Last week's Got To Dance first live show up 20% on last year's from 1,109m to 1,327m.

40% uplift from the overnights. It's amazing how many aren't watching live or same day.

Should get a third run. Shame the cancelled Must be the Music was put in a tough slot.

Yes, 'Sidetracked' was an episode from series 1.

Outcasts TV reviews...
The Times "Unbelievably dire - the worst BBC drama since Bonekickers".
The Scotsman "Awful...a po-faced ragbag of wooden dialogue, dreary plotting, heavy-handed moralising and one-dimensional characterisation".

Actually, there was no interest whatsoever from the BBC. One of the newspapers made it up. The press must have cost ITV a pretty penny!

BARB is STILL reporting Monday Night Football wrongly.

On 24 January it was Bolton v Chelsea.

BARB is reporting EVERY Monday Night Football (ie every week it is on) as Blackburn v Sunderland.

Despite the mixed reviews, it'll still get good premiere numbers, no doubt. It's been heavily plugged by the BBC for over three weeks and it's up against weak competition so it should be capable of averaging something around 6m if not more.

Programme names are occasionally labelled incorrectly by the system. Famously last year, E4 drama series Misfits was labelled each week as the 1960s movie The Misfits.

Not really a huge issue in the grand scheme of things. They can't quality control everything that goes out. As long as the actual figures are correct, that's the main thing.

Anyone else concerned by FIVER+1's 10th most watched programme last week?

The rebrand can't come soon enough!

you really believe that? surely you aren't that naive.

*checks BARB*

*goes to top 10s*

10 TELESHOPPING (SAT 2500) 29

Hmmm.

Superbowl had 111 million viewers last night. The most watched TV event in American history.

Sensational figures for the Superbowl and Glee. How did Animal Planet's clever alternative the Puppy Bowl do?


Thanks for that. I couldn't actually bring myself to post it. Very unflattering to FIVER, that stat.

I'm looking forward to it, in a kind of twisted way after reading the scathing reviews. It surely can't be as cringe inducing as Bonekickers. . .

RadioTimes is less scathing...

K

Looks like it made little difference, but Jason was so spot on with that - just a shame he didn't add in the line about her only being there as she's shagging Christopher Dean!


I'm sure like here they'd be a quota for channel promos within the ads too, and FOX wouldn't just sit back and count the cash when they've got the opportunity to promote their products to a massive audience too.


About as good as you could expect for The Promise - indeed I thought it might struggle to beat the audience Being Human has been getting, but in the end it won quite comfortably.

I wonder too how Time Team would do in a different slot - it's performed relatively stably in the 5.30/6pm slot it's had for years, but could a better slot see it's audience jump, or perhaps just do more harm than good?


They've just really over commissioned on Come Dine with Me at the moment - there's pretty much been new primetime and daytime versions on weekly since September now, which is ridiculous when you consider the sort of ratings repeats bring in. Certainly with the primetime version rather than wasting episodes in what are effectively dead slots I'd just stick the celeb versions in primetime and keep the regular ones for daytime.


12 is ridiculous - the 14/15 they had for one UK series was quickly dropped, and I suspect in the US despite the age limit they'll tell most people aged 12-14 they don't think they're ready.

Also I think 12/13 by most is still perceived as a child - and that's not good viewing.


Interesting - based on recent years I'd guess it'll probably climb to around 125-130m worldwide, which somehow the NFL will spin to "one billion".

And back to Glee - I'm kind of thinking it's continued ratings success isn't doing it any favours and it could do with actually collapsing a bit so it is axed after series 3/4 - as from what I've seen so far of this series, it's beginning to look like a one-trick pony.

Wow, 15 minutes in and Outcasts is terrible.

Can't even find a discussion thread on here.

Ah, it just appeared.

Quite a few interesting comments as well.

(ps, a thread is in Cult as well; and its trending high on Twitter as well, for all the wrong reasons)

Reasonable night for ITV1 last night. BBC1 did well until 9pm and then fell apart with a filler. Channel 4 did as well as could be expected, really.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.25m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.25m
19:00 Home and Away 1.05m
19:30 My Kitchen Rules 1.33m
20:30 Bones 1.21m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.19m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.05m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 0.88m
19:30 Two and a Half Men 1.19m
20:00 $#*! My Dad Says 1.06m
20:30 (Premiere) Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here 1.38m
*first in a series of three standalone telemovies based around the hugely successful Underbelly franchise.

Ten
18:00 6pm with George Negus 0.39m
18:30 Ten Evening News 0.37m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.73m
19:30 Glee 0.77m
20:30 Undercover Boss 0.61m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.36m

That awkward moment when....

I think it should continue for until a 6/7th series but take a hit just so they come out of this self-centred attitude they've seemed to develop circa S2

How humiliating for Ten. So when do we think Neighbours will actually outrate it? Place your bets.

Next couple of days I reckon. Probably Wednesday as that's when it peaked last week.

Neighbours ahead of TEN Evening News, in 3 (of 5) markets, too close for comfort is my thinking.


Neighbours ahead in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide.

As for Outcasts, so im the only one who enjoyed it, ok I say enjoyed I thought it was ok, kinda a slow burner, but still ALOT better than Bonekickers.

However, ITV2 could bounce back with Britain's Got More Talent in the spring. It does seem quite dependent on spin offs from ITV1's three big non soap shows( I wouldn't really call BGT a reality show as it's a talent contest like New Faces). However, could an ageing population be behind ITV3' success and the fact ITV2 seems totally fixated on repeats of soaps, Jeremy Kyle and American people shows. Also these Next Chapter shows seem to be running their course now.