Well it could well do 10 million depending on promotion. Makes sense, really.

It's always struck me as being perfect for Sunday nights, but I think only a couple of episodes have ever been repeated on Sundays.

Repeats on Thursday, Sunday and then the following Thursday seems very excessive though. I assumed the Sunday one was a new episode.

No worse than ITV1's obsession with Midsomer Murders, I suppose.

Vera's overnights:

Series 1
Episode 1: 5.26m (22.0%) , +1: 212k (0.9%)
Episode 2: 5.33m (21.8%) , +1: 324k (1.5%)
Episode 3: 5.46m (21.8%) , +1: 169k (0.7%)
Episode 4: 5.40m (22.1%) , +1: 128k (0.6%)

Average: 5.36m (21.9%) , +1: 208k (0.9%)

Series 2
Episode 1: 4.48m (17.2%) , +1: 345k (1.6%)
Episode 2: 5.11m (20.0%) , +1: 261k (1.2%)

I assumed it was going to be a new series, too.


Thanks, rzt. Second episode is not much different to last year's figures, then. Not sure the week off will help it.

That's an interesting question.

Trouble with pub measurements is where do you draw the line?

The "Welcome Break" service station usually show the BBC news channel, so should we count everyone in them as watching that channel?

Or the Pubs that have a TV and it's just on in the background, who is watching and who isn't?

I think the bottom line is it would be impossible to accurately measure TV audience in public places. Most of the time it literally is just for background purposes with a low engagement rate.

It's not an important figure - they are not watching the adverts and the only important figure to Sky is the number of pubs who have bought a licence to show it.

My Pub was showing it in Greek!

Ken

Isn't The Voice Final on Sunday 3rd June - the same night as The Apprentice final?

That weekend, yeah. Same weekend as the Diamond Jubilee too. Weekends don't really get bigger than that for BBC One.

Oh really! Wow. Now that'll be a good night!
(well...I HOPE!)

Reports that Obama is giving a primetime address live from Afghanistan tonight at 7.30 ET. Was top secret until now for security reasons.

Potential implications on schedule? Depends how long it lasts I suppose, these things can go over an hour.

NBC has Biggest Loser then The Voice from 8PM, FOX has Glee, CBS NCIS.

I think they'll go for The Voice on the Saturday and The Apprentice on the Sunday. Hope they do advertise it as a big weekend - BBC have a tendency to just let things play out rather than big them up like a commercial network would.

Isn't The Voice final on Saturday 2nd June?

Can you imagine the fuss here if CS or EE were delayed to show Cameron in Afghanistan?? I think it would cost his a lot of lost votes this week. I say this as a fan of Obama, but interrupting primetime would be a risky move here.

In a few years time we'll be saying that about Call The Midwife.

I seem to recall David Cameron showing how out of touch he is with the nation by going to the Queen to make himself PM during an episode of The One Show, and EastEnders.

It seems that kind of out of touch thinking was just the kind of thing we should have come to expect from him.

I do find it strange that the networks seem to interrupt programming when a president is to make an address to the nation or usually any speech. I know he is the head of state for America but they have a lot of local news programmes they could feature the speech in after and also many news channels.

It is almost like politics is forced upon then. I think the last time the Queen addressed the nation (out of Christmas) was Diana death, unless her mother tribute was also televised 'live'.

Well it is remarkable given how commercial American television is that they're prepared to show a deference to politicians that went out here with Harold Macmillan. People used to moan in the seventies when Party Politial Broadcasts were on every channel at once, and they were only ten minutes long.

Olympics :yawn: when I get a fever I just take some paracetamol, up my fluid intake and try and sleep til it breaks,

Sky reckon ad engagement in pubs is 75%, the same as in-home.

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/Audience-I...dashboard.aspx


http://www.skymedia.co.uk/pub

I remember Obama seemed to do it loads during his first year or so and the networks were pretty pissed off in the end. FOX stopped showing them after a whole as nobody watched their coverage anyway and American Idol was getting shoved around. Them not showing it was quite a big deal though, and I remember they had to move one as NBC said they wouldn't air it as they refused to move America's Got Talent, so they ended up doing the address an hour earlier. The networks used to have a bit of goodwill with regards to these addresses but Obama kind of wore it away due to how often he did it (one of them was basically just an hour long televised press release marking 100 days in office).

I'm surprised all the networks (or almost all if FOX still refuse) still air them - surely just one network airing them (with a rotation system in place) would make more sense?

They are on all networks simultaneously to make them difficult to avoid. If people had alternatives they wouldnt watch. There used to be an unwritten rule that they didnt run them on Thursdays (the night US tv makes most of its money). Obama seems to be taking the pee though with the amount of broadcasts and the absence of content. I'd seriously expect them to go in the next few years for everything bar announcement of war or something really important as opposed to these "status updates"

For the most part, i agree!