Thankyou

I agree. And Corrie is doing fine. Compared to EE, it's not up as much, but that isn't really something that should bother ITV. It's not like advertisers are going to switch their spend to EE.

They could still promote a "big week" with more appropriate scheduling.

No - but think of it like this: what will get more money against EastEnders? Coronation Street or Britain's Got Talent? Definitely the latter. If you then count in the extra half hour for Britain's Got Talent and it probably more than makes up the amount it bought it last year - except ITV are getting more money for their 'other' shows (Coronation Street) too.

But is this not because of the change in Barb's panel which it was claimed to result in a average of 4% rating rise in all shows?

If you factor this 4% into this year's ratings, corrie is down while EastEnders and Emmerdale are both still up by decent margins.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.60m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.48m
19:00 Home and Away 1.11m
19:30 Australia's Got Talent 1.59m
21:00 Grey's Anatomy (20/24) 0.93m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.32m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.25m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.28m
19:30 Top Gear 1.26m
21:00 NEW Australian Druglords 0.95m

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.85m
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.66m
18:30 Neighbours 0.68m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.91m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.77m
20:00 Modern Family (3/24) 1.52m
20:30 NCIS (22/24) 1.46m
21:30 NCIS: Los Angeles (18/24) 0.96m

Shares
Seven - 28.3%
Ten - 25.1%
Nine - 24.3%
ABC1 - 12.6%
SBS One - 2.8%

Just for comparison purposes in a few hours time.
Last year on the Tuesday during Britain's Got Talent week Holby City had 3.84m (16.3%) - its lowest ever rating. And Eastenders had 5.28m (26.7%) - due to a clash with Emmerdale.

So why with ITV1 HD in 4m households can they only pick up 459,000 for a football match, when Sky back in early 2009 can achieve 300,000 in less than 1m homes?

Why didn't viewers go out of their way to watch ITV1 HD's football?

re HD take up rate - most viewers are not bothered about it right now, a main reason is habit clicking the first 5 channels on the remote or tv guide, currently less than 1 million viewers see a particular programme in HD ..........personally I watch 15+ hrs a week on espn, bbc, c4, nat geo and discovery HD channels, just recently have been tuning into itv HD when I remember the channel number

The biggest problem is that a sizeable number of Sky HD viewers, ITV1 HD's largest potential audience, do not realize that they can now get ITV1 HD.

For two years they've seen promos for ITV HD and knew they couldn't get it.

Now they can, but they haven't been told they can!!

ITV really need to tell viewers where they can find it.

Even four years down the line, Sky always give out the HD channel numbers, ITV need to do the same.

It's not just Sky viewers. I've seen several posts on other forums where Freesat viewers didn't realise it was a linear channel now and not just 'red button'.

BBC1
7:00pm The One Show - 4.26m (22.3%)
7:30pm EastEnders - 6.24m (26%)
8:00pm Holby City - 3.81m (15.1%)
9:00pm Luther - 2.95m (11.6%)
10:00pm BBC News - 4.1m (19.6%)

ITV1
7:00pm Emmerdale - 6.92m (34%)
7:30pm Britain's Got Talent - 9.82m (39.5%)
9:00pm Coronation Street - 9.52m (37.6%)
9:30pm Britain's Got Talent - 9.52m (37.3%)
10:00pm News at Ten - 3.3m (16.1%)

Thanks PJ!

Really surprised at how much EastEnders held up last night, great rating for it all considering, and not far behind Emmerdale.

Disappointing for Britain's Got Talent and Coronation Street, especially considering BBC One flopped between 20:00 and 22:00.

EDIT: Are these with or without HD? If its without, then it could be another 10m+ for all 3...

I know 9.5 million is a great figure in theory but it seems with the hype BGT should, at the moment, be over 11 million....Perhaps everyones watching HD

Thanks PJ. I presume these exclude HD, so if so, BGT and Corrie held up pretty well, and I guess the first half hour of BGT was dragged down by EastEnders, which performed extremely well. The same can't be said for Holby and Luther unfortunately, even though they are actually both slightly higher than I thought they would be.

EE held up extremely well last night-even higher than the Emmerdale clash last week! Emmerdale seemed to get a nice boost from BGT following it.

Considering last night's BGT (imo) was one of the worst semi finals ever 9.8m is a very respectable figure. I simply couldn't believe that this is some of the best talent this country has and it was very hard to pick a top 2 from last nights bunch, so I'm susprised the results held up as well.

I really fear for Waterloo Road tonight-with no EE lead in, BGT head start, and the fact Holby fell to 3.8m I think we could be seeing sub 3m for it and not much more for JA.

DS's soap roundup says that Coronation Street added 394k with HD, so it's total audience was 9.91m last night, which is OK.

I think in terms of repeatability Corrie has to way of enhancing its viewers. For EastEnders there's the 10pm repeat which is well within viewing grasp of its demographic, and perhaps for a large amount is actually a preferable time. The Sunday recap has held its slot for decades and i think gains close to 2 million. The IPlayer is perhaps one of the nets most well known and used on demand service. Corrie on the other hand has an ungodly hour repeat on ITV2 which from what i can see has no real fixed timeslot...and ITV Player...well does anyone really use it?

1.73 for the BBC3 Repeat

BGT has no hype this year. The figures are a little disappointing but then its still 3 times what ITV get in that slot. Eastenders held up extremely well.

I am assuming those figures for ITV are without HD. Eastenders held up fantastically well, rest of BBC1 flatlined pretty much, shame about Luther, last nights episode was AMAZING!!

Terrific figures for EastEnders considering! I knew it would be higher last night, but I wasn't expecting it to go up that much. Just proves to me really that the BBC could have been onto a winner if they had stripped it across the week at 7:30pm. OK, that would involve moving it out of two of its usual slots, but the Monday was a bank holiday anyway and I think more people would have found it scheduled like that rather than right in the middle of BGT.

However, it swiftly went downhill after that for the BBC with both Holby City and Luther hitting new all-time lows. I am surprised Luther fell that much actually because I didn't really believe there would be much of a crossover audience between it and BGT, unless the drop was more to do with viewers not really digging the show like we've seen previously.

Again though the night wasn't a total disaster for the BBC compared to what we've seen recently. 2.9m at 9pm is actually not too shabby compared to recent efforts. Not saying Luther should be recommissioned, just pointing that out. And at 10pm the battle of the news bulletins wasn't even close- no matter how many bums are on seats watching ITV before 10pm, it is one hell of a task trying to keep them there for the news it seems.

So I'd say overall the BBC should be extremely pleased, heck, proud even, of how well BBC One held up last night. Even on one of ITV1's biggest nights of the year, it didn't suffer the absolute thrashing it could have done.

As for ITV, I think they will be rather underwhelmed by how BGT week is going so far and dismayed at how well EastEnders fought back.

Good point. It's exactly why I don't regularly follow Corrie but do regularly follow EastEnders, why I've managed to keep up with Waterloo Road for so long despite rarely watching it live...

BBC iPlayer is a faultless, consistently excellent experience with high quality video.
ITV Player is a fault-ridden, consistently underpar "experience" with low quality video.

This has a knock on effect too. Think of the BBC, who "series stack" drama series. Viewers are getting savvy to this, and will not dismiss a programme because they miss the live transmission; they know they can use iPlayer to catchup with however many eps they've missed. Then, who knows, they may tune in to the majority of the rest of the season on TV.

Over at ITV, miss an episode of something and there is often little point in bothering to continue (it was probably as good as axed before the first episode transmitted ). The cumbersome ITV Player is not really used by anyone other than the mid to high tech savvy viewers - not the average joe. They'll just search for it on BBC iPlayer, not find it, then watch The One Show instead.

Think of it this way - it is more of a perceived burden to start following a show on ITV than the BBC. With the BBC one never thinks "sh!t, what if I'm out for an episode, then what will I do? What if I'm busy when it's on?" - they simply have iPlayer there ready. Viewers are more willing to commit to BBC programmes.

ITV need to sort out their online catchup service and bring it into line with the BBC - because it risks losing a generation of younger viewers who, currently, would pick the BBC hands down over ITV - The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent being the only exceptions.

itvpresscentre: A peak audience of 11.9 million watched last night’s Britain’s Got Talent semi-final on ITV1 and ITVHD @gottalent #britiansgottalent

5-Minute Peaks
31/05 - 12.3m (Monday)
01/06 - 11.9m (Tuesday)

Broadcast have the total (including HD) ratings for last night:

Britain's Got Talent: 10.3m (41.5%)
Coronation Street: 9.9m (39.2%)
Britain's Got Talent Results: 10.0m (39%)

Luther: 3.1m (12.5%)

I think Corire will be up again in terms of ratings, the plot is now gripping and Wednesday night is always a dull night throughout the whole of freeview

I think its a shame for Luther, its never gonna do well between BGT and Corrie. I hope the BBC takes its slot into consideration when thinking whether to renew it or not. I bet PVR and iplayer views will be higher.