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Soap Ratings Thread (Part 5)
Yeah, I think it's definitely in trouble. The % of its audience it's lost in two years is equivalent to EastEnders suddenly averaging 4.5m in two years time. It's completely unacceptable!
What might help Hollyoaks' cause to not get axed is that I think Channel 4 has to make a certain amount of British drama per year and Hollyoaks really helps towards that quota. If they axed it, they'd have to make a lot of other British drama which could be quite expensive compared to now.
But things don't look good for the show - since the new EP took over, instead of ratings going back up, they've pretty much declined even more apart from a couple of episodes.
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Generally, however, it's rating no better at the moment than how it was doing in Spring. And ratings should be improving at this time of the year anyway when more people watch TV.
You're talking like people are just going to switch back onto the show - when, they will not.
Also it went as low as 600,000 earlier this year.
This is based on C4 only, not the E4 etc. but as rzt said, imagine EE regularly putting in 4m an episode, even less in the summer or Corrie? It would cause outrage and dispute on this forum!
Of course it isn't. But like robjames says, it shouldn't be losing almost half its audience in the space of 2 years. That's unacceptable for any TV show, whether it's a massive show like EastEnders or a smaller show like Hollyoaks.
The cold winter months attract more viewers:)
Fingers crossed for 10m+, they deserve it, Jack's story as a terminally ill man bravely staring death in the face and carrying out kind deeds for those around him has been great viewing. I have high hopes for this one doing well in the ratings given that Monday's figures are always Corrie's best plus the clocks will be going back meaning longer evenings and more people watching TV:)
17:30- Neighbours 1.2m (8.0%)
18:00- Home and Away 0.9m (5.3%)
19:00- Emmerdale - 7.03m (34.0%)
19:30- Coronation Street - 8.42m (38.6%)
20:00- EastEnders - 8.11m (34.7%)
20:30- Coronation Street - 7.94m (32.8%)
Corrie #1 on a Friday night for the 3rd week in a row. EastEnders share was a little low compared to normal, I'm not sure why that was.
Hoping for 10 million+ for Jacks final episode.
Coronation Street 2010 average includes HD
2002 - 11.96m
2003 - 13.32m (up 12.0% on previous year)
2004 - 12.10m (down 10.1%)
2005 - 11.11m (down 8.9%)
2006 - 10.19m (down 9.0%)
2007 - 10.12m (down 0.7%)
2008 - 9.51m (down 6.4%)
2009 - 9.23m (down 3.0%)
2010 - 9.39m (up 1.7%; drop of 27.4% compared with 2002)
EastEnders
2002 - 11.95m
2003 - 12.57m (up 5.1%)
2004 - 11.32m (down 11.0%)
2005 - 10.20m (down 11.0%)
2006 - 9.16m (down 11.4%)
2007 - 8.88m (down 3.2%)
2008 - 8.42m (down 5.5%)
2009 - 8.43m (up 0.1%)
2010 - 9.25m (up 9.7%; drop of 29.2% compared with 2002)
Emmerdale 2010 average excludes HD
2002 - 9.21m
2003 - 9.26m (up 0.5%)
2004 - 9.00m (down 2.9%)
2005 - 8.63m (down 4.3%)
2006 - 7.63m (down 13.1%)
2007 - 7.46m (down 2.3%)
2008 - 6.93m (down 7.6%)
2009 - 6.73m (down 3.0%)
2010 - 7.22m (up 7.3%; drop of 27.6% compared with 2002)
With thanks to rzt for all the averages, apart from the Emmerdale (2002 to 2004) averages.
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Information above as a graph: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9672/soaps.png
The 2010 averages will almost certainly go up for the 3 soaps, so I'd expect Coronation Street and EastEnders nearer to 10m with Emmerdale hopefully nearer to 8m. For all 3 soaps, as you can see, it will end up their best year for several years.
I think its also worth noting that even without the supposed '3% increase' for the ratings, Emmerdale and EastEnders would both still be up on last year. Coronation Street will probably end up more than 3.0% up on last year providing their 50th anniversary brings in good figures.
If we're to look at the biggest drops though for each of the three soaps:
- Coronation Street: 2004. I think this is more down to a superb 2003 more than anything else, in particular drawing 19m for one or two episodes in that year with the Richard Hillman storyline meant that 2004 was going to be down.
- EastEnders: 2006. One of the worst years the soap has seen, with one or two record low ratings to throw into the mix. It's most expensive stunt if I recall brought it the lowest ever rating. Of course it also clashed with Emmerdale, which didn't help.
- Emmerdale: 2006. More to do with the World Cup than anything else when ITV chose to throw it on at 10pm, sending it to record low ratings of 3m and 4m.
Pretty sure you can also attribute the above average drops for Emmerdale and Coronation Street in 2008 to a change in producer.
Hope you guys like the above anyway.
What figures did HO get for later and normal ep?
ok ty
I really do like, so thanks very much.
I've only recently become interested in soap viewing figures, and this gives me a lot of information in one hit. I didn't look at the graph yet (will do in a mo) but the text is a really efficient delivery of info. Nice one.
All three soaps are on top form at the moment IMO. Long may it continue....
Yeah that's correct ZoeM they were the most watched episodes of 2008. The episodes were broadcast on Friday 18th January and averaged 12.4m and 11.6m respectively. Officially 13.02m and 12.65m.
Emmerdale rounds of an excellent week of ratings with every episode clearing 7m. Hopefully it can continue. The second Corrie and EE have very low shares. Quite odd.
Thanks D.M.N. Made an interesting read.
Coronation St - 7.30 - 10.0m
EastEnders - 9.6m
Coronation St - 8.30 - 9.2m
Emmerdale - 8.0m
Hollyoaks - 1.6m
Good for all soaps last night.
8m Emmerdale!! Nice! They haven't gotten 8m on a reguler episode in a while.