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Just noticed The Apprentice launches tonight BBC1 9.00pm - ought be good for a 6 million launch, - there is some competition but it is not major - Secret Millionaire and CSI. Unsure how Home Is Where The Heart Is will do for ITV maybe 3 million - not exactly must see tv though.
- the last series only finished 4 months ago; yes it was delayed, but after an 15 month wait between the previous two series to whet our appetites, a mere 4 months just doesn't feel long enough to excite - it's a Wednesday show - those who have seen the publicity will automatically think tomorrow (and may well have seen it in their EPG/telly guide tomorrow given the two parter) - the tweak with the format, although minor in the scheme of things could cause some to think they have had a major rehash; I think over the course of the series, the constant references to "finding a business partner" could undermine the whole fundamental premise of the show - he's supposed to be looking for someone to take a punt on, to mould into his protege, to take under his wing within the Amstrad empire - it certainly had its moments tonight, but I do fear it's getting a bit tired and samey - see also point 1 So I can't see this series scaling the heights, and it probably has passed its high water mark. I will be disappointed with <6m tonight, but it will not surprise me if it gets 5-5.5m for the debut. |
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Wasn't there yet another big football clash on Sky tonight? That might have had an effect on The Apprentice's numbers.
CSI was recorded for another time but apart from that it didn't have much competition on terrestrial. |
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So I can't see this series scaling the heights, and it probably has passed its high water mark. I will be disappointed with <6m tonight, but it will not surprise me if it gets 5-5.5m for the debut.
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Anyone got the series opener ratings for the previous series to allow for comparison tomorrow ?
2007- 5.0m (22%) 2008- 6.4m (25%) 2009- 8.1m (33%) 2010- 6.9m (27%) I see Robbie's gone with his usual under-prediction tactics today. Of course a big well-established show like The Apprentice won't rate as low as 5.0-5.5m for its opener, he knows that . The average prediction on the RPG incidentally was 6.8m.
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Elsewhere, good ratings for Strangeways and ITV1's late movie. BBC One struggled.
The late movie rating is all the more impressive at it lasted until after 1am Quote:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-sudd...tle-concerned/
Interesting stuff about CNN and the American news wars. |
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The Apprentice overnight launch ratings on BBC1:
2007- 5.0m (22%) 2008- 6.4m (25%) 2009- 8.1m (33%) 2010- 6.9m (27%) I see Robbie's gone with his usual under-prediction tactics today. Of course a big show like The Apprentice won't rate as low as 5.0-5.5m for its opener, he knows that . The average prediction on the RPG incidentally was 6.8m.I explained my reasons why I thought it might underperform, and that's my view. If it gets anything like 6.9m, or better, I will eat my hat. To be honest, I increasingly wonder why I bother posting on here any more....
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Oh Jesus.
I explained my reasons why I thought it might underperform, and that's my view. If it gets anything like 6.9m, or better, I will eat my hat. To be honest, I increasingly wonder why I bother posting on here any more.... ![]() |
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Strangeways was actually the first time I've watched something other than occasionally the News on ITV1 in months. And it picked out some interesting stories to focus on from inside the prison, in particular the wedding
The late movie rating is all the more impressive at it lasted until after 1am As for Strangeways, sounds like good stuff from ITV. It's encouraging to see their factual slate improving. Looking back it's the same slot they scheduled the equally successful Wormwood Scrubs in last year. |
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What Australia Watched: Tuesday 10th May
Story of the night:
* Australia's Got Talent continues to grow, outrating MasterChef by over 20% in Total People; * Meanwhile a technical glitch sees Neighbours go from one of its highest ever ratings on Eleven to its lowest. Seven 18:00 Seven News 1.34m 18:30 Today Tonight 1.34m 19:00 Home & Away 1.09m 19:30 Australia's Got Talent 1.75m 20:30 Winners & Losers 1.33m Nine 18:00 Nine News 1.17m 18:30 A Current Affair 0.97m 19:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.86m 19:30 Customs 0.76m 20:05 AFP: Australian Federal Police 0.68m 20:35 Sea Patrol: Damage Control 0.60m Ten 17:00 Ten News at Five 0.65m 18:30 6:30 with George Negus 0.52m 19:00 The 7pm Project 0.90m 19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.44m 20:00 Bondi Vet 0.97m 20:30 NCIS 1.20m Eleven 18:30 Neighbours 0.22m ABC1 19:00 ABC News 1.05m 19:30 7.30 Budget Special: The Treasurer’s Budget Speech 0.59m 20:35 My Family's Crazy Gap Year 0.40m |
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To be fair with Robbie he did not Say he Thought the Apprentice would get 5.0-5.5m He said it Should get 6.0m but would not be surprised if it rated Lower. That's how i saw it anyway.
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Hot off the press, apparently technical issues are to blame for Ten's poor results last night. They've issued this statement in the past few minutes: Quote:
Due to a broadcast interruption experienced during Tuesday night prime-time, full episodes of MasterChef, Bondi Vet and Neighbours did not air in all mainland city markets last night. Today's preliminary ratings data does not reflect the late night encore of MasterChef Australia which aired in Adelaide. Corrected figures for Tuesday 10 May will be available in the confirmed program logs issued by OzTAM on Thursday 12 May.
That certainly explains a lot. Neighbours' drop in particular stood out.That said, the extremely robust result for AGT must be a bit of a concern for them. And it's closing in on MC in the demos as well. |
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To be fair with Robbie he did not Say he Thought the Apprentice would get 5.0-5.5m He said it Should get 6.0m but would not be surprised if it rated Lower. That's how i saw it anyway.
. As for it being about the 6m mark as RS initially said (which is not the bit of his post I had a problem with btw), yeah I think there's a certain possibility of that happening, although personally I reckon it'll be closer to 6.5-7m because the competition is easier than what the previous opener faced and inheritence is better so I can't see it dropping much vs. the 2010 opener.
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Looks like viewers switched from Masterchef to Australia's Got Talent but Masterchef will be back up tomorrow. Nine doing badly with Sea Patrol beaten by Winners and Losers, good thing it's the final season anyway.
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Eleven At Harold Bishop's return?! 18:30 Neighbours 0.22m
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Looks like viewers switched from Masterchef to Australia's Got Talent but Masterchef will be back up tomorrow. Nine doing badly with Sea Patrol beaten by Winners and Losers, good thing it's the final season anyway.
MasterChef - 4pm (Ten, nationally) Neighbours - 6pm (Eleven, before next episode) |
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At Harold Bishop's return?!
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The Apprentice, of course, should get 6m and whilst it remains by some distance the Premier Cru of the reality shows, a few factors are against it:
- the last series only finished 4 months ago; yes it was delayed, but after an 15 month wait between the previous two series to whet our appetites, a mere 4 months just doesn't feel long enough to excite - it's a Wednesday show - those who have seen the publicity will automatically think tomorrow (and may well have seen it in their EPG/telly guide tomorrow given the two parter) - the tweak with the format, although minor in the scheme of things could cause some to think they have had a major rehash; I think over the course of the series, the constant references to "finding a business partner" could undermine the whole fundamental premise of the show - he's supposed to be looking for someone to take a punt on, to mould into his protege, to take under his wing within the Amstrad empire - it certainly had its moments tonight, but I do fear it's getting a bit tired and samey - see also point 1 So I can't see this series scaling the heights, and it probably has passed its high water mark. I will be disappointed with <6m tonight, but it will not surprise me if it gets 5-5.5m for the debut. The BBC should have left The Apprentice for this year and given themselves longer to think about the format itself/contestants they want/etc - and just aired Junior Apprentice in the autumn, then bringing back the real Apprentice in spring 2012, giving it a nice long break, which'd hopefully mean there'd be more buzz when it returns (it's still huge). Of course it's a Wednesday show and it's silly to have it on Tuesday really when it's got such an established slot. Personally I agree also with your 'business partner' argument - if the BBC had more time to mull the idea over, perhaps we'd have seen a better decision, therefore a better premise, therefore a better show. |
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For once, I agree Robbie, and disagree with rzt's claims that you've purposely underpredicted on this occasion. 6-6.5m will probably be where it's at
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It just feels to me like a bit of a cheap shot to make when the programme rated in line with or even above how this kind of programme normally rates and wasn't even that low for the slot's standards. Let's not forget that this time last year on Monday 10th May 2010, Channel 5 had just 0.2m (1.3%) watching in the same slot for an edition of JLC's chat show. So one could argue C5 is up 250% year-on-year with Josie!
I also think that in the context of last night they will be more pleased with The Hotel Inspector rallying to a series high and beating Gordon Ramsay's new programme on Channel 4 by just under 3 share points than disappointed by Josie performing about the same as the Extraordinary People repeats previously. Thought it was a decent show, decent ratings. |
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Hot off the press, apparently technical issues are to blame for Ten's poor results last night. They've issued this statement in the past few minutes:
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Oh get off your bloody high horse. Lets face it you're no rzt.
). Dancc's a great poster to this thread, I always find his contributions really interesting especially the points he makes about C5 figures which we usually don't spot and this thread would be worse without him. As for that particular Josie debate, in the end, I partly agreed with some of Dancc's points anyway as having looked back at C5's ratings over previous months, they have struggled and gone under 1m for shows in that slot which aren't US dramas/films/factual and are in the light-entertainment/reality-show genre. I didn't realise this before, but it was only 100k lower than last year's Josie one-off they did (I'd completely forgotten about that one-off this morning!), which is the sort of rating C5 might've been expecting and isn't much more than what it actually got.
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I very rarely post in this thread, but I'm a long time reader (read pretty much every post!). Thanks to rzt and everyone else for the outstanding info, you all do a sterling job.
![]() I thought I just had to chip in for once as I feel Robbie is getting an unfair time regarding the Apprentice ratings. Whilst I don't think they'll go as low as 5.5m, I don't think sub 6 million is out of the question at all. He's outlined his reasoning with a very logical argument so I think all the rolling eye smilies and so on are a tad unnecessary. Even if you disagree with Robbie, you can't deny he is always good value. This thread could be very dry reading if it wasn't for his and others' entertaining contributions. It's always fun for somebody to set the cat among the pigeons. ![]() Anyway, just thought I'd stick my twopenneth in, I will shuffle back into the shadows now.
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Report: FOX picks up new shows and cancels some currently on schedule
Link (TVbyTN - pickup): http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...-series/92181/
Link (Deadline - pickup): http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/fox-...irl-to-series/ According to reports, FOX picks up The Finder, Alcatraz, I Hate My Teenage Daughter and The New Girl. Weekends at Bellvue and Iceland are not picked up. Link (Deadline - cancelled shows): http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/fox-...-human-target/ Meanwhile, Fox has cancelled Human Target (expected) and Breaking In. |
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I'm surprised The Finder got picked up as most people thought the backdoor pilot was awful. Alcatraz is yet another JJ Abrams show that has been picked up, his other show Person of Interest I think has a good shot of pickup from CBS.
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. The average prediction on the RPG incidentally was 6.8m.
). Dancc's a great poster to this thread, I always find his contributions really interesting especially the points he makes about C5 figures which we usually don't spot and this thread would be worse without him. As for that particular Josie debate, in the end, I partly agreed with some of Dancc's points anyway as having looked back at C5's ratings over previous months, they have struggled and gone under 1m for shows in that slot which aren't US dramas/films/factual and are in the light-entertainment/reality-show genre. I didn't realise this before, but it was only 100k lower than last year's Josie one-off they did (I'd completely forgotten about that one-off this morning!), which is the sort of rating C5 might've been expecting and isn't much more than what it actually got.

