Its not an ITV Studios production so ITV would have no overseas share of any revenues

....and it was bumped out of its slot by a repeat* of a four year old BBC Film.

*I assume it was a repeat, or I watched it on Sky Movies.

It's a pale shadow of the old Casualty - it simply shares the name, Charlie (I assume...), shorter/jazzed up opening titles, and the slot.

But it's now a 50 week a year soap, not a Saturday night drama "event". It's years since I watched it.

I think some of the BSI must have cut their teeth in the Big Break era, given how often it clashed with snooker on BBC2 (Virgo often commentating on a live match whilst refereeing on BBC1)...

same diseases, same staged accidents (these actors would be useless at insurance scams), same miracuolus cures, same hammed up soappy drama in the wards.

Some ratings from Attentional:

BBC One
22:35 - Poor Kids: 2.5m (19.5%)

Channel 4
21:00 - The Fairy Jobmother: 1.3m (5.8%)
* +1: 245,792 (1.4%)

Channel 5
21:00 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 2.3m (10.0%)

BBC Three
21:00 - Our War: 1.3m (6.0%)
* above slot average by 183%
22:40 - Angry Boys: 597,283 (4.2%)
23:10 - Angry Boys: 461,500 (4.4%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Botany: a Blooming History: 335,608 (1.5%)

Very good rating for Our War, which was 183% above the slot average, beating Channel 4 in the process.

I reckon you watch more BBC1 output than I do.


I don't think Our War was quite as watchable or engaging as I thought it might have been. I drifted off after half an hour. So 1.3m is pretty good really, for what was quite difficult viewing. I did feel the positive coverage and BBC news plugs would have given it even more than that though.

Decentish figure for Angry Boys. Could be a cult BBC3 hit - watched the first one and thought it quite amusing, if coarse, but couldn't be bothered watching a second instalment back to back. Why do they do this with new shows?

purely for research purposes, and for endurance training



It was quite hard to watch (not a criticism of the show, more of a criticism of the futility of the mission)

Wonder if they are any from ITV? seems quite here.

Junior Doctors 3.09m
Injustice 4.27m (18.84%); 147,100 (0.83%) ITV1+1
Country House Revealed 1.39m (6.1%); 126,400 (0.56%) BBC HD

ITV's big new drama not getting the ratings it deserves...? (pardon the laboured pun )

Not great against an instant repeat of a recent BBC3 documentary which did quite well first time round anyway.

Terrific for a Tuesday night when normally ITVs audience go out en masse

Injustice is getting exactly the ratings it deserves, in fact i'm suprised its that high after its utterly boring first ep.

It's a good job ITV1 did have "Injustice" in its schedule as the rest of the night was rubbish....

Animal Kingdom 2.4m / 12% (2.5m inc +1)
Countrywise 2.4m / 11.2% (2.5m inc +1)

They've destroyed Countrywise by extending it to an hour and playing it on a Tuesday.

On C4, Four Rooms improved a little - no doubt due to weaker competition (1.1m....1.3m/ 5.4% inc HD and +1), but that's still nowhere near good enough to warrant a second series.

On BBC1, Eastenders got 8.3m/ 41.3%, while Holby got
5.4m/ 25.4%.

Is Injustice bad? I haven't seen it, but if it got 4m with no competition, what do you think it will get this evening?

This time last year Millionaire was getting about 3.5m at 8pm and people were calling for that to be axed.

I do think Countrywise was an experiment - its not working so try something different after its run and CW can easily go back to a 30 minute format.

Perhaps they should have called it "Justice", then?


"Countryunwise"?




Haha, (unintentional) quote of the day there George. "Try something different" indeed. Rip-off some other format you mean.

This is ITV!

From the BBCista that brought us Upstairs Downstairs, Just William, and is now threatening us with an X Factor spolier.

Pot, kettle, sir

Eh?

Surely you don't think i'm the Controller of BBC1, do you?

I know you've never once denied that you work for ITV, but I will happily rebut that particular charge!

Robbie, if the BBC aren't paying you, you are being robbed

Tuesday 7th June Overnights
BBC One
13:45- Doctors: 1.49m (21.5%)
19:30- EastEnders: 8.33m (41.3%)
20:00- Holby City: 5.43m (25.4%)
21:00- Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands: 3.09m (13.6%)
22:35- Poor Kids: 2.46m (19.5%)

BBC Two
19:00- Britain's Secret Seas: 1.16m (6%)
20:00- Springwatch: 2.61m (12.3%) inc HD
21:00- The Country House Revealed: 1.52m (6.7%) inc HD
22:00- Lead Balloon: 1.16m (5.9%)

ITV1
19:00- Emmerdale: 6.58m (35.4%) , +1: 222k (1.1%)
19:30- Animal Kingdom: 3.01m (11%)
20:00- Countrywise: 2.39m (11.2%)
21:00- Injustice: 4.28m (18.8%) , +1: 147k (0.8%)

Channel 4
18:30- Hollyoaks: 800k (4.6%)
20:00- Four Rooms: 1.15m (5.4%) , +1: 107k (0.5%)
21:00- The Fairy Jobmother: 1.32m (5.8%) , +1: 246k (1.4%)
22:00- Jamie's Food Revolution Hits Hollywood: 870k (5%) , +1: 104k (1.1%)

Channel 5
13:45- Neighbours: 685k (9.9%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.29m (9.9%)
18:00- Home and Away: 828k (5.2%)
19:00- England v Sri Lanka: Test Highlights: 648k (3.4%)
20:00- Supersize Grime: 738k (3.5%)
21:00- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 2.29m (10%)
22:00- CSI: Miami: 1.33m (7.4%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 22.5%
ITV1: 15.8% (+1: 0.5%)
BBC Two: 7.3%
Channel 5: 6.5%
Channel 4: 4.8% (+1: 0.8%)

Ratings include HD and are tape-checked where necessary

Multichannel
BBC Three
21:00- Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan: 1.34m (6%)
* peak: 1.74m at 22:05
22:10- EastEnders: 934k (5%)
22:40- Angry Boys: 597k (4.2%)
23:10- Angry Boys: 462k (4.4%)
00:25- Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan: 240k (7.36%)

BBC Four
21:00- Botany: a Blooming History: 336k (1.5%)

Dave (inc +1)
21:00- Gavin and Stacey: 485k
21:30- Not Going Out: 437k

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 283k (1.5%)
21:00- Smallville: 458k (2%) , +1: 140k (0.79%)
* highest rating for show since 6 March 2006
22:00- The Cleveland Show: 246k (inc +1)

Film4 (inc +1)
18:30- Star Trek IV: 316k
21:00- Walk The Line: 322k

5*
18:30- Home and Away: 484k (2.8%)

ITV2
21:00- Daylight: 399k (2.1%)

ITV4
21:00- Isle of Man TT 2011: 652k (2.9%)

More4 (inc +1)
22:00- True Stories: 286k

MTV
22:00- Geordie Shore: 362k (2%)

Sky1
21:00- Planet of the Apes: 147k (0.8%)

Sky Living
21:00- Dating in the Dark: 162k (0.7%)

Watch (inc +1)
20:00- Primeval (New): 227k

Sources: Broadcast (1) (2), C4Sales, DS (1) (2)

Very good rating for the TT on ITV4.

I think Poor Kids deserved a 9pm showing to be honest. Maybe it should of been swapped with Junior Doctors.

Injustice is okay, although the first episode was a bit too slow. Its 20% drop last night is similar to other ITV1 drama Monday to Tuesday drops from the last couple of years, so I'm not particularly surprised by that figure. Previous drops being: Collision (-16%), Above Suspicion 3 (-20%), Case Sensitive (-21%), Father & Son (-21%), The Reckoning (-35%).

At the moment, its figures are very similar to what another stripped drama, 'Father & Son', got in the same week last year for its first two episodes (5.3m, 4.2m). Assuming the breakdown was stable last night, I think tonight we'll see Injustice dip to slightly under 4m due to tough competition and then on Thursdays/Fridays, I expect it'll rise a little due to the Corrie lead-in. It's the sort of drama that I suspect will have a relatively high timeshift so I think l can see it ending up with a respectable ~5.5m official average - not great but not terrible either.


I tend to think that non-big hitter/non-stripped programmes airing in that Tuesday 8-10pm zone rate about 25% worse than how they rate in any other slot, especially a Corrie-enhanced slot. For example.:

- Countrywise has seen its figures fall to an average of ~2.7m, previously it was getting ~3.7m on Mondays, so a drop of 27%.
- The Bill averaged 3.7m on Thursday 9pm for its 6 episodes before the switch to Tuesdays, the following six averaged 2.8m - a drop of 24%.
- Millionaire averaged about 3.3m on Tuesdays, whereas on Saturday episodes can get ~4.5m - a drop of ~27%.
- 71 Degrees North had 4.8m on Saturday, on Tuesdays it had 3.4m - a drop of 29%.
- There are other examples too but I can't remember off the top of my head.

So basically, I think if ITV want to get back to averaging 3.5m in that Tuesday 8pm slot, they need to air a programme which normally gets 4.5-5.0m in other, usually "Corrie-enhanced" slots. It would have to be a factual or gameshow programme though, they're not gonna put drama there. At the moment, I can't really think of any ITV factual strands apart from Long Lost Family which gets 4.5-5.0m that would be suitable for a pre-watershed 8pm Tuesday slot. So unless they transfer that to Tuesday 8pm (and accept its figures are gonna take a significant dent but lift the slot average), bring back Millionaire or do something regarding the soaps (which I don't think they should do personally), I can't really see them getting back up to 3.5m in that slot in the near future. The Prince Philip documentary, which got ~4m the other week, would've definitely got 5.0m in a post-Corrie slot IMHO. As for Countrywise, as you say, turn it back into a 30-min show and it'll be back up to 3.5-4.0m in a Corrie sandwich. It seems like they're not taking the same risk with Countrywise Kitchen which is launching soon in a 30-minute format.

Looking to this Autumn How do we all think the big 3 shows will do. Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor and I'm A Celebrity. I Think all three will be down but they will still be huge shows.