Nice to see them taking my advice. ITV might have shot their load too early with yesterday's provisional schedule.

Not clear yet where this leaves Channel 4 either who were hoping to launch their new U.S. import Homeland in the 9 o'clock slot that night.

They could push it back to 9.30 but then their movie premiere which follows is going to end up very late.

Sorry to quote myself. However, I've dug out the figures for w/e 21 Jan 1990, and EastEnders got 20.11m viewers for its Thu/Sun episode. That wasn't the week it beat Coronation St, though, so there was at least one other 20m+ audience in early 1990.

Ah, something to look out for in tonight's update.

I don't think Homeland will rate strongly no matter when it's aired. I'd predict the same as The Killing(US version). Don't get me wrong it's excellent, loved the first three episodes, but can't see it rating well in the UK.

Thanks for that. BARB do make mistakes on the website it's not unheard of.

I'm pretty sure the xmas eve episode 1992 where Pat knocked down and killed that girl was over 18m(aggregated). It was the show's most watched episode that year. Just because the show was generally pulling in average ratings at that time it doesn't mean there weren't still spikes for big episodes/at xmas time.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Good move by BBC1 btw. Best way of protecting CDMW and guarantees Upstairs Downstairs has the best possible lead-in. Think ITV may have played their card prematurely.

It's meant as one.


You've put it a little more delicately than I did.

I wonder if ITV have jiggled their schedule again, though.

Interesting. So it looks like it IS a BARB mistake given that the Neighbours figure has been aggregated that same year.

Broadcast are now reporting on this which hopefully proves it's not just a 'typical Ratings Thread overreaction' as some are trying to paint it. Here's an interesting snippet from their version of events:


ITV deny this, of course:


http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...037605.article

Also confirms DOI's start time as 18.00. Yikes!

Bugger! I was looking forward to a good overnight battle!

There really needs to be lists of the top 20 rated programmes from the 1980's and 1990's. Can I just ask (slightly off topic!) does anyone know exactly the rating the Emmerdale plane crash episode got. I've seen a 18m+ figure in many books, etc... but has not been properly confirmed.

Many thanks!

Emmerdale's highest ever rating is 15m and I think that was for the plane crash.

The stand-alone episode on April 5, 2001, got 20.05 million. Under the old aggregate system:

1/4 January 1987 28 million
7/10 January 1988 24.15 million

BARB figures

Yeah, they've stripped out the repeats for every soap except Neighbours.

I have a vague memory of it being around 18m including the repeat (in some regions, at least), so the 15m someone suggests above sounds about right for the first screening.

Downton Abbey on Super Bowl Sunday was the most watched non NBC show in America: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...ace-on-sunday/

Overnight Programme Data
Tuesday 7th February 2012

BBC One
13:45 Doctors: 1.74m/21.5%
19:00 The One Show Special: 5.9m
19:30 EastEnders: 8.72m/38.5%
20:00 Holby City: 5.66m/24.6%
21:00 Prisoners' Wives: 5.02m/21.6%
22:35 New Series: Death Unexplained: 2.15m/16.9%

BBC Two
20:00 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer: 2.56m/11.1% exc. HD
21:00 New Series: How to Grow a Planet: 1.86m inc. HD

ITV1
19:00 Emmerdale: 7.46m/34.0% (+1: 160k/0.7%)
20:00 The Exit List: 1.71m/7.4% (+1: approx 100k)
21:00 The Biggest Loser: 2.4m/10.4% (+1: 181k/1.1%)

Channel 4
18:30 Hollyoaks: 1.07m/5.2%
20:00 New Series: Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth: 1.73m/7.5% (+1: 231k/1%)
21:00 New: Katie: The Science of Seeing Again: 1.55m/6.7% (+1: 178k/1%)
22:00 Shameless: 1.45m/8.5% (+1: 217k/2.4%)

Channel 5
13:45 Neighbours: 850k/10.4%
17:30 Neighbours: 1.12m/6.6%
18:00 Home & Away: 800k/4.1%
20:00 New Cowboy Builders: 1.5m/6.7% inc. +1
21:00 Body of Proof: 1.43m/6.2% (+1: 97k/0.6%)

5*
18:30 Home & Away: 497k/2.4%

BBC Three
22:00 EastEnders: 818k/4.3%

E4
19:00 Hollyoaks: 594k/2.7% (+1: 101k/0.4%)

MTV
22:00 Geordie Shore: 291k/1.7%

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 25.2%
ITV1: 12.5% (+1: 0.5%)
BBC Two: 8.0%
Channel 4: 6.4% (+1: 0.8%)
Channel 5: 4.7%

Sources: Digital Spy, Digital Spy Soaps, Broadcast (subscription required) and Attentional.

Exaxtly. A good tactical and PR move by BBC1. Call The Midwife won't face Corrie and provide a potentially big lead in to Upstairs Downstairs. And no way ITV can move Corrie now as it'll be seen as petty. :d

Forget about Idol and The Voice, NCIS is Americas most popular TV show at the moment with 20.8million for yesterdays episode

(yes I know 18 to 45s matters more but thats still quite some feat )

Maybe we can see the CTM/Corrie battle on Christmas Day?

after a quick google search it turns out I meant Salford City F.C., in the ratings thread favourite The Evo-Stik League.

the Exit list almost beaten by C5, ITV should feel deeply ashamed about that.

SamuelW Downton Abbey is an NBC show, it owns the production company that makes it (and funded the first series)

It virtually always is this season - certainly the highest rated drama. For a show in its ninth series and still growing year to year in total viewers, it's incredible.

That was the worst episode ever aired in my opinion.

Dancc if you see this could you confirm that you received the RPG Week 7 schedule I sent? Also I noticed a few times are changing in the schedule on Sunday Feb 19th.