Can see them both back on The One Show before long...


Ah, the old "overpredicting" canard again.

It is on after the first half of the X Factor final - and on a night when BBC1 has bizarrely capitulated, thanks to a new controller and outgoing scheduling incompetent.

If it gets an 18m inheritance, then even if only 6-7m are still tuned to ITV1 by the second half, it could still average 9m+.

Same goes for Elton John the next night - again, a 10m audience for this is not out of the question, and would be completely unwarranted for filler guff like this.

Pretty underwhelming night for everything there for the time of year - apart from Graham Norton.

Friday 26th November Overnights
BBC One (inc. HD)
19:00- The One Show: 4.53m (21.3%)
19:30- Helicopter Heroes: 3.58m (16.0%)
20:00- EastEnders: 7.91m (34.0%)
20:30- QI: 4.04m (16.9%)
21:00- New Tricks: 4.11m (16.6%)
22:00- BBC News: 4.18m (18.2%)
22:35- The Graham Norton Show: 3.34m (20.1%)

BBC Two
20:00- Mastermind: 2.53m (10.9%)
20:30- Gardeners' World Special: 1.43m (5.9%)
21:30- Britain By Bike: 1.53m (6.2%)
22:00- The Stephen K Amos Show: 533,000 (2.3%)

ITV1 (exc. HD)
19:00- Emmerdale: 7.19m (33.8%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 8.41m (37.5%)
20:00- Cheetah Kingdom: 3.23m (13.9%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 8.28m (34.7%)
21:00- I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!: 8.35m (34.7%)
* up about 13% from same episode last year

Channel 4 (inc. HD)
20:00- Come Dine with Me: 1.61m (6.8%)
21:00- The Event: 774k (3.1%)
22:00- Peep Show: 871k (3.8%)
22:30- Robert Web: 680k (3.8%)

Channel 5 (inc. HD)
20:00- White Van Man: 650k (2.8%)
21:00- The Mentalist: 1.26m (5.1%)

It doesn't even deserve that!

Crikey!

Peep Show flopped. Big fan myself, and I only noticed it was back on purely by chance!

Looks like Channel 4 got what they deserved and Mitchell was correct, they are idiots to put the first episode on 4OD before it's broadcast.

But you know by now that TXF rates better on Sundays than Saturdays so TXF Saturday final probably won't provide an 18m inheritence - those sorts of figures (and higher) will happen for the Sunday show. The competition IAC faced last Saturday was pretty easy (Armstrong and Miller and the news) and that got 9.2m. So I definitely can't see Take Me Out rating better than that, even after TXF final.

Last year after TXF Saturday final, ITV aired the British Comedy Awards which got ~5m. That was about 1m up on what it usually gets without an XF inheritence. Shows that air after TXF don't usually double their audience. So what makes you think TMO will basically double its audience from what it usually gets!?

Good times for ITV the last few weeks.

I have read the article. There's no getting away from what the host of the show has said. There's a couple of positive comments about the ratings in that article but utterly irrelevant ones. Like I say Georgie dear the ratings only dipped due to half term and have now gone back to the level they were at before which wasn't very good to start with! Why do you think GMTV was axed??? Because it was underperforming. GMTV in no way should be considered a benchmark for Daybreak's performance. BBC Breakfast is the show's contemporary and it's that Daybreak needs to compete with.

'EE's' was low last night and there was no clash. Hope the bubble hasn't burst. I cannot understand why ratings were so high anyway given the content hasn't been that great for about 4 months.

If 'EE's' doesn't get itself into gear soon I'm betting we have a new EP by early summer.

Talk about an over-reaction. One lower-than-normal rating (and even that's probably only because it started early and so its first few minutes will have been severely dented) and suddenly the show is in crisis?

Peep Show has always flopped ratings wise though and if judged on ratings alone would never have got past it's first series.

Why was EE fairly low last night? Was there something of note on one of the multichannels? Quite unusual for a Friday. NT repeat held up pretty well against tough ITV competition and Norton continues to do well.

Emmerdale continues its solid 7m+ ratings, but a little on the low side for Corrie. HD will probably add around 0.4m, but it should be averaging at least 9m, just one week before its 50th starts. Another excellent rating for IAC, most likely winning the day again with HD included. To be up 13% year on year (for last nights episode) despite the show being in its 10th series is fantastic and its doing completely the opposite of BB and seems to be doing an XF instead. ITV will be very pleased the show has been able to maintain the strong ratings. Bar CIN the show hasn't fallen below 8.5m-a huge achievement considering it's on 6 nights a week often for 90 minutes.

Most overacting post of the week....

NO Idea why Last nights EastEnders was low but i can only assume people could have been out xmas shopping/partys and it would have been pay day for most aswell.
Im quite sure this happend last year too.

Corrie is also a little lower then normal.

Monday EastEnders and Corrie were neck and neck and Tuesday EastEnders was over 9million.

Atm EastEnders is fine and take Thursdays epiosde for example it had quite a nice mix of Drama,Comedy,Community spirt which i can only assume is the calm before the storm which looks like Xmas will be the most dramatic and depressing one ever

On which planet have rating been bad?
EastEnders has done very well in the ratings this past year and the LIVE epiosde is the most watched TV show so far this year (16.m) so i can only guess your either taking the Pi*s or you have been away from the UK for the past year

EastEnders up 13% on last year and they have had thei biggest rated summer since 2004

Back in the days people only had 5 channels
Now people catch up when they want via I player ect
With over 200 channels there's more TV choice so people watch when they want.
All TV ratings have gone down

Check out BARB and see the most watched TV shows of the year since around 2000 and you will see a decline.

Other then X factor,EastEnders,BGT,world cup games very few shows have managed to break 15million

So it's you that has no clue

Emmerdale clashes excluded, that's the first poor rating Eastenders has had in a while. Share is very low even by Christmas party season Friday night standards. It did run early though at 19:58 - 20:27 according to Attentional's timings so perhaps that is what's causing this full slot rating to be dented. I imagine Monday will be back to normal levels though.


Very poor start for Peep Show last night given that last year's series launched with overnights of 1.8m (9%) and the year before that launched with 1.5m. Putting it on Channel 4 OD has clearly dented it but I can't imagine that many of the 900k year-on-year lost viewers watched it online beforehand. My guess is that the poor lead-in and lack of promotion were factors.
[EDIT: just realised from poster iaindb, I'm a Celeb was on until 10:30pm, would have dented Peep Show a bit]

This is a matter of opinion. Personally I think they have it just right. Even in the more formal bits, the presenters are bouncing off each other without it getting too irritating. And the castlist on the 8.30 to 9.15 entertainment guest section (ok they are all plugging something or other) is particularly impressive.
The thing about Bleakely/Chiles is that whatever chemistry they had peaked before Christine became involved with Frank Lampard. And the move to ITV was all over the press and together with the vast salaries the two would pick up. Not their fault but with all the coverage over the move did niether of them any favours and probably lost them public sympathy-to the extent that few were going to tune in with much enthusiasm. Chiles especially is a BBC man and, despite fronting high profile football, is not really designed for ITV imo.

For the record, this is the quote from the article:

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How do you explain the fact that EVERY tv show is rating less and less then they did 10 years ago?

EastEnders and corrie might only manage 9/10 million but are still the most watched shows on TV all year round

EE finished at 8.26pm last night, that's what time the credits started and that's usually when most people would switch off turn back over for Corrie. But I think the main reason it was down is because Emmerdale dented its momentum on Thursday. A lot of casual viewers who missed the show on Thursday aren't going to bother tuning in for Friday's episode.

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Go back to 2001 when The top 2 Rated Programes of the year were over 21million
Go down to 2004 where the top 2 Most rated programes were aroudn 15million because simply theres more choice.

I know longer watch TV shows when they air all the time becuase thats what i have Sky+ for.
There's just many ways of watching when you want.

Back in 2001 TV on demand,Freeview,I player ect wasn't around

I can't see Daybreak every picking up to a sizeable level to be honest. I think the best that can be hoped in the long term is a rise to 900k every day.

The One Show was the perfect format for Adrian and Christine; Chiles is just too dour for breakfast television, and I say this as a fan of his past work. Nobody wants to wake up to cynicism. 7pm is a whole different kettle of fish to breakfast telly; I'm sure the BBC Breakfast partnerships would likewise bomb if they were suddenly moved to primetime and shoehorned into the One Show on a permanent basis.

Add that to the bad publicity that accompanied Christine's umming and ahhing over her decision to move and I can't see long term prospects looking much better.

It also clashed with IAC which was on until 10.30.

Guys, gillinghamfc is clearly a troll who is taking the piss, and by replying you are giving him/her what they want.

Back on topic, IAC is rating really well this year, partly thanks to Gillian's antics on Sunday. Corrie did OK last night but EastEnders was bizarrely low. New Tricks held up well and Graham Norton is doing really well in that slot.