The Ratings Thread (Part 26)

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sn_22

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Bushmills:
“BBC1

TOS – 4.5m / 22.5%
EE – 8m / 37.8%
Watchdog – 4.6m / 19.9%
Hidden – 4.2m / 19%
News – 4m / 20%
QT – 2.6m / 20.3%

ITV1 (+1 figs in brackets)

Emmerdale – 6.3m / 31.5% (6.4m)
Tonight – 2.7m / 12.7% (2.8m)
Emmerdale – 6.4m/ 28.7% (6.7m)
Coronation St – 7.1m/29.8% (7.3m)
Lumley’s Greek Odyssey – 3.6m/ 18.3% (3.8m)
News – 2.1m / 10.6% (2.2m)”

ITV must be looking forward to next year when they can ditch the Thursday Corrie. It doesn't perform well enough - especially when the BBC throw up a strong hour-long opponent.

Very good for all of BBC pre-watershed, actually. The One Show seems to be recording much higher shares than a few weeks previously (I know EE helps on Tue and Thurs). I wonder whether thats the Strictly effect coming into play with Alex Jones, and presumably, a lot of discussion. Watchdog has also been on a real roll in that 8pm slot - 20% against the ITV soap double is a huge result. After a bit of a false start, the hour-long format really has hit its stride.

A bit of a shame, really, after all that good news, that Hidden recorded quite an uninspiring figure for it's second episode. Is it me, or do all these ambitious "conspiracy thrillers" usually end up struggling?

Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz...6908-23487778/

STV's The Hour got 97k last Tuesday night @ 8pm and the axe today”

God, STV are useless. They think a scottish accent, or sticking a tartan on something, will make Scottish viewers tune in. Parochial, condescending idiots. To axe something so you can replace it with High Stakes, things must be bad.

Originally Posted by spiritofsussex:
“Was it a repeat, or a new series? If it was a new series, then there hasn't been much of an ad campaign.”

It was just a one-off catch-up (or "check-up"!) with the original cast of Doctors. Not watched it yet, so I'm not sure how much original material there was. In any case, I don't think it's indicative of how the new series will rate. That series is due at the beginning of next year, with a new set of Doctors.

cylon6

14-10-2011

7m for Coronation Street? What the hell happened!?!

ftv

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by sn_22:
“ITV must be looking forward to next year when they can ditch the Thursday Corrie. It doesn't perform well enough - especially when the BBC throw up a strong hour-long opponent.

Very good for all of BBC pre-watershed, actually. The One Show seems to be recording much higher shares than a few weeks previously (I know EE helps on Tue and Thurs). I wonder whether thats the Strictly effect coming into play with Alex Jones, and presumably, a lot of discussion. Watchdog has also been on a real roll in that 8pm slot - 20% against the ITV soap double is a huge result. After a bit of a false start, the hour-long format really has hit its stride.

A bit of a shame, really, after all that good news, that Hidden recorded quite an uninspiring figure for it's second episode. Is it me, or do all these ambitious "conspiracy thrillers" usually end up struggling?

God, STV are useless. They think a scottish accent, or sticking a tartan on something, will make Scottish viewers tune in. Parochial, condescending idiots. To axe something so you can replace it with High Stakes, things must be bad.

It was just a one-off catch-up (or "check-up"!) with the original cast of Doctors. Not watched it yet, so I'm not sure how much original material there was. In any case, I don't think it's indicative of how the new series will rate. That series is due at the beginning of next year, with a new set of Doctors.”

It should be pointed out The Hour on Tuesday was up against the Spain v Scotland match on BBC1 and was usually up against BBC Scotland's River City.One might question the wisdom of that scheduling by STV.

satman5000

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by ElliotSaunders:
“It's a repeat. Series 2 was only commissioned in July.”

It was not a repeat, it was a new episode catching up with the Junior Doctors one year on and seeing how they have progressed.

GeorgeS

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by ftv:
“It should be pointed out The Hour on Tuesday was up against the Spain v Scotland match on BBC1 and was usually up against BBC Scotland's River City.One might question the wisdom of that scheduling by STV.”

its so awful it would lose against the test card

ftv

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“its so awful it would lose against the test card”

Charnham

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“7m for Coronation Street? What the hell happened!?! ”

that is a good question actually

allthingsuk

14-10-2011

Good for EE with 8 million, quite a poor share for Corrie and beaten by the 7pm Emmerdale share wise. Corrie at 7 million...shows that ITV were wrong to move it to Thursdays and the only real success to come of the 'soap block' on Thursdays (introduced in 2009) was the 8pm Emmerdale episode. Corrie hasn't set Thursday nights alight, and The Bill (which had moved to 9pm to have a Corrie lead-in) wasn't doing fantastic. Special mention to Watchdog getting 4.6 million against the soap block.

derek500

14-10-2011

Some timeshift figures published by BARB in a Broadcast article today.

Good to see some for figures for PVR homes and not just the normal 'all homes'.

In PVR homes 32% of viewing of Drama is timeshifted, 26% of Soaps, 23% of Docs and 21% of Entertainment.

I don't feel so abnormal now!!

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...033333.article

Quote:
“A fifth of all drama viewing is now taking place on a time-shifted basis, Barb has revealed.

Drama was the most shifted genre in the week ending 25 September, which the ratings measurement company said was a record week.

Time-shifted viewing accounted for 10% of the total TV viewing it said, with soaps (16%), documentaries (15%) and entertainment programmes (13%) also performing strongly.

Among individuals with a PVR this proportion rose to 32% (drama), 26 (soaps)%, 23% (documentaries) and 21% (entertainment) respectively.

Barb classifies any viewing that takes place within 164 hours (approximately 7 days) of the original broadcast as “time-shifted”. This includes playback through PVRs, DVD-recorders or VCRs as well as via catch-up services, but only those available through the TV.

Views of BBC content on the iPlayer would count if they took place via Virgin Media or Xbox for example, but not if they took place on a PC.

While time-shifted viewing is on the rise, almost half (48% in the week in question) still takes place on the same day as the linear broadcast. That means it is reported as VOSDAL (Viewing On The Same Day As Live) and included in standard overnight figures.

Young adults between 25-34 and ABC1s time-shift more viewing than other groups. 16% of viewing by the former was time-shifted during this week.”

Dancc

14-10-2011

After The Bachelor finishes on Channel 5 in a couple of weeks time, it looks like BB evictions will revert to one 90 minute programme, with the following schedule from 4th November:

2100 Big Brother: Live Eviction
2230 Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl (New Series)
2330 Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Not 100% confirmed yet but it's looking that way from the provisional data.

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“After The Bachelor finishes on Channel 5 in a couple of weeks time, it looks like BB evictions will revert to one 90 minute programme, with the following schedule from 4th November:

2100 Big Brother: Live Eviction
2230 Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl (New Series)
2330 Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Not 100% confirmed yet but it's looking that way from the provisional data.”

Isn't Big Brother ending on the 11th November, think they should have held it back until the 18th.

GeorgeS

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“2230 Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl (New Series)”

Who? What? and Why?

Dancc

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Jonwo:
“Isn't Big Brother ending on the 11th November, think they should have held it back until the 18th.”

I hope not. I would rather the finale was on a Thursday or something instead.

Especially as Bit on the Side has been known to hit the magic million following a launch/finale. You don't want to kill that potential by sticking another programme in between.

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“I hope not. I would rather the finale was on a Thursday or something instead.

Especially as Bit on the Side has been known to hit the magic million following a launch/finale. You don't want to kill that potential by sticking another programme in between.”

Thursday would be likely if there is no football scheduled. But they can't really do a midweek eviction due to Paul Merton on Wednesdays. Have they started doing double evictions yet?

Dancc

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“Who? What? and Why?”

Press office description...

Quote:
“Welcome to the world of Tamara Ecclestone, daughter of Formula 1 head-honcho Bernie. One of the richest young women in the world, she lives in a world of champagne, dogs, disasters, triumphs, stylists, yachts and money. Lots of money. She has kept the paparazzi and gossip columnists busy for most of her life. Now she opens the doors of her world to let cameras follow her from Cannes to QVC, from her closet to Monaco, from out of her father’s shadow to the world at large.”

Dancc

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Jonwo:
“Thursday would be likely if there is no football scheduled. But they can't really do a midweek eviction due to Paul Merton on Wednesdays. Have they started doing double evictions yet?”

There hasn't been any double evictions yet this series. Tonight would have been a good opportunity as there's at least 3 out of the 5 up that I wouldn't mind seeing the back of.

I don't think there is Europa League Football that week as there's a matchday the previous week, so Thursday 10th is free for them to air the finale there if they want.

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“There hasn't been any double evictions yet this series. Tonight would have been a good opportunity as there's at least 3 out of the 5 up that I wouldn't mind seeing the back of.

I don't think there is Europa League Football that week as there's a matchday the previous week, so Thursday 10th is free for them to air the finale there if they want.”

I would think The Mentalist will replace Big Brother on Friday but it would have to face CIN on the 18th November. I think they should hold it back until January or February.

Dancc

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Jonwo:
“I would think The Mentalist will replace Big Brother on Friday but it would have to face CIN on the 18th November. I think they should hold it back until January or February.”

Yeah, even as a massive fan of the show, I don't see much point in bringing it back in 2011 now. At most they could fit maybe 6 or 7 episodes in before Christmas. Not really worth it.

It would rate better from January onwards anyway. Unsure as to how they will schedule it though with Celebrity Big Brother likely to be needing its usual Friday 9pm slot for a few weeks. As they don't have any football in January, they could maybe start it on Thursday nights, before moving it back to Fridays once CBB is over.

AlexiR

14-10-2011

US Ratings Thursday October 13

The X Factor dropped four tenths vs. last week (although I expect finals will adjust it up a tenth or two) but Fox still won the night in the demo. CBS took the top individual show though with The Big Bang Theory and a repeat of Big Bang at 8:30 was the second biggest demo performer of the night (yes a repeat of The Big Bang Theory beat everything else on broadcast Thursday night).

Elsewhere ABC were last in the 8PM hour with even The CW finishing a tenth ahead of them. With a stronger lead-in (from a repeat) Person of Interest was up a tenth vs. last week. And in something that makes absolutely no sense to me Whitney dropped to a 2.0 out of The Office just 24 hours after a repeat pulled a 1.4 out of Up All Night.

ABC
8PM: Charlie's Angels - 1.3
9PM: Grey's Anatomy - 3.4
10PM: Private Practice - 2.4

CBS
8PM: The Big Bang Theory - 4.4
8:30PM: The Big Bang Theory [r] - 3.7
9PM: Person of Interest - 2.7
10PM: The Mentalist - 2.5

Fox
8PM: The X Factor - 3.6

NBC
8PM: Community - 1.7
8:30PM: Parks & Recreations - 2.1
9PM: The Office - 3.2
9:30PM: Whitney - 2.0
10PM: Prime Suspect - 1.3

The CW
8PM: The Vampire Diaries - 1.4
9PM: The Secret Circle - 0.8

happy tv

14-10-2011

I would think the reason that the one show is getting more viewers is linked to Strictly come dancing, they did reveal the guests on it at the beginning and are always mentioning it. Watch the ratings to back to normal once it is over. I don't think it is for the popularity of Alex Jones, listening to her on strictly has put me right of the One show

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“
It would rate better from January onwards anyway. Unsure as to how they will schedule it though with Celebrity Big Brother likely to be needing its usual Friday 9pm slot for a few weeks. As they don't have any football in January, they could maybe start it on Thursday nights, before moving it back to Fridays once CBB is over.”

I think a late January start date after CBB would work, would be pointless putting it after CBB, I think All About Amy will likely air there.

Dallas I think they should save until after The Olympics, it ould be pointless airing it then as it would be crushed and it would allow them time to bring over the various cast members.

What movies have Channel 5 got for the week starting 29th October.

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by AlexiR:
“US Ratings Thursday October 13

The X Factor dropped four tenths vs. last week (although I expect finals will adjust it up a tenth or two) but Fox still won the night in the demo. CBS took the top individual show though with The Big Bang Theory and a repeat of Big Bang at 8:30 was the second biggest demo performer of the night (yes a repeat of The Big Bang Theory beat everything else on broadcast Thursday night).

Elsewhere ABC were last in the 8PM hour with even The CW finishing a tenth ahead of them. With a stronger lead-in (from a repeat) Person of Interest was up a tenth vs. last week. And in something that makes absolutely no sense to me Whitney dropped to a 2.0 out of The Office just 24 hours after a repeat pulled a 1.4 out of Up All Night. ”

While it must be incredibly tempting for CBS just to have TBBT repeats in that slot until midseason, I do think it would devalue ratings for repeats when they actually need to have repeats. ROE will probably do around 9-10m. Think the CBS two hour comedy block on Thursdays will probably happen next season, wouldn't be surprised to see them do an hour on another night like Sunday.

Dancc

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Jonwo:
“What movies have Channel 5 got for the week starting 29th October.”

No premieres that week. Cats & Dogs and Flatliners look to be the pick of the bunch.

A few for Halloween as well: The Canterville Ghost and The Ghost of Greville Lodge.

Jonwo

14-10-2011

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“No premieres that week. Cats & Dogs and Flatliners look to be the pick of the bunch.

A few for Halloween as well: The Canterville Ghost and The Ghost of Greville Lodge.”

I imagine they are saving premieres until after Big Brother and Downton Abbey have finished their run. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 should rate very well, would surprise me if both get 2.5-3m.

D.M.N.

14-10-2011

Thursday 13th October 2011
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.60m (23.1%)
19:30 - EastEnders: 8.41m (39.4%)
20:00 - Watchdog: 4.59m (19.9%)
21:00 - Hidden: 4.25m (19.0%)
22:35 - Question Time: 2.61m (20.3%)

BBC Two
19:00 - A History of Ancient Britain: 1.41m (6.8%)
20:00 - The Great British Bakeoff Masterclass: 1.95m (8.4%)
21:00 - Mixed Britannia: 1.15m (5.2%)
22:00 - Mock The Week: 1.82m (9.2%)

ITV1
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.62m (33.2%)
* +1: 107k (0.5%)
20:00 - Emmerdale: 6.51m (29.2%)
* +1: 288k (1.3%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.09m (29.8%)
* +1: 252k (1.1%)
21:00 - Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey: 3.64m (16.3%)
* +1: 199k (1.1%)

Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 1.14m (6.0%)
20:00 - Country House Rescue: 1.13m (4.9%)
* +1: 237k (1.1%)
21:00 - Educating Essex: 1.66m (7.4%)
* +1: 219k (1.2%)
22:00 - Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares: 920k (5.2%)
* +1: 194k (2.1%)

Channel 5
13:45 - Neighbours: 692k (9.9%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 950k (6.2%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 836k (4.8%)
19:30 - How Do They Do It?: 500k (2.3%)
20:00 - The True Story: 980k (4.3%)
21:00 - Extraordinary People: 1.12m (5.0%)
22:00 - Big Brother: 1.39m (7.8%)
23:00 - Big Brother's Bit On The Side: 535k (5.6%)

Ratings include HD and are tape-checked where necessary.

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 22.2%
ITV1 - 19.7% (+1: 0.7%)
BBC Two - 6.8%
Channel 4 - 5.1% (+1: 0.8%)
Channel 5 - 4.6%

Multichannels
5*
18:30 - Home and Away: 836k (4.8%)

BBC Three
21:00 - Junior Doctors: 615k (2.8%)
22:00 - EastEnders: 633k (3.2%)
22:30 - Lee Nelson's Well Good Show: 486k (3.1%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity: 507k (2.3%)

E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 463k (2.3%)

ITV2
22:00 - Celebrity Juice: 1.36m (7.2%)
* +1: 265k (2.5%)

Sky1
22:00 - House: 208k (1.2%)

Source: DS

Poor ratings for the ITV1 soaps, Corrie only just over 7 million is very poor. Would be interesting to see the official soap averages so far this year. Neighbours also look a tad slow at under 1 million.

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