The Ratings Thread (Part 46)

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 164
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    I watched the start of both shows last night Dance for Comic Relief and SNT both are what I would call utter s**t, these TV bosses really do have a low opinion of their viewers dishing out this mind numbing crap everyweekend and us the public stand for it week after week because there is nothing else on, well doesn't that just tell you the kind of state UK television is in?

    Let's Dance for Comic Relief is just like watching the contents of sewer from start to end, I wouldn't mind if I knew any of the people who were dancing..who are these people are they celebs or are they people the BBC dragged off the street to pretend they are famous? because I don't have a clue who Lee Nelson is or what has he done to warrant being on primetime BBC1?..what has gone wrong with Saturday night TV at BBC1 its just awful, the same thing can be said about ITV1 opps sorry I mean ITV, bloody Ant and Dec who are as funny as a dose of Norovirus..I quickly switched off when they were trying to be funny...god helps if this is what TV bosses consider to be light entertainment.I am so.thankfull for prescription drugs...both shows deserve to get a zero audience on the Barb system but it will not happen as brain dead people like this rubbish....please don't get me started on Dale Winton's eyebrows...where the hell did they come from?
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    Scottie 71 wrote: »
    I watched the start of both shows last night Dance for Comic Relief and SNT both are what I would call utter s**t, these TV bosses really do have a low opinion of their viewers dishing out this mind numbing crap everyweekend and us the public stand for it week after week because there is nothing else on, well doesn't that just tell you the kind of state UK television is in?

    Let's Dance for Comic Relief is just like watching the contents of sewer from start to end, I wouldn't mind if I knew any of the people who were dancing..who are these people are they celebs or are they people the BBC dragged off the street to pretend they are famous? because I don't have a clue who Lee Nelson is or what has he done to warrant being on primetime BBC1?..what has gone wrong with Saturday night TV at BBC1 its just awful, the same thing can be said about ITV1 opps sorry I mean ITV, bloody Ant and Dec who are as funny as a dose of Norovirus..I quickly switched off when they were trying to be funny...god helps if this is what TV bosses consider to be light entertainment.I am so.thankfull for prescription drugs...both shows deserve to get a zero audience on the Barb system but it will not happen as brain dead people like this rubbish....please don't get me started on Dale Winton's eyebrows...where the hell did they come from?

    Unfortunately these shows have a combined audience of 12 million. Yes SNT is low brow tat, same as I find the popularity of IAC perplexing as it's the same old trash year after year, but there is a market for these types of shows and the money ITV makes from them pays for their less populist fare. However, I still think a revival of some greats from the past like You Bet and The Gladiators would work.
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    Glenn A wrote: »
    7 million people can't be wrong, even though the show isn't my scene. Also it means ITV, after the end of TMO and Splash, now have a hit to see them through to BGT. Meanwhile BBC One seems to be floundering since SCD finished.

    I think BBC1 has still won most of the Saturdays this year despite the early flops and the demise of Lets Dance hasnt it? The difference is that all of a sudden ITV have their expensive big hitters actually doing a show of their own that people want to watch-and the result is that Lets Dance has shed 2 million plus in a couple of weeks.
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 8,635
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    NeilVW wrote:
    20:30 - Mary and Martha: 3.38m (14.5%)
    * 12-month slot average: 4.85m (20.9%)
    Thanks for the ratings but that (20:30-21:00) slot average of nearly 5m is bollocks. Was it a typo?:confused:

    I assume your 20:30-21:00 was a typo. The slot average for 20:30-22:00 is correct (well, 20k out) and not a typo.

    Here are the ratings for every BBC One programme in the 20:30-21:00 Friday slot in the 52 weeks before Mary and Martha:
    02/03/12 Room 101 3,250 (13.2%)
    09/03/12 Room 101 2,953 (12.2%)
    16/03/12 Sport Relief - Helen 2,272 (9.6%)
    23/03/12 Sport Relief 6,155 (25.8%)
    30/03/12 Titanic with Len Goodman 2,981 (13.1%)
    06/04/12 Titanic with Len Goodman 2,443 (10.2%)
    13/04/12 WILTY 3,526 (14.8%)
    20/04/12 WILTY 3,397 (14.5%)
    27/04/12 WILTY 3,148 (13.8%)
    04/05/12 WILTY 3,464 (14.7%)
    11/05/12 WILTY 3,230 (13.8%)
    18/05/12 WILTY 3,683 (15.8%)
    25/05/12 WILTY 2,861 (14.1%)
    01/06/12 Prince Charles Jubilee Tribute (2nd half) 7,436 (33.0%)
    08/06/12 Casualty (to 21:20) 4,746 (21.3%)
    15/06/12 EURO 2012 Group Game - Sweden v England 13,372 (50.7%)
    22/06/12 Call the Midwife (to 21:30) 2,243 (10.0%)
    29/06/12 WILTY (unseen bits) 2,526 (11.2%)
    06/07/12 WILTY (rpt) 2,868 (12.9%)
    13/07/12 WILTY (rpt) 2,609 (12.0%)
    20/07/12 GB v Brazil (Olympic Men's Football warm-up) 3,059 (14.2%)
    27/07/12 Olympic Opening Ceremony Countdown (last 30 mins) 14,930 (57.7%)
    03/08/12 Olympics 8,974 (35.0%)
    10/08/12 Olympics 8,632 (37.7%)
    17/08/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,548 (16.4%)
    24/08/12 Miranda (rpt) 2,887 (13.4%)
    31/08/12 Miranda (rpt) 4,063 (18.7%)
    07/09/12 Miranda (rpt) 4,161 (19.5%)
    14/09/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,190 (14.1%)
    21/09/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,231 (14.2%)
    28/09/12 Miranda (rpt) 2,931 (13.1%)
    05/10/12 Miranda (rpt) 4,107 (17.6%)
    12/10/12 Miranda (rpt) 4,287 (19.1%)
    19/10/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,618 (15.4%)
    26/10/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,474 (15.2%)
    02/11/12 Miranda (rpt) 3,721 (15.6%)
    09/11/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 2,856 (12.3%)
    16/11/12 Children in Need 8,686 (34.8%)
    23/11/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 3,175 (13.6%)
    30/11/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 2,867 (12.3%)
    07/12/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 3,077 (13.3%)
    14/12/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 2,966 (13.3%)
    21/12/12 Outnumbered (rpt) 3,945 (17.6%)
    28/12/12 Holby City (2nd half) 4,940 (21.4%)
    04/01/13 Room 101 3,731 (15.4%)
    11/01/13 Room 101 3,757 (15.0%)
    18/01/13 Room 101 3,992 (15.2%)
    25/01/13 Room 101 3,907 (15.7%)
    01/02/13 Room 101 3,742 (15.5%)
    08/02/13 Room 101 3,629 (15.0%)
    15/02/13 Room 101 3,536 (14.7%)
    22/02/13 Room 101 3,737 (15.5%)
    AVERAGE for 20:30 - 21:00 4.24m (18.2%)

    And here is the same information for the 21:00-22:00 slot:
    02/03/12 NT (rpt) 4,037 (17.1%)
    09/03/12 NT (rpt) 3,884 (16.7%)
    16/03/12 NT (rpt) 3,984 (17.7%)
    23/03/12 Sport Relief 5,867 (25.9%)
    30/03/12 NT (rpt) 3,943 (18.1%)
    06/04/12 Land/Lost Wolves 2,700 (11.8%)
    13/04/12 HIGNFY/NGO 5,140 (22.1%)
    20/04/12 HIGNFY/NGO 4,728 (20.7%)
    27/04/12 HIGNFY/NGO 4,365 (18.9%)
    04/05/12 HIGNFY/NGO 4,704 (20.4%)
    11/05/12 HIGNFY/NGO 4,647 (20.4%)
    18/05/12 HIGNFY/NGO 5,062 (22.4%)
    25/05/12 HIGNFY/MMCR (rpt) 3,746 (18.2%)
    01/06/12 EE / HIGNFY 4,979 (22.8%)
    08/06/12 HIGNFY (40 mins long) 4,720 (20.5%)
    15/06/12 EURO 2012 Group Game - Sweden v England 14,799 (56.1%)
    22/06/12 WILTY (from 21:30) 2,404 (10.3%)
    29/06/12 Wimbledon (Federer/Benneteau), HIGNFY (rpt) 3,837 (18.2%)
    06/07/12 NT (rpt) 3,868 (17.9%)
    13/07/12 NT (rpt) 3,243 (15.1%)
    20/07/12 GB v Brazil (Olympic Men's Football warm-up) 2,713 (13.0%)
    27/07/12 Olympic Opening Ceremony 25,556 (80.0%)
    03/08/12 Olympics 9,852 (40.4%)
    10/08/12 Olympics 8,654 (37.9%)
    17/08/12 EE / IWTF 5,062 (24.0%)
    24/08/12 IWTF / MBB (rpt) 3,368 (15.8%)
    31/08/12 IWTF / MBB (rpt) 3,725 (16.6%)
    07/09/12 IWTF / MBB (rpt) 3,773 (17.0%)
    14/09/12 IWTF / MBB (rpt) 3,897 (18.2%)
    21/09/12 IWTF / MBB (rpt) 3,960 (18.6%)
    28/09/12 MMCR (rpt) / MBB (rpt) 3,573 (16.4%)
    05/10/12 Strictly Come Dancing - Launch Show 8,000 (34.0%)
    12/10/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 4,114 (18.2%)
    19/10/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 3,790 (16.8%)
    26/10/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 3,967 (18.3%)
    02/11/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 3,877 (17.0%)
    09/11/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 3,571 (16.0%)
    16/11/12 Children in Need 7,676 (30.0%)
    23/11/12 HIGNFY / M&MJ 2,886 (12.0%)
    30/11/12 HIGNFY / John Bishop's Big Year 3,584 (14.4%)
    07/12/12 HIGNFY / John Bishop's Big Year 4,026 (17.8%)
    14/12/12 HIGNFY / Live at the Apollo 3,366 (15.4%)
    21/12/12 HIGNFY / Live at the Apollo 4,234 (18.2%)
    28/12/12 Restless 4,827 (20.9%)
    04/01/13 EE / Live at the Apollo 4,888 (21.2%)
    11/01/13 Silent Witness 5,305 (21.5%)
    18/01/13 Silent Witness 5,867 (22.7%)
    25/01/13 Silent Witness 5,778 (23.6%)
    01/02/13 Silent Witness 5,449 (24.0%)
    08/02/13 Silent Witness 4,868 (21.4%)
    15/02/13 NT (rpt) 4,017 (18.0%)
    22/02/13 NT (rpt) 3,537 (15.3%)
    AVERAGE for 21:00 - 22:00: 5.12m (22.3%)

    The overall slot average for 20:30-22:00 is 4.83m (20.9%), almost bang in line with my initial estimate of 4.85m (20.9%).

    I also thought it looked too high at first, but specials such as Prince Charles's Jubilee programme, the Olympics' Opening Ceremony, two weeks of Olympic sport, Sport Relief, Children in Need, the Strictly launch show and football boost the average, along with an above-average-rating series in the form of Silent Witness.
  • C14EC14E Posts: 32,165
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    Great rating for Takeaway and it seems to have delivered a real blow to Lets Dance. Over two million lost since the premiere and I seem to recall this happening last year too, big declines after a decent start? I think the BBC will go for something new in this slot next year, especially if LD can't rally a bit for the finale next week.

    ITV seem to be having a bit more luck on Saturdays this year, even The Cube is rating quite well now with a good lead-in supporting it.

    I'm not sure why SamuelW is fretting, although it's highly amusing to watch. After all, The Voice is the single best show ever made, so it should have nothing to fear. ;)

    Seriously though, people liked the auditions last year. They'll come back and watch that again. And the BBC tend to do promotion very well (having R1 helps a lot for this kind of thing, I suspect). Certainly the trend from the US is that even though people drift away during the live shows, they are happy to check out a new series at the blind audition stage.

    For ITV, having Ant & Dec means they'll at least limit The Voice and ensure they post a good, respectable rating of their own which might help out BGT too seeing as it's not starting at the same time as The Voice this year (although I'm sure Mark Linsey and co will express their shock when it launches in April, as if they didn't expect that to happen).
  • Hassaan13Hassaan13 Posts: 41,891
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    SamuelW wrote: »
    The Grauniad has tweeted:
    TV ratings: Ant & Dec's Takeaway 7.2m/32%, Casualty 4.8m/22.2%, Let's Dance/Comic Relief 4.5m/20%, The Cube 4.6m/20.4%, J Ross 3.6m/16.5%

    Seems higher than usual for Ross, especially starting before 10.

    Superb share for SNT though, almost 10% larger than #2 (Casualty).

    The Cube has benefitted more from the SNT lead-in, as has All Star Family Fortunes with a DOI lead-in.
  • Joe40Joe40 Posts: 1,532
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    Singing in the rain sketch. Piano sketch. Slapping your partner playfully across the face.
    No, you haven't been watching Morecambe and Wise BBC DVD's scripted by Eddie Braben. All of the above have been on Ant and Dec this week and last. I will leave it up to others to decide if they're respecting their memory, or copying them.

    ITV4's coverage of the snooker has now finished, a triumph from start to finish, hope they will dip their toe in the sport again soon.
  • Hassaan13Hassaan13 Posts: 41,891
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    C14E wrote: »
    Great rating for Takeaway and it seems to have delivered a real blow to Lets Dance. Over two million lost since the premiere and I seem to recall this happening last year too, big declines after a decent start? I think the BBC will go for something new in this slot next year, especially if LD can't rally a bit for the finale next week.

    I'm not sure why SamuelW is fretting, although it's highly amusing to watch. After all, The Voice is the single best show ever made, so it should have nothing to fear. ;)

    Simply, he wants ITV to fail.

    These are the officials for last year's Let's Dance:

    Heat one: 6.84 million
    Heat two: 5.81 million
    Heat three: 5.87 million
    Heat four: 5.29 million
    Final: 5.88 million

    So it did slightly rally for the final.
  • Glenn AGlenn A Posts: 23,758
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    Chris1964 wrote: »
    I think BBC1 has still won most of the Saturdays this year despite the early flops and the demise of Lets Dance hasnt it? The difference is that all of a sudden ITV have their expensive big hitters actually doing a show of their own that people want to watch-and the result is that Lets Dance has shed 2 million plus in a couple of weeks.

    I think the 6 Nations is what's been keeping BBC One up this winter. They have had the appalling flop Secret Service this winter and Animal Antics hasn't done well. However, The Voice and DW are soon to arrive, which should keep ratings up.
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    Glenn A wrote: »
    I think the 6 Nations is what's been keeping BBC One up this winter. They have had the appalling flop Secret Service this winter and Animal Antics hasn't done well. However, The Voice and DW are soon to arrive, which should keep ratings up.

    The Six Nations commitment also possibly explains why Voice and Who won't start till the end of March and why winter Saturdays on 1 are shite.
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    SamuelW wrote: »
    The Grauniad has tweeted:
    TV ratings: Ant & Dec's Takeaway 7.2m/32%, Casualty 4.8m/22.2%, Let's Dance/Comic Relief 4.5m/20%, The Cube 4.6m/20.4%, J Ross 3.6m/16.5%

    It's aggregated too.

    Why can't they post +1 ratings separate, shouldn't newspapers strive to publish factually accurate stats?
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 8,635
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    Yugimuto1 wrote: »
    Does anyone have the viewership figures of Storyville:I will be murdered?

    Monday 25 February 2013
    BBC Four

    22:00-23:25 - Storyville: I Will Be Murdered: 157k (1.0%)
    * slot average: 284k (1.8%)
    * average share for weekday factual: 1.8%

    I do think that The Voice may struggle against SNT on its return. It ended series 1 on a low and I think the fact all the judges have been kept despite lacking chemistry on the live shows will hurt it. .

    The Voice UK rallied for its final on 2 June 2012 with 7.14m (34.2%) overnight, 8.54m (36.3%) consolidated, after falling as low as 4.49m (28.7%) overnight for the semi-final performance show the week before, shown at 18:30 in a heatwave (to make way for Eurovision and the friggin' lottery draws).

    What I cannot understand is why the BBC are pushing the series even later this year, close to midsummer's day! I can only think it's a necessity because of the coaches' other commitments, but it seems a bit bonkers and inviting a disaster ("Talent show costing licence-payers £22m is seen by fewer than 4m!" - I can just see the headlines in the Daily Fail). Danny Cohen will be doing a rain dance this June.
    SamuelW wrote: »
    Ronant what were the ratings for In It To Win It, Casualty, MBB, MOTD, YBF, Jonathan Ross?

    Further to previous replies:

    IITWI: 5.21m (23.2%)
    Casualty: 4.83m (22.2%)
    MOTD: 3.68m (25.7%)
    YBF: 2.86m (15.1%) exc +1
    Ross: 3.24m (15.2%) exc +1
    MBB wasn't on.
    Yugimuto1 wrote: »
    Would you be able to get BBC3 and BBC4?

    Do you mean for Tuesday?
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    Trouble for Let's Dance. One of the contestants is injured and can't take part. So presumably there will be even more filler than usual tonight - 3 songs in the "pub karaoke" then?

    This was never answered by the way but this was not a problem at all, Keith Duffy pulled out but Jodie Prenger replaced him (and won) so they had the full complement of contestants. In fact the strange thing was even that they announced the non-appearance of Keith Duffy as normally ill-mannered light entertainment programmes don't even mention when billed guests don't appear.

    I don't know why you take issue with the "pub karaoke", you know it's not a real pub. The messing around backstage is no worse, surely, than the backstage bits on BGT when they're not singing. If you're slagging it off as "pub karaoke" you may as well refer to items on Takeaway as "pub quiz" and "reading out people's Tweets". Everything's going to sound crap if you say it like that. If it works on screen, it's OK.

    I know Steve Jones is an idiot but I don't understand this thread's obsession with Let's Dance, it is the fifth series but The Cube is on its sixth series now and nobody's moaning about that and saying it's tired. Same with Take Me Out, and that has made far, far more episodes in the past few years than Let's Dance which lasts four or five weeks. If you find a succesful format, which that is, you're always going to recommission it, and add to that the fact it's for Comic Relief who are always eager to put familiar stuff on air because they need bums on seats, the whole aim of it is to make money. I watched last night's on fast forward after the Liverpool match and I can take or leave it but there are umpteen more LE shows that are in greater need of the axe.
    Elizabeth R got 19m in 1992. Strangely the Beeb allowed ITV to air a repeat of it at Christmas that year and that pulled 8.5m (winning its slot)

    Wasn't at Christmas, actually, it was in July during the Olympics. A different time, then, presumably ITV put some money into it, like how both channels showed The Royal Family in 1969. The first showing of Elizabeth R was on a Thursday in February 1992, moving the Nine O'Clock News to ten, which seemed very unusual.
    Chris1964 wrote: »
    According to Televisions Greatest Hits it was 9.1 million from 11.15pm on 17/8/91. I think this was around the premiere time of Terminator 2: Judgement Day which presumably is what inspired the highly impressive figure.

    17th August was of course a Saturday, not a Friday, In fact, here's that Saturday night in "full"...

    BBC1
    5.20 Stay Tooned
    5.45 The Flying Doctors (you forget this was on BBC1 for weeks on end for a couple of years)
    6.30 Roy's Raiders - dreadful sitcom about motorcycle messengers by Michael "Honey For Tea" Aitkens
    7.00 Columbo
    8.10 FILM PREMIERE - A Chorus Line
    10.05 News
    10.25 Casualty (repeat, when it was still on a Friday and they repeated it the following summer)
    11.15 The Terminator

    Meanwhile on BBC2 at 10pm was all three and an half hours of Heaven's Gate, famously the worst film ever made. And on ITV, this stinker of a line-up, which is an exellent reminder of how everything used to close down in the summer...

    5.40 TV MOVIE - Thunderboat Row
    7.30 The Two Of Us (repeat)
    8.00 TV MOVIE - Peyton Place: The Next Generation (on Granada, although the variations panel points out many other regions are showing another film called Stuck With Each Other)
    9.55 News
    10.20 Richard Digance (sadly not his previous serries, the majestically titled Abracadigance)
    10.50 TV MOVIE - Hands of a Murderer (though Yorkshire opted out for football)
    NeilVW wrote: »
    21:00 - 8 out of 10 Cats: 1.42m (6.1%) / 1.72m (7.4%)
    21:35 - The Last Leg: 941k (4.2%) / 1.13m (5.0%)
    22:05 - Alan Carr: Chatty Man: 1.47m (8.4%) / 1.70m (9.8%)

    The Last Leg really seems a bit of a waste of time at half an hour, it never seems to get started, especially when most of it is devoted to Jonathan Ross talking rubbish. And as we're talking about C4's lack of originality, note that Friday night's schedule was 8 Out Of 10 Cats with guest Jack Dee, represented by Off The Kerb (prop. Addison Cresswell), The Last Leg, produced by Open Mike (prop. Addison Cresswell) with guest Jonathan Ross, represented by Off The Kerb, and Alan Carr, represented by Off The Kerb, produced by Open Mike, with guest Jack Dee. Good to see C4 consistently looking for new talent and ideas.
    NeilVW wrote: »
    22:00 - Heading Out: 1.84m (9.6%) inc 136k (0.7%) on BBC HD

    Not a bad rating at all for a new sitcom, clearly Sue Perkins is enjoying a great deal of personal popularity. BBC2 has a decent slate of comedy at the moment and for the first time in a while it actually feels like BBC2's comedy output has a cohesion and an identity of its own, as opposed to when they seemed to be half BBC1 rejects, half too big for BBC3.
    I notice that Mayday got an absolute slating in today's Times, noting it is quite simply one of the worst dramas in ages, and that the second episode is so bad it's unintentionally hilarious.

    Scathing - and it's on 5 consecutive nights. If that review is half-true, then BBC1 has a bit of a problem.

    We must compare that, of course, to the Radio Times review which says it's excellent (as it does Broadchurch). The Observer also says it's good, but we'll ignore that as their TV writer Mike Bradley is absolutely useless and writes a load of crap and I hate him. The Guardian review says it's all a bit unpleasant, like the writers' Whitechapel, but viewers seem happy enough to watch grim dramas. And you'd have to say that if the ridiculous Torchwood, which was pretty stupid, can hold an audience across a week, so can this.
    Launching on a holiday weekend though seems daft...

    Doesn't harm shows at Christmas, does it? Easter has always been the home of big shows, famously Before They Were Famous pulled in one of the biggest audiences of the year at Easter 1997. It's a time when families get together and there are captive audiences, like Christmas.
    ronant wrote: »
    I don't think this has been confirmed at all, and won't be until Wednesday. In fact the provisional schedules show rugby on BBC2, with BBC1 showing News at 7, TBA at 7.15, In It to Win It at 8, Casualty at 8.50 and Mrs Brown at 9.40.

    And I'm sure that's how it'll remain, with the rugby on BBC2 because it isn't going to be a decider and the fact it's the last match of the tournament is a non-issue, they've done it before. Bill McClaren's last ever match in 2002 was on BBC2 and that was the last match of the tournament. And the Six Nations committee don't care, because nobody could say the BBC don't give the Six Nations all the support and promotion they can. I've seen the trailer for it about ten times this weekend.
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    NeilVW wrote: »

    Further to previous replies:

    IITWI: 5.21m (23.2%)
    Casualty: 4.83m (22.2%)
    MOTD: 3.68m (25.7%)
    YBF: 2.86m (15.1%) exc +1
    Ross: 3.24m (15.2%) exc +1
    MBB wasn't on.

    So The Cube is trounched by IITWI despite having a much bigger lead-in.

    Casualty still seriously underperforming. Should be able to get above 5m against crappy Jonathan Ross.
  • Yugimuto1Yugimuto1 Posts: 5,046
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    NeilVW wrote: »
    Monday 25 February 2013
    BBC Four

    22:00-23:25 - Storyville: I Will Be Murdered: 157k (1.0%)
    * slot average: 284k (1.8%)
    * average share for weekday factual: 1.8%




    The Voice UK rallied for its final on 2 June 2012 with 7.14m (34.2%) overnight, 8.54m (36.3%) consolidated, after falling as low as 4.49m (28.7%) overnight for the semi-final performance show the week before, shown at 18:30 in a heatwave (to make way for Eurovision and the friggin' lottery draws).

    What I cannot understand is why the BBC are pushing the series even later this year, close to midsummer's day! I can only think it's a necessity because of the coaches' other commitments, but it seems a bit bonkers and inviting a disaster ("Talent show costing licence-payers £22m is seen by fewer than 4m!" - I can just see the headlines in the Daily Fail). Danny Cohen will be doing a rain dance this June.



    Further to previous replies:

    IITWI: 5.21m (23.2%)
    Casualty: 4.83m (22.2%)
    MOTD: 3.68m (25.7%)
    YBF: 2.86m (15.1%) exc +1
    Ross: 3.24m (15.2%) exc +1
    MBB wasn't on.



    Do you mean for Tuesday?

    I mean Tuesday, yes.
  • ScoreScore Posts: 17,280
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    It's aggregated too.

    Why can't they post +1 ratings separate, shouldn't newspapers strive to publish factually accurate stats?

    Well, it is The Guardian! ;)

    Them actually doing something well for once.
  • grahamzxygrahamzxy Posts: 11,920
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    Saturday night Light Entertainment has always been low-brow
    We had such classics as

    Game For A Laugh
    Big Break
    Generation Game
    Beadle's About
    Blind Date...... etc....

    These show were widely derided for their silliness at the time, but they were ratings gold. I think Ant Dec are very divisive, geniuses or gits to many.....I do admire the rating the show gets, but their plagiarism is just lazy.
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    NeilVW wrote: »
    Further to previous replies:
    Hi Neil,

    anything for Spiral ?

    TIA

    K
  • Glenn AGlenn A Posts: 23,758
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    grahamzxy wrote: »
    Saturday night Light Entertainment has always been low-brow
    We had such classics as

    Game For A Laugh
    Big Break
    Generation Game
    Beadle's About
    Blind Date...... etc....

    These show were widely derided for their silliness at the time, but they were ratings gold. I think Ant Dec are very divisive, geniuses or gits to many.....I do admire the rating the show gets, but their plagiarism is just lazy.
    In the case of the last three, they were actually quite good. Game For A Laugh was always poor, but attracted 17 million viewers in its heyday.
  • grahamzxygrahamzxy Posts: 11,920
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    Glenn A wrote: »
    In the case of the last three, they were actually quite good. Game For A Laugh was always poor, but attracted 17 million viewers in its heyday.

    I used to laugh hard when Larry or Bruce hosted, but Jim D was dire as ever and pretty obnoxious. Some shows were of their time, but would seem stale in 2013. Ant Dec seem to think imitation is flattery.
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    Not a bad rating at all for a new sitcom, clearly Sue Perkins is enjoying a great deal of personal popularity. BBC2 has a decent slate of comedy at the moment and for the first time in a while it actually feels like BBC2's comedy output has a cohesion and an identity of its own, as opposed to when they seemed to be half BBC1 rejects, half too big for BBC3.

    Kevin O'Sullivan in the Sunday Mirror did a real hatchet job on Heading Out today, which is unusual for him as he usually concentrates on easy targets like Eastenders and non-scripted fluff. (Other programmes reviewed in his column today: DOI. TOWIE, Celebrity Juice, Food Glorious Food.- only juice avoids the brickbats)

    I went onto the iPlayer to see the Good Life-type opening credits that he referred to and I stayed for the opening joke. A woman at the vet with her injured cat. "He was struck by a car, but on the plus side, it was a Prius so the carbom footprint was very low".

    That has to be one of the worst jokes I've ever heard in my entire life. If I was a script-reader for BBC Comedy, the script would have been in the bin at that point. But doubtless, as it's Sue Perkins, it was probably commissioned sight-unseen.

    I suspect this comedy is every bit as awful as O'Sullivan says and I confidently predict it will be below 1m by the end of its run.
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 8,635
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    KennyT wrote: »
    Hi Neil, anything for Spiral ?
    TIA
    K

    BBC Four
    21:00 - Spiral: 430k (1.9%)
    * slot average: 2.6%
    21:55 - Spiral: 357k (1.9%)
    * slot average: 2.7%
    Yugimuto1 wrote: »
    I mean Tuesday, yes.

    Tuesday 26 February
    BBC Three
    19:00 - Total Wipeout (r): 176k (0.8%)
    20:00 - The Year of Making Love (r): 255k (1.1%)
    21:00 - Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents: 544k (2.3%)
    22:00 - Impractical Jokers (r): 316k (1.7%)
    22:30 - EastEnders (r): 512k (3.5%)
    23:00 - Family Guy (r): 481k (4.7%)
    23:25 - Family Guy (r): 582k (7.2%)
    23:45 - American Dad! (r): 564k (9.4%)
    24:10 - American Dad! (r): 509k (10.7%)
    24:30 - Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents (r): 196k (6.4%)
    25:30 - Way to Go (r): 109k (5.8%)

    BBC Four
    19:00 - World News Today: 75k (0.35%)
    19:30 - Great British Railway Journeys (r): 557k (2.5%)
    20:00 - Horizon (r): 662k (2.9%)
    21:00 - The Sound and the Fury: a Century of Music: 238k (1.0%)
    22:00 - Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend in a Coma: 219.5k (1.5%)
    23:30 - Rick Stein's Taste of Italian Opera (r): 102k (1.6%)
    24:30 - Bob Servant, Independent (r): 62k (1.8%)
    25:00 - Art of America (r): 29k (1.3%)
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    SNT without +1 - 6.74m (30.1%).

    Does anyone know if half term is this week. I only ask as the share numbers seem very high for low-ish audiences.
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 8,635
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    jda135 wrote: »
    SNT without +1 - 6.74m (30.1%).

    Does anyone know if half term is this week. I only ask as the share numbers seem very high for low-ish audiences.

    Some kids were off last week (i.e. w/c Monday 18 February); others the week before (w/c Monday 11 February). There were 22.4 million watching TV during SNT's slot last night. This was roughly in line with the total TV audience in the same slot throughout February, which varied from as high as 22.8 million (last Saturday) to as low as 21.8 million (the Saturday before).
  • KennyTKennyT Posts: 20,699
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    NeilVW wrote: »
    BBC Four
    21:00 - Spiral: 430k (1.9%)
    * slot average: 2.6%
    21:55 - Spiral: 357k (1.9%)
    * slot average: 2.7%
    Comme toujours, je vous remercie...

    K
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