Brilliant for the ITV soaps

Brilliant ratuings for Corrie, and with timeshift those episodes will have got over 12m.

Brill for Corrie. Would have liked to have seen both episodes at 12 million however given it was a goodbye to such an icon.

Pleased to see both Corrie and Emmerdale doing well. They were both very good last night.

Brilliant Ratings for Coronation Street,Emmerdale and EastEnders last night.

Coronation Street deserved those ratings. Jack was a great character.

Emmerdale doing very well too.

EastEnders getting it's highest rating in Months.It had 800,000 watching the repeat so that makes 10.6m watching last night.

ITV Press Center just tweeted this

"12.3 million viewers tuned in to watch Jack Duckworth’s last moments on Coronation Street @itvcorrie last night. #itvpresscentre"

Brilliant and well deserved ratings for Corrie there. So going off this as an indication then by my reckoning the tram crash ep's should probably pull in at least 14 million and I think could well take the highest soap ratings of the year away from EastEnders.

I think EastEnders will still have it by the end of the year. Corrie only had over a million more than EastEnders last night for the death of a much loved character. EastEnders had a great but average episode without something as big as corrie had and still had 10million.

The big discussion on how well Corrie performed seems to have overshadowed the start of Hollyoaks big week. Classy TV adverts, character returns, deaths to follow, London tube billboards...and the episode only manages 1.5m? Slightly lacklustre imo and considering ratings normally go downhill from the Monday episode, this is slightly concerning. This is Hollyoaks week to prove it doesn't deserve to be axed. I watched out of curiosity last night for the first time in months, and rather enjoyed it and there were strong characters who featured. However the problem is that the characters who featured are the ones who are being written out of the show and once these characters are killed off, the show is left in an even worse state, with more new characters being forced upon the audience. Ratings need to be maintaining 1.5m+ this week and this needs to continue into future weeks. If not I can see the show in big trouble..

Excellent for Corrie. That's their most watched episode of the year so far! This is based on full slot averages for the whole year and not tape-checked ratings. The previous best overnight episode was on Mon 4th Jan 2010 which scored 10.8m. However the most watched episode officially is for an episode on Mon 22nd Feb 2010 which averaged 12.03m (the overnight rating was 10.7m) for the episode where Joe died.

Emmerdale also pulls in a massive rating and their best figure since Thu 4th Feb 2010 which also drew 8.4m. Also that's EE's best rating since Mon 1st March 2010 (that episode had 10.2m).

Corrie didn't do as well as I expected. Thought at least 12.5 million.

that's only .2 more than they got...

Just been looking at last years equivalent episode and there's some pretty massive y-o-y increases. Emmerdale had 7.4, Corrie had 9.3m & 9.1m and EE had 8.9m. Great to see the soaps all doing so well.

Must say well done to all the EE fans saying well done to Corrie. You never see the Corrie fans returning the favour.............................................!

2010 has been a great year for the primetime soaps. After years of mostly declining ratings, it's good to see all three shows rate better than last year.

The soaps will have a tough time next year matching 2010's success.

Roscoe - at the moment how many viewers do you think Corrie Live will get out of interest?

Agreed, it's a nice change!

Good question rzt. I'd like to think it can match EE's rating for their live episode but I can see it falling short. I don't think the Anniversary been on a Thursday is going to help. However it's a massive week for ITV with TXF final as well so maybe it will be advertised really well and boost everything in the schedule. I'm going to say around 15m for the live episode. What are your thoughts?

Its selfish to say this and I will probably be attacked for saying it but I hope Corrie's big week doesn't top EE live. That's not to say I don't want Corrie to do well but EE has had the highest rated single episode of soap each decade since the 80's. I'd like to think that EE Live figure is its record for the 2010's.

As you say, it's a bit unfortunate for them that the live episode will fall on the Thursday which is Corrie's worst day. Mind you, EE's live episode was on a Friday (usually EE's worst day) and did exceptionally so maybe it won't be too much of a factor.

At the moment, I'd go for 14m in the overnights for the live episode but it'll have to be promoted a lot. I haven't seen any on screen promotion for the 50th anniversary yet and I'm sure EE started a month earlier so I was expecting to see something now, although perhaps it'll begin next week.

I think what EE's live episode has in its favour to Corrie's is that EE's was the climax of a massive storyline which dominated the show for 2 months. I don't think the tram crash will have as much of a buzz around it and the names of the characters who will die will probably leak online anyway. Also one has to wonder how big Corrie's casual fanbase is? With EE, there were signs in recent years that the casual fanbase was big (14m for the 2007 Xmas Day episode) but Corrie hasn't managed a big figure like that for half a decade I think.

I think EE has a bigger casual audience than Corrie so in theory this should mean Corrie won't match EE's live episode. There are a few shorts ads on ITV1 at the moment with some celebs talking about Corrie, but that's about it. They really should start promoting it ASAP. Maybe once I'm A Celeb starts they'll start plugging it.

I really hope the characters that die don't get leaked on the internet...it would be a great shame, and I for one, don't want to know who lives and who dies. It's going to be an exciting week for Corrie none-the-less and only time will tell if it can beat EE in the ratings. But if it doesn't I think we can almost savely assume that TXF is going to be the Number One show of 2010.

overnight by mike teevee:

EE - 9.1m
Emmers - 7.3m

nothing yet for Neighbours and Home And Away

Neighbours - 1.3m
HAW - 912k

I'll post those in future.....

if I have time to post on Ratings thread

EE is doing great on Tuesdays at the moment. Every episode is getting over 9 million!

Quite surprised at the Hollyoaks ratings. I actually watched the E4 esposide last night and to be honest I actually found it far more upsetting that Jack's death in Corrie.

I don't really watch either of them, but I have this week and while Jack's death was nicely done I did think that the scene cutting and how he was found was not that well done.

Thought last night's E4 Hollyoaks was very well done and I get actually begin to well up

It will be interesting to see what Hollyoaks on 4 gets tonight. However did people even know I thought Corro had Best Exit all sowen up but I think HO may just steal it from them.