I saw more adverts for 'Famous and Fearless' on ITV1 yesterday, so Channel 4 seems to be promoting it quite a lot. (It's unusual for them to pay for adverts on ITV). Anything under 2m for it tonight would be disappointing in my view. It's got a good lead-in, plus the anti-drama audience who won't watch BBC1 or ITV1 at 9pm might want to check it out.

Zen on BBC1 looks brilliant though - I suspect this'll win its slot with ~6m.

The BBC should have put the Eric and Ernie drama on BBC1 in Toast's slot and put Toast on last night.

But that means BBC2 got full ratings value out of the programme.

I notice it's currently number 14 on iPlayer below the likes of Live At The Apollo, The Magicians and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. I imagine iPlayer is mainly a young person's medium and that Eric And Ernie skewed older.

Would be interesting to see the breakdown for their Christmas Show. I imagine ratings dropped a bit when Eastenders started.

I'm glad Come Fly With Me held up well with over 7m viewers.. I think it's very funny

I know - and here was us thinking that BBC1 HD would free up capacity on BBCHD for simulcasts of BBC2 shows. Instead, BBCHD do a simulcast of Mary Poppins on BBC3, having already done one for the same film with BBC1 on New Year's Eve. And any if the threads on DS are anything to go by, Mary Poppins wasn't exactly top notch HD. Is there a face-palm smiley?

I certainly enjoyed it bit more last night that I did the Christmas Day episode. It's fairly lightweight stuff, and lacks the creativity and brio of Little Britain (the first series at least), but it should be ok for the remaining 4 episodes.

Agreed. The episode last night was a big improvement on the first and there were certainly some laugh out loud moments (the photographers, Precious and the couple who had been on a Fly-Lo cruise to name but a few.) OK so it's no Little Britain, but it's better than many, many other comedy shows. It deserves to retain 6m + for the rest of the series and based on yesterday's figure that is a high possibility.

Even more than the low rating of Primeval I'm shocked by the relatively high rating of 'The Magicians'. OK so it was sandwiched between two popular shows, but even so it was absolutely awful! I would have thought the majority of viewers would have switched over after the first 15mins but clearly not. I'm anticipating a rather large drop next week.

I suspect the France v Scotland and Scotland v Wales games may find themselves on BBC2 - although even if on BBC1 Total Wipeout can follow at 7pm and return to an earlier slot on the 19th, when Let's Dance may launch - and then be dropped as and when necessary for later games.


Why the two - how about not show it at all and just have the NYE episode on the Friday then the NYD episode on the Monday.

And next year, as they should have done this year, Casualty should be dropped for the period if the BBC don't have the slots for it. If the BBC didn't commission episodes for the nights they can't actually show them they'd lose 4-5 episodes a year probably, saving a couple of million quid!


Early candidate for Jaw Dropping rating of the year 2011!


BBC viewers take time though to realise shows are shit - and frankly Primevil isn't everybody's cup of tea so it'll get a decent anti-Primevil audience in the weeks to come.

As for Take Me Out - has it been promoted much this week (not really seen much of ITV thinking about it!). EastEnders obviously the main factor, but also wonder if many people were not expecting it to return until next week.

Shocking. It seems BBCHD is now geared up to ensure the EastEnders repeat on BBC3 is simulcast, even if other shows obviously have a greater claim on the slot.

Sorry??Wasted? New Years Day is usually the most watched Day of the year.
There was 24.5m people watching tv when Indiana Jones was on last night. if it was moved an hour later it would have increasesd the audience for the film by only around 1m and if it was scheduled on another night in primetime it would have gotten around the same rating of 7.6m.

Wall E had the same audience available to it as Shrek 3 had on Christmas Day.

It would be great if someone could procure a full breakdown for BBC1/2/ITV1 from 3pm onwards.

I think we could see some fascinating details not apparent from the bare overnight figures.

New Year's Day 2011 Full Roundup
BBC One (inc HD)
13:40 - FILM: Bee Movie: 2.9m (18.9%)
15:00 - FILM: Wall-E: 4.4m (25.4%)
16:30 - Final Score: 3.4m (17.1%)
17:15 - BBC News: 5.3m (24.6%)
17:35 - FILM: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 7.6m (31.1%)
19:30 - The Magicians: 5.5m (21.1%)
20:30 - EastEnders: 9.0m (31.5%)
21:00 - Come Fly with Me: 7.6m (26.9%)
21:30 - Live at the Apollo: 4.3m (16.3%)
22:10 - BBC News: 4.2m (16.8%)
22:30 - Match of the Day: 4.9m (24.6%)

BBC Two
19:25 - Dad's Army: 2.9 (11.1%)
19:55 - The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 1976: 4.5m (16.4%)
21:00 - Eric and Ernie: 6.1m (23.0%)
22:30 - Eric and Ernie: Behind the Scenes: 3.6m (17.2%)

ITV1 (inc. HD)
17:05 - FILM: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 3.7m (15.7%)
19:30 - Primeval: 4.5m (16.8%)
20:30 - Take Me Out: 3.0m (10.8%)
21:45 - FILM: Forgetting Sarah Marshall: 1.9m (7.8%)
23:45 - ITV News: 2.2m ( 9.9%)

Channel 4 (inc. HD)
17:30 - Come Dine with Me: 2.5m ( 2.1%)
18:20 - FILM: Independence Day: 2.0m (7.5%)

Channel 5 (inc. HD)
20:00- CSI Miami: 0.7m (2.4%)
21:00- CSI NY: 0.95m (3.5%)
22:00- CSI: 0.75m (3.3%)

Sky1
19:00 - Diversity Live: The Diversity Tour: 656,000
* peak: 888,000

15-minute Breakdown

So, what are ITV1 to do? Should they ensure that they have at least one soap/reality show each evening to prop up the schedule and give a good lead in to a new prog (like they did with DA) or accept that, when they don't have a soap/reality prog, their evening is prone to be "prone"?

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I still say that the Eastenders rating is quite disappointing. That episode was quite heavily promoted, so for it to be just 9 million including HD is a tad disappointing. The episode deserved more as it was a quality one.

Interesting breakdown.

Primeval gained nothing from The Magicians being a stinker - it stuck at 4.4/4.5 throughout. Astonishingly Magicians actually gained over the hour!

This is particularly embarrassing for ITV:

20:30….. 8.4 (29.7%) ….. 3.1 (11.1%) ….. 4.9 (17.4%) ….. 2.5 ( 8.7%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.2%)
20:45….. 9.5 (33.3%) ….. 2.6 ( 9.2%) ….. 5.4 (18.8%) ….. 1.7 ( 5.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.4%)

So Take Me Out (incl HD) was being thrashed 2 to 1 by a 34 year old M&W repeat on BBC2 and more than 3 to 1 by EastEnders.

Crikey!

Looks like Primeval escaped that indignity, holding 2nd place throughout.

Official consolidated ratings for Christmas Day have been released:

1...EastEnders (20:00, BBC One) - 12.61m (44.2%)
2...Come Fly With Me (22:00, BBC One) - 12.47m (43.3%)
3...Doctor Who (18:00, BBC One) - 12.11m (41.8%)
4...The Royle Family (21:00, BBC One) - 11.29m (39.3%)
5...Strictly Come Dancing (19:00, BBC One) - 10.96m (36.0%)
6...Coronation Street (19:00, ITV-1) - 10.40m (33.8%)
7...The One Ronnie (17:10, BBC One) - 8.79m (38.9%)
8...Emmerdale (18:00, ITV-1) - 8.24m (28.3%)

Thanks to MattJ for those ratings
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EastEnders officially secures No. 1 for Xmas Day. A massive timeshift for Come Fly with Me (+2.2m ) puts it ahead of Doctor Who in second place!

Compared to Xmas Day 2009:

EastEnders: +0.94m
Doctor Who: +0.07m
The Royle Family: -0.63m
Strictly Come Dancing: +3.39m
Coronation Street: +1.68m
Emmerdale: +2.62m

So all but one of them up year-on-year. Particularly big gains for Strictly Come Dancing and Emmerdale.

Holy McF--kety!

12.5m for CFWM!

Delighted the Royles got to 11.3m, 11m for SCD too, and that 8.8m for One Ronnie is great for the timeslot.

What a day this is turning out to be!

Wonder what George "Christmas Day is a ratings non-event" S will make of those numbers?



Seriously, ITV will be delighted with CoroSt and EmFm getting 10.4m and 8.2m on Christmas Day.

On the basis of some of these timeshifts, it could be interesting to see the officials for the whole festive period once they come out.

Primeval only got 4.5 million. Mind you with opposition like The Magicians and The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show I'm not surprised it was a million down on what I expected.

I know the figures include HD, but do they include 3D too?!!

A brilliant day for BBC One! 7.7m for Indiana Jones is excellent, 9m for EastEnders is pretty good, and of course Come Fly With Me did pretty damn well to keep near 8m. The Magicians did pretty well too - I watched it and while I thought some of the tricks were amazing it did drag on, and Lenny Henry needs to be knocked out. Overall, excellent!

Real goes to BBC Two - 4.5m for Morecambe and Wise and 6.1m for Eric and Ernie - AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!

The fact that the BBC had 7.6m for CFWM and 6.1m for E&E at the same time is really something.

ITV, however... oh dear. Primeval was a bit of a disaster, Take Me Out 3m... Less said the better.

Some amazing timeshifts there. Come Fly With Me... Can't believe it official'd 12.5m, that's incredible. Happy DW and The Royles came out over 12m and 11m respectively. Would have loved The Royles to have swapped with CFWM though.

Corrie broke 10m for - is that the first time in a couple of years? The one piece of good news, I suppose, for ITV today.

Come Fly With Me didn't do too badly considering the awful first episode. I thought last nights was quite good though

Now that Xmas Day officials are in, here's the Top 20 Officials for 2010 up to 25/12/10:

01 - 17.71m - THE X FACTOR (12/12/10) - ITV1/HD
02 - 16.41m - EASTENDERS (19/02/10) - BBC1
03 - 14.75m - CORONATION STREET (06/12/10) - ITV1/HD
04 - 14.63m - WORLD CUP 2010: ENG V ALG (18/06/10) - ITV1/HD
05 - 14.28m - STRICTLY COME DANCING (04/12/10) - BBC1/HD

06 - 13.59m - WORLD CUP 2010: ENG V GER (27/06/10) - BBC1/HD
07 - 13.50m - BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT (05/06/10) - ITV1/HD
08 - 13.48m - I'M A CELEBRITY... GET ME OUT OF HERE! (04/12/10) - ITV1/HD
09 - 12.47m - COME FLY WITH ME (25/12/10) - BBC1/HD
10 - 12.27m - DOCTOR WHO (01/01/10) - BBC1/HD

11 - 11.29m - THE ROYLE FAMILY (25/12/10) - BBC1/HD
12 - 10.77m - DOWNTON ABBEY (07/11/10) - ITV1/HD
13 - 10.57m - GAVIN AND STACEY (01/01/10) - BBC1/HD
14 - 9.96m - EMMERDALE (14/01/10) - ITV1
15 - 9.82m - A TOUCH OF FROST (05/04/10) - ITV1

16 - 9.71m - BBC NEWS (18/12/10) - BBC1/HD
17 - 9.68m - THE FIRST ELECTION DEBATE (15/04/10) - ITV1
18 - 9.64m - DANCING ON ICE (10/01/10) - ITV1
19 - 9.36m - CHILDREN IN NEED (19/11/10) - BBC1/HD
20 - 9.23m - SHERLOCK (25/07/10) - BBC1/HD

Notes:
- Only one World Cup entry per channel.
- A weighted average for the full slot for the World Cup games.
- No duplicates: i.e. no BGT/DOI in there twice.
- HD audience included for all programmes airing on HD.
- Touch of Frost rating ammended so it's for the full slot, not just 68-minutes which BARB did. It would've been in 15th place anyway.
- BBC1 HD is bundled in automatically with BBC1
- Royal Variety official rating currently N/A. It might've made 19th/20th place. Will be inserted into chart once rating is known.

1...EastEnders (20:00, BBC One) - 12.61m (44.2%) (+1.2)
2...Come Fly With Me (22:00, BBC One) - 12.47m (43.3%) (+2.2)
3...Doctor Who (18:00, BBC One) - 12.11m (41.8%) (+1.8)
4...The Royle Family (21:00, BBC One) - 11.29m (39.3%) (+1.4)
5...Strictly Come Dancing (19:00, BBC One) - 10.96m (36.0%) (+1.6)
6...Coronation Street (19:00, ITV-1) - 10.40m (33.8%) (+1.4)
7...The One Ronnie (17:10, BBC One) - 8.79m (38.9%) (+0.9)
8...Emmerdale (18:00, ITV-1) - 8.24m (28.3%) (+1.0)

Timeshifts in brackets - all pretty big!

That final rating for CFWM is astonishing. It just shows that what Walliams and Lucas do as a new project is still must see-even given peoples opinions differ widely on the outcome.

Do people think the consolidated figures for Indiana will already represent the highest movie rating of the year? Cant think of any other premieres this year that might match that. Great figure and stunning day for BBC1 and BBC2.

The Eric and Ernie figures are testament to a warm brand of entertainment which does not exist anymore but is looked back on with great affection. The film was beautifully made with a brilliant cast and fully deserved that rating. The subsequent documentary was also a fascinating addition.

Well done BBC for a great night of tv.

According to that breakdown, yesterday's primetime shares were:

BBC1: 23.7%
BBC2: 17.1%
ITV1: 12.1%
Channel 4: 6.6%
Channel 5: 3.0%

Exceptional primetime share for BBC2 - I can't remember it being that high in the last 5 years at least. Comfortably ahead of ITV1's share, which was ITV1's worst primetime share since Tuesday 23rd February 2010. One of their worst ever primetime performances, share-wise.