Just to update on Underbelly. The ratings for regional Australia are now in, so the figures are as follows excluding timeshift:

Episode 1
Sunday 8:30pm Nine
Average: 3.04m
Peak: 3.47m

Episode 2
Sunday 9:30pm Nine
Average: 2.80m
Peak: 3.18m

David Gyngell, CEO The Nine Network, had this to say about its performance:

I'm really impressed how The Mentalist is drawing over 1m for a repeat, the show is doing just as well over there as it is in the US and UK, it's funny that despite Five promoting FlashForward, it's The Mentalist that is getting decent ratings and it's on a Friday against similar competition from Ashes to Ashes.

Wow. 3m. That's like the holy grail of Aussie TV ratings!


Totally agree, it's a great show too.


What did it get last week? Hope they go up further, it's got a bit better recently according to my Aussie friends

lets just flood you with information




and the weekly averages for 2010.


all figures from NeighboursSource, ratings thread.

Week 16, is no where near as good as Week 15, and so far dont compare too well to Week 14, however obviously its unfair to judge until we get a few more days ratings

Wow - thank you

always best to support an argument with facts

No, the only time they've shown any of the Sunday session on BBC1 in recent years was in 2002 when they moved it over after ten o'clock so BBC2 could show 24 and stop mental fans moaning about it missing a week.

Otherwise they normally only show it on BBC1 when there's a clash with something, sometimes when it's been on Good Friday they've shown the whole evening on BBC2 as there's no Newsnight. Of course they used to sometimes show the snooker finals on BBC1 but I dunno how much value that was for snooker fans as they only used to dip in for an hour or so at a time.

Oh yes, another very successful show that Sky have stolen and run into the ground. Wasn't it one of the most successful shows on the BBC? Now it isn't watched by many at all.

Thanks for that.

I love this show - the game and the banter - but as I work daytimes I mostly watch it on iPlayer.

Monday 12th April 2010
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.25m (18.7%)
* lowest figure of year
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 3.9m (23.7%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.6m (30.6%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.2m (22.1%)
19:30 - Bang Goes the Theory: 3.1m (15.0%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 8.76m (38.6%)
20:30 - Jeremy Paxman Interviews: Nick Clegg: 2.21m (9.4%)
21:00 - New Tricks: 3.83m (15.9%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.0m (20.5%)
22:35 - Regional News and Weather: 4.1m (24.4%)
22:45 - The Graham Norton Show: 2.2m (18.8%)

BBC Two
18:00 - Eggheads: 2.0m (12.5%)
18:30 - Great British Menu: 1.9m (10.6%)
19:00 - How to Win the TV Debate: 700,000 (3.6%)
20:00 - Hidden Houses of Wales: 1.81m (7.9%)
20:30 - Raymond Blanc: Kitchen Secrets: 1.85m (7.9%)
* rounds up to 1.9m.
21:00 - Out of the Frying Pan: 1.22m (5.1%)
22:00 - Have I Got News for You: 1.8m (9.0%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 0.9m (6.2%)

ITV1
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.1m (17.0%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.8m (35.6%)
* 19:00 to 19:25 - 6.74m (35.5%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 8.69m (41.8%)
20:00 - Tonight: Spotlight on the Leaders - David Cameron: 2.6m (11.6%)
* 20:00 to 20:25 - 2.51m (11.1%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 8.5m (36.1%)
* 20:30 to 20:55 - 9.06m (38.3%)
21:00 - Joanna Lumley's Nile: 4.77m (19.8%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.1m (10.9%)
22:35 - FILM: The Guru: 700,000 (7.6%)

Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.03m (5.7%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 7000,00 (3.4%)
20:00 - Young, Autistic and Stagestruck: 780,000 (3.4%)
21:00 - Saxon Gold: Finding The Hoard: 1.77m (7.4%)
22:00 - The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me: 1.8m (10.4%)

Five
17:30 - Neighbours: 1.2m (9.0%)
* 17:30 to 17:55 - 1.29m (9.7%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 967,000 (6%)
18:25 - Live From Studio Five: 300,000 (1.5%)
19:30 - How Do They Do It?: 400,000 (2.0%)
20:00 - The Gadget Show: 1.46m (6.3%)
21:00 - FlashForward: 1.6m (6.7%)
22:00 - Justin Lee Collins: Good Times: 400,000 (2.2%)

BBC Three
22:00 - EastEnders: 813,000 (4.1%)

E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 380,000 (2%)

Fiver
18:30 - Home and Away: 515,000 (2.8%)

Partial Source: Digital Spy

Poor for the Politics shows on ITV and BBC... a sign to come for the remainder of the week? BBC Two and Channel 4 had an unspectacular night, Five did alright with FlashForward improving slightly, while Lumley did well for ITV1.

The soaps did alright, probably boosted by poor competition from the opposite channel, in particular Emmerdale with its high percentage share.

Some strong shares for all the soaps last night, particuarly in the ITV 7pm hour.

Very poor for the leader interviews, particuarly ITV1 with the Corrie sandwich. I think the ITV1 Clegg one will fall below 2m tonight and then dent WWTBAM.

Decent for Lumley, pretty much as people expected with the strong lead in and FlashForward seemed to benefit from poor competition, as did The Gadget Show.

Pretty poor from BBC2-missing University Challenge and not a good start to a new 6 part series in the 9pm hour.

Poor for CH4 from 6.30-9pm. Hollyoaks still in very dangerous teritory, equaling Home & Away's earlier 6pm audience and the H&A First Look episode beating Hollyoaks First Look on a regular basis now.

I wonder if the Tories and Lib-Dems will be complaining about ITV1's Tonight: Spotlight On The Leaders programmes. David Cameron and Nick Clegg's programmes are on against Eastenders and Gordon Brown's is on against Life Of Reilly.

Even so, its down on what BBC and ITV would normally get in that slot.

(BTW, congrats on post 3,000! )

Ooh, I didn't realise. What a crappy thing to comment on for post 3000.

Election programmes not rating well. Starting to feel a bit more confidence about the 5.9m I predicted in the ratings prediction game for the Leaders' Debate. A bigger audience for the first half-hour, on after Corrie against the same BBC1, BBC2 and C4 competition, with people watching out of curiosity, then a big switch off at 9 o'clock to HIGNFY or whatever when people start to get bored (and very very annoyed at their pat answers).

Yes - it's called the Friday edition of The One Show. About as surprising news as the election date.


Well it's all down to the history of TV. If we were to privatise the BBC now introducing another commercial player into our market would almost certainly cause serious damage as there's only so much ad revenue to go round. So as much as the BBC may dominate our TV landscape, it would be far worse for ITV especially if it was scrapped or scaled down.

In hindsight, it might have been better for television if a second commercial player had come in back in the sixties rather than BBC2. C4 was so tied up with both ITV and PSB red tape it could never be an equal challenger to BBC1/ITV, whilst C5 may have had ambitions to be a mainstream commercial channel when it launched, but arrived much to late to have any chance.


The news doesn't seem to have benefited either. Indeed I bet if one channel put on a non-election news bulletin it might do rather well!

Good shares for the soaps last night but the raw ratings numbers really starting to fall now summer is approaching.

Worth noting New Tricks was not shown on BBC1 Scotland last night, they had Holby City instead.

this thing about Ashes to ashes dip......

well everyone i know sky + it and had Lost on.

Live From Studio Five is ever so consistent at 0.3m. A small but loyal fanbase.

As expected JLC rose this week, although still very low. Good to see FlashForward up as well which is still doing 2m+ in the officials.

Pretty uninspiring for the political shows last night, but people will be well aware of the debates coming up and could well be holding out for those.

Monday 12th April 2010 - More Ratings
BBC One
18:55 - Labour PEB: 4.05m (22.1%)

ITV1
18:00 - Regional News and Weather: 2.80m (17.2%)
18:25 - Labour PEB: 2.83m (16.3%)

Channel 4
19:55 - Labour PEB: 501,000 (2.3%)
* +1: 46,000

BBC Three
21:00 - Gavin & Stacey: 854,000 (3.5%)
22:30 - Undercover Princes and Princesses: 310,000 (2.4%)

BBC Four
20:30 - Only Connect: 363,000 (1.5%)
21:00 - Goldsmiths: But Is it Art?: 124,000 (0.5%)

ITV2
21:00 - Hell's Kitchen USA: 515,000 (2.1%)
22:00 - Celebrity Juice: 342,000 (1.8%)

ITV3
21:00 - Taggart: 429,000 (1.8%)
22:00 - NEW SERIES: Ladies of Letters: 464,000 (2.4%)

E4
22:00 - The Cleveland Show: 372,000 (1.9%)
22:35 - The Cleveland Show: 289,000 (1.9%)

Sky1
22:00 - NCIS: Los Angeles: 224,000 (1.3%)

Sky Movies Premiere
21:00 - The Pacific: 401,000 (1.7%)

Virgin1
22:00 - Trauma: 186,000 (1.1%)

Bravo
21:00 - Alex Reid: The Fight of His Life: 153,000 (0.6%)

Living
21:00 - Four Weddings: 351,000 (1.5%)

Source: Media Guardian

Ooh dear. Cleveland fell apart without Glee to prop it up.

So EastEnders had bigger ratings than Coronation Street. It beat it by 0.3m viewers.

Ratings Forecast w/c 12th April

Soap clash Thursday
Emmerdale 6.4m
EastEnders 7.2m

Leaders' Debate
Thursday ITV1 (1/3) 6.3m

ITV1 All New Saturday
The Whole 19 Yards 4.5m
Britain's Got Talent 10.0m
The Prisoner 4.9m

Source: DSRPG.

The ITV shows aren't interviews, are they? They're just profiles of the leaders, which hardly seems worth bothering with.


The news ratings always go down at election time, especially before 2001 when the BBC extended the Nine O'Clock News to an hour, which was utterly unappealing. Since 2001 it's been extended to a more managable 45 minutes, and of course it's on later too, so the ratings are less affected. But in the past they used to plummet.

I remember in 1992 the Beeb even got a completely different set for the Nine O'Clock News during the election campaign so they could have co-presenters and pundits on it. And everyone complained because it was blue.

The soap ratings are very interesting- Corrie and EE are literally neck and neck a lot of the time, and the 'winner' changes day by day. Emmerdale's share yesterday was also very high and dented the One Show to probably its lowest Monday rating of the year.

The political shows rated badly, especially for ITV1 as that slot average has recently been averaging at least 1m more than that. I'm starting to think I vastly over-predicted the debate rating on the game (7.7m)!

Solid start for Joanna Lumley's Nile. It's the highest rated factual programme on ITV1 for a while (maybe a couple of years), though it was given the best slot possible. Decent lead over the New Tricks repeat, which fell back from its usual 4-4.3m range.

Quite a big drop for The Pacific compared to last week (down 40%), and The Cleveland Show's down about 1/3 compared to a few weeks ago due to no Glee lead-in. Pretty poor start for Ladies of Letters- the first series started with 1m and although the ratings did decrease throughout the first series, it was repeated on ITV1 to a bigger audience so I thought it would've been able to get at least 700k.

No they're mostly interviews with them and well-known(ish) supporters.