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Everything seemed to get a nice boost last night- fantastic for BGT all things considered. The poor acts seem to be balanced out by the better judging panel and I have noticed there seems to be more focus on the judges this year, which is normally just left for the ITV2 show. SIYC is doing OK, but I still think it should be doing slightly better with the poor competition and the lead out. Similarly with Life Stories I think last nights episode should have been nearer 4.5m considering it featured The Hoff.
Better for DW, but SYTYCD still flopping. Casualty still below par and the only explanation I can see for this is the poor lead in, because it should be around 5.5m when it's main competition is only getting 4m. Some strong shares for CDWM there and it always seems to do well in the early Saturday slots. MPD stabilising Saturdays, although not reaching the heights of last series. Nice to see everything on Ch5 make 1m and a strong share for CSI:NY considering the late slot. If it does end up being axed (hopefully not), then Ch5 would do well to promote it as CSI:NY's last ever episode and maybe have a CSI:NY themed weekend across 5:USA and Ch5? (This is assuming the show will be axed before the remaining 6 episodes can play out?) The show has been a vital part of the schedule for the past few years and although repeats will probably still manage 1m+ in the slot it will mean there will be more repeats of the same episodes if no new ones are being produced. |
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Steve Jones has the X Factor US gig. Nicole Scherzinger didn't like the original male co-host (Corbin Bleu) and she did like Steve (they have "chemistry" apparently). So Corbin was dropped and Steve was hired. Quite a leap for Mr Jones, there.
Actually the US panel is so weakened by Cheryl and Paula that even without Simon the panel here of Louis, Dannii, Gary Barlow and A N Other is beginning to look even stronger. Quote:
BGT does seem to have taken more of a hit this year on the negative opinion front but 10.4 million is good in anyones language.
No question about it last night's show was better concentrating on actual talent rather than the obvious laughing stocks - indeed not sure the buzzers were used at all last night. Michael Macintyre especially is coming into his own now and beginning to let the judge over take the performer in him, and I hope that Simon's involvement in the live shows this year is the end of his association with it as really the show doesn't need him - and assuming the same panel next year they'd be no need to parachute Cowell in for the live shows. |
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Ouch at the ratting for 19:00- Sing if You Can: 4.1m (20.1%)
It might even come back for another series now. However, fair play to Doctor Who for its ratings going up by 800,000. A strong story, less sci fi geekery and plenty of action last night would have persuaded more people to tune in. I think with the series being split, we could see 7 million for the last three episodes as next week's looks strong. Just a shame the first episode was slow and aimed at hardcore fans. |
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Nice to see everything on Ch5 make 1m and a strong share for CSI:NY considering the late slot. If it does end up being axed (hopefully not), then Ch5 would do well to promote it as CSI:NY's last ever episode and maybe have a CSI:NY themed weekend across 5:USA and Ch5? (This is assuming the show will be axed before the remaining 6 episodes can play out?) The show has been a vital part of the schedule for the past few years and although repeats will probably still manage 1m+ in the slot it will mean there will be more repeats of the same episodes if no new ones are being produced.
![]() Worth noting that CSI: NY gets its earliest start of the season next weekend (9pm) due to no Casualty on BBC One. |
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I think this month is going to be ITV1's best since the end of the X Factor. BGT is starting to get into its stride and I reckon for the weekday shows, 11 million a night will tune in and 13 million will watch the final. Also the ECL final should attract 13 million due to Man U reaching the final.
For BBC One Doctor Who seems to be picking up in the ratings and I predict 7 million( 8 million with timeshift) for the next three episodes. Their main one off event this month, the Eurovision Song Contest, should pull in 7 million viewers. Also The Apprentice should guarantee them 8 million viewers an episode. |
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Excellent for BGT last night. 10.4m inc. +1 is the same rating as the opening episode. I wonder how it will hold up again Eurovision next weekend? I can see them making a big deal of Cowell's return on the last show before the live shows. Hopefully they will get a lift too. 11m would be good figure but going head-to-head with EE every night won't help matters like last year. I think it lost momentum last year when Corrie was pulled for the final 3 days. I think this year the results shows will rate better than last year with Corrie keeping most of those viewers this time.
DW did well to grow 0.8m from last week. 4 more episode to go before the break should see it get 6m+ every week with some decent timeshifts up to 8m for the final figure. |
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Excellent for BGT last night. 10.4m inc. +1 is the same rating as the opening episode. I wonder how it will hold up again Eurovision next weekend? I can see them making a big deal of Cowell's return on the last show before the live shows. Hopefully they will get a lift too. 11m would be good figure but going head-to-head with EE every night won't help matters like last year. I think it lost momentum last year when Corrie was pulled for the final 3 days. I think this year the results shows will rate better than last year with Corrie keeping most of those viewers this time.
DW did well to grow 0.8m from last week. 4 more episode to go before the break should see it get 6m+ every week with some decent timeshifts up to 8m for the final figure. I do think it's going to look very weird with him sat on the end of the judging panel when the live shows come around. The scheduling is ridiculous starting at 7.30pm. |
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There was already a Cowell teaser at the beginning of the show last night, predictably with him stating that he couldn't believe the calibre of acts which had been put through. I'd almost forgotten he was part of the show!
I do think it's going to look very weird with him sat on the end of the judging panel when the live shows come around. The scheduling is ridiculous starting at 7.30pm. ![]() The 7.30pm timeslot is rubbish. I would run it 8.30-10pm like they have done in previous years, or if they really need 2 hours then run it 8-10pm. |
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Pretty disappointing night all round. EE wins the day again. Is there something big in EE at the mo?
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Don't usually put much importance on these X Factor stories in the press, as they are nearly all rubbish, but there is an interesting one in the Sunday Mirror claiming Alesha Dixon met Talkback Thames on Wednesday to discuss joining The X Factor:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/20...5875-23115029/ The Sunday Times, no less, today reported Gary Barlow as Cowell's replacement as head judge on TXF. Gary Barlow and Alesha Dixon in place of Cowell and Cheryl? At least the new pair actually have some talent, but will they help whip up a tabloid/Twitter frenzy every week? ![]() Quote:
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BBC One 17:35- Don't Scare the Hare: 2.3m (14.9%) 18:15- Doctor Who: 6.2m (30.9%) ITV1 (inc +1) 20:00- Britain's Got Talent: 10.4m (42.2%) 21:00- Piers Morgan's Life Stories: 4.0m (16.6%) BBC Two 21:00- Have I Got a Bit More News For You: 2.1m ( 9.1%) The weather helped Hare back towards respectability, obviously the first two eps being aired during the afternoon of two successive hot holiday Saturdays didn't help the cause. I think the Beeb should try to stick with the 5.30 slot rather than effectively cull the show already by shunting it back before the news. They obviously spent a bit of time and effort on the format, so to kill it already seems bizarre. I really don't understand why an inoffensive early Saturday family game show is attracting such hatred. More decent ratings for extended HIGNFY. There is now clearly a committed audience who ignore the shorter Friday episode and just watch Saturdays. I'm amongst them - I suspect HIGNFY is one of those shows where aggregation is justified in the circumstances, but this splitting of the HIGNFY audience is clearly damaging the Friday night ratings, and not helping BBC1 on Fridays overall. |
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Roscoe Barnes: EastEnders is pretty dire at the moment. Coronation Street is worse, though.
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I hope Britain's Got Talent won't go head-to-head with EastEnders. However, I think EastEnders will rate better. They have better material this year, instead of the "Teens in the Wood" week. I think Diedrick Santer knew that EastEnders would lose to BGT anyway, and probably didn't care. Or, maybe he knew that more teenagers would watch Britain's Got Talent, and tried to slowly lure them back.
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Steve Jones is a bizarre choice. I do quite like him (then again I also don't think Vernon Kay deserves the stick he gets so what do I know?) but not giving the job to Dermot and then going for another Brit seems odd.
O'Leary is perhaps a bit better at delivering lines from an autocue, but he is always shuffling on one heel, which is incredibly distracting. |
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More decent ratings for extended HIGNFY. There is now clearly a committed audience who ignore the shorter Friday episode and just watch Saturdays. I'm amongst them - I suspect HIGNFY is one of those shows where aggregation is justified in the circumstances, but this splitting of the HIGNFY audience is clearly damaging the Friday night ratings, and not helping BBC1 on Fridays overall.
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Roscoe Barnes: EastEnders is pretty dire at the moment. Coronation Street is worse, though.
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Ouch at the ratting for 19:00- Sing if You Can: 4.1m (20.1%)
It might even come back for another series now. |
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Pending confirmation of the actual ITV1 overnights, it's not brilliant that BGT and Life Stories were sub-10m (presumably just) and sub-4m respectively. The weather was appalling yesterday evening, and with the holiday period over, one might have expected more than a 1m uplift for BGT. It's just about back to where the debut episode was, so time will tell if it develops some "mo" this time out.
The weather helped Hare back towards respectability, obviously the first two eps being aired during the afternoon of two successive hot holiday Saturdays didn't help the cause. I think the Beeb should try to stick with the 5.30 slot rather than effectively cull the show already by shunting it back before the news. They obviously spent a bit of time and effort on the format, so to kill it already seems bizarre. I really don't understand why an inoffensive early Saturday family game show is attracting such hatred. Slating BGT's 10 million and praising DSTH's 'respectable' rating. Those really are the rating stories of the night! Would you be backing DSTH if it was on ITV I wonder? |
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Both shows rating lower than SCD, TXF, BGT, IAC and Downton Abbey must say something. People are fed up with the depressing storylines, ham acting and cheap sets and in the case of dear old Corrie( how I hate that nickname) the sheer overkill with episodes and repeat showings.
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I dont understand that, why are 4.1 m people still watching SIng If You Can, is there a drinking game im not aware of?
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whilst I agree that there is an over kill of Corrie episodes, I dont agree that the ratings are showing that viewers are tried of the shows.
However, Coronation St is still a regular banker for ITV and they know it is a cash cow for them. |
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Slating BGT's 10 million and praising DSTH's 'respectable' rating. Those really are the rating stories of the night! Would you be backing DSTH if it was on ITV I wonder? I can only assume that the 2.3m people who watched it switched on by accident and were, literally, too stunned to switch their televisons off.
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I'd sugest that the presenters are popular and people know its light hearted rubbish.
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I wonder if the Sunday Mirror still thinks BGT is in crisis after last night. 10.4 million would suggest a show that is very healthy. I wonder if, like Big Brother at the height of its popularity, the Mirror Group are trying to court controversy by turning against the top show in the ratings. However, dear old Corrie is always beyond criticism.
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Well it does seem in the last couple of years viewers seem to be opting more for dancing and singing contests and on one occasion New Tricks was a million ahead of the two soaps. Also Coronation St has been beaten on a couple of occasions in the ratings by Strictly and Doctor Who. ITV1's factual offerings like The Lakes seem to pull in 4 million against Eastenders which shows this isn't such a dead slot for ITV like it was in the nineties.
However, Coronation St is still a regular banker for ITV and they know it is a cash cow for them. Day BBC 1 BBC 3 Monday 9.06m 740k Tuesday 8.6m 1.14m Thursday 7.8m 1.13m Friday 7.95m 734k Those are not low numbrrs, it was still nice weather earlier in the week as well. That said EE is not at its best currently, and im sometimes surprised by the 8m - 9m ratings, Kirkwood is not doing well as the exec producer. Cant speak for Corrie, but obviously its ratings are lowed than EE, so make of that what you will. I dont know a Soap vs Talent Show comparsion is fair to either, they are two differnt types of show, one airs during the week, one at the weekend, what will we compare next, BBC News to 4 Music? |
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No he would not! He'd be dissing it as the worst programme in the history of British television, just as everybody else in the country is, even those who haven't seen it yet.
I can only assume that the 2.3m people who watched it switched on by accident and were, literally, too stunned to switch their televisons off. ![]() . Didn't make the same mistake this week .
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