The Ratings Thread (Part 34)

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iaindb

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“It's just a term like ITVista that gets used. Yes I do prefer the BBC for national news, sport, minority programming and national events, but I have no great loyalty to Auntie and my favourite channels tend to be digital like ITV3 and Yesterday.
However, I will say one thing, I always want a successful, watchable ITV as this is by far the biggest commercial broadcaster in Britain and still has the funds to spend on drama that few others in this sector can rival. Also when I first joined DS ITV1 was just coming through the recession and a terrible decade of bad programming and now, with some improvement, I can say they have some decent shows.”

I agree with this. I'm a BBC fanboy but I believe a strong ITV is good for British TV. If only they're wern't so smug whenever they had a big hit.

Fudd

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Samthefootball:
“Why do some posters think BGT is going to struggle tonight. It's not clashing with the Voice and it's an important episode.”

I don't think anyone's saying it'll struggle relatively speaking - just it won't beat The Voice.

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“Too late into the evening.”

Seconded. 10.15pm is hardly a great finish time for either children watching or for people who want to go out. As you said in another post; it'll probably start relatively high with The Voice's inheritance but see a dip throughout; especially when the acts finish and we have the final 15-30 minutes full of the judges putting acts through to final week.

Fudd

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by iaindb:
“There's such a thing as constructive criticism. Something to bear in mind for series 2.

X Factor may run even later than planned. 7.43 and ITV pundits still yakking away.”

If the ITV pundits are still yakking when The X Factor is due to air the channel has real problems.

iaindb

05-05-2012

"Have you got what it takes to beat The Cube?" asks Philip Schofield.

"Yes, I have" says Holly Willoughby.

Brekkie

05-05-2012

They're trying to be critical tonight but not doing a very good job of it. They don't seem confident enough in their own opinions.

Score

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Brekkie:
“They're trying to be critical tonight but not doing a very good job of it. They don't seem confident enough in their own opinions.”

They were nice to the crap ones earlier on then Will and Jessie were quite critical towards the best one so far! Not good. Jessie J is getting more and more irritating by the week and Will.i.am is incoherent on these live shows. Tom is dull too. Danny's good but one decent judge out of four isn't a great result for them.

Chris1964

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by snoorhoff:
“Still find it remarkable that Will.i.am can't even say a full sentence on the livesshows while he was great in the previous rounds. He is either nervous or the edeting worked great for him before the live shows. The judges need be more critical, on the dutch version they where and Seal on the australian version is actually very critical but fair.”

Both Sir Tom and Will are a bit too laid back.

Danny and Jessie are at least alive, Danny is the best coach imo.

D.M.N.

05-05-2012

The FA Cup - ITV1 'Tweet-Breakdown'
15:15 - 1.62m
15:30 - 1.88m
15:45 - 1.66m
16:00 - 2.18m
16:15 - 1.98m
16:30 - 2.02m
16:45 - 2.84m
17:00 - 5.12m
17:15 - 7.64m
17:30 - 8.16m
17:45 - 7.50m
18:00 - 7.02m
18:15 - 7.10m
18:30 - 7.28m
18:45 - 7.28m
19:00 - 6.86m
19:15 - 4.14m
19:30 - 2.44m

Source: Zeebox, converted by myself to an audience figure. You can apply an 'uplift' to all the above if you think it is too low.

- Average = 4.71m
- Match = 7.35m
- 15-Minute Peak = 8.16m at 17:30

Fudd

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Chris1964:
“Both Sir Tom and Will are a bit too laid back.”

Maybe they should exchange The Voice's chairs for Graham Norton's?

Chris1964

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Fudd:
“If the ITV pundits are still yakking when The X Factor is due to air the channel has real problems. ”

That would break a record, though if it were Snooker Willie Thorne would have a pretty good stab at it.

all_night

05-05-2012

Is it just me or has Twitter gone down? I keep getting:

Something is technically wrong.

Chris1964

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Fudd:
“Maybe they should exchange The Voice's chairs for Graham Norton's? ”

There is a definite idea there

SamuelW

05-05-2012

I think tonights episode of The Voice is better than last weeks. Will i am is still struggling with live tv but the other coaches were better tonight, offering more constructive criticism without being nasty. Also the contestants and song choices overall are better than last week.

iaindb

05-05-2012

ITV1 just ran a trailer for the French Open tennis stating that it's on ITV4 and ITV1.

I'd put money on Andy Murray winning the tournament if I were you. That would be so typical of the BBC - to wait for years for a British winner at Wimbledon (first Tim Henman then Murray) only for ITV to get one in the first tournament that covered in how long. (Ever?)

Fudd

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by iaindb:
“ITV1 just ran a trailer for the French Open tennis stating that it's on ITV4 and ITV1.

I'd put money on Andy Murray winning the tournament if I were you. That would be so typical of the BBC - to wait for years for a British winner at Wimbledon (first Tim Henman then Murray) only for ITV to get one in the first tournament that covered in how long. (Ever?)

”

Intriguing - I wonder if that means ITV1 are planning to drop their planned schedules when Andy Murray is playing, whether it be daytime or primetime?

D.M.N.

05-05-2012

http://www.itv.com/sport/itv-wins-ri...h-open-tennis/

Quote:
“ITV4 and ITV.com will broadcast around six hours of live coverage from each day's play as well as highlights, with four matches, including both the mens' and ladies' singles finals, also shown live on ITV1.”

It doesn't actually say what the other two matches are, I assume they're working on the assumption that Andy Murray gets into round 2...

SamuelW

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by all_night:
“Is it just me or has Twitter gone down? I keep getting:

Something is technically wrong.”

Twitter is working now for me. For first time this series, all 10 trending topics are voice related:

Will I Am
#TheVoiceUK
Sweet Disposition
David Julien
Cassius
Holly's
Aleks Josh
Temper Trap
Becky Hill
Matt Cardle

Fudd

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“http://www.itv.com/sport/itv-wins-ri...h-open-tennis/

It doesn't actually say what the other two matches are, I assume they're working on the assumption that Andy Murray gets into round 2... ”

Two of the semi finals? I'm surprised they're tieing themselves up in only showing two other matches unless that's part of the contract. If I was them I'd put Andy Murray on ITV1 at every opportunity. If it means the soaps would have to move...well, they can boost another night instead.

Chris1964

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by Fudd:
“Intriguing - I wonder if that means ITV1 are planning to drop their planned schedules when Andy Murray is playing, whether it be daytime or primetime?”

ITV1 have both the finals plus two other matches apparently.

SamuelW

05-05-2012

The French Open will be shown on Itv1 on the weekends apparenly:

Quote:
“The French Open, which starts on 27 May, will mark ITV's debut at a Grand Slam tennis tournament. The desire to make a major impact was emphasised at yesterday's launch of its coverage. John Inverdale will be the anchor man for the on-screen ITV team, which will also feature Jim Courier, who won the French Open twice and is now the United States Davis Cup captain, Mark Petchey, Sam Smith, Fabrice Santoro, Nick Mullins and Celina Hinchcliffe. The team will operate from a specially constructed studio at Roland Garros.

While football remains at the heart of ITV's sporting empire – its portfolio includes the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup, England internationals, European Championship and World Cup – it has also bought the rights to a number of other major events. ITV has the 2015 Rugby World Cup, IPL cricket and cycling's Tour de France and Tour of Spain.

Niall Sloane, ITV's director of sport, said the three-year deal for the French Open brought "another important dimension to our sports portfolio". He added: "When we looked at it initially, the drive was to get more really credible sport on to ITV1 and indeed on to ITV4. We had done the Tour de France, which worked well in that respect."

The French Open will be shown on ITV1 at the weekend, with ITV4 taking over in midweek. "I think it's good news for tennis fans," Sloane said. "We have a fantastic amount of tennis coverage – more than 150 hours of live TV, which is a lot more than has ever been shown on free-to-air television before."

Sloane thought viewing figures for the tournament might approach what ITV would expect from coverage of Europa League football next season. "When we have Newcastle or Spurs or whoever, we would expect really significant audiences of, I would say, three or three and a half million on ITV4. I think it would probably need Andy Murray to be really flying in the second week to reach those kind of audiences on ITV4."

Although the BBC has just extended its deal with Wimbledon until 2017, ITV might see the French Open as the start of a major push into tennis. "I think we'll look at that at the end of the summer when we've seen how well the French Open did," Sloane said. "I'm confident it will do extremely well."”

iaindb

05-05-2012

The problem for ITV1 in covering tennis is that it's such a difficult sport to timetable, not just with possible rain interruptions but also with match lengths being impossible to predict.

Does the French stadium have a roof?

jake lyle

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by all_night:
“Is it just me or has Twitter gone down? I keep getting:

Something is technically wrong.”

It's the same for me

Has Holly's cleavage broken it?

iaindb

05-05-2012

Originally Posted by jake lyle:
“It's the same for me
Has Holly's cleavage broken it?”

It's back.

That'll be to make sure the viewers come back tomorrow night - or at least the male half.

Chris1964

05-05-2012

True, though they would have to arrange for Nadal, Djokovic and Federer to be injured. I cant remember Tennis on ITV.

D.M.N.

05-05-2012

The Voice - BBC1 'Tweet-Breakdown'
19:10 - 2.77m
19:15 - 4.75m
19:20 - 6.05m
19:25 - 7.22m
19:30 - 7.12m
19:35 - 8.22m
19:40 - 8.90m
19:45 - 8.10m
19:50 - 8.27m
19:55 - 8.37m
20:00 - 8.25m
20:05 - 8.80m
20:10 - 10.12m
20:15 - 9.75m
20:20 - 9.37m
20:25 - 9.62m
20:30 - 9.02m
20:35 - 8.45m

Source: Zeebox, converted by myself to an audience figure. An uplift of 25% applied.

Average = 7.95m
Peak = 10.12m

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