Wow, the figures there show that Neighbours had a peak of 0.49m last night. That is a fantastic figure for digital and again dwarfs the figures for Ten news.

Yes, officials.

Outcasts is dead, has been for 2 weeks. With no chance of a recommision its just wasting a slot on a Monday. If those who are still watching, myself included, still want to watch the final 3 episodes they can easily on a fairly reasonable time on a Sunday night or on iPlayer. Moving it frees up 3 more Mondays so Crimewatch (PSB) can slot in and presumably Waking The Dead can air sooner.

To be fair, although I got the "numerous" thing wrong - 2 out of 6 is 33% - so not exactly a ringing endorsement, especially given the big launch.


Right, the scale of the drop was similar, with Luther's slightly higher than Outcasts. So really it boils down to whether 2.7m is shabby enough for primetime BBC One & ITV1 to warrant pulling it these days - I would say not.

I confess I dont look at the peak too much, but your right its a good peak for a 30 minute show, 400,000 for the slot cant be far off, TEN Evening News on the other hand shows little sign of improving.

I am surprised at how this has all worked out, and im not the only one, I didnt hold out much hope for TEN Evening News, but its flopped more than I thought it would, and Neighbours is getting doubled what I thought.

Very impressive run for Tool Acadamy. It may look low, but it launched with half of that audience.

Monday 21st February Overnights
BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.95m (20.3%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.83m (21.3%)
19:30- Inside Out: 3.66m (15.1%)
20:00- EastEnders: 9.17m (35.5%)
20:30- Panorama: How To Blow A Fortune: 2.39m (9.3%)
21:00- Outcasts: 2.7m (10.8%)
22:35- Mrs Brown's Boys: 2.64m (16.4%)

BBC2
19:00- Escape To The Country: 1.26m (5.4%)
20:00- University Challenge: 2.92m (11.3%)
20:30- Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets: 1.91m (7.5%)
21:00- When Teenage Meets Old Age: 1.99m (7.9%)
22:00- Episodes: 1.06m (5.1%)

ITV1
19:00- Emmerdale, 8.19m (36.1%) , +1: 97k (0.4%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 10.25m (42.3%) , +1: 101k (0.4%)
20:00- The Lakes: 3.64m (14.1%) , +1: 83k (0.3%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 10.57m (41%) , +1: 98k (0.4%)
21:00- The Biggest Loser: 3.86m (15.4%) , +1: 136k (0.7%)

Channel 4
17:30- Coach Trip: 1.84m (10.6%) , +1: 251k (1.2%)
18:00- Hollyoaks: 1.28m (5.9%) , +1: 130k (0.5%)
20:00- Dispatches: 1.35m (5.2%) , +1: 123k (0.5%)
21:00- One Born Every Minute: 2.65m (10.6%) ,+1: 384k (2%)
22:00- Alan Carr: Chatty Man: 1.13m (6.2%) , +1: 200k (2.1%)

Channel 5
13:45- Neighbours: 853k (8.9%)
14:15- Home & Away: 420k (4.8%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.4m (8%)
18:00- Home & Away:1.02m (5.1%)
19:30- How Do They Do It?: 637k (2.6%)
20:00- The Gadget Show: 1.32m (5.1%)
21:00- Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol: 2.06m (8.2%)
22:00- The Exorcism of Emily Rose: 778k (6%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 23.7% (+1: 0.4%)
BBC One: 17.7%
BBC Two came: 7%
Channel 4: 6.4% (+1: 0.9%)
Channel 5: 5%

Ratings include HD where necessary and are tape-checked

Multichannels
BBC Three
21:00- Women, Weddings, War and Me: 252,600 (1%)
22:00- EastEnders: 613k (2.9%)

BBC Four
21:00- When God Spoke English: the Making of the King James Bible : 574,900 (2.3%)

Dave (inc. +1)
21:30- Have I Got News For You: 430k

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 419k (1.8%) , +1: 112k (0.4%)
21:00- Glee: 1.35m (5.4%) , +1: 299k (1.6%)
22:00- Tool Academy: 477,100 (2.6%) , +1: 146,200 (1.47%)
* series average: 426,600 (2.59%)

Film4 (inc. +1)
19:10- Crocodile Dundee: 410k
21:00- Alien Resurrection: 580k

Fiver
18:30- Home & Away: 504k (2.3%)

Gold (inc. +1)
21:15- Only Fools & Horses: 180k

ITV2
21:00- Hell’s Kitchen USA: 426,200 (1.7%)

More4 (inc. +1)
21:00- Relocation, Relocation: 360k

Sky1
21:00- Ross Kemp: Extreme World: 452k (1.8%)
* up on slot average of: 114,300
* highest Ross Kemp doc audience since 2009

Sky Living
22:00- Bedlam: 320,500 (1.7%)

Watch (inc. +1)
19:00- Junior MasterChef Australia: 140k

Sources: Broadcast, C4Sales, DS, DS Soaps

Quite good for Five last night.

Apart from the soap ratings which haven't been reported yet, pretty crap night. Channel 4 did well in the 9pm slot, while Five did better than usual from 8pm to 10pm. In February, and the highest 9pm rating is below 4m...

Edit: Soap ratings now out. Good for Corrie with both above 10m, shabby share for EastEnders again, and outrated percentage wise by Emmerdale.

Have added the soap ratings to my previous post, by the way

Coronation Street is back on the post-Tram Crash ratings which is good to see. Very healthy to see ratings above the 10m mark again after a few weeks of 9m and also very good audience shares.

Neighbours in the UK seems to be taking off again. Good to see it beating Hollyoaks, and also the aggregate ratings will be closer to 2.5m again.

Coach Trip also has re-established itself into the evening schedule!

Nothing really changed in the 9pm slot. Another poor rating for Outcasts, TBL fails to capitalise from weak competition again and if it can only manage ~4m every week in that Monday slot it's not going to do better anywhere else and moving it to a Tuesday/Thursday slot for its next series could see it sub 3m. Ch5 have a new factual hit in Royal Navy.

Interesting soap figures again. Emmerdale beats EE share wise and whilst 9.2m looks like a healthy figure for EE it's beaten comfortably by Corrie who haven't even got a big storyline running this week and Emmerdale is only 1m behind it in a weaker slot. I'm really surprised Corrie was so high, especially the 2nd one.

A pretty strong night for Ch5 with H&A over 1m for the Penn reveal & Gadget Show back up too.

Very, very good ratings again for Coronation Street which is comfortably beating Eastenders- Coronation Street doesn't even have a big story thread this week, so that is interesting.

9 million is still a healthy figure though.

Even Home and Away on FIVER is performing better than the extra showing of Hollyoaks on E4.

I do wonder if Hollyoaks future is up, a couple of years ago it was the main student programme to watch but most students have now gone back to Neighbours due to the fact that they cant relate to Hollyoaks.

Are those Tool Academy ratings good enough for renewal? I'm not sure.

The BBC can't really move Mrs Brown's Boys into peak time can they

I agree. After Neighbours moved to FIVE, Hollyoaks ratings went up to about 2m a night with really strong ratings for the E4 showing as well. Nowadays though, Neighbours has a strong 1:45pm showing, a strong 5:30pm showing and a repeat on FIVER at 7pm which often represents almost half of the E4 Hollyoaks first look.

I think they are, tbh rather than the actual ratings, I think they will renew just because it doubled its ratings, 610k is good for a show which started off with just over 300k. It's kind of how The Inbetweeners went about. It had low ratings in Season 1 (around 400k) and then it broke 1m in Season 2 and then in Season 3, it reached 3m.

According to Radio Times for next week (out today) they have chosen Man City v Aston Villa next Wednesday.

Interesting letters in there about Lark Rise and the last ever episode. The BBC deny in reply that it was hastily written to round off the series and was penned before the series was axed. Apparently there will be more BBC reaction to the axing of Lark Rise in next week's issue.

And another letter on Outcasts ask why it is basically East Enders in space and notes it could have been set in Crewe rather than Mars if it was not going to use the alien context in any way. Fits a lot of viewer response on why this series tried to be both Sci Fi and a drama and ended up being too little of either.

They chose that over Orient v Arsenal?

You're kidding!

What a dull, boring, safe decision, and particularly after they nearly hit the jackpot with Crawley almost getting a draw or better at Old Trafford (well, they did anyway - 9m peak tuned in).

The sooner the FA hand the rights back to the BBC, the better.

They'd chosen that already before last weekend, as that was one of the 5th round games that they chose.

It would be nice to see Neighbours get a First Look on Fiver, the problem is I dont see where. At 7pm it would be up against new epsiodes of Emmerdale & Hollyoaks

It wont go at 6pm, as it would split the auidence for Home & Away.

Still dismal for Outcasts last night, naturally - but The Biggest Loser hasn't taken advantage at all. I know its not a flop, but I reckon ITV were hoping for much more than than what this series has achieved in such a plum slot. Channels 4 and 5 made much better use of the limited opposition, and the latter in particular will be thrilled with its performance.

Corrie still riding high - the 8.30 numbers seem to be outdoing the 7.30 ones at the moment which is unusual. I can only consider that to be to do with the quality of the show itself bringing people back. EastEnders is OK, but its dropped a couple of % in share from where we'd expect to see it.

And I'd say that was a pretty good start for Mrs Browns Boys - I've not seen it and was going to avoid it like the plague, but its got the sort of reception that makes me want to try it out...

10.57m for Corrie will be tape-checked, full slot probably around ~10.2m for the 8:30pm episode.

BTW, Doctor Who is expected to begin on 23rd April, with the first two episodes 'doing a Primeval' and airing over 1 weekend.

22.69m 7:00-7:30pm
24.23m 7.30-8:00pm
25.83m 8.00-8.30pm
25.78m 8:30-9:30pm
25.19m 9:00-10:00pm

Total viewing figures grew last night from 7:00 then a slight dip at 9:00 but still 25 million watching tv - the soaps dominate as usual - then 9pm comes around and viewers are split across the main channels - with nothing in particular to hook them.

Best to keep Mrs Brown's Boys in a late night slot with a reasonable rating, should get over 3 million in officials. I watched West Ham take apart Burnley on ESPN - hope it got a decent rating.

You should. Coarse and vulgar, not the sort of thing to watch with your maiden aunt, but funny all the same.

Bread meets Father Ted - with proper swear-words...

Your point about avoiding it suggests the Beeb cocked up its promotion of this. It looked crap from the trailers, and I assumed it was a tame mainstream sitcom that had been banished to the margins of the schedule before it even started. I only discovered it was based on a smash hit Irish stage show from reading the show thread on here last night.

They should have promoted it accordingly, and picked some of the many funny moments for the trailers.