I guess when Matthew is on his hols, Gabby can stand in for him, but who would stand in for her, probaly not Vanessa

I see the BBC have had to resort to advertising the fact new episodes are running after all the repeats they air. Sure sign the show is repeated too much


By recent C5 8pm standards good, but shame it didn't get more

Good move, but I hope they don't expose Pointless to the extent that they've exposed The Weakest Link.

I'm surprised. Surely the next twelve months in politics are going to be more interesting than the next twelve months in business?

absolutely not The 6 o'clock news which is about one step below Newsround is themost popular programme of the day.


by what criteria to make that rather sweeping decision? Business & economics drive politics IMO.

Well, we might see a little bit of economic growth, but another twelve months of coalition government could be fascinating.

but no election, a government with a huge majority and no career progression versus promotion to editor role, US economy on the skids, Greece imploding and the UK economy under pressure?

btw fascinating interview on Jeff Randall tonight by Joel Hills with Alexander Lebedev. Thats business news done right!

Another 12 months of dithering, u-turns and general cluelessness? What a scary thought. I'll have nightmares tonight now Pizza.

bring the control freaks back? Maybe we better stick to ratings Robbie & me might gang up on you!

Got to love the Ratings Thread banter.

RTE 1
1 Fair City 20:03 Tue 499
2 Saturday Night With Miriam 22:02 Sat 492
3 FILM: Gran Torino 21:36 Wed 434
4 Prime Time 21:38 Thu 432
5 Prime Time 21:37 Tue 407
6 The Consumer Show 20:33 Tue 403
7 The Frontline 21:38 Mon 399
8 Fair City 19:58 Sun 385
9 Fair City 19:28 Wed 377
10 Eastenders 19:28 Tue 369
11 The Big Money Game 20:40 Sat 356
12 Health Of The Nation 20:01 Wed 333
13 Eastenders 19:30 Thu 327
14 Eastenders 19:59 Fri 326
15 Feargal Quinn's Retail Therapy 20:29 Sun 325
16 Fair City 20:03 Thu 315
17 Eastenders 19:59 Mon 314
18 Off The Rails - The Complete Collection 20:31 Wed 314
19 Creedon's Retro Roadtrip 18:31 Sun 310
20 Disasters 18:59 Tue 287

RTE2
1 The Saturday Game 18:40 Sat 344
2 Blue Bloods 21:56 Tue 196
3 The Sunday Game Live 13:31 Sun 188
4 The Sunday Game 21:30 Sun 159
5 FILM: Hollywood Homicide 21:00 Thu 157
6 CSI 21:56 Wed 142
7 Blue Bloods 21:00 Tue 129
8 Livin With Lucy 22:50 Tue 125
9 Home And Away 18:30 Fri 124
10 Home And Away 18:32 Wed 124
11 Home And Away 18:31 Thu 120
12 Home And Away 18:30 Mon 106
13 CSI 21:01 Wed 103
14 Home And Away 18:30 Tue 96
15 Criminal Minds 21:00 Mon 95
16 FILM: Tin Cup 21:00 Sat 91
17 The Savage Eye 22:45 Mon 91
18 The Simpsons 18:02 Wed 84
19 This Sporting Life 20:32 Wed 82
20 The Big C 22:36 Fri 82

TV3
1 Coronation Street 20:29 Thu 350
2 Coronation Street 20:32 Mon 343
3 Coronation Street 19:29 Fri 342
4 Coronation Street 19:29 Mon 332
5 Coronation Street 20:28 Fri 299
6 Come Dine With Me Ireland 20:59 Thu 294
7 Come Dine With Me Ireland 21:00 Fri 286
8 Come Dine With Me Ireland 21:01 Tue 277
9 Championship Live (GAA) 15:30 Sun 275
10 Emmerdale 19:00 Tue 275
11 Come Dine With Me Ireland 21:02 Mon 267
12 Emmerdale 19:00 Thu 264
13 Emmerdale 19:00 Mon 244
14 Emmerdale 19:00 Fri 243
15 Emmerdale 20:00 Thu 224
16 Celebrity Salon 21:32 Fri 222
17 Emmerdale 19:00 Wed 217
18 Celebrity Salon 21:33 Mon 211
19 Come Dine With Me Ireland 21:00 Wed 210
20 A Girl's Guide To 21st Century Sex 22:30 Tue 209

figures are adults only (16+) and exclude news bulletins which always rate highly

good week for TV3 with CDWM Ireland - maybe some UK tv channel might like to do Celebrity Salon - z list celebs turn hairdressers? you'd never complain about Love Island ever again after watching that I'd bet.

Made in Chelsea has been recommissioned by E4. Second series to air later this year.

Source: E4

Hasn't BBC3 already done something like that before ? Celebrity Scissorhands, I think it was called.

No matter how awful the idea - someone's done it before

No surprise, but I'm hating these "scripted reality" shows becoming a success.

US Ratings: (18-49 demo / Total)
8:00 NBC America’s Got Talent 3.2/11 11.97
FOX MasterChef 1.8/6 4.14
ABC Wipeout 1.7/6 5.33
CBS NCIS (R) 1.3/4 9.15
CW One Tree Hill (R) 0.4/1 0.98

9:00 NBC The Voice (9p-11p) 4.3/12 11.81
ABC 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show (Premiere) 1.9/5 5.55
CBS NCIS: Los Angeles (R) 1.3/4 8.76
FOX Raising Hope (R) 1.2/3 2.60
CW Hellcats (R) 0.3/1 0.79

9:30 FOX Raising Hope (R) 1.0/3 2.34

10:00 ABC Combat Hospital (Premiere) 1.2/3 5.26
CBS The Good Wife (R) 0.7/2 4.78


Wipeout seems a bit low, 101 Ways did OK at 9pm though not spectacular. It'll make episode 2 though.
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I thought The Voice was a huge hit in the US but those numbers are a bit meh really.

The BBC has moved Doctors to 1:40pm (5 mins earlier)
from Monday 4th and will be showing a remastered only fools from 2:10pm

What? Hardly any shows aside from Idol break past the 4.0 barrier, nothing "meh" about them.

its only 12m viewers in total though isn't it, compared to Idol getting high 20m's? Or am i reading those figures incorrctly?

Every year what counts as "strong" gets smaller and smaller. It's all relative.


It seems traditional US TV is making the same mistakes as in the UK with programming that is very narrow in appeal.

"The Voice" on the BBC will surely be a younger fem-friendly show which gets low numbers because men and older viewers will feel alienated.

Unless the BBC decide to destroy the concept completely...

dissapointing

To add to the quality of News shows argument:

When you have BBC News and ITV News competing head-to-head at 10pm every night and BBC News is nearly always comfortably ahead, many nights double ITV News then it must point to BBC News being higher quality in the eyes of the majority.

Thanks For Those Figures George S
Brilliant For Fair City And Miriam, And Gran Torino, Was A Good Film
Weird That The Second Ep Of Blue Bloods Did Better Than The First, Its Doin Well, Maybe People Were Expecting Desperate Housewives
Good For Lucy That Was A Rpt., Was That The Derek Acorah One?
Corrie Does Really Well On Tv3, And I Hear That C4 Are Airing Cdwm Ireland
I Dont Watch Ee On Rte Cos Of The Ads, Thanks Again

In terms of total viewers, it is pretty average. Many shows do better (even AGT at 8pm did better). Among adults 18-49, it is a big hit. Not many shows manage 4.0+ ratings. It's just the biggest hits like Two and a Half Men, Modern Family, Glee, NCIS and Dancing With The Stars - and even those shows don't always hit those numbers.

The Voice's audience profile has changed significantly as well - early episodes skewed much younger.

1.01 - 11.8m (5.1)
1.02 - 12.6m (5.7)
1.03 - 10.5m (4.7)
1.04 - 10.0m (4.5)
1.05 - 8.5m (3.8)

1.06 - 14.4m (4.9)
1.07 - 12.3m (4.6)
1.08 - 12.3m (4.6)
1.09 - 11.8m (4.3)

In the first 5 episodes, it averaged 10.7m and a 4.8 rating - meaning around 60% of its audience were aged 18-49.

When it started taking an America's Got Talent lead-in as of episode 6, the total audience grew. The show has averaged 12.7m in the past 4 weeks but the proportion of adults 18-49 is down to 48% (a 4.6 average).

The show is a big hit - the thing against it is that after that second episode, expectations rose and there was a feeling that it might be massive. But that hasn't really happened. The ratings are generally steady week-to-week after that 3rd week drop. Not building towards the final but not dropping either.

Tonight the roles are reversed. The Voice airs at 8pm (or whenever Obama finishes) and AGT from 9pm as a 2 hour show. So it'll be interesting to see if the audience profile changes again.

THE BEEB MAY AS WELL, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO REPLACE THE WL WITH SOMETHIN

GOOD FOR LUTHER, ITS REALLY GOOD, I HOPE THAT ITS RECOMMISSONED
RZT, CAN YOU POST THE WHITECHAPEL RATINGS 2MORROW, THANKS IN ADVANCE

Cant see Luther coming back, its not that its a bad show but Idris Elba is too big for it.