I'd agree that BGT tonight was the weakest of the series so far. The first 2 were actually alright - the talent was generally lacking but some of them were funny & interesting and the new judges (particularly Michael) covered up the lack of talent in the first episode. Again, there's not enough depth. For the past couple of years, they've got to the final with 10 good acts and they'll probably manage that this year. But there's the small issue of a weeks worth of semi-finals that need another 30.

The Oxford guys were alright. The kid at the end was good. The girl with the snake was kind of cute but that'll not work again. Herbie will make the semi-finals but he's not up to much and the reaction wasn't merited. The dancing woman with her trousers falling down was mildly amusing mainly due to Ant & Dec but they missed some input from a grumpy judge (I'm sure they knew it was all a bit of a joke, but sometimes it doesn't come across like that when they fawn so much!). So from tonight I've got 2 acts for the semi-finals. They need to be finding 5 or 6 an episode to fill the 40 slots.

I'd imagine ratings will be down tonight. If the weather is anything like it was up here, on a holiday weekend after the Royal Wedding, it'll probably not be the only show down either. The DM might get their pick of DW and BGT this week.

I'm surprised MPD and The Mentalist were unaffected by the Royal Wedding highlights especially The Mentalist which was up from its last episode despite being off for a week due to Good Friday.

Wonder when we'll get the figures for the live coverage on American television as it was broadcast from 3am ET, BBC America took the BBC feed so broadcast in the early hours/

slighty off topic, but Patrick Jane reminded me so much of the Doctor when he said "the Butler did it, I always wanted to say that"

Guess I'm a bit late to the party but I've had to wait ages to check out the epic ratings. Brilliant figures for the Royal Wedding, a peak of 26.2m is truly amazing and beyond my 24m combined peak prediction. I think this wedding will remain a candidate for the top 5 television peaks of the 21st century in the many years to come.

Also I'd like to add my thanks to rzt and all the foreign ratings posters for the incredible detail provided on the ratings today. I have read through all of it and added a couple of posts into my Internet favorites, as I will no doubt want to look at them again in the future, as this day goes down in the ratings history books.

Some of that 29 million we can't find would fall into these categories though:
- Babies to young to physically watch TV. BARB don't count viewers aged under 4yrs, of which the UK population was 3.5m as of 2001.
- Holidays. Around 2m were said to be going abroad for the bank holiday weekend.

I guess that leaves around 24 million still to find though.

A percentage of of people don't watch tv or indeed own one. Some people are in prison/hospital, many were at work/shopping. Millions of people literally hate the royals - so watching the RW would be self torture.

I would argue that well over half the country has seen some of the wedding on tv by now. The Republicans need not worry, very few royal programmes will be on TV this year. The wedding was basically a one off event.

Sadly reality tv will dominate the last 8 months of 2011.

Many will have watched it because the Wife, Husband, Mother,Father ect.. are making them.

Seven
07:00 Weekend Sunrise 0.43m
18:00 Seven News 1.36m
18:30 Various Programmes approx 0.6m

Nine
07:00 Weekend Today 0.31m
18:00 Nine News Saturday 1.06m
18:30 Australia's Funniest Home Videos 0.68m
19:30 Getaway 0.42m
20:30 Movie: A Perfect Murder (1998) 0.33m

Ten
18:00 Ten Evening News 0.40m
18:30 Before The Game 0.32m
19:30 Saturday Night AFL: Adelaide Crows v St Kilda 0.49m

ABC1
19:00 ABC News 1.09m
19:30 New Series: Doctor Who 0.87m
20:15 New Series: Doctor Who Confidential 0.63m
20:30 Spooks 0.59m

The Royal Wedding from 06:00 to 07:15 in America averaged 22.8 million: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...source=twitter

So what do you think to total viewing figures for the wedding were - with all alternative viewing methods, such as online etc were?

....and Fox News simulcasted the early Sky News coverage and then I believe did their own for the main stuff.

BBC America is available in 68m US homes. Fox News is in 85m.

Saturday 22nd April Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.7m (38.1%)
10:00- Saturday Kitchen Live: 1.7m (23.8%)
11:30- Great British Menu: 1.3m (20.2%)
12:00- BBC News: 1.5m (21.7%)
12:15- Football Focus: 1.4m (18.4%)
13:00- Live Snooker: The World Championship: 1.4m (16.5%)
16:30- Final Score: 1.7m (15.6%)
17:10- BBC News: 2.2m (18.1%)

17:25- Don't Scare the Hare: 1.4m (10.3%)
18:00- Doctor Who: 5.4m (30.5%)
18:45- So You Think You Can Dance Live: 3.1m (16.7%)
20:00- The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins: 4.0m (17.6%)
20:50- So You Think You Can Dance: 3.2m (14.0%)
21:20- Casualty: 4.6m (20.5%)
22:10- BBC News: 4.7m (22.7%)
22:30- Match of the Day: 3.8m (25.0%)
23:45- The Football League Show: 1.0m (14.9%)

ITV1 (inc +1)
12:15- This Morning: Saturday: 0.6m ( 7.2%)
13:15- Monk: 0.6m ( 7.5%)
14:15- You've Been Framed Funniest 100: 1.0m (10.7%)
15:15- Live and Let Die: 0.9m (8.2%)
17:30- ITV Regional News: 2.0m (15.3%)
17:45- ITV News and Weather: 2.2m (15.1%)

18:00- New People Do The Funniest Things: 1.9m (10.2%)
19:00- Sing if You Can: 3.3m (17.4%)
20:00- Britain's Got Talent: 9.5m (40.0%)
* 5-minute peak: 11.4m (inc +1)
21:00- Piers Morgan's Life Stories: 3.9m (16.6%)
22:00- ITV News and Weather: 3.3 (14.1%)
22:15- Dirty Harry: 1.3m ( 8.8%)

BBC Two
16:30- Live Snooker: The World Championship: 1.5m (12.9%)
17:30- Flog It!: 1.5m ( 9.7%)
18:30- Dad's Army: 2.1m (11.7%)
19:00- Live Snooker: The World Championship: 2.0m ( 9.4%)
21:30- Have I Got a Bit More News For You: 1.8m ( 8.1%)
22:15- Frank Skinner's Opinionated: 1.1m ( 5.6%)

Channel 4
16:25- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 0.7m ( 6.8%)
17:00- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 0.9m (7.3%)
17:30- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 0.9m ( 7.0%)
18:00- Come Dine with Me Down Under: 1.1m ( 6.6%)
19:00- River Cottage Best Bites: 1.1m ( 6.1%)
20:00- Kate and William: Romance and the Royals: 0.9m ( 4.0%)
21:00- The Million Pound Drop Live: 1.9m ( 8.6%) , +1: 268k
22:20- Stand Up for the Week: 0.8m ( 4.2%)

Channel 5
15:10- Ben-Hur: 0.8m ( 5.9%)
19:20- NCIS: 0.8m ( 4.3%)
20:15- CSI: Grissom's Greatest: 0.8m ( 3.5%)
21:10- CSI: Miami: 1.1m ( 4.7%)
22:10- CSI: NY: 1.6m ( 9.0%)
23:10- CSI: 0.9m ( 7.7%)

Ratings include HD where necessary

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 21.0% (+1: 0.9%)
BBC One: 18.7%
BBC Two: 8.5%
Channel 4: 6.2% (+1: 0.9%)
Channel 5: 5.3%

I'm sure they said around a peak of 34m were watching on the internet in the UK....

Tut tut tut tut tut.

Here's hoping this will persuade the BBC to swap it with SYTYCzzzzzzzz:yawn: from episode 4.

edit: especially now :yawn: has dropped below Sing If You in the ratings.

edit edit: just realised SIYC's figures include +1 so maybe SYTYCD didn't lose to it after all.

Excluding +1, SIYC had 3.23m.

Looking at the 15-minute breakdown head-to-head from 7pm to 8pm:

3.175m (17.0%) for SYTYCD and 3.225m (17.3%) for SIYC. Very poor for So You Think You Can Dance, move Doctor Who so it can improve in the overnights immediately.

Will SYTYCD be finished by the time Eurovision comes on in two weeks or will they be dropping it for a week?

The BBC are mad Dr who should be taking the SYTYCD spot.

Good figures for Who Dares Win giving that it's the meat in a mouldy bread sandwich and up against one of telly's biggest ratings hit (however much the press try to portray it {BGT I mean} as flop of they year.)

So not many people saying "Oh no, I've missed Sing If You Can. No, wait, it's on now on ITV1+1. Phew!"

Sharp drop for DW, but the share is decent and it's dented from the early start. SYTYCD is a really bombing-with weak competition and a good lead in it should be doing much better imo. The Lottery is performing well as BGT filler, but Casualty still seems low considering it's out of the way of BGT and it's main ITV1 competition is under 4m. It should be at least over 5m.

Another stable figure for BGT, but I agree with Score that the quality last night was awful and Louis worked better last year with Piers & Amanda. I dread to think how they are going to fill the live shows and we definitely don't need more performances this year Another poor figure for SIYC, and it sort of explains DW's poor figure when viewers don't want to stick around at 7pm. I think Piers should have been nearer 4.5m too.

MPD boosting Ch4 once again in an otherwise poor night.

Not great all round really apart from BGT.
BBC1 should just droop the dancing because its not helping Doctor Who at all.

I think 23Million for the Royal Wedding in the US is really good to because it was on like 6AM over there.

Should say Saturday 30th April, by the way


Those ITV1 ratings excluding +1:

19:00- Sing if You Can: 3.23m (17.4%) , +1: 82k (0.4%)
20:00- Britain's Got Talent: 9.06m (40.0%) , +1: 394k (1.8%)
* 5-minute peak: 10.90m (45.6%)
21:00- Piers Morgan's Life Stories: 3.72m (16.6%) , +1: 199k (1.0%)

And not that it was ever advertised but CNN/US were live from 2amET not 4amET

Interesting that BBC1s better saturday performance is outside of primetime (relatively 'better' for the time) while ITV1 have it the other way 'round.

BBC1 really need a cross-generational primetime saturday night show that appeals to men as well as women.

er... The Generation Game? (hosted by god knows, BBC have so few male presenters with any edge nowadays)