Anyone got the numbers for BB's Bit on the Side on 5* @ 11pm ?

Well there are news articles about late 90s viewing figures. I've done some digging and here's a news article from October 1997:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Adam&#...ed.-a061060393. Notable is the low EastEnders rating (only 15.9m) which was presumably aggregated with omnibus included; unaggregated, it was being beaten often by Emmerdale and Heartbeat during the rocky 97-98 era. Casualty did well around this time but Saturday night TV was on somewhat of a decline as very few shows failed to break even 13 million, and Casualty languished in the 11/12 million range quite often, and the last time it was in the BARB top 10 was in 1998; as did London's Burning, which sometimes slipped to 10 million during Series 10 - its highest rating that series IIRC was 14m in Feb 1998 if someone could correct me on that.

Here is an article from August 1996: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Soaps+...rs.-a061327414.

Notable is Corrie's good rating on a Wednesday, traditionally its strongest night; The Bill putting in a very strong figure on a summer night and on a Tuesday, without a Corrie lead-in that it had on Fridays.

My final article from the Free Library site is from August 1997, a year later:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Wyclif...op.-a061061584

Notable is Wycliffe doing very well with nearly 10m - shame it wasn't recommissioned after 1998. The Bill sinking down to under 8m, a very poor rating at the time; both EastEnders and Corrie low with 13m so looks to me that that week was quite warm. Airport did really well to secure an 8m rating, and just the following year with a Casualty lead-in of usually 12m in late 98, regularly secured 10m viewers.

So there's my analysis. There are more articles if you search hard enough.

Anyone got the ratings for the Royal Bodyguard double bill yesterday afternoon?

I'd forgotten he was starting today, I would have recorded it.

It shows how much Channel 4 is off people's radars thesedays. If a presenter was changing on one of ITV's daytime shows there would be about 10 threads discussing it and tabloid newspapers getting ready to critique it.

Super stuff for Sherlock, especially more so that it knocked Dancing on Ice and Wild at Heart off top spot, although the two did hold up to their credit. Nice to see two dramas complimenting each other in 2012 with strong audiences, irrespective of which one won.

Final end of year charts are on their way...

Most Watched Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 13.95m - THE ROYAL WEDDING (29/04/11 - 08:00 TO 13:40) - BBC1/HD/BBC NEWS
02 - 13.46m - THE X FACTOR (11/12/11) - ITV1/HD
03 - 13.39m - STRICTLY COME DANCING (17/12/11) - BBC1/HD/3D
04 - 12.63m - BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT (04/06/11) - ITV1/HD
05 - 12.56m - CORONATION STREET (14/02/11) - ITV1/HD

06 - 12.50m - I'M A CELEBRITY - GET ME OUT OF HERE! (13/11/11) - ITV1/HD
07 - 12.15m - DOWNTON ABBEY (06/11/11) - ITV1/HD
08 - 11.42m - EASTENDERS (03/01/11) - BBC1/HD
09 - 10.77m - DOCTOR WHO (25/12/11) - BBC1/HD
10 - 10.76m - BBC NEWS (29/04/11) - BBC1/HD

11 - 10.67m - NEW YEAR LIVE (31/12/11) - BBC1/HD
12 - 10.49m - DOC MARTIN (17/10/11) - ITV1/HD
13 - 10.26m - COMIC RELIEF (18/03/11) - BBC1/HD
14 - 10.24m - THE APPRENTICE (17/07/11) - BBC1/HD
== - 10.24m - CHILDREN IN NEED (18/11/11) - BBC1/HD

16 - 10.23m - DANCING ON ICE (09/01/11) - ITV1/HD
17 - 9.87m - NEW TRICKS (15/08/11) - BBC1/HD
18 - 9.72m - FROZEN PLANET (02/11/11) - BBC1/HD
19 - 9.68m - THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST (14/05/11) - BBC1/HD
20 - 9.52m - EMMERDALE (13/01/11) - ITV1/HD

Notes:
- No duplicates: i.e. no BGT/DOI/XF in there twice.
- HD audience included for all programmes airing on HD
- BBC1 HD is bundled in automatically with BBC1
- ITV1 +1 excluded
- The Royal Wedding is BBC1 and BBC News only.

Most Watched Multichannel Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 2.69m - LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY (06/02/11) - Sky Sports 1
02 - 2.67m - CELEBRITY JUICE (27/10/11) - ITV2
03 - 2.66m - AN IDIOT ABROAD (23/09/11) - Sky1
04 - 2.63m - GLEE (17/01/11) - E4
05 - 2.01m - TERRA NOVA (03/10/11) - Sky1

06 - 2.00m - HATTIE (19/01/11) - BBC4
07 - 2.00m - TROLLIED (04/08/11) - Sky1
08 - 1.99m - BRITAIN'S GOT MORE TALENT (04/06/11) - ITV2
09 - 1.97m - LIVE FORD FOOTBALL SPECIAL (01/03/11) - Sky Sports 2
10 - 1.96m - EASTENDERS (01/12/11) - BBC3

11 - 1.94m - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (12/04/11) - Sky Sports 2
12 - 1.93m - THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX (09/11/11) - ITV2
13 - 1.88m - I'M A CELEBRITY - GET ME OUT OF HERE! NOW! (03/11/11) - ITV2
14 - 1.81m - LIVE FA COMMUNITY SHIELD FOOTBALL (07/08/11) - Sky Sports 1
15 - 1.77m - MAD DOGS (03/03/11) - Sky1

16 - 1.72m - LIVE INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL (07/10/10) - Sky Sports 2
17 - 1.71m - FAMILY GUY (22/05/11) - BBC3
18 - 1.69m - JUNIOR DOCTORS (15/03/11) - BBC3
19 - 1.67m - LIVE FORD MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (22/08/11) - Sky Sports 1
20 - 1.58m - THE XTRA FACTOR (10/09/11) - ITV2

Most Watched Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - The 'Alternative' List]
01 - 8.80m - BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS (08/02/11) - C4
02 - 7.72m - COMIC RELIEF (18/03/11) - BBC2/HD
03 - 7.38m - TOP GEAR (23/01/11) - BBC2/HD
04 - 6.65m - ERIC AND ERNIE (01/01/11) - BBC2
05 - 5.27m - CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER (17/08/11) - C5

06 - 5.06m - THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF (04/10/11) - BBC2
07 - 4.77m - DRAGONS' DEN (31/07/11) - BBC2/HD
08 - 4.59m - MORECAMBE AND WISE CHRISTMAS SHOW (01/01/11) - BBC2
09 - 4.58m - PAGE EIGHT (28/08/11) - BBC2/HD
10 - 4.45m - FILM: ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (13/11/11) - C4

11 - 4.42m - WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE (06/03/11) - BBC2/HD
12 - 4.35m - MATCH OF THE DAY (25/01/11) - BBC2/HD
13 - 4.32m - MADAGASCAR (15/02/11) - BBC2/HD
14 - 4.27m - CHILDREN IN NEED (18/11/11) - BBC2/HD
15 - 4.21m - THE APPRENTICE - YOU'RE FIRED! (13/07/11) - BBC2/HD

16 - 4.17m - EMBARRASSING BODIES (04/02/11) - C4
17 - 4.10m - ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT EGG (02/03/11) - BBC2/HD
18 - 4.05m - SHAMELESS (10/01/11) - C4
19 - 3.98m - STARGAZING LIVE (03/01/11) - BBC2/HD
20 - 3.93m - WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP (02/05/11) - BBC2

Source: BARB. Excludes +1, Includes HD for Terrestrial Chart. Only 1 programme per 'show', i.e. only one Ford Super Sunday game. The alternative chart does not include programmes bumped from BBC One.

The respective winners are: The Royal Wedding, Ford Super Sunday and Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.

Most Watched Shows of 2012 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 10.69m - EASTENDERS (01/01/12) - BBC1/HD
02 - 10.66m - SHERLOCK (01/01/12) - BBC1/HD
03 - 7.97m - ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (01/01/12) - BBC1/HD
04 - 5.35m - BBC NEWS (01/01/12) - BBC1/HD

*insert another several shows here*

Most Watched Multichannel Shows of 2011 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 2.16m - TREASURE ISLAND (01/01/12) - Sky1
02 - 1.60m - LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY (01/01/12) - Sky Sports 1
03 - 1.16m - HAWAII FIVE-0 (01/01/12) - Sky1
04 - 1.12m - FILM: RATATOUILLE (01/01/12) - BBC3
05 - 1.07m - FILM: CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (01/01/12) - ITV2

06 - 0.98m - GOT TO DANCE (01/01/12) - Sky1
07 - 0.82m - EASTENDERS (01/01/12) - BBC3

Source: BARB. Excludes +1, Includes HD for Terrestrial Chart. Only 1 programme per 'show', i.e. only one Ford Super Sunday game.

Otherwise known as the most pointless set of charts of the year. Although two shows will probably remain in there all year long...

Also:

1 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1933) 9.23
2 CORONATION STREET (THU 2032) 8.95
3 CORONATION STREET (MON 2000) 8.47
4 EMMERDALE (THU 2001) 7.78
5 EMMERDALE (THU 1902) 7.56
6 EMMERDALE (FRI 1901) 7.54
7 EMMERDALE (TUE 1902) 7.10
8 EMMERDALE (WED 1859) 7.09
9 EMMERDALE (MON 1832) 5.95
10 ITV NEWS (TUE 1846) 4.98

How did an ITV News bulletin get into ITV1's top 10?

ITV explained this a while ago...something about holding back all their good programming until the Winter (Marriage Ref/Red or Black etc. were just pretend you see)

Once winter is round they'll be fi-
Ah.

This was more of a problem last year when C5+1 didn't exist.

With the first nominations of the series to come I'm expecting another strong 2m+ showing from CBB tonight.

Just looking at Sky 1's ratings for Autumn 2011:

Sep 2011 - 1.0% (Sep 2010 - 0.8%)
Oct 2011 - 1.3% (Oct 2010 - 1.1%)
Nov 2011 - 1.1% (Nov 2010 - 0.9%)
Dec 2011 - 1.0% Dec 2010 - 0.8%)

So every single month is up 0.2% points - ie an increase of appox 20% to 25%.

I wonder what Sky's overall conclusion will be?

They've made a lot of extra investment and this has been rewarded with a number of shows getting good ratings for a Pay channel. An increase of 20% to 25% in viewing share could be considered satisfactory.

But on the other side of the coin, the overall share remains very low and an increase of just 0.2% points could also be considered disappointing.

If we work on the basis that 50% of homes have Sky 1, then the viewing share in homes with Sky 1 is in the range 2.0% to 2.6%.

If we compare that to C5, Sky 1's share in Sky 1 homes is approx 50% (in one of the months quite a bit more than 50%) of C5's share in all homes. We don't know C5's share in Sky 1 homes but it would obviously be somewhat lower than in all homes.

So Sky 1's share in Sky 1 homes is likely to be approx 60% to 65% of C5's share in Sky 1 homes.

Will Sky overall be pleased or disappointed?

Of course you could say that it is good to see an ITV News bulletin getting 5m, but that would go against the constant ITV bashing theme that goes on round here.

The magic of an ITV Christmas.

It's third really once you strip out the multiple soap episodes.

Good year for BBC1. 12 shows in the Top 20 compared to ITV1's 8. As emphatic as I can ever remember.

That shifting Sky2 down the Sky EPG was a good way to boost Sky1?

That's lost about 0.2 share points year-on-year so they pretty much cancel eachother out.

Sep 2011 - 0.2% (Sep 2010 - 0.4%)
Oct 2011 - 0.2% (Oct 2010 - 0.3%)
Nov 2011 - 0.1% (Nov 2010 - 0.3%)
Dec 2011 - 0.2% (Dec 2010 - 0.4%)

You could have put the Harry Potter premiere in the 2012 chart, just for shits and giggles.

Then again, would 3.54m have even made the top 20 of 1/1/12?

ITV1 must have had a decent night even before looking at viewing figures as certain people are having digs at the channel about other things...such as stuff which happened 30 years ago. Sherlock couldn't have collapsed either as certain people haven't be crowing about BBC One underperforming. And Celebrity Big Brother must've done well as we haven't had 'the end is nigh' posts. Am I right?

What happened there?

TXF beat SCD and CS thrashed EE by over 1m

And that is without +1!

Correct on all points

If it wasn't a Monday, someone would have asked how Daybreak rated yesterday to ensure the ITV bashing could carry on for another page or two.

Yes

BBC One up a hole percentage point according to BARB on last year.

Up from 19.9% to 20.9%. Good start to the year. Lets hope they keep it up.

Does anybody Know the average Viewing share for BBC one in 2011.

Not sure that's a sensible way of looking at it - you would also need to factor in Sky Living and Sky Atlantic to do some "all-encompassing calculation" of the overall performance of Sky's "general entertainment" channels.

I think it makes most sense to look at Sky 1 as Sky 1.

Here's a look at how the four main broadcasters did in the BARB Monthly Shares for December 2011:

BBC
BBC1: 20.8% (December 2010: 21.1%), BBC2: 6.9% (7.1%), BBC3: 1.6% (1.5%), BBC4: 0.8% (0.6%), BBC HD: 0.2% (0.1%), BBC News: 1.0% (1.3%), CBBC: 0.7% (0.7%), CBeebies: 1.3% (1.3%)
--> Total: 33.3% (December 2010: 33.6%)

ITV
ITV1: 15.4% (17.5%), ITV1+1: 0.8% (n/a), ITV2: 2.7% (2.7%), ITV3: 2.6% (2.1%), ITV4: 1.1% (1.1%), CITV: 0.3% (0.3%)
--> Total: 22.9% (December 2010: 23.6%)

Channel 4
C4: 6.7% (6.6%), E4: 1.8% (1.7%), Film4: 1.5% (1.4%), More4: 1.0% (1.0%), 4Music: 0.4% (0.4%)
--> Total: 11.4% (December 2010: 11.1%)

Channel 5
C5: 4.1% (4.3%), C5+1: 0.1% (n/a), 5*: 0.6% (0.5%), 5USA: 0.9% (0.8%)
--> Total: 5.7% (December 2010: 5.6%)

Channel 4 (+3%) and Channel 5 (+2%) as overall broadcasters were both up year-on-year. That was the second month in a row that Channel 4's market share was up y-o-y. ITV (-3%) and the BBC (-1%) both dropped vs. December 2010. In terms of terrestrial channels, C4 was the only channel to experience y-o-y growth (+2%). BBC1 (-1%), BBC2 (-3%), C5 (-5%), ITV1 (-12%) all fell compared to Dec 2010.

The BBC's most improved channel in December was BBC HD which doubled its audience vs. last year. BBC News was down -24% y-o-y, the biggest drop out of the BBC channels. For ITV, all the digital channels were steady or up, especially ITV3 (+24% y-o-y). Film4 was the biggest gainer out of CH4's portfolio of channels, up +7% y-o-y. For Channel 5, both 5* (+20%) and 5USA (+13%) were up.

And here's a look at how the four main broadcasters did in the BARB Monthly Shares for 2011 Overall:

BBC
BBC1: 20.7% (2010 Overall: 20.8%), BBC2: 6.6% (6.9%), BBC3: 1.5% (1.4%), BBC4: 0.7% (0.6%), BBC HD: 0.2% (0.2%), BBC News: 1.2% (1.0%), CBBC: 0.8% (0.7%), CBeebies: 1.3% (1.2%)
--> Total: 32.9% (2010: 32.8%)

ITV
ITV1: 15.9% (17.0%), ITV1+1: 0.6% (n/a), ITV2: 2.7% (2.5%), ITV3: 2.4% (2.1%), ITV4: 1.1% (1.0%), CITV: 0.3% (0.3%)
--> Total: 23.0% (2010: 22.8%)

Channel 4
C4: 6.8% (7.1%), E4: 1.8% (1.8%), Film4: 1.4% (1.2%), More4: 1.2% (1.1%), 4Music: 0.4% (0.3%)
--> Total: 11.6% (2010: 11.5%)

Channel 5
C5: 4.4% (4.6%), C5+1: 0.01% (n/a), 5*: 0.6% (0.5%), 5USA: 1.0% (0.9%)
--> Total: 6.0% (2010: 6.0%)

In terms of overall market share, all the broadcasters were up slightly y-o-y: ITV (+0.9%), CH4 (+0.7%), BBC (+0.3%), CH5 (+0.2%). In terms of terrestrial channels, all were down y-o-y: BBC1 (-0.3%), C5 (-2.9%), BBC2 (-4.2%), C4 (-4.9%), ITV1 (-6.5%). Worth noting that BBC1's drop in reality would've been slightly more than stated above because pre-October 2010, HD ratings for BBC One programmes weren't automatically part of BBC1's share % as they have been all of this year - I suspect even taking that into account though it would've been down about -2% max. Also ITV1's y-o-y decline, if ITV1+1 was to be included as it was its first year making y-o-y comparisons for the main channel more difficult than usual, would be -2.8%

The BBC's most improved channel in 2011 was BBC4 (+17%). For ITV, their biggest growing digital channel was ITV3 (+13% y-o-y). Film4 was the biggest gainer out of CH4's portfolio of channels, up +18% y-o-y. For Channel 5, 5USA was up +11% vs. 2010.

Anyone know if Friends has been good for Comedy Central?

Okay BBC one viewing share was 20.7% down 0.1%.