As expected last night, I think. Unsurprising to see the Football down on last week considering it wasn't the best of games.

That was a short renaissance! Deary me, all three showings well down on yesterday. I wish viewers would make up their minds, it's so inconsistent from day to day at the moment. I guess the very high FIVER rating from yesterday could have knocked the C5 repeats, but the FIVER showing itself was well down so it doesn't explain that.

Now the programme takes a day off and returns with a double bill on Friday. Hopefully with the low rating for the first look last night, it will do decently on Friday.

Interestingly there is a double bill in Australia today too to make up for a missed episode following extended news coverage of events in New Zealand. In both markets it is currently hovering around the 1 million mark for its main showing.

Yeah, I noticed that. ITV execs must just despair at it. It's been a total disaster after all the expectations.

Not much else to say about last night. BBC One quite solid, if rather dull. ITV1 down a bit from football.

Good for Madagascar on Two and The Real Kings Speech on 4. Though I thought the Model Agency would do significantly better than that. It's so hard to predict which of these docusoap type things will actually take off. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to it.

It was such a bad game, I'm surprised it got more than 5m.

Good for Madagascar on BBC2 and The Real Kings Speech on 4.

Masterchef holding its own.

Looks like the fire alarm knocked BBC1 a bit. Rip Off Britain dented accordingly with only a 3.6m lead-in, football boosted for ITV, and a knock-on effect therefore for Waterloo Road?

What expectations?

I assume Chiles wasn't presenting yesterday as it was football night. I thought the audience went up when he and Christine weren't on ? Strong news day as well with Libyan developments.

Just a note - EastEnders does not 'lose' an episode due to Comic Relief, nor will it be displaced. Not sure how long it is, but there is definitely an episode airing during Comic Relief on Friday 18th March.

clutching @ straws........? I thought you would argue that viewers would watch anything on BBC1 in preference to ITV?

Some decent ratings for all 5 channels last night, BBC1 solid all night despite the fire alarm during TOS, Madagascar still doing well - looks so much better on the HD channel.

I endured a 90 minute snoozefest of football, looking at the rating it seems 5 million others hung out in the hope for a goal or two. The King's Speech doc on C4 pulled in the viewers - the clips I saw made for awkward viewing though.

I was awake at 6am this morning - Daybreak truly was awful, The cameras were pointing at the wrong people while Dan Lobb was attempting to read newspaper headlines. If I was an ITV executive and I was told ratings were 600,000 average - I would think 'why are they as high as that?'

I notice that Alan Titchmarsh is back to 3pm for the new run of his show from 7th March. The Chase (which I think will be repeats) staying at 5pm. New episodes for The Chase recording in the Spring I understand.

Any figures for the 5pm's ?

The Real King's Speech did pretty well. Smart scheduling by C4 to take advantage of the film's hupe, especially a few days before the Oscars.

BBC News at Ten had a stonking rating. No doubt the Libya and NZ stories gave it a boost. ITV News at Ten obviously lost out big time.



Well you can always not say anything.


It seemed very low yesterday. I havent really been been following it's ratings recently so not sure if it taht is normal or lower than usual but last time I looked it was getting 0.8s and now a 0.6, not good.

Isn't it half term or something?

I dont know, because I'm in Scotland, but I watched Daybreak yesterday morning and the "Something cool before the kids go to school" feature had been renamed "Something cool while the kids are off school".

Daybreak always loses out to BBC Breakfast (just as GMTV did) when there's a big overnight news story because they just don't have the resources to compete.But the figure of 600,000 is indeed bad, less than some regional news programmes which don't pay their presenters millions.

What was the Emmerdale rating for the full slot inc. HD (but not tape-checked and not including +1).?

It had 7.47m for the full slot inc. HD.

ITV need to bite the bullet, ditch Chiles (possibly keep Bleakley) and bring back GMTV.

At least ITV's core demographic liked GMTV, which had a real ITV "feel" about it. Daybreak looks like they were pitching it towards a BBC audience - but they are, not surprisingly, wedded to BBC Breakfast.

ITV should be thankful the Beeb haven't given the Breakfast gig to Susannah Reid full time. That would send the ratings soaring - I always tune to BBC Breakfast before I get up on Friday mornings...

Rather different story at the RTS Awards last night of course where the BBC were snubbed and ITV News at Ten took the main prize.

It's half term in England, doesn't Scotland and Northern Ireland have it a week later?

The Real King's Speech did good given how popular the film is. NCIS remained stable against the football, I think TRKS prevented it from increasing this week, it's doing better than it was in January, Midsomer and AS definetly dented it.

I find it baffling how it wins awards, I've tried it a few times and find it tacky, Still in a World where Loose Women can win a factual award, anything is possible

Looks like Have I Got News For You is moving back to Fridays according to its tickets website, as they're recording episodes on Thursdays: http://www.hattrick.co.uk/ticketing/...iesId=424&id=4

Likely date for its return is Friday 8th April. I think it'll be paired up with either My Family or BBC1's other new sitcom Meet The Doyles. I read somewhere that Outnumbered will be back in September rather than the Spring, although of course that could be wrong and it may well be coming back soon.


Well, an award voted by critics/judges is somewhat different to one voted by the voting public.

rzt, D.M.N or the like....

With all this talk of the Daybreak's rating's, I was just thinking, not sure if i've just dreamt this, but didn't we used to get Reach figures for GMTV ( and Breakfast for that matter). Obviously because of the nature of breakfast programmes the figures are a bit misleading as in general people only watch 10/15 mins on their way out to work etc. The 600,000 Daybreak and ~1.5m BBC Breakfast figures are the average are they not and realistically more people watch don't they?Hope you understand what I mean.

If these figures do actually exsist, do you have any Daybreak figures, and BBC Breakfast for comparison?

Thanks

I think 600,000 during half-term is alright.

Didn't it drop to 300,000 over New Year?