Davina all but confirmed they will both be back next year during the show tonight. You can already apply to be on both shows next year.

Sky were foolish not to simulcast Soccer Saturday at least on Pick TV, even for just the 3pm-5pm segment. It would be no loss to them in terms of subscribers, indeed if anything it could serve as a great 'shop window' for what Sky Sports is all about, but what they have lost since that time is viewers with Final Score picking up considerably and establishing itself as a very firm favourite. The consensus seems to be that whilst Soccer Saturday is by far the best at this 'scores and banter' genre, Garth Crooks and co are dire, but if the better alternative isn't available, sod giving Murdoch our money we'll stick with the free version thanks!

So BBC1 won by 4.1:1 last week, naturally we expect F1 to be a higher SKY rating for shared races. I can see SKY F1 channel rating 2m for some F1 races, but can they match FA Premier League fixtures of 2.5m+? Some races will be in Summer when viewing figures traditionally dip.

Although sport is increasingly bare now on Saturday afternoons at the BBC it'll be interesting to see what happens when the BBC have an event they can't air on BBC1/2 but would usually put on the red button once they go down to one stream. On Freeview it depended on the sport whether it got the 301 slot or not - but if Score does continue next season they can't really have a situation where it's dropped everytime they need the slot.

Of course though this is the stupid BBC hiding behind "platform neutrality" - which they haven't cared about much for a decade since launching BBCi and their way of answering complaints about the Freeview interactive service being scaled back is now to scale back the service on cable and satellite too.


It would be interesting to see whether subscriptions to Sky Sports has increased since SSN was axed from Freeview as that was pretty much a 24/7 promo channel for Sky Sports.


One problem Sky Sports F1 might have is will it get listed in newspapers and TV mags considering it's main event basically happens once a fortnight and the rest is alot of filler which is little different to say Motors TV. Eurosport 2 and the extra ESPN channels don't generally feature in most TV guides, so I doubt Sky Sports F1 (sorry, Sky Sports F1 TM HD) will either.

At least Sky Sports News generally do show highlights from games. Soccer Saturday doesn't even do that except a few glimpses of the teams leaving the pitch at both half term and full time, which makes it even more baffling to me that Sky now deem it a pay only product. What it does do however is give greater prominence to any game which is currently being broadcast on Sky Sports, so obviously it would hammer home to anyone with just Freeview that they are missing out on the action if it's a good game.

Chris Terrill's next project will be a historical documentary on the Special Forces. Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan draws to a close on Monday.

http://www.bfbs.com/news/afghanistan...nes-55345.html

Very underrated broadcaster, can't wait to see more from him.

Anything less than 10 million on a Saturday night in the three channel world was classed as a disaster, although BBC 2 was exempt from this as its offerings were very much minority. When Bruce Forsyth transferred to ITV in 1978, and his variety show attracted just under 10 million viewers, it was classed as a huge flop and he was badly hurt by it. Nowadays a big soap story gets 9 million and it's a massive hit.

The QPR documentary on BBC2 (showing what happens when a billionaire tries to run a football team) is fascinating (and nothing to do with football), but appalingly scheduled at 11.15pm on a Sunday night. I know they wanted the MOTD2 audience, but to finish at nearly 1am?
Should do well on iplayer.

A respectable if uninspiring night all round for Saturday - Let's Dance and Casualty arguably should be doing better but the same most certainly can be said about Jonathan Ross, and TV Burp isn't finding much in way of momentum.

is the final series, it wont find any now.

I just cant get excited by the ratings at the moment.

It probably won't get interesting until the end of the month, when we'll have The Voice v Britain's Got Talent to get interested in. Especially if ITV1 decide to use Britain's Got Talent as a spoiler.

Yup, it's down quite a bit in the overnights this series. It has lost all but one of the main cast members from the last series though. I think losing George, Mitchell and Nina has been quite a dramatic change for Being Human, so I can see why some viewers may have drifted off. Personally I have warmed to the new characters now but at first I didn't like them.

I doubt it. As underwhelming as that number is that's NBC's best Thursday 10PM performance of the season and the 2.0 it was adjusted up to in the finals will have it end the week tied as NBC's fifth best rated show – behind The Voice, The Office, Smash and Celebrity Apprentice (assuming that doesn't completely tank this week) and level with Biggest Loser. At its current level not only is NBC not pulling it they're renewing it for season two.

Of course the real test is how it does in the weeks to come (barring a miracle it'll drop) but as long as it holds it head above a 1 then NBC will let it finish its run. And even if it drops below a 1 I'd be surprised if they pull it. Partly because critics love it and partly because they don't really have anything to replace it with at this point. At this point if its pulling a mid-high 1 come the end of the season and the critics still love it I wouldn't be amazed to see NBC renew it for season two (although they shouldn't at that level).

Its a shame its dropped off I've really been enjoying it this year. If I'm being brutally honest I've probably been enjoying it a lot more than series 3...

BBC working on a project which would reunite David Jason and Nick Lyndhurst in a sitcom - Daily Express

this thread should get a consultancy fee.

I'm pretty certain SSN is in the Entertainment Extra pack and/or Sky Sports 1& 2 pack.

As for figures, on Saturday at 4.50pm SSN had 1.464m and BBC One had 2.430m.

Sky must be well pleased with those.

I get SSN as part of my Sky Sports package. I also get one of the horse racing channels and various other sports channels like Eurosport and the new F1 channel. SSN actually has a bigger reach and audience share than Sky News !

The Got To Dance final averaged 934k for the performance and 1.116m for the results.

Figures don't include 3d, so you can add a few more!!

Decent figures but the lowest rated to date. Worth noting it was also the longest so presumably there was more padding. One for the Sky+ eh, Derek?

2012
Performances (6pm-7.50pm): 934k (share n/a)
Results (7.50pm-8.30pm): 1.12m (share n/a)

2011
Performances (6pm-7.20pm): 1.06m (4.5%)
Results (7.20pm-8pm): 1.19m (4.4%)

2010
Performances + Results (6pm-7.30pm): 1.12m (4.7%)

There were more acts in the final this year (10 instead of 8) so there really wasn't much padding. Very good rating given the length.

Of course!! We played catchup with the 3d version.

There was a lot of chase playing going on last night, and/or live viewers were turning off or leaving the room during ad breaks.

It dipped to 553k during one break.

An extra half hour to squeeze in 2 more acts? It's not stealing ideas from Dancing on Ice is it?

Very true. I only half watch these shows (my wife's the fan), but out of all the talent shows across all networks, Got To Dance is by far the most watchable, with the highest production standards and no padding or silliness.

And in a surprise to nobody, The Voice is confirmed as starting on March 24th.