Digital Spy are claiming last night's Celebrity Juice was not only a series high but also a record audience for ITV2. Our friend Paul Millar with the story:


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...show-ever.html

Except it didn't. According to DS itself, Xtra Factor on 12th December 2010 had 2.31m (9.6%) and 175k (1.1%) on +1 in the overnights. See here.

One thing I can't dispute though is that it's a bloody excellent rating. ITV will be delighted that it is continuing to grow, if a little embarrassed that it caused the recent underperformance of ITV News at Ten to be highlighted once more.

It could just be a coincidence but as an observer and not a fan I've noticed the highest rated episodes seem to occur when well-known ITV1 personalities appear. According to DigiGuide, they had Phil Schofield, Christine Bleakley and someone from Corrie last night. IIRC the previous high was set when Ant and Dec appeared. So maybe more guests like this are needed to keep the numbers this high.

Im sure if ITV find themselves with an episode of Corrie that cant fit in anywhere else then it would have to air on a Saturday.

Are ITV testing the ice (water) for moving next year's series to a less competitive slot in summer? It seems a pretty tenuous link to the Olympics. I'm no expert, but I don't think there's a lot of ice-skating fever during the build up to the summer Olympics.

I wonder whether ITV might be locked into Red or Black for three years i.e. the full length of the current Factor/Talent contract.

No idea how they announced it, if they did. But these amateurs up here recently played "muzak" over a whole hour of Lorraine with no apology/explanation, suddenly inserted a test card into a news bulletin - among other mistakes.

Not a bad idea if it's in its old slot after Harry Secombe's Highway( around 6-6.30 on a Sunday) to give an idea of where Cilla's Surprise Surprise used to be. Maybe hire Christopher Biggins again and ITV could have a moderate hit.

Pretty quiet on here today. So, that's an excellent figure for Celebrity Juice. Over 2m for ITV2 is a real achievement. It's grown so much over the last few years. EE scores a very good rating for a Thursday whilst Corrie has been quite stable in its odd 8.30pm slot so far this year. Emmerdale doing good as per usual. H&A is abit low though, but it did pick up a strong figure on 5*. Was tonights episode the season finale episode for 2011? Its good at the moment so its a shame its struggling. The break has hurt it quite badly. Eternal Law is finally over, which will be a relief for ITV as its done very poorly. I think Kidnap and Ransom is back in a fews weeks so that should do quite well in the 9pm slot.

Celebrity Juice's rating stands out from last night; despite his popularity I don't think Keith Lemon will find his move to ITV1 quite so easy...why don't they give him a post watershed programme; it'd suit his audience more? The soaps all performed well; EastEnders recorded a brilliant share. The 9pm dramas on the 'big two' struggled - especially Eternal Law; at least it didn't dip to Moving Wallpaper levels but it didn't rate very well at all. The Restoration Man and Winter Road Rescue benefited from this, but BBC Two saw a dip with Putin, Russia and The West.

Further to the promo they ran covering the light entertainment side of things at the start of the year, Channel 5 are showcasing their lineup of US crime dramas for a new ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2tXtWdfzbs

I strongly approve of this! Great promo, and a truly awesome set of shows. And in a week where NCIS returned nearly 200,000 up on its season premiere last year before Big Brother arrived on the scene, however "confused" the channel's identity might be at the moment, it seems to be working from a viewing figures point-of-view so far this year.

For Robbie

Consolidated figures for The Royal Bodyguard (Timeshift in brackets) :

Episode 1: 8.35m (+ 1.30m)
Episode 2: 5.23m (+ 0.73m)
Episode 3: 3.54m (+ 0.61m)
Episode 4: 3.10m (+ 0.51m)
Episode 5: 3.26m (+ 0.49m)
Episode 6: TBA

Yes it was. Great episode tonight I thought. If there's any justice it will be close to that magic million mark, preferably above it. They certainly plugged it enough.

Hopefully this marks a return to form for the show. Under a new producer now too so we should start to see some fresh storyline ideas come through.

Hope it stays off ITV1 and doesn't infest the channel.


Series average of 4.70 million, is a recommission on the cards? That's really good for a comedy.

I think their keenness to find other ITV1 formats for Lemon probably suggests a channel swap isn't on the cards, at least not in the near future.

It's just not practical I suppose with ITV News at Ten occupying the 10pm slot every weeknight. It's probably more valuable to ITV2 just now anyway.

I can't see it moving to ITV1 anytime soon. Like Dancc says it's quite valuable to ITV2. And it's not guaranteed it would have similar success on ITV1 where it would have to do relatively better to justify such a move.

Never heard of Rob but with it growing I guess it's unlikely CBS would try and crush Idol further by doubling up episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

Also wonder what the prospects are for another season of Winter Wipeout - seems to have fallen quite a bit this year, so wouldn't be surprised if the winter version is axed. I guess the main summer series will determine it's own fate this summer.


I doubt it would be three years for an untested format, but a guaranteed two season run isn't unheard. That's the deal the BBC had with SYTYCD and I think they've done the same with The Voice too.

I really dont think Wipeout will be cancelled any time soon. Its a very cheap filler compared to the many expensive drama flops since Ugly Betty.

Not a terrible idea. It would leave their first quarter pretty empty next year although they'll have the return of Saturday Night Takeaway and another run of Take Me Out so it won't be completely empty. They could maybe try and fast track another Webber show into the slot as well if Superstar (somehow) isn't a complete disaster this summer.


I suspect CBS will run an hour long season finale for Big Bang Theory again which on past schedules would go against the Idol semi-final. That may involve them running an episode of Rob out of a Big Bang repeat or simply carrying a season one episode over to what now appears to be a locked in second season. However I'd agree that it seems unlikely we'll see any doubling up before then.


Its overexposed at this point. ABC have come dangerously close to just running some version of the show all year round and it appears as if audiences are growing tired of it. If they want the summer one to survive then they need to stop rolling it out as random schedule filler for the rest of the year.

I asked this question yesteday but why have the likes of Rzt and George stopped posting?

Without wanting to sound harsh, people do have real lives. Like the past few days I've only been on first thing and from 8pm in the evening due to Uni. Hence only passing comments from me lately and no roundups.

Crisis meetings RE 'Sunday night' could probably explain GeorgeS' absence.

As for you Dave, when has Uni ever taken priority? (the same goes for any student)

This is the ratings thread. We need roundups! Sort it out!

Big hitter coming soon.

6 x 2.

Shhhhhh...........

That'll be Silent Witness then.

I guess it's looking at a Thursday/Friday split then with Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays all booked up for the next few weeks at least.

rzt hasn't posted since late Monday evening, he does have a degree course to attend to currently I believe. GeorgeS won't be around until ITV1 starts hitting big non soap ratings, so maybe Easter time....

It's still a few weeks off, by the time it TXs, Mon/Tue would be available, but days of transmission are to be decided.

It's in the cupboard now, anyway.

Quite a few adjustments with the US finals.

Perhaps the most newsworthy one is The Big Bang Theory adjusted up a tenth (to a 5.6) putting it a tenth ahead of ABC's Modern Family for the biggest comedy of the week. That's also a Thursday high for Big Bang Theory and in fact the CBS line-up as a whole hit season highs on Thursday night.

Full adjustments

American Idol (5.8), Big Bang Theory (5.6), Grey's Anatomy (4.0), The Mentalist (3.0) and Vampire Diaries (1.3) all up a tenth. Rob (3.3), The Finder (2.2), Private Practice (2.2) and Up All Night (1.7) all down a tenth.

In cable news the wheels seem to be coming off of Jersey Shore in the US. It dropped seventh tenths last week and last night dropped another two tenths. That's just shy of an entire point over the course of two episodes. Of course its still hitting a 3.0 which was enough to beat everything but The Mentalist at 10PM...