A lengthy Channel 4 advertisement premiere at 21:55 for the film 'The Watch'.
The Ratings Thread (Part 38)
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Re last night's ratings:
Another triumph for BBC2 drama with The Best Of Men and another triumph for Peter Kay over at Channel 4. It doesn't seem that Peter makes much of an effort these days beyond his self-indulgent stage shows but clearly with ticket sales, DVD sales and high TV ratings, he doesn't need to. In this respect he's this generation's Benny Hill who, once at Thames, only ever did 3 TV specials a year and nothing else.
Was a bit surprised to see how low the BBC 999 Awards rated after first seeing the relatively low shares for the ITV1 8pm soap hour, but ie seems it was The Hairy Dieters who did the damage. Look forward to Waterloo Road rating as low as the 999 Awards next Thursday. (Fingers crossed.
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Another triumph for BBC2 drama with The Best Of Men and another triumph for Peter Kay over at Channel 4. It doesn't seem that Peter makes much of an effort these days beyond his self-indulgent stage shows but clearly with ticket sales, DVD sales and high TV ratings, he doesn't need to. In this respect he's this generation's Benny Hill who, once at Thames, only ever did 3 TV specials a year and nothing else.
Was a bit surprised to see how low the BBC 999 Awards rated after first seeing the relatively low shares for the ITV1 8pm soap hour, but ie seems it was The Hairy Dieters who did the damage. Look forward to Waterloo Road rating as low as the 999 Awards next Thursday. (Fingers crossed.
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X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows
Originally Posted by Score:
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
wut??
Originally Posted by Score:
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
Someone's having a good friday night i see
Originally Posted by dan2008
Well Doctors has quite a following with students and of course many were getting their results yesterday so maybe that affected it a little.
So all these student viewers are not in lectures at 1.45 usually???
Well Doctors has quite a following with students and of course many were getting their results yesterday so maybe that affected it a little.
So all these student viewers are not in lectures at 1.45 usually???
Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“Tomorrow is going to be exciting, so let's have a few wagers, chaps:
TXF 10 million, people always love to see the drunks murder Angels and see how the panel react.
ROB, 4 million, helped by you know who, but I reckon this will be its peak.
MOTD, completely overlooked but it's the start of the season, so I'll wager 3.5 million( often an unsung stalwart this one). CBB, 1.8 million, trends older than BB so doesn't have the Roxy effect.”
“Tomorrow is going to be exciting, so let's have a few wagers, chaps:
TXF 10 million, people always love to see the drunks murder Angels and see how the panel react.
ROB, 4 million, helped by you know who, but I reckon this will be its peak.
MOTD, completely overlooked but it's the start of the season, so I'll wager 3.5 million( often an unsung stalwart this one). CBB, 1.8 million, trends older than BB so doesn't have the Roxy effect.”
it would be v disappointing if millions of people come back inside on what they are saying will be hottest weekend of the year (in the south anyway) to watch desperate wannabes and attention-seeking oddballs and a crappy game show that flopped the first time round.
Originally Posted by Score:
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
“X factor should do alright, den on last year but still ok. It should build ad it goes on. It is a big shoe and deserves to do ok, the reports from the press have been good.
Peter Kay is the most lazy person in Showbears churning out lact crap all the time that weve all seen before he needs new stuff he is us.eess. Now ne,ent when we was god but now he does nothing more. Terrible for bbcp1 and itv1
As t night crap shoes that deserved crap rating s bring on autu,n with goof shows”
Post of the year.
Really good figures for The Best of Men - I keep saying it, but it's great to see BBC Two making progress with drama. As good as the likes of the Great British Bake-Off or the Hairy Bikers are (and they're certainly the ratings bankers to rely on) it's refreshing to see the channel break out of the soft factual comfort zone every now and again. Less refreshing to see Peter Kay pulling another 4m for a re-hash, but that guy seems basically critic-proof these days.
I've not commented on the EE figures all week, because I really just don't see what all the fuss is about. As a general rule, soap ratings shift at a glacially slow pace - especially in summer. I really don't get people hopping around waiting for some sort of ratings fireworks. The debate over what was promoted and when seems a bit pointless to me too - the things been trailed to within an inch of its life and if people were interested everyone would have shown up at 8pm on Monday anyway. But those ratings were no better/worse than any other rating.
Will get my words on XF in before this place goes into meltdown tomorrow evening - logic would say it'll be comfortably down on previous years, but then the show has a habit of doing rather better than expected on debut. All that happened last year was the show failed to grow and snowball towards the finish, as it usually has done. For all of the hoopla in here, it still had as more viewers at Christmas than it started with, so it's not beyond reasonable to think that many or indeed most of those will return. So a drop, yes. A big one? I wouldn't bank on it.
I've not commented on the EE figures all week, because I really just don't see what all the fuss is about. As a general rule, soap ratings shift at a glacially slow pace - especially in summer. I really don't get people hopping around waiting for some sort of ratings fireworks. The debate over what was promoted and when seems a bit pointless to me too - the things been trailed to within an inch of its life and if people were interested everyone would have shown up at 8pm on Monday anyway. But those ratings were no better/worse than any other rating.
Will get my words on XF in before this place goes into meltdown tomorrow evening - logic would say it'll be comfortably down on previous years, but then the show has a habit of doing rather better than expected on debut. All that happened last year was the show failed to grow and snowball towards the finish, as it usually has done. For all of the hoopla in here, it still had as more viewers at Christmas than it started with, so it's not beyond reasonable to think that many or indeed most of those will return. So a drop, yes. A big one? I wouldn't bank on it.
I'm hoping X factor flops as it would be the final nail in Cowell's coffin. Bringing Red or Black to our TV screens Was a criminal offense.
Sam Hodges tweeted that EE was the top rated show again last night with 7.4m at 8 and won the 9pm slot with 6.9m
Originally Posted by Sandsss:
“Sam Hodges tweeted that EE was the top rated show again last night with 7.4m at 8 and won the 9pm slot with 6.9m”
“Sam Hodges tweeted that EE was the top rated show again last night with 7.4m at 8 and won the 9pm slot with 6.9m”
And so the Ratings Crisis continues......
.....for Emmerdale and Corrie!
Thank god EastEnders has managed to claim at least a small victory for its trailed-to-the-hilt-during-Olympics, apocalyptic week, including the murder reveal and Sharon's twelfth return.
Anything less than a victory over the other soaps this week would have been a total car crash. The fact the gap is still so narrow is to be expected since the show has been fledgling for a while.
Caught a bit last night and while the actors do a good job, it's really let down by bad scriptwriting and melodramatic execution. Far from classic EastEnders, more a distant cousin of it.
Anything less than a victory over the other soaps this week would have been a total car crash. The fact the gap is still so narrow is to be expected since the show has been fledgling for a while.
Caught a bit last night and while the actors do a good job, it's really let down by bad scriptwriting and melodramatic execution. Far from classic EastEnders, more a distant cousin of it.
Ratings for Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular 2 yesterday?
And last years X Factor launch got a peak of 12 million. So even if the launch is down on last years, doesn't mean it can pick itself up as the show progresses.
And last years X Factor launch got a peak of 12 million. So even if the launch is down on last years, doesn't mean it can pick itself up as the show progresses.
Originally Posted by AUNAC:
“it would be v disappointing if millions of people come back inside on what they are saying will be hottest weekend of the year (in the south anyway) to watch desperate wannabes and attention-seeking oddballs and a crappy game show that flopped the first time round.”
“it would be v disappointing if millions of people come back inside on what they are saying will be hottest weekend of the year (in the south anyway) to watch desperate wannabes and attention-seeking oddballs and a crappy game show that flopped the first time round.”
It only flopped because it was shown daily. That's what I presume.
Originally Posted by C14E:
“I still fail to understand why nobody in UK TV seems to look at the amount of money Chuck Lorre has made from repeating his shows and think it might be an idea to push sitcoms with long runs.
E4's schedule is full of US sitcoms because they've not got the UK output to slide in there. If The Big Bang Theory can regularly pull 600k for a repeat, imagine what they could get for a repeat of a hit UK comedy?”
“I still fail to understand why nobody in UK TV seems to look at the amount of money Chuck Lorre has made from repeating his shows and think it might be an idea to push sitcoms with long runs.
E4's schedule is full of US sitcoms because they've not got the UK output to slide in there. If The Big Bang Theory can regularly pull 600k for a repeat, imagine what they could get for a repeat of a hit UK comedy?”
[LIST][*]We've not got the budget to finance full seasons, and E4 would never be able to pull in the numbers to make it work, and we wouldn't be able to make as much in international distribution, unless it was a co-production but Torchwood proved that never works[*]and the majority of British sitcoms are one person on their own, whereas American sitcoms use large writing teams. British sitcoms simply don't have the manpower to pull it off[*]and British sitcoms tend to be more liberal with their use of language and sex references making them unsuitable for daytime syndication.[*]It takes more years to reach the right numbers than many writers/actors a willing to give (4 seasons or 92 episodes usually)[/LIST]Sky did recently put in a 37 episode order of Trollied though..
Also, it's more than likely they wouldn't get 600k for a repeat of a British sitcom and I doubt Chuck Lorre or any of the Big Bang Theory cast/crew get a significant amount of money from repeats.
Don't be surprised if Cutting Edge wins the 9pm slot on Monday for Channel 4 as it focusses on the Moors Murders.
Originally Posted by theonlyweeman:
“[LIST][*]Also, it's more than likely they wouldn't get 600k for a repeat of a British sitcom and I doubt Chuck Lorre or any of the Big Bang Theory cast/crew get a significant amount of money from repeats.”
“[LIST][*]Also, it's more than likely they wouldn't get 600k for a repeat of a British sitcom and I doubt Chuck Lorre or any of the Big Bang Theory cast/crew get a significant amount of money from repeats.”
In fact, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that if Two and a Half Men is forced to shut down permanently, it could jeopardize as much as $250 million in domestic syndication revenue for producer Warner Bros. Television.
Celebrity Big Brother was second in the 21:00 slot yesterday beating ITV1, Channel 4 and BBC Two - although all four networks were below 2 million in that slot!
Originally Posted by take no rubbish:
“Originally Posted by dan2008
Well Doctors has quite a following with students and of course many were getting their results yesterday so maybe that affected it a little.
So all these student viewers are not in lectures at 1.45 usually???”
“Originally Posted by dan2008
Well Doctors has quite a following with students and of course many were getting their results yesterday so maybe that affected it a little.
So all these student viewers are not in lectures at 1.45 usually???”
I very much doubt Doctors has a big student following. It isn't really a show young people tend to watch, but I could be wrong on that. And plus the whole "many were getting their results" doesn't really wash since many students probably got their results in the morning. If anything, students would probably watch something like EE or TOWIE or whatever they like. And how would you know Doctors has a following with students?
Originally Posted by TheIllusionist:
“I'm hoping X factor flops as it would be the final nail in Cowell's coffin. Bringing Red or Black to our TV screens Was a criminal offense.”
“I'm hoping X factor flops as it would be the final nail in Cowell's coffin. Bringing Red or Black to our TV screens Was a criminal offense.”
Indeed, and I see that on tonight's show a singer protests to the judges that they told her to sing Pink. Tulisa (or some other devoid of talent ass) is full of a (probably scripted) comeback: "When did we utter those words" or similar. That wasn't what the contestant meant and they know it. Really sick TV.
Originally Posted by grahamzxy:
“In fact, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that if Two and a Half Men is forced to shut down permanently, it could jeopardize as much as $250 million in domestic syndication revenue for producer Warner Bros. Television.”
“In fact, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that if Two and a Half Men is forced to shut down permanently, it could jeopardize as much as $250 million in domestic syndication revenue for producer Warner Bros. Television.”
Whether any of that reaches the cast and crew is another matter…
Friday 17th August 2012
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.27m (16.4%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 7.36m (34.9%)
21:00 - EastEnders: 6.89m (31.7%)
ITV1
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.77m (32.3%), +1: 133k (0.6%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 7.13m (36.4%), +1: 127k (0.6%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.13m (32.7%), +1: 230k (1.1%)
21:00 - Corrie Goes To Kenya: 1.77m (8.4%), +1: 108k (0.6%)
Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 749k (4.4%)
Channel 5
13:45 - Neighbours: 543k (7.0%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 764k (5.6%)
Multichannels
5*
18:00 - Home and Away Classics: 175k (1.1%)
18:30 - Home and Away Classics: 189k (1.1%)
BBC Three
22:30 - EastEnders: 531k (3.3%)
23:00 - EastEnders: 715k (5.9%)
E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 470k (2.6%)
Source: DS
Hideous for Corrie Goes to Kenya last night. If anything, EastEnders did the same as usual, it was the Corrie second episode which underperformed, so I will be interested to see if Miranda dented it.
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.27m (16.4%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 7.36m (34.9%)
21:00 - EastEnders: 6.89m (31.7%)
ITV1
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.77m (32.3%), +1: 133k (0.6%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 7.13m (36.4%), +1: 127k (0.6%)
20:30 - Coronation Street: 7.13m (32.7%), +1: 230k (1.1%)
21:00 - Corrie Goes To Kenya: 1.77m (8.4%), +1: 108k (0.6%)
Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 749k (4.4%)
Channel 5
13:45 - Neighbours: 543k (7.0%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 764k (5.6%)
Multichannels
5*
18:00 - Home and Away Classics: 175k (1.1%)
18:30 - Home and Away Classics: 189k (1.1%)
BBC Three
22:30 - EastEnders: 531k (3.3%)
23:00 - EastEnders: 715k (5.9%)
E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 470k (2.6%)
Source: DS
Hideous for Corrie Goes to Kenya last night. If anything, EastEnders did the same as usual, it was the Corrie second episode which underperformed, so I will be interested to see if Miranda dented it.
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