They are effectively paying the new going rate for the rights - they wrote down the value of the previous contract.

I cant see ITV going wild - I dont think they will go for exclusivity on Euro 2012 for example. I think we will see more strengthing of ITV4 to get it up to a 2% share by acquiring more sports rights.

Ideally I think ITV would like to see ITV2 at a 3-4% share, ITV3 at 3% and ITV4 at somewhere above 2%. Put those tgether with CITV at 0.3% and you would have a m/c share of about 9% versus ITV1 of say 17-18%.

I don't understand why the BBC don't do a full run of Celebrity Apprentice, I've watched the American version and it's fantastially entertaining. I know they do a short one for Comic Relief or one of the charities, but I think a longer version one could be really entertaining.

Channel 5 Data Report: Monday 24th October

06:00 Milkshake!: 162k (3.3%)
09:15 The Wright Stuff: 344k (5.2%)
11:10 LIVE with Gabby with Kaye Adams: 130k (2.2%)
13:45 Neighbours: 661k (8.5%)
14:15 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [Rpt]: 276k (3.9%)
15:15 A Time to Remember: 558k (6.1%)
17:00 5 News at 5 with Matt Barbet: 703k (5.5%)
17:30 Neighbours [Rpt]: 1.21m (7.6%)
18:00 Home & Away [Rpt]: 998k (5.2%)
20:00 The Gadget Show: 973k (3.9%)
21:00 New Hotel Inspector: 1.11m (4.4%)
22:00 Big Brother: 1.43m (7.6%)
23:00 Big Brother's Bit on the Side: 610k (6.1%)
00:00 Police Interceptors [Rpt]: 338k (7.0%)

Good rating for Big Brother last night. That's its second highest rated Monday episode of the series so far. Hotel Inspector was down -17% week on week, perhaps Young Apprentice dented it.

#youngapprentice returns with 4m. #terranova going strong with an average of 713k and peaking at 935k

Source: John Williams

Same start for the Young Apprentice as last year's series.

Home & Away could surely have been rounded up to a straight 1m couldn't it, it was only 2k short bit mean I would have said heh.

How is it the very moment I log off from the computer the ratings arrive, it happened yesterday and almost every saturday, its like they are waiting for me to switch off heh, good job i'm on all day for the rest of the week

Or mount a bid for the Six Nations... which would do extremely well for ITV... with the potential for Friday night games on ITV1, as well as boosting weekends in February.

But the viewer probably wouldn't approve... ITV's coverage of the Rugby World Cup wasn't great. They should really be trying harder to get the critical acclaim as well, by spending more money on the programme (and having more features/making it more of an event).

Rugby is surely a better money-spinner for ITV because
1) The profile of the audience is generally more money-making, and
2) You get high audiences for not just matches involving England, but Wales, Ireland and Scotland - in fact, every game is guaranteed a pretty good audience bar France v Italy. That's why the Rugby World Cup has been a great investment. International rugby is king.

Of course, the FA have only themselves to blame about the rights...the tournament has become essentially irrelevant. Semi-finals need to be played at neutral grounds again (having them at Wembley just undermines the final) and there needs to be an added incentive for the winner (lots of money or a CL place)

Carling Cup rights seem more viable in the long term... probably cheap as chips and something to boost ITV4. And big semi-final ties can be promoted on ITV1 - I remember the Man Utd v Man City game got huge ratings for BBC1.

The 6 Nations rugby rights are extremely over priced compared to the commercial revenues available. ITV will never buy them at the current rate (they are not available til 2015 anyway)

Anything ITV would bid would be for England only rights but even thats unlikely.

A few ratings from yesterday:

Young Apprentice (BBC1): 4.0m (15.6%)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2): 2.0m (8.5%)
Mummifying Alan (C4): 1.4m (6.1%) , +1: 345,585 (2.2%)

Source: Attentional

8 MATCH OF THE DAY LIVE (TUE 2000) 6.98
Tuesday 19th January 2010, 8pm, BBC1

The above is the Manchester derby in question.

As regards to Six Nations, it ticks all the boxes for ITV and I believe it has a good ABC1 male demographic (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no ratings expert) or it has a good young male demographic, the sort of demos that F1 was getting on ITV and still is getting on the BBC.

Looks like Sir Alan will be giving Piers £5000.

I don't really bother with Young/Junior Apprentice. It's the main one people like and I have no idea why they keep rolling this one out.

Great rating for Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.

Nine million viewers (average inc HD & +1) watched Doc Martin on @ITV1 last night.

Source: ITV Press Centre

posted to wrong forum lol

Monday 24th October Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.4m (34.7%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 5.1m (26.4%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 6.2m (29.5%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.5m (20.3%)
19:30- Inside Out: 3.4m (14.3%)
20:00- EastEnders: 8.7m (34.7%)
20:30- Britain, Gaddafi and the Torture Trail - Panorama: 2.6m (10.7%)
21:00- Young Apprentice: 4.0m (15.6%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.4m (20.2%)
22:35- A Question of Sport: 2.6m (16.6%)

BBC Two
18:00- Eggheads: 1.7m (9.0%)
18:30- Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two: 2.2m (10.5%)
19:00- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: 2.0m (8.9%)
20:00- University Challenge: 3.0m (12.1%)
20:30- Baking Made Easy: 2.0m (8.2%)
21:00- Origins of Us: 1.6m (6.2%)
22:00- Never Mind the Buzzcocks: 1.4m (6.4%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.9m (6.3%)

ITV1 (inc ITV1+1)
06:00- Daybreak: 0.6m (17.1%)
08:30- Lorraine: 1.0m (16.3%)
09:25- The Jeremy Kyle Show: 1.4m (19.8%)
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 3.9m (18.0%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 7.7m (34.2%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 9.2m (39.0%)
20:00- Little England: 3.3m (13.1%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 9.0m (35.9%)
21:00- Doc Martin: 9.0m (34.2%)
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather: 3.2m (14.9%)
22:35- Exposure: On the Run: 1.6m (11.5%)

Channel 4 (inc C4+1)
18:00- The Simpsons: 2.0m (8.5%)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.4m (6.2%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.8m (3.3%)
20:00- Brave New World with Stephen Hawking: 0.7m (2.7%)
21:00- Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret: 1.8m (6.1%)
22:00- Rude Tube: 1.1m (7.3%)

Channel 5
18:00- Home and Away: 1.0m (5.2%)
18:25- OK! TV: 0.3m (1.2%)
19:00- 5 News at 7: 0.1m (0.7%)
19:30- Celebrity Wish List: 0.2m (0.7%)
20:00- The Gadget Show: 1.0m (3.9%)
21:00- New The Hotel Inspector: 1.1m (4.4%)
22:00- Big Brother: 1.4m (7.5%)

Ratings include HD and are full-slot averages

Seems BB is gaining nice momentum, how long is left now? Apprentice lowish IMO, I know it's the same as the last opener, but thought for the time of year might have been higher. Thought the episode was pretty weak myself, last year I really enjoyed it.

Excellent performance for Hollyoaks. It really is gaining momentum. Would be good to see its E4 rating.

Better ratings for the soaps last night.

It would be nice for EE and Coronation Street to get high 9's and Emmerdale 8's.

I think by November they will be doing that.

What are the ratings for ITV1 and Channel 4 excluding +1?

Two TV related topics back-to-back on The Wright Stuff.

"What's the point of Mummifying Alan?"

"Can Cowell save The X Factor?"

Another excellent Monday for ITV1 - the major bright spot of the whole week. Corrie didn't really receive any boost from last week, but its stable and both 9m+ (inc. +1). Emmerdale increased again on last Monday by 0.3m with +1 included. Odd how Emmerdale grew, but Corrie remained almost dead level despite the trial week commencing. DS' Corrie ratings aren't tape-checked either and for the entire slots so the second episode will be higher as it finished at 20.55. Junior Apprentice started lower than I expected, but it didn't really dent Doc Martin which is unstoppable this series. Shame H&A was just shy of breaking the 1m mark for their big week. Hopefully tonight it can nudge past 1m.

7.3m was overnight, 8pm-10pm.

It's a shame yeah - Grade should never have given up on the F1... he overbid for England and FA Cup matches and should've left it at the BBC until such time that the price was lower and instead committed to F1/6Nations/RWC/Carling Cup/Champions League so there was a nice mix. Shame ITV4 let go of the Grand Slam of Darts, which is on Sky this year, too.

I dont think junior Apprentice will keep 4 million viewers, very poor last night, think just to much rubbish reality at the moment for people.

Me neither. Not sure how low it could fall though.

Could be rather good news for ITV1's The Jury.

I have no time for Young Apprentice. The Jury looks promising ratings might fluctuate across the week depending on how strong Death In Paradise & Frozen Planet in the ratings.