Well I can't speak for the other social networking sites as I don't use them but The Hotel Inspector is the most discussed non-soap/reality show here on Digital Spy this evening. For reference ahead of tomorrow's overnights, here's a look at the overnight audiences for each series opener to date:

Series 1 (September 2005): 1.3m (6%)
Series 2 (July 2006): 1.4m (7%)
Series 3 (September 2007): 1.3m (6%)
Series 4 (July 2008): 1.2m (6%) <--- this one was preceded by a series of "revisited" episodes, bad idea
Series 5 (July 2009): 1.6m (7%)
Series 6 (July 2010): 1.8m (8%)

Notably this is the first series to launch outside of July and September, which is interesting. Personally I think it has a good chance of topping last year's launch to become the most watched ever, especially with BBC One's feeble 9pm offering.

I've been looking at the BARB archives. Below are the official BBC1 ratings. BH Monday had the Party at the Palace in the evening as the main event, followed by a full day of celebrations on the streets of London (and nationwide) on the BH Tuesday. Just look at those daytime averages.

If a 50th anniversary procession/church service/parade and flypast can attract these numbers, imagine what the marriage of the future King can get!

Bank Holiday Monday

1000 World Cup 2002: Brazil v Turkey 5.32m (yes, at 10am!)
...
1900 EastEnders 8.33m
1930-23.15 Party at the Palace 12.54m
* peak 15.1m @ 2300
* peak share 68%

Bank Holiday Tuesday

0925 The State Procession 5.74m
1125 State Service of Thanksgiving 6.51m
1345 Carnival in the Mall 7.88m
[nb: the last hour averaged c11m IIRC]
1845 BBC News 9.44m
1930 World Cup 2002 Highlights 5.38m
2030 EastEnders 11.36m
2100 Holby City 8.22m
2200 Spooks 6.0m

And in a good daytime week for BBC1, on the Friday that week (when everyone was back at work), Argentina v England averaged 12.00m for a 12.30pm kick off. And probably another 12m watching at school or work.

Excellent figures for the Formula One and the London Marathon held up well considering the opposition. Countrywise also performed brilliantly, while Lewis did reaosnably well. Shame for The Cube; it really deserves a better slot than that. Antiques Roadshow seemed to be hit due to the lower lead out, though Britain's Royal Weddings did ok.

87 pc of them were probably escaping This Morning Sunday, which is the most pointless piece of programming on earth. It's a bit like doing a Jeremy Kyle Best Of, equally pointless.

From Ratings Thread 18....


BBC1
w/e 10 Apr 2011
Millions

7 CANDY CABS (TUE 2100) 6.17

The answer is 'yes' then.

Good grief, this is a CBBC show right ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd__iE62RA

They better hope we don't get heavy rain then otherwise they might be stuck in watching it

I'll just see the bits on the news,EastEnders,Newspapers and thats more then enough for me.

Nodoubt the radio will also cover it

Something different, at least.

Beats another celebrity contest, or a talent show. Good, harmless fun in the pre-Doctor Who slot.

Think it will struggle at 5.25 though in the summer months. Pre Strictly it might have done better.

Another clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSM5pqAZlQ

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.37m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.28m
19:00 Home and Away 1.05m
19:30 Border Patrol 1.07m
20:00 Coastwatch 0.91m
20:30 Bones (R) 0.83m
21:30 Brothers & Sisters 0.64m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.08m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.00m
19:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.76m
19:30 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.86m
20:00 Mike & Molly (R) 0.61m
20:30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 0.52m
21:30 CSI: Miami (R) 0.49m

Ten
17:00 Ten News 0.67m
18:30 6:30 with George Negus 0.40m
19:00 The 7pm Project 0.79m
19:30 Glee (R) 0.60m
20:30 Good News Week 0.52m
22:00 2010: 100 Days of Disaster 0.34m

ABC1
19:00 ABC News 1.07m
19:30 7.30 0.74m
20:00 Australian Story 0.93m
20:30 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo 1.34m
*by far the most watched non-news programme of the day.
*second conclusive part is up over 10% on the first part on Sunday.

7TWO
19:30 Martin Clunes: Horsepower 0.23m
20:40 Jonathan Creek 0.22m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.36m

Corporation Shares
Seven: 30.7%
ABC: 23.0%
Nine: 22.5%
Ten: 17.6%

ABC seems to be benefiting a great deal from the current Easter NRP, posting some impressive results. That share is mega for them.

I'm surprised Spider-Man pulled in over 2m, Channel 5 have shown it before to lower ratings, the competition wasn't even that weak and it started at an odd. Can't see Ghostbusters pulling in the same ratings but the films are working as a lead in for TWD.

BTW what is the films for the week starting 30th April on Channel 5, will be interesting if it is a premiere or a repeat.

Surely everyone on here knows that ANY big national event on BBC1 will get massive ratings.

What % of people in the UK have any real interest in athletics? 1%? 2% maybe? How many people could name more than two or three athletes? Or indeed any?

Yet next summer BBC1 will have 12 million+ watching athletics.

It doesn't matter WHAT the event is. If it is a big national event with massive publicity it will get huge ratings.

Remember the predictions for the General Election Leaders' debates? They were very low and the actual figures were very high.

Exactly the same thing - except of course the Royal Wedding is a far bigger, far more hyped event.

Quite an eclectic mix that week, but alas no premieres:

Ben-Hur [1958] Sat 1510-1915
Lawrence of Arabia [1962] Sun 1245-1655
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad [1974] Sun 1700-1915
Godzilla [1998] Sun 1915-2200
Misery [1990] Sun 2305-0115
The Sweetest Thing [2002] Mon 2200-2345
Cobra [1986] Thu 2200-2350

Thanks, will be interesting how Made of Honour does on Friday given that The Mentalist usually does well.

Sing If You Can has 2 offers from US broadcast networks according to Nellie Andreeva at Deadline. Zodiak (the shows producers) may want to get that deal done before the ratings for episode 2 come out. The proposed US version will feature members of the public rather than celebrities.

I couldnt beleive that when I read it.

Its amazing how some formats despite being of questionable quality will sell around the world, Total Wipeout being one such example.

If Sing If You Can turns into a hit, like the promotional video suggests it is, I will loose total faith in ITV viewers.

ok moving from a rubbish show to a good one.

One show im currently enjoying is Radio 4s "The Unbelievable Truth" with David Mitchell, and friends.* , I also enjoy The Chaser (War On Everything & Yes We Canberra!) it seems 7 is making a Aussie version of TUT featuring The Chaser

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/04/...for-seven.html


I hope this is both true, and that is ends up on Dave.



*if my reccomandation means anything to you, you should go the iPlayer and listen to it when you get the chance, its awesome.

In fact the Marathon coverage started on BBC2 last year as well, moving over around 10am, but that was because it was during the Election campaign and Andrew Marr was interviewing all the leaders in turn, and presumably they had to keep it on BBC1 so we didn't get Biased Broadcasting Corporation moans from whichever party had their leader on BBC2. The Grand Prix was probably more of a draw than that.

I suppose it was overseas, so an understandable spelling mistake!!

to be fair im not 100% that user comment posted is true, but the guy who runs the website seems to think that he is on to something, so im going to give the guy the benefit of the dobut.

True or not it would be a great show.

Monday 18th April 2011
BBC1
06:00 - Breakfast: 1.5m (34.7%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.3m (26.2%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.5m (30.4%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.1m (20.8%)
19:30 - Bang Goes the Theory: 3.1m (14.3%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 10.2m (42.7%)
20:30 - Panorama: 2.8m (12.0%)
21:00 - Motorway Cops: 3.9m (16.5%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.3m (21.4%)

BBC2
18:00 - Eggheads: 1.8m (10.9%)
18:30 - Great British Menu: 1.9m (10.4%)
19:00 - World Championship Snooker: 1.0m (4.9%)
20:00 - Railway Walks: 1.4m (5.7%)
20:30 - Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets: 1.5m (6.4%)
21:00 - Fix My Family: 1.0m (4.0%)
22:00 - Never Mind the Buzzcocks: 1.2m (5.9%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 0.6m (4.2%)

ITV
06:00 - Daybreak: 0.7m (18.4%)
08:30 - Lorraine: 1.1m (16.9%)
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.3m (18.1%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 7.1m (35.6%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 9.4m (42.0%)
20:00 - The Dales: 3.8m (15.6%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 9.5m (39.6%)
21:00 - The Reckoning: 5.4m (22.1%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 2.5m (12.2%)
22:35 - Real Crime with Mark Austin: 1.2m (9.1%)

C4
17:00 - Fern: 0.8m (6.3%)
18:00 - The Simpsons: 1.2m (6.2%)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.1m (5.7%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 0.7m (3.0%)
20:00 - Help! My House is Infested: 1.3m (4.3%)
21:00 - Meet the Middletons: 2.3m (8.3%)

C5
17:00 - 5 News at 5: 0.7m (6.7%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 1.1m (8.5%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 0.9m (5.5%)
18:30 - OK! TV: 0.3m (1.6%)
19:00 - 5 News at 7: 0.2m (1.1%)
19:30 - How Do They Do It?: 0.6m (2.8%)
20:00 - The Gadget Show: 1.0m (4.3%)
21:00 - The Hotel Inspector: 1.6m (6.5%)

All include HD and +1 where necessary.

Superb figure and share for EastEnders. The ITV soap shares are good, and the raw figure is good for Emmerdale, Corrie's shares are good but viewership is a bit down on EastEnders, but I guess that's to be expected.

The Reckoning did well, and that figure should mean that it beats Candy Cabs tonight, if that goes below 4m tonight then that may mean no recommission for it. The Middletons' documentary did well on C4, while Hotel Inspector had a solid start on C5. Pretty poor night for BBC2 though.

so now ive been outed as an EastEnders fan, I can say that the episode deserved that rating, the entire cast (even Shane Ritchie) raised the bar.

Not good for The Gadget Show however.

Fantastic for all the big 3 soaps last night. EE maintained Fridays performance and some great shares for Corrie-particuarly if the latter episode isn't tapechecked.

Pretty much in line with how I thought The Reckoning would perform and it should give a boost to Tuesdays line up just below 5m. Hotel Inspector slightly below my expectations but still a good figure and higher than I thought for Meet The Middletons.

Bad night for BBC2, especially in the normally solid 8pm hour.

Nothing official yet but suggestion on Twitter that Game of Thrones had 710,000 viewers for Sky Atlantic last night, which if correct would make it the biggest overnight rating since the channel launched.

No U.S figures yet but some reports say they may not be as strong as Boardwalk Empire's debut. HBO delayed the publication of the figures.

That's got to be some kind of joke? Wow, the BBC are really struggling for ideas. If this were on ITV you would rip it apart and you know it.