The only real surprise is the low figure for STV vs BBC Scotland

Reports that CNN coverage in the U.S last night had a rather stunning peak of 9.5 million viewers.

CNN averaged 7.8m in the 11pm hour. Fox News had 4.8m. CNN had a superb 3.9m in the key demo.

Edit: confirmation of the figures, CNN's biggest since election night in '08

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...source=twitter

Viewers in Scotland probably thought that STV were opting out of the wedding to show some quality Scottish programmes instead - Hill-walking With Billy Connolly, Haggis-Fishing With The Krankies, Columbo - that sort of thing.

And to watch it in HD Scots with Sky, would have had to tune into BBC One HD.

Even though CNN always thrive on breaking news, that's an exceptional number and lead over FOX News. I stuck with their coverage for most of the night/into morning.

They'll be hoping it lasts. Piers Morgan's guests tonight are Rudy Giuliani, Tony Blair, Carmen Bin Laden and John Kerry (2004 Presidential candidate and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Anderson Cooper presented live from 3-5pm from Ground Zero. He'll be back on air for his regular show at 10pm. In The Arena also comes live from Ground Zero at 8pm.

Snooker finished early, so an extra Newsnight on BBC2 now.

Cardiff's unexpected loss today means Norwich are promoted to the Premier League. Unless QPR are deducted points during the week by the FA after an investigation, the BBC and Sky are left with virtual dead games on Saturday lunchtime (promotion decided, relegation decided, play-offs almost sorted barring a 6-goal swing from Nottingham Forest to Leeds).

CRR regulations stipulate that ITV1 HD must be reported separately under BARB to ensure that commercial airtime is correctly sold and audited. As there is also different regional geography as well, I'm not sure how it could be reported as one channel anyway.

So no doubt everyone will know the outcome, a bit like showing the Eurovision Song Contest a fortnight after it's happened. Basically this show is naff anyway and the money could be better spent.

I guess they'll be begging the FA to take 10 points off QPR to make it interesting.

One'll take Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest and one will take QPR v Leeds and hope.

Anyone know if BBC1's and ITV1's line up for Saturday 14th May has been confirmed yet?

I like the soap awards and think it's a great way to see clips of soaps you don't watch but i think it should be shown LIVE or the press have to keep quiet untill it's aired

BBC1 running late?

Graham Norton was supose to be on at 11:20

That's what I was getting at. It's not really my bag, but for those that like it, what's the point of watching something when you know the result. Why not have it live, or merge it with the NTAs to save ITV's costs?

Thanks for the info.

Yes, the BBC news was extended to 10.35; Question of Sport didn't start until 10.40 and so on.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.52m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.43m
19:00 Home & Away 1.12m
19:30 New Series: No Ordinary Family 1.14m
20:30 Bones (R) 0.68m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.37m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.09m
19:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.89m
19:30 The Big Bang Theory 1.04m
20:00 Mike & Molly 0.65m
20:30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 0.72m

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.79m
18:30 6:30 with George Negus 0.63m
*highest rating edition ever.
19:00 The 7pm Project 1.10m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.66m
20:30 The Biggest Loser: Families - Grand Finale 1.68m
22:00 The Biggest Loser: Families - Winner Announced 1.56m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.36m

Shares
Ten – 27.1%
Seven – 18.7%
Nine – 17.3%
Eleven – 3.0%

Na i don't think they should merge but they should really be live.



Yeah thanks

Some big ratings in Australia last night. Obviously the news regarding Osama's death boosted the news bulletins and current affairs shows, with George Negus achieving his best rating to date. Elsewhere each of the big three had results to be cheerful about, with Seven's No Ordinary Family rating well for its premiere and The Big Bang Theory continuing to do good business for Nine.

Really though the night belonged to Ten. Huge numbers for The 7pm Project, MasterChef and The Biggest Loser. The only thing they might be disappointed about is that the winner announcement for the latter rated lower than the finale itself - that is very unusual. Perhaps it finished too late for some viewers. But overall they will still be delighted with those results.

Masterchef increased as I expected but Seven and Nine held up well with both 7.30 shows breaking 1m. TBL did very well no doubt boosted by Masterchef but surprised the winner announcement was lower than the finale.

I can't see ITV's changing (bar the nagging suspicion they may stretch Britain's Got Talent out to 90 minutes to nulify Eurovision). So their's will be:

7.00 Sing If You Can
8.00 Britain's Got Talent
9.00 Piers Morgan's Life Stories
10.00 News

As for BBC1; So You Think You Can Dance? is having it's result show on Sunday IIRC so I think it'll be this:

6.00 Doctor Who
6.45 So You Think You Can Dance?
7.50 The National Lottery Draws
8.00 Eurovision
11.00 News

It'll all be confirmed on Wednesday, I think.

What interests me regarding Australia's ratings is that Neighbours is not being hurt by a well performing George Negus at all which suggests it wasn't Neighbours pulling viewers away from TEN News in the original schedule; it was simply down to people not wanting to watch TEN News.

BBC News repeating the Newsnight special at the mo. Weird to see Newsnight on the news channel, obviously making the most of the fact that tonight's edition was shorter than usual. (35 minutes instead of 50) If they were to repeat it normally at this hour, it would only leave them 10 minutes at the top of the hour for the day's headlines.

Case Senstive seems to have gotten a good reception if the thread for it is to go on, it's a one-off but I think should the ratings be good then I could see a full series being commisioned.

That is true. Although it was a big night of ratings, so one might have expected Neighbours to have nudged up slightly in line with the rises seen elsewhere. But, it did hold firm at around the 0.35-0.38m mark which shows as you say that both of these shows can co-exist on the Ten network and be successful.

Even more impressively where Negus is concerned, a late night repeat drew an additional 561k, almost as many as watched the main showing, bringing his total audience for that edition to nearly 1.2m!

What a rollercoaster time Ten are having though. From a horrendous low of 7.5% on Friday, to a massive 27.1% yesterday.

The Australian tv market boring? I don't think so!