My only prediction was for Thursdays. I said the other crap nights were crap "at the moment". Read the post....it's all there.

Anyway.....

ITV1 pulled 4.3m (inc +1) for the Arsenal v Udinese coverage last night (don't have breakdown so can't see what the actual match got)

CBB....2.5m

Losing One of My Giant Legs....1.8m

WDYTYA,,,,4.9m

Wallis Simpson doc on C4....1.6m (2m inc +1)

One would assume that ITV beat BBC1 for some of the 9pm hour, big drop for WDYTYA.

So CBB has had a steady rise since Sunday, i think that's good and hopefully will continue to rise.

I've just watched sundays Ocean Giants about whales and dolphins. in it a scientist says we will be able to communicate with dolphins within 5 years. So I wonder what the ratings will be in 5 years for the first televised interview with a Dolphin will be.

Not surprised, I love this show but Seb Coe was the dullest espisode I've ever seen, sorry

I fell asleep watching Who Do you Think You are because it was one of the Dull ones with Seb Coe.

Heh 2 minds obviously think alike eh Newkid.

seem to recall you saying this would flop big time? No?

A few others:

BBC1

The One Show 3.8m/20.1%
National Treasures Live 3.4m/ 17.7%
Village SOS 3.2m/14.8%

Yep, I was wrong.

Really pleased for celebrity Big Brother, hopefully it will rise even more. what channel 4 would give for that rating at 10pm every night!

anyone made any rating predictions for 'normal' Big Brother?

I suppose Wegner and his Gadaffi defence probably got a lot of casual viewers interested.

I think the normal Big Brother will be slightly under what it's getting now - although i am happy to be proved wrong.

This series is very concise and compact i feel. Before it would be very padded out, but now it seems more fuller - for better or worse, it seems to be helping it.

Good for CBB to continue to rise, although disappointing that Extraordinary People didn't make the 2 million mark like I thought it would considering it had been promoted alot.

Solid result for the football- quite high for this early in the UCL competition. WDYTYA was hurt by the increased competition at 9pm.

Great night for Channel 5 once again. Ok so Extraordinary People didn't quite hit 2m but it wasn't far off and still rated extremely well for a C5 doc.

STV are launching Scotland Tonight - Monday to Thursday from 10.30pm
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/267646-s...irs-programme/

Sorry if this has already been posted....

Nice article here about Celebrity Big Brother ratings on Channel 5.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/m...031187.article

I'm not as 'strange' as I thought!!

And also:

"Deloitte figures also showed that people use social networking to enrich their viewing, with the highest proportion of respondents (31%) saying they take to Twitter or Facebook to boost the “communal experience” of watching TV."

Boyd Hilton said on Radio 5 on Tuesday afternoon that he had asked people in the industry what they thought it would get prior to launch - apparently NONE of them expected it to be doing as well as it is at the moment.

Is Five turning into a freak show? From the title it sounds like something that Ch4 or BBC3 would be panned for showing. With nighly OKTV, Cheryl Cole docs, Jedward and other reality tv cast off's it just seems like endless wall to wall pap. Its getting them higher ratings, but its definitely re-positioning them. I expect they will try to lure Jeremy Kyle next.

Love the literal title.

Others from the same production company:-

World's Oldest Conjoined Twins Move Home

Dancer With Tiny Legs

The Man With Half a Body

I'm sure they're all in HBO's Carnivale!!

Wednesday 24th August 2011
BBC1
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.2m (25.5%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 5.3m (29.6%)
19:00 - The One Show: 3.8m (20.1%)
19:30 - National Treasures Live: 3.4m (17.7%)
20:00 - Village SOS: 3.2m (14.8%)
21:00 - Who Do You Think You Are?: 4.9m (20.4%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 5.1m (25.0%)
22:25 - Regional News and Weather / The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws: 4.1m (23.0%)
22:45 - Live at the Apollo: 1.9m (15.1%)

BBC2
18:30 - Celebrity Eggheads: 1.5m (8.6%)
19:00 - Coast: 1.5m (8.1%)
20:00 - Natural World: 2.0m (9.5%)
21:00 - Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World: 1.2m (5.3%)
22:15 - Coast: 0.6m (3.1%)
22:30 - Newsnight: 0.7m (4.8%)

ITV (inc ITV+1)
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.3m (18.1%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.0m (31.6%)
19:30 - UEFA Champions League Live: 4.3m (19.1%)
22:00 - ITV News at Ten & Weather: 1.9m (8.8%)
22:35 - UEFA Champions League: Extra Time: 0.8m (5.7%)

C4 (inc C4+1)
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.2m (5.8%)
19:00 - Channel 4 News: 0.8m (3.8%)
20:00 - Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance: 1.5m (5.9%)
21:00 - Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters: 2.0m (6.9%)
22:00 - 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut: 1.1m (4.6%)
22:50 - The Big Bang Theory: 0.7m (4.2%)

Five
18:25 - OK! TV: 0.3m (1.5%)
19:00 - 5 News at 7: 0.2m (0.9%)
19:30 - Garden ER: 0.6m (3.2%)
20:00 - New Emergency Bikers: 1.3m (5.9%)
21:00 - Extraordinary People: 1.8m (7.6%)
22:00 - Celebrity Big Brother: 2.5m (13.8%)

Ratings include HD and are for the full slot.
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Apart from the drop for Who Do You Think You Are?, there are not many great surprises in last night's ratings. BBC1 apart from that had a consistent night in the mid 3m range, with the News at Ten doing well due to events in Libya.

The Champions League performed well for ITV considering the Qualifying Play Off round in the past years have been lower, even when involving Arsenal so they'll be pleased with that. Emmerdale's rating is fine and its tape-checked rating will be probably around ~6.5m. It's actually done quite well this Summer, it hasn't dipped below 6 million that much, but there again the weather hasn't been too warm this year.

So-so night for Channel 4, but I think they will be behind Channel 5 in the primetime shares again. Big Brother improved again for the third night in a row, and I won't be surprised if the eviction show on Friday is near to 3 million.

Ok Thanks Cent, they do get through filming very quickly then!

Some news about Merlin, pictures for the first episode are embargoed until Tuesday 13th September. Pictures for the second episode are embargoed until Tuesday 20th September meaning that the series is expected to start on Saturday 17th September, and also meaning it will overlap with Doctor Who.