Got To Dance 641,000 - peaked at 1m.

John Thaw on ITV1 1.8m.

ITV1s share for the day 11%

Nothing, barring ITV1 showing a Coronation St where the Rovers Return blows up, would have beaten EE last night. 3.5 million isn't bad considering some of ITV's ratings last year.
Also this high rating for EE might make the BBC consider showing a few more specials on Sundays.

Ab Fab 7.1m / 28.3%

Robbie is suspiciously quiet - I wonder if his broadband has gone down

Harry Potter took 522k on +1 but its excl +1 audience only a little way ahead of BBC2's Great Barrier Reef with 3.02m

Even the repeat of Ratatouilie on BBC3 managed 1.02m, although that started as Sherlock and Potter were finishing.

Dubsj- what did Bolt average on BBC1?


BBC Two had a good evening yesterday, especially at 8pm. Harry Potter looks a bit more respectable at 4m (inc +1) but still at least a million lower than where it ought to have been.

Another good performance for it.

Good, I think BBC One has had an excellent night.
It will be interesting this year to see if BBC One can keep up the momentum, and they have the monopoly on the Olympics and half of the Euros to keep going through the summer months. While ITV's drama output is strong, and they still have their four reality/ talent hits to come this year, they really need to strengthen their other entertainment and breakfast/morning output as last year saw Daybreak continue to stall and a long list of entertainment flops.

Crumbs. This is looking bad for me on the RPG.

New Year's Day 2012 Overnights
BBC One
19:00- EastEnders: 9.76m (36%)
* peak: 11.22m (39%)
20:00- Sherlock: 8.75m (30.9%)
* peak: 9.52m
21:40- Absolutely Fabulous: 7.1m (28.3%)

BBC Two
20:00- Great Barrier Reef 3.02m (10.6%)
21:00- A History of Ancient Britain Special 2.26m (8.3%)

ITV1
19:00- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: 3.45m (12.5%) , +1: 522k (2%)
21:45- The Unforgettable... John Thaw: 1.8m

Channel 4
20:00- The Hotel: 1.78m (6.2%) , +1 316k (1.2%)
21:00- Bear's Wild Weekend: 1.67m (6.1%) , +1 378k (1.7%)

Channel 5
19:00- World's Strongest Man: 1.47m (5.4%)
20:00- An Audience with Dame Edna: 423k (1.5%)

BBC Three
21:40- Ratatouille: 1.02m (4.8%)
23:20- EastEnders: 736k (6.6%)

Sky1
18:00- Got To Dance: 641,000
* peak: 1.0m
19:00- Treasure Island: 1.01m
* peak: 1.17m
21:00- Hawaii 5-O: 655k

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 30.2%
ITV1: 11% (+1: 1.6%)
BBC Two: 9.4%
Channel 4: 5.1%
Channel 5: 3.3%

Ratings include HD and are full-slot averages

Sources: DS, dubsj, John Williams, Michael Rosser

Does anyone know how the Adele special rated on BBC1? I note that her album has risen back to the no.1 spot on iTunes and a handful of her singles have also risen markedly!

If you add the BBC Three repeat to EE's BBC One figure, 10.5 million is very good. Ouch for John Thaw, though, I thought an Unforgettable based on such a good actor deserved 3 million.

That EE peaked at 11.2m but only averaged 9.7m confirms that millions were caught out by the Sunday showing/early slot.

Looks like millions switched off Sherlock in first 5 mins, and I wonder if the lengthy reshowing of the final scene from s1 put off new viewers. Couldn't see the point of the pre titles stuff as it had nothing to do with what followed so far as l can discern. I shall have to rewatch in iPlayer and see if it makes more sense, clearly if it averaged nearly 9m it must have done something right. Tough battle for it next week, will probably knock at least a million off.

Strong for AbFab, held up well on the xmas day ep.

What a disaster of disasters for ITV. Suspect I'm not the only person with a bad headache this morning!

Christmas Dramas Battle

1. Sherlock 8.8m
2. Downton Abbey 8.1m

How did that happen?

Has Fincham fallen on his sword yet?

ITV1 can relax tonight as its two big soaps are back on. Usually the first week of January sees CS and Emmerdale up by a million for some reason, maybe bad weather and the return to work.

If so, then it makes me wonder why some people would not be able to read a listing magazine, the TV listings in the newspapers, or even the EPG.

Because there were no ad breaks in Sherlock to bring the average down? Same length programme but 35 minutes of Downton's 2h5m slot wasn't Downton!!

Non-complementary lead in from Harry Potter. I can see why ITV wanted to schedule it last night considering Endeavor, but it could have got a far better slot at 8 or 9pm last week

I think DA only went up to 8.2m without ads included.

Well, you say that, but Graham Norton's shows on BBC1 never ran up until midnight, albeit they were followed by the fireworks and that. And some pre-recorded midnight shows are awful, not something like Jools Holland but in 2001 BBC1 did an atrocious Jonathan Ross show which was just a bog-standard chat show with hopeless in-house Beeb standby guests like Ulrika, and I remember Vinnie Jones appearing at five to midnight and plugging his film, which was appalling, an utterly miserable affair.

Someone here the other week speculated about the lead-in for New Year Live but if there's ever a show that doesn't need a lead-in, it's that.


In the first season, the plan was not to do shows in international weekends when there were no Championship fixtures, which is what ITV did as well, only for the contract to suggest otherwise, so they have done that. The only time they don't have to do one is during FA Cup third and fourth round weekends, like this Saturday when there are only nine fixtures in the league.

In previous seasons they have done Boxing Day shows but it's not just the cost of the rights that have to be taken into consideration but the cost of mounting the show. ITV didn't always do Boxing Day shows either.

As for the ratings, I would suggest the audience at midnight on Saturday is the same as at 10am on Sunday, I think it gets about a million which I reckon would be broadly similar to ITV. Perhaps more, actually, given the better lead-in and its bounce around the schedule on ITV.

Speaking of football, ITV's FA Cup highlights on Saturday are at 11.30, which is pathetic, after a repeat of Celebrity Juice. Be different if there was a live game earlier where they could have shown the goals, but no, this is the only FA Cup coverage on ITV all day. If the Beeb had done this there'd be uproar.


The moral here is not to post when you're drunk. I can't see Wild at Heart being very strong competition either, it's about the umpteenth series and I think only the DoI sandwich is responsible for its decent ratings. Sherlock is a proper hit show and last night's was brilliant. It was a fantastic BBC1 line-up.


Indeed, the fact there's one on today won't help, and that one that was on the Strictly final day (in fact my mum thought that one was a premiere, I had to explain it wasn't). I wonder if they could have done what they sometimes do with film premieres and show it again next Saturday teatime.

Rather than some vague, wierd attack on ITV and Fincham, do you not think it's great that the number 1 state PSB broadcaster and the number 1 commercial PSB broadcaster have been able to deliver new drama over Christmas with over 8million viewers for a single episode?

Also, you say 8.2million for Downton without adverts, rtz shows 8.5m with the data he has. Plus you've rounded Sherlock up to 8.8m when it could be 8.7m. And you ignore ITV+1 as it suits your agenda...

So, we now have the following:

Sherlock 8.7 (poss 8.8m)
Downton Abbey 8.9m (inc +1, exc adverts)

You call it spin, I say it's facts which you will ignore as it doesn't suit you. Perhaps Fincham will not be jumping onto any swords yet...

I imagine the EE peak was at the end with a lot of people just tuning in to see the death scene.

Plus not all Sherlock viewers would have watched EE so that peak may include those viewers switching on Sherlock early (and watching the death scene, the voyeurs!)

Sherlock's peak will include non-Sherlock EE viewers taking 5 minutes to find a newspaper to see what else is on.

Completely different programmes, a film about a teenage wizard popular mostly with young people and an actor whose fan base tended to be older. However, once the +1 is included, reasonable figure for Harry Potter against such strong opposition.

Really?

That shocks me!
So, does this mean on average, only approx 0.1m out of 8.2m on average have avoided the adverts?

Or is it that 10m+ are watching the programme for example, but only 5m approx are watching the adverts for 35mins of the slot bringing the average down???

The strange 8.10pm start time would caused some confusion. Even the ratings above show Sherlock as 8pm.