I don't really understand Australian ratings, what is the UK equivalent of that? 5-10m? 10-20m?

I don't really want to wade into the Corrie debate - it seems a little unseemly arguing about it and I don't know enough about the storyline to really judge - so I'll just say it was a sensible, safe move which, in the grand scheme of things, only causes minor inconvenience in the short run. It at least means we won't get the unneccessary and trivial media hoopla we might otherwise have endured.


Surprised that Doctor Who is airing right up to 7.30, when the game kicks off. I thought they'd leave a gap as people will gravitate over - even just for the build up. It could be pretty heavily hit - though not half as hard as Casualty will be. Expect record lows there. I can't believe they don't air a movie while the games on (a different one if Fockers has to be post-watershed) then put on Casualty from about 9.20ish to pick up the post-game audience...

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.59m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.48m
19:00 Home and Away 1.05m
19:30 The Dog Squad 0.91m
20:00 Surf Patrol 0.82m
20:30 The Pacific (10/10) 0.98m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.28m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.21m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1.16m
19:30 Hey Hey it's Saturday 1.00m

Ten
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.68m
18:30 Neighbours 0.61m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.92m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.97m
20:30 Lie to Me (11/22) 1.19m

ABC1
20:30 Spicks and Specks 1.12m

Shares
Ten - 26.1%
Seven - 23.9%
Nine - 23.7%
ABC1 - 13.4%
SBS One - 4.7%

Very good night for Ten bar Neighbours. MasterChef hit an impressive series high considering it's still quite early in the run. Lie to Me retention wasn't brilliant but it was good enough, winning its slot.

Poor night for the other two really with mediocre numbers for Hey Hey and The Pacific finale below 1m. I think Seven expected a lot more from the latter but it really hasn't delivered. It started well but it lost momentum quickly and hasn't recovered since.

The population difference is something like 3:1 so a rating of 2m in Australia is the equivalent of about 6m in the UK.

Might not sound that impressive on the face of it given we record that kind of rating and higher quite regularly over here, but those numbers are much rarer in Australia mostly due to the difference in culture, TV plays a much smaller role in their lives, due to the better weather etc.

Also Ten is the third biggest commercial network in Australia, which makes it more impressive. Five have never recorded a rating of 6m for a UK series as far as I'm aware, or got anywhere near to doing so. Only live sport has scored that kind of audience for the network.

Not the best for The Pacific, but then again, it's only a one off series.

Neighbours might improve soon due to the rainy season in Aus, but I won't hold my breath. 7pm Project still doing alright and Masterchef Australia just seems to be a big powerhouse for Ten.

Yeah, The 7pm Project has really picked up since MasterChef started, pushing Home and Away to third place in all three key demographics in that timeslot. In 16-39, which is Ten's main target audience, The Project is actually ahead of both H&A and Two and a Half Men:

TEN THE 7PM PROJECT 339,000
9 TWO AND A HALF MEN -RPT 314,000
7 HOME AND AWAY 239,000

So there could be hope for this show yet. I could see it hitting 1m in Total People again soon.

With Coronation Street moving to Saturday, does this mean they will have used up all their ad-break allowance in the BGT final before Corrie airs?

Also presumably the ITV News that was scheduled for 23:30 half way through Batman Begins will have now have to be moved earlier?

I think Britain's Got Talent will fall again, due to the lack of Corrie, and the separate results shows all week - which haven't work and should never have happened.

Don't change with a winning formula. ITV is too intent on managing in the short term to succeed in the long term.

We've seen it before with Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and now with Britain's Got Talent, airing it for just too long .

It's overkill, and it's awful. Same happened with Dancing on Ice this year.

I think, last year, ITV did everything right. Its schedules looked extremely clean, with a brilliant week. Also I think the break for the Champions League helped break everything up a bit...

There were sure to be people away on half term week, and people coming home from work do not always get home for 7.30pm. 8.30pm was absolutely perfect for BGT!

ITV also had the brilliant News at Ten, which it decided to scrap in spite of improving viewing figures. It became worthy in its own right, and gave Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham a platform in which they could've become more popular than the BBC News alternative.

2010 has been a disaster in so many ways...

impressive

Neghbours should really be getting more 700,000's at this time time of year.

As for ITVs saturday night Corrie, I plan on watching Batman, so as unlikely as it is, I actually care

looking on Digiguide


looks like it may need to be post 9pm

So BGT is 7:30pm - 10pm, would they really air Corrie at 10pm, or at they going to split BGT? either way it does Batman will probaly start later, 10:30pm or maybe 10:45 if they air the news before.

In short I dont know what ITV will do.

there must be a certain irony in this seeing as you must have done 5,000 fantasy schedules for ITV..

Oooh, which is better?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...ly-900000.html

OR

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...orms-well.html

There's only one way to find out....

(Yes, they are both ratings for Sunday, but written by entirely different people...)

2.6.2010

Harry Hill 6.2m / 26.1%

BGT 10m & 8.5m.

Thanks dubsj - good figures for all there considering. How did BBC1 get on?

Yeah I agree. Normally I would say that BGT Results were very low, but considering they started halfway through Junor Apprentice, and starting against Junior Apprentice was a Harry Hill repeat, that isn't all bad. Fine for BGT performances, and great for TV Burp considering that it wasn't even a new 'best of', it was one that aired last December and will have got a high combined audience then.

Wednesday 2nd June Roundup
BBC One [inc. BBC HD]
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.1m (27.2%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 4.4m (26.9%)
19:00- The One Show: 3.5m (20.0%)
19:30- BBC News Special: 3.2m (15.9%)
20:00- Waterloo Road: 2.7m (11.6%)
21:00- Junior Apprentice: 4.2m (17.4%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 5.4m (24.9%)
22:25- Regional News and Weather: 4.2m (23.0%)
22:45- The Matador: 1.0m (9.1%)

BBC Two
18:00- Great British Menu: 2.0m (13.1%)
19:00- Timewatch: The People's Coronation: 0.8m (4.6%)
19:50- Coast: 1.0m (4.6%)
20:00- Springwatch 2010: 2.6m (11.1%)
21:00- Atlantis: The Evidence - A Timewatch Special: 1.9m (8.0%)
22:00- QI: 1.4m (6.5%)
22:30- Newsnight: 1.2m (8.1%)

ITV1 [inc. ITV HD]
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 3.3m (20.1%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 6.2m (35.5%)
19:30- Britain's Got Talent: 10.0m (45.6%)
21:00- Harry Hill's The Best of TV Burp: 6.1m (26.1%)
21:30- Britain's Got Talent - The Results: 8.5m (34.2%)
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather 4.7m: (22.2%)
22:35- Walking Tall: 1.9m (16.6%)

Channel 4 [inc. +1]
18:00- The Simpsons: 1.2m (7.2%)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.0m (5.8%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.9m (4.1%)
20:00- Three in a Bed: 1.3m (4.7%)
21:00- Genius of Britain: 0.9m (3.5%)
22:00- Desperate Housewives: 1.2m (5.4%)

Five
18:25- Live From Studio Five: 0.2m (1.1%)
19:30- Daring Raids of World War II: 0.5m (2.3%)
20:00- Tutankhamun: The Mystery Revealed: 0.9m (3.9%)
21:00- NCIS: 1.9m (7.8%)
22:00- CSI: NY: 1.0m (5.1%)
23:00- CSI: NY: 0.7m (6.8%)

BBC HD
19:00- The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion: 0.005m (0.03%)
20:00- Springwatch 2010: 0.147m (0.64%)
21:00- Junior Apprentice: 0.141m (0.59%)
22:00- Waterloo Road: 0.049m (0.26%)
23:00- Luther: 0.023m (0.22%)

Junior Apprentice held up rather well it seems. Ignoring the actual audience for BGT, the percentage share is particularly good - one of the highest this series.

Waterloo Road didn't do well at all. The respective news bulletins at 10pm did 'well', but that was expected due to events yesterday.

Amazing share for BGT last night-had the weather been a lot poorer I expect it would have transpired to a series high.

However I thought TV Burp might actually get better than 6m tbh, but I guess people turned over for JA and didn't turn back.

CH4 have really been suffering this week, whilst BBC2 and FIVE have held up better than I expected with their alternative programming.

Awful for Waterloo Road-but with an EE lead in and poor competition next week it could do a 19 Yards and bounce back to a series high.

Excellent for the news bulletins with a combined audience of 10m-surprised ITV's is so high actually.

I disagree. I think it's quite a bad rating for the results show, even taking into account that Harry Hill's TV Burp was on before it not Corrie.

First of all, when has BGT had to rely on lead-ins to get good ratings? In the last couple of years, it's always brought in the audiences regardless of what's on before it. Also, Harry Hill's TV Burp got about the same rating as Emmerdale which led into the first BGT show and that did well (a great share especially).

Junior Apprentice was harder competition than the other 9pm shows so far this week, but BGT's faced EE twice and averaged 9m+ up against it. I would say JA is definitely easier competition than EE. Even Eurovision's more popular than JA, but BGT still managed almost 10m against that.

I just think the seperate results show don't work for the semi finals. The first 15 minutes are complete filler: going over the phone numbers once again and seeing a guest artist performance. And I can understand why not as many people want to stay around for the actual results because it's not like The X Factor where we really know the contestants due to weeks of performances and there's a greater connection between the audience and performers. Also because there's so little content in the show, the judges decision keeps being made around 21:52, meaning people probably switch off after that and lower the average for the final 5-10mins. Last night's rating was the lowest for BGT in over two years. Even most of the semis in the first series, which on the whole was way less popular, got better ratings. It is disappointing IMO.

Ironically, the final should have a separate results show not the semis!

Has it been announced yet how ITV1 are going to schedule last nights Coronation Street?

No, but the EPG description for tonight's episode has changed to the description from yesterday's episode.

Tomorrow's episode shows the description from what would have been shown today.

Ahhh right! Cheers D.M.N.

Saturday seems to be the general consensus thought not sure if that's been formally declared? Too many pages to go through

Junior Apprentice did really well last night over 4m against BGT is impressive. It is one of my guilty pleasures, I must admit. Results show is low,I did not expect to see BGT posting those sorts of numbers.

Yeah, Junior Apprentice held up fantastically yesterday. Only a 19% drop compared to the last episode, which is good in comparison to the drops other BBC1 shows have faced this week. And it's higher than how the first couple of episodes rated. It's probably bad news for the Big Brother launch next Wednesday - if JA can get 4.2m against HH/BGT, it should be able to get 5m next week. That'll be a problem for BB.

I am so pleased that Junior Apprentice held up as well as it did. Definitely deserves it.

It didn't crash and burn at all like it could have done. That rating was actually higher than a few episodes early on when it didn't have BGT to contend with.

Waterloo Road was predictably hit hard though. I knew this was coming because there must be a broad similarity in the audience.

As for BGT, well what can you say really. It did well for the performance show, but the results show did rather disappointingly, even taking into account the lead-in. I guess 1.5m people did not care enough about any of the acts to come back at 9:30pm.

Harry Hill did slightly better than I was expecting. The figure I had in my head was 5.8m so 6.1m is actually not too bad.

I had not realised the launch was against Junior Apprentice, gosh that will be a hard one to call, Very similar demos. Is BB launch still a big deal? I gave up watching a few years ago, I would imagine it still gets 5-6m no?