Oooh, nice.

Any idea though how 'Helping Haiti' gets in ITV's top 30... I thought programmes 5 minutes long are excluded from the top 30?

not sure, I know loads of digital channel with 5 min progs are excluded

maybe the rule doesn't apply to 'terrestrial' channels

or maybe it's an error and I'll have to reload the figures again

I am but a data inputting monkey

it was 6 minutes long

20.29 to 20.35

The "Hero" video premiered in 2008 on ITV1 and made the top 30 as well, IIRC.

Programes that are 'less than 5 minutes' are excluded. Helping Haiti was 6 minutes.

Considering the commentary team talked about fusing reality and trickery I was expecting a kind of virtual cauldron to be lit in the stadium, lighting the outdoor cauldron which would be projected on something indoors. Wouldn't have been lighting the flame directly, but would have been much better and no worse than Torino four years ago where a metal loop was lit to set off fireworks which culminated in the cauldron coming alight.


For those of you interested in such things London's cauldron will be outside of the stadia, meaning a bit of clever thinking will be needed in terms of lighting it - and concealing it until the opening ceremony.

http://planning.london2012.com/uploa...1%20(2268).pdf

CBS:
8pm – The Amazing Race – 9.1m (2.8)
9pm – Undercover Boss – 15.3m (5.1)
10pm – Cold Case – 8.7m (2.1)

FOX:
8pm – The Simpsons – 5.9m (2.6)
8.30pm – The Cleveland Show – 4.9m (2.3)
9pm – Family Guy – 6.4m (3.2)
9.30pm – American Dad – 5.2m (2.5)

NBC:
7pm – Winter Olympics – 26.3m (7.0)

Tvbythenumbers

ABC didn't air any scripted programmes last night, just 2 hours of America's Funniest Home Videos and 2 hours of Extreme Makeover.

FOX comedies took a hit opposite the Olympics. Undercover Boss did pretty well and increased through its hour from 4.7 in the first half to 5.5 in the second. Obviously well down from the 38m after the Superbowl, but not too bad.

Top 30 Programmes of 2010 upto 7/2/10

01 - 12.27m - Doctor Who (01/01/10) - BBC1/HD
02 - 12.09m - EastEnders (01/01/10) - BBC1
03 - 11.83m - Coronation Street (11/01/10) - ITV1
04 - 10.57m - Gavin and Stacey (01/01/10) - BBC1/HD
05 - 9.96m - Emmerdale (14/01/10) - ITV1
06 - 9.64m - Dancing on Ice (10/01/10) - ITV1
07 - 8.81m - Silent Witness (07/01/10) - BBC1/HD
08 - 8.70m - Rock And Chips (24/01/10) - BBC1/HD
09 - 8.55m - Wild at Heart (10/01/10) - ITV1
10 - 7.91m - National Television Awards (20/01/10) - ITV1
11 - 7.90m - Above Suspicion (04/01/10) - ITV1
12 - 7.84m - Total Wipeout Celebrity Special (02/01/10) - BBC1
13 - 7.67m - Lark Rise to Candleford (10/01/10) - BBC1/HD
14 - 7.59m - Casualty (02/01/10) - BBC1
15 - 7.37m - Helping Haiti - Everybody Hurts(07/02/10) ITV1
16 - 7.35m - Harry Hill's TV Burp (06/02/10) ITV1
17 - 7.25m - Match Of The Day Live (19/01/10) - BBC1/HD
18 - 7.13m - So You Think You Can Dance (09/01/10) - BBC1
18 - 7.13m - Antiques Roadshow (07/02/10) - BBC1/HD
20 - 7.07m - Celebrity Mastermind (06/01/10) - BBC1
21 - 7.01m - Hustle (04/01/10) - BBC1/HD
22 - 6.97m - BBC News (05/01/10) - BBC1
23 - 6.91m - Country file (24/01/10) - BBC1/HD
24 - 6.88m - The One Show (13/1/10) - BBC1
25 - 6.77m - Holby City (05/01/10) - BBC1
26 - 6.53m - Top Gear (03/01/10) - BBC2/HD
26 - 6.53m - Law and Order: UK (18/01/10) - ITV1
28 - 6.50m - The National Lottery: In It To Win It (09/01/10) - BBC1
29 - 6.49m - A Question Of Sport (8/01/10) - BBC1
30 - 6.35m - Midsomer Murders (27/01/10) - ITV1

BBC1: 19
ITV1: 10
BBC2: 1

Changes
Antiques Roadshow increases marginally from 7.06m to 7.13m.
Helping Haiti - Everybody Hurts joins the fray.
Harry Hill’s TV Burp increases from 7.07m to 7.35m.
Wallender drops out of the top 30.

Yep, after the opening official rating of 1.61m, it's been fairly steady at 1.2m thereafter. It'll be v.interesting to get the iPlayer stats, hopefully in a week or so...

K

I think with BBC3 especially viewers might tune in "live" to the first episode, but then for subsequent episodes find that a repeat is scheduled better for them or simply record it.


Talking of BBC3, how did the premiere of Last Woman Standing do last week, and how did it compare to Last Man Standing, especially demographic wise. I know I had no interest in watching this version having watched the first two series and Tough Guy or Chicken.

Excellent ratings for Come Dine with Me on More4, undoubtedly one of the most important shows for C4 as it's cheap and rates really well even for repeats. Five also had a good evening (compared to normal) with both movies close to the 2m mark.

BBC1's Sunday lineup, particularly 6-9pm, is providing a very strong alternative to ITV1's, with Lark Rise to Candelford basically static at 6.3m every single week. Seven Ages, although not a banker, improved week-on-week and is rating pretty well for a show of this type. Dancing on Ice and Wild at Heart rated as expected but I think that's quite a poor rating for Life Stories. It's not Piers' fault- the figures always fluctuate depending on the guest and although Gordon Brown isn't exactly the most interesting person, I thought all the news coverage would help tip it over the 5m mark.

Very healthy figure for the Got To Dance final - a recommission should be a cert. Shame it's not on terrestrial TV where it'd have probably rated well.

Edit: on reflection, the Life Stories rating isn't too poor considering its timeslot and that a lot of the content had already been shown on the news. But it's still under what I expected!

Going to look pretty impressive. I think the Opening Ceremony should be pretty cool in London. I do have concerns about security and limiting the numbers in the park though. I would have liked it better if they could just open it right up and have it crammed full of people for a big party.

400,000, around the same as the Last Man Standing launch.

Official BARB ratings for week ending 7/2/10: Top 10
1. Coronation Street - 11.40m (Mon, ITV1)
2. Eastenders - 10.77m (Mon, BBC1)
3. Emmerdale - 8.90m(Thu, ITV1)
4. Dancing On Ice - 8.80m (Sun, ITV1)
5. Wild At Heart - 8.09m (Sun, ITV1)
6. Helping Haiti: Everybody Hurts - 7.37m (Sun, ITV1)
7. Harry Hill's TV Burp - 7.35m (Sat, ITV1)
8. Lark Rise To Candleford - 7.21m (Sun, BBC1/HD)
9. Silent Witness - 7.10m (Thu, BBC1/HD)
10. Antiques Roadshow - 7.05m (Sun, BBC1/HD)

6 ITV1, 4 BBC1 in this week top 10. For the fourth week in a row, Coronation Street leads the chart.

Alternative Chart: BBC2, C4, Five
1. Embarrasing Bodies - 3.59m (Wed, C4)
2. The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best - 3.45m (Tue, BBC2)
3. Delia Through The Decades - 3.37m (Mon, BBC2)
4. University Challenge - 3.21 (Mon, BBC2)
5. Shameless - 3.16m (Tue, C4)
6. How Earth Made Us - 3.13m (Tue, BBC2)
7. CSI - 3.06m (Tue, Five)
8. Relocation, Relocation - 3.03m (Wed, C4)
9. Simon King's Shetland Diaries - 2.98m (Thu, BBC2)
10. Mock The Week - 2.90m (Thu, BBC2)

6 BBC2, 3 C4, 1 Five. This week, it's BBC2 which dominates with the most entries. Strong periods for the channel are Tuesday 8-10pm (up against ITV's FlopZone) and Thursday 8-9.30pm. Top honour for the week, however, goes to Channel 4's Embarrasing Bodies for the first time ever. It built on from a Relocation, Relocation lead in.

Soap Update: 2010 Averages so far
Coronation Street: 10.99m
EastEnders: 10.80m
Emmerdale: 8.61m

Compared to the same period last year, the soaps are up by: Corrie- 0.6m, 'Enders- 1.8m, E'Dale- 1.0m.

Maybe it's in the name of political balance. A Labour politician on ITV1 and a (former) Conservative politician on BBC1.

Lost's figure certainly looks alot healthier with timeshift etc. accounted for,

Sky 1
w/e 7 Feb 2010
000's
1 LOST S6 (FRI 2101) 1,406
2 LOST S6 (FRI 2201) 1,342

I'm not sure they'd be much better in the overnights at least if C4 had kept the rights.

Wonder how long Sky now have the rights tied up for, because I think there would be value in the repeat rights to season 3 to 6 if C4 could pick them up cheap for probably More4.

What happened?

And I know I'll get abuse for this, but I think its significant...

EastEnders is trending in Top 10 Worldwide on Twitter.

Not surprised. It's the only soap that trends. Not that it means anything. I see they have a special EastEnders BBC One ident. Surely they're going to use that more than 4 times. It sort of makes up for the lack of a decent trailer.

Why do you think it is significant?

Yeah EastEnders is the only soap too and i guess it shows people are talking about it.At work it got bought up a few times when we heard the Radio1 advert.
It was nice to see the ident but i wonder if they will so a different one each day and have the suspects in one all day friday

I expect massive ratings if they've done a special ident, last programme to get a BBC1 ident was Doctor Who....

Yeah and that did fantastically well. Most watched show of 2010 so far, well if you count HD viewers. Otherwise that honour goes to EastEnders.

Piss poor for Piers, and for Gordo.

That should have been a dead cert 5-6m banker with all the hype. It's an interview with our sitting PM, ffs!

Albeit the most despised one in our history.

More embarrassment for ITV re the football. I know the draw hasn't been too friendly for them, but this weekend's ratings were terrible, even by their standards.

The FA must surely be getting alarmed. Particularly as they've been here before and saw the FA Cup nearly die a decade ago.

They will be as spitting mad as GeorgeS when the Carling Cup Final outrates the FA Cup Final. That might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Tanking on Ice still tanking I see. Even Holly's astonishing presenting skills aren't enough to draw in the viewers.

(Well that's one way of describing them...)


A big loss for ITV indeed - they had to lose the lucrative ABC1 male-friendly F1 coverage to help pay for it!

Still, as an F1 fan, I'm not complaining...


Ridiculous to include a pop video as one of the top TV "programmes" of the week/year. It was NOT a programme.

I imagine ITV might start slotting pop videos in the schedule more often if BARB are going to start counting them as "programmes".

Why not start publishing the ratings for a commercial break counting it as a "programme"?

FFS!


Mike - any chance you can input some top 50s instead of the top 30s?

[EDIT: Oh, and just for a laugh, can you put 10.27m down for one episode of The One Show next week? Just for laugh, nobody will notice. But keep it quiet from GeorgeS, eh, don't want to spoil the fun next Monday...]