Waste of time sending an email. I concluded months ago that George D__khead, sorry Dixon, is an ITV double agent who has lodged himself in the BBC hierarchy and holds compromising information about the Director General, so cannot be removed from post.

It's the only logical explanation....

TBF Ive never seen Live from Studio 5 below 0.3 million, and its only a third in primetime. lol

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.47m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.44m
19:00 Home and Away 0.97m
19:30 World's Strictest Parents 0.74m
20:30 City Homicide (3/18) 0.81m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.27m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.14m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 0.93m
19:30 Hey Hey it's Saturday 1.17m

Ten
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.60m
18:30 Neighbours 0.60m
19:00 The 7pm Project 1.02m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 2.47m
*series high.
20:30 Lie to Me (15/22) 1.17m

ABC1
20:30 Spicks and Specks 1.17m
21:00 The Gruen Transfer 1.28m

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Amazing for MasterChef, at least 1 million higher than everything else.

On a negative note, City Homicide performed poorly for first run aussie drama. Looks like Seven may have made a mistake bringing it back if its numbers don't improve soon as All Saints was doing better numbers at 9:30pm and that didn't survive. The signs were there last year that the show was losing popularity, but they decided to stand by it.

Elsewhere, Hey Hey recovered slightly for the last in the series. Kylie's appearance probably helped! Despite this I will be very surprised if we see it return, except maybe for a few more specials which rated better than the actual series.

Same as usual for Ten then:
Neighbours performing badly
7pm Project doing alright
Masterchef bringing in millions upon millions
Lie To Me doing decently.

ABC1 seem to have a good formula for Wednesday nights, I've seen a bit of The Gruen Transfer on youtube and it's actually quite interesting.

Home and Away and Neighbours both down on yesterday, but Masterchef did excellently. ABC1 performed well, too.

I dont think it was, dont get me wrong the join was less clear, but there were times when it seemed like two eps shunted together


The Gruen Transfer is an amazing show, something I currently enjoy, its a tradgey the BBC never got its version off the ground, but honestly I would be quite happy to watch the aussie version on BBC 4.

Wednesday 21 July

BBC1: 18.8%
ITV1: 17.4%
BBC2: 8.9%
C4: 7.9%
FIVE: 4.6%
ITV2: 2.4%

Top of the Terrestrials: Emmerdale: 6.16m (33.7%) [183k/1%]
King of the Multichannels: Katie & Alex: For Better or Worse - 1.22m (5.3%) [+1: 328k/1.7%]

No, the episode was credited as follows:

EastEnders
Written by
Karen Laws
Colin Wyatt

Therefore it was two episode as otherwise it would have being:

EastEnders
Written by
Karen Laws and Colin Wyatt

Also, it very rare for an episode of EastEnders to be written by two writers.

Wednesday 21st July Overnights
BBC1 (inc BBC HD)
BBC News at Six: 3.7m 23.4%
Regional News and Weather: 5.1m 30.1%
The One Show: 3.5m 19.4%
Penguin Island: 3.3m 18.4%
Celebrity MasterChef: 4.7m 22.3%
Traffic Cops: 3.7m 16.2%
BBC News at Ten: 4.2m 20.0%
Regional News and Weather: 3.8m 20.1%
Trawlermen: 1.8m 14.6%

BBC2
Antiques Road Trip: 1.3m 7.8%
Mary, Queen of Shops: 1.2m 6.9%
How to Beat Tough Times: Money Watch: 1.4m 6.9%
Dragons' Den: 3.1m 13.5%
Qi: 1.9m 9.2%
Newsnight: 1.1m 7.0%
That Mitchell and Webb Look: 0.4m 4.7%

ITV1 (inc ITV HD)
ITV News & Weather: 2.9m 17.3%
Emmerdale: 6.1m 33.3%
The Lakes: 3.1m 17.2%
Midsomer Murders: 4.1m 18.5%
ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.3m 11.0%
Crank: 0.9m 8.5%

C4 (inc C4 +1)
Fern Britton's 5 O'Clock Show: 1.1m 8.4%
The Simpsons: 1.5m 7.8%
Hollyoaks: 1.2m 5.9%
Channel 4 News: 0.8m 3.9%
How to Look Good Naked: 1.8m 7.7%
My Weird and Wonderful Family: 1.9m 7.5%
Big Brother: 2.7m

Five
Neighbours: 1.3m 9.8%
Home and Away: 1.0m 6.6%
Live From Studio Five: 0.2m 1.4%
Escape from...: 0.6m 3.5%
Emergency Bikers: 1.1m 5.4%
NCIS: 1.2m 5.1%
CSI: NY: 1.0m 5.3%
K-Ville: 0.4m 3.9%

BBC HD
Doctor Who Confidential: 0.006m 0.04%
Doctors: 0.005m 0.03%
The One Show: 0.03m 0.16%
Hole in the Wall: 0.033m 0.18%
Planet Earth: 0.046m 0.22%
Dragons' Den: 0.136m 0.59%
The Day of the Triffids: 0.042m 0.25%
Last edited by rzt : 22-07-2010 at 10:38

A poor night all round

Really? I thought Celebrity MasterChef, the Midsomer Murders repeat and Dragon's Den did well.

Just a poor night of television really.

Oh dear, most ratings not too good

On the subject of BBC scheduling it looks rather like how things were twenty/thirty years ago when people would just "put up with it", as if they were waiting for a bus that has been delayed.

Which is fine for those few people who switch on a channel and only watch that channel for hours, like some kind of Circus du BBC.

But audiences are increasingly making a note of when a programme is on and switching to that channel at that specific time on that specific day for single programmes.

I certainly don't wish to be exposed to ITV1 for more than I have to. When's Folyes War on? is all I need to know.

The BBC schedulers seem to be still living in 1976 when TV was a set menu, now it's a supermarket and you just can't keep moving things around.

Sorry, there was a typo in the post above. Big Brother actually got 2.7 million last night, including +1, according to C4Sales.

Big Brother Ratings are Incorrect.

Channel 4 Overnights saying 2.69m.

Ah, thats better!

Masterchef did very well last night, benefiting from poor competition and it should do well in filling some tough slots, performing similarly to Waterloo Road.

I expected Penguin Island to be about 1 million higher-just because it managed the exact same rating against Corrie last week and it was up against an ITV factual repeat. Not quite sure where all the viewers went at 7.30pm, but with not a great choice, the 7pm audience becomes strangled somewhat, with Emmerdale down. The 7.30pm slot is totally wasted when there isn't football on now.

Fantastic for DD-does anyone know why it's moving to Mondays next week..putting it up against BBC1's biggest factual programme?

Decent night for ITV1-considering everything from 7.30pm onwards was a repeat they performed very well and Midsomer is filling 2 hours of Summer primetime very well.

FIVE over 1m in the key slots again & I have noticed H&A seems to be a lot closer to Neighbours than it used to be, but the First Look showings seem down.

I do think How To Look Good Naked should be put to rest now. 6 series on and the format seems to be a little tired and I think it's the perfect time to give the show, and Gok the chop from CH4, especially with their creative renewal.

Quite decent for ITV in primetime, as I think most were repeats. Expected more for Penguin Island but Masterchef did very well indeed.

Dragons Den did well yet again.

I expeted more from My Weird and Wonderful Family on C4 considering the amount of promotion and advertising it has recieved. Big Brother did very well, second consecutive 2.7m, and I think the rating of last night has brought the week average to the highest since Week 1,If tonight can get 2.6m+ and the Friday shows even though there is no eviction can get 2.5+ would be fantastic.

Can anyone confirm the ratings for C4's 'The 5'O'Clock Show' with other presenters??? From memory isn't 1.1m a big leap for it and if it is could this mean that Fern will get the gig on a permanent basis?

Mary, Queen of Scots did well considering it was a repeat and I think that 1.1 is good for the Five O'Clock show. 3.2 (including HD) for Dragon's Den is good as they only got 3m last week. Masterchef did quite well but I think it would have been better to switch that with Traffic cops as it lost 1 million Masterchef viewers.

PJMillar when are you going to start reporting the afternoon ratings for the soaps?

Emergency Bikers did okay but I think it would have fared better on a less competitive night.

I like Gok but I think the Good Naked format has run its course and I think Channel 4 could ultilise Gok in other projects like Fashion Fix. With Mary Portas arriving at Channel 4, no soubt she'll be looking to do fashion shows alongside the shows she's known for.

Not much stands out, but good for Masterchef. Surprised Dragons' Den wasn't higher considering the opposition.


Did you get my PM with a ratings request? MotoGP from last Sunday on BBC2 @ 12:45.

MG are reporting 2.1m for Big Brother [inc. +1], but that's for the period of 22:00-23:40 which was the plan until Davina couldn't make it back to England. 2.7m is the average for 22:00-23:15 which was the time it was on air.

Some multichannel ratings from yesterday:

ITV2- 9pm Katie & Alex: For Better For Worse - 1.215 million/5.3%
ITV3- 9pm - Best of the Royal Variety - 427,000/1.9%
BBC4- 9pm How the West was Lost - 487,000/2.2%
Fiver- 8pm The Hotel Inspector - 187,000/0.9%
Five USA- 8pm CSI: Miami - 305,000/1.5%
More4- 9pm Time Team - 228,000/1%
E4- 9pm - Alien vs Predator 336,000/1.6%
Sky1- 9pm - Coyote Ugly 186,000/0.9%