No because ITV1 has Above Suspicion at 9pm.

Ignore, beaten to it.

ITV1 are screening Tonight at 7.30pm over 3 nights that week.

I hope they don't miss EastEnders off this year!

Well ITV can look back at this December and think to themselves, it's like being in the nineties again. Coronation St averaging 13 million this week, the I'm A Celeb final getting 12 million, the semi final of TXF getting 15 million and the final getting a seventies like 20 million viewers( which is predicted, I'll go for 17.5 million, which will put it on a par with the likes of Game for a Laugh in 1982). This is making me nostalgic for the good old days when I used to keep copies of the weekly ratings chart from the Daily Express.

For people wondering how the news channels rated between 8-9pm yesterday: BBC News- 277k , Sky News- 204k

For comparison purposes, the same slot the previous Thursday both channels had: BBC News- 187k, Sky News- 46k


Yeah let's hope not!


The 20m being predicted for TXF final by a couple of newspapers is for the peak not the average, just to make it clear.

So increases for both, arguably knocked ~0.2m off potential Corrie audience but not massive amount.

Very funny C5 promo playing out for Dirty Dancing on Sunday with Peter Dickson style v/o urging viewers to turn over after The X Factor on Sun for the movie.

Hmm. In a week when ITV is showing at least seven hours of Coronation Street-related stuff, one extra hour of Strictly - taking it to two and a half hours in total - is "overkill"? Strange.

Besides, tonight's extra Strictly has barely been promoted and won't have much more than about 4 million as a lead-in from QI. It'll be lucky to get more than about 7-8 million.

so you dont count SCD It Takes Two but do count ALL the Coronation Street stuff?

The stuff that's not on BBC1 in primetime, you mean?

ITV have also been promoting the soap on just about every ITV show they have.

I very much enjoyed Boyd Hilton in Heat slagging off the Beeb for "milking" Strictly this weekend, ignoring the million hours of The X Factor, and the million pages his magazine devotes to it. I think this is a very sensible decision, it keeps the programmes to a managable length and allows them to get out of the way of The X Factor. They could have done it all as a ninety or hundred minute long show and nobody would have batted an eyelid.

Exactly. I watched the one episode of EastEnders and was reminded how awful it is and haven't watched since.

With Corrie I've watched all this weeks episodes and it looks like it's done enough to keep me watching in the short term at least.


And already did when you add in the 10.35pm screening.


Taking into account the week of episodes, who averages higher?


With the move towards drama series stripped across the week surely it's only a matter of time before a "live" drama is commissioned - or perhaps a live week of soap episodes - perhaps for Emmerdales 40th in 2012.

For anyone who wishes to do a comparison of any sort...

EastEnders - 25th Anniversary
15/02 - 10.4m (39.6%)
16/02 - 10.5m (41.8%)
18/02 - 10.8m (41.5%) - 1 hour
19/02 - 15.6m (58.0%) - live
Average = 11.8m (45.2%)

Coronation Street - 50th Anniversary
06/12 - 11.6m (44.4%)
06/12 - 12.9m (45.8%)
07/12 - 11.8m (42.6%)
08/12 - 11.1m (45.9%)
09/12 - 14.0m (52.0%) - 1 hour, live
10/12 - ?
10/12 - ?
Average = 12.3m (46.1%)

All ratings are overnights and for the full advertised timeslot.

The first episodes after EastEnders Live had:

22/02 - 11.4m (43.0%)
23/02 - 10.4m (43.0%)
25/02 - 9.4m (39.0%)
26/02 - no episode

Although that had the disadvantage in that there was the weekend between the live episode and the next episode.

All the episodes this week tape checked have beaten that 11.4m figure - will be interesting to see what drop off there is for Corrie now that its 50th is coming to a conclusion.

So we can't add the reapt ratings this time now then?

In that case we can add EastEnders BBC3 repeat to that figure aswell as the omnibus then

Thanks DMN - thought Corrie might come out on top looking at the bigger picture. And putting ratings aside I also think the event was much more of a watershed for Corrie - it's kind of set the tone for a new era of Coronation Street, whilst the EastEnders episodes just remained stuck in the past with yet another who killed who in the Vic storyline!

Ok so without sounding Biased here.

Welldone EastEnders for remaining the most watched soap episode of Every Decade on Air and still the most watched multichannel rating every

Welldone to the younger soap

Seriously though a very welldone to Corrie for this week
I actually enjoyed tonights episode
Most of the viewers seemed to have enjoyed the week and the LIVE episode and i think it goes to show that Soaps can stil pull out all the stops and manage to pull in the viewers.

I dunno EastEnders episodes seemed to focus on the past 25 years with Quite a few mentions of the past and Dot and Ian having a chat and watching videos back from 1985 aswell as a wedding and comeback plus the murder reveal i think Both soaps celebrated their Birthdays how they wanted

Yeah. With EastEnders' Live same-day repeat, it had a total of 17m in the overnights. That's more than Corrie Live's total of 16.0m.

yep thats what i thought
Nice to see EastEnders cast wishing corrie a happy 50th in that Corrie special

Well having watched Coronation Street last night I tuned in tonight too. The scenes with Sally and Kevin were excellent tonight especially Sally Dynevor. I can see why that scene was not considered for the live transmission being long and complex.
Ratings though, everyone seems to be saying how great they are. I think thats quite disappointing for the live transmission, and I think deep down the producers will think the same for what was a daring landmark episode. Maybe it got swallowed up in the week and they will certainly have a fine series of figures this week-but with no cherry on the top.

.........returning the favour from February when a selection of the Corrie cast recorded a message.

And we have had the CIN East Street special-all getting on famously it seems.

Reasonable for Coronation Street I guess but little more than that. The fact it still finished 1.2m behind EastEnders isn't something which'll be shouted out in public by ITV and nor should it be. Best to take the whole week as an average and see whether that can look any better I guess.

I'm not quite sure why I'm so down about the figure - it's about where I expected it to be and 14m is not to be dismissed but considering the quality of the live and the build up it had from previous episodes possibly deep down I was expecting it to be higher.

The Big 50 Moments Show just wasted the lead in but maybe ITV have used their weekly budget up on the episodes themselves, Save The Apprentice Final Five BBC1 held up very well against the onslaught. One interesting thing about the soap clash: previously both shows suffered when they went head to head; now it appears Emmerdale holds up while EastEnders doesn't. I think the repeat slot has something to do with that and that is why ITV will never implement it for their soaps - they want people to watch the original airing.

Considering Coronation Street was more dramatic that usual this week, it's probably best they didn't air any dramas at 9pm as well.

Going from death on the street into a Midsomer Murders or Taggart would have been a bit too much. Corrie was more like a drama premiere this week, and you wouldn't run two of them back to back.

Kind of weird that ITV1 and Channel 4 are showing Marvel films on the same day with The Incredible Hulk before Iron Man.