Apprentice- 7.3m... Rangers v Man U- 5.8m. Inc HD

Permanent apparently

Where's it been confirmed that Chris Evans will be doing two shows a week permanently. I thought that was just a temp arrangement.

DS have updated.

Good night for ITV. The football did better than I thought, compared to past matches in the last few months and ITV2 did very well with their alternate entertainment schedule with Peter & IAC:Now. The latter has performed very well this series, normally always around 1m inc +1. Foyles War did very well too and it's nights like these where ITV get everything right offering a range of decent programming across all channels.

Nice boost for TA, but the 8pm hour continues to plod on with both programmes obviously wrongly scheduled after seeing the success of the Sunday repeat of Jimmy's Farm.

I thought Rangers/Man u would pull in a big crowd. Shame the match was so dire.

ooh I found the TV Burp Review of the Year Show


I know Mock the Week has one & HIGNFY has a specail, just waiting to see if Screenwipe has one or not.

Live Ashes cricket (Sky Sports 1)

Midnight - 12.15am: 415,000 (6.6% share)
12.15am - 12.30am: 417,000
12.30am - 12.45am: 400,000
12.45am - 1.00am: 350,000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...hes-tv-ratings

Sorry this has probably already been mentioned but this has to be the most bizarre idea for Christmas Day programming I have ever read.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...istmas-message

Live births on Christmas Day?!

Isn't that how Christmas started?

Wednesday 24th November Roundup
BBC One (inc. HD)
7.00pm- The One Show: 4.89m (22.1%)
7.30pm- Wallace & Grommit's World of Inventions: 3.91m (17.6%)
* down 450k week-on-week
8.00pm- Jimmy's Food Factory: 3.11m (13.2%)
8.30pm- Nigel Slater's Simple Starters: 3.52m (14.3%)
9.00pm- The Apprentice: 7.27m (27.5%)
* up 650k week-on-week
10.45pm- Film 2010 with Claudia Winkleman: 1.12m (8.4%)

BBC Two
7.00pm- Escape to the Country: 2.1m (9.5%)
8.00pm- Edwardian Farm: 2.81m (11.7%)
9.00pm- Ancient Worlds: 1.25m (4.7%)
10.00pm- The Apprentice: You're Fired - 2.86m (13.2%)

ITV1 (inc. HD)
7.30pm- Man Utd vs Rangers: 5.98m (23.9%)
* peaked at "more than 7m"

Channel 4
8.00pm- Animal House: 1.17m (4.9%), +1: 126k (0.5%)
9.00pm- Grand Designs: 2.18m (8.3%), +1: 216k (1.1%)
10.00pm- Rude Tube: 1.37m (7.4%), +1: 161k (1.7%)

Channel 5
7.30pm- Highland Emergency: 898k (4.1%)
8.00pm- Emergency Bikers: 1.41m (5.9%)
9.00pm- NCIS: 1.04m (3.9%)
10.00pm: Law & Order: Criminal Intent: 956k (4.9%)

ITV2
9.00pm- Peter Andre: The Next Chapter: 862k (3.3%), +1: 145k (0.8%)
10.00pm- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here Now: 974k (5%), +1: 173k (1.7%)

ITV3
9.00pm- Foyle's War: 1.03m (4.8%)
* biggest multichannel audience of the night

Primetime Shares
BBC One (inc. HD): 20.1%
BBC Two: 9%
ITV1 (inc. HD): 21.7%
Channel 4: 6.2%, +1: 0.6%
Channel 5: 4.2%

Source: Digital Spy


I can't remember if DS includes HD for some? I think they do for BBC One and ITV1?

I also don't know how to merge +1 into one consolidated figure, so apologies there.

Just thought I'd do it because the usual heroes seem a bit busy today.

Both ITV2 & 3 pushing five close between 9-11pm last night.

Does the figure for the Rangers game include or exclude STV as they were doing their own coverage. If excluded I guess we could add at least 200,000.

Five have run a 30 minute Christmas Day bulletin at least once before (2006 I think)

The odd thing about the provisionals is that Boxing Day is only 5 minutes so C4 may be planning to use the news as filler on Christmas Day

One thing about news generally and the Christmas/New Year period, a big story usually occurs. In recent years there has been Saddam Hussian execution, Benazir Hutto asasination, Gaza violence and last year the underpants bomber.

Not on TV it didn't!

Wednesday 24th November 2010
BBC1 (inc HD)
06:00 - Breakfast: 1.6m (35.9%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 5.0m (25.0%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 6.2m (28.8%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.9m (22.3%)
19:30 - Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention: 3.9m (17.6%)
20:00 - Jimmy's Food Factory: 3.1m (13.2%)
20:30 - Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers: 3.5m (14.3%)
21:00 - The Apprentice: 7.3m (27.5%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.6m (20.9%)

BBC2
17:15 - The Hairy Bikers' Cook Off: 1.3m (8.0%)
18:00 - Eggheads: 2.5m (12.3%)
18:30 - Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two: 2.7m (12.7%)
19:00 - Escape to the Country: 2.1m (9.5%)
20:00 - Edwardian Farm: 2.8m (11.7%)
21:00 - Ancient Worlds: 1.3m (5.0%)
22:00 - The Apprentice: You're Fired: 2.9m (13.2%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 1.2m (8.0%)

ITV (inc HD)
06:00 - Daybreak: 0.8m (18.3%)
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.9m (18.2%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 7.3m (33.2%)
19:30 - UEFA Champions League: Rangers v Man U: 5.8m (23.4%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.0m (9.6%)
22:35 - UEFA Champions League: Extra Time: 1.0m (9.9%)

C4 (inc C4 +1 and HD)
17:30 - Four in a Bed: 1.9m (10.7%)
18:00 - The Simpsons: 2.0m (8.8%)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.2m (5.0%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 1.0m (4.3%)
20:00 - Animal Madhouse: 1.3m (4.9%)
21:00 - Grand Designs: 2.4m (8.3%)
22:00 - Rude Tube: 1.6m (7.4%)

Five (inc HD)
17:00 - Five News: 0.8m (5.4%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 1.5m (8.8%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 0.9m (4.3%)
18:25 - Live From Studio Five: 0.3m (1.3%)
19:00 - Five News at 7: 0.2m (1.0%)
19:30 - Highland Emergency: 0.9m (4.0%)
20:00 - Emergency Bikers: 1.4m (5.7%)
21:00 - NCIS: 1.0m (3.9%)

BBC3
21:00 - FILM: The Girl Next Door: 447,000 (1.9%)
22:40 - Family Guy: 408,000 (2.65%)
23:05 - Family Guy: 521,000 (4.5%)

BBC4
21:00 - Birds Britannia: 273,000 (1.1%)
22:00 - Mad Men: 286,000 (1.5%)

ITV2 (inc +1 and HD)
21:00 - Peter Andre: The Next Chapter: 870,000 (3.45%)
22:00 - I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here Now!: 1.00m (5.4%)
23:00 - Kelly Osbourne Uncut: Piers Morgan's Life Stories: 274,000 (3.4%)

Sky One
20:30 - Raising Hope: 122,000 (0.5%)
21:00 - Bones: 102,000 (0.4%)

G.O.L.D
21:00 - Fry and Laurie Reunited: 410,000(1.7%)

Dave
18:40 - QI : 110,000 (0.5%)
19:20 - QI: 146,000 (0.7%)
20:00 - Top Gear: 121,000 (0.5%)
21:00 - Mock the Week: 223,000 (0.9%)
21:40 - Mock the Week: 333,000 (1.5%)
22:20 - Have I Got News for You: 289,000 (1.7%)
23:00 - Mock the Week: 240,000 (2.3%)

Very good rating for The Apprentice last night despite tough competition - still very good rating nevertheless for the football.

Daybreak seems a tad low after reaching 0.9m earlier this week.

Any guesses on what the first highlights show will get tonight on ITV4?

Should break the million.

Excellent figures for Fry and Laurie's reunion, bettering Fawlty Towers Re-Opened last year to become G.O.L.D.'s most watched programme since a repeat of Men in Black II drew an audience of 435k in June 2008. (it may even eclipse that in the officials)

It did get a lot of promotion though with full page spreads in the papers. They should do more of these specials as they rate well and are a good fit for G.O.L.D.

They did a Royle Family one which did good but not as great as Fry and Laurie or the Fawtly Towers ones. I like these specials but it's hard to do ones that haven't been done before like Blackadder which had three specials two on GOLD and one on BBC One.

Maybe The Vicar of Dibley or French and Saunders for a special, that would do quite well.

Surprisingly good figure for Newsnight at 1.2 million and also for the BBC local news at 6.30. I wonder if we are going to see the winter weather factor kick-in again soon. Daybreak seems to have taken a step backwards but Chiles and Bleakley were off yesterday because he was doing the footie last night (strange how they are always off together).Still only half the audience of BBC Breakfast despite all the hype.

just incase this thread wasnt complicated enough,with HDs & +1s


Intersting to see what this means for BBC 3 shows.

From Broadcast online:

BBC1 GROWS SHARE AS BBC2 DECLINES
25 November, 2010 | By Catherine Neilan

BBC1 is the only terrestrial channel to have seen its audience share increase during peak hours for the year to the end of October – but sister channel BBC2 saw the largest proportionate drop of the five.

BBC1 peak share is now 22.9% compared to 22.8% for the same period last year. The increase contrasts with falls at the other four terrestrials: BBC2: 8.6% to 7.8, ITV1: 22.8% to 22%, Channel 4: 7.7% to 7.5% and Channel 5: 4.9% to 4.6%.

BBC1 was also watched by 44.6m people each week during 2010 – up from 44m last year – taking its share up 0.2 percentage points, to 34.7%. The figures were all supplied by the BBC.

BBC Vision director Jana Bennett said it had been “a strong year” for the corporation, highlighting “distinctive and uniquely BBC initiatives like the year of science, opera and poetry seasons and the launch of BBC1 HD”.

She also drew attention to “ambitious and challenging” programming such as Five Daughters and Turn Back Time – The High Street as contributing to growth in AIs and audience share.

Despite BBC2’s decline in peak time share, a spokeswoman defended its performance. She said the dip had come as part of the channel’s “strategy of more high-risk, distinctive programmes, which won’t necessarily rate, but are important and highly relevant to BBC2”.

The broadcaster said that both channels had improved their performance on the Appreciation Index (AIs), but did not disclose the figures.

All the terrestrial channels’s share fell over all hours, with BBC1 falling from 20.9% to 20.7% and BBC2 dropping from 7.5% to 6.9%. Those dips compare to ITV1’s share of 16.8% for all hours, down from 17.9%, while Channel 4 is down 0.4 points to 7.1% and Channel 5 is at 4.6%


**Looks to me as though - at 0.8% - ITV1's drop is as big as BBC2's (although I suppose "proportionately", BBC2's decline is larger). Channel 4 isn't down as much as I thought.
A huge achievement for BBC1 when you take into account the increasingly fragmented market**

Provisional schedules give hints of possible shows in TBA slots over the festive period (only up to 24th December, cause don't have DigiGuide) :

Saturday 18th December
- BBC1 will change a lot, Strictly's only one show when it will be two
- ITV1 I think will have a drama repeat at 9pm as there's a 2 hour TBA

Sunday 19th December
- ITV1 have a slot from 18:35 to 21:00, the looks like a FILM to me, although hard to tell. Drama premiere at 9pm - possibly Come Rain Come Shine?

Monday 20th December
- whole of BBC1 daytime is blank. Looking at the timings, I think The Nativity could take the 5:30pm, this would make sense as the previous programme The Weakest Link presumably begins at 4:45pm. Primetime line-up looks confirmed apart from TBA at 7:30pm
- ITV1 has the normal daytime line-up. Primetime is normal, The Savoy at 9pm

Tuesday 21st December
- BBC1 has TBA at 9pm
- ITV1, interestingly has Children's Hospital at Christmas at 8pm. Note that this contradicts ITV Press Office which says its on Monday 20th December at 9pm, but I think DigiGuide in this case is correct

Wednesday 22nd December
- as expected, already confirmed new Marple on 8pm on ITV1

Thursday 23rd December
- shortened news bulletin for BBC1 at 1pm, TBA from 8pm to 10pm
- ITV1 even for Thursday is still showing a normal schedule. 9pm is TBA.

Christmas Eve
- hard to tell with BBC1 schedule whether it'll change a lot, because BBC News is on from 7:40pm to 8:00pm - the News is also on at 10pm. Think this will change.
- ITV's schedule will be confirmed once Paul O'Grady slots in at 9pm so it'll be Emmerdale, Corrie, YBF!, Corrie and POG.

And now also confirmed: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/david...2/default.html

Very impressive for BBC One. I suppose the World Cup helped quite substantially, filling primetime for a good number of nights this summer. With EE up year-on-year and steady performances from other primetime staples, you can start to see why they've had a good overall year.

That said, ITV is down despite the buoyancy of the soaps and the WC, but then I suppose the cost cuts have bit in this year - cheaper primetime stuff doesn't pull in the ratings of the dramas they replaced, but then they don't cost half as much, either.

BBC Two's fall is striking, but not surprising. MasterChef would have been a substantial loss and other big bankers like Spring/Autumnwatch have faded too. Interesting that Channel 4 and 5 weren't hit as badly as I'd presumed.

I expect Channel 4's bigger decline will come next year, due to the absence of BB.

Exactly the sort of thing C4 should be doing - and the only thing announced so far for Christmas which is somewhat unexpected.

C4 actually also had the first birth of the Millennium by complete accident/luck on The Biggest Breakfast Ever.