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Old 27-05-2010, 17:53
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Anyone know if BBC releases the voting figures publicly for each week? Not sure if they do - I know they do on ITV for things like The X Factor, but wasn't sure if BBC did.
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Old 27-05-2010, 18:27
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Old 27-05-2010, 18:35
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The closest thing we have for statistics for the show is here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_th..._(UK_TV_series)

Someone is updating it, as it now includes viewing figures up to the semi final night.
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Old 27-05-2010, 19:49
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I wish after the series finished they did the voting figures fo each show like itv do but sadly they dont
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Old 28-05-2010, 00:18
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Would have been interesting could have been someone different winning the vote each week
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Old 28-05-2010, 00:22
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We should protest to get them released!
I really want to see them - would make such interesting reading!
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Old 28-05-2010, 00:58
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During the last show Graham did announce that £413,000 had been raised for the BBC Performing Arts Fund. At 14p per call that means 2,950,000 telephone votes were made during the whole series.

That didn't seem like very much to me, so I tried to find the same information for HDYSAPLM. ADWD and IDA.

The BBC Performing Arts Fund received -

£506,720 from IDA (£631,603 in total from the BBC) - 14p per vote means 7,094,080 votes for the whole series.

£364,776 from ADWD - (£453,383 in total from the BBC), but money from ADWD also went to Children In Need. The 12p per vote was split equally, so 6p per vote means 6,079 600 votes for the whole series.

£416,055 from the BBC in 2006/2007, but I can't tell how much of that came from HDYSAPLM. It was 12p per vote from this show, so if all £416,055 came from HDSAPLM then 3,467,125 votes were cast for the whole series.

So it looks like far less people voted for Dorothy than for Maria, Joseph and Nancy.
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Old 28-05-2010, 03:45
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Buddy, check your arithmetic again.
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Old 28-05-2010, 09:01
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During the last show Graham did announce that £413,000 had been raised for the BBC Performing Arts Fund. At 14p per call that means 2,950,000 telephone votes were made during the whole series.

That didn't seem like very much to me, so I tried to find the same information for HDYSAPLM. ADWD and IDA.

The BBC Performing Arts Fund received -

£506,720 from IDA (£631,603 in total from the BBC) - 14p per vote means 7,094,080 votes for the whole series.

£364,776 from ADWD - (£453,383 in total from the BBC), but money from ADWD also went to Children In Need. The 12p per vote was split equally, so 6p per vote means 6,079 600 votes for the whole series.

£416,055 from the BBC in 2006/2007, but I can't tell how much of that came from HDYSAPLM. It was 12p per vote from this show, so if all £416,055 came from HDSAPLM then 3,467,125 votes were cast for the whole series.

So it looks like far less people voted for Dorothy than for Maria, Joseph and Nancy.
When GN announced the amount of money raised in the OTR final, my immediate thought was that it had the lowest votes of the all the series, which may also explain why so many different people ended up in the sing off.

Before announcing the winner of ADWD, I remember GN saying over 3 million votes had been cast in the final alone. He also said that just over £0.5m had been raised for CIN and BBC PA fund.
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Old 28-05-2010, 12:03
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Buddy, check your arithmetic again.
Ooops! It was late!!

CORRECTION!

The BBC Performing Arts Fund received -

£506,720 from IDA (£631,603 in total from the BBC) - 14p per vote means 3,619,429 votes for the whole series.


Sorry!

PS That makes much more sense, as I'm sure many more votes were cast for the Josephs because the drool factor kicked in!
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Old 28-05-2010, 16:59
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During the last show Graham did announce that £413,000 had been raised for the BBC Performing Arts Fund.
I thought he said over £400,000, I don't remember him being specific?
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Old 29-05-2010, 13:16
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I thought he said over £400,000, I don't remember him being specific?
You could check on iPlayer at 31 minutes in - it could be $430k, but £413k divides by 0.14 exactly.
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Old 29-05-2010, 13:49
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When GN announced the amount of money raised in the OTR final, my immediate thought was that it had the lowest votes of the all the series, which may also explain why so many different people ended up in the sing off.

Before announcing the winner of ADWD, I remember GN saying over 3 million votes had been cast in the final alone. He also said that just over £0.5m had been raised for CIN and BBC PA fund.
Yes, I remember that!

You're probably right about the low number of votes in OTR as a whole. I think also that the viewers are now well aware that anyone who's in the final 10/11/12 stands a good chance of getting work as a result of being on the show, so there isn't the sense of urgency now that there would have been in HDYSAPLM and ADWD.

Also, the fact that everyone was in the bottom two at some point does suggest that there was no real consistancy in the OTR voting. Whereas in HDYSAPLM, there was one contestant who was never in the bottom two (the winner) and one who was in the bottom two every week bar one. In ADWD, there were two contestants who were never in the sing-off (the winner and runner-up) and four who, between them, were involved in every sing-off. In OTR there were two contestants who were never in the sing-off (the winner and runner-up) and two or three who were in more than one sing-off.
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Old 29-05-2010, 13:55
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Another thought. I wonder why they stopped donating some of the phone vote money to Children In Need? They did it with HDYSAPLM and ADWD - and Lee's charity single rasied money for CIN. Danielle's OTR single is raising money for a prostate cancer charity. A good cause, but CIN would have been more fitting, surely.

I've just realised that the Prostate Cancer charity was probably chosen because of ALW's recent illness. However, it still doesn't answer the question of why the phone vote money no longer goes to CIN. I seem to remember that SCD phone vote money also used to go to CIN, but I think they've stopped that now.
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Old 29-05-2010, 16:45
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Another thought. I wonder why they stopped donating some of the phone vote money to Children In Need? They did it with HDYSAPLM and ADWD - and Lee's charity single rasied money for CIN. Danielle's OTR single is raising money for a prostate cancer charity. A good cause, but CIN would have been more fitting, surely.

I've just realised that the Prostate Cancer charity was probably chosen because of ALW's recent illness. However, it still doesn't answer the question of why the phone vote money no longer goes to CIN. I seem to remember that SCD phone vote money also used to go to CIN, but I think they've stopped that now.
After all the telephone scandals the BBC reviewed it's 'phone in' policy. Then in January 2008 the BBC announced a strict new policy on charity premium rate phone-ins, with only programmes directly linked to charity appeals able to raise money. So CIN appeal night is fine (as is Sports Relief, Fame Academy and Comic Relief, etc.), but something like the OTR show is now considered a 'third party' and cannot be used to raise money for charity by the BBC. Children in Need estimated the changes would cost it £1.8m per year.
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Old 29-05-2010, 17:42
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After all the telephone scandals the BBC reviewed it's 'phone in' policy. Then in January 2008 the BBC announced a strict new policy on charity premium rate phone-ins, with only programmes directly linked to charity appeals able to raise money. So CIN appeal night is fine (as is Sports Relief, Fame Academy and Comic Relief, etc.), but something like the OTR show is now considered a 'third party' and cannot be used to raise money for charity by the BBC. Children in Need estimated the changes would cost it £1.8m per year.
Ahhh, thanks. Seems a shame, though.
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Old 29-05-2010, 23:42
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Ahhh, thanks. Seems a shame, though.
Couldn't agree more.
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