Very poor for Reggie Perrin.

The BBC have made a good decision moving HIGNFY onto Thursdays. There are too few people watching TV on Friday nights for new comedy shows to have a chance and I think the Thursday 9:30pm slot is now in good condition to launch some higher rating new comedy shows. Not sure what's coming up but hopefully some well written ones are on the way.

Yes perhaps I phrased it badly, it was still a very good night for CNN but I guess the worry for them would be that there are clear signs that even for major breaking events people are now tuning to FNC. Tuesday night was great for CNN but Wednesday night was in comparison a let down. Despite the clear issues with FNC and their at times despicable opinionated hosts, Shephard Smith ,who tends to lead their coverage of big news stories and hosts when their is a news event on FOX broadcast network, is a superb presenter and shows no signs of the bias his colleagues are overflowing with.

World's Most Extreme Airports was a bit of a surprise hit for Five, will be interesting if it increased throughout the 90 minutes as I imagine it didn't start with 2m. Factual is one of Five's main strengths and they should continue with it especially ATM with Cowboy Builders and Eddie Stobart doing above average ratings.

They are showing a feature length documentary in two weeks called Life after Armageddon which sounds similar to Life After People but should rate well. I wonder if they'll pick up America: The Story of US as I think it would be a good perfomer at 8 or 9pm.

Which, incidentally is the date rumoured to be the launch of BBC1 HD.

Hmm, HD Wednesday?

7:00pm: The One Show
7:30pm: W&G
8:00pm: Waterloo Road
9:00pm: The Apprentice

Think this is interesting, from DS's Thursday roundup:

1st Showing
19:30 - EastEnders: 8.34m (37.0%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 8.12m (33.2%)
* tape checked

2nd Showing
22:00 - EastEnders: 776,000 (4.0%)
22:45 - Coronation Street: 432,000 (3.4%)

I'm looking at Corrie's repeat rating, which is a lot higher than the usual 200,000 we see, one of the highest I've actually ever seen it. Maybe if ITV actually, you know, keep it in a consistent 22:30 slot on ITV2 (or 23:00 if necessary), then its repeat figures could edge towards 500,000 instead of struggling with 200,000 as we have seen in the past?

(DS in fact have only reported repeat figures for Thursdays for the past few weeks, so impossible to tell whether the repeat figures on the whole have increased or just for the Thursday showings)

Like for this week, the repeats have been on at:

11/10 - 23:45 to 00:45
14/10 - 22:45 to 23:20
15/10 - 00:40 to 01:40

That's not consistent, in my eyes - at least try and keep it relatively consistent. Just checking the schedules, it might be that the Thursday showing is inflated by Celebrity Juice getting 1m directly beforehand, but I think the overall point still stands.

BBC have managed to keep EastEnders in a same repeat slot for many years, with new shows around it, so I'm not sure why ITV struggle to do the same.

because movies have irregular runnig times perhaps?

you assume that CS and EE have the same demographic appeal. EE appeals more to the 16-34 demo than CS so while EE fits the BBC3 audit remit, CS is less of a fit with ITV2s core demos. This is important in ITV2s ad sales. Its the same reason they dropped DOI spin offs on ITV2 despite getting good gross figures.

Could be the HD effect, now for the first time the ITV2 repeats are in HD.

And as I've demonstrated before, the BARB multichannel HD ratings are actually in line with HD penetration, whereas as we know, they're not with the main channels.

Doesn't cause too many problems for BBC3 though. I'm sure ITV2 could give a consistent or consistent-ish time slot if they wanted too. Films would either go on Tue/Wed/Sat/Sun or be scheduled around the CS repeat

Exactly - and it's not like ITV2's schedule is crammed fill with other shows too.

Coronation Street doesn't "feel" very ITV2. It's much more suited to ITV3 if you ask me. And if it was on that channel it would no doubt be able to take a more permanent slot.

Rumours of an uber-low Daybreak rating yesterday. Anyone got any figures?

Rumours? And if you don't have ratings, what hope do the rest of us have?

Although its got to stop falling at some point... right?

I'm hearing 1.27m for Comedy Roast.
is that worse than the 10pm ones?

Well if that's true, its yet another in a long line of Channel 4 flops.

source is usually reliable

Does 'source' have any other ratings?

Personally I would stick both the repeats of Corrie around 6pm weeknights. Instead they are airing awful american crap, and Im sure a repeat before the next episode goes out would perform well for them. Failing that, they could easily repeat Emmerdale in a stripped format at 6.30pm Monday through to Friday. Of course the extra ep on a Thursday does cause a few problems

Not a bad idea at all. Obviously the extra episodes cause problems but it'd still be more ideal than having repeats air as late as 1am.

Or put the repeats on ITV3 instead. Far easier to find a regular slot there.

Exactly, and it could also take on the Neighbours/H&A hour on Five.

not as 'yet'.

honestly, you try and share info....

Woah, I wasn't having a go or anything, 'twas only asking if the source has any other ratings.

I know. just mucking about. that was the only one she had. think she worked on it at some point.

Friday Oct 15th

**Daybreak (ITV1) 630,000 / 16%
BBC Breakfast 1.5m (37%)
**lowest yet

BBC1

TOS - 4.3m
EE - 8.5m
QI - 4m
New Tricks - 6.8m
News - 4.4m

ITV1

Emmers - 6.7m
Corrie - 8,4
Cheetah Kingdom - 2.7m
Corrie - 8.7m
O'Grady - 3.37m
News at Ten - 1.9m


BBC2
Gardeners World - 1.7m
Norman Wisdom Story - 2.4m
Rob Brydon - 2.3m


C4 (main channel only)
Davina's Comedy Roast - 1.07m
8/10 Cats - 1.4m

[quote=D.M.N.;44866644]Rumours? And if you don't have ratings, what hope do the rest of us have?

Although its got to stop falling at some point... right?[/QUOTE]

Well, ratings will get so low that people may start to tune in to find out why people arent tuning-so to speak

The thing is with this kind of happening is that, once the press latch onto a fact and associate it with a programme the programme becomes a byword for that fact-lack of viewers = Daybreak(many jokes ensue). And ofcourse this is magnifyed many times by the involvement of Chiles and Bleakley between whom the press also tell us, there is no chemistry. It is just an unhappy ship.

I also read today that Danny Cohen has made a new Saturday night entertainment show for BBC1 a top priority "to knock X Factor off its perch" apparently. There is no doubt he is setting his sights high