Really surprised the Harry Potter programme didn't do better! Its been trending on twitter since 7.30 last night, its still trending now!

Just shows trending topics mean absolutely nothing in the tv world!

Harry Potter clip show tanked as I predicted. Just not strong enough for 2 hours of prime.

Terrible for Beaver Falls.

BBC1
Breakfast 1.5m 35.4%
BBC News at Six 4.1m 25.9%
Regional News and Weather 5.2m 30.3%
Olympics 2012: One Year to Go 3.2m 18.4%
The Great British Weather 3.4m 18.7%
Sherlock 3.4m 16.0%
BBC News at Ten 4.2m 23.1%
Regional News and Weather / The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws 3.6m 22.4%
Not Going Out 1.8m 14.3%
Him & Her 0.9m 10.0%

BBC2
Escape to the Country 1.0m 7.8%
Eggheads 1.5m 9.7%
Celebrity Eggheads 1.4m 8.2%
Rick Stein's Spain 1.3m 7.4%
Top Gear 1.4m 7.2%
The Code 1.6m 7.3%
Never Mind the Buzzcocks 1.2m 6.4%
Newsnight 0.6m 4.6%

ITV (inc ITV+1)
Daybreak 0.6m 16.9%
Lorraine 0.9m 15.0%
ITV News & Weather 2.9m 16.5%
Emmerdale 6.4m 35.5%
The Corrie Years 4.2m 22.7%
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments 2.9m 13.3%
ITV News at Ten & Weather 2.2m 11.7%
Nature's Fury 1.2m 9.3%

C4 (inc C4+1)
The Simpsons 1.4m 7.7%
Hollyoaks 1.0m 5.6%
Channel 4 News 0.6m 3.1%
Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 1.8m 8.5%
24 Hours in A&E 3.0m 12.5%
Murdoch: The Mogul Who Screwed the News 0.9m 4.9%
The Killing 0.2m 1.7%

Five
5 News at 5 0.6m 6.0%
Neighbours 1.1m 8.4%
Home and Away 0.8m 5.2%
OK! TV 0.3m 1.8%
5 News at 7 0.1m 0.7%
Garden ER 0.5m 3.0%
The Removal Men: Pickfords 1.2m 6.0%
NCIS 1.2m 5.8%

Here's a question - when was the last time ITV was under 3m for every 9pm weekday slot in one week? 3 out of 3 so far....

Absolutely dire for Potter.

Not 100pct sure as that HP rating is an average for 2 hours. It might've been ahead in the 9pm hour. Really close between the 2 channels though.

Olympics 2012: One Year to Go 3.2m
Wonder if this was worth the 150 staff sent out to cover it?

Hello! Could you please tell me the ratings for last nights Dinner Date please, 5pm, ITV. Thanks!

When you look at it from a demos perspective I think ITV will be happy though. Its the same story as P&T "tanking".

Does anyone know the answer to the question above?

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she has done very well, and had the kind of luck better actress never have.

That said she was always a good actress, and this role seems to really fit her.

This is an amazing get for her first Hollywood role.

8 O Clock Heroes continue to do well for Five, cant help but wonder if the shield is meant to rip off Captain Amercia.

Probably a few more than usual I would have thought

Ha yeah, that was my thinking! :P Im sure I read before that it had around 1.4 million in a previous week!

It launched on Virgin, July 20th, 2010, so now in its second year. I would expect the contract to be for twelve month periods..

Now here's something that I talk about a lot. Never believe for one second that just because something trends on Twitter that it's always a big hit or being watched by huge numbers. It only takes roughly 12,000 mentions for something to trend worldwide.

The producer of Show Me The Funny said it was the third top trend worldwide for the first show. Then the ratings came out the next day and we all know what New Tricks did to it don't we?

RWC 2011 press pack: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...1/default.html


Games on ITV4 suggests Daybreak stays in its slot unless England are playing.

Edit - ITV1 programmes:

Friday 9th September
06:00 - Daybreak
08:30 to 11:45 - Opening Ceremony & New Zealand v Tonga
22:35 to 23:35 - Highlights

Saturday 10th September
01:30 to 04:10 - Scotland v Romania
04:10 to 06:40 - Fiji v Namibia
06:40 to 09:00 - France v Japan
09:00 to 12:00 - Argentina v England
16:25 to 17:35 - Highlights

Sunday 11th September
04:10 to 06:30 - Australia v Italy:
06:30 to 09:10 - Ireland v USA
09:10 to 12:00 - South Africa v Wales
17:15 to 18:30 - Highlights

Wednesday 14th September
03:10 to 05:35 - Samoa v Namibia
05:35 - ITV Early Morning News
06:00 - Daybreak
08:10 to 10:45 - Scotland v Georgia
23:35 to 00:35 - Highlights

Thursday 15th September
22:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Friday 16th September
06:00 - Daybreak
08:30 to 11:00 - New Zealand v Japan
22:35 to 00:20 - Highlights

Saturday 17th September
04:15 to 06:40 - Argentina v Romania
06:40 to 09:00 - South Africa v Fiji
09:00 to 12:00 - Australia v Ireland
16:55 to 18:00 - Highlights

Sunday 18th September
04:15 to 06:30 - Wales v Samoa
06:30 to 09:10 - England v Georgia
09:10 to 12:00 - France v Canada
16:35 to 17:35 - Highlights

Tuesday 20th September
23:35 to 00:35 - Highlights

Wednesday 21st September
23:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Thursday 22nd September
23:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Friday 23rd September
06:00 - Daybreak
08:30 - Lorraine
09:10 to 11:35 - Australia v USA
23:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Saturday 24th September
06:00 to 09:10 - England v Romania
09:10 to 12:00 - New Zealand v France
16:35 to 17:35 - Highlights

Sunday 25th September
03:00 to 05:30 - Fiji v Samoa
05:30 to 08:00 - Ireland v Russia
08:00 to 11:00 - Argentina v Scotland
17:45 to 18:30 - Highlights

Monday 26th September
06:00 - Daybreak
07:00 to 09:30 - Wales v Namibia
23:15 to 23:45 - Highlights

Tuesday 27th September
23:35 to 00:20 - Highlights

Wednesday 28th September
23:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Friday 30th September
23:35 to 00:05 - Highlights

Saturday 1st October
03:15 to 05:30 - Australia v Russia
05:30 to 08:00 - France v Tonga
08:00 to 11:30 - England v Scotland
16:45 to 18:00 - Highlights

Sunday 2nd October
00:30 to 03:05 - Argentina v Georgia
03:05 to 05:30 - New Zealand v Canada
05:30 to 08:00 - Wales v Fiji
08:00 to 11:00 - Ireland v Italy
16:45 to 18:00 - Highlights

Saturday 8th October
05:30 to 08:00 - Winner Pool C v Runner Up Pool D
08:00 to 11:00 - Winner Pool B v Runner Up Pool A
TBC - Highlights

Saturday 8th October
05:30 to 08:00 - Winner Pool D v Runner Up Pool C
08:00 to 11:00 - Winner Pool A v Runner Up Pool B
TBC - Highlights

Saturday 15th October
08:30 to 11:30 - Winner QF 1 v Winner QF 2
TBC - Highlights

Sunday 16th October
08:30 to 11:30 - Winner QF 3 v Winner QF 4
TBC - Highlights

Friday 21st October
08:00 to 11:00 - Bronze Final
* will be ITV4 if not involving Home Nation

Sunday 23rd October
08:30 to 11:30 - Final

Will be interesting to see how some of the 'fringe' ITV1 games do in the early hours. Should boost ITV's All Day Share a tad, but won't have a big effect in the grand scheme of things unless England get to the Semi's on Final.

live ITV4 games limited to:

Wed 14-Sep Tonga v Canada, ko 0600 ITV4 0535-0805

Thu 15-Sep Russia v USA, ko 0830 ITV4 0755-1100

Tue 20-Sep Italy v Russia, ko 0830 ITV4 0755-1100

Wed 21-Sep Tonga v Japan, ko 0830 ITV4 0755-1100

Thu 22-Sep South Africa v Namibia, ko 0900 ITV4 0830-1130

Tue 27-Sep Canada v Japan, ko 0500 ITV4 0430-0700

Tue 27-Sep Italy v USA, ko 0730 ITV4 0700-1000

Wed 28-Sep Georgia v Romania, ko 0730 ITV4 0700-1000

Fri 30-Sep South Africa v Samoa, ko 0830 ITV4 0800-1100

The SA vs Samoa one is the only one you might quibble with being on ITV1 vs ITV4 really

Cannot imagine that Sky have much of an incentive to offer a non premium rate HD movie channel to its customers as many might regard that as a good alternative to the subs they pay for Sky movies themselves.

More 4 HD will be an asset to Sky, Film 4 HD could be more of a liability to their desire to get the majority of customers to take the top tiers.

Not a good night for either of the main 2 channels. Very rare to see BBC1 below 3.5m for the entire 7pm - 10pm period. I thought the Olympics documentary at 7pm would have done better given the lead-in and how well The One Show does in that slot. Perhaps everyone has been avoiding it though as they expected another One Show repeat. Harry Potter clip show did poorly on ITV, perhaps it should have gone on a Saturday 16:30-18:30 before the HP movies air.



BBC2 had a bit of a low night with nothing getting close to 2 million. Channel 4 and Channel 5 both had pretty decent evenings though. Particularly 24 Hours in A&E on C4, which matched last week's series high and on C5 Removal Men: Pickfords did well for the 8pm slot.

I thought that Casualty was supposed to be taking a break after the 6th August episode but it seems like there will an episode the following week on August 13th

Just noticed on the BBC press office that Casualty seems to be starting its 26th series a good 3 weeks earlier than usual on 13th August - no break between series this year! If it still follows the 48-episode series length, I'd imagine this is to clear the decks for the Olympics next year.

Oh that's interesting. It's definitely the new series as new cast members are joining. I had previously posted that Casualty would take a 5 week break but looks like my prediction was wrong. Perhaps they will take a longer break next year then from mid July - September.

BBC2 did better than Channel 5 all evening?

I thought Daybreak would have completely collapsed again now its the summer holidays. Lorraine with Kate Garraway (does Lorraine ever actually present her own show?) is holding up too, although the shares must be slightly worrying. But they could just be artificially reduced due to children watching the kids channels.

It might be because its the 25th anniversary on 6th September so it would be daft them returning for a new series on the date of the anniversary.

Providing Casualty has no break round Christmas, episode 48 of the next series will be on 7th July. I do suspect it might have a break at Christmas though otherwise there would be episodes on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, so if it is not on then, it will finish on 21st July, with Olympics beginning on 27th July 2012.

Does anyone know if it is stated anywhere on the BBC website how many episodes of EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty etc are in the next few years, as it were? Not sure if that makes sense, I'm sure it normally says somewhere how many episodes are intended to be produced and screened within a specific time period. Maybe I'm wrong.

Holby City normally has 52 episodes per year, although last year they did 55 - I think the intention was that they would do 3 x 2-episode weeks during the year, although this backfired as sporting fixtures meant they had to move some of the regular Tuesday episodes as well and had to do more 2-episode weeks than originally planned.

Casualty does 48 episodes per year - this is per year rather than series, so I think the requirement is 48 across 12 months. For example, the last series was 49 episodes, so this current series is 47 to compensate for for the slight 'runover'.

I think you may be right about Casualty taking a break over Christmas - it's rated quite poorly over the festive season in recent years (not helped by the BBC's random scheduling such as last year's Bank Holiday Monday slot ) so I'd imagine they'd rather jetisson it in favour of something else for a week or two. This might also coincide with the move to the new Cardiff studios.

PS Don't forget it also breaks for one week's Eurovision in May!