Very good rating for the football and also for the F1 bumped to BBC Two - which both led to ITV1 recording by far its worst ever share:

BBC1 - 32.6%
BBC2 - 11.5%
ITV1 - 8.8%
C4 - 5.4%
C5 - 3.5%
Multichannel - 38.2%

Source: C4 Sales

2.5 million is its natural peak now, with 2 million being a more familiar rating. All this talk of BB attracting the sympathy vote seems to have been misproven. It is odd, though, that the celebrity version climbed back up to 3.2 million, but the summer version's ratings are similar to last year's. Maybe people prefer seeing someone famous.

Certainly doesn't justify the 400 or so people they send to cover it. Scheduling is hit hard by the World Cup and Wimbledon, and although it is the sort of event the BBC should cover, considering the timing where it's fallen I'm not sure they should be pursuing the rights.


Peaked pretty much where we expected it too. Surprised though at how low the first hour was, especially the first half hour. Thought it would be comfortably above 5m throughout.


Exactly - if anyone was to stay I expected it to be Emma - but Kate is of the smiley-happy-school of presenting which makes GMTV so unwatchable.



P.S. Slightly off-topic (I know, we never go off-topic in this thread ) but OFCOM's proposals for Product Placement.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumer/201...ent-proposals/

Personally I completely disagree with using a symbol to highlight Product Placement will be included in the show and I think a simple mention in the credits would be more than satisfactory.

Still would prefer it not to happen, especially in scripted programmes, and look forward to those saying it'll bring in millions of pounds of extra revenue being completely baffled when those spending money on product placement are suddenly spending last money on traditional spot advertising - rather than simply finding a new budget out of thin air to spend on a split-second spot in the back of the Kabin on Corrie.

Doctor Who performed well despite receiving no favours from the useless BBC scheduling dept.

Consistent timeslot next year please - this series deserved better overnights. Who cares about them anyway, since the timeshifts are excellent.

Its rating on Saturday was superb given the fanfare of the tennis, World Cup, the scorching heat at the time it went out - and I expect it will continue to top iPlayer and do good business in the officials too.

Bit of a weird one, but do you have the rating for Channel 4 Racing on Saturday? 1355-1555.

Many thanks.

Just a bit of a random request here, does anyone know how 'Peckham Finishing School for Girls' has been performing on BBC3? (I think first look is 10.30pm on a Wednesday). It has had a fairly big impact across Facebook and Twitter, so I'm curious whether it has been reflected in the ratings.

BBC1 got the quarter final match.

F1 breakdown:

12:00 - 1.1m (13.7%)
12:15 - 1.9m (22.9%)
12:30 - 2.3m (26.5%)
12:45 - 2.9m (31.5%)
13:00 - 4.2m (41.4%)
13:15 - 4.6m (42.5%)
13:30 - 4.8m (42.2%)
13:45 - 5.0m (42.8%)
14:00 - 4.7m (38.7%)
14:15 - 4.7m (36.0%)
14:30 - 4.9m (33.4%)
14:45 - 3.0m (18.4%)
15:00 - 1.2m (6.2%)
15:15 - 0.9m (4.1%)

Looks like that didn't include HD. The Guardian are reporting 19.5m peak.

That would fit in with the 17.5m SD peak at 4.15pm and the 10% HD share of the entire match.

Excellent rating for the football yesterday. Including HD, match average of 17.89m (82.4%) and 5min peak of 19.5m (85%) is stunning for the time of day. It actually surpassed ITV's England/USA primetime match from the other week, which is really good.

Looking back to through the TV ratings to 1986, it is by far the highest rated daytime match ever, involving England either weekday or weekend.


Previous England ratings here for comparision:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...postcount=5924

Anyone else find it bizarre how DS covers England ratings with only one line?

- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...ns-to-46m.html
- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...in-800000.html

Football has come a long way from the dark days of the mid eighties when an experiment to show games on Friday nights was cancelled due to low ratings and the game was plagued by hooliganism. Nowadays England or Man United playing in a major competition guarantees seventies style ratings.

Thats right
alot of the tv mags also state Emmerdale at 8:00pm and Corrie at 8:30pm

There is an Hour Emmerdale tommorow night is there not
and a 30mins Weds Corrie

Excellent rating for the football especially since England were effectively out after 70 minutes and well that ITV result ought to be framed in the gallery of extraordinary figures.

The ridiculous hype over the England football team once again will be summed up with thousands of discarded flags.

Top Gear dented a bit by the football but I think it did quite well there coming through a major football clash. I completely forgot it was on last night until half way through the show, as I expect many others did after the football distraction earlier in the day!

ITV1 is definitely in crisis with an audience share you'd associate with BBC Two. Perhaps their unimaginative programming and overkill with their few hit shows is hitting them hard. Also their inverted snobbery and love of the lowest common denominator is chasing the viewers away.

The World Cup is doing great but then it's an event and luckily South Africa is only 1-2 hours ahead of the UK. Brazil in 2014 is trickier as it's 4 hours behind but I imagine they'll schedule afternoon matches in primetime and have coverage after the news at 10.35pm.

Looking ahead there's The Commonwealth Games but I imagine that will be mostly be on during the morning and afternoon.

These are slightly wrong, the Beeb had the opening match in 2006, against Paraguay, and ITV had the other two. In 2000, the simulcast match was the middle one - against Germany - with the Beeb getting the decider against Romania. If England had qualified, both would have simulcast the quarter final. In 2002, both channels also simulcast Ireland's second round match with Spain.

As for the quarter final picks this time, as has already been said the 3pm kick-offs are much more appealing than the 7.30 kick-offs, and the Beeb have the added complication of the ladies final at Wimbledon. I would have suggested that ITV would have avoided Friday night because they have a much stronger schedule than Saturday night, but then I thought that would be the case tonight and got it wrong. Still, at least it got the millionth Taggart repeat in the past month off.

I don't know why ITV didn't put Corrie in the alternative schedule for Tuesday at 8pm, I know it might confuse viewers but it's no more confusing than announcing it may or may not be on Monday. And then showing it unscheduled on Wednesday. It seems that ITV seem to want to show Corrie only on its usual days or not at all, which would be sensible had they not spent the last year moving it around every other week.

As for Saturday, I thought it was the right decision not to put Andy Murray on BBC1, because at the end of the day it wasn't that big enough a match to pull in a BBC1 audience. In addition ITV were showing football so you're putting sport against sport and the Beeb would have received thousands of complaints about why there was sport on BBC1 and ITV, and why neither of the schedules in the Radio Times were being followed.


Or perhaps it was because another channel was showing England vs Germany?

Or perhaps it was just the fact that BBC1 had 2 World Cup games yesterday, including England Vs Germany and the F1 and Top Gear on BBC2?

Why would any channel waste new programming up against that? ITV did the sensible thing yesterday and pushed quite a lot of viewers over to the m/c options which are about 300% more profitable than ITV1

Today though I think it is very likely there will be schedule changes to accommodate Murray on BBC One. The later he appears on court the better as BBC One have quite a poor schedule lined up this evening, almost entirely made up of repeats bar Panorama and news.

Ah yes, on checking you are correct. I seem to have typed them in the wrong order.

Oh dear, seems like Piers Morgan is using ratings in yet another argument with a chatshow host, this time Alan Carr: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-annoying.html

Err, where on earth does he get three times the audience from? So far, this series of Chatty Man has averaged about 1.8m in the overnights. Triple that and you get 5.4m. Out of 21 editions of Life Stories, Piers has only cleared that twice - once for Katie Price, and once for Simon Cowell. The average is substantially lower at 4.5m.

He really should do his research before boasting about his own show's success which has precious little to do with him and a lot to do with the guests. The edition with Michael Winner couldn't even break 2m on a chilly April night despite inheriting an audience of over 6m from Harry Potter.

Piers really should keep his mouth shut, Chattyman is a great show and Alan is a good host and a lot funnier too.

The irony is Piers' show falls as low as 2m if he doesn't have a good enough guest which is appalling for ITV, whereas Alans show is consistently between 1.5m and 2m which is good for its C4 slot.