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Didn't watch it myself but the Grand National was at around 4 wasn't it? Why did it start at 1pm? Were there other races? Perhaps a;
1300 Live Racing 1600 Grand National Live 1700 BBC News would have rated better? |
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Doctor Who - The Eleventh Hour: Breakdown
18:15 - 5.54m ---- 18:20 - 6.57m 18:25 - 6.74m 18:30 - 6.91m 18:35 - 7.24m 18:40 - 7.51m 18:45 - 7.81m 18:50 - 7.89m 18:55 - 8.01m 19:00 - 8.04m 19:05 - 8.11m 19:10 - 8.17m 19:15 - 8.27m 19:20 - 8.39m ---- 19:25 - 6.21m Doctor Who - The Beast Below: Breakdown 18:10 - 4.91m ---- 18:15 - 5.84m 18:20 - 6.02m 18:25 - 6.15m 18:30 - 6.21m 18:35 - 6.24m 18:40 - 6.50m 18:45 - 6.58m 18:50 - 6.72m 18:55 - 6.79m ---- 19:00 - 5.68m |
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I remember last year when Jonathan Ross had ratings of about 2.5million, Piers Morgan said that he would shoot himself if his show ever rated the same. Now 2.0m is less than 2.5m, so will he carry through with his statement ...
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Excellent day for BBC1 yesterday. The peaktime line up maintained its usually performance despite being up against HP.
Decent audience for HP considering the length and I think with poorer weather it would have got more. The last premiere did air in a better Sunday slot with an XF lead in, so it can be seen why that premiere got more than 7m. Awful for Piers-I doubt ITV will be commissioning any more shows with Winner in them! Piers has shown that with the right guests he can get bumper ratings, so he just needs to find them. The Simon Cowell episode got over 7m viewers in officials and the ITV2 repeat combined, and that was only 6 weeks ago. Slightly alarming for CSI:NY- even though the franchise does well in repeats, the first showings are really showing signs of decreasing and I think FIVE need to perhaps reevaluate where they slot their US imports next season as CSI:NY going up against Casualty dents it somewhat, and next week it's Casualty V CSI V The Prisoner which should be an interesting battle. I think ITV needed to save the Harry Potter premiere for a seasonal Wednesday evening, where kids would stay up till 10:- 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 10:00pm News at Ten Or indeed, the Sunday slot it had last time... Being Saturday and the weather did not help it, as most of my friends left the house halfway through to go out...I wonder what the breakdowns show. As for Piers Morgan, in spite of Cowell's ratings, I think Saturday nights are the wrong night - and I think it could do with a weeknight slot. I'd like to see a more ambitious, controversial set of guests for the next series, as Piers cuddles up to all of the celebrities and I don't see his line of questioning (in this series at least) as challenging. However, I think the show itself works, especially with the montages which breaks everything up perfectly and gives the viewer a nice taster of the subject's life and work with some archive footage. Next series, I'd like to see:- - Michael Barrymore - Tony Blair - Tim Henman - David Beckham - Peter Andre - Sir David Jason I think this is a nice varied list. Two sportsmen, a politician, a "celeb", an actor and a fallen star. Notice, no women - that wasn't on purpose! ![]() I don't think ITV should be too obsessed with choosing "A-list" guests, as I think as long as the series average is OK (i.e. for every Michael Winner, there's a Simon Cowell) - it'll be long-lasting and popular. I always think it's nice to go a bit off mainstream sometimes with the guests - as it's rare of ITV - and doesn't burn the candle at both ends - if you get what I mean. Too many big names in one series could be too much, too soon. |
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Well I wouldn't pay him £6m a year.
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The BBC have had the Saturday upper hand all year and it does beg the question of how ITV would look without the the Cowell bandwagon propping it up. BGT will sweep away the BBC's lead and will presumably aid Piers-who would seem desperately to need its assistance. Strange that his mug will be all over BGT as well.
The National peak almost two million ahead of the FA Cup semi peak. I saw the race in HD and it was quite stunning and there was a real atmosphere surrounding the result and the aftermath. What rating would that have got on SKY? Dr Who ok I guess but i can see it becoming more and more squeezed by its early start time especially if the weather is good. Solidish ratings for Over the Rainbow and another good night for the Lottery and Casualty-but surely all three will be hit by BGT. |
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Just awful rating for the FA Cup - god knows what today's will be, especially with a rival Premiership game on Sky. Quote:
Look at the bigger picture.
By moving the ITV soaps to Sunday slots, it would vacate the 8pm-10pm slots all week...also meaning Corrie would drop an episode...which would raise its quality and its ratings. For example, Friday nights would financially benefit ITV without the second Corrie. Frost/Midsomer/other 2 hour drama repeats would rate quite well between 8-10pm, I feel - around the same audience if not more than the Harry Potter screening. I'd absolutely love the soaps tucked away in the 7pm hour and a varied mix of drama, comedy, entertainment and documentary from 8-10pm everynight - but that would cost ITV a fortune and as things stand rather than the Tuesday night flop zone, we'd probably be looking at that situation every night of the week. It's a nice ambition, but something that can only be done when the cash is there, which it simply isn't at the moment. |
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There's a standout figure (for all the wrong reasons) in last nights set, and thats the FA Cup.
![]() Its a semi-final between two of the top six or seven teams in the country, for gods sake! And all it can manage is a peak of 4.9m?! That's just abysmal and I don't think theres any way of excusing it. It's not the weather - 7.5m had just watched the peak of the Grand National. Frankly, at those sorts of ratings - the contract is a disaster for ITV, and I doubt the FA will be too thrilled, either. EDIT: God, it's worse than I thought. From the same Saturday in 2008 - the last year of the FA Cup on the BBC: 12:00-14.30pm: Match of the Day Live: 3.4m (31.5%) So thats beating ITV's average, for the same length programme, airing at midday. The titans contesting this encounter? West Bromwich Albion vs Portsmouth ![]() -- About as I was expecting for Doctor Who. It got away with a reasonable rating despite the start time and the weather. The growth of a million from the start to the end of a 45 minute show demonstrates its something people tune in for. At least the latter half of the series - when it starts to get this warm on a regular basis - won't have OTR shoving its start time around. Very solid figures for the HP premiere but Piers Morgan did awfully - can't say I'm surprised. We all saw what Winner did to ITV's Friday night ratings! |
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And the Commonwealth Games are still protected enough to require one of the big five to provide coverage.
"However, qualifying broadcasters are not obliged to bid for these rights, so it is possible that on some occasions listed events may not be shown by a qualifying broadcaster" http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/codes...prt_lstd_evts/ Still I hope there is coverage on terrestial tv |
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Not that I often spring to the defence of ITV - the match looked pretty good on ITV HD on Saturday, we had a GN family party and when people were thinning out I flipped over for the remainder of the football.
A 20% share however is pretty poor though - I would like a football match rating to be given for the actual game (ie average of 1st and 2nd half.) Simple arithmetic here for Life Stories - MW + PM = RD (where RD = Ratings Disaster ) - Piers is such a dullard, I did watch it and he sounds like the type of boring party guest who asks the wrong questions all the time. In the hands of dare I say it Parky, the life story and anecdotes of someone like Michael Winner could have been a lot more engaging.I noted the BBC held a rating share of c. 25% from 5pm to 10pm so pretty good for the flagship channel. With BGT starting soon I hope the BBC can maintain it's share. |
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I noted the BBC held a rating share of c. 25% from 5pm to 10pm so pretty good for the flagship channel. With BGT starting soon I hope the BBC can maintain it's share.
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People do tend to get carried away on the first hot day of the year though so Doctor Who may be effected tonight more than any future warm day. Personally, you wouldn't see me in shorts until June at the earliest!
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I remember last year when Jonathan Ross had ratings of about 2.5million, Piers Morgan said that he would shoot himself if his show ever rated the same. Now 2.0m is less than 2.5m, so will he carry through with his statement ...
Here's hoping. He's awful time to ditch the tedious little man. If anyone had interviewed Cowell he'd of got massive figures. Just shows Piers's not the draw ITV make him out to be. Him and Holden need to be weeded out of the schedules for all our sakes. |
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The organising committee is still insisting they have sold the rights to the BBC...
They have been saying this for about 2 years, despite the BBC saying they havn't. ![]() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A very good Saturday for BBC One. Nice to see Total Wipeout hitting 4m in 5.20pm slot on a warm spring Saturday. Good for Doctor Who too. Next Saturday will be tougher for Over the Rainbow, but, from memory, and without checking the schedules, it has 45 minutes before Talent begins, so the ratings shouldn't collapse. A dismal figure for Piers Morgan's chat show. It's all very well occasionally getting decent viewing figures with a high-profile guest, but a popular chat show host can get acceptable audience figures with any guest. Morgan is not the right man for the job as a Saturday night chat show host. As for Britain's Got Talent, I don't really think it matters who shares the panel with Simon Cowell. |
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Not that I often spring to the defence of ITV - the match looked pretty good on ITV HD on Saturday, we had a GN family party and when people were thinning out I flipped over for the remainder of the football.
A 20% share however is pretty poor though - I would like a football match rating to be given for the actual game (ie average of 1st and 2nd half.) ![]() On paper you can't see today's game beating that, but I can't imagine ratings much lower either. We're looking at a situation now where the FA Cup Final might be struggling to get too far past the 5m mark. I wonder with these ratings too whether ITV will cut the build up to the bare minimum (which in FA Cup final terms, is probably around an hour!). |
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Why are people not watching the FA Cup??
Is it because the core audience were at the pub watching it because of the weather? |
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Just awful rating for the FA Cup - god knows what today's will be, especially with a rival Premiership game on Sky.
Perhaps time to put your fantasy schedules away and think about the reality of ITV's situation for a moment. I'd absolutely love the soaps tucked away in the 7pm hour and a varied mix of drama, comedy, entertainment and documentary from 8-10pm everynight - but that would cost ITV a fortune and as things stand rather than the Tuesday night flop zone, we'd probably be looking at that situation every night of the week. It's a nice ambition, but something that can only be done when the cash is there, which it simply isn't at the moment. So, you think a 2 hour Frost/Midsomer repeat from 8-10pm on Friday's would be a a flop? Thursday's were always popular in the 8pm, 9pm hour before ITV moved The Bill, so I don't see it becoming flop zone now unless the channel doesn't replace the soaps. I see your point of it becoming another Tuesday without a 7:30pm lead-in, but if money's spent on original programmes and we saw the travellogues in the 9pm slot - I think ITV could be onto a winner. Wednesday has football anyway?!??!?!? and Monday...well...the Coronation Street at 8:30pm is perfectly fine, and works on this day. |
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Wonder what Coronation St will get tonight as I assume the Sunday episode is just a one off due to scheduling issues?
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Wonder what Coronation St will get tonight as I assume the Sunday episode is just a one off due to scheduling issues?
Surprised ITV haven't been promoting it considering a biggish storyline is set to come to a head tonight. |
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The 2nd FA Cup Semi-Final is going into extra time, meaning that ITV's schedule will be running late.
I suspect that they will just change the edition of You've Been Framed! to a shorter length one. |
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Wonder what Coronation St will get tonight as I assume the Sunday episode is just a one off due to scheduling issues?
I bet it'll be the lowest rated of the year!
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For reference, between 16:00 and 17:00 on BBC One averaged 6.0m (46.4%).
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EDIT: God, it's worse than I thought. From the same Saturday in 2008 - the last year of the FA Cup on the BBC:
12:00-14.30pm: Match of the Day Live: 3.4m (31.5%) So thats beating ITV's average, for the same length programme, airing at midday. The titans contesting this encounter? West Bromwich Albion vs Portsmouth |
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I've got no idea why its on tonight. I was under the impression that last Sunday's episode was to make up for only one episode on Friday, but I'm guessing now that the Sunday episode on Easter Sunday was planned way beforehand and in fact the episode tonight is to make up for only one on Friday.
Surprised ITV haven't been promoting it considering a biggish storyline is set to come to a head tonight. I do reckon ITV are doing this purely to give the 8pm dramas a boost, because last year they all seemed to suffer IIRC without the Corrie lead in. ITV will want Foyles to get the biggest audience it can, considering how expensive it is, I would have thought. |
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I've got no idea why its on tonight. I was under the impression that last Sunday's episode was to make up for only one episode on Friday, but I'm guessing now that the Sunday episode on Easter Sunday was planned way beforehand and in fact the episode tonight is to make up for only one on Friday.
Surprised ITV haven't been promoting it considering a biggish storyline is set to come to a head tonight. |
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I cant remember if it has been reported here but the Boat Race peaked with 5.7 million at 4.40 which seems pretty good.
Re the FA Cup, its interesting that Match Of The Day got the same average as the semi final with just two unfashionable games to show. It seems that there is a culture that ITV and the FA Cup just dont go together. Broadcast Magazine reported that ITV had a large 29.94% primetime share on w/c 29/3/10 with the BBC down at 16%.Does this seem right? In the equivalent week last year the BBC had a 3% peaktime lead. BBC are down 0.7% overall this year, ITV 1.2% |
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) - Piers is such a dullard, I did watch it and he sounds like the type of boring party guest who asks the wrong questions all the time. In the hands of dare I say it Parky, the life story and anecdotes of someone like Michael Winner could have been a lot more engaging.

