Does anybody have the rating for Monday's Gadget Show?

Hollyoaks is more vulnerable than ever with the emergence of Big Bang Theory as a real ratings force. Whilst there was a time E4 really needed it to provide some much needed stability each evening, especially in the wake of losing Friends, there's now an argument that Hollyoaks is actually dragging down E4 as well as C4. And I'm not sure how much longer the bosses will allow that to continue if these figures don't improve. And with the summer now dangerously close, that doesn't look particularly likely for the time being at least.

As for the aussie soaps, a few stalwarts from Home & Away and Neighbours are in the country doing a bit of promotion. But the itinerary isn't very inspiring. The Richard Bacon show, Inside Soap, The Wright Stuff and Live with Fern. Getting them to appear on the latter in particular is a bit like preaching to the converted, as the figures are so low opposite This Morning that it's only C5's hardcore audience watching anyway.

Mon 30th April 2012 8pm: 759k/3.1% (exc. +1) opposite Manchester derby
Mon 2nd May 2011 8pm: 774k/3.0%

That's not too bad at all is it?

1.9m for Celebrity Juice last night (inc +1). One of the best episodes ever, IMO, shame it was the end of the series! The Big Bang Theory was great last night as well. Brilliant numbers for both shows.

Nope. I thought it would drop more opposite City v United, especially considering the hammering the show got the previous week. So that was a relatively good result on Monday. But the competition isn't getting any easier with BGT semi-finals week next week. The same week last year the show tumbled below 600,000 and didn't recover above this level for the series closing 'best of' the following week.

Dancing dogs > awesome technology in awesome locations.

Everything will be hammered by BGT, it's what happens the following week that'll need watching.

This run is very short anyway. Only 6 episodes, with 10 to follow later in the year. So we'll be at the halfway point after Monday's instalment.

TBBT is on a roll everywhere at the moment. The 1.5m is pretty much what it has gotten for 5 weeks in a row now (since the 100th episode), in the US the series has been averaging 15m-16m and is starting to challenging what Friends was getting in it's 1st season and its mid seasons.

It's a fact that TBBT and Celebrity Juice are both dominating the multichannel's at the moment.

It's SO good at the minute, everyone is talking about it, best series yet IMO. Celebrity Juice has had a terrifice series too, I dunno how he thinks up some of those gags, hilariously funny.

The new ITV Daybreak presenters are Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones!

What an odd pairing.

Surely they would have been better leaving Lorraine where she was considering here show was reasonably successful in comparison to Daybreak (although I suppose most shows are!).

Not this old chestnut again. The 8am to 8.30am half hour of Daybreak regularly outrates the Lorraine rating.

Why dont people understand the problems with using averages for 3 hour breakfast programmes starting at 6am versus a 1 hour programme starting at 8.30am?

Really!

Poached yet again from the Beeb!

What kind of style are they aiming for with Aled, associated as he is with Songs of Praise.

is he the guy the BBC poached from Classic Fm?

George let's raise a toast...

"It's all about The Voice" we were told - well no it was all about the judges egos, and the daft camera angles over the rotating chairs, and some contestants being told to change their image, and Universal Music having plenty of presence with their acts, and the flat results show... No wonder the public have seen through it....

Chink!

Maybe he'll be spared from all the sensitive, female stories! I could imagine his face going bright red on air at any notion of straying into that territory!

I have no idea-Im a Radio 3 man


Actually Im neither, but Classic FM, Young Choir of the Year, Friday Night is music Night, Songs of Praise,-seems far more stuffed shirt BBC than the demo for Daybreak.

Well it does seem a bit of a leap from what he has been associated with before-though he will probably be the Roland Rat of Daybreak and storm the ratings.

Daybreak will have a different atmosphere you would have thought.

A religious one? Maybe the new studio will be in Westminster Abbey.

Are there 2 Aled Jones'sss?

I don't think so - are ITV planning to clone him?

Fair point, should have been apparent to me.

There's nothing like an original idea!

Have ITV went out their way to find the 2 smuggest people possible to put on Daybreak? What are they thinking?