Originally Posted by rzt:
“The margin between the two has generally increased since 1996, but you can see that the gaps closed in the 1998 and 2004 finals. The smaller ratio in 1998 might've been due to ITV's coverage following on from Corrie (12.9m inheritence) and it being Brian Moore's last game commentating. Was 2004 Des's last match as presenter?”
“The margin between the two has generally increased since 1996, but you can see that the gaps closed in the 1998 and 2004 finals. The smaller ratio in 1998 might've been due to ITV's coverage following on from Corrie (12.9m inheritence) and it being Brian Moore's last game commentating. Was 2004 Des's last match as presenter?”
Indeed it was. It was his business doing pleasure with you, all that. I said the other week that the Corrie lead-in in 1998 was of no use to ITV as it meant they missed all of the Ronaldo stuff. The Beeb had EastEnders during the build-up, they had three ten-minute episodes set in Paris on Friday (when it wasn't always on Friday), Saturday and Sunday, but I remember Des didn't specifically introduce it during the build-up, he just said "We shall be back shortly" and it was introduced over the balloon.
In fact, like today, ITV were showing the British Grand Prix in 1998 as well. In 2006, the Final was on the same day as the Wimbledon Men's Final and when ITV got its lowest share ever, I think, some ITV bod said "Major sporting events always affect ratings". They were showing one of them!
Originally Posted by rzt:
“101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow had a decent start, and the breakdown's very surprising considering what people were saying about it on here. It has a really good lead-in with Toy Story 2 next week so it could hold up okay.
Casualty's rating is a bit low but it's probably more prone than other shows to being dented by the football. Live at the Apollo repeats excellently so no wonder the BBC keeps airing old episodes. The football on ITV1 rated worse than I expected - was thinking it would get 6m excluding HD (3rd place match in 2006 had 6.8m).”
“101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow had a decent start, and the breakdown's very surprising considering what people were saying about it on here. It has a really good lead-in with Toy Story 2 next week so it could hold up okay.
Casualty's rating is a bit low but it's probably more prone than other shows to being dented by the football. Live at the Apollo repeats excellently so no wonder the BBC keeps airing old episodes. The football on ITV1 rated worse than I expected - was thinking it would get 6m excluding HD (3rd place match in 2006 had 6.8m).”
I dunno about Toy Story 2, they showed Toy Story 1 on the day of the Britain's Got Talent final last year and a fat lot of good that did. It's about the millionth screening. As for the third place match, in 2006 it followed the last in the series of Doctor Who and opposite it was Mrs Doubtfire, Millionaire and some boxing, as opposed to the lottery and Casualty which'll always pull in a decent audience.
Originally Posted by Salv*:
“Also agree with the audience bit. We have loads of new fans these last two years as well as losing old ones.... there could only be less than a million fans who are still watching BB11 that watched BB1, there could be only 1,000 maybe.
With TWC ending tonight.... we are screwed if it goes to E.T and penalties, but this week should be quite good.
I reckon we can get a 3m+ official.”
“Also agree with the audience bit. We have loads of new fans these last two years as well as losing old ones.... there could only be less than a million fans who are still watching BB11 that watched BB1, there could be only 1,000 maybe.
With TWC ending tonight.... we are screwed if it goes to E.T and penalties, but this week should be quite good.
I reckon we can get a 3m+ official.”
So, what department of Endemol do you work in?
(in total, BBC's coverage today including the Red Button went from 12:10 to 16:40 - 4 and a half hours)
