http://trendistic.com/bb11

I wonder if tonight's EastEnders can top 9million tonight as it was a good Hour-Long but at the sametime Emmerdale was on so that could have dented it alittle.

Nice of the BBC to advertise nextweeks Double Waterloo road just before Enders im sure that will keep some happy(or maybe not)

Good for the football last night

Thank you

So 0.11%, round about how high would that be?

It was 0.06% last night, so its up 2.3m?

Strong numbers for the football and also impressive for The Sex Education Show. Channel 4 are having a pretty decent week despite the opposition.

I wonder if there will be much interest in the 3rd place playoff? It feels a bit like a warm-up before the final on Sunday.
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12.3m watched the semi-final in the Netherlands. The total population is 16.5m. Not sure if that's an average or a peak, but it's incredible whatever it is.

More European ratings from The Hollywood Reporter
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People might actually watch The Emmy's this year with 2 popular series picking up nominations. Glee has 19 and Modern Family has 14. If 30 Rock wins, it's going to be unbelievably anti-climatic! Glee has nominations in all acting categories. Lea Michele & Matthew Morrison for lead roles, Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer for supporting roles, Kristen Chenoweth, Mark O'Malley and Neil Patrick Harris for guest roles. The Modern Family cast all put themselves forward as supporting roles and 5 of them have been nominated.

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien picked up 4 nominations. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno got none.
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Steve Carrell is leaving The Office USA and Alec Baldwin is leaving 30 Rock. They might just be negotiating but if it's true, then that's not good news for NBC. Especially as The Office is their only hit scripted series.
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Premiere week commences Monday 20th September. ABC will launch Detriot 1-8-7, Better With You (previously Better Together), The Whole Truth and My Generation in that week. Also returning that week are Dancing With The Stars, Castle, The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. No Ordinary Family follows a week later, on Tuesday 28th September because a special DWTS episode airs on Tuesday 21st. NOF is ABC's most anticipated show but faces tough oppposition from Glee, NCIS and The Biggest Loser.

She presented a lottery show once "This Time Tomorrow"...it was naff.

To be fair that's mainly down to him hosting more shows than anyone in light entertainment - and remember now he has a divorce to pay for.

I really do think though ITV should ditch Millionaire now and revamp it into the Millionaire Hotseat format, which would air in half-hour slots. I doubt they'd go for it in daytime, but it could fill some very handy slots in prime-time where they need a 30-minute filler (notably Wed 7.30pm), and I think would probably perform better in those slots than in it's current Tuesday night home.


Looking ahead to Corrie's 50th and with yesrerdays announcement of a big stunt playing out over one week, I wonder if ITV will use a similar strategy to BGT week and put Corrie at 9pm, with I'm a Celeb at 8pm and 9.30pm (for evictions).

Surely Im a celeb would have finished by then?
Insiders say it will tie in with X factor final week according to the papers anyway

I expect to see around 15million tune into Corrie anyway

Just in case anyone's interested, the EBU added up the ratings across Europe announced that this year's Eurovision Song Contest reached 20.3 million for the first semi final, 18.9 million for the second semi and 69 million viewers for the final across 44 countries. The cumulative figure is 108 million, down somewhat on the 124 million figure of 2009 but 2010's figure is about the same as those in 2007/8. 2009 was an exception due to increased interest in Russia where it was held.

Just hope no one hijacks a tram halfway through and send it off the rails, then...

Come across a slightly surprising statement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...s/10544221.stm


I thought BBC1's audience was older than ITV1's? I'm surprised to see it the other way around considering its morning programming is aimed at younger people, whereas BBC's is more older.

Does anyone have anything to back this up?

Some interesting tidbits posted on Digital I:
- Identity's demographic was 2.5m ABC1's with only 534,000 in the 16 to 34 range. Notably similar to Law and Order: UK, which may suggest it will stay in the 5m total audience range.
- News channels have had contrasting fortunes with regards to events in Rothley, Sky News has been well up, while BBC News has been slightly down - surprisingly.
- The Jeremy Kyle Show at 14:35 on ITV2 yesterday had 'well over 500,000 viewers'. Why do people watch it?

You've just gave me a good idea
9th Dec it airs so that gives me a bit of time to plan

Doubt it. Coronation Street will be lucky to get 12m. It's 'hard hitting' storylines are not so widely spoken about as EastEnders so do not have the pull.

When is the 50th anniversary?The I'm A Celebrity idea is an interesting one.

8th/9th Dec.
The papers say that ITV will be expecting 10million allweek and that they should be doing a mon-Fri week around the xfactor time.

Well December is normally a big month for EastEnders so it could mean Enders doing better then corrie could it not?

Im not 100% sure but Corrie's LIve 40th wasn't that far ahead of a normal EastEnders episode

They've got that bit slightly wrong. According to Broadcast, the average age of viewers by channel are:

BBC2: 54
BBC1: 52
ITV1: 50
Five: 49
Channel 4: 45

I think a few years ago, BBC1 and ITV1 may have been level. But with the injection of more 'entertainment shows' in ITV's schedules in recent years in favour of older-skewing dramas such as Heartbeat, I guess ITV1's average age of viewer might have dropped slightly (in relation to BBC1).

Incidentally, GeorgeS was defending ITV1's poor daytime ratings (compared to BBC1) the other day by saying they've been focussing on the 'Housewives' demographic in recent years. Well, according to BARB InfosysTV, BBC1 still had more Housewives watching them in Daytime than ITV1 in 2008 - 23.4% of housewives between 06:00-18:00 compared to ITV1's 18.3%, which is quite a significant margin. Not great eh, George!

Most of ITV's older skewing drama attracts high figures in comparison to its BBC counterparts whilst ITV's younger skewing shows are generally flops (barring X Factor ... BGT skews older). The BBC also attract wider audiences in a lot of its programming e.g. Waterloo Road and Eastenders have good 16-34 share whereas ITV doesn't.

I haven't articulated my point that well but I hope you can get what I mean from it.

For some reason Mock the Week is taking a week off so instead they are repeating last week's episode, in exactly the same slot as it aired last week!

Have the BSI reached an all time low?

Shooting Stars' scheduling next week is suspect as well, surely repeat slots are meant to be less attractive than the original slot?

Very bizarre - and quite stupid scheduling.

EDIT: In fact, it appears to have been planned:


From MTW's Twitter.

So 6 shows in 8 weeks.

2008 - this is 2010. But you need to look at the age profile too. BBC1's housewives skew older. More Nora Batty than Cheryl Cole. Women in their 50's, 60's & 70's. ITVs housewives are younger

Does anyone know how BBC and ITV daytime is faring in comparison to this time last year? I'm curious to know if This Morning is still higher than what it was or if the Willoughby novelty has worn off yet

Do you have any evidence for this statement or is it just wishful thinking?

Thanks. I'm a Celebrity could still be going then - maybe there'll be an extra week after the extension talk in the paper. It could lead up to the final on Sunday; something like:

Monday 6th December
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 50 Years of Coronation Street
8.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Tuesday 7th December
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 50 Years of Coronation Street
8.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Wednesday 8th December 2010
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 50 Years of Coronation Street
8.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Thursday 9th December 2010
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 50 Years of Coronation Street
8.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Friday 10th December 2010
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 50 Years of Coronation Street
8.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Saturday 11th December 2010
6.00 All Star Mr. and Mrs.
7.00 You've Been Framed
7.30 Harry Hill's TV Burp
8.00 The X Factor Semi Final
9.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Sunday 12th December 2010
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The X Factor Semi Final Results
9.00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Grand Final

Overnights were 8.5 average with a 9.5 peak and an 87% share. Today the adjusted numbers for home viewers went up to 10.7 with 1.7 million watching away from home which makes up the 12.3 million "reach"

I think it's fair to say that the streets will be deserted come sunday night.

If anything, their figures for 2010 would most likely be lower than 2008. Here's a quote from the Guardian:

With such a big decline in the GMTV franchise even among the 'housewives with kids', I suspect that's put a dent in their overall Daytime share for that particular demo, and the BBC might actually be closing the gap or even extending their lead with the 'young housewives'.

whille i see that happening
i hope it doesn't it becomes overkill imo and everyone will be crying out for BBC1's xmas by then

50 years of Corrie confirmed?

The BBC might hit back this time

Monday 6th Dec

7:00pm The One show
7:30pm Top Gear On 1(A new Best of series or something maybe?)
8:00pm EastEnders
9:00pm New Tricks(New Series)

Tuesday 7th Dec

7:00pm The One show
7:30pm EastEnders
8:00pm Holby
9:00pm Drama of some kind

Wednesday 8th Dec

7:00pm EastEnders
7:30pm Holby
8:30pm My family
9:00pm New Tricks

Thursday 9th Dec

7:00pm The One show
7:30pm EastEnders
8:00pm Watchdog(Or Corrie story from BBC 4 till 9:00pm)
8:30pm Qi
9:00pm New Drama

Friday 10th Dec

7:00pm The one show
8:00pm EastEnders
8:30pm SCD
9:00pm The last of the summer wine story

Saturday 11th Dec

6:00pm Dr who reapt
6:45pm SCD
8:15pm Lotto
8:30pm Casualty
9:20pm SCD
9:50pm News
10:05pm Film

No - but I can see them using that as some kind of filler to take it to 8pm...unless they make the I'm A Celebrity first show 90 minutes long. They won't use the usual filler if they want to make it a 'special' week.

I'm a Celebrity will probably be finished by then. It doesn't usually run that close to Christmas.

Plus there is probably Champions League to fit in etc.

They'd probably use the Tuesday 8pm slot for some sort of documentary about Corrie rather than something split across umpteen half hours.