Top 15? Possibly I suppose. Who will manage 10 million for Christmas I suspect as you say.
Its first episode of the series might just manage it - certainly its already being hyped amongst fans and I think will give a lot for the press to get their teeth into!

I'm not sure though.

So
- That top 5
- The Voice
- X Factor
- Strictly

Only 8.
New Tricks? Possibly.
Downton will.
Mrs Browns Boys? Possibly.
Doctor Who - aye.

Thats 12, with a lot of 'meh'.
I'm a Celeb could as well I suppose. Apprentice Finale I'd have said, but that seems questionable now.

Olympics is up for question depending on how the Beeb schedule it. Just the opening ceremony, or more? Hmmm...

I think a 15 is pushing it, to work there might need to be some breakout hits.
I suppose Merlin might manage it in the Strictly finale slot and if it grows again (likely, the slot is made for gaining viewers imo)

Demographic Information for BBC1 and ITV1 for Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th April: http://i44.tinypic.com/52mkc4.jpg

Top programmes for the week among 18-49 year olds from that list (excludes soaps) were:

1. The Voice UK: 16.5
2. Britain's Got Talent: 15.6
3. The Apprentice: 12.4
4. Take Me Out: 8.4
5. Benidorm: 8.0
6. UCL: Chelsea v Benfica: 6.7
7. The Syndicate: 6.6
8. Waterloo Road: 5.9
9. Silent Witness: 5.7
10. Fraud Squad: 5.6

Note: Each number indicates the % of the UK 18-49 population. For e.g. 16.5% of 18-49s in the UK watched The Voice etc.

Still nothing to write home about but Mad Men's time shift slightly better than Sky had made out with the first episode getting 209k and the second 101k.

Sky Sports F1's share drops below 0.1% for a week with no live Grand Prix.

I think someone a few days ago complained the BBC couldn't survive on ratings alone due to how it skews:yawn:

Last year we had 16 shows all over 10m so I would think 15 over 10m this year would be easily achievable.


Oh My!

Bit of a surprise to see The Voice getting more 16-34s, more 18-49s and higher ABC1s.

So - BGT boosted by an older skewing audience then?

The old dears don't half like a dancing dog...

'One Born Every Minute' consolidated series averages (inc +1):

2010: 3.81m
2011: 3.62m
2012: 4.42m

It rated excellent this year, up over 20% from last year's series average. And they've gone from having 8 episodes in series 1 to thirteen episodes in the most recent series, so Channel 4 are getting a solid number of hours out of it.



The Voice and BGT have almost identical skews (both skewing 23% for 16-34s, 47% 18-49) - the only difference being ABC1s, which there's always a 'default' gap between BBC1 and ITV1 programmes anyway. So whichever show is getting the bigger total audience, will be getting the bigger 18-49 audience too. The above figures are full-slot figures by the way, BGT had a slightly higher 16-34 audience than TVUK in the tape-checked numbers.

Thanks a lot, rzt.

Miranda, Xmas Day....

It's always interesting to get these figures because they so often paint quite a different picture to the usual tone of the thread. Who would have thought, for instance, that Channel 4 was the best performing terrestrial channel last month? And Channel 5 growing even without Big Brother must be a good sign for them.

I would guarantee the night of the Men's 100m at the Olympics will peak above 10m (tends to be the most watched night I think of the Olympics) Whether it can hold that over a 3 hour period is questionable but certainly possible.

Just over three months into the year, here are the consolidated series averages for BBC One and ITV1 dramas:

BBC One
1 - 10.61m - Call The Midwife... (NEW)
2 - 10.24m - Sherlock... (+16%)
3 - 7.93m - Silent Witness*... (-1%)
4 - 6.58m - Birdsong... (NEW)
5 - 6.21m - Hustle... (-9%)
6 - 6.12m - Upstairs Downstairs... (-27%)
7 - 5.87m - The Syndicate*... (NEW)
8 - 5.27m - Prisoners' Wives... (NEW)
9 - 4.85m - Public Enemies... (NEW)
10 - 4.76m - Inside Men... (NEW)

ITV1 (inc ITV1+1 in brackets)
1 - 7.87m (8.21m) - Endeavour... (NEW)
2 - 7.23m (7.59m) - Scott & Bailey* [STV]... (+6%)
3 - 7.17m (7.50m) - Above Suspicion... (+13%)
4 - 7.16m (7.52m) - Wild at Heart... (-7%)
5 - 7.13m (7.60m) - Titanic*... (NEW)
6 - 6.68m (7.03m) - Whitechapel [STV]... (+16%)
7 - 6.10m (6.43m) - Midsomer Murders... (-5%)
8 - 5.18m (5.62m) - Law & Order UK [STV]...(+9%)
9 - 5.07m (5.41m) - Kidnap & Ransom... (-10%)
10 - 3.77m (4.00m) - Love Life [STV]... (NEW)
11 - 3.63m (3.91m) - Eternal Law [STV]... (NEW)

Individual episode ratings: http://i42.tinypic.com/20j5myg.jpg

Notes
- * means that the programme is still currently airing and its average will change (Titanic, Silent Witness and Scott & Bailey will all go down).
- Ratings in italics are estimated averages as I couldn't obtain the actual ratings for a few episodes from the Barb website. But they are pretty accurate averages and should be correct to 1 decimal place. By the next update I should have those actual consolidated numbers.
- [STV] means that these dramas weren't shown in Scotland and therefore these averages are automatically about 7-9% lower than if they had been fully networked.
- The ITV drama year-on-year differences are based on comparing this year's (inc +1) figures to last year's (inc +1) figures. They also take into account if a programme was fully networked last series and not fully networked this year (or vice versa) so that the % rise/fall is an accurate representation of how the series has done in the areas it's actually been shown in.

BGT has the bigger total audience - yet the figures you've posted show Voice has the bigger 18-49 audience (16.5% of 18-49s vs 15.6%)

UKTV hatches highest ever Easter ratings

Source: UKTV


The Voice UK (9.54m) had a bigger total audience than Britain's Got Talent (9.10m) [excluding +1, full slot] on Saturday 7th April, as stated in that table. 4.51m of TVUK's 9.54m were aged 18-49, which is 47% of its audience. 4.26m of BGT's 9.10m were aged 18-49, which is 47% of its audience as well.

Didn't he shoot a pilot of some kind for Britain's Got Talent which was ultimately scrapped in part because the original format they were using didn't work and because he jumped ship to Channel 4?

It is strange that ITV aren't doing anything of note with O'Grady though. As someone else mentioned it would be interesting to know if they're offering him projects and he's turning them down or whether they've just got nothing for him. Again though he seems like a more suitable prime time ITV1 option than Keith Lemon.


Proof positive that the BBC aren't totally obsessed with ratings chasing. If they were then we'd see events like the 100m final schedule in a slot by themselves and not packaged as part of the Olympics coverage.

Good stuff. The current schedule should see them through nicely until around June, then Big Brother will be back and they'll be hoping it picks up a bit on last year in order to keep this good run going. Dallas I'm really excited about too, should be the biggest US drama launch of the year if they get it right and I trust that they will.

I think 5* is down because people are using it less to catch up on C5 repeats now C5+1 exists. That's when the decline roughly started.

Yes, it was a shock to see his complaints being as public as they were. I had a feeling it was game over after he refused to do the show one week, and it had to be replaced by a compilation.

I might be wrong, but I blame Guy Freeman for what went wrong with House Party. He did the first series of Jim Davidson's Generation Game, too, and it was awful.

Is there Any figures for EastEnders Omnibus on Friday Night?

Also...

The Omnibus will now be on every Friday Night/Saturday Morning on BBC1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastender...as-moved.shtml

Ditto for the Royal Wedding last year, which got them an average 19m+ viewers but only got reported as 13.6m


I think Noel was stung by the increasingly vocal criticism of House Party after the revamp, the falling ratings, and probably knowing himself that it just wasn't working in the new format. He probably felt he had to lash out to say "look viewers/critics - I agree with you, we need to get back to how it was, and this isn't my doing".

It must have been a very difficult time for him, and I can see how it soured things with the BBC, sadly.

I always felt short-changed by NHP ending after 6 years (only 4 and a half of which were brilliant), but then it's easy to forget (for those of us who only really remember Saturday Roadshow onwards) that Noel had been doing essentially the same show, with a few breaks, on primetime Saturday night BBC1 between 1982 and 1997, including the trauma of one incarnation being abruptly ended after the tragic death of a contestant.

That's not a bad run, really.


Sorry. I was speed-reading and a week out - thinking we were looking at the official figures just out, not the overnights from 3 days ago.

EastEnders Omnibus (23.30-01.25): 477k (7.2%)

I'll never forget the day when Clive Anderson had Peter Cook on his show and Peter said he liked Noel's House Party. And the day NHP won the BAFTA I loved seeing trendy comedy performers/shows having a WTF moment!


House Party suffered the same fate as Telly Addicts. The revamps moved the show away from what worked and made them unrecognisable to what they were when they started. I forget which series of House Party it was but for several weeks the set didn't resemble the great house and was just a generic light entertainment set. Why in God's name did they do that? That was when it really started going wrong and you just watched as the show was imploding. Remember that second US show? *SHUDDER* And the final series I just don't want to think about. Such a shame. It could have made it to 10 series and then ended.
I think when Michael Leggo left House Party lost its best producer.The changes Freeman introduced, like removing the whole concept of the show being in a stately house, were where it started to go all wrong.

Low audience share for BBC One standards. How does that compare roughly to previous weeks across those hours?

Thankyou

Yes, the new producer managed to suck a lot of the show's charm out of it, so it was never really the same from autumn 1996 onwards.

It ran until March 1999, though.

Extraordinary decision to screen it then - soon we'll be hearing the omnibus has been axed because ratings are poor