And it only takes one drama to take off and the image of a channel is substantially boosted. I think most people think Being Human now when they think of BBC3 - rather than the cheap yoof comedy they were churning out only a couple of years ago.

The 1.5 million barrier is probably about right short-medium term for C5 if they have ambition going forward, and if imports are destined for 9pm. Too often myself, at least, finds it easy to say 'at least it's over a million'. But if C5 has ambition it needs to be aiming higher. Having said that depending on the price paid if a US import got 1.4 million at 10pm, that would be a good performance wouldn't it?

Looking for non-US imports could add some variety to C5/5*. They might be total trash, I've not watched them, but what about RTE's Raw and LOVE/HATE? From what I've read about Raw in theory at least it should appeal to a young demographic. LOVE/HATE has been shown by STV but I don't know what reaction or ratings it got


Not C5 Productions, but a C5 co-funded factual show with BBC America (and a Canadian broadcaster) was announced today
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=475

I agree, Being Human was originally part of a series of pilots ordered for BBC Three by Danny Cohen. I believe the other pilot which was intially ordered to series then cancelled was Phoo Action which I liked but it wasn't well received.

STFU...


To preserve NAT's start time, James Corden entered the field of play and blew the ref's whistle just as someone was about to score the winning goal...?

Royal Television Society journalism awards in progress, Sky News's Alex Crawford wins TV journalist of the year.
Looks like a great night for BBC Panorama's undercover investigation into a care home too.
(You can see the winners as they happen by typing 'RTS award' on Twitter).

I find it astonishing that all of the top 350 audiences in Scotland in 2010 were on ITV1/STV. I find that so staggering as to be implausible. Nothing at all from BBC1?

Have I misunderstood? Or is Scotland more effed than I thought?

Dancing On Ice was hurt because of the ridiculous running time; it could've started at 6.30pm and ran to 8pm and would've no doubted rated higher. Coronation Street wouldn't have rated so well as it did if it had been against Call The Midwife, but I think it would've recorded a better figure than Dancing On Ice had previously hence giving Wild At Heart a slightly stronger lead in; Wild At Heart in turn wouldn't have clashed directly with Call The Midwife and would have the jump on Upstairs Downstairs.


It would've been a blessing to everyone if he had done that at half time!

Presumably if every episode of Corrie & Emmerdale rated highly that'd make up a good chunk of the 350.

It'll be top 350 commercial programmes (I'm guessing the data is from an STV Sales presentation?). River City is pretty popular as far as I know. And Reporting Scotland, as dear Jackie likes to tell us, is Scotland's #1 news broadcast. Although wih Cat Cubie on board, providing outstanding weather forecasts, it should really beat The X Factor.

That would make more sense...!

Wouldn't be surprised if the top 350 in Norn Iron were all on UTV though...

The figure is for Q4 2010. This is the exact quote from the presentation

"For Q4 2010, of the top 350 programmes in the Scotland region ALL were on ITV1!"

For ITV1 I interpreted to mean STV (they don't use ITV1 branding). I don't think it includes the Scottish part of Border, as Border is a separate advertising region and the info is from the ITV ad-sales site.

The sources for the ratings info are quoted as BARB and Techedge


It's only the top 250 for UTV

I look forward to seeing Channel 5 introduce some new original commissions into ther schedules. The new Marco Pierre White show does actually seem to be a step in the right direction, as could be the insect show actually. I feel a pilot season could work really well for them and prove that it can do quality when it wants.

If its only one quarter it must be commercial tv only. Even if every single ep in q4 of Corrie, Em, TXF, IAC was included you wouldn't get to 350.

How many did people watched geordie shore on mtv tuesday? Many thanks

It does seem incredible to us South of deep fried Mars Bar land that STV can have such a stranglehold on the ratings. Q4 2010 would mean that shows such as......

Strictly Come Dancing 14.28m
EastEnders 12.61m
Children in Need 9.36m
Royal Variety Performance 8.90m
BBC News 9.71m
Come Fly With Me 12.47m
Doctor Who 12.11m
New Year Live 9.37m
The Royle Family 11.29m

were largely ignored in STV region for Emmerdale?

Maybe the Scots don't understand that everyone should tune in to BBC One on Christmas Day?

that is pretty messed up

Yes, completely implausible that these were all ignored by Scots, particularly BBC Scotland's mega rating hogmany coverage and the likes of the SCD Final or CFWM. IIRC from the regional breakdowns we used to get on Oracle/Teletext, BBC1 was far more popular north of the border than in Tyne Tees or Ulster. So its clearly codswallop unless someone can prove different.

Talking of CFWM, wasnt there supposed to be a second series of that commissioned?

Sky1 have picked up the Channel 4 comedy pilot, Chickens, for a full series.

The pilot had great production values, but IMO (and no doubt C4's) wasn't very funny.

Perhaps what is meant is that the top 350 audiences on STV were also on ITV1?

US Network News Ratings
Week of February 13:

For the first time since 2006 CBS has overtaken ABC in the 25-54 year-old viewers demographic with 2.136 million viewers to 2.107 m. But NBC remains the undisputed market leader.

Average nightly viewers overall:

1. NBC Nightly News w/Brian Williams 9.408 m
2. ABC World News w/Diane Sawyer 7.999 m
3. CBS Evening News w/Scott Pelley 6.828m

c Neilsen

I checked the quote on the website and they were claiming #top 350 shows, I do understand there may be a lot of loyalty to homegrown programmes. We need a Scottish FM to explain the great BBC1 v STV divide to us.

#WaterlooRoad returns with an average of 4.9m viewers - over twice the audience of any other channel between 8 and 9pm #BBC1

Last night's #Masterchef peaked at 5.4m, the highest rating show at 9pm #BBC1

Last night's Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents averaged 1.26m at 9pm on #BBC3

https://twitter.com/#!/Sam_Hodges

Seems Marseille v Inter collapsed, Sam suggesting it was <2.5m between 8-9pm.

Big Body Squad which began at 8pm on CH5, was viewed by 1.5m (6.9%)

http://www.attentional.com/screenwatch/

#ITV soap took the top rating spot again last night - Emmerdale drew 7m viewers (excl +1) with a peak of 8m

https://twitter.com/#!/Mike_Large

A decent start for Waterloo Road. About 400k above the overnights level that the last run launched at in the Autumn. I think it's for the best that it has returned to 8pm now, as it provides better structure to the schedule that way. Also with this being the final run before the move to Scotland it needs to be rating as strong as possible with no soap clashes damaging it.

Sun Sex and Suspicious Parents

Is that the highest rating ever?

I am sure it started this series with only around 500k.