who says football isn't popular on ITV? particularly as it was all over pretty quickly.

Just imagine how big the ratings would have been if it was on the BBC

Would've had more on BBC1, it's a bit like the Queens Speech...

Those aren't good figures for BBC1, they'd do better moving EE to Wednesday, the Wednesday edition they had a few weeks ago actually did well and supported the rest of the schedule.

A bit stupid for both BBC1 and 2 to be running factual line ups last night between 8-10.

I agree. I think EE should be on from Monday to Thursday, leaving Friday night clear for entertainment shows, films, drama specials etc.

Is that a 5 or 15 minute peak? Many thanks.

Here's a full roundup of last night's figures:

BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.84m (24.1%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.6m (24.1%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 6.1m (30.1%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.9m (23.3%)
19:30- Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers: 4.0m (18.3%)
20:00- MasterChef: 3.8m (15.7%)
21:00- Famous, Rich and Jobless: 3.6m (14.6%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.7m (23.8%)
22:25- Regional News and Weather: 4.2m (24.0%)
22:35- The National Lottery Draws: 2.8m (18.0%)
22:45- Damages: 1.1m (9.2%)
23:25- Hollywoodland: 0.4m (8.4%)

BBC Two
18:00- Eggheads: Celebrity Special: 2.7m (14.0%)
18:30- Antiques Road Trip: 2.1m (10.5%)
19:00- Yellowstone: 2.0m (9.4%)
20:00- Lambing Live: 2.5m (10.0%)
21:00- Inside John Lewis: 2.7m (11.1%)
22:00- Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience: 1.4m (7.4%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.8m (6.4%)

ITV1
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 3.8m (19.0%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 6.9m (32.9%)
19:30- UEFA Champions League: Manchester United v AC Milan: 7.3m (30.3%)
* 15-minute peak: 8.6m (36.3%)
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.5m (13.3%)
22:35- UEFA Champions League Extra Time: 1.3m (11.1%)

Channel 4
18:00- The Simpsons: 2.2m (10.0%)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.3m (6.2%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.7m (3.1%)
20:00- Relocation, Relocation: 1.9m (7.8%)
21:00- Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA: 1.3m (5.4%)
22:00- Desperate Housewives: 1.4m (8.1%)
23:00- Shameless: 0.5m (5.7%)

Five
17:30- Neighbours: 1.4m (8.6%)
18:00- Home and Away: 1.0m (5.4%)
18:30- Live From Studio Five: 0.3m (1.6%)
19:30- Monkey Life: 0.6m (2.8%)
20:00- Jack the Ripper: Tabloid Killer – Revealed: 0.9m (3.5%)
21:00- NCIS: 2.1m (8.4%)
22:00- Law and Order: Criminal Intent: 1.1m (6.2%)
23:00- Numb3rs: 0.6m (6.7%)

BBCHD
20:00- Lambing Live: 0.03m (0.12%)
21:00- Rather You Than Me: 0.01m (0.02%)
22:00- Mad Men: 0.01m (0.02%)
22:45- Lost Land of the Jaguar: 0.01m (0.02%)

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 489k (2.3%) , +1: 132k (0.5%)

Fiver
18:30- Home and Away: 480k (2.4%)
19:00- Neighbours: 236k (1.1%)

ITV2
21:00- Gossip Girl: 249k (1%), +1: 39k (0.2%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 27.1%
BBC One: 17.5%
BBC Two: 9.6%
Channel 4: 5.9% (+1: 0.9%)
Five: 5%
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Great rating for the football because as GeorgeS said, it was a non-contest. I guess the Beckham hype worked. There's going to be a big fall next week, however, what with two foreign teams playing.

Mediocre night for BBC1, but BBC2 performed extremely well between 7-10pm to average 2m+. Inside John Lewis certainly exceeded my expectations, and it wasn't too far behind BBC1 at the time!

Looks like C4 was hit by the football coverage, but Five held steady especially NCIS which isn't too far behind CSI nowadays.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.29m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.15m
19:00 Home and Away 0.99m
19:30 RSPCA Animal Rescue 1.13m
20:00 Crash Investigation Unit 0.99m
20:30 Criminal Minds 1.30m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.19m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.15m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.01m
19:30 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.06m
20:00 Customs 1.31m
20:30 RPA 1.07m

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.88m
18:00 The Simpsons 0.55m
18:30 Neighbours 0.57m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.68m
19:30 The Biggest Loser: Couples 0.86m
20:00 So You Think You Can Dance 0.79m

ABC1
20:30 Spicks and Specks 1.00m
21:00 Hungry Beast 0.67m
21:30 The IT Crowd 0.52m

Nine wins very narrowly; 27.6% share.

I still think ITV does better with the Northern Teams while BBC does better with the Southern/Welsh/Scottish/Foreign teams. Great figure for ITV there, but it looks like the BBC One could be developing a little Flopzone there.


Jesus Christ that schedule is dire. I'm not even sure Channel 4 or FIVE could get away with schedules like that.

It's March, the end of the financial year. BBC TV has clearly ran out of money. See the 9pm offerings on BBC1 between the 21st and 26th of March....




....but the Radio Times website lists Panorama as "Chocolate - The Bitter truth." A much more viewer-friendly (ratings-friendly) title.

ITV have agreed a 2 year deal with Harry Hill today.

I lived in Oz for a while, TV is shocking over there. I rarely watched anything, I had like one programme a week or something. Actually not a bad thing, I was way more productive.

That's quite impressive for a series previously shown on BBC Wales which looked like the acme of cheap filler, especially as Rhod Gilbert isn't that famous. It also illustrates just how awful The Persuasionists was to get 300,000 in that slot.

It's quite sad to see that Neighbours is one of the lowest rated TV shows during primetime in Oz . I can't say I'm that surprised seeing as the show has had a succession of bad producers for around 5 years and the quality is quite poor because of this. Also, TEN are stupid for putting it on at 6:30 up against 'A Current Affair' and 'Today Tonight'.

Overall, the standard of programmes across all the channels looks so weak. A country that has a population of 20m+ has no excuse for such poor TV.

Yes its called ................ the WEATHER!!!

this is a good news.

Yes, that must be the reason.

Dancc why is A Current Affair on both 7 & 9, one of them should be Today Tonight.

one thing im reading about Neigbhours, is that it is being hit hard by the freeview channels in Australia, 7Two etc

but the general thing to remeber about Australian TV is that ratings are poor due to the fact its not part of Australian culture like TV is over here, hence the large amount of US & UK imports, to be honest I dont think there would be much Aussie drama, if the Australian government didnt put a quota on the channels.

update from BBC Press office for week 13

Ashes to Ashes - Unplaced

Blood & Oil two part drama - Unplaced

Casualty returns (as expected)

Over the Rainbow - saturday

9pm

Saturday - Casualty
Sunday -
Monday -
Tuesday - Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds – Off The Scale (3/3)
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday -

Good Friday 9am - The Day Jesus Died

no mention of HIGNFY on the website

I'd be very surprised if the weather wasn't the main reason.

Are there any demographic breakdowns for Australian ratings? The 16-34 (or whatever) demo over here tends to be fairly low as it is, I'd dread to think of what it's like in Australia with the weather and of course the differences in TV culture.

Neighbours ratings, as a proportion of Ten's ratings have remained pretty solid.

Yeh it was getting higher figures before, but so was the rest of Ten's schedule.

I think it's a shame that they don't really have much of a TV culture as it's a great way to unite a country through something as simple as a TV show. However, I think the Aussie government need to increase quota of original content because when they get it right, the networks can have huge successes, just look at 'Kath&Kim', 'Masterchef Australia' and 'The Chaser's Report on Everything'.

there is some quite good demo ratings here

http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index....owtopic=19508&

Top 50 shows by the 3 main demographics

Neighbours being

568,000 - 25th most watch show of the day (Total people)
315,000 - 21st most watch show of the day (People 18-49)
257,000 - 11th most watch show of the day (People 16-39)

Interesting the much hated The 7pm Project (think Live from Studio TEN) has this demo

295,000 - 6th 11th most watch show of the day (People 16-39)

The Day Jesus Died is at 9am. Ashes to Ashes would do great on a Thursday night against the Bill.

Cheryl Cole has pulled out of performing on Jonathan Ross.

Not left him long to find a replacement now.