A bit of complementary scheduling from the BBC by having One man & his Dog on this afternoon. That should allow the SCD viewers to warm up before the main event.

Coronation Street has had alot of momentum from Tram Week and if it advertises the return of Tracy Barlow, then I think it could hit over 10 million this year.

Naughty George!

Though most US shows seem to have some sort of British connection nowadays.

As for MPD - obviously shoe-horned into the schedule without thought - it could easily have played at 9pm over the last three nights and although that would have meant going head to head with The Apprentice on Wednesday, the benefit of not facing the soaps Thu/Fri far outweighs that.




The celeb line up is what it is, but not too sure on the decision to cut down to three judges. I might be in the minority but I felt the five judge format worked well and though not everyone could comment on all performers, there wasn't really a need for everyone to comment anyway.

The scores will be pretty meaningless with just three opinions - especially as both the dropped judges were looking from the skating point of view. The 3 skaters to 2 performers balance worked well for scoring, commenting and the skate off - but now only one persons opinion really matters IMO, and they can be over ruled by the others. The only way this can work too IMO is if Torvill and Dean move onto the judging panel too.

God, the DOI line-up seems pretty grim. Over the past couple of years its been similar/better to Strictly's, but there's fewer recognisable names in there this year. Some typical OK! mag fodder with Brazier and Katona though - and should help the latters ITV2 show (sadly).

The other changes seem to mimic what SCD has done, so they'll be hoping for similar rewards.

Excellent rating for a festive episode of The Mentalist, a series high in fact.

Also pleasing to see Emergency Bikers do well outside of its usual Wednesday night slot, much improved on White Van Man in previous weeks.

As for Channel 4, what can you say about those numbers really? Woeful. But they don't help themselves scheduling Million Pound Drop opposite the soaps and The Event opposite The Mentalist.

As others have highlighted, terrific rating for Graham Norton yesterday.

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(- Jennifer Metcalfe.)

Annual entry from the Hollyoaks model agency.

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(- Craig McLachlan - No idea who!)

He was Henry Ramsey in Neighbours around the time Kylie and Jason were in it...aka when Brucie was young. Like them left to be a pop star and, um, well he's on DOI and they are not. So go figure.

(- Also think there being 3 judges is better - 5 was always way too many!)

Part of the reasoning is that they can increase the banter between them with just three. It was too rushed with 5 of them.

It won't though. There have been massive Emmerdale Christmas Day episodes before, and they always rate like a hot Friday in August!

SCD is quite obviously going to be massive with the snow tonight. ITV will not hold up well as many will stick with BBC1 all night. Usual fillers like Total Wipeout and the lottery will do much better than usual as well.

I doubt Kylie will be getting her skates on anytime soon, but surely Jason Donovan is only one step away from cashing in that reality pay cheque.

Emmerdale is third in the soap pecking order, though is a big improvement from 20 years ago when it was sixth behind Brookside, so will never rate in the same way the big two do. However, it should steal about 6 million from BBC One as Emmerdale fans mostly don't watch DW.

Given the poor conditions, I think we will see ITV hold up better than last year against Strictly, with probably 4.5m/5m from 7pm to 9:15pm.

Take Me Out should do OK as it's inbetween Strictly but I doubt The Cube will fare well against the dancing. <4m for The Cube I suspect, although TMO could still get 4.5-5m.

How do Jeremy Kyle and This Morning rate against BBC One as I gather the BBC has turned the tables on their one time nemesis from the nineties? Also seeing ten minutes of This Morning a few weeks ago and it was just an advert for Coronation St, not a patch on when you know who were hosts.

Consolidated ratings for ITV1's Coronation Street fest last week are out:

Monday (19:30) - 13.03m
Monday (20:30) - 14.75m
Tuesday (20:30) - 13.09m
Wednesday (19:00) - 12.60m
Thursday (20:00 - Live Episode) - 14.72m
Friday (19:30) - 13.17m
Friday (20:30) - 13.45m

So the tram crash episode had more viewers than the live episode. A great week overall for them.

Would be fantastic if Take Me Out could get around 5m+

By consolidated you mean official?

Yesterday the ratings were:

BBC1 (inc. HD)
09:15- Rip Off Britain: 1.63m
10:00- Homes Under the Hammer: 1.52m
11:00- Real Rescues: 1.28m
11:45- To Buy or Not To Buy: 1.29m

ITV1 (exc. HD)
09:25- Jeremy Kyle Show: 1.64m
10:30- This Morning: 1.29m


Yep.

Jeremy Kyle's ratings are up it seems as he used to lose to his BBC1 opposition. Also This Morning is a two hour show so it also clashes with Real Rescues and To Buy Or Not To Buy as well as the first 15 minutes of Bargain Hunt so it'd be interesting to see those shows respective ratings as well.

An official average then of 13.54m for the week, timeshifting 1.4m on the overnight average of 12.1m.

This compares with EastEnders' 25th week average of 12.52m for the week, timeshifting 0.7m on the overnight average of 11.8m.

For ITV, they'll obviously be looking at the 13.54m number which no doubt makes it the most successful week for Coronation Street in years.

EDIT: ITV gets 3rd place for Coronation Street, but the inclement weather may mean Strictly will take that back if its overnight is 13m+ tonight...

It is worth noting that the episodes after Coronation Street's 50th have held up better than EastEnders' 25th:

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

Coronation Street - Week after 50th
13/12 - 11.7m (46.3%) - 19:30
13/12 - 11.7m (42.3%) - 20:30
16/12 - 9.2m (34.6%)
17/12 - 10.7m (44.1%) - 19:30
17/12 - 11.3m (43.2%) - 20:30

Ratings are tape-checked.

Even considering the drop on Thursday, 2 million returned for Friday's second episode. Now whether it remains ahead of EastEnders next week will be interesting. The opposition to Coronation Street is actually quite weak, on Monday (its only episode due to Come Rain Come Show) at 7:30pm, its opposition is Deadly 60, on Thursday it's a scientific documentary, which I can't see being an attractive option 2 days before Christmas. The Friday opposition is a bit more tricky in that it faces the BBC News leading after The Chronicles of Narnia and then My Family at 8:30pm. If the tables are turned, I don't see it happening until Christmas Eve.


Eugh, Jeremy Kyle won its slot, and This Morning won its slot from 11am onwards it seems. That's quite surprising. Was this a one off 'rise' for some reason, or has ITV been closing the gap recently for some strange reason?

I've added the other ratings in there too.

Between 10:30-12:30 yesterday, BBC1 averaged 1.42m. That beat This Morning's 1.29m, although 1.29m doesn't include HD. With HD they must've been very close.

Corrie did fantastically last night. Glad to see the momentum has remained... wonder if that will carry through to Christmas.

I think it will and the Christmas Day episode will rate higher than usual. But Strictly has also been on a ratings roll this year so could be good for 8 million on Christmas Day.

Back to Dancing on Ice for a minute and one thing I noticed about all the reports yesterday - no mention of Torvill and Dean. I assume they are back as I'm not sure they'd even be a show without them.

I saw them on Lorraine Kelly's show a couple of weeks ago and they said they were working with the contestants already so yep, they're returning.

Corrie advertised the tram crash week as "Four Funerals and a Wedding".
Come the end of the week though, we only had 3 deaths (Ashley and Molly in the wreckage, and Charlotte murdered).
Fans moaned on the forum, but to be fair to Corrie, nobody said the deaths would be THAT week.