Everton 0-1 Reading.

So the FA Cup now looks like this...
Birmingham City v Bolton Wanderers, 12.45pm Saturday 12 March ESPN
Manchester United v Leyton Orient / Arsenal, 5.15pm Saturday 12 March ITV1
Stoke City v West Ham United, 2pm, Sunday 13 March, ITV1
Manchester City / Aston Villa v Reading, 4.45pm Sunday 13 March, ESPN

Depends on your definition of "hit" I guess.

Disappointing for DoI. With just four weeks to go, the ratings should be going up and not down. It started later too so that 7.9m rating is abit bizarre to me. Hopefully it will bounce back next week. Maybe when viewers realised Holly was ill they jumped ship.

Solid for the soaps as usual on a Monday night, EE back up from last Friday's poor performance. It really is all over the place at the moment. Corrie still going strong.

As for the 2010 BARB Top 10. What a joke it's becoming. With no HD factored in, it's basically pointless. As D.M.N. said, I'll use the charts created on here too.

I dont think it grew much last year-there is definitely not the same level of hype about DOI as XF and SCD before Christmas. Not sure extending the show this year has helped and the other changes seemed to have had mixed results. Still anything to stop the boasty tweets of Philip Schofield.

Yes, partially not nationally. I didn't realise yesterday but the Two and a Half Men reruns have been pulled in Brisbane and replaced with The Big Bang Theory. In the other 4 cities TAAHM remains but for how much longer with those figures remains to be seen.

More numbers:

Sunday 27.2.2011

Sky1HD
Got To Dance Final Main Show 1.1m peaked 1.3m
Got To Dance Results 1.2m peaked 1.4m
Live to Dance 414,000 peaked 604,000
Hawaii Five-O 633,00 peaked 751,000

Monday 28.2.2011

BBC ONE
Eastenders 9.5m / 36.4%
Crimewatch 3.4m / 13.8%

ITV1 (does not include +1)
Coronation Street at 1930 9.3m / 38.5%
Coronation Street at 2030 9m / 35.3%
Biggest Loser 4.5m / 18%

C4 (does not include +1)
One Born Every Minute 2.2m / 9.1%

Five
Gadget Show 1.2m / 4.7%
Royal Navy 1.8m / 7.2%

Sky1
Ross Kemop 408,000

E4 (does not include +1)
Glee 1.6m
Hairdresser 417,000

Wow, brilliant figures for Sky1 on Sunday all evening.

On E4, Hairdresser did alright in the post-Glee slot but not as high as Tool Academy in previous weeks.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.20m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.13m
19:00 Home and Away 1.03m
19:30 My Kitchen Rules 1.60m
20:30 Packed to the Rafters 1.75m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 0.99m
18:30 A Current Affair 0.96m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 0.66m
*excludes Brisbane.
19:30 The Big Bang Theory 0.99m
20:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.92m
20:30 Top Gear 0.81m

Ten
18:00 6pm with George Negus 0.38m
18:30 Ten Evening News 0.28m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.62m
19:30 Talkin' Bout Your Generation 0.84m
20:30 NCIS 1.12m

SBS One
20:30 New: Wonders of the Solar System 0.25m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.31m

If they aren't already, Ten have to be regretting the Neighbours move.

Probably the best British drama that barely anyone actually saw.

Last Sunday's performance show was down 4% vs. equivalent show last year while the results show was down 12% y-o-y. So the night as a whole for DOI was down 8% vs. the equivalent night last year. It was the first time this series that DOI was down vs. the equivalent night last year. This series so far has averaged 8.0m (30%) in the overnights, which is 3% up vs. last year's average at the same stage of the competition.

Going by y-o-y comparisons by every single week:

W1- Performance: +4% ... Results: -4% ...... Overall: +0%
W2- Performance: +7% ... Results: +13% ... Overall: +10%
W3- Performance: +0% ... Results: +13% ... Overall: +5%
W4- Performance: +4% ... Results: +14% ... Overall: +8%
W5- Performance: +4% ... Results: +1% ..... Overall: +3%
W6- Performance: +6% ... Results: +3% ..... Overall: +5%
W7- Performance: +9% ... Results: +0% ..... Overall: +5%
W8- Performance: -4% .... Results: -12% .... Overall: -8%

S6 so far- Perform: +4%... Results: +3% ..... Overall: +3%

There was a period of 3 weeks between week 2 and 5 when the results shows were posting heavy gains vs. same episodes last year but the gains have decreased since then to last Sunday, which was the first time when the figures were clearly down y-o-y. ITV will be hoping DOI recovers next week and goes back to the rising trends - I think it will as they've got a "twist" apparently and easier competition, with no new Top Gear on BBC2 or Got To Dance to lure away potential viewers. On the whole, this series has done okay so far: up from 2007 and 2010 series ratings, down from 2006 and 2008, similar to 2009.

Neighbours ratings are way above what they were predicted to be, but they have stopped growing, the story is actually the fact that TEN Evening News continues to flop, cant even muster 300,000 on a Tuesday, that is a flop that cant be allowed to go on.

It makes me wonder how long they will let this go on. I mean, Neighbours was moved because it had ratings had slumped to an average of 0.5m - Ten would be so keen to have ratings like that now. Only time will tell I suppose. With their attitude to Neighbours being as it is though, I can imagine they will try alternatives in the slot first.

I dont know if we can assume Neighbours will score 500,000 again on TEN, but it WILL out preform TEN Evening News, simply because it already has.

The problem is of course the Neighbours ratings are really good for ELEVEN, it wins the No 1 show on digital TV, without it I wonder what would happen to ELEVEN.

Has anyone else noticed that TEN Evening News, can be shortened to TEN.

Oh, thats made me chuckle a bit

Yeah, its the dilemma of have Neighbours as a successful digital programme or a struggling terrestial programme. It is doing well where it is, and has more of a purpose on Australia TV where it is, so I would rather it stayed there. Then there is more chance of it being recomissioned when FIVE's contract expires.

ABC:
8pm - The Bachelor - 11.33m (3.5)
10pm - Castle - 10.11m (2.8)

CBS:
8pm - How I Met Your Mother - 9.24m (3.4)
8.30pm - Mad Love - 7.90m (2.7)
9pm - Two and a Half Men (Repeat) - 11.63m (3.3)
9.30pm - Mike & Molly - 11.35m (3.4)

FOX:
8pm - House - 11.01m (3.8)
9pm - The Chicago Code - 8.04m (2.1)

NBC:
8pm - Chuck - 5.35m (1.7)
9pm - The Cape - 4.10m (1.2)
10pm - Harry's Law - 9.20m (1.8)

The Bachelor seems to have improved in recent weeks and that's a better number for House as well. Two and a Half Men repeated well - it was the most watched show of a night that included 9 new original scripted shows on broadcast (plus more on cable). Mad Love looks doomed but Mike & Molly building from its lead in is encouraging for CBS - we'll assume that the ratings increase wasn't due to people tuning in to see what Chuck Lorre had to say in his vanity card!

Charlie Sheen was proving to be ratings gold on cable news as well. He popped up on Piers Morgan Tonight, giving the show its second best viewership since it launched (with Oprah) and its best ever performance among adults 25-54.

9pm:
FNC - Hannity - 2,621,000 (751,000)
CNN - Piers Morgan Tonight - 1,346,000 (561,000)
MSNBC - The Rachel Maddow Show - 1,198,000 (383,000)

9pm + Midnight:
FNC - Hannity - 3,385,000 (1,018,000)
CNN - Piers Morgan Tonight - 2,065,000 (915,000)
MSNBC - The Rachel Maddow Show - 1,709,000 (568,000)

Bill O'Reilly still thumped them all with 3.42m (909k) for his first run and a combined 4.67m (1.65m).

Quite surprised Sheen gave it such a boost. While he's obviously big news, he has been spending so much time on TV it's a wonder he has time to do the basics in life - eat, sleep, wash, snort, sh*g...

Tonight ABC have their special at 10pm in primetime so it'll be interesting to see how that does. The content of it is widely known already but there may be some interest in the whole "behind the scenes" aspect such as meeting "the Goddesses".

Difficult to see a way out for Ten at the moment. A non-news replacement at 6:30 could dent Neighbours because the main channel normally does better in the younger demos than it is doing at the moment with the Evening News. If they move Neighbours back, they risk upsetting the strong start which Eleven has made. And if they move Negus to 6:30, he's going to be competing with other current affairs shows.

I honestly can't see any quick fix. It's a right old mess. But I can't see the Ten Evening News ever resonating with viewers so I don't see the point in persevering much longer. Negus might be worth supporting however as it generally outrates the Evening News, and the late repeats they have introduced are pulling in an extra 300-400k on top of what it gets on the first run.

They would be insane to move Neighbours back though. Yes, 500,000 is better than what they're getting at the minute but at the same time, that's a massive underperformance for Neighbours itself. It would go right back to the brink of cancellation.

On Eleven, the show is a hit and has guaranteed it's future on Australian tv.

I honestly don't think moving it back would be profitable to Neighbours itself, or either network.

I think Negus is worth protecting as well, that ratings for the repeat are strong, I think the show may have a future, be it at 18:00 or 18:30, TEN Evening News on the other hand has no future, and like Time_Meddler im not sure where is the best place for Neighbours.

You either need to reorgnaise early evening on TEN again, or you need to find a new show to be No 1 on the digital channels.

Some interesting programming decisions being made on Ten's other digital channel One HD at the moment, Australia's free-to-air sports channel. Last night's primetime schedule didn't exactly reflect what the channel is supposed to be about:

1800 Escape with ET (Lifestyle)
1900 Sports Tonight
1930 Ice Road Truckers (Factual)
2030 Ax Men (Factual)
2130 Black Gold (Factual)

Tonight it branches out further with Extreme Fishing with Robson Green and the 2006 action movie The Marine.

conspiry theories suggest that the Murdoch at the helm of TEN (ONE) is doing to help the Pay TV channel Foxtel.

I think they were to do that, they would need to formerly rebrand it, maybe target it at men, and ELEVEN as female. Actually it reminds me a little of Quest.

Call it TWELEVE

Shame that ITV is taking this aggressive approach, which is clearly designed to dent Comic Relief overall, and also to take advantage of the Beeb's frankly odd decision to seemingly air an EE episode of some sort during Comic Relief Night. Presumably they are banking on viewers seeing that EE is not separately scheduled in TV guides, when one assumes it will go out at around the usual 8pm time.


Wow!

That really does put down a tough marker for ITV's FA Cup Final coverage.

And also for the big cheeses at the FA as they work out why the BBC can deliver big TV audiences for football, whilst ITV massively under-delivers.


Shame to see it down 10% on last week, though I expect it will timeshift well again. I was pretty bored during ep 1 until it picked up in the last 20 minutes. I thought ep 2 was great. And I agree the Beeb has rather sold us short by condensing this into a mere 3 parter. Is there scope for a second series? (I'm not familiar with the novel)

Exactly the response I was expecting from some over Coronation Street becoming an hour long episode on Comic Relief night. It makes perfect sense to do it; Comic Relief should see a boost for the remainder of the evening instead of having viewers switch over at 8.30pm.

Poor for Dancing on Ice - maybe Kerry Katona was a lure that now cannot be matched? BBC1 had a very good evening.

As for Monday - strong for the soaps and The Biggest Loser did surprisingly well too.

Amazing ratings for Charlie Sheen on Piers Morgan. Especially considering that 4 minutes before the show aired they were heading for a tape - because Charlie Sheen hadn't shown up.

Piers only just managed to get a message on twitter before going live.

I note from the officials that South Riding ep1 did beat both Wild at Heart and the DOI Skate off, with ITV1 HD included, which I don't think was the case on the overnights alone.