I think the lowest ever Coronation St was 6 million against SCD in 2010 on a Friday, but you are right these two soaps have a hardcore audience of 6 million.

BIG BROTHER 2012 eye and first teaser has been unveiled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrS2Z8GIucE

Full of colour and vigor. I love it!

Corrie 5.59m(Easter Sunday 2011)
Emmerdale 3.73m (7/7/11)- clashed with big EE episode
EE 4.34m(4/6/11) clashed with BGT

I like all the people walking into it, seems more accessible. More like a proper reality show, if that makes sense?

Those people at the start are actually the show's presenters. Don't worry, I didn't pick up on this first time either and I knew they had filmed stuff last week!

But yeah, really happy with it. Top work by @rhythmrug as ever.

Dancc do you think Channel5 will put BB highlights at 9pm or 10pm? I am not sure which time has been better rating for C5's last few BB/CBB series?

A decent start to what is always a difficult Talent week for BBC One. They did well up until 9pm, then it all fell apart with Silent Witness's repeat. I hate to think how low the second half could drop tonight.

Someone in the main forum pointed this out: http://www.itv.com/nationsfavouritenumberone/


Just air it as many times this week during BGT and job is (partially) a good'un.


Emmerdale had 3.38m on Wednesday 5th July 2006 at 21:30.

Not sure Sam. They have +1 now which they didn't have at their disposal for the last series so they can sort of have the best of both worlds if they want.

I think most nights it will be at 9pm, however certain US dramas like NCIS and CSI will still be airing when it starts and they are unlikely to be moved. In the week it will probably be: Mon 9pm, Tue 10pm, Wed 10pm, Thu 9pm, Fri 9pm. Sat will vary depending on what the other channels do, and Sun could be either 9pm or 10pm.

If Dallas is fast-tracked and starts around the 17th June, Sundays could be very strong:

6pm: Family Movie
8pm: Once Upon a Time (New Episode)
9pm: Dallas (New Series)
10pm: Big Brother

I left Emmerdale out as it was subject to regional variations in the seventies and, of course, it had Farm on the end until 1993. However, I suppose the soaps are no longer must see television, but I think anything under 5 million for the big two would still be a disaster if it happened for more than a week.

No, don't let Doctor Who drag it down!

*Lights blue touchpaper and retires*

Seriously, though, how would Who's c5m overnights help Voice?

Depends what ITV puts up against it. They've given up on Quarter One Saturday's of late.

Well if you think about it, it's only BGT, IACGMOOH and TXF that are keeping their Saturdays going. The rest of their offerings seem to have mediocre ratings and TMO is classed as a hit when it gets 4.5 million viewers.

You've got a point there. Doctor Who is a solid hit for BBC1, but Christmas aside it consistently gets 5-6m overnights, seemingly wherever it airs, which is good (and it's consolidated numbers are excellent of course), but it isn't the megahit some seem to think it is (or, indeed, that it showed flashes of being in the latter half of Tennant's era) and I doubt it would boost The Voice at all.

Stabilise it. Both shows will work together and feed one another.
Who overnights might also rise.

Am just sating they'd work as a team.

A hit ITV hoped would go into 7+ range
It was all hype but the ratings have never been great.

Why they are wasting Ant/Dec on R/B I have no ****ing idea.
Pandering to egos it seems.

And a lot of Doctor Who viewers don't watch live but later on the night so the lead-in gets smaller and smaller.

I wonder how Red or Black will do on its second outing. Could it perk up and get a respectable 5 million or could it be this year's Marriage Ref and die totally?

The reason TMO is a hit for ITV is because one third of 4.8m is more than a fifth of 7m. It's one of the rare cases on ITV/BBC where the demos really come into it - TMO skews particularly young.

Badly, I suspect. But I'm not sure it'll be any worse than The Cube?

TMO has excellent demos and isn't a bad show, but I wonder if ITV1 will have a series of flops to rival last summer this summer, where Popstar to Operastar was considered a success with 2.8 million and the others like Marriage Ref, Born to Shine and Show Me The Funny never got above 2 million.

I'm sure they will. We know they've already got the Lloyd Webber series which wasn't doing much on BBC1 so transfer to ITV then airing in the summer... flop written all over it.

Sherlock Season 2 debuted on PBS last night, be interesting to see how it got on - it got rave reviews and PBS is on a bit of a roll after Downton.

Ratings Predictions.

EastEnders 5.5million
BGT 8.7million
Corrie 8million

BGT results should make higher than than the performances.

I think 10million for the results.