Your quite right about the regional news being dropped at 6.30pm for the English regions and BBC News at 6 was on BBC Two but BBC NI, BBC Scotland and BBC Wales also had their news programmes on BBC Two at 6.30pm as well as having the extrended late news incase anyone missed it on BBC Two.

7m for Superstar?! I highly doubt it. If it can do 3.5m-4.5m for its run then I think it will definitely be coming back. Consider that ITV's biggest entertainment success in the past couple of years has been Red or Black and then remember that this will be airing in the summer when 3m is a good night for ITV. The odds are that it declines from the premiere so a big launch will help a lot.


They don't need to hate adverts so much. All they need is a preference for programming without them. Given that the overall output on both channels is extremely similar when it comes to football, then the adverts could easily make the difference.

I do think "brand" comes into it as well - and that's partly because the ITV brand is associated with adverts. But also, anywhere in the world that there's a "public/state broadcaster" at #1 in the EPG, they will usually dominate major national events.

A lot of the time when it comes to this kind of thing I'm not sure that viewers are really putting in too much thought to their viewing decisions. If Sky simulcast a match on SS1 and SS2 then we can safely assume that SS1 will rate far better than SS2. If SS1 cut to ads but SS2 didn't then, logically, people would move over to SS2.

Providing people like adverts more than the immediate build-up before kick-off then it's actually irrational behaviour to keep watching ITV.

I think 4m per night would be pretty decent for it. I doubt it'll launch with much on Saturday in the slot it's in with a pretty poor lead-in, but it should pick up a bit on Sunday in the cushy 8pm slot with a Corrie lead-in (both soaps are airing on Sunday). The live stripped shows will also have a decent amount of Corrie lead-ins. I think it'll do OK. 7m is ridiculous (maybe the final will peak at that but that's about it!) but if it can get a reasonable number tuning in each night then they should be happy. A 4m average would put it comfortably ahead of all of last Summer's efforts (way out in front of some of them) and if anything I do think it could manage slightly more than that.

Let's Get Gold screams flop this week though - they haven't even promoted it much. Live civilian Millionaire next week should do better, but again 4m a night would be a decent (and achievable) result.

I think if Superstar is a modest success, it'll be back as a summer show, kind of depends of what ALW wants to do as his next revival or show. Most of the roles seem to be from iconic shows such as The Sound of Music, Joseph, Oliver! and The Wizard of Oz. I'd go for Belle from Beauty and the Beast or Eliza Dolittle from My Fair Lady, the former would need to involve Disney and the latter Cameron Mackintosh.

I'm pretty sure he said on record after Oliver there were only two more shows he wanted to do - Wizard of Oz and an arena show for Jesus Christ Superstar (which the BBC refused to do).

Lets Go For Gold, should flop.

I mean come on, its 2012 and London is hosting the pinnacle of all sporting events, the Olympics, there will be highly trained athletes, all competing for the ultimate prize, an Olympic gold medal, and you think people will care who some girl from the Saturdays thinks is the best sports routine?


Come on, this will reduce the hard work of sports people, to near parody.

Does ITV now hire someone, whose job it is, to come up with giant flops?

Superstar is another matter however, I suspect it will do average ratings, but it wont be the next big hit.

My biggest disappointment that is Mel C has involved herself in this, previously ive had alot of respect for her, and thought her better than this kind of program. the judging panel also seems a bit odd.

It all looks like an inferior ITV copy of a BBC show, and deserves to flop for that alone, but im not sure it will be the massive flop it should be.

In the second series they should do Starlight Express, if only for the sight of the finalists skating around the studio trying to sing, live on ITV 1, it could all go so wrong, so quickly.

Gordon Behind Bars: 2.9m (inc +1)

Source: C4Press

Gordon Behind Bars doing very well, up on last week is it not?

For the 2nd week in a row, BBC2's #LineofDuty was the highest rating show at 9pm, averaging 3.1m (inc BBCHD)

Source: Sam Hodges

Last week's episode had 3.0m (inc +1), so a very small drop from the first episode.

Some more overnights:

Emmerdale: 5.72m (inc +1)
Holby City: 4.66m
The One Show: 3.74m
Bomber Command: 2.63m (inc +1)
Tipping Point: 2.35m (inc +1)
Falling Skies (FX): 289k (1.3%)

Source: Attentional

Emmerdale - 5.6m (26.4%)
*+1 191k (0.9%)
*clash period 5.25m (23.6%)

Eastenders - 5.53m (24.8%)
BBC3 - 1.09m (5.6%)

Emmerdale and Eastenders clashed last night

Tuesday 3rd July Overnights
BBC One
18:00- BBC News at Six: 4.43m (25%)
18:30- BBC Regional News & Weather: 5.47m (29%)
19:00- The One Show: 3.74m (18.4%)
19:30- EastEnders: 5.53m (24.8%)
20:00- Holby City: 4.67m (21.3%)
21:00- Turn Back Time: The Family: 3.08m (13.5%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 4.20m (21%)

BBC Two
20:00- Today at Wimbledon: 1.88m (8.6%)
21:00- Line of Duty: 3.12m (13.63%) inc HD

ITV1
17:00- Tipping Point: 2.35m (inc +1)
18:00- ITV Regional News: 3.48m/20% (inc +1)
18:30- ITV News and Weather: 3.10m/16% (inc +1)
19:00- Emmerdale: 5.60m (26.4%) , +1: 191k (0.9%)
* 19:00-19:30: 5.95m (29.2%)
* 19:30-20:00: 5.25m (23.6%)
20:00- Love Your Garden: 3.16m (14.5%) , +1: 166k (0.7%)
21:00- Bomber Command: 2.46m (10.79%) , +1: 168k (0.95%)

Channel 4
18:30- Hollyoaks: 867k (4.5%) , +1: 104k (0.5%)
20:00- Embarrassing Bodies: 1.47m (6.7%) , +1: 335k (1.5%)
21:00- Gordon Behind Bars: 2.48m (10.9%) , +1: 411k (2.3%)

Channel 5
13:45- Neighbours: 682k (8.1%)
17:30- Neighbours: 884k (5.9%)
18:00- Home and Away: 667k (3.8%)
20:00- World's Toughest Prison: 1.29m (5.9%)
21:00- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 1.87m (8.2%) , +1: 177k (1%)
22:00- Big Brother: 1.36m (7.6%) exc +1

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 18.7%
ITV1: 15% (+1: 0.7%)
BBC Two: 9.3%
Channel 4: 6.7% (+1: 1.2%)
Channel 5: 5.8% (+1: 0.4%)

Multichannel
5*
18:30- Home and Away: 458k (2.4%)

BBC Three
21:00- Don't Tell The Bride: 578k (2.6%)
22:00- EastEnders: 1.09m (5.6%)
23:00- Family Guy: 579k (5.1%)

E4
18:30- The Big Bang Theory: 644k/3.4% (inc +1)
19:00- Hollyoaks: 491k (2.4%) , +1: 203k (0.9%)
20:30- The Big Bang Theory: 568k/2.5% (inc +1)

FX
21:00- Falling Skies: 289k (1.3%)
* slot average: 94k (0.4%)

ITV2 (inc +1)
14:35- The Jeremy Kyle Show: 584k (7.3%)

ITV3 (inc +1)
20:00- Agatha Christie's Marple: 828k (3.8%)
21:00- Agatha Christie's Marple: 787k (3.9%)

ITV4
19:00- Tour De France 2012 Highlights: 695k (3.3%)
* 2nd highest ever audience for ITV4 HL show

Sources: Broadcast, DS, DS (2), ITVMedia

It's a rare occurrence where something actually does solidly well week-on-week in the Tuesday, 20:00 slot on ITV1.

Very good for Gordon Behind Bars, dropping a tiny bit from its debut.

CSI did well to secure 2m. BB at 1.36m excluding +1... the article said it added less than 100k on +1 but even so, I think that's decent, and shows it's growing again.

Anyone know hod Geordie Shore did?

rzt? Do you have the figures for the Auf Wiedersehen Pet repeats on Yesterday from the past month?

Many thanks!

Just realised that EastEnders is on at 8.30 tonight. If we get 2 long matches on Centre it could cause a lot of controversy...

EastEnder and Emmerdale took lumps out of each other, honestly ITV has nothing to gain by competing with EastEnders like it did last night. More to the point, Love Your Garden looks like a modest hit by Flop Zone standards.

the BBC 3 repeat shows its worth on nights like this, as normal. Whilst CSI did well.

Love Your Garden is a horticultural rip-off of DIY SOS. It is filled with sob stories and has a team of people doing a makeover of poor people's gardens. It is not rating well, this show can only get 3.1million compared to the 12million Tichmarsh's old show Groundforce used to get.

yeah lets pretend that Groundforce would get 12 million if it returned today.

Groundforce would still get over 5million viewers today. But 3.1million, how is that a good rating?

I said by Flopzone standards it looks good.

I know ITV hasnt left the flopzone since Saturday, bar a few soaps, but it did used to only be Tuesday.

Great news for BBC Two for Line of Duty to hold above 3m. They've had trouble getting viewers to stick with their multi-parters lately. The additional drama investment over the past 18 months has really upped the quality of the channel, and its nice to see that reflected in the numbers for a change.

Very close at 9pm overall with just 1.3m separating the 5 terrestrials. Turn Back Time seems lowish - IIRC the first run was steady in the decent 4m region.

Nice to see all 5 channels having a reasonable night, it would get boring if one channel dominates an evening, leaving the other 4 with crumbs. EE and EM squashed, to think they also include PVR viewings last night (EE did have a healthy second showing rating). ITV1 trying some PSB with Bomber Command, but like Real Chariots of Fire on Monday - there is little call for it. C5 having 3 hours over 1m is good to see and C4 enjoying success with Gordon Behind Bars.

I don't think BBC1 has much to crow about from last night, other than its soaps

Very surprised Tipping Point kept well over 2m viewers. Thought a fair few would've turned off as it's generally quite a boring show.