Just found this posted in the Miranda thread. She, unsurprisingly, is moving to BBC1.

What were we saying about Ben Stephenson re-commissioning successful drama?

I was wrong about Upstairs Downstairs. . Six parts for transmission in 2012.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...e?referrer=RSS

Wednesday 9th February Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.6m (38.7%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.9m (25.4%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 6.3m (30.2%)
19:00- The One Show: 5.0m (23.0%)
19:30- Rip Off Britain: 4.1m (17.3%)
20:00- Waterloo Road: 4.6m (18.0%)
21:00- Forgotten Heroes: 2.1m (9.0%)
* lowest 9pm rating on BBC1 since High Street Dreams (1.9m, 24 May 2010)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.0m (20.2%)
22:25- Regional News and Weather: 3.6m (21.0%)
22:45- Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman: 1.3m (10.6%)

BBC Two
18:00- Eggheads: 2.2m (11.3%)
18:30- One Man and His Campervan: 1.8m (8.6%)
19:00- Escape to the Country: 2.4m (10.4%)
20:00- Madagascar: 3.8m (14.8%)
21:00- A History of Ancient Britain: 3.0m (12.9%) inc. HD
22:00- Have I Got Old News for You: 1.7m (9.0%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.9m (6.2%)
23:20- Mad Men: 0.3m (4.4%)

ITV1
06:00- Daybreak: 0.7m (18.4%)
08:30- Lorraine: 1.0m (19.0%)
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 3.9m (18.7%)
* inc. +1: 4.0m
19:00- International Football: Denmark v England: 6.5m (26.4%)
* inc. +1
21:30- Harry Hill's TV Burp: 2.3m (9.7%)
* inc. +1
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather: 1.8m (9.1%)
22:35- I Was There ... When The Beatles Played The Cavern: 1.5m (11.7%)

Channel 4
18:00- The Simpsons: 1.6m (8.4%)
* inc. +1: 2.0m
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.1m (5.4%)
* inc. +1: 1.2m
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.6m (2.4%)
20:00- Beauty and the Beast: Ugly Face of Prejudice: 1.7m (6.7%)
* inc. +1: 2.2m
21:00- Mary Portas: Secret Shopper: 2.3m (10.0%)
* inc. +1: 2.7m
22:00- The Joy of Teen Sex: 1.5m (7.7%)
* inc. +1

Channel 5
17:00- Five News: 0.8m (5.9%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.3m (7.4%)
18:00- Home and Away: 0.9m (4.5%)
18:30- Zoo Days: 0.4m (1.8%)
19:00- Five News at 7: 0.3m (1.4%)
19:30- Monkey Life: 0.5m (2.2%)
20:00- Cowboy Builders: 1.4m (5.6%)
21:00- NCIS: 2.4m (10.1%)
22:00- Law and Order: Criminal Intent: 1.3m (7.4%)

BBC Four
21:00- Romancing the Stone: the Golden Ages of British Sculpture: 167,600 (0.7%)

Ratings include HD where necessary

Cowboy Builders seems to be doing very well for Five, and NCIS did very well, beat BBC 1, and the second half hour of ITV 1.

Forgotten Heroes aptly named.

Some really interesting ratings there, mainly due to ITV's unusual schedule. BBC2 and Ch5 seemed to benefit the most from some weak opposition. Madagascar, History Of Ancient Britain & NCIS all bringing in huge ratings, particuarly the latter which I reckon could be the highest rating since it moved to the Wednesday slot.

Really surprised to see both ITV1 and BBC1 so low at 9.30pm. Panorama was never going to do well, but I thought with weaker competition it would be nearer to 3m, same with the TV Burp repeat. Very poor for the second night in a row for those slots, and again could have been beaten by Ch4!..and Ch5 too.

Solid enough for the football and Waterloo Road held up as per usual against it, probably slightly better than I expected too. I thought TOS might get a bit more of a boost though, especially up against 15 minutes of the pre talk.

Wow, C4 and Five equalling/beating both ITV1 and BBC One at 9pm.

Excellent night for BBC2. Perhaps Madagascar and Ancient Britian should have been on BBC1 instead of the Panorama special but as a corpoartion overall it was solid enough.

BBC News did well with, nearly doubling its lead-in. ITV News not so good.

I knew it was going to move. Although I hate BBC2 being weakened, Miranda is the perfect fit for BBC1 and will become huge on the channel I think.

Another no brainer as well. The ratings were steady across the original 3 episodes. It just needs a really good lead in to become a bigger hit.

BBC News at Ten has been double the ITV figure (and often higher than that) for some time now.

A History of Ancient Britain was really good last night.

There's plenty of good stuff on BBC4 to fill in any gaps on BBC2 and get the viewing figures they deserve.

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Some more ratings from yesterday:

BBC1
13:45- Doctors: 1.81m (24.1%)

ITV1 (inc. HD)
19:00- International Football: Denmark v England: 6.41m (26.4%) , +1: 43k (0.2%)
* peak: 8.17m (32.25%) at 9pm
21:30- Harry Hill's TV Burp: 2.2m (9.7%) , +1: 73k (0.5%)
* 21:35-22:00: 2.05m (9.5%)

Channel 4
22:00- The Joy of Teen Sex: 1.32m (7.7%) , +1: 191k (2.1%)

Channel 5
13:45- Neighbours: 736k (9.7%)

International Football - Breakdown
19:00- 4.5m (21.5%)
19:15- 6.1m (27.0%)
19:30- 7.4m (31.8%)
19:45- 7.8m (32.6%)
20:00- 6.8m (27.2%)
20:15- 6.5m (25.5%)
20:30- 7.2m (27.4%)
20:45- 7.4m (28.2%)
21:00- 7.1m (28.1%)
21:15- 3.2m (13.5%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 21%
BBC One: 16.2%
BBC Two: 11.4%
Channel 4: 6.7% (+1: 1.2%)
Channel 5: 6.2%

Multichannels
Alibi (inc. +1)
21:00- Castle: 285k

Dave (inc. +1)
21:30- Not Going Out: 610k

E4 (inc. +1)
19:00- Hollyoaks: 682k
21:00- The Italian Job: 566k

Film4 (inc. +1)
19:00- Black Knight: 343k
21:00- Working Girl: 497k

Fiver
18:30- Home & Away: 609k (2.9%)

More4 (inc. +1)
21:00- Time Team: 212k

Watch (inc. +1)
20:00- Too Fat For 15: 138k

Sources: Broadcast, C4Sales, DS

Very good news for Miranda.

If I were the BBC I would ensure that a Christmas Special was ready and put it on Christmas Night, with the rest of the series to follow either in January or a little later.

I think a Christmas Day slot is a given now. Wondering where it could air though - it's a typically pre-watershed sitcom so not sure it'd suit a 10pm post-Royle Family slot (presuming that'll be back once again).

Silent Witness has already had a go at Gypsy Weddings, they aired against each other for 3 weeks. Gypsy Weddings even beat Silent Witness in the 3rd week. Unless you mean Doc Martin & Silent Witness on at the same time?


That seems poor after the post Super Bowl exposure on Sunday, no real boost at all.


Decent rating for Waterloo Road it does seem to provide a good alternative to the football. Interesting that it had the same rating against Midsomer Murders last week and football this week. Terrible 9pm/9:30pm numbers though.

Regarding the Big brother/Channel 5 story...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...er-for-me.html

Although DS have also said there's speculation about her returning -

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...ther-deal.html

Nice to see DS just rehashing the Guardian's article without knowing what they're talking about.

Interesting change to the usual pecking order at 9pm. Obviously a terrific result for NCIS there. After a slow start to the season it really capitalised on the weak competition last night and helped keep a strong week for C5 going ahead of the rebrand on Monday.

BBC Two should also be commended for pulling in 3m+ across both the 8pm and 9pm hour. Madagascar looks excellent and I look forward to catching up with it on iPlayer later.

The football rated okay, nothing special for an England international, but in line with how they normally rate. Not great for Forgotten Heroes but as ever Panorama is not there to be a ratings hit.

Good for the Football which was a friendly. Hideous for TV Burp and the Panorama documentary, I expect TV Burp - a repeat or not in the middle of primetime to do better than 2.3m.

When was the last time BBC1 was last in the 9pm hour?

Anyone thinking that obviously has not seen BBC in HD lately - since they slashed the bit rates.

The PQ is a pale shadow of the industry leader it used to be.

Often it is little better than SD and has had a lot of protest from viewers on here and on the BBCs own site.

The BBC apparently responded by closing the debate.

Seems to be that way - I suspect FOX must be a bit disappointed.

Glee now joins House, The Office and Criminal Minds as shows in recent years which haven't got much out of the lead-in. The last scripted show to get a notable long lasting boost was way back in 2006 (Grey's Anatomy).

Hard to say what else FOX could have put in there this year.

It's even harder to tell what will get it next year - NBC need to find a show worth the lead-in.

What about Sky slashing the bit rates on the SD channels they acquired from Virgin Media? That's provoked a lot of protest as well, but Sky couldn't care less about it.

Good news about Miranda and BBC One. Though its always a shame to strip BBC Two of a show it built, the main channel really needs it at the moment and I think it could benefit the show quite extensively too.


The only alternative for Christmas Day would be in the early evening, like The One Ronnie was this year. Though I wonder if Christmas Eve might not work too. They usually plump for pre-watershed comedy there and it could have a nice cushy slot after EE.

Also pleased to see this full series order for Upstairs Downstairs. Aside from any comparisons, it's figures were frankly brilliant at Christmas - it would have been madness of the highest order not to commission more.

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As for last nights TV. An excellent night for BBC2. Madagascar did brilliantly in the 8pm slot - only a million behind what Human Planet has been getting in its Thursday slot on One. And its looking like another successful 'landmark' history series. A History of Ancient Britain very reminiscent of how The Normans did last summer.

Not a whole lot else to say - BBC One was OK until 9pm, but very poor numbers for the documentary. ITV1 naturally well with the football, but Harry Hill (repeat or not) is, I think, badly out of place on weekdays.

Also, good looking numbers for NCIS. I don't follow Channel 5's numbers too closely, but would I be right in saying NCIS seems to be overtaking CSI as its biggest import?

It would have been good to have the Terra Nova pilot after the Super Bowl I think. They could then repeat it again in May in a normal timeslot as planned, to catch the viewers that were to knackered after 3 hours of Super Bowl. I am not sure if they have finished production on Terra Nova pilot yet though.

Poor again for BBC1 last night, it isn't exactly their best week.

I'm surprised that TV Burp did so badly, I thought it would hold more of the audience than that considering the lack of alternatives at half past the hour.

At least this will surely put to bed the idea that TV Burp should move to weekdays to shore up Tuesday nights, that some people constantly suggest.