Wow-Corrie and CBB got the ratings they deserved last night. Superb telly. Much higher than I was expecting for both. I only expected Corrie to just about clear 10m considering how recent episodes have rated. I really underestimated the popularity of Becky. For a character who has only been in the show 6 years to get a boost like that is fantastic. Hopefully it will continue with the big affair reveal & trial next week.

Word of mouth and internet seemed to boost CBB last night, because there was no TV promotion or newspaper coverage I would have thought. The episode really proved to everyone that CBB has plenty of life left in it.

Perhaps they're using the gadget Sky supplies them with and are recording it or watching on Anytime or Anytime+?

What was that timeshift for American Horror Story, 500+%?

Monday 23rd January Overnights
BBC One
06:00- Breakfast: 1.5m (34.5%)
13:45- Doctors: 1.9m (23.9%)
18:00- BBC News at Six: 5.1m (25.0%)
18:30- Regional News and Weather: 6.2m (28.6%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.7m (20.8%)
19:30- Inside Out: 3.7m (15.4%)
20:00- EastEnders: 9.1m (35.4%)
20:30- Train Fares: Taken for a Ride? - Panorama: 2.5m (9.5%)
21:00- The Royal Bodyguard: 2.8m (11.1%)
21:30- Mrs Brown's Boys: 5.2m (20.0%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.8m (23.4%)
22:35- A Question of Sport: 2.8m (17.8%)

BBC Two
18:00- Eggheads: 2.2m (11.0%)
18:30- Great British Railway Journeys: 2.2m (10.3%)
19:00- Baking Made Easy: 1.3m (5.8%)
19:30- A Question of Taste: 1.1m (4.8%)
20:00- University Challenge: 2.8m (11.0%)
20:30- An Island Parish: 1.8m (7.0%)
21:00- The Real Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines: A Wonderland Film: 1.3m (5.2%)
22:00- Mock the Week... Again: 1.5m (7.2%)
22:30- Newsnight: 0.8m (5.7%)

ITV1 (inc ITV1+1)
06:00- Daybreak: 0.7m (17.6%)
08:30- Lorraine: 0.8m (16.6%)
09:25- The Jeremy Kyle Show: 1.5m (28.1%)
18:30- ITV News & Weather: 4.0m (18.2%)
19:00- Emmerdale: 8.0m (35.9%)
* exc +1: 7.94m (35.4%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 10.6m (44.6%)
* exc +1: 10.48m (44.0%)
20:00- Cornwall with Caroline Quentin: 4.6m (18.0%)
* exc +1: 4.4m (17%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 11.2m (43.3%)
21:00- Above Suspicion: Silent Scream: 6.0m (23.2%)
* exc +1: 5.73m (22.4%)
22:00- ITV News at Ten & Weather 2.3m: (11.4%)

Channel 4 (inc C4+1)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.3m (5.8%)
19:00- Channel 4 News: 0.7m (3.2%)
20:00- SuperScrimpers: 1.8m (6.8%)
* exc +1: 1.43m (5.5%)
21:00- Coppers: 2.6m (10.0%)
* exc +1: 2.18m (8.5%)
22:00- Party Paramedics: 1.6m (8.7%)
* exc +1: 1.42m (7.8%)

Channel 5 (inc C5+1)
13:45- Neighbours: 729k (9.2%) [exc +1]
17:30- Neighbours: 1.12m (6.5%) [exc +1]
18:00- Home and Away: 916k (4.6%) [exc +1]
18:30- 5 News: 0.3m (1.3%)
19:00- World's Toughest Trucker: 0.4m (1.6%)
* exc +1: 342k (1.5%)
20:00- Police Interceptors: 1.2m (4.7%)
* exc +1: 1.11m (4.3%)
21:00- Celebrity Big Brother: 2.8m (10.9%)
* exc +1: 2.43m (9.5%)
22:00- Celebrity Wedding Planner: 0.9m (4.7%)
* exc +1: 787k (4.3%)
23:00- Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side: 0.8m (8.7%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 26.1% (+1: 0.7%)
BBC One: 19.2%
BBC Two: 6.4%
Channel 4: 6.1%
Channel 5: 5.1%

Ratings include HD and are full-slot averages

Multichannel
5*
18:30- Home and Away: 519k (2.4%)

BBC Three
21:00- How Sex Works: 465k (1.8%)
22:00- EastEnders: 607k (3.0%)

E4
19:00- Hollyoaks: 485k (2.2%)
22:00- Skins: 459k (2.6%) , +1: 65k

You've hit the nail on the head there. I love it when, against all odds, a good show pulls through and rates well.

If you think there was no newspaper coverage you obviously don't read the Desmond Press - Express and Star are full of it

An excellent rating for Coronation Street and better than EastEnders' ratings featuring Pat's departure. They'll be dancing on the cobblestones in Wetherfield!

Now who was it around here that said scheduling of the Monday episodes just made Becky's departure look like a regular episode, so it wouldn't be an event? Shows what we know!

I guess nothing could have been done about it, at short notice, but 5 would have massively benefitted from putting BOTS right after the main show.

Who was it?

Not really. I've had a flick through at work and there wasn't as much coverage for CBB as I was expecting. It's not even been on the front pages some days. In any case the silly headlines in the Star probably has a negative effect if anything.

CBB is having to work hard for it's 2.8mil. It ain't got many friends in the publishing world now, that's for sure.

CBB deserved it's ratings.

Corrie did very well but it would have been nice to see Becky ordering her last snake bite!

Just seen that CBB had 370k on +1. That's a new record for the timeshift service.

It proves word of mouth helped it a lot last night as news spread that it was a big episode.

Poor opening for Skins. Have to wait for timeshift figures though before writing it off.

Really pleased to see MBB up 500k on the week, which should push it back into the high 6s in the official ratings. It was a cracking episode.

Nice to see TRB lifting slightly and not falling further. Still dire of course, but ITV does much worse in primetime and more often.

That Corrie rating is an eye opener, even if I say so grudgingly. Didn't see that coming anyway. I don't really watch, so had no idea it was "a big episode" last night. But presumably the tabloids, chav mags and daytime fluffer shows were all full of it and building it up.

Was there also snow anywhere last night, perchance?

There was talk about the scheduling of episodes in the other thread about how ITV should put the soaps back on Sunday. I REALLY don't want soaps on Sundays as I like a day free from them. If ITV put good shows on people will watch like The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Downton Abbey etc.

Poor start for Skins, although it has been available online for some time already. It had a lot of trailers over the past few weeks on TV and in cinema adverts so looks like the last series may well have done some lasting damage to the brand. Perhaps it will increase as the online viewers start watching it live next week. Personally I thought last night's ep was much better than any of last year, so at least the show has a chance of increasing now.

Previous Skins overnight ratings:

Series 1 premiere - 1.37m (9.41%) [+1 275k]
Series 2 premiere - 884k (5.9%) [+1 160k]
Series 3 premiere - 665k (4.1%) [+1 169k]
Series 4 premiere - 938k (5.1%) [+1 164k]
Series 5 premiere - 823k (4.6%) [+1 113k]
Series 6 premiere - 459k (2.6%) [+1 65k]

Series 1 average - 822k (5.7%) [inc +1 1.1m]
Series 2 average - 663k (4.3%) [inc +1 805k]
Series 3 average - 707k [inc +1 890k]
Series 4 average - 746k (4.1%) [inc +1 924k]
Series 5 average - 503k (2.8%) [inc +1 634k]

There must be some disappointment at ITV that with an 11.5m lead in and 2.8m competition on BBC1, Above Suspicion could only muster 5.7m - only 500k ahead of Mrs Brown which had a 30 minute/2.8m lead-in handicap.

I do find these La Plante plodders massively dull and procedural now, it's "crime drama by numbers".

It seems the viewers agree... (cf: 6m+ for Birdsong, c10m for CTM, 10m for Sherlock, 10m for that thing in the stately home)

This is worth a read.

TV viewing and ad exposure remained high in 2011

Amazing for Corrie. Spectacular figure.

As 50% of homes have pay TV and the vast majority of those have Sky+/V+ boxes, the figures demonstrate how low PVR ownership is in Freeview homes.

They seem to be the ones watching the majority of ads.

ESPN's ratings are about to go through the roof...for one weekend only:


Source: Broadcast.

Got to love Disney. That's one of their best games of the season and they are giving it away FREE.

Sky would probably give you Bolton v Wigan at a push and even that would break their hearts. It sure as hell wouldn't be available to Freeview users either.

Actually looking at the fixture list... Broadcast are wrong. It's City v Fulham that weekend. Still a decent freebie though.

Demographic Information for BBC1 and ITV1 covering the period of Sunday 15th to 22nd January: http://i42.tinypic.com/2hmotok.jpg

Hate to say it, but I did call that Corrie was going to get a big rating I predicted it would surpass last year's Valentine's Day episode (its highest 2011 rating) was I right? I should get involved in this rating lark a bit more often!

That's one spoiler from The Voice The X Factor didn't really get around too.


Can't recall Strictly doing anything like that. There has been a lot of crap written here about Dancing on Ice over the last few days (I don't really understand why BBC fanboys are so threatened by it!). Yes, it gets quite a bit wrong (the ads, Christine Bleakley, the line up isn't great!) but as a competition and a format it is in no way as inferior to Strictly as some people here like to make out.


He said "newspaper".


The trouble with the two series cycle is I think most people wrote it off last year. The premiere seems to have been seen as an improvement on last year, but can't see it building in the overnights to much more than 600,000 throughout the series - which we shouldn't forget is actually still pretty damn good for E4, but not the 800,000-1m you expect from their drama.

Perhaps Sky don't need to give away matches?

ESPN must be struggling. I've just been given two months free, with no contract. So I'm getting all their matches FREE.