Digiguide shows This Morning as usual for the week 18-22 July. So It will prob continue through the summer just with different presenters.

Here's a Top Gear ratings graph which I'll cross-post here for anyone interested: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7463/topgeard.png

And the yearly averages are as follows:

2002 - 3.30m
2003 - 3.61m
2004 - 3.80m
2005 - 4.32m
2006 - 4.54m
2007 - 7.03m
2008 - 6.73m
2009 - 6.96m
2010 - 6.51m
2011 - 6.99m

All official ratings. Anyone thinking Top Gear's about to decline is badly wrong, as it timeshifts a lot in the officials. Last night's overnight may have been poor, but it will still timeshift to ~6m.

Thanks for those figures. It certainly contradicts the received wisdom that its a show in ratings decline. I expect 2011 to fall from there - it'd only be natural that a July run rates lower than a February one - but it'll still be within half a million of TG's peak in 2007 (which was the year after the Hammond crash, IIRC).

Goes to show how effective Hammond's crash was on boosting the series.

Last week's show only went up to 5.27m in the BARB chart from 5.14m in the overnights. Do the above ratings include iPlayer as well as otherwise it's not going to get close to 6m?

Anyone remember the eighties version of Top Gear, which was a classic worthy but dull car show that pulled in 1.5 million viewers on BBC Two. It's amazing how this one time television version of What Car has now become a ratings hit that can rival EE in the ratings.

5.27m (BBC2) + 0.95m (BBC HD) = 6.22m

Edit: This doesn't include iplayer which is usually in excess of 1m requests within 7 days.

iPlayer not included.

Thanks, missed that they listed those separately on the BARB site. Thought it was strange it hadn't gone up much

I think ITV1 are going through motions now on Sundays: The Royal will be gone forever soon and it looks like PTOS will die an unmourned death as well. I really think ITV1 is the wrong channel for an opera based reality show as most opera buffs don't like ITV and reality shows and vice versa.

In fairness it did a lot better than that in its prime. It often got 5m plus for its Thursday 8.30 showing and then a couple mill more for the in-week repeat. It regularly topped BBC2s Top 30 with a combined 7-8m audience.

I do though still miss those heady days of William Wollard and Chris Coffey before that young whippersnapper from Yorkshire with a perm showed up!

Not interested in seeing The Mentalist. Any word on when Law & Order: Criminal Intent's 8th season will premiere on Five?

Why is everyone so about the Wimbledon Men's final figure?. It gets around about that same rating every year.

I got the ratings info from Clarkson's biography. However, I was convinced that it did better than what the biog said as it was the only regular car show in the 80s.

Eh?

I haven't seen one attributed to the Wimbledon figure, a few 'very good' and 'brilliant', that's about it. It was on the high end of what I expected, but nothing huge like.

Popstar to Operastar's results did well, beating the actual main show.

It usually gets discussed quite extensively when it is the other way round.

I don't have any dates at the moment, but can confirm the rights to Season 8 of the programme kick in this month. I think it'll return the same week as CSI: Miami, so end of July. I hope they will schedule it on Saturdays alongside S.V.U.

DS has updated. Penn and Teller only got 3.2m with +1.

I wonder why it's lost a million viewers in 2 weeks. The reaction has been the best I can remember for a new LE show but it's falling into flop territory fast.

It didn't do well though Andy! ITV News would have performed better there.

As D.M.N. pointed out this boost only came about because BBC One were midway through a drama at the time and it had a strong lead-in (which it still managed to mostly squander).

In spite of the weather some shows are showing really impressive consolidated viewing figures.

w/e June 26 2011

Eastenders (Tue) 8.83m
The Apprentice (Wed) 8.78m
Luther (Tue) 6.11m
Coronation Street (Mon) 9.41m
Top Gear (Sun) 6.22m
The Apprentice - You're Fired (Wed) 3.60m

Penn and Teller didn't even make it to 3m without plus one, pulling in 2.88m. The Marriage Ref needs to be shelved now, because frankly it's a disgrace to the channel. Casualty only pulled in 4.94m; that seems low even for the summer - against the dire opposition it has I expected it to tip the 5m mark.

Scott and Bailey performed well, and if Popstar to Operastar could've held the kind of figure it recorded at 10pm it may have just been a poor returnee instead of a total flop. Obviously it benefited from weak opposition on BBC1. Top Gear struggled even counting the hot weather as a factor. Transformers did reasonably well.

It's a cartoon! It doesn't matter!

They used to, I think in the days of the squares and stripes branding.


Jake will be getting a slap on the wrist then. And no surprise Long Lost Family is returning - might it get a return as early as the autumn?


The Marriage Ref has to go now, though Penn and Teller doesn't look too bad when you see the figure in the context of what the BBC was getting that night, although I don't think it's going to be returning. As I've always thought it would be better suited to airing in specials at points during the year rather than as a weekly series.


It's due to be on from the 18th - I'm sure they just meant it is "their" last show.

Would be interesting to see how the demos for This Morning differ when Ruth and Eammon host as I'd have thought they'd attract an older audience than Phil and Holly, so although they are their relief presenters they're an odd choice for the holidays really.

More Saturday ratings, first bunch here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=2991

BBC One
19:10 - Total Wipeout: 2.96m (18.2%)

ITV1
18:45 - You've Been Framed!: 3.05m (21.1%)
* +1: 134k
19:15 - Odd One In: 3.20m (20.0%)
20:00 - Penn and Teller: Fool Us: 2.88m (15.3%)
* +1: 294k

Five
19:50 - CSI: NY: 824k (4.5%)
21:50 - Law and Order: SUV: 1.29m (6.9%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 20.1%
ITV1 - 12.9% (+1: 0.8%)
Channel 4 - 6.1% (+1: 0.8%)
BBC Two - 5.8%
Channel 5 - 4.9%

Source: DS. Ratings are tape-checked and include HD.

Anyone have the In It to Win It rating? Based on the 'above 4m' tweet from yesterday, I think about 4.2m (22.3%).

Quite scary thought that Odd One In may get recommissioned again, although the raw figure is crap, it hit 20% share.

Looking at those figures ITV1 may as well stick You've Been Framed in the heart of primetime! I think Penn & Teller would do better in an earlier slot.