They're repeats.

Lucas and Walliams aren't really a double act, they're more than French and Saunders and The Two Ronnies who were performers who worked together and had their own careers.

Presuming they mean primetime shares in "BARB week" from Monday to Sunday:

Week Ending 13th June 2010
07/06 - 5.6% (+1: 0.8%) = 6.4%
08/06 - 7.0% (+1: 0.9%) = 7.9%
09/06 - 12.6% (+1: 1.1%) = 13.7%
10/06 - 9.2% (+1: 1.0%) = 10.2%
11/06 - 5.8% (+1: 1.0%) = 6.8%
12/06 - 4.8% (+1: ~1.0%) = 5.8%
13/06 - 8.2% (+1: 0.9%) = 9.1%
Average = 7.60% (+1: 0.96%) = 8.56%

Week Ending 12th June 2011
06/06 - 6.5% (+1: 0.8%) = 7.3%
07/06 - 4.8% (+1: 0.8%) = 5.6%
08/06 - 6.5% (+1: 1.3%) = 7.8%
09/06 - 6.0% (+1: 1.2%) = 7.2%
10/06 - 7.6% (+1: 1.0%) = 8.6%
11/06 - 9.4% (+1: 1.2%) = 10.6%
12/06 - 6.4% (+1: 0.9%) = 7.3%
Average = 6.74% (+1: 1.03%) = 7.77%

Only Channel 4 could say that 7.8% is higher than 8.6%... if they do mean all day shares, then it means its daytime is performing better y/o/y, which I think is surprising.

I wasnt going to go like that, but I WAS expecting Torchwood, not just hoping, and ive spoken about the BBCs scheulding of Doctor Who recently. There are times when the BBC can see a gift horse, and ignore it.


I hope they will make another series, I would be surprised if they dont.


I was going to mention this.

Ive enjoyed the radio series on Radio 2 and always hoped they would make a TV show, loving that they uploaded the pilot (thank you very much iPlayer) even if some of it is taken from the radio series (but its a pilot so I forgive)

the only problem I have is that Matt doesnt seem quite right sitting down, I think its the suit and the fact hes a larger guy, also the show feels more BBC 2 than BBC 1, but all that said I plan on watching it.

Eagle Eyed Forumers will have seen that New Tricks is back throughout the summer, no day just yet, but first week of July !!! It ran throughout the summer a couple of years ago when it got it's highest figures...

A tad premature this boastful press release so early into the season. I think it's kinda weak that they brought up the Comedy Gala in that context. Yes, it rated very well, especially for a Friday where ITV's light entertainment programmes regularly flop, but it was just a one off show so it won't see them through the summer. The telling part is going to be August onwards. C4 knows that and my feeling is they are more than a bit nervous, hence them desperately latching onto the smallest bit of good news they can find.

My forecast for C4 this summer is some brightness early, with clouds gathering as we get towards the middle of the period, and the latter part stormy and wet.

In this day and age 700k (+18k HD) in the overnights on BBC Two at 10.40pm on a Saturday night is quite respectable.

It got another 18k on HD?

Fascinating. Truly fascinating....

Seeing as we've been doing UK daytime ratings - I've not posted the non-primetime numbers for the US in a while. As has been the case for a long time, NBC dominate in most areas although the late night performance has taken a hit since the Conan debacle. NBC have fewer soaps because they ditched some to extend The Today Show.

Breakfast Shows:
NBC - The Today Show - 5,588,000 (2.0)
ABC - Good Morning America - 4,542,000 (1.4)
CBS - The Early Show - 2,196,000 (0.7)

The demo for breakfast is adults 25-54 - ratings for most recent week available.

ABC boast in their latest press release that the gap betwen GMA and The Today Show is the lowest in 4 years. While most breakfast shows air 7-9am, The Today Show goes on to 11am (changing hosts along the way).

Evening News:
NBC Nightly News - 7,849,000 (1.8)
ABC World News - 6,690,000 (1.4)
CBS Evening News - 5,511,000 (1.2)

Demo is 25-54, ratings are the most recent week available.

Late Night (2010-11 Season Averages):

11.35pm:
ABC - Nightline - 4.0m (1.0)
NBC - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - 3.9m (1.0)
CBS - The Late Show with David Letterman - 3.6m (0.9)

12.05am:
ABC - Jimmy Kimmel Live - 1.7m (0.5)

12.35am:
NBC - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 1.8m (0.6)
CBS - Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - 1.8m (0.5)

1.35am:
NBC - Last Call with Carson Daly - 1.0m (0.4)

Demo is adults 18-49

Soaps:
CBS - The Young and The Restless - 4.7m (1.5)
NBC - Days of Our Lives - 2.3m (1.0)
ABC - General Hospital - 2.3m (1.0)
ABC - One Life to Live - 2.5m (0.9)
ABC - All My Children - 2.3m (0.8)
CBS - The Bold and the Beautiful - 2.8m (0.8)

The demo is women 18-49, ratings from most recent week (GH and B&B both hit all time lows)

One Life to Live and All My Children have already been cancelled. General Hospital might not have long either as ABC are cutting another hour from daytime and bringing in Katie Couric's syndicated show for their owned and operated local stations.

First Run Syndication:
1. Judge Judy - 9.15m
2. Wheel of Fortune - 8.83m
3. Jeopardy - 7.50m
4. Entertainment Tonight - 5.02m
5. Inside Edition - 4.11m
6. Judge Joe Brown - 3.49m
7. Dr Phil Show - 3.44m
8. Live with Regis & Kelly - 3.19m

Ratings for most recent week available (first week after Oprah). Two and a Half Men (across multiple showings) attracts 8.78m viewers a day, Family Guy pulls 7.06m.

Syndication ratings are average daily ratings - but they are a gross of each days ratings rather than each individual broadcast (a boost to shows like Judge Judy & TAAHM which are often shown more than once a day).

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/200...ur-charts/896/

Overnights. Even when it was shunted to 11.40pm it was getting 70k in the consolidated.

right, so This morning is aimed at housewives aged between 25 and 44. it just so happens that the major ratings bureaux do not cover such a demographic. The choices are: HW 16 - 34, HW 16 - 44, HW 35 - 54, then a few ABC1 demos.

Please let me know which you'd like to have and i'll gladly provide some data

this ridiculous talk is nothing more than the usual talk on this thread, it just seems people dont like the facts being brought into discussions

What sort of share/viewing do the local breakfast shows get compared to the big three networks?

I used to love Steve Edwards on Good Day LA.

It makes me think of Dave Gorman's Genius which went from Radio 4 to BBC2 (with only limited success).

I've enjoyed the episodes of TMLA that I remembered to listen to (10pm on a Saturday night is an awkward slot for me for radio) but I'm not sure it's TV material and particularly not BBC1 - unless they're lining it up for a 10.35 slot.

there is no question it isnt right for BBC 1, but I think it is a good fit for BBC 2.

I do however think it can be made to work on TV, the clips on the accent bit works, but im less sure about the "useless talent" bit, whilst it might be nice to see the guest out of their chairs, doing that regularry is hardly going to a banker week in week out.

Interesting that the Flynns was pretty much static, almost matching the debut last week.

97% retention and its week-on-week drop was probably in proportion to that experienced by Waterloo Road before it and The Apprentice after it.

Good night for BBC1. In With The Flynns seems to have stablisied due to the lack of junction on other channels, unlike Life of Riley. Waterloo Road did very well and The Apprentice is having another strong series. ITV1 did ok; the likes of Marple would be getting nearer 6m on a Sunday night but obviously it's good filler for Wednesday's.

Writer Steven Moffat contradicts Danny Cohen on Twitter regarding Dr Who's scheduling...
"The scheduling of Dr Who has got NOTHING to do with Sherlock".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13784334

the BBC reallly needs to gets its staffs twitter use under control, or at least on message.

The story is rubbish, Danny Cohen made a joke that there wasn't going to be a full series because he was so busy with sherlock and a dumb journo thought he was being serious.



Yeah clearing up false reports is so wrong

After you discuss the numbers for Breakfast and Daybreak so often and after the US numbers for Breakfast shows, here are the german numbers from yesterday. Perhaps someone is interested in.

ZDF Morgenmagazin (05:30 - 09:00)

ARD: 410.000 (11.6 %)
ZDF: 770.000 (22.1 %)

Both channels show exact the same show. One week is the ARD the broadcaster, the next week is it the ZDF.

Sat1 Frühstücksfernsehen (05:30 - 10:00)

470.000 (13.1 %)

RTL Punkt 6 (06:00 - 07:30)

520.000 (15.6 %)

Unfortunately I've never really seen any local information - the only time I can recall breakdowns for local markets is in sporting events where they'll list the top 20 for example. Google doesn't bring up much anyway - aside from the fact that Good Day LA won the breakfast slot in LA in 2003 but fell to fourth in 2004 behind Good Morning America (the local ABC affiliate seems to do well in LA) The Today Show and KTLA's breakfast show. Nothing more recent as far as I can see!

The combined household share for the 3 broadcast networks is 35%.

There's cable news as well - FOX & Friends leading with 1m viewers, MSNBC's Morning Joe on half of that and then HLN, CNN and CNBC under 300k.

Certainly leaves plenty for the local shows to pick up.

how about stopping false reports from coming out at all?

Good for The Apprentice & Waterloo Road - decent shares also. Surprised IWTF remained quite steady - a minor success for BBC1. Never realised how C4 News is such a poor draw, would expect 1m every night at 7pm. Reasonable for C4 though from 8pm-10pm an average of 2.3m is pretty good going for the 4th channel.

That Five snapshot is so poor, the flagship OK! TV scoring less than Pawn Stars is very bad and the News figure is embarassing. I wonder do they have trouble selling ad space from 6.25-8pm? A major channel ought be getting a minimum 5% share hourly from 6pm-10pm - there is something seriously wrong with the programme output.

It will probably be moving back to Mondays as well, leaving Thursday open for Torchwood maybe. I don't think it can be said it's definitely not being shown that week yet. For their bigger programmes the press pack is usually released first, and then it appears in the programme information. That's what happened with The Apprentice, I think, I could be wrong .