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Most Watched Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 13.95m - THE ROYAL WEDDING (29/04/11) - BBC1/HD/BBC NEWS
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 - 10.24m - THE APPRENTICE (17/07/11) - BBC1/HD
08 - 10.23m - DANCING ON ICE (09/01/11) - ITV1/HD
09 - 9.70m - NEW TRICKS (18/07/11) - BBC1/HD
10 - 9.68m - THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST (14/05/11) - BBC1/HD

11 - 9.52m - EMMERDALE (13/01/11) - ITV1/HD
12 - 9.11m - SCOTT & BAILEY (29/05/11) - ITV1/HD
13 - 8.86m - DOCTOR WHO (23/04/11) - BBC1/HD
14 - 8.80m - BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS (08/02/11) - C4
15 - 8.80m - COME FLY WITH ME (01/01/11) - BBC1/HD

16 - 8.69m - WILD AT HEART (09/01/11) - ITV1/HD
17 - 8.50m - SILENT WITNESS (17/01/11) - BBC1/HD
18 - 8.31m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (28/05/11) - ITV1/HD
19 - 8.22m - BENIDORM (25/02/11) - ITV1/HD
20 - 8.10m - MIDSOMER MURDERS (02/02/11) - ITV1/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 is BBC1 and BBC News 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 - 2.00m - TROLLIED (04/08/11) - Sky1

06 - 1.99m - BRITAIN'S GOT MORE TALENT (04/06/11) - ITV2
07 - 1.97m - LIVE FORD FOOTBALL SPECIAL (01/03/11) - Sky Sports 2
08 - 1.94m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (12/04/11) - Sky Sports 2
09 - 1.81m - LIVE FA COMMUNITY SHIELD FOOTBALL (07/08/11) - Sky Sports 1
10 - 1.77m - MAD DOGS (03/03/11) - Sky1

11 - 1.72m - EASTENDERS (30/05/11) - BBC3
12 - 1.71m - FAMILY GUY (22/05/11) - BBC3
13 - 1.69m - JUNIOR DOCTORS (15/03/11) - BBC3
14 - 1.57m - THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX (04/05/11) - ITV2
15 - 1.57m - BEING HUMAN (23/01/11) - BBC3

16 - 1.56m - FILM: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (25/04/11) - BBC3
17 - 1.49m - FILM: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (30/04/11) - BBC3
18 - 1.47m - LIVE FORD MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (11/04/11) - Sky Sports 1
19 - 1.45m - GAME OF THRONES (18/04/11) - Sky Atlantic
20 - 1.44m - DYNAMO: MAGICIAN IMPOSSIBLE (28/07/11) - Watch

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

I know I always say this but can I point out that this is not unique to Sky as Virgin now offer boxes that can hold up to 500 hours of programming. This is NOT just me boasting about the fact I got a Virgin TiVo installed at the weekend, oh no. In addition, as we know, Virgin offer iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5 for free to most subscribers, which is dead easy to navigate and has a much greater selection of popular programmes than the stuff Sky can be arsed putting on Anytime. And there are box sets and other on demand things as well. Sky's innovations are completely overexaggerated.

In addition, loads of channels offer as many same week repeats as the Sky channels, and we know how hard it is to chase The Simpsons around the schedules. And having planned for the Saturday 8pm Sky 1 repeat of the new episodes of Futurama to be the first thing I record on my TiVo, Sky promptly dropped it, replaced it with a repeat of an older series and moved the new episodes to Sunday on Sky 2. And the other repeats of those episodes - none. Well done.


The idea that BBC1 benefits from default viewing is ludicrous, the range of programming it offers is so vast you would have to be quite seriously demented to watch and enjoy it all. There may be some shows that succeed due to being the least objectionable viewing available but that is not the same as simply switching it on and mindlessly watching it. It doesn't even benefit anymore from tellies going straight to channel one when you switch them on!

If there was ever a channel that used to benefit from default viewing it was ITV, my grandmother used to have it on all the time in the eighties and Victor Lewis-Smith used to tell the story about how mental hospitals used to have the tellies permanently stuck on ITV because it was considered the only channel unchallenging enough for the patients to happily watch. This theory is absolute rubbish.


Very early on, in 1997, they had another original series in A Wing And A Prayer, a legal drama which was critically acclaimed and even got nominated for a BAFTA, but they ridiculously scheduled the second series at 8pm on Wednesdays, opposite the likes of Midsomer Murders, it got no viewers and was axed.

I think the problem with C5 doing drama is that there's not much it can do which stands out. When they had that much-publicised hike upmarket in 2002, they commissioned a couple of comedy shows, one was God Almighty, a Room 101-esque comedy chat show with Clive Anderson, which was perfectly acceptable and probably just as good as Room 101 itself, but there were already loads of them so it just didn't stand out. Similarly if they were to do AN Other Crime Drama, which A Wing And A Prayer and Murder Prevention both were, they'd be half decent, perhaps, but they wouldn't stand out when BBC1 is doing the same stuff.

What it needs is to find a genre that nobody's tried and they can own. Mad Men is a decent example, that was the first drama by AMC in the US and it gave them a massive profile. I don't mean to say they should do something like Mad Men but something that fits in with their profile, a laddish drama like the Chris Ryan things on Sky, maybe, or a telenovela kind of thing that works alongside Neighbours? I dunno.



They wouldn't do that, it would just confuse everyone, and the success of Cbeebies is that it offers pre-schoool stuff all the time, and no child over six would want to watch a channel that offers Cbeebies stuff. So I don't know what they'll do, but they won't do that.

It wasn't the case that kids shows were dropped for sport, the first time I remember it ever happening was in 1997 when they had the Hong Kong Handover and Wimbledon at the same time, but before that there'd always been an hour or so somewhere, it was absolutely undroppable, so if there was a test match going on during Wimbledon, they'd have to share BBC2 as the kids shows needed to be on BBC1, even if, as was often the case at the time, they were all repeats.

Weekends were a bit different, though, the Saturday morning shows would sometimes be dropped (I remember in the summer of 1992, the Beeb Saturday morning shows were dropped for the Olympics, and ITV were just showing Disney films, and I was bored witless) and of course on Sundays there was usually nothing at all.

BARB Top 10 - w/e 7 Aug 2011 (No duplicates, includes HD)

1 NEW TRICKS (MON 2101) 9.41m
2 CORONATION STREET (MON 2029) 8.80m
3 EASTENDERS (MON 2000) 8.70m
4 EMMERDALE (THU 1901) 6.78m
5 COUNTRYFILE (SUN 1931) 6.58m
6 CASUALTY (SAT 2031) 6.09m
7 FILM: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET FIRE (SAT 1813) 5.91m
8 DIY SOS: THE BIG BUILD (TUE 2100) 5.80m
9 HOLBY CITY (TUE 2002) 5.36m
10 TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY (THU 2102) 5.19m

grahamzxy from Ratings thread pt 22 post no #2456 31 July

" Tonight's The Night: 3.04m... - Dropping each week under 3m next week?"

Your prediction was wrong

6 aug TTN 3.56m
13 aug TTN 3.97m

The TTN format has also apparently been sold to China (JB mentioned it in a radio interview)

I am so pleased we have finally found something we can sell to China. Cant be long now till Barrowman himself presents the show in the US (maybe for ABC, after Dancing With The Stars)

Most of the viewers who watched ep1 live watched ep2 the same evening (1.1m & 1.0m overnights)

However 0.9m watched episode 1 via timeshift but only 0.4m for episode 2. Episode 3's overnight was down 40%.

1.15m (2.00m)
0.98m (1.39m)
0.69m (??)


There is a pattern emerging here and it ain't a good one!

Official ratings for the first riot day on Sunday 7th August are in:

BBC News Channel everything below 274k except
08:00 - 524k
09:00 - 405k
10:00 - 430k
10:30 - 474k
11:00 - 440k
11:30 - 380k
12:00 - 327k
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18:00 - 275k
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20:00 - 274k
21:00 - 300k

Sky News everything below 220k except
08:00 - 315k
08:30 - 310k
09:00 - 273k
09:30 - 322k
10:00 - 258k
10:30 - 220k
11:00 - 255k
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22:00 - 282k
23:00 - 274k
23:30 - 309k

The entirety of the Top 10 for both BBC News and Sky News were from 7th August.

Of course with multichannels only doing Top 10's, the numbers for BBC News and Sky News will be extremely high in next week's officials, and the top 30 Others chart I think will be mainly news channel ratings.

Trollied was an excellent idea for a sitcom so not surprised it launched that well. That other comedy they're doing This is Jinsy that BBC Three turned down sounds a lot more niche to me and so I can't see it rating as well. Still Sky's foray into comedy is welcome news to its loyal customers. But they need to keep it up now and not take their foot off the gas if they want to build themselves a reputation for high quality original content.

Well, Barrowman is, not surprisingly, trying to sell it to the States
I doubt it'll happen though

On the other hand, the less time Barrowman spends in the states, the more time he has to do programmes over here

The overnights are live and same day viewing. Ep 1 also got 513,000 on its first repeat and interestingly episode 2 got more viewers on its first Sky 2 showing with 140k compared to ep 1's 112k.

So on its first three showings ep 1 got 2.621m. No doubt a lot of the Anytime viewings will be linked with episodes in next week's officials.

Excellent for the ESPN game. Well above last year's opener which brought in 409k officially.

I'm surprised it did that well because the game was pretty dull, although there were a few incidents towards the end.

worse shows have sold to the states, and I would take John Barrowman over the likes of Marraige Ref, any day of the week.

Great to see Sons of Anarchy make 5USA's top 10 in the latest officials. It's the first time I've seen a 5USA exclusive series make the list for a long time and those are some really healthy figures for it. It's finally catching on!

I'm actually beginning to think they should begin airing it on Channel 5, starting from Season 1. Not in the heart of primetime obviously, but it wouldn't hurt to run through it late at night at the weekend. Maybe 11pm on Saturdays.

Yes, I am aware of that. I was merely pointing out that those who watched episode 1 the 'same day' stuck with it and watched ep2, yet around 50% of those who timeshifted didn't bother with episode 2.

Probably suggests that there was nothing much to watch 'live' at the 9:30pm junction so the viewers who weren't impressed gave ep2 another chance. Of those who watched at their own convenience, 50% decided it wasn't for them.

Isn't Season 3 the first season of SoA that is airing exclusively on 5USA? The previous two seasons were broadcast on Bravo before it shut down. NCIS continues to do well as well, maybe it'll see an increase as the Wednesday repeats on Channel 5 are taking a break.

I'm often criticized for not lavishing enough praise on ITV.

So can I be the first to congratulate them on getting 3 shows in the Top Ten this week rather than their usual (recent) two.

Well done!

They've guaranteed original scripted comedy on Sky1 every week of the year. The next 'biggie' Mount Pleasant starts the first of its eight hour episodes on Wednesday of next week.

And Strike Back starts its second ten part run on Sunday too. So that's three original scripted programmes airing per week. Unheard of before!!

Why? They're hit TV shows and that's ITV's business. Though of course you'd also add Downton Abbey and Doc Martin as part of the reason ITV will have such a strong end to the year.


Of course it's good for ITV. They've commissioned and grown X Factor into the biggest show on TV. There can only be one biggest show on TV. They've got it. Not only that, but they've managed to build a relationship with the producer which brought them another huge hit entertainment series. Yet this is somehow spun against them? All TV channels rely on their hit shows. Any channel with X Factor would rely heavily on it.

The US networks have thrown in the towel for the summer and won't recover until their hit shows return in September. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just the way they do business. And increasingly the way that ITV do business. Come mid October, if ABC have one or two new hit shows, nobody will care that they produced a bunch of flop reality series in the summer and Paul Lee's job will be secure for another year.

Yes, it'd be great if they could have another show as big as X Factor. But they don't. Just as nothing in the US comes close to Idol. Nothing in the UK comes close to X Factor. That's not a failure on the part of either FOX or ITV.

When I said the 'old days' I was referring to the sixties and seventies, when BBC1 and BBC2 both had live sports on weekdays.

Both test matches and domestic one day competions were on until their conclusion on BBC2, whilst tennis was on BBC 1.

You even had live tennis on BBC2 in the evening and Today at Wimbledon on BBC1 at sevenish.

I'm sure if Sky Sports divided the test cricket into sessions rather a complete nine hour slot, they'd make the top 20.

In defence of TTN with JB here are the BARB ratings so far


9 July 2011 4,070,000
16 July 2011 4,700,000
23 July 2011 3,870,000
30 July 2011 Under 3,550,000
6 August 2011 Under 3,720,000

how about having less articles which say "ITV is hittnig record lows at the moment, but dont worry X-Factor will start soon, and ITVs problems will be solved"

Where are the new shows to replace Im an X Factor Talent On Ice, when they fail? the sad thing about this summer is that Sing If You Can is probaly the best new show of the summer. They dont have to come up to X-Faxctor standards, just a good standard.

ITV execs what new ITV Studios produced hits, please if you can point to one that debuted to good ratings this summer, please let me know.

I Do Sort of agree with Charnham. ITV Have X Factor and that does well but what happens when X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celeb Fail becuase one day they will. Where are the new shows that can get the ratings that these shows have.

Is New Tricks definitely number 1 or does Corrie beat it with +1 viewers?