ITV decided to go easy on BBC1 for the night with the National Movie Awards - which idiot decided to recommission that?! Million Pund Drop is building steadily. Junior Apprentice's boost could be shortlived.

At Idol's peak its UK equivalent would have been about 7.5m for a final. While interesting to illustrate the differences (thanks to D.M.N for doing the calculations), it's a bit like comparing the ratings of British shows today to what they had 10-15 years ago.

Although when you see it as 4.85m, it makes certain statements seem bizzare. Jeff Zucker called it the "most impactful show in the history of television" and other network executives refer to it as The Death Star. What on earth would they do if shows were getting 50% shares like we see here!


The Superbowl remains one of the few to buck the trend. In January it had 106m viewers which would be about 21m viewers to us.

US = UK TOP 5 SEASON 2009/10:
1. The Superbowl (CBS) - 106m = 21.2m
2. The Academy Awards (ABC) - 41.7m = 8.3m
3. Undercover Boss (CBS) - 38.65m = 7.7m
4. Winter Olympics (NBC) - 32.6m = 6.5m
5. American Idol (FOX) - 29.9m = 6.0m

I agree as I would have thought due to its length, it would end up on BBC Four or BBC Two. Wonder if they'll concentrate on the internationally known names like Susan Sarandon, Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker etc and drop Spike Lee and Emmit Smith who most people won't know.

Some of the celebrities of other versions of WYTYA could easily have been broadcast as British episodes like Ardal O'Hanlon and Diarmund Gavin from the Irish version and Cathy Freeman from the Australian version.

Who Do You Think You Are? is a rare show, where it does not really matters if its an import, as long as you know the celebrity featured.

I know BBC One showed Little Britain USA which was a HBO show, it is one of the few American shows like WDYTYA USA which have been shown on primetime BBC One.

it is a rare event a US show on BBC One primetime, and it should stay that way Little Britian USA I think was a co-production.

Well Million Pound Drop was great tonight. Even if every contestant was a replica of each other- Big Brother reject types.

They fairly whizzed through the contestants, as, well some weren't too bright and only lasted for a question or two.

Still no winner of any amount yet though, far less the Million.

Maybe have a big winner tomorrow, which I reckon they'll be expecting the highest ratings of the series for.

Prediction- I think they'll get well over 3 million tomorrow night! I'll go for 3.5million.

I found it a great laugh tonight though

Absolutely ridiculous decision to put a movie repeat on after your top show's finale. If they have nothing else that could possibly use a 15million + lead-in they could have at least moved More Talent into that slot.

The only thing I can think of is they'll use up all their ad space during the final, so don't want to use up any more money on programming on the night. Of course, what they're not thinking of is what impact the potential lead in could have on shows.

Hoping Million Pound Drop improved in last night's ratings. I'm sure some of those in the 'Gaining viewers under false pretences' thread might disagree...

The Drop 2.3m / 12.6% for Thurs 28.5.2010

All At Sea 2.8m / 12.8%

[quote=Fudd;40534318Of course, what they're not thinking of is what impact the potential lead in could have on shows.[/QUOTE]

Yeah it really helped Mumbai Calling!
This inheritance thing is waaayy overstated in importance. Viewers will probably say that after 150 minutes of watching BGT, thats it for the night regardless of what follows. Those that dont will switch to ITV2

Pitty The Drop dropped slightly. Poor end for All at Sea.

How did the soaps, HIGNFY and Outnumbered perform?

Outnumbered flopped with 0 viewers

Eastenders 7.7m / 39%
Emmerdale 5.8m & 6.7m / 31.9% & 31.2%
Coronation Street 7.2m / 31.6%
HIGNFY 5.3m / 23.4%
Would I Lie To You 3.6m / 16.4%

Ouch for the ITV soaps regardless of HD...

Including +1?

iPlayer stats out for April:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...April_2010.pdf

Top10:

1 Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 1 1,649,000
2 Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 2 1,354,000
3 Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 3 1,124,000
4 Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 4 1,082,000
5 Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 1 908,000
6 Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 2 786,000
7 Russell Howard's Good News S.2 Ep 4 725,000
8 Russell Howard's Good News S.2 Ep 5 715,000
9 Russell Howard's Good News S.2 Ep 3 713,000
10 Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 3 652,000

K

Very poor share for Corrie last night - 31.6% is similar to what Emmerdale got. It'll be interesting to see if it gets the major rise next week that ITV will be hoping for. I'm still not convinced the new-style BGT week schedule is worth it. Low for All at Sea, rounding off a pretty bad night for ITV1.

Strong share for EastEnders, bouncing back well from the last couple of days. The WILTY repeat also did pretty well when you consider the original showings were only getting 2.5-3.0m iirc.

The repeat of WILTY peformed better than its original airing!

There was nothing else on?

The Million Pound Drop Ratings - including +1
24/05 - 2,164,100
25/05 - 2,079,700
26/05 - 2,348,700
27/05 - 2,316,600
Series Average = 2,227,275 ==> 2.23 million

Source: Channel 4 Sales

I think it deserves renewal from those ratings.

Pleased for Channel 4 with these ratings. They should definitely renew this but they should only broadcast it in one-week burts a few times a year. It works well in this sort of 'event' TV style.

I agree - a week in January, a week in May/June and a week in September would be best IMO.