Channel 5 had a strong night with World Scariest Plane Landing and CBB and BOTS did good as well, Channel 4 had a good night with Restoration Man and My Daughter the Teenage Nudist, as tacky as the title is, they sure do know how to hook the viewers.

The success of Plane Landings shows the audience that 5 should be aiming at rather than celebrity shows like Wedding Planners and the celeb docs. Didn't a similar aviation documentary get 2m?

That's quite a while for Vegas but we'll have to see if BoP holds up as it did well, it'll give them time to promote the show plus no gap between CSI and CSI: Miami. Would mean it won't start until March 6th.

After pretty intense competition across the five terrestrials on Wednesday, last nights competition wasn't up to much. New Tricks and Big Brother did well to soak up the viewers - but Eternal Law is as dead as everyone predicted it would be before it even started. Terrible rating for BBC2 at 9pm as well - but then it was an art documentary with Alastair Sooke (he of 'Modern Masters' fame...) so it was never going to be pretty.

EastEnders still seems to be clinging on to the post-Christmas bump, but it will probably fade out over the next few weeks. The Thursday 8pm soap hour is still sub-par for ITV, and they'll be happy once they can move Corrie away again later this year. That could have a detrimental effect on Emmerdale, though - and the leftover 8.30 slot looks very suspect. I expect the BBC to go pretty hard after Thursdays with more ambitious pre-watershed stuff (Earthflight is a fine example) that might pick up those spare viewers and leave them in good shape to take the night more regularly.

what I said before about CSI getting lost in the new schedule, this is worrying. Its not like its going to end on CBS this series.

Their hard work is paying off at last with a great run of results this week. Everything did really well yesterday. Can't wait for the Aussie soaps to return on Monday and boost their share even more!


They did, to be fair. It's nice to see both channels above the 6% mark in primetime, that doesn't happen often.


Yes! Word's Most Extreme Airports I think it was called, and it ran for two hours too. Air Crash Investigation must be the exception to the rule as that didn't do anywhere near as well last time it was on. But it is on Nat Geo practically 24 hours a day which probably doesn't help.

Nothing wrong with the celeb docs Jonwo, it's all about balance. I've read many positive comments about Kym Marsh: Teen Mums and Me so it looks like it hit the spot for the target audience. They've been smart in what they've scheduled around CBB this time and it shows in the figures we are seeing.

He's a good presenter but art never translates well on television, the BBC seem to want to find a vehicle for him but not succeeding.


I'm not a fan especially of the Amy/Tamara/Josie docs, thankfully they're restricted to 10pm. It'll be one of those things we'll have to disagree on.

I do hope we see them tackling comedy and homegrown drama again especially with the resurgent of comedy. It's pretty bad that it's been three years since they've debuted an original drama.

Just come in recently

I agree completely that the Amy/Tamara/Josie fly-on-the-walls were utterly pointless and I hope no more of these are commissioned.

However I wouldn't put the series of docs airing on Wednesday nights in the same category. Sure, they are fronted by celebrities, but they are tackling some worthwhile issues at the same time. There's definitely a purpose to them. The only downer is the tacky BBC Three style names but I suppose if that's what has to be done for such a doc to get noticed, then so be it.

Good night for Channel 5, CBB seems to be doing pretty well. Whatever happens with the regular format, I'd guess there's at least a future for the celebrity version. The Afghanistan doc sounds like the kind of thing they ought to be going for. The 8pm show provided a solid alternative to the soaps.

It's a shame when a repeat can win the 9pm hour, no matter what channel it's on. But New Tricks repeats really take advantage when the opposition is weak. Earthflight performed well in the 8pm slot; things are getting close between Pointless and The Chase and EastEnders recorded an excellent figure. I'm sure it'll hurt Coronation Street badly tonight, and yet barely a moan about it moving into the ITV1's soap slot - I'm sure if it was the other way around we wouldn't have heard the end of it on here.

BBC Two is my channel of 2011 and it had started 2012 brilliantly but Unfinished Masterpieces certainly didn't bring in an audience, even with an ailing ITV1. However, The Hiary Bikers and The Great British Bake Off picked up strong ratings and Eggheads does very well for the channel at 6pm. Yet again, strange scheduling to have a high brow documentary followed by a populist panel show but it's something BBC Two constantly does.

It's a shame about Eternal Law. It's a decent drama but I suppose it would do better on BBC Two and Channel 4. My fear is the more hits ITV1 take the more it'll recede back into the tried and tested triple C approach and that'll harm it in the long run. The soaps were slightly dented by Earthflight though Emmerdale's share is fine; Coronation Street's is dire though and the stupid scheduling is hurting it badly. I see they've picked up another embarrassment in Jonathan Ross - he can't pull viewers in on Saturday nights or Thursday seemingly.

Location, Location, Location looks quite low to me for Channel Four; I thought it usually managed to hit the 2m mark? I guess it was hurt by Earthflight, World's Scariest Plane Landings and the soap hour. Restoration Man did reasonably well, obviously benefiting from a weak BBC Two and ITV1 and My Daughter The Teenage Nudist did adequately from 10pm. They'll be pleased that Hollyoaks is remaining above 1m and that's a reasonable share for Deal or No Deal.

Celebrity Big Brother performed brilliantly for Channel 5, with a strong 9pm performance leading in to a good figure for Bit On The Side. World's Scariest Plane Landings also did a good job in the 8pm hour to round off a very good night for the channel.

I'm sure they did an Afghanistan doc before which flopped, probably depends on how they present it as previous docs like Warship have done well. Wonder if Royal Navy: Caribbean Patrol will return for series 2?

Eternal Flaw!

New Tricks doing really well for a repeat. I'll have to watch an episode one day.

I'm suprised you haven't caught one already - it's not as though the BBC is stingy with repeats of it.

In Spain Sherlock debuted with 2.3m last night, which is a decent figure considering the strong competition.

1 CUENTAME COMO PASO / SORPRESAS
(La1, 22:24)
5.004.000 espectadores
2 TELEDIARIO 2
(La1, 20:58)
3.134.000 espectadores
3 FUTBOL:COPA DEL REY / OSASUNA-BARCELONA
(T5, 22:00)
2.984.000 espectadores
4 D.REG(AMAR EN TIEMPOS REVUELTOS)
(La1, 16:16)
2.897.000 espectadores
5 TELEDIARIO 1
(La1, 14:59)
2.751.000 espectadores
6 INFORMATIVOS T5 21:00
(T5, 21:00)
2.585.000 espectadores
7 PASAPALABRA
(T5, 20:14)
2.487.000 espectadores
8 ANTENA 3 NOTICIAS 2
(A3, 20:57)
2.439.000 espectadores
9 SHERLOCK
(A3, 22:42)
2.369.000 espectadores
10 EL HORMIGUERO 3.0
(A3, 21:45)
2.254.000 espectadores

I'm scared I'll get addicted!

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US ratings...

Nice sampling for Rob at 8.30pm and The Big Bang Theory will be the #1 show in A18-49 this week (Modern Family dipped to a 5.1 on Wednesday). While good for both of them, it's unlikely to continue next week when American Idol pops up in the 8pm slot. Series high for Person of Interest at 9pm was no doubt fuelled by a better lead-in but I think it has been doing alright for them even if it hasn't been a breakout hit. The Mentalist did alright at 10pm.

Rough night for FOX with The Finder flopping but the return of American Idol means they'll win every Thursday from now until May and that will also give the new show a boost.

On Wednesday, Whitney had a 2.0 at 8pm and Are You There, Chelsea started with a 2.3. Both will take a hit from Idol next week but at least in the short term it doesn't seem that Up All Night got any boost from the slot change.

Dancc, you've taken the words right out of my mouth. I have no objection to someone like a reality show contestant raising awareness of domestic abuse or drug abuse, as a younger audience might identify more with them than someone like the Home Secretary. However, these trashy It's All About Amy type shows, which are just ITV 2 rip offs, should be binned as ratings are low and they make Channel 5 look low rent.

The Firm flopped hard. NBC tried a Sunday launch with The Cape last year but failed. This year proved to be a lot worse for them. 1.0 is just tragic. The Finder will boost their numbers, but how much drop-off from Idol will FOX accept? Private Practice is doing decently, although I stopped watching the show after lots of bullshit recently.

Good on ABC for launching a new show for once after Grey's Anatomy, but moving PP after DWTS results pissed me off. I would rather see Body of Proof there until May rather than PP. ABC don't even promote BoP properly, with and without DWTS, which results in them are not doing well. With Rob getting huge start-off, we will have to wait and see how they will perform next few weeks. If Rob holds, will CBS move Rules of Engagement to Saturdays again ?

Wouldn't you prefer a surprise?

Yes, and I know we're always talking about Tuesdays on ITV but Thursday on BBC1 is similar in terms of the competition as they only have 'stEnders while ITV have two Emmerdales and the Corrie (which is surely far fiercer competition than Holby City), yet they always perform very creditably, helped by the fact they actually make the effort. There should be no reason why the entire ITV audience buggers off at 7.30 on Tuesday for the rest of the evening, the BBC1 audience doesn't at eight on Thursday.


Well, I wasn't expecting it to get three or four million there, but I thought it might do alright because I'm sure there are more casual viewers about at 10.30 on Thursday than on a Monday, and it's the kind of show you can stumble on and watch, but maybe not the kind of thing you purposely seek out, so there's probably a decent audience who would watch Ross if they were there but not be heartbroken if they missed it on the Saturday. And if Celebrity Juice can get a million and a half in that slot on ITV2, surely you could get a similar audience on ITV1, repeat or no, there was no entertainment competition last night and the repulsive Kelvin McKenzie was on Question Time (and therefore presumably convinced everyone in the world to switch off, he did for me anyway).

Maybe there's less moaning when EE is extended or out of its usual slot because it happens so rarely. You can hardly begrudge them extending the episode by 10 minutes when it's a major character's funeral. If Corrie wasn't wrapped around EE like poison ivy it wouldn't be a problem.

It's an entirely different situation to ITV changing their schedules around for no reason like December last year when we had two hour long Emmerdales which clashed with EE just because they wanted to have I'm a celeb on at 8.30.

Exactly and this is something The BBC had done for EastEnders on a friday before Corrie started to air at 8:40. Other than a Tuesday they have nowhere for an Extended episode togo


Not really

I seem to recall that the last time BBC1 screened a 40 minute Eastenders on a Friday, ITV stuck an extended You've Been Framed on against it and started Corrie at 8.40. Maybe ITV feel it's not worth it this time because with SkyPlus and the like people can record at 8.30 and start watching at 8.40 or because there's a repeat at 9.30 on ITV1+1 or because if people switch over to Corrie at 8.40 they'd still be in time to see the commercial break and, at the day of the day, what really matters to ITV is how many people see the commercials not the programmes.

ITV1 did have a reason - to schedule I'm A Celebrity...

And EastEnders isn't exactly blameless considering every episode leads on from an ITV soap (and did so even when ITV1's soaps were not so abundant IIRC).

I agree ITV1 are nowhere near blameless but neither are the BBC. Clashes shouldn't happen at all.

Why not move one of the Coronation St extra episodes to a Wednesday when the fitba is moved back to a Tuesday, and go back to entertainment at 8.30 on a Friday. ITV1 would have a particularly strong Wednesday again and Fridays would go back to being entertainment night again after 8.00. After all, a lot of people go out on a Friday and the later Coronation St episode isn't as successful as the 7.30 one.