Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.41m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.29m
19:00 Home & Away 1.09m
19:30 Australia's Got Talent 1.56m
21:00 Winners & Losers 1.21m
*renewed for a second season yesterday.
22:00 How I Met Your Mother (R) 0.40m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.26m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.13m
19:00 The Block 1.37m
19:30 E.J. Whitten Legends Game / Alternative Schedule 0.92m
22:00 CSI: Miami (R) 0.34m

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 0.69m
18:30 6:30 with George Negus 0.45m
*in the same slot last year, Neighbours had 0.71m.
19:00 7pm Project 0.71m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 1.50m
20:00 Bondi Vet 1.02m
20:30 NCIS (R) 0.79m
21:30 NCIS: Los Angeles 0.55m

ABC1
19:00 ABC News 0.90m
19:30 7.30 0.50m
20:00 Foreign Correspondent 0.47m
20:30 The Young Ones 0.47m
21:25 Q.I. 0.62m
21:55 First Tuesday Book Club with Jennifer Byrne 0.32m

Eleven
18:30 Neighbours 0.41m

Channel Shares
Seven - 26.3%
Nine - 19.9%
Ten - 16.4%
ABC1 - 9.6%
Eleven - 3.4%

You might have thought that with The Voice finished, it would be all downhill for NBC this summer. Apparently not.

8pm - America's Got Talent - 12.21m (3.4)
* Final auditions show
9pm - America's Got Talent - 15.51m (4.5)
* Las Vegas 2 hour episode

America's Got Talent at 8pm was up 6% from the equivalent fast national rating last week. More interestingly, at 9pm, America's Got Talent was up 5% in the demo compared to the finale of The Voice.

The 8pm episode was up 1% in total viewers and the 9pm episode was up 24% compared to The Voice. It's also a season high in total viewers. Compared to the first Vegas episode last year, ratings are up around 35% in adults 18-49.

America's Got Talent's previous series high was a 4.6 (premiere in 2006) and last nights episode will at least match it in finals (or possibly exceed it).

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...ospital/96853/

Moving to 9pm, Masterchef picked up to a 2.1 rating and 101 Ways To Lose A Gameshow was steady at 1.9, building from its lead-in (a Wipeout repeat - 1.6). Seems that 101 Ways isn't quite as much of a flop in the US as it was here!

That's only the first showing. Once all the showings and Anytime (not Anytime+ and Sky Go) are added it will be a lot higher.

Does anyone know what the season two finale got on BBC2/BBC HD on April 30 (overnights and officials)?

The HD showing got 79k in the officials.

Yeah, it's fashionable to say Nurse Jackie is the best thing since sliced bread, but the audience figures have never backed that up.

Yet it got more viewers than The Killing and possibly Mad Men (season four at least), and if you read the papers you would think everyone is watching them.

CNN have just announced a major revamp of their schedule, which will debut be phased in from the 8th of August.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...eliot-spitzer/


John King USA moves to 6pm ET
Erin Burnett's new show will air at 7pm ET
AC360 will be live at 8pm ET and repeated at 10 ET
Piers Morgan Tonight is unchanged.

Elliot Spitzer's programme has been axed, the Situation Room will air 4 - 6 pm ET.

Looks on paper like a much improved and more news focused line up. Will be fascinating to see how Anderson does at 8pm, presumably they feel that MSNBC are in a relatively weak position in that timeslot these days. Its a bold move but I think it's a good one.

However not being live at 10pm is probably a mistake. Indeed on some days if the 9pm hour is a pre-recorded Piers Morgan interview it means that CNN's prime time line up would only be live from 7 to 9. I think it would have been worth considering putting a Wolf Blitzer fronted show (be it 'The Situation Room' or something else) on at 10pm ET - an hour where CNN has been performing very well recently.

why are there no soap ratings?

Soap ratings: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/ne...astenders.html

Hollyoaks again above 1m, with a solid audience for the first look - is there a big storyline this week or something?

Execllent night for Luther; IIRC not many programmes build on the Holby City rating (bar possibly the first episodes) but it's achieved it. Holby City did well; Emmerdale and EastEnders had reasonable shares though were dragged down by the 'early' slots. Hollyoaks has improved this week, and Undercover Boss launched well for Channel 4. BBC News thrashed ITV News, but I guess ITV didn't have a dreadful Tuesday in comparison to some figures they've recorded on that night. Does CSI usually rate below 1m on Channel Five? I thought it usually cleared 1m easily? Maybe the clash with Luther in the 9pm hour hurt it, then people watched the news for the latest on the hacking scandal.

Moving Anderson to 8pm makes sense in some ways - although losing an hour of his show might not be a good thing for CNN. He'll probably appreciate the reduced workload with his new syndicated show starting soon.

I'd agree that they shouldn't have left 10pm with repeats. It'll be interesting to see if AC360 can carry over its strong run at 10pm recently to a more competitive 8pm slot.

These are repeats, albeit of the top 10 episodes. Without tough crime drama opposition like Luther, no doubt they would be rating comfortably above 1m. As it is, I think they are rating fine, and in line with how Season 11 reruns are performing at the weekend.

However, I suspect we could see quite low figures for the top episode of all time Grave Danger in a couple of weeks time as the two-parter only just recently played out as part of a full Season 5 rerun on Saturday nights to an audience of around 700,000.

P.S. the 12am repeat which had an audience of nearly 500k and a 9% audience share last night probably won its timeslot.

Thanks.

The later it got, the more impressive CSI's ratings became. It's understandable that repeats would be down, especially considering the opposition. It should find it easier next week when it's just up against Crimewatch.

Actually BBC1's 9pm programming looks pretty impressive next week:

Monday - New Tricks
Tuesday - Crimewatch
Wednesday - The Apprentice
Thursday - Torchwood
Friday - My Family (and a repeat of an upcoming BBC1 comedy)
Saturday - Casualty
Sunday - The Apprentice

Commercial channels would probably love that kind of programming for a pre-Christmas week; let alone at the height of summer.

great for the soaps, thanks DMN

EE and emmerdale up on monday

dancc for future reference its dullagj2 not dullag, thanks

Oops, sorry. I'll fix that now.

I had a lot of new usernames to learn this week!

Interesting moves, and I think rather good ones. Putting a proper news show fronted by a real, reputable journalist in at 8pm is a brave move and one that I think differentiates CNN from the commentary its rivals provide at that time of day. Cooper won't be tapping into their audiences, but he might just be able to find his own - especially, of course, when some major news breaks.

We'll have to see how the 10pm repeat performs, but I wonder if they might not have been better sticking to a 2 hour AC and pushing Piers Morgan back an hour. The intensive long-form interviews don't really fit at 9pm anymore, in my opinion.

no bother dancc, thanks

They could do something drastic, properly drastic and just have CNN World Report at 10pm - give viewers of America some real, global news.

lol

I've decided that in the next game I'm going to take part, I've been doing it on my own to see how I got on. And I wasn't last

It'd be great to have you on board.

No need to be shy! Also no shame in being last, someone has to be after all.

BBC1 and ITV1 monthly primetime shares (7-11pm definition from Attentional) so far this year:

BBC One
January: 22.4% (2010: 22.5%)
February: 21.4% (21.5%)
March: 22.2% (22.2%)
April: 20.9% (21.6%)
May: 22.0% (21.6%)
June: 20.4% (20.3%)

January to June: 21.5% (21.6%)

ITV1
January: 20.4% (21.4%)
February: 21.7% (21.3%)
March: 21.2% (20.8%)
April: 21.5% (20.4%)
May: 20.9% (20.2%)
June: 20.9% (25.1%)

January to June: 21.1% (21.5%)

I'm surprised that BBC are actually up for June compared to last year considering the World Cup was on last year. If it wasn't for such a good June last year as well, I think ITV would have been ahead compared to last year as all their shares apart from June are up year on year.

I think both broadcasters' will be pleased though, both broadcasters' doing well to fend off the competition successfully it appears.

And here's the demographic information for BBC1 and ITV1 from last week up to and including Monday: http://i54.tinypic.com/2nbeq1w.jpg

3.6m is an extremely high 65+ audience for New Tricks, the highest for any show I think on UK TV. One other point of note from that is that The Marriage Ref is doomed, if its demographic was okay then it might have been recommissioned for ITV, but the demographic is bad and I don't think a recommission can be justified.

BBC1 9pm ratings for the last 7 days are somewhat impressive for the 1st week in a warm July. ITV1 figures in italics beneath.

21:00- The Apprentice: 7.8m
21:00- Lewis (started 20:00) 3.4m

21:00- Taken: The Milly Dowler Story: 2.85m
21:00- The Choir That Rocks: 2.51m

21:00- My Family: 4.31m
21:30- Miranda: 3.63m
21:00- Paul O'Grady Live: 2.93m

21:00- Casualty: 4.94m
21:00- The Marriage Ref: 1.73m

21:00- Stolen: 3.4m
21:00- Scott & Bailey 5.77m

21:00- New Tricks: 8.3m
21:00- Babies Behind Bars 3.1m

21:00- Luther: 5.74m
21:00- Little Lambs-Sextuplets 3.04m

Piers ratings were down last week - the Beyonce exclusive didn't do much. I think it was a whole week of pre-recorded interviews because he's off just now (back in London, I think).

From what I've seen, they've varied the format a bit. Stealing ideas from the UK for CNN, I think they ought to try something like Question Time once a week and the 9pm slot would be well suited. It's basically a political talent show - except with a clappometer instead of phone votes! And the Sky Press Preview is good value with the right pundits in - they could make that a regular segment on Piers' show, especially with his press background (could integrate some online sources as well seeing as the US doesn't have such an active print press). Mix it with some shorter interviews regarding current news stories. Limit the 60 minute interviews to once a week - perhaps do them every Thursday and promote it from Monday to Wednesday.

Interesting despite all the talk of New Tricks being only watched by oldies it was 4th in 18-49's.
Only Top Gear, Luther and The Apprentice had more. Also 4.13m ABC1's second only to The Apprentice.

It's funny isn't it with Penn and Teller everyone thought it was great and a fairly original spin on both talent shows and magic shows when it was rating well. A few hundred thousand viewers gone later and it's suddenly on a par with Celebrity Wrestling.


I am yet to meet a football fan who has any interest at all in women's football. 2-3m would not be good enough for BBC1/ITV1, and considering 6m is at the lower end of what some England mens games can get I think that is being very ambitious.


Thank **** he died then.


Bollocks - although certainly not the only issue having steadily declined by about 300,000 a year for a few years BB10 lost around 1.3m viewers an episode on BB9. The live feed generates the news posted not just on fansites, but also on the official site (in BB10 it went hours without updates and of the promise videos at least half were not action from the house - just pre-recorded opinion pieces or unseen audition stuff etc.).

Social media is influential of course - but Twitter and Facebook are bottom up strategies. The buzz comes from people seeing things for themselves and talking about them - not being fed limited information in a top down strategy and then being expected to appreciated a 140 character summary of everything which happened in the house over the last six hours.

The show will have a far greater social media presence if people are discussing what is happening on the live feed and the numerous reports generated on fansites, forums and Digital Spy as a result of it.


I was quite surprised Undercover Boss returned as I thought it performed quite poorly last year. Then again, I thought the same about Luther too. I wonder if it'll get an extended run next year, or perhaps if only 4-5 episodes be stripped across a week.


Not really - the episodes from the new series producer began airing last week (just six months after taking over!) and although it's been fairly mundane stuff so far it's all rather well done and a noticeable improvement on recent weeks.

I think though now Hollyoaks will be constantly on the bubble unless it can begin hitting the 2m mark again - heck, even hitting 1.5m. Jimmy McGovern thinks it is pretty much doomed thanks to shows like The Only Way is Essex and Geordie Shore being cheaper to make to grab the audience, and LIME, the producers of Hollyoaks, pretty much being responsible for all such shows in the UK.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s143/...-mcgovern.html

Of course though people were saying similar things when Big Brother came around, and then we had one of the strongest periods of new dramas coming out of the US and a mini-revival of drama on the BBC with the likes of Spooks, Life on Mars etc.

I think ITV, C4 and Sky are all upping their game at the moment when it comes to drama - sitcom is the genre where Britain is seriously lagging behind at the moment, but heck even if we get 2-3 pre-watershedsitcoms from ITV as a result of Coronation Street that is probably more than in the entire last decade.

Missed this earlier. That strikes me as a massive audience, how does this compare to the highest rated programmes on German TV so far this year?

I'm amazed that England's quarter final on Saturday hasn't made it onto BBC Two at least. I know it's there for those that want it on the Red Button, but it'd be nice to see the BBC championing Women's football a bit more than they are, instead of just hiding it away on 301. it's almost like they're showing it out of necessity more than anything, which is a shame I think.

Would anyone be that outraged if the comedy repeats were rested for a week? They wasted no time in clearing the schedule of important regional news prior to a teachers' strike last week for the tennis, and plenty of people were inconvenienced by that.