Corrie set Twitter alight - six of the top trends were Corrie-based throughout the last 10 minutes. And the soaps forum is extremely busy. I think it's going to get a very big rating. It deserved it - it was possibly the best set of episodes since the anniversary, just wonderful.

Royal Bodyguard had about 3 trends as well though...
Twitter bad...twitter very bad...

It will do very well though - just...twitter bad...twitter very bad...

Ah, but as Corrie seems to have a pretty old audience it's quite significant when it sends Twitter crazy as that's a whole bunch of extra viewers presumably. Not just the loyal viewers, people tuned in especially who don't watch usually.

And yeah I noticed the Royal Bodyguard trends but we all know why that's such a talking point! The annoying thing is that its ratings are only staying above the 2m mark because so many people want to see what all the fuss is about!

And the replacement for Harry Hill's TV Burp is.....

Fool Britannia, with Dom Joly http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-...aturday-nights

and CBB is also now trending with a few topics.

Corrie's trend is the most remarkable though considering Corrie is only watched, according to Glenn by elderly retired miners wives in Gateshead and non-computer owning E demographic from South Shields.

Celeb BB is great on Channel 5 because they just let the housemates get on with it. On Channel 4 in the latter years, there was a lot of censorship and Big Brother would break up arguments early on and not give the housemates alcohol. So Channel 5 has had a big influence in the success of the current series. Lots of buzz online tonight on all the social media websites, hopefully it's replicated in the ratings.

Mrs Brown's Boys is 7 episodes this series and The Royal Bodyguard is 6 (just like its writers by the look of it.) That means Mrs Brown gets a different lead-in for its final episode. I think that final episode might move to Saturday at 9.30 because that slot will be vacant. That means she would get a 5m+ lead-in from Casualty plus crap competiton from ITV and so should end on a high. Not a series high because I can't see it beating its Boxing Day rating, but better than its getting with Hubble as its lead-in.

I've already made a note in my diary...... not to watch.

The Royal Bodyguard is actually not that bad. Have you seen a show called My Hero? That was even worse. The worst things about TRB were the hype and timeslot. If it wasn't hyped so much and if it was shown at an earlier time, it wouldn't be regarded as such a big flop. My 6 year old nephew loves it.

TV is very cyclical. Sky's hidden camera show produced by Ant and Dec's Gallowgate is coming soon!!

http://sky1.sky.com/sky1hd-shows/tha...-camera-family

CBB had 7 worldwide trends

Yeah I guess they could have held it back till then, but I think a rape trial wrapped around BGT could be considered abit distasteful (you know what viewers are like...). No idea what the plan is this year, but I wish they'd go back to the old scheduling and run BGT 8.30-10.00pm with no results show. However looking back, Corrie outrated BGT most nights last year in the BGT sandwich so I can't see them changing it. And yeah the Stape plot wasn't the best, but we did have Becky smashing Tracy's door down with a sledgehammer!!

He hasn't tweeted any ratings for The Cubes in months when it was on either.

Stuck in the other thread before they locked it.

I know we're only 2 weeks in and it won't be there much longer. But could that be the first time a repeat has made the annual Top 20?

BBC1 15, ITV1 5. Good start to the year.


Why?

Do you not crave some originality at 10pm during the week, just for a change?

CF and AR still get blinding good audiences, and are as much a staple of the Great British Sunday as a big lie-in, roast beef, a brisk walk, and the News of the World.

Oh, hang on..


GeorgeS is strangely absent of late too.

Hm. Interesting...


Funnily enough, out of the blue, I suddenly thought of BallyK when I was driving home tonight. It launched to an instant 14m for ep1, which caused a sensation. BBC1 was being trounced every Sunday night. It grew to 15m in that first series, before receding back to 12-13m. Still massive, of course.

I recall that Lovejoy (1990s version) was an 11m hit from episode 1, but of course it did air first in the mid 80s for one series but flopped and was axed - think it was an 8pm Wednesday series. I vaguely recall that it was the increasingly staggering success of Antiques Roadshow in the late 80s on early Sunday evenings that prompted someone at the Beeb to think they should have a second crack at it.

E4 should get good ratings tonight because Skins is back.

It's funny, people in this thread obsess over ratings but when someone actually in the business does, they get ridiculed?!

last series didn't do that well, and this episode was on 4OD for a week.. it is much better than last series already though

Big Brother hopefully rated well last night. Episode was well publicised and it was probably the best episode, in terms of drama, in years

Who wants to take a bet on episode 2 of Call The Midwife passing 10m in the final ratings and beating Sherlock's 10.66m? I want to say it'll happen but I'm hedging my bets. As for Dancing On Ice, even if it was split up I think Call The Midwife would still be beating it.

I only ever remember Hetty in a 9.30pm weekday slot, Tuesdays or Wednesdays IIRC, though I think the last series was dumped on Fridays.


Spot on. It's getting silly now, and can only harm ratings for showing 1. Whenever a new 30 minute comedy show starts on the Beeb, I spend more time looking to see if there is a later "full length" repeat.

It really annoys me. I might fire off another Sykes email tirade to someone.


Perhaps in order to salvage his reputation, he's auditioning for a role in the next series of Call the Midwife, after seeing a new British comedy legend appearing in it yesterday?


They should have moved it from next week, and started Silent Witness next Monday to crush Whitechapel.

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I'd be disappointed if it doesn't shift to c10.3m.

It could beat Sherlock's 10.66m, but I hope it doesn't. As for DOI, I still think CTM would beat it, but it would give Saturday's more stability and then DOI could have aired at 7.00/7.15 on Sunday nights for The Skate Off.

I think the majority at least accept that there is a need for reality and unscripted shows and that the complaints are focused more on the quality and content of these shows rather than their existence. If you look at ITV's weekend schedule for 2012 how many weeks do we think won't be dominated by a phone vote driven talent show? They're going to go from Dancing on Ice to Britain's Got Talent to Superstar to The X Factor with very little break between each show. It is an absurd overkill of shows that all trade on effectively the exact same format. And its not as if that's something that's exclusive to this year arguably last year was even worth with Popstar to Operastar and Born to Shine.

Of course the real concern for ITV should be that these talent shows are now seemingly playing to diminishing returns. They haven't launched a new one successfully for years and the hits they did have aren't exactly looking healthy.

It seems to me (and I can't be alone on this) that there's a whole world of unscripted television that ITV could be exploring but don't. We've almost formed a culture where everyone is just encouraged to hold their nose and endure reality television rather than actually enjoy it or be entertained or informed by it - 'everyone knows its a bit shit but its needed'.

And then I come back to my point from yesterday that perhaps ITV should give some consideration to supporting their schedule with some foreign imports.