BBC1, 22:00) 15.85m
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (BBC1, 16:55) 15.36m
TOP OF THE POPS CHRISTMAS PARTY (BBC1, 14:00) 14.74m
HI-DE-HI! (BBC1, 18:30) 14.01m
FILM : MOONRAKER (Repeat) (ITV, 15:10) 13.98m
MINDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (ITV, 19:30) 12.51m
CORONATION STREET (ITV, 18:15) 12.45m
FRESH FIELDS (ITV, 18:45) 11.81m
CHILDREN'S ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE (BBC1, 15:10) 10.7m
NAME THAT TUNE (ITV, 17:45) 9.66m
THE NOEL EDMONDS LIVE LIVE CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST SHOW (BBC1, 11:55) 8.44m
FILM : ABSENCE OF MALICE (BBC1, 22:40) 8.29m
THE QUEEN (ITV, 15:00) 7.73m
FILM : GREGORY'S GIRL (Repeat - shown on C4 in Jan '85) (ITV, 22:50) 7.69m
DES O'CONNOR TONIGHT (ITV, 21:30) 7.6m
FILM : THE GNOME-MOBILE (Repeat) (BBC1, 10:05) 6.45m
Ratings for news bulletins not known.
Christmas Day programmes in the regional Top Tens (The Queen wasn't included in any of the Top Tens, possibly because it was only ten minutes long) :
LONDON : The Two Ronnies 39%, Only Fools 35%, Wogan 30%
CENTRAL : All Creatures 31%, Minder / The Two Ronnies 27%, Top of Pops / Hi-De-Hi / Wogan 26%
GRANADA : The Two Ronnies 34%
YORKSHIRE : The Two Ronnies 38%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 33%, Hi-De-Hi 32%, Coronation Street 31%
TVS : The Two Ronnies 34%, All Creatures / Only Fools 30%, Hi-De-Hi 27%
ANGLIA: The Two Ronnies 35%, All Creatures / Hi-De Hi 33%, Only Fools 32%
TYNE TEES : The Two Ronnies 38%, Moonraker / Hi-De-Hi/ Only Fools 35%, Wogan 34%
TSW : The Two Ronnies 31%
HTV : The Two Ronnies 29%, Only Fools 28%, All Creatures 27%, Wogan 26%
SCOTTISH : The Two Ronnies / Wogan 36%, Only Fools 34%
BORDER : The Two Ronnies 46%, Top of the Pops 43%, All Creatures 42%, Coronation Street 41%, Fresh Fields / Wogan 40%
GRAMPIAN : Wogan 43%, The Two Ronnies 41%, All Creatures 35%, Name That Tune 34%, Moonraker 33%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 32%
ULSTER : The Two Ronnies 40%, Coronation Street 35%, Moonraker 33%
The percentages are ratings, not shares.
Thanks Ray.
1985 was a great year for Ronnie Barker with The Two Ronnies and Open All Hours hitting 18m. Plus this was the year where the torch was passed from Arthur Daley to Delboy. When the schedules cane out most were expecting Minder On The Orient Express to beat Only Fools and Horses on Christmas Day. The reverse happened and it was a comprehensive win.
Top Of The Pops doing so well at 2pm always surprises me. Higher than quite a few shows in primetime on Christmas Day.
1985 was a great year for Ronnie Barker with The Two Ronnies and Open All Hours hitting 18m. Plus this was the year where the torch was passed from Arthur Daley to Delboy. When the schedules cane out most were expecting Minder On The Orient Express to beat Only Fools and Horses on Christmas Day. The reverse happened and it was a comprehensive win.
Top Of The Pops doing so well at 2pm always surprises me. Higher than quite a few shows in primetime on Christmas Day.
Yes, the OFAH Minder battle was the talk of the build up to Christmas that year and you are right, the baton was well and truly passed on at that point. Top of the Pops truly king of its genre at that time.
I think that was the 2nd of the All Creatures comeback specials and it eventually led on to another successful series.
The power of Bond can be seen with the Moonraker repeat comfortably beating the CRVS.
What about the fireworks on Hogmanay do they not usually do well
I do think that Hogmanay and New Year live should be merged, Two New Year places back and forth on the network instead of just the London boring 10 mins one every year.
How many times have we seen a presenter transfer from the BBC to ITV and their shows flop ? ITV should spend their money on developing their own talent.As for O'Leary I've never actually seen him doing anything so can't comment.
Ask Christine Bleakley, tipped as the next big thing at BBC One as TOS was coming close to Emmerdale in the ratings and rumoured to be the host of the Olympics. She jumps ship to ITV for more money, co hosts the disastrous Daybreak with Adrian Chiles, which is cancelled, goes on DOI, which is cancelled due to falling ratings and now ends up on little watched Saturday night filler. It seems to be a curse when presenters and entertainers move across for more money.
The mistake most of these people make is they don't take their production teams with them, on their own they are nothing, a lesson even Morecambe and Wise learned when they moved to Thames.
Because it gets a 30 minute head start!
The BBC can't keep moving it's shows around because ITV want to over do it's soap out put weekly.
ITV is targeting EastEnders. That is plan to see. ITV just want to bring EastEnders average down in order to make Corrie further a head. The BBC need to work on Promotion for EastEnders anyway.
I think the BBC should try this.
Tuesday
EastEnders 7:00pm-
Holby 7:30pm
Room 101 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
The One show an hour on Weds
Or
The One Show as normal
Holby 7:30pm
EastEnders 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
Or even
Holby 7:00pm
EastEnders 8:00pm
Room 101 or something 8:30pm
New Tricks at 9:00pm
During the clashes with Emmerdale. Mind you the BBC and EastEnders have kept that 7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday slot for 30 years so why should they be pushed out.
Lets see ITV grow some balls and start Emmerdale head to head with EastEnders with no head start.
I dont see what the big fuss is about over clashes, its like when there's two films I want to watch at same time. Record one... easier said tgan done
Ask Christine Bleakley, tipped as the next big thing at BBC One as TOS was coming close to Emmerdale in the ratings and rumoured to be the host of the Olympics. She jumps ship to ITV for more money, co hosts the disastrous Daybreak with Adrian Chiles, which is cancelled, goes on DOI, which is cancelled due to falling ratings and now ends up on little watched Saturday night filler. It seems to be a curse when presenters and entertainers move across for more money.
Presumably Christine should have been happy to be a host on The One Show for the rest of her life. Never taking a risk to do anything else. When they do her obituary she would be known for just linking into clips of steam engines for 40 years.
Other opportunities would be hosting second rate Saturday night entertainment only on BBC1 instead of ITV and that made up job at the Olympics that didn't exist. (There was no 'host of the Olympics')
And in any case Julia Bradbury did not "move across to ITV for more money" she's freelance and has done 2 shows over about 2 years!
Comments
Thanks lewi
WDYTYA? higher than last week despite Paul Hollywood being on. That'll have been helped by the EE lead in.
Are those ITV ratings and entire year of flops now is sack-able territory? Stephen Fry's new travel show is now going to have to fight to even reach 3m with a 1.5m lead in. Flockstars should have been pulled as soon as the 2nd ep aired. Replace it with Paul O' Grady FTLOD rpt which would add at least 1m to that figure.
Next year ITV will be looking at sub 1m figures for Summer as each year they drop another tonne of viewers.
Great figure for Endeavour on ITV3. Such a great repeatable drama: that and Midsomer, Vera and Lewis are strong dramas for ITV3.
Yes, exactly. They shouldn't engineer clashes which significantly harm their own programmes. That would be nonsensical. I don't actually think ITV is specifically targeting EE. However they aren't afraid to clash with it as ED will win clashes so if they need to slot in extra episodes then they will do so. They are free to schedule programmes whenever they wish. As are the BBC of course. They can move EE out of the way if they wish to.
So why do you think ITV signed her up to do basically what she'd been doing for the BBC ? Alas it didn't appeal to an ITV audience.
I am sure she also made it perfectly clear she was freelance and would work on all channels.
The BBC can't keep moving it's shows around because ITV want to over do it's soap out put weekly.
ITV is targeting EastEnders. That is plan to see. ITV just want to bring EastEnders average down in order to make Corrie further a head. The BBC need to work on Promotion for EastEnders anyway.
I think the BBC should try this.
Tuesday
EastEnders 7:00pm-
Holby 7:30pm
Room 101 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
The One show an hour on Weds
Or
The One Show as normal
Holby 7:30pm
EastEnders 8:30pm
New Tricks 9:00pm
Or even
Holby 7:00pm
EastEnders 8:00pm
Room 101 or something 8:30pm
New Tricks at 9:00pm
During the clashes with Emmerdale. Mind you the BBC and EastEnders have kept that 7:30pm Tuesday and Thursday slot for 30 years so why should they be pushed out.
Lets see ITV grow some balls and start Emmerdale head to head with EastEnders with no head start.
You're missing my point entirely. If they want EE to keep being dented then by all means leave it where it is. But that won't help protect one of their biggest shows will it? ITV have every right to put ED on at 7:30pm if they wish to. There is no agreement to avoid clashes between these two. ITV will do what is in their best interest (a direct clash isn't but a head start clash is). It's got nothing to do with "growing balls".
I thought the John Stape storyline in Coronation Street was good where he blundered from one crime to the next without rhyme or reason. Surviving and disappearing after jumping off the hospital roof admittedly defied logic.
And BBC does the same with Strictly - start it where they feel it works best. Though, whereas Emmerdale tends to hold up in an hour clash compared to a half and half split, Strictly seems to suffer slightly from the aggressive scheduling. It's been gradually bleeding viewers over the last few years, though not to the same extent as The X Factor.
Next week itv have two 1 hour Emerdale Tues and Thurs but the bbc aren't moving eastenders this time. Yes I'd like to see who wins if they was a clash but both started at the same time.
Eastenders at 8.30 last night seemed to of worked it got pretty much it's normal rating usually it dips so with lots of reminders of a time change it was ok.
The second POI had a reasonable share though.
If she is doing exactly the same thing as Countryfile is doing, why would the BBC commission it? She said The Wonder of Britain was of her creation, and she took it to ITV.
Does this mean the BBC have stolen Dermot O'Leary from ITV? Will you be as gloating if his new BBC show flops?
Phil Collinson's era was packed full of sensationalist nonsense. It brought in the ratings however.
THE QUEEN (BBC1, 15:00) 17.35m
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES : TO HULL AND BACK (BBC1, 19:30) 16.92m
WOGAN (BBC1, 22:00) 15.85m
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (BBC1, 16:55) 15.36m
TOP OF THE POPS CHRISTMAS PARTY (BBC1, 14:00) 14.74m
HI-DE-HI! (BBC1, 18:30) 14.01m
FILM : MOONRAKER (Repeat) (ITV, 15:10) 13.98m
MINDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (ITV, 19:30) 12.51m
CORONATION STREET (ITV, 18:15) 12.45m
FRESH FIELDS (ITV, 18:45) 11.81m
CHILDREN'S ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE (BBC1, 15:10) 10.7m
NAME THAT TUNE (ITV, 17:45) 9.66m
THE NOEL EDMONDS LIVE LIVE CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST SHOW (BBC1, 11:55) 8.44m
FILM : ABSENCE OF MALICE (BBC1, 22:40) 8.29m
THE QUEEN (ITV, 15:00) 7.73m
FILM : GREGORY'S GIRL (Repeat - shown on C4 in Jan '85) (ITV, 22:50) 7.69m
DES O'CONNOR TONIGHT (ITV, 21:30) 7.6m
FILM : THE GNOME-MOBILE (Repeat) (BBC1, 10:05) 6.45m
Ratings for news bulletins not known.
Christmas Day programmes in the regional Top Tens (The Queen wasn't included in any of the Top Tens, possibly because it was only ten minutes long) :
LONDON : The Two Ronnies 39%, Only Fools 35%, Wogan 30%
CENTRAL : All Creatures 31%, Minder / The Two Ronnies 27%, Top of Pops / Hi-De-Hi / Wogan 26%
GRANADA : The Two Ronnies 34%
YORKSHIRE : The Two Ronnies 38%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 33%, Hi-De-Hi 32%, Coronation Street 31%
TVS : The Two Ronnies 34%, All Creatures / Only Fools 30%, Hi-De-Hi 27%
ANGLIA: The Two Ronnies 35%, All Creatures / Hi-De Hi 33%, Only Fools 32%
TYNE TEES : The Two Ronnies 38%, Moonraker / Hi-De-Hi/ Only Fools 35%, Wogan 34%
TSW : The Two Ronnies 31%
HTV : The Two Ronnies 29%, Only Fools 28%, All Creatures 27%, Wogan 26%
SCOTTISH : The Two Ronnies / Wogan 36%, Only Fools 34%
BORDER : The Two Ronnies 46%, Top of the Pops 43%, All Creatures 42%, Coronation Street 41%, Fresh Fields / Wogan 40%
GRAMPIAN : Wogan 43%, The Two Ronnies 41%, All Creatures 35%, Name That Tune 34%, Moonraker 33%, Top of the Pops / Only Fools 32%
ULSTER : The Two Ronnies 40%, Coronation Street 35%, Moonraker 33%
The percentages are ratings, not shares.
Emmerdale consumes the whole of EastEnders slot unlike SCD and TXF. The weekend programmes also have no fixed slots.
I don't think SCD's decline has anything to do with the XF overlaps it's dips are in line with the general declines across most of TV and at this stage don't allude to a crisis. Strictly starts first so has the advantage in any clash - tbh a 20 minute clash shouldn't affect XF that much. It's not the BBC's fault that XF went to pot and started bleeding viewers. The overlaps were seemingly fine when it was on top of its game.
Even then the soap that moved to the other's starting time would be at a disadvantage out of slot.
Indeed but ftv will just ignore this and keep trotting out the same posts every time she appears in a programme. No doubt also mentioning that nobody ever does well moving from BBC to ITV and that they show develop their own talent.
EDIT: oh look he already has.
On another note, I'm not sure these discussions about EE & ED clashes ever get anywhere, you just get a succession of opposing views each getting more extreme as the discussion continues.
Thanks Ray.
1985 was a great year for Ronnie Barker with The Two Ronnies and Open All Hours hitting 18m. Plus this was the year where the torch was passed from Arthur Daley to Delboy. When the schedules cane out most were expecting Minder On The Orient Express to beat Only Fools and Horses on Christmas Day. The reverse happened and it was a comprehensive win.
Top Of The Pops doing so well at 2pm always surprises me. Higher than quite a few shows in primetime on Christmas Day.
Presumably this takes it up to Rugby World Cup matches on early evening Saturdays?
Yes, the OFAH Minder battle was the talk of the build up to Christmas that year and you are right, the baton was well and truly passed on at that point. Top of the Pops truly king of its genre at that time.
I think that was the 2nd of the All Creatures comeback specials and it eventually led on to another successful series.
The power of Bond can be seen with the Moonraker repeat comfortably beating the CRVS.
Once again thanks to Ray Tings
I do think that Hogmanay and New Year live should be merged, Two New Year places back and forth on the network instead of just the London boring 10 mins one every year.
I dont see what the big fuss is about over clashes, its like when there's two films I want to watch at same time. Record one... easier said tgan done
Presumably Christine should have been happy to be a host on The One Show for the rest of her life. Never taking a risk to do anything else. When they do her obituary she would be known for just linking into clips of steam engines for 40 years.
Other opportunities would be hosting second rate Saturday night entertainment only on BBC1 instead of ITV and that made up job at the Olympics that didn't exist. (There was no 'host of the Olympics')
And in any case Julia Bradbury did not "move across to ITV for more money" she's freelance and has done 2 shows over about 2 years!