Day 29 in the Big Brother house...overnight the average has declined to 9.3m.

I think Hotel Inspector will do well, it would been dented had it remained on Mondays. I don't think it will hit 2m as that was due to weak competition from BBC One and ITV1 but I think it fare decently.

Moving DSB back half an hour may help it as the competition isn't great on that Sunday, 8pm would have been better but I wonder if studio times played a part as it's 90 minutes long rather than an hour, it's got a decent lead in from Finding Nemo which IMO should pull in over 2m+. I think the best chances for DSB is for Five to schedule it between a popular or family family followed by a premiere or another popular film e.g.

5pm Matilda
7pm Don't Stop Believing
8.30pm The Da Vinci Code


I believe Taggart being produced by ITV, STV and UKTV in a similar arrangement to Primeval. I wonder if this sort of co-production will become more common with drama, they do it with the likes of Wallander, Lewis etc but not regular drama.

They should put it back in the 9pm slot, it normally does good business and better than what they've been getting lately. Its already started on ITV2 every Monday at around 11.30pm which might have a slightly impact on the figures.

Thanks George!

I did consider Nick, Tess, and Dale but none of them to me are capable of much more than game show hosts which is what they do. Nick Knowles is not an entertainer-although he does a pretty good job presenting quiz shows.
Ross has been kicked into touch, only to be allowed back in with a prefect to make sure he doesnt get into trouble, any mention of John Barrowmans name appears to make people run for the sick bucket, Brucie has been brilliant for as long as I can remember but its still not certain hes coming back for SCD let alone anything else. Why dont the Beeb sign Chris Tarrant?

Sunday 25th.

Repeat, in exactly the same slot this episode got on Monday, for some reason.

MG notes a 14.5m (55.3%) peak for last night's game. If it goes into extra time on Sunday, we could see some astronomical numbers.

Looks like Five will be giving Don't Stop Believing a massive push as there's a huge billboard for it in Liverpool.

Stunning for the football really. I wasn't expecting those sorts of numbers unless it turned into a penalty epic. I'd love to see a breakdown because the BBC's post-match 'filler' must be doing very well to hold the averages that high.

Fair play to the BBC on that count - they get a lot of stick for the Bus tour and all the history lessons, but they're proving better than anything else they could use at 9.30.

I noticed both channels over the past 2 days making their pitches for the finals. Chiles urging everyone to "join us here for the final" followed by a montage of their pundits and Lineker telling everyone that they needed to "take your pick for Sunday" - ostensibly between Spain and Netherlands.

Sunday looks strong with three solid dramas, but, having read some promo material, Odd One In sounds like a mish-mash of What's My Line and Would I Lie to You, whereas Magic Numbers sounds like a cross between Talking Telephone Numbers, Winning Lines, The National Lottery Red Alert and The Generation Game. *shudders*

I think Peter Fincham will be doing cartwheels in the street if those two shows can stay above 3.5m throughout the summer.

BBC1 only breakdown:

19:00 - 4.2m (22.5%)
19:15 - 5.3m (27.2%)
19:30 - 9.2m (43.6%)
19:45 - 10.4m (46.3%)
20:00 - 10.8m (45.7%)
20:15 - 9.5m (39.7%)
20:30 - 10.5m (42.7%)
20:45 - 11.6m (45.8%)
21:00 - 12.5m (48.4%)
21:15 - 11.0m (43.2%)
21:30 - 6.6m (27.4%)
21:45 - 5.0m (21.9%)

So the last half hour averaged 5.8m (24.6%) on BBC1. Add about 10% for HD and you get in total about 6.4m (27.1%). Now, tell me, how much does James Corden on ITV rate again?

Also, for the week 24th to 30th July, BBC have both Sherlock (1/3) and John Bishop's Britain (1/6) down as unplaced. Pretty sure John Bishop's Britain will be a Saturday show after Casualty - not sure about Sherlock, if its 60 minutes then it could be any day, but if its longer, then its definitely Sunday.

Cheers - I couldn't find any info either, but I suspect like Bond, Potter etc. the Twilight films will probably be sold separately to the rest of the studio. C4 would probably be the best fit for them - they don't seem right for ITV whilst the BBC just hasn't really got any slots for films outside of Christmas - although they are now going to push "BBC Films" on BBC2.

Personally I've long felt that since the decline of the costume drama the Sunday 9pm slot on BBC1 would be an ideal slot for British films, which just don't get enough support from UK television.


Avoids going sub-2m then thanks to a bit of rounding!


I doubt any of those shows will be back next summer. Indeed with BB gone summer could be quite interesting on all channels next year if they're willing to put a bit of effort in.


Yes - STV first, ITV second, UKTV third.


It won't cut it though as it's simply on the wrong channel, and viewers usually see channels trying to get them to jump on a bandwagon a mile off.

I reckon it'll be lucky to break the million mark myself, and will probably rate worse than it would have done had it been on E4. E4 though didn't commission it - so that's their fault!

IIRC, In Scotland we got a "historical highlands" series on Sundays at 9 and it was suppose to have went well so the could try that with Bishop's Britian.

Good result for the football, even when England are out the World Cup has been pulling in large audiences. I think a lot of it has to do with football fans needing their fix and the popularity of the tournament.
Looks like Channel 4 don't care about BB, giving it two slots of death against the soaps and the football and again opposite the soaps tonight. I think they're just going through the motions now, a bit like a worker who is coming up to their last day, and don't seem to be promoting it very hard.

31m watched the Germany Vs. Spain match in Germany last night on Das Erste.

14m (peak of 20m) watched the match in Spain.

Funny thing despite the WC and 8pm lost it has managed not to got under 2m. Fridays shows should be 3m+ with the new HMs possibilities and extra long show.

Presumably because he is too associated with ITV in viewers eyes.

Anyway the BBC have a pool of radio talent that they could develop for tv shows if they wanted. Radio 1 used to be a source of future tv presenters. Theres also Simon Mayo on Radio 2 and there is also childrens tv as a source of future talent.

And of course there's Evans

Pretty impressive. They're essentially producing a whole new factual programme after each match - I guess thats how they justify the extra crew out in South Africa.


Sherlock is 3 x 90 minutes so Sunday it is. It was originally a 60 minute pilot but got expanded so they clearly have some hopes for it. Some good people behind it, too.

Actually, I profess myself reasonably impressed with the way the summer schedules are looking on both BBC and ITV over the next few weeks. I suppose having 4 weeks of filler around the World Cup means their new material is more concentrated.

Actually that is the problem - there isn't. Compared to just a decade ago children's TV is hardly producing any potential future stars - sadly it seems Ant and Dec were pretty much the last generation of hosts to make the leap from kids TV to kids TV dressed up as family entertainment - though T4 hosts have done quite well (the male ones at least!), and I suspect George Lamb will present a few duds once BBLB is over.

There's still something special about international football that'll always exceed club football - no matter how much money is thrown at it.

For example, 28th of April this year saw 5m viewers for a Champions League semi-final between Barcelona and Inter Milan on a Wednesay night. There's no difference in the players on display (Barcelona = Spain + Messi) and everyone involved is foreign anyway, but the World Cup is such a rare event and concequently pulls double the audience.

Also the quality of the football has been good in the knockout stages, except for you know who against Germany. I bet the final with two teams who have never won it will attract 20 million.

I think the last series he did for the BBC was The Main Event in 1993. It came as a bit of a surprise to see him on BBC1, then. Although, nothing could be more of a surprise, or even shock, than my decision to video what the papers described as a late night version of Tiswas when I was six or seven years old.

I've never been able to look at cold custard in the same way since.

What, to replicate that Colour Of Money magic? Tarrant has done more flops than virtually anyone in light entertainment - The Main Event was one of them - and he's not got an exclusive deal with ITV anyway, that's why he did that crap quiz for Challenge and that crap show for Watch.

If Knowles, Daly and Winton aren't entertainers, then neither are any of ITV's lot. I would rather a company thinks of a light entertainment format and then chooses a presenter to do it, or you end up with the likes of Phil Schofield in the nineties on ITV, saddled with a long contract and shoved in any format going.

Game For A Laugh was a massive, massive show in the eighties but when it started the presenters were absolute nobodies - Beadle was a DJ, Matthew Kelly was an actor who'd had some supporting roles in sitcoms and Henry Kelly and Sarah Kennedy were newsreaders. If the format's strong then the presenters are incidental to their success.

People say BBC1's light entertainent is weak but they've got just as many hits as ITV, they're not all in-house productions admittedly but it makes no difference to the viewer as to who makes them.

Fantastic rating for the football, but considering the Tuesday night rating that is no surprise. Channel 4 seems to be having a good week, with The Sex Education Show and Big Brother holding them up well. ITV did reasonably well considering the opposition and, as someone else said, performed better than they would've done Tuesday night.

Twitter seemed to have #bb11 back in the Top 10 most talked about, weird considering it was at the 8pm slot.

D.M.N, what was the % for tonights episode? Also, how do i find out, I dont have Twitter for myself and don't want to be a pain asking all the time