Pretty good for Top Gear because it started half way though the BBC1 and ITV1 programmes. Countryfile starting half an hour earlier took some of the Heartbeat audience and it's now obvious to see that it did well for its first episode due to the poor competition on BBC1.


Including HD, I guess that'll be at ~6.8m which is still very good and a strong ~90% retention despite the slot change.

Edit: Just seen that the HD broadcast started an hour later than SD so the HD audience might have been smaller than usual.


Yikes, what a flop this is turning out to be!

Very silly for BBC schedulers to move Sherlock forward half an hour...why?? And moved back to 9pm next week...seems to have been dented by the early start and the tough BBC2 competition.

As expected for HB really considering Sherlock started half way through, but I wouldn't have expected it to fall by almost 2m 2 weeks ago.

Ouch for DSB..not sure what happened there, but the Cricket lead in and very tough competition has just sent it to the pile of FIVE's entertainment flops which is a real shame.

Excellent for Sherlock, especially considering the slot change. It dented Heartbeat too and I guess Taggart got about 3.5m and Titchmarsh about 2.5m. Countryfile also dents Heartbeat and it is time for it to end. Decent for Top Gear considering the slot. Dreadful for DSB!

Dubsj do you know how Hunchback of Notre Dame did on Five yesterday?

Quite a bit down on last week really which is surprising given some were forecasting a slight rise if anything. But the change of slot didn't help matters. Still an excellent performance.


Oh my goodness! What a ghastly rating.

I say this with a heavy heart, but I think now is the time for Channel 5 to give up on UK commissions like this one. They tried something different and it's actually quite a decent production but it's clearly not worked out and the same will happen again, again and again. For reasons I will probably never figure out, they are never going to rate.

Channel 5 should concentrate on what it is good at. So more US imports, more sport, more films and more factual as well.

F1 average 4.5m / 39.6%

Do you know how Taggart rated dubsj ?

Taggart 4m / 15.5%

Pretty good considering a Brit went out early on and the other one was doing, well, crap.

Do you know how Qualifying did on the Saturday? Sorry, don't mean to be a pain.

And an ouch for Taggart.

Thanks. Not too bad, I was expecting a lower rating than last week due to Sherlock having a headstart, tougher competition (Athletics/Top Gear) and Heartbeat providing a smaller lead-in than previous weeks. It's still capable of ~5m if ITV gives it a Corrie lead-in on Mondays, maybe next summer.

Qualifying F1 31.7.2010
Average 2.5m / 28.1%

Thanks.

Morning dubsj. Any idea how The Hunchback of Notre Dame performed between 17:20 and 19:10 on Channel Five? Many Thanks in advance!

It isn't that bad considering it started midway through Sherlock.

So, we learn more about ITV's pay TV strategy tomorrow. The Broadcast article has an interesting quote:


http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...016590.article

So it's a non starter really that idea. It'll be interesting to see what they have in mind and whether or not any existing content will crossover to pay even if existing brands do not.

Sky1 has recommissioned 'Strike Back' with an extended run:

First series officially averaged 0.9 million. It was pretty good from the couple of episodes I watched so I'm glad Sky has ordered another series. Looks like they're heading in the right direction, after the HBO deal, sitcom commissions, Got To Dance success, and now this.

Good decision. Strike Back showed a lot of promise and Sky1's current [UK] drama slate is very poor.

Yep. There's also a few new original drama series on the way, featuring Phillip Glenister, John Simm and David Morrisey. So it looks like they're putting more of an effort into drama. Some of their dramas in the past have been quite good, but they were one-offs. The ones they're commissioning these days are proper series which can be recommissioned.

Also, in another article about Sky it says:

That would be a big coup for them if they tied up deals to all those channels too!

From Twitter.

LiamHamiltonDCD: 3.5m average, 16% share - peak of a million more - for 3 & half hours of European athletics finals in peak rounds off golden week for BBC2 - 1 minute ago via web

ITV2 and ITV3 have no mileage as a pay channel, well because you just wouldn't pay to watch them. If they want a pay channel, ITV should strip any sports away from ITV4 and pad out the ITV4 schedules with defunct Men & Motors programming, as well as new commissions. If they then launched an ITV Sport channel, people will pay for it.

Most people who have Sky will be able to recieve ITV2-4 anyway, but it would still drastically decrease their viewership and ITV2 is the biggest digital channel so ITV would be stupid to chuck that away.

spoilers for w/e 25th July 2010

BBC1
Sherlock quite popular... no s**t (8.7 million)
Who Do You Think You Are - 7.22 m

BBC2
6.65 million watch Tom & Cameron burn up the Top Gear track

ITV1
Heartbeat still the most popular non-soap

Channel 4
patronising C4 doc on Amish teenagers top chart

Five
CSI Miami gets under 3 million, but still most watch prog

Multi-channel
Pete beats Katie in battle of awful ITV2 fly-on-the-wall docs

back later when it's all live

Yep, I'd go along with that. Eurosport can make it work, so why not ITV? The only problem I can see is with the Tour De France coverage where ITV have the free-to-air rights and Eurosport the pay TV rights.

For stuff like that, they should air it on ITV1 where possible to boost the ITV Sports brand, otherwise would just go on ITV4. I think Tour De France is a big pull, but I don't think people would pay for it in the way that they would boxing or football.

I know ITV Sports channel failed about 10 years ago when it was on OnDigital, but I think ITV were clueless back then and their sports coverage is much stronger now.

Wow... big timeshift for Sherlock! Does that not even include HD?

Highest ever for WDYTYA.

That seems to be a very high timeshift.

Anyone got the latest top 20 programmes of the year list? I always enjoy having a look at it but I can't remember seeing it posted here in a while.