Using the power of the mind I've calculacted thus far after 28 days BB has an average viewer rating of......2.95 million.

3.4m Week 1
2.8m Week 2
2.7m Week 3
2.9m Week 4

If you throw in Friday's second show I get an average 2.91m.

BBC - Disney, Dreamworks
ITV - Universal, Warner Bros plus rights to James Bond, Harry Potter and Star Wars
Channel 4 - 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Entertainment Films, Pathe
Five - Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Disney.

Twilight is distributed by E1 Entertainment so I'm not sure which broadcaster owns the terrestrial rights.

Tuesday's semi final was watched by 12.3 million people in the Netherlands making it the most watched television broadcast ever.

A record it will hold for 5 days........

I don't know about that, Graham Norton is far more suited to prime time light entertainment than Jonathan Ross, who has never had a success with that. And the fact ITV are just about about to launch a prime time light entertainment show presented by the dreadful Stephen Mulhern hardly suggests their cupboard is bulging.

Christine Bleakley has done very little light entertainment so there's only really Ant and Dec and Paul O'Grady. Vernon Kay and Dermot O'Leary are no different to Steve Jones who the Beeb seem (somewhat inexplicably) interested in. Then the Beeb have been able to use people from other spheres to front their LE, like Richard Hammond with Total Wipeout or my future wife Claudia Winkleman on Let's Dance, and they'll probably use Jason Manford for more stuff, and there are people like Michael McIntyre or John Bishop. And of course because ITV have given up on kids shows, regional shows and comedy shows there's nowhere where new talent can be nurtured, unlike on the Beeb.

And there's Brucie, of course.

What about Tess Daley? Is SCD the only thing she does? I very rarely see her present anything else. Is she exclusive to the Beeb?

Edit: Lots of questions there, sorry.

Boring fact about Channel4 +1....

Big Brother highlights

2.04m -- +1 = 547,100 Wed 16 Jun

2.07m -- +1 = 137,600 Tue 28 Jun

2.17m -- +1 = 165,000 Fri 02 Jul
1.72m -- +1 = 376,000 Sat 03 Jul

The fluctuation of +1 compared to the original broadcast needs explaining?

0.06% - the lowest of the series.

Total nonsense. The problem with the BBC is that despite a massive number of suits they dont have enough proper producers with some basic common sense.

And no, ITV is not signing every last shiny floor presenter and storing them in a cellar under the Thames. Ross was crap at shiny floor shows as you mention with reference to the Dads Army tribute. Ross is NOT on an exclusive deal with anyone and can still present for the BBC. People like Chris Tarrant are not on exclusive ITV deals either.

If you want shiny floor presenters they have Tess Daly, Nick Knowles, Dale Winton, Bruce Forysth for starters. They have some Evans guy too, although he seems to be the main cause of people moving to ITV, so maybe they should be careful where they deploy their ginger Scud....

Damn.... so we are saying that its gone below 1.7m?
Ouch.

Absolutely mammoth Football rating last night:

Wednesday 7th July 2010
BBC One (inc BBC HD)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.0m (24.6%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.6m (31.5%)
19:00 - MOTD Live: Germany v Spain: 9.7m (41.8%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 5.8m (28.5%)
22:25 - Regional News and Weather / The National Lottery Draws: 4.4m (24.9%)
22:45 - The Bionic Vet: 2.0m (15.0%)

BBC Two
18:00 - Eggheads: 1.8m (10.7%)
18:30 - Antiques Road Trip: 1.1m (6.0%)
19:00 - Mary, Queen of Shops: 1.2m (5.7%)
20:00 - The Private Life of Cows: 1.6m (6.4%)
21:00 - In Loving Memory: 0.8m (3.4%)
22:00 - Rev: 0.6m (2.9%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 0.8m (5.5%)

ITV1 (inc ITV HD)
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.3m (18.6%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.8m (30.4%)
19:30 - The Lakes: 2.5m (11.4%)
20:00 - Midsomer Murders: 3.4m (13.8%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.1m (10.4%)
22:35 - World Cup Highlights: 0.8m (6.1%)

Channel 4 (inc C4 +1)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.2m (6.0%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 0.6m (2.8%)
20:00 - Big Brother: 2.0m (6.7%)
21:00 - The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal?: 2.8m (9.5%)
22:00 - Desperate Housewives: 1.6m (8.2%)

Five
18:25 - Live From Studio Five: 0.3m (1.5%)
19:30 - Escape from... Apollo 13: 0.3m (1.5%)
20:00 - Secrets of the Jesus Tomb: 0.5m (2.1%)
21:00 - NCIS: 1.5m (6.2%)
22:00 - CSI: NY: 1.2m (6.5%)

BBC HD
18:30 - Doctors: 27,000 (0.1%)
19:00 - MOTD Live: Germany v Spain: 777,000 (3.4%)
22:00 - That Mitchell and Webb Look: 167,000 (0.8%)
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Absolutely superb rating for the Football, must have peaked at near to 13m.

I have no idea how high the Final peak could be (including HD simulcasts and ITV) - 15/16m peak maybe?

As expected, everyone else got crushed - with only Channel 4 coming out decently.

Sex Education Show is doing very well considering how high the football is rating.

New or repeat? If its new that is one hell of a drop!

I'm surprised by the size of the football rating considering the padding at the start & end.

Repeat.

Wednesdays and Saturdays +1 showings air at 10pm, Tuesdays (in normal circumstances) would air from 11pm to 12:10am which is far too late for some people. It seems the casual viewers choose to simply not watch the show when it is on later.

Huge rating for the match there!!
And again, another very decent performance from BB in the deathly 8pm slot to stay above 2m against the match too.
Sex Ed doing very well too.

Weird to think everything got trounced by the match except for C4, really says something.

Amazing rating for the football. Everyone knew this match would rate higher than the first semi and both are considerably up on what everyone predicted, and I'm pretty sure they are up on the 2006 semis. There seemed to be a slight dip after England went out and matches clashed with Wimbledon, but the ratings seem back up again. The 3rd place play off should perform decently on ITV and the final will probably rate 11m+ on BBC1.

Elsewhere CH4 held up very well and The Sex Ed show is proving very resiliant to tough competition. I'm surprised-I thought there would have been a large crossover audience between it and the football.

Midsomer repeat performing similarly to New Tricks and ITV probably held up much better than they would have done if BBC1 had scheduled the Tuesday match.

Decent finish for DH-the last few episodes seemed to have picked up ratings wise with stronger lead ins and the E4 showings are around 1m in officials.

NCIS finale did as well as could be expected. TImeshifts have been strong this series and it has boosted Wednesdays considerably, but I still think it belongs on Fridays.

I think Five will swap NCIS with The Mentalist next year although The Mentalist has done well on Fridays and was consistenly their top rated shows dented only by football and heavier competition.

Due to WDYTYA on Mondays, Five have shifted The Hotel Inspector to Thursdays which seems like a better idea as the competition on that day is weak with the exception of Undercover Boss on Channell 4 but it could get affected by football.

UK TV Guide has updated for ITV:

Saturday 17th July
18:15 - You've Been Framed! Kids Special (R)
19:15 - NEW: Odd One In
20:00 - NEW: Magic Numbers
21:00 - NEW: 30 Years of an Audience with...
22:00 - ITV News and Weather

Sunday 18th July
18:30 - Celebrating The Carpenters (R)
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - NEW: Heartbeat
21:00 - NEW: Taggart
22:00 - ITV News and Weather

Refreshing on a weekend Summer evening to see a load of 'NEW' tags on ITV - even if Heartbeat and Taggart are being 'burned off'.

I doubt the reason she rarely appears on anything else has got much to do with contracts, it's probably because she is undeniably awful.

Yeah, for Summer it isn't too bad at all and is better than last year's weekend schedule at this time of year (lots of repeats and one off dramas being burned off to abysmal ratings). Looks like they're sticking with repeats of The Lakes and Midsomer on Wednesdays, Piers Morgan On... repeats on Tuesdays at 8pm and Doc Martin repeats on Fridays at 9pm. When they first starting showing the piers repeats I thought ti was just as World Cup filler and because they are standalone episodes, but now they're carrying on with them into July I'm wondering why they didn't choose a more popular travel show to repeat? Billy Connolly's or Martin Clunes' shows would have done better.

Also, looks like a new series of Ladette To Lady Australia is starting on Tuesday 20th July on ITV1 at 10:35pm. I believe they ran this at 9pm last year and it got about 3m so it should do better than ITV1 usually do in that slot. Also, a new series of Would I Lie To You is starting in Jonathan Ross' Friday slot on July 23rd.

Fantastic rating for the World Cup Semi Final, stunning in fact when you consider the amount of post-match talk and the fact it would probably get a place in the current Top 10 of the year chart. It's up 0.6m compared to the semi final the BBC aired in 2006, and I'd imagine the final will get about 11.5m on BBC1 with about 2.5m on ITV1. The ratings for this World Cup has proved why all the WC Finals matches should remain in the Crown Jewels list.

ITV1 did okay with the Midsomer Murders repeat - quite similar to how New Tricks rated the other day. The Lakes was half a million lower than I expected however. Big Brother got its lowest weeknight rating of the series yesterday, but to be honest it had such a difficult slot. I bet Channel 4 are delighted by the ratings Sex Education Show are getting - ratings seem to be up at least half a million compared to the last series. A little rise for the DP finale but to be expected as I saw quite a lot of promotion for it by C4. NCIS did okay given the circumstances, but this series has seen quite a big fall (in the overnights) compared to the last one which generally got 2m+ iirc.

Good to see Taggart is coming back with some new episodes. Let's hope ITV don't mess it about and keep it in a consistent 9pm slot. I don't understand why they'd want to burn it off - has it been axed? I think it was axed at one point, but then they changed their minds and recommissioned it for this new series.

I can't see ITV advertising it too much, same as Heartbeat but I think both shows will still do pretty well, getting 4-6m each.

Ah..I was wondering where HI had disappeared to. Good move by FIVE to move it to Thursdays. I didn't expect WDYTYA to appear yet and neither did FIVE by the looks of things. FIVE seem to be releasing more Summer content now with Emergency Bikers & The Man Who Moves Buildings in the 8pm slots.

FIVE will be hoping HI repeats the success of the last series with 2m+ ratings.


A pretty solid schedule for ITV there. Drama, entertainment and gameshows. Nice mix there. With a Corrie lead in Heartbeat and thus Taggart should do well.

Also interesting to see instead of moving Don't Stop Believing back half an hour they're moved it forward half an hour. Not sure whether this is good or bad-obviously to get a head start on Corrie, but if it's a warm day it will get slaughtered. I hope it does well.

There were rumours about it being axed but it's been recommissioned for six new episodes to air next year, athough they will air on STV first this Autumn as they're funding a lot of it. With a Corrie lead in I agree that both will do well, and I reckon Heartbeat at least will be above 5m, and Taggart might be too.