Its not freakish enough for C4 - it would be Mutant Baby Hospital if it was on 4....

It could easily fit on BBC1 or Five though

Do we know when Gavin Henson's The Batchelor UK is starting on Five?

I have a feeling it might be so awful as to attract quite high ratings.

Aren't there 3 more Wallenders due later this year/early next? Scheduled well, that should be 3x 5.5-6m.

[EDIT: a quick Google suggests there are six new ones coming, but won't start shooting until this autumn]

If by the African one you mean The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the pilot did well but the series bombed and was cancelled after one season. It was largely paid for by HBO anyway, so it was US ratings which proved decisive.

The 1990s ITV version of Maigret, although recently a staple on ITV3, was a flop at the time (partly because it was in a very competitive timeslot) and also was axed after one season - even though at the time ITV had clearly hoped it would match the success of Poirot, its other Sunday night period drama. The much earlier (50s/60s) black and white version of Maigret was a hit at the time, though.

Zen has been rightly cited as a drama which did reasonably well, but got axed. There's also Wallander of course, which in its Kenneth Branagh version has been renewed a couple of times and in its Swedish (original) version has done good business on BBC4 - where (against very different ratings criteria) foreign sourced detective dramas (The Killing, Spiral, Inspector Montalado) have all done pretty well.

Take a look at that Glee rating, because that's the last time you'll see it so high!

The issue for BBC One seems to be that they rely on one-off serials much more than they did a few years ago - and a lot of their commissions for late 2011 and 2012 look to be similar. Even many of their returnable dramas seem to only get 3-6 episodes a time as well, for various reasons. Sherlock, Wallander, George Gently, Garrows Law. etc. all pull at least solid numbers (much better than 'solid' in Sherlock's case) but its difficult for them to make that much of a ratings impact when the 'series' is over three weeks after it begins.

In terms of longer series, they always seem to leave an awful lot riding on a couple of commissions: Luther was evidently very important to them last year (and didn't do as well as they hoped) - and The Body Farm will be this autumn.

Indeed. Same with E4's 7.7% share of viewing by 16-34 year olds yesterday. They won't beat that any time soon!

They put C5 to shame in this demo, which polled a lowly 3.4% in comparison. It really will be fascinating to see if BB changes anything because at the moment young people generally (especially women) aren't fond of C5's output. If they can address this with shows like BB and The Bachelor then suddenly it's game on in the ratings race with Channel 4.

Thats clearly the C5 plan - to become more like C4 of the early 2000's. They may well see the Total Viewers share % fall but the the increase to the 16-34 share % may make them more cash. Will be interesting to see if C4 responds (the management seem to be asleep at the wheel for the last year though)

In case anyone hasn't heard yet, UKTV have announced they are launching Really on Freeview in August.

Interesting move. It's been rumoured for a long time that UKTV would bring another one of their channels FTA. Personally I'd have preferred something like Watch though.

It will replace Dave Ja Vu on channel 20. Good move because Dave's ratings will probably go up and it will boost Really's ratings no end - currently it's one of their lowest rated channels.

Hopefully they will beef up the content a bit as well, they did when Dave (formerly UKTVG2) went FTA.

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Nothing much to say in the ratings last night except for 9pm doc on ITV1 doing alot better than I expected and some very good soap figures there for June.

Very good deal for Channel 5. Saturday night in the middle of Summer is 'dead TV' really and I would be surprised if it was not above 1.5m.

Strong night for ITV1. Corrie had a strong lead over EE, Emmerdale put in another solid performance & The Waltons performed very well-and no-one thought ITV would gat over 4m this week! I reckon Baby Hospital should do better than some of their other Tuesday offerings and should be ~3m I think.

Ch5 will be relieved they made 1m between 8-10pm and the 10pm films perform well, but they will be hoping The Restaurant Inspector doesn't fall any further really. I know it had heavy factual competition last night, but it shouldn't really fall below 1m. I'm really enjoying it and it's a good idea to start it straight after Hotel Inspector. It fills the gap left by the viewers who watched HI.

Home & Away also performed well last night rounding up to 1m and beating Hollyoaks. It was probably the best episode in a while too. A strong 5* figure may see it down tonight though.

Why? Spartacus, Game of Thrones, Hawaii 5-0, Broadwalk Empire have all broken the 1 million mark on Sky1/Atlantic. Bones regulary pulled in decent figures. Whilst theres little chance of it recording those 2.5 million figures again it can still top the 1 million mark, i think the drop in quality this season will be more of an offputting factor then it moving to Sky1

curious as to why ITV passed on it or weren't offered it? Is t a money issue or down to Fincham who is known to dislike boxing?

I'm sure the consolidated and aggregated will at least equal E4's overnights.

Sky published figures of 2.6m for Mad Dogs and that was the first episode of an unknown quantity.

I would hazard a guess that the majority of Glee viewers have Sky/Virgin already (even if kids currently watch it in their rooms on Freeview).

Students and the like will be able to watch it on their parents' Sky Go if they're away from home.

More bad news for Family Guy HD viewers.

BBC HD has just Tweeted

I wonder where ITV will go with it next, and who they'll choose to host the shows...


Popstar to Dolestar hosted by an ex X Factor contestant?

Pornstar to Popstar to Soapstar with Suzanne Shaw?

we've already had Popstar to Eurovision star (x two)

Lol.

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I'm glad we finally got Sunday's ratings last night. I checked back without logging in.

I'm trying to remember what I predicted for The Waltons. I made my prediction higher than I initially intended because I remembered what George wrote. I still don't think I went high enough, though.

4.3m. Just outside the DSRPG scoring zone!

The average prediction was 4.0m, so it caught a lot of people out.

Surprisingly high for ITV's documentary last night. Maybe ITV's 'cheapo factual summer' as many were writing it off as a few days ago, might actually produce a few decent ratings.

Low for Case Histories, the BBC will have been expecting more than that with no drama competition.

BBC1 had a fairly poor evening all round with EastEnders again quite a bit lower than Coronation Street, especially as Dan said it was a major episode.

Considering Case Histories only had 4m on Sunday, it would be unrealistic to expect it to jump 1m or 2m.

Ah! Not good enough, then!

In Nov 2001 BBC1 did a programme on The Waltons Coming of Age which was on a Wednesday night at 9pm - that got 7.77m in final numbers. It lost out though to a Bond movie "The World Is Not Enough" which got 9.8m. Millionaire that night at 8pm got 10.76m