we have been spolit.

All three arn't exactly shows that cost the channels much either!
What makes them big is their massive audiences!

BBC and ITV bring those massive audiences and the shows help them achieve it. Means the 'price' they pay isn't inflated too much by competition from other channels/Sky.


IAC doing very very decent, remember this is the type of format that BB was! (different in a lot of ways, but 'reality' wise not by much)

X Factor doing okay. So is Strictly.
Neither 'building' an audience though. X Factor producers made a pretty big mistake last night - it felt like just another weekly song contest, not enough shouting about 'the finale'.


So yeah - another very dull set of ratings

Like every year in about 5 weeks from now we will be discussing how Casualty won the night with 5m and dismissing ratings of 10m as poor will look increasingly daft.

I guess it's a good point kind of...

Most Watched Show of the Week - Week Ending
07/08 - 09.41m - New Tricks (Mon, BBC1)
14/08 - 09.23m - New Tricks (Mon, BBC1)
21/08 - 12.18m - The X Factor (Sat, ITV1)
28/08 - 11.65m - The X Factor (Sat, ITV1)
04/09 - 11.97m - The X Factor (Sat, ITV1)
11/09 - 12.04m - The X Factor (Sat, ITV1)
18/09 - 12.41m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
25/09 - 12.18m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
02/10 - 12.92m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
09/10 - 12.61m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
16/10 - 12.10m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
23/10 - 12.01m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
30/10 - 12.75m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
06/11 - ~12.68m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)*
13/11 - 13.25m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)
20/11 - 12.57m - The X Factor (Sun, ITV1)

Source: BARB

* HD figure unavailable, have estimated it at ~1.1m

Have deliberately gone back that far, despite their drop it is still the most watched show every week. It has, however, largely stagnated in the 12m's for Sundays as the figures show.

Thanks for those figures, Wetten Dass is a ratings monster in Germany. It literally towers over every other entertainment series over there ratings-wise: besides Wetten Dass, IAC and Got Talent are the most watched entertainment shows there with ratings of around 6-9m, so look how well ahead Wetten Dass is compared to those shows which are considered very successful.

Speaking of German ratings, The Voice launched last week and it's gone on to become a success there: 'The Voice of Germany' launched last week on Pro7/Sat1 and rival TV station RTL tried to strangle it at birth by airing 'Das Supertalent', their version of Got Talent, against it. Das Supertalent got 5.83m while The Voice got 3.89m - but for Pro7/Sat1 (equivalent to one of the smaller terrestrial channels here), that was a really good rating for The Voice given the opposition - it's basically equivalent to if it got c7m here up against BGT. The Voice of Germany actually beat Das Supertalent in the 18-44 category which was seen as a major victory as that's what matters the most over there. The second night, The Voice then grew its audience by over +12% to 4.36m. It's continued to build its audience episode by episode, with 4.58m for episode 3 and then once again it went up for episode 4 to 4.89m.

It's worth noting that in all three major markets The Voice has aired in so far - The Netherlands, USA, Germany - its ratings have increased for episode 2. I think this bodes well for the BBC version, as long as they stick firmly to the format and have reasonable/good judges. The format seems to be a winner.


It's a shame but it does seem like the 2010 figures for some of these reality shows will always cast a big shadow over them. Even if these shows do get really good ratings now or in the future, they'll still be seen as disappointing by some because they're not getting the abnormally high numbers they were last year. I'm mostly referring to SCD and IAC here, as TXF should be holding up better than what it has been doing. But SCD managed its 2nd best quarter final rating ever last night. Even if it's c1m down from the much-hyped Wembley week a couple of weeks ago, I still don't think that's poor. Even as recently as 2-3 years ago, the equivalent episode had 9m, so there's been a nice improvement there (albeit down from last year). Looking back at past SCD figures, a lot of series have had a big figure mid-series for whatever reason and then it hasn't necessarily built towards the finale, its figures have dropped or flatlined before a spike for the finale - that's the same thing happening this year. SCD building its ratings every week until the finale rarely happens, last year's series was an exception, and actually even that series experienced a drop after Ann Widdecombe was eliminated. IAC's just gone onto have its 2nd best rated Autumn series ever, but because it managed about half a million higher last year, it's apparently only just doing "okay" now. For both SCD and IAC this series overall to rate just c5% lower than last year's record runs is really good IMO.

No problem.

The last shows from Wetten Dass had lower ratings. In comparision to the Novembershow they won nearly 5m viewers. Wetten Dass is over the last years really hurt by RTL with Das Supertalent or DSDS (our Idol show). But it has the most times the most viewers in the group of all viewers. Only I am a celebrity was this year better.

Ratings from Supertalent last night:

20:15 to 22:55

All viewers: 4,85 Mio. (15,0 %)
14-49 years old: 2,52 Mio. (20,2 %)

The number 3 yesterday at 20;15 was a James Bond movie (Tomorrow never dies) on ARD.

All viewers: 2,46 Mio. (7,5 %)
14-49 years old: 0,82 Mio. (6,7 %)

Saturday 3rd December Overnights
BBC One
19:00- Strictly Come Dancing: 10.33m (41.7%)
20:00- Merlin: 5.66m (21.8%)
20:45- Casualty: 3.84m (15.1%)

BBC Two
20:00- 100 Years of the Palladium: 2.29m (8.9%)
21:00- QI XL: 1.81m (7.2%)

ITV1
19:30- Harry Hill's The Best of TV Burp: 4.53m (17.7%) , +1: 239k (0.9%)
20:00- The X Factor: 10.26m (39.9%) , +1: 357k (1.5%)
21:30- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!: 9.67m (40.8%) , +1: 232k (1.4%)

Channel 4
20:00- Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters: 646k (2.5%) , +1: 118k (0.5%)
21:00- Taken: 1.23m (5.2%) , +1: 387k (2.2%)

Channel 5
20:15- NCIS: 478k (1.8%)
21:00- An Audience with Bob Monkhouse: 840k (3.4%)

ITV2
21:30- The Xtra Factor: 320k (1.4%)
22:30- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Now!: 1.61m (9.6%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 31.7%
BBC One: 23.8%.
BBC Two: 6.2%
Channel 4: 3.5%
Channel 5: 3.3%

Ratings include HD and are tape-checked where necessary

Source: DS

Very poor for Casualty. Very good for 100 Years Of The Palladium.

Quite unusual to see I'm a Celebrity with a higher share than The X Factor. Great ITV2 figure, which will be heading into the multichannel top 20.

Don't think Xtra Factor stood much of a chance last night competing with I'm a Celebrity, especially when the show had a live link to the jungle encouraging people to stay tuned!

Good grief, a shocker for Casualty - by name and by nature. Surprising really given the mediocre figures for TXF and IAC. Almost looks like the Palladium show on BBC2 harmed it more than ITV's offerings.

Will be in the low 3m's for its "pre-break" episode next weekend then, and one questions the wisdom of a 90min/60min double header weekend return in January. Or perhaps it will need it?

BTW, just been looking on YouTube to see if the latest BBC1 xmas trail I only caught part of last night had been uploaded. Doesn't look like it, but I found this from last August. Haven't seen it before, and don't think it was transmitted at least in this full version (being over 2 mins long) - but it features brief clips from The Royal Bodyguard, The Borrowers, Sherlock and various other "autumn/winter" BBC1 treats that haven't yet aired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OdFTLfATM0

From the one David Jason gag in the showreel (56 seconds and 1m57secs), it seems like his Royal Bodyguard character might be a well spoken, posh Del Boy - with a dodgy sirrup. Which is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it...

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that gag with the lobster actually featured in OFAH once.

Come January when the ITV1 competition weakens considerably, Casualty will be back up in the high 5's or even the 6's. Maybe the 7's if the weather turns really bad.

Last night in this household the Palladium show provided background whilst we waited for Casualty to start. Pleasant little piece of nostalgia.

Timeshifted ratings are very similar for both 2010/2011, maybe the only thing we can safely say is that a small percentage of viewers are in no hurry to watch the show live and are quite content to watch at leisure the next day onwards.

Casualty producers seem to bow to the inevitable in late autumn, there's no way the show can pull in the sort of audiences it has at other times due to TXF. Fair play to BBC One for keeping faith with the show and not replacing it with weak filler at this time of year.
However, TXF seems to have stabilised at 10-11 million. It is still a huge figure these days, but the show seems to have lost a bit ofm its own X Factor this year.Yet to say it is in crisis is a myth as I predict it has a few good years left in it.

Any sign of ratings for "The Killing" e5/6?

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Casualty is c.4.95m in the officials recently, this week it ought timeshift okay.

It would seem, from a comment quoted in the Christmas Radio Times, that the writers are aiming to create family viewing comedy and there's nothing wrong with that.

A couple of issues ago, Alison Graham, the RT TV editor, chose TRB as one of her 12 treats of Christmas, because it's by the writers of Worst Week Of My Life which she liked. Previewing TRB in the Xmas RT, however, Alison is remarkably non-committal, describing it as neither good or bad. She describes it as "the most undemanding of farces" which, to me, leans towards "bad". But you could probably use that expression to describe My Family, which enjoyed many years of ratings success. No critical success, mind, but, hey!, you can't have everything.

This thread makes me laugh 3 show peeking over 11m is not astonishingly poor and maybe some people have forgotten the weather we had this time last year it was freezing.

SCD was always going to struggle to emulate the brilliant Wembley show which if it has a downside is the fact that it seemed like a final half way through the series. A slight anti-climax has followed and a few casual viewers have gone with Russell it seems. Its a curious thing with these types of shows that every week a reason for an element of the audience to tune in is discarded. Just shows how important and difficult it must be to get the cast list right-and getting them to appear too.

IAC follows DOI I think, in that its launch episode provides its biggest rating.

With regard to plus 1, maybe when all the terrestrials have it we can add it in as an overall figure.

Another lukewarm figure for X Factor, just over 10m for the semi-final would have been laughed at if it had been said a few months ago, 23% y-o-y decline is pretty startling.

SCD did OK but seems to have lost momentum after Russell Grant left at Wembley.

Im A Celeb's figure is disappointing compared to last year's finale too.


We should call Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death a 40m+ show then by that reckoning.

Haven't seen anyone describe it as 'astonishingly poor' most are quite positive!

Also its not exactly summer weather where I live!

That I don't think was ever used on telly, just at the Edinburgh Television Festival at the beginning of the Danny Cohen session. Just done a twitter search for The Royal Bodyguard, there appears to of been a screening a few days ago. These are the tweets I've found:

C5 do the same thing pretty much every Sunday.


Notice "The Voice of Ireland" begins in January on RTE, so be interesting to see how that performs.

I've still no idea how it'll do on the BBC - the confirmed signings so far aren't too bad, but it's all down to whether the public will buy into it. For years people have said they wanted The X Factor to take itself a bit more seriously, yet one of the biggest complaints this year is it's lost it's fun - so really The Voice could get anything from 4m to 14m for the BBC.

This was an outrageous piece of television, it staggers me that C4 can forever bang on about innovating and caring about new comedy, and then devote so much time to the lazy, lazy Kay and another bloody clip show. This was just a rehash of that DVD he "did" a few years ago which was just all his old adverts and clips of him on chat shows, which was an outrageous rip-off DVD to release, even more so now it's been on telly in virtually identical form. Ten years ago Kay was my favourite comedian, now I can't stand the man, he is the laziest comedian in Britain. I have no idea why the public still give him the time of day.


It's actually two weeks later, the second leg of that. And yes, the Liverpool match will doubtless do extremely well, I think the Beeb can be happy with that - as I said earlier, either leg of that would rate well and you've got the decisive leg of the other semi which adds a bit more interest to it (unless one of the teams is 5-0 up, natch).


It's a shame that this will presumably be the only Two Ronnie stuff we get on telly from now on, because I don't want to see Ronnie B looking so ill. Surely it wouldn't be too hard just to put some new compilations together, especially as these had to be re-edited to half an hour. It's like how the only Not The Nine O'Clock News we ever get now are the rubbish badly edited 1995 compilations.

Speaking of stuff going missing from the schedules, I dunno if anyone noticed but two weeks ago there wasn't a QI on Friday because of Children In Need, but they still did the extended version on the Saturday, even billed in all the listings as "an extended version of last night's episode". They still haven't shown the half hour edit. Have they forgotten they've not shown it?