If you'd said in 1999 that Millionaire would end up in a Tuesday night slot being thrashed 2 to 1 by Holby City, you'd also have been asked what you were sniffing.

Fads come and go, and it's not totally inconceivable that TXF could end up being beaten by Masterchef in a Wednesday night slot a couple of years hence...


Hope she moves.

She'll be too busy constantly preening herself to look for a flat. So if she wants putting up in Manchester for a while, I would happily oblige - although the current Mrs Sykes might not be too happy about my choice of lodger...

I concur with those who think the move north is ridiculous. Sure, the new facilities at MediaCity are fantastic and will help further regenerate the area. But at what cost when the Beeb is being forced to make 20% cuts to budgets?

The Dales did very well in the slot versus EastEnders. Just realised the horrible rating for Fern as well. Very good for Mrs Brown's Boys as well.

Fern flopped. Ch4 are going to really miss the stability that CDWM brings to that slot over the next 4 weeks.

Bad news for those who dislike John Barrowman: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...t-renewed.html

Monday 28th March Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.6m (38.1%)
14:15- 32 Brinkburn Street: 1.6m (24.3%)
17:15- The Weakest Link: 1.64m (12.2%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.4m (26.0%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 5.6m (30.2%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.1m (20.7%)
19:30- Bang Goes the Theory: 3.2m (14.7%)
20:00- EastEnders: 8.8m (36.1%)
20:30- The Big Squeeze: Panorama: 3.52m (14.4%)
21:00- Waking the Dead: 5.57m (22%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.9m (23.7%)
22:35- Mrs Brown's Boys: 3.1m (21.0%)
* 22:40-22:05: 3.01m (20.5%)
* overnight series average: 2.82m (19.49%)

BBC Two
17:15- Escape to the Country: 1.6m (11.9%)
18:30- Royal Upstairs Downstairs: 1.5m (7.9%)
19:00- Chilean Miners: What Happened Next: 930k (4.5%)
20:00- University Challenge: 2.58m (10.6%)
20:30- Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets: 2.00m (8.3%)
21:00- Neil Morrissey: Care Home Kid: 1.92m (7.6%)
22:00- Never Mind the Buzzcocks: 1.31m (6.4%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.8m (5.4%)

ITV1 (inc +1)
06:00- Daybreak: 0.7m (19.0%)
08:30- Lorraine: 1.0m (19.2%)
17:00- The Chase: 2.42m (18.23%)
* exc. +1: 2.30m (18.23%)
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 3.8m (20.4%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 7.1m (36.0%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 9.3m (42.3%)
20:00- The Dales: 4.4m (18.0%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 9.2m (37.4%)
21:00- Law & Order: UK: 4.00m (15.1%)
* exc. +1: 3.83m (15.1%)
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.5m (11.9%)
22:35- Real Crime with Mark Austin: Murder at Harvey Nicks: 1.3m (10.1%)

Channel 4 (inc +1)
17:00- Fern: 1.07m (7.8%)
* exc. +1: 990,000 (7.8%)
* nearly half 3-month slot average of: 1.8m (11.51%)
* above 'The 5 O’clock Show' series average: 869k (7.06%)
* below The Paul O’Grady Show (2009) series ave: 1.99m (14.82%)
18:00- The Simpsons: 1.6m (7.6%)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.2m (6.2%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.7m (3.2%)
20:00- Dispatches: 0.6m (2.4%)
21:00- One Born Every Minute: 2.9m (9.6%)
* exc. +1: 2.44m (9.6%)
22:00- Heston's Fairytale Feast: 0.9m (4.3%)
* exc. +1: 740k (4.3%)
23:10- The Event: 374k (4.1%)
* exc. +1: 340k (1.4%)

Channel 5
17:00- 5 News at 5: 730k (6.6%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.2m (8.2%)
* 17:30-17:55: 1.26m (9%)
18:00- Home and Away: 0.8m (4.6%)
18:25- OK! TV: 0.2m (1.3%)
19:00- 5 News at 7: 0.2m (1.1%)
19:30- How Do They Do It?: 605k (2.8%)
20:00- The Gadget Show: 1.03m (4.2%)
21:00- You Don't Mess with the Zohan: 1.12m (5.5%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 23.5% (+1: 0.4%)
BBC One: 22.0%
BBC Two: 7%
Channel 4: 5% (+1: 0.9%)
Channel 5: 4.2%

Ratings include HD where necessary

Multichannels
BBC Three
21:00- Stacey Dooley Investigates: 776,700 (3.07%)
* double slot average of: 383,000 (1.49%)
* 3 times higher than 2009 'Stacey Dooley Investigates' ratings
22:00- EastEnders: 768,200 (3.8%)
22:30- Bizarre ER: 410,400 (2.6%)
23:45- Stacey Dooley Investigates: 240,000 (4.67%)

BBC Four
21:00- Everything and Nothing: 344,800 (1.4%)
22:00- Twenty Twelve: 377,500 (1.8%)

E4
21:00- Glee: 1.41m (5.58%) , +1: 247k (1.4%)
22:00- Great British Hairdresser: 321,000 (1.81%)

ITV2
21:00- Hell's Kitchen USA: 500,000 (2%)
22:00- Celebrity Juice: 364,000 (1.9%)

Sky1
22:00- Spartacus: Gods of the Arena: 401,900 (2.4%)

Sky Atlantic
22:00- Bored to Death: 50,600 (0.28%)

Watch (inc +1)
20:00- Traffic Cops: 120k

Yesterday (inc. +1)
19:00- We'll Meet Again: 159k

The Gadget Show seems down last night and it has been really bad the last few shows which seem to all have cars in now.

Surprised Mrs Brown's Boys down as it was nudging 4 million last week - does that figure take account of the regional time shifting ?

I doubt Zohan rated THAT low! It was trending on Twitter and there were thousands of Facebook mentions too!

Look at the ratings for BBC Two and Channel 4 at 8pm as well. Dispatches' fortunes completely reversed on last week when it faired quite well. And University Challenge not as high as it should be for a semi-final.

Each of the smaller three seemed to suffer at 8pm, not just Channel 5.

Was it?

It had nearly 4m in the officials, not overnights.

Is that one of the worst ratings for channel4 at 8PM?
Its not really good at all and ITV2 ITV 3 and BBC3 might have had more viewers?

Yesterday was the first weekday of BST after the clocks changed so we will probably start to see evening programs now exposed to daylight have dropped. eg - Emmerdale on 7.1m, which is lower than recently for a Monday, but 36% share is pretty imense for it. Dispatches was very low regardless though.

They changed the schedule and put out the two Curbs at 9pm without ads and Bored to Death started at 10pm.

Comedy premieres never seem to do as well on Channel 5 as action/family movies. Superbad for example I thought would do a lot better than the 1.3m it got. I expected Zohan to rate about the same, but it did finish quite late.

It is poor. Given some of the ratings we've seen for Friends recently, maybe even E4 outmuscled C4 in the 8pm hour with a 9 year old sitcom repeat.

Even Oldham v Tranmere on SS1, might have had more.

Awful for Dispatches (although what were they thinking making a programme about the BP oil spill this late in the day?).

"Fern" might well be a bigger worry for the channel, though. In the second half hour it was trailing fifth out of the five terrestrials.

Until every TV set in the UK has a BARB box built in, I will never beleive ratings!

So, how are you enjoying life in the 'ratings' thread?

0.7m for Daybreak, I thought the show had "turned a corner"?

Surely ITV will have to do something about it?

It funny how it's looking even more like GMTV every day, even the sofa has turned red!

I wonder if ITV would ever do a channel 4, and replace it with normal programming?

It's turned the corner into a dead end

No. GeorgeS has assured us that it's a triumph.

agreed, something has changed at the Gadget Show, im not sure what it is however.


how could the BBC film Casualty in a fictional city?

That said I think they should have both Casualty & Holby City at Cardiff.

Good job the BBC didn't try filming Life on Mars at its actual location