Excellent for Corrie last night. Didn't think it would be that high considering it was Mad Friday and the possibility of many Xmas parties (mine was last night), but inc. HD that will push it to around 10.3m and 10.4m in the overnights. Looks like the momentum is continuing on from the 50th which is very good news for the show. Emmerdale and EE did OK.

As for the US imports. The Event now takes a break and returns in February. I can't see C4 giving it the Friday 9pm slot again. It will probs be pushed to a grave yard slot. And I'm fairly sure that's a series high for The Mentalist. Good to see it pick up abit. This series has picked up alot over the last few weeks after a slow start IMO.

The Bruce Forsyth one this year had 5.24m (23.4%)

DS have updated with more ratings:

BBC1 (inc. HD)
13:45- Doctors: 1.85m (20.3%)

ITV1 (inc. HD)
19:00- Emmerdale: 7.77m (33.1%)
* 19:00-19:25
19:30- Coronation Street: 10.72m (44.1%)
* 19:30-19:55
20:30- Coronation Street: 11.32m (43.2%)
* 20:30-20:55
21:00- A Night of Heroes: The Military Awards: 4.97m (20.9%)

Channel 4 (inc. HD)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 927k (4%)
22:30- Robert's Web: 598k (3.2%)

Channel 5 (inc. HD)
13:45- Neighbours: 857k (9.3%)
14:15- Home and Away: 395k (4.6%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.38m (7.6%)
18:00- Home and Away: 848k (3.9%)

BBC Three
22:00- EastEnders: 662k (3%)

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 355k (1.5%)

Fiver
18:30- Home and Away: 612k (2.6%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 27.2%
BBC One: 22%
BBC Two: 6.8%
Channel 5: 4.9%
Channel 4: 3.3% (+1: 0.8%)

Other ratings already posted here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...&postcount=119

Bodes well for next weeks Christmas Special.
The 2008 one had an offical of 7.65m but in the earlier 9pm slot.

Disastrous for MPD, how to turn a success into a flop. Predictable though as is The Event, which just isn't very good. They should of bid massively for The Walking Dead, was always going to be massive, and has a recognisable British lead. Five really do piss over C4 with imports nowadays.

Wow! The tape-checked Corrie ratings are excellent. I hope this can continue over Xmas as it usually gets hit over the festive period which I always find odd. As for H&A. The C5 episode was the series finale episode in Oz (i think) so how can there be a new episode of fiver?? Surely this won't have been shown in Oz yet? :-S

Those Corrie ratings are amazing!

What is the strapline controversy with Coronation St? I don't understand.

Excellent BBC1 ratings last night considering it was Mad Friday, when the younger/more upwardly mobile crowd who might watch EE/HIGNFY/Apollo/Norton etc were out partying, whilst ITV's more sedentary/older EmFm/Coro/Military Awards audience will not have been. The effect of this on Peep Show's audience, for example, is self-evident.

HIGNFY did exceptionally given the change of night, and the Military Awards offering more Friday night competition than say Paul O'Grady.

And at Graham Norton's 4.1m! He's on fire, easily outrating Jonathan Ross and putting together a far more entertaining show with better guests, and one imagines ITV must be lining up a bid for him with those numbers.


Oh, here we go.

Overpredictions Central!

If people are housebound tonight, why does everyone assume they'll be tuning in to BBC1 by default? When we had the big snow day in 2009, wasn't it ITV that got the biggest lift (Coro St, Whitechapel etc)?

If SCD gets past 14m tonight, let alone to 15m, I will eat my hat!

Here's hoping Robbie.

No doubt you'll be on here tomorrow saying how AMAZING SCD final has done etc with some Cowell abuse chucked in for good measure!

Presumably there will be scheduling changes tonight and tomorrow with only 2 out of 6 Premier League games going ahead today and 1 out of 3 tomorrow?

I imagine MOTD will be reduced to say 35 mins with Football League show showing whatever highlights they can cobble together at 11pm for 30-40 mins.

A reduced MOTD should boost its average anyway.

If it gets to an overnight of 13m, then yes I'll be saying how excellent that is for a show many on here (including you) were reading the last rites to 12 months ago.

If it gets to 14m, I will be describing how much I enjoyed feasting on whichever hat I select for consumption in the morning!

You would know


It's fair to assume that a large portion of casual viewers who are housebound tonight will tune into the best programmes available, which would be the Strictly Come Dancing final. I can't imagine many of the extra viewers opting in favour of Bridget Jones' Diary instead of one of the TV Events of the Year.


To be fair to dave01, he didn't say he expects it to get over 15m but towards 15m (i.e. 14-15m). I don't think that's out of question.

For the 2007/2008 series, the final results show rated 30% better than the average of the 6 Sunday results shows beforehand - if that same trend happens this year (why wouldn't it happen?), then a 14.0-14.5m is possible, especially with the poor weather.

Hmmmm...Robbie you should really pay attention to who says what on here. I've never said anything bad about SCD really. It's a real ratings winner for the BBC. As for reading the last rights 12 months?! Nice try, but I was a million miles away from this country 12 months ago and SCD ratings were the last thing on my mind! Nice try though!

Sorry. I do get things wrong sometimes!

I don't treat this thread as obsessively as some folk, storing old posts to re-use them many months later...

Just been looking at the latest official ratings on BARB website and it's really bugging me now that the ITV1 HD ratings aren't included in the ITV1 chart as those officials are very similar to the overnights and it doesn't look like much of an up lift when on reflection this isn't the case. That Top 10 chart for ITV1 HD needs to go now and they need to start to include them all in the Top 30 ITV1 chart.

The Tram Crash storyline was much better suited to retain viewers though - because I think the deaths have just twisted and enhanced ongoing storylines. With EastEnders, the storyline basically stopped dead because the whodunnit had been resolved.

Truly abysmal night for Channel 4. The Event's been a disaster, it's had knock on effects for Peep Show, and whats happened to Million Pound Drop must be terrifying them. It'll need a big relaunch in good slots next year to try and recover the damage.

EE did do just fine out of the back of the Live episode though, and I think we can at least partially credit the hoopla around it for the fact that EE is comfortably up year-on-year.

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I have to echo Robbie in that the big rating for me last night was Graham Norton. I suppose Cher is quite a rare guest, but even when Ross had hollywood names, I don't recall many ratings like that. I made the point the other day - despite all the hemoraging of 'talent' from the BBC this year, there has been almost no negative impact on ratings. That goes for Ross, Bleakely and Chiles.

Looking forward to seeing how Strictly does for the first part of BBC One's 'Big Weekend'. I think the snow might add maybe a million to the numbers. I'm going for a 13.5m average, possibly more.

That made me...lol! Yeah I know what you mean though. I think some people copy and paste them into a word document then bring them back months later!

I'm not one for that either... but I hope you'll forgive me for putting the "eat my hat" comment on ice for tomorrow, just in case.

Yeah i've saved that one already.

If you're referring to me, no I don't save/store old posts to a Word document! I simply remembered you saying a couple of months ago that there was no chance of TXF final getting more viewers than EE Live, and using that 'search' button above it was easy to find that post .

Can't wait to see your reponse tomorrow when SCD does get 13.5m+. No doubt there'll be a lot of and smilies!

Whitechapel benefitted not because it was on ITV1, but because it was the best offering of the night. Tonight, there's no doubt that BBC1 have the strongest line-up and if a few million more people are at home than last weekend, it seems reasonable to expect that a greater proportion of them will opt for BBC1 rather than The Cube Celebrity special and an old film on ITV1.

Agree

Most things on the main channel got a boost on snow day. EastEnders and The One Show certainly got a boost. Also there was weak competition against Whitechapel so it benefitted. Strictly has its final today so I'm hopeful that will give it a boost. I'd love to see it get 14 million but I just don't know. I'd love it to happen though!

Really!?!

Sometimes watching you and GeorgeS it's like watching two men in a who can pee the furthest contest!

Personally I find it entertaining but we're all ratings obsessives on this thread. It's why we're all here.