I remember an incident in that 1991 series of the Generation Game, where there was some sort of game involving ropes, and Bruce pulled one of the ropes up quite firmly between a male contestant's legs, leaving him with a pained expression on his face.

And the 1992/93 series of Casualty, although famous for its notorious final episode, will be remembered by men of a certain age for the way in which almost every female patient had her breasts exposed during treatment.

Keeping on topic, Gen Game had between 9 and 11m viewers for its 1991 series, and I think Casualty might even have reached 17m at one point in the 1992/93 series.

"BSkyB to raise UK programming spend by 50%"

"Chief executive promises Sky will invest double the amount Channel 4 spends on British productions"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...uk-programming

And some more info from Sky themselves.

Sky announces increased support for Britain’s creative industries

Imagine if someone came up with the idea of a show like Big Break now. Even more amazing that it probably got around 10m viewers!

Anyone know how the ratings went between Brucie leaving and Jim Davidson taking over the Gen Game. Imagine the reaction on here if such a big change of personnel happened now. It's also amazing how popular Jim Davidson was back then!

BBC1 in shock shake up of Sunday schedule. (is it in time for Top Gear starting )

I see Countryfile is being moved to 8pm from Sun 19th June, where it will crush Pop to Op.

What is Fake or Fortune ? - that's on from 7pm on BBC One.

Sports based quizzes were very popular - Big Break, Bullseye, Bruce use to have a show in show in 70's which had a football 'Beat the Goalie' segment in it for cash prizes. (Bruce's Big Night In.) Jim Davison was never mega famous he was just loud, rude and thought he was still funny. he never had the warmth that Bruce had, (oddly I never saw any non-white contestants on GG or BB when Jim hosted.)

always thought it was the BBC trying to do for snooker what Bullseye did for darts.


Antiques Roadshow got higher ratings that CF last week, so I dont quite follow your logic.

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould continue their investigation of remarkable stories lying beneath the surface of paintings. Every picture tells a story and tonight we reveal how a lucky fisherman found a bundle of pictures next to a rubbish tip in Youghal, County Cork in Ireland and have been a loft for many years. Is one of these pictures a piece by one of America's most influential artists, Winslow Homer? And how did it end up in a rubbish tip?

In with the Flynns is by far the worst comedy programme I have had the misfortune of watching in recent times. Astonishingly short of laughs.

It will be close between it and YBF in the ratings I think, say around 3.6-3.9m for IWTF and 3.3-3.6m for YBF.

Wow Robbie thank you! You've brought back lots of happy childhood memories. Loved all of those shows on a cold Saturday night. And of course Live and Kicking in the morning. Fantastic

Although many will have watched out of curiousity, open mouthed. Any decline might not be apparent until next week.

YBF in itself is shocking scheduling really.

I agree - it was dire!

It goes to Cowell of course - it's in 40 countries now. I'm sure in hingsight Cowell is delighted it didn't go ahead as "Paul O'Grady's Got Talent".


Hopefully ITV will be wise enough to realise why it's failing rather than just swing the axe to it. I do think moving the remaining hour-long episodes to a 7.30pm start would improve ratings though.


Digiguide is one thing well worth paying for. As for the ITV schedule (now moved along 15 minutes) - I'm just not sure it's the right slot for Penn and Teller. Indeed arguably switching it with Popstar to Operastar might have boosted both.


Ah, but how many people thought watching a squashed version of EastEnders was watching widescreen TV? It didn't help of course that so many stores had their TV's set up in the manner too.


And not to forget the good old fashioned listings mags too still give prominence to the big five - and I suspect many viewers planning their viewings (rather than channel flicking) probably still go to the TV mag/newspaper first before trying to navigate through an EPG.


As evil as Sky are they've had a pretty strong strategy over the last couple of years when it comes to British productions - possibly boosted by the US networks not really delivering many big new shows in the last couple of years.

Not ratings related but has there been any news for when Torchwood is coming back

Yep.
That was when Saturday tv was actually good.
I remember watching all those Shows Robbie posted and sadly these days we have to make do with Rubbish such as the X factor and don't scare the hare

Live and Kicking was brilliant and this theme tune/opening titles are such classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0jg...eature=related

and then they ruined it with this crap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKm9iQSFgH0

Was meant to be Friday 8th July, but I suspect its now Thursday 7th July as the My Family/Miranda line-up is now on Fridays.

I assume My Family will air at 9:00pm?

Isn't Torchwood going to run across the week again this time?

....and Sky's homemade dramas almost invariably bring in higher ratings than even their top US acquisitions. And then there's the residuals in more repeat rights, DVD and international sales.

Big ratings for Waterloo Road tonight?

Oh I think so and for The Apprentice as Injustice on ITV labours on.

We like Injustice a lot!! But we do timeshift it to the next day.

I'm going for 5.6 million tonight and around 22-25% share.

Waterloo Road deserves huge ratings tonight. Probably the best episode of the show ever.

Link (TVbyTN): http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...viewers/95067/

Link (EW): http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/08/oprah-finale-ratings/

The final ratings of Oprah came in and it attracted 16.4 million viewers! Really impressive for daytime, but no doubt some people expected higher. The final week (including 2 repeat airings, since Oprah finished on Wednesday), attracted 9.9m average. Take the Wednesday finale away and it averaged 8.289m viewers.

The highest rated Oprah episode (http://eonline.com/uberblog/b246225_...mdashjust.html) was in 1993 with "Why I Love Older Women", which had 17.3m viewers.

may I ask why?