The only positive about this year is that BB10 was terrible at first but once they put new people in, it did become vintage BB. I'm not holding out much hope, but its a possibility that there could be a huge improvement next Friday. I just see myself as a casual viewer just now, but could change again.

I wouldn't call BB3 and BB5 having a small increase either, it was 1.4m and 0.5m Every other series rated 4.6/4.7m though.

The ITV3 early drama repeats are doing an excellent job in attracting the soap viewers and later on the anti football viewers post 9pm. Lewis, Marple and Poirot have performed excellently lately.

Also quite impressive for the Steven Seagal doc-new factual programming for FIVE:USA I guess?

Hollyoaks @ 7 also benefiting from weak BBC1 and ITV1 competition. 0.7m combined is excellent. The Monday showings always seem to be the highest, so maybe this is where all the big episodes should air, rather than Fridays where the lowest rated episodes air. Personally one of the things I would do is send Hollyoaks to 4 episodes (Mon-Thu).

It's a factual import, given how much Five show Seagal films, showing Steven Seagal: Lawman is quite fitting.

Police Interceptors seems to picking up and I imagine the show will rotate with Gadget Show, Fifth Gear got a 20 episode order but I reckon it's a goner once that order is done.

That's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation though. At the moment the shows towards the end of the week are not getting the ratings because the storylines aren't building throughout the week as the used too - but when they do (like Calvin's murder), the audience doesn't seem to be there either.

It's quality not quantity which is the problem at the moment and axing an episode wouldn't change anything.

Would that be weighted correctly, though, according to the various parts' durations? And would we even have end-times for the games' post-match analyses?

Last year, when people were cobbling together the two BARB ratings for the 2nd April EastEnders, there was no weighting, which made it unfair because the two parts had different durations and we didn't know what those durations were because we didn't have an exact end-time for the second part. Further, we didn't know whether BARB had taken 90 seconds out of the first rating for the news summary that never was.

Got to get BARB ratings for BBC1 shows first!!!!


What's the problem, MikeTeeVee?

K

BBC have updated their side of the EPG for Friday and Saturday... ITV haven't though, Saturday for them is still showing two WC games with Friday no WC games when it should be the other way around!

Does anyone have a TV guide on them for next week which lists ITV alternative schedule for Saturday?

Digiguide had the BBC listings last night

ITV seem to be adopting the RTE approach of buying up everything and everyone they can, just to stop any other broadcaster getting a look-in.

RTE, partly funded a a TV Licence, gets criticism from many for this, so I'm assuming the critics will feel the same way about ITV's trolley dash.

Very true. I don't think you can construct a properly weighted average for the entire coverage with ratings only for parts that are not of equal length.

For me this one is very simple anyway. If ITV have chosen not to split up their coverage into prematch, match & postmatch slots in the officials, then we should respect that and follow that when putting together our charts for the year. BARB is not at fault here, since ITV wanted it this way, so we shouldn't have to bend over backwards to try and make ITV's figs look more equal to the BBC's. Just let it be.

Agreed, but someone will probably try and compare ITV's and BBC's equally which is impossible to do.

Perhaps, if we have the figures available, the 15-min peaks would be a fairer comparison?

K

1.00pm Columbo
3.00 Midsomer Murders
5.00 Film: Kangaroo Jack
6.35 Regional News
6.45 News
7.00 Animals Do the Funniest Things
8.00 Midsomer Murders.
10.00 News
10.30 Football highlights.

Shrek gets wheeled out to try to suffucate new ITV shows at birth from time to time in that grand old BBC tradition of King Herod

They'd have been better putting on YBF! at 7pm with a Harry Potter film repeat at 7:30pm. At least something 'different'.

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I think they might change the schedule a bit. Four hours of Midsomer Murders is a bit much.

Then again, didn't they have two Frost eps in last Saturday's alternative schedule?

I don't know if mine will be affected or not. Mine only has a 7 Day guide.

Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 go live on Digital Terrestrial in August, providing Top Up TV and BT Vision customers the option of receiving premium sports from Sky for the first time via their normal roof aerial.

But according to mlt11 on the Top Up TV forum:

Funny that. It's almost as if they are avoiding scheduling the UK's most popular sport on the channels which will be available across all digital TV platforms for the first time...

But nah, I'm sure those lovely cuddly fluffy wonderful HD providing all signing all dancing people at Sky wouldn't do a naughty thing like that. Probably a mere listings error !

Lmao! Sounds like when they 'coincidentally' started airing sport on Sky1 when it was off Virgin Media!

You should be fine, mate. 4TV boxes should go up to 14 days (currently 8 and falling) with the exception of the Sony that only covers 8 as standard as most Sony boxes use the Freeview guide.

Thanks, Dancc. I hope so, because I only bought the thing in April.

I haven't had it very long, but I don't think I could cope with going back to manual timings!

I remember that. Now they have an extra weapon in Sky Sports News since that is also going pay.

LOL - so true.


I don't think ITV have much choice due to the ad rules - if the build-up was considered a separate show, it could only have a break mid-way through then just before kick-off, but as part of a 2 hr+ show it can have another break in that first hour too.

Personally though I think BARB should report things as they are scheduled.

This week in the "others top 30" table (including E4 this week but still not ITV1HD, apparently)

BBC3 16 entries
Of which, 10 were Family Guy.

K

Still worth a , I think!