I see ok, I thought dan2008 meant the 1st in the 589 episodes that will be shown that week.

My bad, I aplogise, ITV didnt do anything wrong.

Acutally talking of, ive seen the ad for the Corrie: Come Dine With Me specail, why is it the actors involved are all bat shit insane?

I think crucially for ITV, they're gradually getting some returning dramas.

Downton, DCI Banks, Law and Order, Single Handed, Above Suspicion. L&O is a great show, it just needs careful scheduling.

The drama slate is looking quite good for next year I reckon. Hopeful for Monroe, ITV just don't seem able to nail the medical drama genre.

ITV's goodies do leave them stacked in the Autumn - and they've done very well this year because their main properties are all recording year-on-year rises. The success is probably a bit less diverse than last year where Benidorm and Collision both did terrific business for them too.

People can get very melancholy about ITV during the bleak summer and forget just how many hours they enjoy out of XF and IAC once the autumn comes round.

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Regarding Corrie next week - the issue for me is when the real 'event' is. You see, as a non-viewer (not watched an episode since the serial killer ), my interest is piqued by the explosion, rather than the live episode. So I'm expecting 13-14m on Monday - whether it grows to challenge EE by the Thursday episode could essentially depend on whether it can keep viewers like me and generate buzz beyond the initial 'bang'. The fact the storyline runs all week (rather than EE's one-off reveal) might work for or against them - I don't think we'll know which until next Tuesday's numbers.

Digiguide has updated with more programme details.

And, not only is Countryfile still on Boxing Day, it's a 2010 review show.

'Julia Bradbury delves into the Countryfile archive to showcase the very best wildlife stories of 2010.'

A set of calm, level-headed cast members probably wouldn't be as entertaining.

again I ask "Wheres Wall-E?"

I think it's better for them as a commercial broadcaster to have it over a week, ie. have 7 episodes rating at an average of 13m rather than making it a 'one off' with 6 episodes at 10m and the final episode at 15m.

Hello, RZT, a lot of this is historical. Until last year Border Television broadcast from Carlisle and its main population base was the 80pc of Cumbria it covered. This meant Cumbrian stories were far better covered than the Newcastle based Look North, even though in Lookaround's dotage Look North was a better bulletin to watch.
However, even though the new look Tyne Tees Border bulletin only has a 15 minute Border opt out and has become even worse to watch, there's still this residual loyalty to Deekaboot. It tends to do better among older viewers, as does ITV1 in general here, who have watched it for decades.

Thanks. I think we have an extremely early entrant for 'worst piece of scheduling 2011'. Though it does get reasonable ratings in the slot so I'm sure it'll be overtaken before long.

I still reckon these matches will be on BBC1, if they were able to show Blackburn vs Villa on BBC1 last season I can't see Birmingham vs West Ham being much less appealing. If they are on BBC2 they may have the chance of beating BBC1, at least at 9pm.


I remember BBC North West beating Granada for the first time in the late nineties, I remember reading it in Broadcast, and they did cite Gordon Burns' arrival as the thing that did it. Also, Granada Tonight really was terrible and for a while it was an hour long show at 5.30, which is way too early.

In the North East, the Beeb always used to be miles in front because Mike Neville was on it and he was so popular, but then he defected to Tyne Tees in 1996 and presumably everyone went with him, and have stuck with it. In Cumbria, for a while in the eighties they moved it from BBC North East to BBC North West, but people in Cumbria complained (there's a bit about it in the One Day In The Life Of Television book) and they moved it back.

In terms of the share, it may have something to do with the size of the region, because I get Look North Hull and it's such a small region I'm almost always guaranteed to see something relevant from near me on it, whereas my parents live in Wrexham and my sister in Stoke and neither of them are that bothered with the regional news because they hardly ever cover them. So it's a question of relevance, I suppose.


I'm surprised by this, there always seemed to be some sort of gentlemans' agreement that both partners would get one prime time match regardless of the picks, much like in the World Cup where in the second round it always works out that both the Beeb and ITV get an equal number of primetime and daytime matches. But not this time, that's really dreadful choices from ITV, and it'll have quite a big impact given that last season of course they had four matches a weekend.


Well, we know this isn't actually Corrie, but if it were the media would not kick off about it, because last year ITV showed Corrie at 8pm opposite an hour-long 'stEnders, and I wrote to Media Guardian and said that, given they were currently writing stories every single week about where Strictly was scheduled compared to X Factor, they'd surely write one about that. But they didn't, because the ITV press office didn't feed it to them and they didn't have the chance to slag off the Beeb in it.

Yesterday's daytime ratings (some v. good ratings especially for BBC1):

BBC1 (inc. HD)
09:15- Rip Off Britain: 2.08m (28.9%)
10:00- Homes Under the Hammer: 1.97m (27.1%)
11:00- Real Rescues: 1.62m (22.5%)
11:45- To Buy or Not To Buy: 1.67m (22.4%)
12:15- Bargain Hunt: 2.54m (28.7%)
13:45- Doctors: 2.12m (20.8%)
14:15- Missing: 1.54m (16.1%)
17:15- The Weakest Link: 2.79m (15.2%)

ITV1 (exc. HD)
09:25- The Jeremy Kyle Show: 1.60m (22.1%)
10:30- This Morning: 1.47m (19.8%)
12:30- Loose Women: 1.45m (15.1%)
14:00- House Gift: 1.33m (13.7%)
17:00- The Alan Tichmarsh Show: 2.31m (13%)

Overall between 06:00-15:00, BBC1 Daytime averaged 2.19m (30.2%).
Overall between 06:00-15:00, ITV1 Daytime (exc. HD) averaged 1.31m (18.0%).

If we were to break the 06:00-15:00 averages down into the different age ranges:

All:... BBC1- 2.19m (30.2%)... ITV1- 1.31m (18.0%)
C4-15:. BBC1- 63k (7.8%) .... ITV1- 66k (8.2%)
A16-34: BBC1- 218k (17.0%)... ITV1- 231k (18.0%)
A35-44: BBC1- 244k (24.4%)... ITV1- 193k (19.3%)
A45-54: BBC1- 334k (29.6%)... ITV1- 279k (24.7%)
A55-64: BBC1- 475k (38.9%)... ITV1- 220k (18.0%)
A65+:.. BBC1- 860k (47.0%)... ITV1- 321k (17.5%)

Only went up to 15:00 because from 15:00 BBC1 was airing CBBC which would distort the averages unfairly.

I know GeorgeS keeps saying that BBC1's daytime lineup is aimed at old people, and although it's true BBC1 did really well with 65+, BBC1 still managed to beat ITV1 among viewers aged between 4 to 44 overall, almost beating them in the A16-34 demo. Dunno if it's like this every day (as the younger casual viewers who don't usually watch daytime TV might've watched BBC1 yesterday) but I thought it was worth noting.


Thanks for the explanation

Simply has to be New Year's Day. We won't get provisionals for that until next week I'd imagine.

Some very good numbers there for BBC. The raw numbers are good for ITV, but the shares in particular for Titchmarsh are poor. This Morning and Jeremy Kyle are doing well, though.

rzt, how's Channel 4 afternoon line-up doing? Would be surprised if Countdown is not above 1m, and I'd imagine Deal or No Deal and Come Dine with Me will be above 2m?


I think the provisionals may be on DigiGuide later, actually looking at: http://www.bds.tv/broadcasters/bbcTvInternal.shtml (if not today, then Monday)

Channel 4 (excluding C4+1):

15:25- Countdown: 1.01m (8.3%)
16:10- Deal or No Deal: 2.28m (15.8%)
17:00- Come Dine with Me: 2.79m (16.8%)
17:30- Four in a Bed: 2.14m (11.3%)

Brilliant ratings for DOND and CDWM. Four in a Bed also doing quite well for a new show (I think?) - not too far off Alan Tichmarsh's rating.

Just one thing I noticed from the Digiguide update, that repeat of Primeval has gone on 31/12. In it's place, a repeat of 'It's Paul Burling'.

From the shows commissioned it seems unlikely - though IMO both Take Me Out and Wild at Heart could easily be held back to the Spring.

4 in a bed like Coach Trip is a revival. Do you have anything for Pointless on BBC2? Please.


Thanks btw for posting all those ratings today. There very interesting.

You can see there how much the afternoon ratings really drag up Channel 4's all day share, brilliant from 4pm to 6pm really.

And I'll echo the thanks of Jake, nice to see daytime ratings.

Welldone to Doctors
the show is one of the best (and quite often the best soap) on TV and with it being on Daytime it doesn't get the ratings It deserves.Hopefully the Massive Stunt and 2,000 hour-long episode in Feb can rate well



sorry i should have said 1st ever episode

Ah right. Pointless yesterday had 2.17m (14.1%).

It's been rating very well this series. That might even be a record high for the show, I know last Thursday was the 1st time it'd broken the 2m mark.

The Christmas RT cover (out tomorrow in some areas)

http://www.radiotimes.com/content/fe...mas-covers/25/

8pm
BBC One Motorway Cops 4.07m (15.3%)
C5 Emergency Bikers 965k (3.6%)

Not exactly a fair or just result is it? Two very similar shows, EB arguably stronger out of the two, and predictably the show on the BBC gets 4x the audience.

Good result for Highland Emergency at 7:30pm though.

Thanks RZT

News of next week's scoring system for Strictly...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlyc...ingathon.shtml

Is there one?
After Last year when ITV moved corrie to 8:00pm (On Thurs) and clashed with EastEnders Hour-long which was planned months ago anyway as it was written as an Hour-long

Im shocked EastEnders actually started and finished ontime