i can post the irish ratings for the week ending 5 june if yous are interested
thought S&B would have been higher

It's only week 3. SYTYCD was rating higher at this point, see figures below...

Week 1
Dance - 4.87m (22.6%)
Opera - 4.36m (17.1%) / 3.28m (15.5%)

Week 2
Dance - 3.81m (20.7%)
Opera - 3.82m (15%) / 2.51m (11.6%)

Week 3
Dance - 3.43m (20.1%)
Opera - 3.06m (13.1%) / 2.96m (13.9%)

Obviously Dance hadn't entered its live shows at this point. If we compare the first 3 weeks of live shows, then this is what we get:

Live Show 1
Dance - 3.63m (18%)
Opera - 4.36m (17.1%) / 3.28m (15.5%)

Live Show 2
Dance - 3.56m (19.8%) / 2.98m (13.8%)
Opera - 3.82m (15%) / 2.51m (11.6%)

Live Show 3
Dance - 3.06m (16.7%) / 3.15m (13.9%)
Opera - 3.06m (13.1%) / 2.96m (13.9%)

Very close between them at points, but SYTYCD clearly ahead on audience share.

Any ratings for Graham Norton Friday? Or golf last night?
Thanks

I was joking. It's obviously a dire rating for PSTOS yesterday and and a SYTYCD-esque flop for ITV, although SYTYCD did have a better lead-in (Doctor Who) and easier competition (Sing if You Can) if we're being pedantic. Luckily for ITV it's only 6 weeks rather than the 12 weeks SYTYCD was. They should switch it to the 7pm slot ASAP IMO- clearly it's simply not at acceptable levels for middle of primetime at 8pm.

All very well and good except Sing If You Can rated alright in the end (strangely). As an entertainment show it was more of a rival to SYTYCD than the likes of Countryfile is to PTO I suspect.

But anyway, I thought it was a comparison worth making. It'll be interesting to see what happens in week 4. Channel 4 have another movie premiere and Top Gear returns to BBC Two, hard to see it improving on last night's figures with that competition.

Perhaps people who are channel hopping, find the first midway through and stay for the second?

Channel 5 beat ITV1 in the 16-34 demographic yesterday. Channel 4 was the runaway victor though on commercial TV:

Channel 4 (inc. +1) 11.2%
Channel 5 5.1%
ITV1 4.8%
ITV2 (inc. +1) 4.8%

Meanwhile Sky1 had a memorable night, improving its share by 0.4 share points on last Sunday to 1.4%, beating a few major FTA channels in the process including Film4. I guess the Kylie concert must have gone well?

I would expect that the US Open beat Sky1 last night.

The Graham Norton Show had 3.48m (22.5%). Good rating for Graham, whose rating didn't seem particularly affected by the Alan Carr clash.

Thanks rzt

I don't have the figures, sorry, but you're probably right there.

Good old BBC - airing two of their most popular shows (Countryfile and TG) in direct competition.

Surely the AR spin off should be up against TG, not CF - where there is an obvious cross-over audience. I watch both, and will therefore be giving CF a miss for the next 6 weeks.

any golf numbers yet?

while we wait, the commitmenmt to keep F1 on FTA tv was rather lawyerly worded. A monopsony would be Bernie's worst nightmare. Wonder if Robbie helped or was he chasing ambulances at the time.

Like the bikini, what it revealed was interesting, what it didnt was more so.

Most Watched Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 13.59m - THE ROYAL WEDDING (29/04/11) - BBC1/HD
02 - 12.63m - BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT (04/06/11) - ITV1/HD
03 - 12.56m - CORONATION STREET (14/02/11) - ITV1/HD
04 - 11.42m - EASTENDERS (03/01/11) - BBC1/HD
05 - 10.76m - BBC NEWS (29/04/11) - BBC1/HD

06 - 10.26m - COMIC RELIEF (18/03/11) - BBC1/HD
07 - 10.23m - DANCING ON ICE (09/01/11) - ITV1/HD
08 - 9.68m - THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST (14/05/11) - BBC1/HD
09 - 9.52m - EMMERDALE (13/01/11) - ITV1/HD
10 - 9.11m - SCOTT & BAILEY (29/05/11) - ITV1/HD

11 - 8.86m - DOCTOR WHO (23/04/11) - BBC1/HD
12 - 8.80m - BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS (08/02/11) - C4
13 - 8.80m - COME FLY WITH ME (01/01/11) - BBC1/HD
14 - 8.79m - THE APPRENTICE (10/05/11) - BBC1/HD
15 - 8.69m - WILD AT HEART (09/01/11) - ITV1/HD

16 - 8.50m - SILENT WITNESS (17/01/11) - BBC1/HD
17 - 8.31m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (28/05/11) - ITV1/HD
18 - 8.22m - BENIDORM (25/02/11) - ITV1/HD
19 - 8.10m - MIDSOMER MURDERS (02/02/11) - ITV1/HD
20 - 7.98m - LET'S DANCE FOR COMIC RELIEF (19/02/11) - BBC1/HD

Notes:
- No duplicates: i.e. no BGT/DOI in there twice.
- HD audience included for all programmes airing on HD
- BBC1 HD is bundled in automatically with BBC1
- ITV1 +1 excluded
- Thanks to MattJ and rzt for some of the missing ratings off BARB
- The Royal Wedding and BBC News ratings excludes BBC News as BARB do not have that on their website for that week. Also, The Royal Wedding BBC only.

Most Watched Multichannel Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 2.69m - LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY - MATCH (06/02/11) - Sky Sports 1
02 - 2.63m - GLEE (17/01/11) - E4
03 - 2.25m - CELEBRITY JUICE (19/05/11) - ITV2
04 - 2.00m - HATTIE (19/01/11) - BBC4
05 - 1.99m - BRITAIN'S GOT MORE TALENT (04/06/11) - ITV2

06 - 1.97m - LIVE FORD FOOTBALL SPECIAL (01/03/11) - Sky Sports 2
07 - 1.94m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (12/04/11) - Sky Sports 2
08 - 1.77m - MAD DOGS (03/03/11) - Sky1
09 - 1.72m - EASTENDERS (30/05/11) - BBC3
10 - 1.71m - FAMILY GUY (22/05/11) - BBC3

11 - 1.69m - JUNIOR DOCTORS (15/03/11) - BBC3
12 - 1.57m - THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX (04/05/11) - ITV2
13 - 1.57m - BEING HUMAN (23/01/11) - BBC3
14 - 1.56m - FILM: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (25/04/11) - BBC3
15 - 1.49m - FILM: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (30/04/11) - BBC3

16 - 1.47m - LIVE FORD MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (11/04/11) - Sky Sports 1
17 - 1.45m - GAME OF THRONES (18/04/11) - Sky Atlantic
18 - 1.44m - OUR WAR (07/06/11) - BBC3
19 - 1.43m - LIVE INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL (26/03/11) - Sky Sports 1
20 - 1.41m - MIDSOMER MURDERS (08/01/11) - ITV3

Source: BARB. Excludes +1, Includes HD for Terrestrial Chart. Only 1 programme per 'show', i.e. only one Ford Super Sunday game.

Possibly interesting evidence of "the iPlayer effect"?

9 CASE HISTORIES (MON 2101) 5.56
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12 CASE HISTORIES (SUN 2104) 4.91

http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyT...sOverview?_s=4

K

Aah! Oops!

The Monday episode is from the previous week, I think!!!



K

“It’s crucial to the commercial model of Formula one that TV coverage should remain free-to-air, and therefore universally accessible, and therefore widely consumed and enjoyed by large numbers of viewers – and the BBC delivers that in the UK.

“I think it would be very sad, and most unwise, if the BBC were to disappoint so many millions of British sports fans by axing it.”

Bernie Ecclestone will push to convince the BBC to renew its £200m deal to stay as Formula 1's UK broadcaster. "We want Formula One to stay free to viewers," Ecclestone said. "That is 100%. The BBC have done a great job for us and we like their shows and the people obviously like it because so many are watching. They did warn me that they were facing problems but, so far, nothing more has been said. I hope they want to keep us because it is such a success and I will do my best to keep Formula 1 on the BBC."

Like when the Beeb won back the rights, and as you keep telling us ad nauseum, he did quite well of it that time? And we know ITV are over-payers par excellence when it comes to sporting rights.

Either way, Bernie's backing the Beeb. He knows his people want to see the races, not ads during critical passages, or coverage being bumped to ITV2 so as not to displace Sunday night crime-drama-by-numbers.


Another cracking timeshift though for the Sunday ep - 1.18m.

Good to see both the qualifying and "pigeons in puddles" elements of the F1 coverage made the BBC1 Top 30. And 6.3m for the 4 hours of pigeon coverage on BBC1 on the Sunday, and 6.04m for the BBC2/HD continuation.

Up yours, Richard Brooks of the Sunday Times with your "minority interest, only 2-4m" garbage.

Still at stage 2 I see I doubt anybody would be as stupid as the BBC buyers. As you well know ITV only pay big money when there are other bidders in the market.


Read between the lines and its nothing of the sort. Its a plea to the BBC to play interested to keep the price up.

As we're about half way through the year, let's take a look at the official consolidated series averages for the BBC1 and ITV1 dramas which have aired so far this year. All these figures include HD. In brackets, next to the programme name, is the change compared to the average for the show the previous year:

BBC One
1 – 7.97m – Silent Witness… (+4%)
2 – 7.65m – Doctor Who… (-1%)
3 – 7.30m – South Riding… (NEW)
4 – 7.15m – Lark Rise to Candleford… (+3%)
5 – 7.02m – Waking The Dead… (-1%)
6 – 6.79m – Hustle… (+5%)
7 – 5.85m – Silk… (NEW)
8 – 5.70m – Zen… (NEW)
9 – 5.63m – Case Histories*… (NEW)
10 – 5.35m – Exile… (NEW)

11 – 5.15m – Candy Cabs… (NEW)
12 – 5.11m – Atlantis… (NEW)
13 – 3.79m – Rock & Chips… (-48%)
14 – 3.29m – Outcasts… (NEW)

ITV1
1 – 7.92m (inc +1: 8.09m) – Wild at Heart… (+3/+5%)
2 – 7.78m (8.14m) – Scott & Bailey*… (NEW)
3 – 7.22m (7.60m) – Benidorm… (+11/+16%)
4 – 7.15m (7.41m) – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher… (NEW)
5 – 6.98m (7.35m) – Marchlands… (NEW)
6 – 6.67m (6.95m) – Lewis… (-4/-7%)
7 – 6.63m (6.63m) – Above Suspicion… (-15%)
8 – 6.43m (6.71m) – Midsomer Murders… (+6/+9%)
9 – 6.35m (6.60m) – Vera… (NEW)
10 – 5.78m (5.98m) – Kidnap & Ransom… (NEW)

11 – 5.66m (5.95m) – Injustice… (NEW)
12 – 5.65m (6.02m) – Case Sensitive… (NEW)
13 – 5.45m (5.66m) – Monroe… (NEW)
14 – 5.20m (5.51m) – The Reckoning… (NEW)
15 – 5.01m (5.28m) – The Royal*… (+5/+10%)
16 – 4.93m (4.93m) – Agatha Christie’s Marple*… (-7%)
17 – 4.76m (5.06m) – Law & Order: UK… (-5/-10%)
18 – 4.58m (4.67m) – Primeval… (-6/-8%)
19 – 3.45m (3.79m) – Taggart… (-14/-22%)

All individual episode ratings: http://i53.tinypic.com/2929z4n.jpg

Notes
- * = series which are currently airing so there will be changes to the average once all episodes are broadcast.
- For the ITV dramas, I've put the ITV1+1 included figures in brackets for people who want to see the series averages including +1.
- Some dramas did not air in Scotland so bear that in mind if directly comparing a non-Scotland drama with another drama as the non-Scotland drama would be at an -8% automatic deficit. Examples are: Benidorm, Lewis, Atlantis, Law & Order UK, Marple, Taggart, and a few episodes of Midsomer Murders and Case Sensitive. Waking The Dead also experienced small regional opt-outs for a few episodes which would've depressed its average a little bit.
- The Royal's average is in italics as it's an estimation due to the fact I haven't been able to get the HD numbers yet. So I had an estimate the consolidated HD numbers based on the overnight one and add it onto the SD data. It's pretty accurate though and I'll be able to get the proper full data for it in my next update later this year. Ratings for all other shows are 100% correct.
- The y-o-y comparisons have been adjusted to take into account dramas which may have been fully networked last year but not this year (and vice versa). Therefore the y-o-y drops/gains represent the 'true' drops/gains in the areas it was shown, rather than being skewed by opt-out technicalities.
- Waking The Dead, Benidorm, The Royal y-o-y comparisons done to their last proper series which aired in 2009.
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Analysing it: I'd say it's been a mixed bag for BBC1's dramas thus far in 2011. The returning shows have, in fairness, on the whole held up really well. Key longer-episode shows like SW, DW, Hustle, WTD, LRTC have all either been stable or up y-o-y. Unfortunately though, two of those were their final series and Hustle is set to finish next year. A hefty drop for Rock & Chips, but it was probably going to be its final episode anyway, so not a big loss. They've had mixed success with the new dramas- South Riding was a big hit but it was just a 3-part series which isn't renewable material. Silk did well, their most popular 6-part weeknight series in quite a few years with very consistent ratings and it's coming back so that's good news. Zen also did pretty well but has been axed. Case Histories will most likely drop to ~5.3m come the end of the series, they could bring it back I suppose but I tend to think 5.0-5.5m dramas are 50/50 decisions these days so I'm not sure if they will (actor's availability also an issue). Candy Cabs' 5.15m official average is okay but it shed a lot of viewers during its 3-ep run and it's been axed and of course Outcasts was the major flop new drama series this year. As I said a few days ago, BBC1 could really do with a new 6m+ 6-part series come through soon.

As for ITV1 drama, it's been a strong year so far (especially by their usual standards!). They've launched 9 new dramas, none of the 9 have flopped, 7 did well or really well (over 5.5/6m+), 2 did okay (5.0-5.5m) and a few of those shows have already been (or will almost certainly be) recommissioned. In terms of the returning dramas, key shows like Wild at Heart, Benidorm and Midsomer Murders have built their audiences. Lewis, Above Suspicion and Law & Order UK have dropped but they did face some really tough competition such as Silent Witness and Waking The Dead. Bottom of the pile Taggart has been axed and also Primeval looks certain for the axe too after its drop. That list is only going to look stronger when Autumn comes around with the three D's: Downton Abbey, Doc Martin and DCI Banks. I don't think they're actually launching a new drama series this Autumn so looking ahead to next year, as ever they could do with popular new non-crime drama series but their drama slate as a whole looks much stronger now than 3 years ago.

One thing I would say is that talk about cutting F1 to save BBC4 is ridiculous.

The BBC has to make average cuts of 20% across ALL areas.

If any area is cut by less than 20%, another area has to be cut more.

Now we know BBC spent £261m (*) on sports rights in 2009/10 - note year end is March so that doesn't include World Cup Finals 2010. So it was a regulation year - ie figure not distorted by a big one-off. Indeed the report says a similar amount was also spent the previous year.

So a 20% saving = £52m.

F1 is £40m.

So even if F1 was cut, that would not be (quite) enough to meet the 20% cut required.
And it would STILL mean that a 20% cut would be needed on average everywhere else, including BBC4.

(*) Source - see section 1.2 (9/51) of link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets...rts_rights.pdf

IRISH RATINGS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5 JUNE

RTE ONE
1. PRIME TIME INVESTIGATES(MON 9.30) 454K
2. PRIME TIME (TUES 9.30) 426K
3. FAIR CITY (TUES 8.00) 423K
4. FAIR CITY (SUN) 417K
5. FEARGAL QUINN'S (SUN) 415K
6. REELING IN THE YEARS (SUN) 410K
7. THE CONSUMER SHOW (TUES 8.30) 392K
8. PRIME TIME (THURS 9.30) 375K
9. WOULD YOU BELIEVE? (SUN 10.25) 374K
10. THE FRONTLINE (MON 10.25)

RTE TWO
1.EURO 2012 (I SAT IRE V MAC) 456K
2. BLUE BLOODS (TUES 9.00) 275K
3. GAA LIVE (SUN) 264K
4. CSI NY (WED 9.00) 247K
5. GAA LIVE (SAT) 226K
6. GREY'S ANATOMY (TUES 9.00) 178K
7. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (THURS) 156K
8. HOME AND AWAY (MON 6.30) 142K
9. HOME AND AWAY (WED 6.30) 14OK
10. CSI NY (WED) 136K

They appear to have been dented by BGT that week, there is a lot of sunday shows and late night ones.

CSI: NY did really well. Was that the last episode in the season?

not sure it might have been . The one with Justin Bieber aired last tuesday.
thanks for posting, i posted last weeks on sat and can post them weekly if people are interested

great post rzt, what alarmed me is that I've only watched Doctor Who and Exile from the BBC list whereas on ITV I've watched nine. I'm loving ITV drama at the mo, and enjoying Whitechapel on itv3 when is it returning?LOVE Downton Abbey also.
BBC do have Luther and Upstairs Downstairs to add to the list which I enjoy also.
ITV also have Single Handed which has already aired on RTE, it's good aswell. Maybe it'll replace S&B in the sunday slot