Whille there were complaints(many before the scenes aired) alot of the viewers also seemed to have enjoyed it


With 3/4 big storylines running over the next 6 episode it could get high figures but the question is how high?

i've seen no promotion for it yet but looking at the weather forecast they sell make the most of the next few days as the Rain and wind are back mid week so who knows

I heard that 2 of the episodes next week are longer then 30mins (likely to last 33 mins) and one of them is Thursday so i guess the other is Friday

on what evidecne do you suggest that

I know people at work that enjoyed it and there was plenty on here and other sites on the net that were prasing it.

of course like with any storyline on any Tv show not everyone agrees

During the time when the complaints were coming through the ratings were very conistent and quite a few posters on here admited complaining about the storyline evn though they didn't watch it.

A number of complaints were made before scenes even aired

I wonder where Channel 5 will schedule the Lifetime William and Kate film? If they want to air it in primetime, the only place it could go is Easter Sunday at 8pm before The Walking Dead or if they want to air it on the day of the Royal Wedding then 3.20pm after the news at 3 is possible.

As for Rock and Chips, I think Easter Sunday is most likely,

The BBC says it got 12,000 complaints about the baby story line, a record for EE. But that means about 8 million people did not complain. That doesn't necessarily mean, of course, that they enjoyed it

I think it's already confirmed for Easter Friday.

I for one didn't enjoy it. Yes I watched a few episodes here and there. But I did not complain.

Friday 8th April Overnights
BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.3m (22.4%)
20:00- EastEnders: 7.52m (35.4%)
21:00- Have I Got News For You: 4.49m (19.2%)
21:30- QI: 3.39m (14.6%)

BBC Two
20:00- Mastermind: 1.97m (9.3%)
20:30- Gardeners' World: 2.11m (9.4%)
21:00- Lambing Live: 1.76m (7.6%)
22:00- Frank Skinner's Opinionated: 1.63m (8.2%)

ITV1
19:00- Emmerdale: 5.82m (34.7%), +1: 137k
19:30- Coronation Street: 7.68m (40%)
20:00- Baboons with Bill Bailey: 2.78m (13.2%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 8.31m (37%) , +1: 141k
21:00- Benidorm: 5.62m (24.2%) , +1: 224k

Channel 4
18:30- Hollyoaks: 754k (4.8%)
20:00- A Place In The Sun: 1.06m (4.8%) , +1: 151k
21:00- Embarrassing Bodies: 1.83m (7.9%) , +1: 314k
22:00- Friday Night Dinner: 1.18m (6%) , +1: 133k

Channle 5
13:15- Neighbours: 636k (10.8%)
17:30- Neighbours: 965k (8.4%)
18:00- Home and Away: 718k (5.1%)
20:00- Ice Road Truckers: 1.07m (4.9%)
21:00- Mentalist: 1.52m (6.2%)
22:00- Law & Order: 965k (5.2%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 24.3% (+1: 0.6%)
BBC One: 19.1%
BBC Two: 7.4%
Channel 4: 5.4% (+1: 0.8%)
Channel 5: 4.6%

Multichannels
BBC Three
22:00- EastEnders: 839k (4.2%)
22:30- EastEnders Revealed: 659k (4.5%)

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 302k (1.8%)

Ratings include HD and are tape-checked where necessary

Source: DS

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Most programmes down compared to the previous week due to fewer people watching TV, especially the soaps which suffered. I think that's Emmerdale's lowest rating this year. I think Benidorm held up fine - down 0.4m week-on-week, some of which would've been due to fewer people watching TV and also tougher competition from BBC1. A solid enough rating IMO as the share was only down a point compared to recent weeks. I think HIGNFY underperformed a little - it was holding up better than that (20%+ shares) last time it was clashing against Benidorm so I was expecting it to be a bit closer to the 5m mark (if it had got the 20/21% share it usually gets). Ratings for it though should improve in the next few weeks when it's up against the lower-rated Paul O'Grady Live. Bad start for Baboons with Bill Bailey, looks like viewers don't really like programmes which concentrate on just one animal, as Lion Country did badly recently too. Ice Road Truckers held up well, it was the only programme from that list actually up compared to last week.

Friday

Benidorm 5.6 (+0.23)
HIGNFY 4.5
QI 3.4
Friday Night Dinner 1.2 (+0.13)
Place in the Sun 1.1
Embarrassing Bodies 1.8 (+0.3)
Baboons/Bill Bailey 2.8
AQOS 2.1
Lambing Live 1.8
Opininated1.6
Ice Road Truckers 1.07
Mentalist 1.5
Law & Order 1.0
Hollyoaks 0.8
Simpsons 1.3
H&A 0.7

Still waiting for OK!TV people.....

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...postcount=2052

well it got 300k (1.6% share) on Wednesday. Hope that was worth the wait.

Thank you. I'm just glad to see that ratings are averaging out now. I find it much better than Live From Studio Five. It's like a viewer friendly version of This Morning now.....

Looks like everything was down last night. HIGNFY got a particularly low rating for a debut episode - must be its lowest BBC1 debut ever? It's aired against Benidorm wore and got 5m+ so it can't be that. I'm putting it down to the weather. Benidorm dipped a bit too but it seemed to hold up better than most things (it only lost about 7% of its audience from last week, other shows lost more) and 5.8m is a cracking audience. It is down from where this series started but it is in line with previous series. This series has averaged 6.6m [inc. +1] and has timeshifted and repeated really well (must be reaching 9-10m per week over all the screenings). ITV will want it to come back.

DS are reporting Fern facing the axe and Thursday 5pm ratings

Pretty good end for Benidorm all things considered-with the tougher competition and hot weather I thought it may drop more, especially after Thursdays ratings. As Score points out with timeshift and repeats it's probably the best rated series yet. I also think POG should perform better next week, than it did before.

Not the best night for BBC1. Awful start for QOS and HIGNFY was dented by the hot weather and Benidorm. Also the poor scheduled lead out couldn't have helped.

Have added the soap ratings to my previous post too. Neighbours' rating is for 13:45 by the way. One rating I forgot to put was:

5*
18:30- Home and Away: 385k (2.5%)

Source: DS

From DS

Benidorm closed for 2011 with a respectable 5.8m viewers, according to the latest overnight data.

Writer Derren Litten's final episode amused 5.62m (24.2%) in the 9pm hour and 224k on ITV1 +1, a loss of approximately 500k week-on-week, and down a hefty 1.8m on its fourth series premiere.

Meanwhile, the return of Have I Got News For You to BBC One interested 4.49m (19.2%), following which a QI repeat took 3.39m (14.6%) at 9.30pm.

Friday Night Dinner's first series climaxed with 1.18m (6%) for Channel 4 at 10pm, adding 133k on timeshift. Prior to that, A Place In The Sun and Embarrassing Bodies grabbed 1.06m (4.8%) and 1.83m (7.9%) at 8pm and 9pm, respectively adding 151k and 314k on +1.

With numbers down across the board due to hot weather, Baboons with Bill Bailey made a modest introduction with 2.78m (13.2%) for ITV1 at 8pm, while a new run of A Question of Sport began with just 2.56m (11.4%).

Over on BBC Two, Mastermind and Gardeners' World rumbled on with 1.97m (9.3%) and 2.11m (9.4%) in the 8pm hour, then 1.76m (7.6%) watched Lambing Live conclude and 1.63m (8.2%) tuned in for Frank Skinner's Opinionated at 10pm.

Elsewhere, Ice Road Truckers (8pm), The Mentalist (9pm) and Law & Order (10pm) pulled in respective audiences of 1.07m (4.9%), 1.52m (6.2%) and 965k (5.2%) for Channel 5.

Overall, ITV1 led primetime with 24.3% (+1: 0.6%) to BBC One's 19.1%. BBC Two claimed third with 7.4%, followed by Channel 4 with 5.4% (+1: 0.8%) and Channel 5 with 4.6%.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional

And:

20:30 - A Question of Sport: 2.56m (11.4%)

I fear massively for So You Think You Can Dance tonight. Going on last night's Emmerdale share only 16.8m were watching TV between 7pm and 7:30pm last night. Given that it's a Saturday, I'd take at least 1.5m straight off that tonight, so about 15.3m watching TV. So You Think You Can Dance may well find itself with a solid 20% share but a horrendous 3 million viewers.

Benidorm did as well as expected really. HIGNFY should bounce back next week so I doubt BBC will be too concerned.


Don't copy full articles when rzt has made the effort to write out the ratings in a sensible format above.

The scheduling for SYTYCD for tonight (and last week) has been really bad. Sure, the BBC couldn't have predicted the weather would be as hot as it is today, but they could've easily scheduled SYTYCD 45 minutes to 1 hour later if they didn't have the Live at the Apollo repeat later in the evening. Why go to the effort of commissioning a 12 week series (for a show which is vulnerable anyway) and then scheduling episodes 2 and 3 so early on in the evening, when it certainly would've been possible to schedule them later at a better time?

The sun massively hurt everything last night, the rain isnt due until wednesday so i expect more "Hollyoaks at 700,000" "EastEnders drops to 7 Million" headlines

For derek500: The Masters on Sky Sports 1 between 19:30-00:30 on Thursday averaged: 417k


It also had 0.3m for Thursday's episode too.


Looks like the Sky/Freesat problems did have an effect on Hollyoaks' Thursday rating. The breakdown was:

18:30- 769.8
18:35- 820.2
18:40- 643.1
18:45- 633.1
18:50- 595.9
18:55- 519.5

Usually the audience for Hollyoaks rises throughout the episode. That did happen for the first 10 minutes but as soon as the Sky/Freesat problems started, the audience dropped every 5 minutes which is very unusual for the show.

Is HIGNFY "usually" paired with a QI repeat?

Exactly what I predicted would happen, happened. HIGNFY suffered from crap scheduling, with the QI repeat offering little attraction "over the hour" against ITV's offering "over the hour". Common sense dictates people will have watched Benidorm and taped HIGNFY.

It hardly needs Chief Inspector Lewis on the case to work that one out...


Note that it's a repeat of Monday's episode.

Still, it's poor compared to what the 7.30pm repeats were getting last time out. Perhaps people didn't expect it there, having got used to QI repeats for the past few months?

Not a major concern.

Think today's ratings, particularly for the National, will be a shocker. It's a gorgeously warm and sunny day up here, and I think pretty much everywhere else too.

Last time it clashed against Benidorm, HIGNFY (20.3% share for that ep) was paired with The Armstrong & Miller Show which had 3.65m which is not all that different to what the QI repeat had last night - essentially the same when you take the weather into account (A&M was shown in the Autumn). HIGNFY traditionally does better than yesterday did share-wise, even if the second half hour (9.30-10pm) rates poorly and "offers little attraction over the hour", as you put it. You just have to look at last Autumn's figures when it was paired up with the massive ratings flop that was Reggie Perrin (sub 3m) and it still managed 20%+ for its episodes, apart from the ones which clashed against IAC. Incidentally, I didn't say it was a bad rating for it last night but I just expected it to be nudging at that 5m/20-21% mark especially as it was the opening episode of the series.

Perhaps people choose Benidorm over HIGFY as it was the final episode? and HIGNYF has been going for years does it really need anything to give it a leg up over the hour? I'd be more inclined to watch Benidorm and tape HIGNYF especially as the latter also has an "uncut" edition at weekends.

I see the warm sunshine isn't affecting the speed of response from the ITV Instant Rebuttals Dept...