Not for a repeat. I mean it managed just under a half of its first audience which many shows can't do.

Norton appears to be stepping into Ross shoes more than just the tv slot-I understand he is taking over Ross radio show too. All it needs now is for him to develop an interest in watching endless films and the transfer will be complete. I wonder if GN will get more money for the radio show or whether his latest contract is all encompassing. If the latter its a useful economy I guess given they dont have to recruit others to fill the gap Ross leaves-especially with talk of the TVL being reduced.
Although I wasnt a great fan I agree I think Ross will be missed, he has a big tv presence and was a BBC man through and through. Last night was a great show and people certainly turned in for the "event" aspect.

If you overlook Sachsgate, Ross has been a very successful asset for the BBC, with a pedigree that stretches back to his Radio 1 show 20 years ago. His chat show has always won its slot and his his Radio 2 show has attracted 6 million listeners.

Healthy for BB. Not sure why the first look Home and Away did relatively well as there wasn't exactly a cliff-hanger the previous episode.

However, with Hollyoaks there was - but it is still struggling on Fridays. The C4 episode and the following E4 episode were two of the best of the year with a major cliffhanger from one to the other, so expected the first look at least to do a bit better.


BB remaining healthy if not spectacular - at least now they seem to be scheduling evictions from 10.30-11.05pm rather than 10.35-11.15pm, which helps slightly. IT Crowd doing well too - how does it's ratings this year compare with previous series?

The BB ratings don't even include +1, with the inclusion of +1 even if its just 100,000 for both it will be the highest rated eviction of the series.

Well the equievlent eviction last year got 2,4m and 2.7m officially, (i think it was 2.2m and 2.4m overnights, and taht was with =1), so even without +1 last nmight pretty much beat BB10's equivelent official.

Its's about 400,000-500,000 up on BB10 Dso far, But lower than other series.

Good rating from Britians Most watched soap on total reach and First viewing

EastEnders has done well this week and im sure they won all but 1 slots last week also

1.4m for Doctors is quite high for summer is it not?
How does Doctors on BBCHD do?

Good rating from Ross there now lets just hope the BBC replace his show with someone that is actually funny

My family is up on last week is it not?

I really cant see why the BBC didn't go with either

Thursday 8:00pm My family,8:30pm Qi,9:00pm The Old Guys and should benefit from EastEnders(and show dramas/film on Fridays)

or Friday 7:30pm QI,8:00pm EastEnders,8:30pm My family,9:00pm The Old Guys

I'd have thought My Family would have taken the 7.30pm slot on Wednesday. Life of Riley (as appalling as it is IMO) perfromed well in that slot.

My family had quite a regular 8:30pm friday slot and can't see why that changed.

Im sure the first episode of last years series aired on a Thursday at 8:30pm after an Hour-Long EastEnders special and rated really well

Edit- EastEnders hour-long had 11.4m and right after at 8:30pm My family pulled in 6.7m
but the week after(keeping the Thursday slot at 8:00pm) had 4.9m but the ratings did seem to rise after a few weeks according to BARB anyway

It would be a better slot, but they were evidently trying to support The Old Guys, which would otherwise be abandoned somewhere in the schedules. Looks pretty pointless now and neither have performed as might be expected of them.

There seems to have been alot of promotion for the Old guys but i've not seen 1 ad for My family which i think is strange seeing as it's 10 years old and is one of the last Sitcoms of it's kind anyway

Well it got over 1.5 million on Thursday when it first aired, you can't exactly expect them all to watch again the next day can you?

The Radio show got 3m listeners actually (at its peak maybe 3.5m)

Ross hasnt always won the slot. His attempts at peaktime specials certainly didn't. And BB would have beaten Ross quite often too in the summer. The fact that its a dead slot on ITV1 also helped him

It's okay to big him up George he has defected to ITV. You're supposed to be telling us what a valuable asset he is and justifying the money ITV has spent on him in these cash strapped times.

But they arent really. £1m for 18 weeks isn't a lot. I think he will do 3-4m depending on time slot on ITV. But its probably cheap, good demos and will repeat on ITV2 a lot so makes business sense for ITV

I think there might be a bit of a sympathy vote creeping in, Salv. I know 2 people at work who have started watching it again as it's the last one. However, I do think 2.5 million is its natural limit now and the glory days are over for BB.
I do think what will happen with it now is it will be rested for several years- Channel 4 will probably not sever all ties with it in case they decide to revive it and maybe it will return as a one off to test the water in 5 years time. Or, alternatively, 2010 will be the end.

ITV1 HD
7:00pm Emmerdale - 100k (0.6%)
7:30pm Coronation Street - 117k (0.6%)
8:30pm Coronation Street - 162k (0.8%)
9:00pm Doc Martin - 36k (0.2%)

Channel 4 +1
10:00pm Big Brother - 197k (1.1%)
11:30pm Big Brother - 173k (0.6%)

Note: We may start supplying +1 ratings for all Channel 4 shows in the bracketed form that rzt has provided because we include +1 in the primetime shares, unlike HD.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions today, it has really been appreciated.

Thank You

So we have 2.8m and 2.6m for last nights BB.... which despite the Jonathan Ross competition at the 10:35pm slot, last nights BOTH shows got the highest rated eviction show of BB11 AND the first show was the highest rated Friday so far.

Great

Considering Emmerdale isn't in HD yet, it's doing pretty well relative to Corrie on the HD channel. ITV could have saved themselves a few bob and just upscaled everything.

My Family and the Old Guys, although I have never seen the latter, could also be suffering from the weather!

Soaps of course will always win through even if they dropped 'the' bomb !

So if we incorporate that into the main ratings:

ITV1 + ITV1 HD
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.98m (33.2%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 7.19m (37.1%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.30m (34.3%)
21:00 - Doc Martin: 3.01m (14.2%)
** see note below

C4 + C4+1
Big Brother: 2.77m (13.2%) and 2.59m (14.6%)

I'm presuming DS's Corrie ratings are for the full slot? I'm not sure what the situation is with that for the past few weeks whether its full slot or tape checked.... regardless, it doesn't matter - the situation is even worse if it is taped checked.

(and yes, would be a great idea to supply the +1 ratings in brackets. I do think though one or two key +1 ratings deserve more than brackets - ie. if something has a larger than usual +1 rating, ie. BB, CDWM etc)

**in the article, you noted:


While we may read ratings everyday, someone else may not understand how Doc Martin beat The Old Guys despite a lower rating, it might be worth saying that Doc Martin had X.XX in the time The Old Guys was on. (I don't know how far ahead it was, but I suspect it was a few hundred thousand people). Just saying, the guy reading it to see Jonathan Ross' rating might not 'get' the above if you see where I'm coming from.

Besides, with The Old Guys, it was also on BBC HD, does that affect things - as that *might* have put it ahead of Doc Martin, it was effectively a simulcast - same applies to Ross, the HD simulcast *might* (but very unlikely) pushed him above 5m.

OK, you don't need to answer any of the above, but just things worth considering - unfortunately HD makes some ratings to report rather tedious.

Also, on a final note, do you know how the Golf did on BBC2 yesterday?

Because ITV moved Corrie to the slot and the BBC surrendered - simple.

Wouldn't worry yourself looking for excuses - the simple reason My Family is down is because it's stuck around for more series than even it's fans wanted.

Tomorrow night looks strong for ITV1 for once: the Carpenters Tribute, CS, Heartbeat, Taggart, three dramas and a music show, they should do this more often. I predict an average of 5 million for the night for them, well done, a good schedule.

That's why I think it would be a mistake for ITV to put him on on Fridays at 9pm. He got under 3m when BBC One tried him out in that slot. Admittedly, he had Barbra Streisand as his only guest that night, but I don't think the numbers would have been any better on a regular basis in that slot.

I've a feeling Paul O'Grady won't clear 3m at 9pm either, beyond his first couple of shows.

Besides Ross, everything was a bit poor and on the low side last night, and it wasn't even good weather so I don't know what happened there.

Simple answer- there was sod all on