The Ratings Thread (Part 38)

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Brekkie

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Nine
18:00 Nine News Sunday: 1.4m
18:30 Big Brother: 1.37m
19:30 60 Minutes: 1.51m
20:30 Howzat! Kerry Packer's War: 2.1m
22:30 The Mentalist (R): 510k

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five: 477k
18:30 MasterChef All Stars Finale: 802k
19:45 MasterChef All Stars Winner Announced: 1.05m
20:00 Everybody Dance Now: 385k”

Any figures for the GO! edition of Big Brother at 6pm. And ouch for Masterchef - their spin off series just don't work down under.

Originally Posted by danisfunny:
“Oprah's Favourite Asian Holiday's... It was one of those Channel 4 countdown shows... ”

Dan really is funny.

Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“Dear The Times, Following your correspondence on the first cuckoo of spring, I thought you may be interested to know that Brekkie's first complaint about the BBC1 Christmas Day schedule was on 19th August. Is this a record? Yours, Steve Williams.”

LOL. Sadly in the real world I've been working with Christmas for the last few months - probably why I'm so damn miserable!

Originally Posted by AlexiR:
“The live feed isn't needed. Channel 5 are right and I wish Big Brother fans would just get over it.”

Most of them did and just stopped watching.

For future reference:

Quote:
“For BBC2's Beijing Paralympic coverage, 56% of viewers were aged over 55, with a bias towards women. The opening ceremony peaked at 2.9 million viewers, with the closing one attracting 990,000. The average audience for the 7pm-8pm The Games Tonight programme was 1.7 million, and 20 million people watched at least five minutes. C4's coverage is on a completely different scale: the biggest ever live event in its history.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...ains-reporters

I think it's fair to say C4 will beat that and after the post-Olympic lull of the last week it could well be the best decision C4 have ever made. They've also sold out of advertising slots around the Opening Ceremony.

grahamzxy

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Hassaan13:
“I've looked at the BARB top 30 for that week, and why isn't Live at the Apollo there considering it was mentioned here that it got 13m?”

It was not shown as things overran, but it had been scheduled....

Martin Phillp

20-08-2012

Dallas has to do well for Channel 5 considering the ton of promotion the actors have done today. Lorraine, This Morning, The One Show etc.

grahamzxy

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Martin Phillp:
“Dallas has to do well for Channel 5 considering the ton of promotion the actors have done today. Lorraine, This Morning, The One Show etc.”

1 in 50 people watch Lorraine/This Morning - The One Show will have 3m+ viewers tonight - Larry Hagman on right now.....I can see Dallas launching with 2m - depending on the opposition of course.

Dancc

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by grahamzxy:
“1 in 50 people watch Lorraine/This Morning - The One Show will have 3m+ viewers tonight - Larry Hagman on right now.....I can see Dallas launching with 2m - depending on the opposition of course.”

I'm thinking 3m+. Might scrape past 4m in the officials.

All this publicity coming a bit early is a slight negative. Hoping it makes the front cover of all leading TV magazines.

Dancc

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Brekkie:
“Any figures for the GO! edition of Big Brother at 6pm.”

233k. Most watched show of the day on digital.

C14E

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by SamuelW:
“How does Itv1 normally rate Sunday 7pm? 3.5million for The Chase doesnt look that good ito me. It got beaten by a documentary on BBC One. Secret Fortune the evening before got about the same rating against XFactor.”

It's a million better than Holding Out For A Hero was doing in that slot in the depth of winter before the X Factor results last year. 3.5m for a quiz show in that slot seems OK, I think stuff like All Star Family Fortunes does similar business (maybe a bit better depending on the competition). The share was only slightly lower than Red or Black as well.

Originally Posted by Jaycee Dove:
“On another note ITV, rather surprisingly, spent nearly all morning promoting Channel Five today! They interviewed cast members from Dallas in Lorraine and then on This Morning devoted a fair chunk of the show to Dallas with a couple of spoofs featuring Eammon as JR and Ruth as Sue Ellen, interviews with three of the cast (Patrick Duffy and Jesse Metcalfe plus the girl playing his love interest). They even had the three of them cooking with Rusty Lee! Then on Lunch with Gina and Mel they had Charlene Tilton on talking about Dallas and cooking Rhubbarb. ”

Wasn't someone on here whining a few days ago about the BBC promoting other channels shows and that ITV never did it? I saw it on the BBC News channel as well and was quite surprised. Seems to be getting a big push. Channel 5 do tend to make an effort with their promotion, hopefully it works out for them.

Dancc

20-08-2012

Whilst we're on the subject, some updates on Channel 5's other imports:

NCIS: Rights renewed (Season 9 + Season 10)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Rights renewed (Season 13)
CSI: New York: Rights renewed (Season 9)
The Mentalist: Rights renewed (Season 5)
Once Upon a Time: Rights renewed (Season 2)
The Walking Dead: Rights renewed (Season 3)
Alphas [5*]: Rights renewed (Season 2)
Sons of Anarchy [5USA]: Rights renewed (Season 4)
Justified [5USA]: In negotiations (Season 4)
Parenthood [5*]: Unlikely to be renewed (Season 3)
Californication [5*]: Not renewed (Season 5)
CSI: Miami: Cancelled

Steve Williams

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“21:00 - Alan Carr’s Summer Specstacular: 1.16m (6.1%), +1: 173k (1.3%)
* slot average: 1.2m (5.96%)
23:05 - The Angelos Epithemiou Show: 417k (3.73%)
* series average: 400k (2.27%)
* slot average: 624k (4.97%)”

That Alan Carr rating is a bit poor, and it's something to bear in mind when people are demanding Olympians go on everything because Mo Farah was on that in the week they finished and it got bugger all, so I dunno how we're expecting Olympians in Strictly in three months' time to make a difference, or indeed that X Factor sport and music special that Sun hack made up. I doubt Jade Jones' presence did much for last week's Blue Peter.

The Angelos average was doubtless dragged down by the microscopic audience on Opening Ceremony night, but it's not been good enough in terms of ratings nor good enough in terms of creativity as it's like a million other shows. I don't know why comedy shows need bands on, it's as bad as Elaine Paige on The Two Ronnies, so what value you get from seeing Cover Drive or Rizzle Kicks just performing their singles on Angelos I don't know.

Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“I don't think Call The Midwife will be on Christmas Day, though, because BBC1 don't seem to want to show drama on Christmas Day, the last time I think they did that was Miss Marple in 1989.”

By the way, I do know that Doctor Who is a drama but it's a bit different because shows like that - and Merlin and Primeval and that - are the only dramas that would go out on a Saturday teatime, not like a proper 9pm drama.

Originally Posted by Georged123:
“It was listed as "London 2012 Opening Ceremony", I don't see why we should be discounting people based on their reasons for watching. It was a straight simulcast, I don't see why that figure should be excluded.”

But why would anyone choose to watch the opening ceremony on BBC News? Even if you do watch the channel all day you're surely not doing that at nine o'clock on a Friday night, nor would you think no other channel would cover it. I think we should exclude it because the idea of people actively choosing to watch it there is too weird for me to comprehend.

RobbieSykes123

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by trickytree1979:
“In the age of PVRs....I don't think that argument has much credence...plus, if people genuinely leave the room and miss part of a programme, then the figures are true, its not a disadvantage how it is calculated, just a reflection of reality. it is just the way the BBC decide to broadcast, maybe they should put in breaks for cross trails so that people can go have their pee pee break, my thinking is that THAT would be a disadvantage to the BBC.

Also a household panel of 5,100 extrapolates to a household population of 27 million, the BARB panel actually has 12,000 individuals that extrapolate up to 60 million. Semantics, but important.”

I think you took my post rather too seriously!

sn_22

20-08-2012

Wow. Just stopping in to doff my cap and belatedly join Robbie's conga line for the Closing Ceremony figures. Absolutely remarkable, and a sign of just how much the Great British public got behind the Olympic Games - as far as I'm aware, Opening Ceremony ratings usually comfortably outstrip the Closing. In this case, I just think the public wanted to hang onto the Games for as long as they could. Amazing.

Dancc

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by sn_22:
“Wow. Just stopping in to doff my cap and belatedly join Robbie's conga line for the Closing Ceremony figures. Absolutely remarkable, and a sign of just how much the Great British public got behind the Olympic Games - as far as I'm aware, Opening Ceremony ratings usually comfortably outstrip the Closing. In this case, I just think the public wanted to hang onto the Games for as long as they could. Amazing.”

Maybe host nation is exception to the rule. In Australia it was a similar story back in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tings_for_2000

iaindb

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“
I don't think Call The Midwife will be on Christmas Day, though, because BBC1 don't seem to want to show drama on Christmas Day, the last time I think they did that was Miss Marple in 1989.
”

If only this was true. <cough>Eastenders<cough>

I can't help feeling that BBC1 only commissioned a CTM Christmas special because ITV1 have their Christmas Downton. But they couldn't possibly schedule Midwife against Downton on Christmas night. Or could they?

gottago

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Maybe host nation is exception to the rule. In Australia it was a similar story back in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tings_for_2000”

Interesting to see the Paralympics opening and closing do quite well there. The ABC's share goes up somewhat compared to the previous weeks.

D.M.N.

20-08-2012

Saturday 18th August 2012 - Multichannel Ratings
ITV3 (inc +1)
19:00 - Agatha Christie's Marple: 589k (3.2%)
21:00 - Agatha Christie's Poirot: 783k (4.0%)

BBC Three
21:15 - FILM: Lesbian Vampire Killers: 577k (2.9%)
23:05 - Family Guy: 585k (4.5%)
23:30 - Family Guy: 647k (6.4%)
23:50 - American Dad!: 600k (7.7%)
24:15 - American Dad!: 574k (9.3%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Wallander: 534k (2.5%)
22:00 - Wallander: 511k (2.8%)

ITV2 (inc +1)
21:30 - The Xtra Factor: 634k (3.2%)

Source: ITV Media

iaindb

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“

The only people who seem to be suggesting they bring back Birds of a Feather are the cast. They revived To The Manor Born the other year, mind, and that's surely even more obscure, but that probably only got Christmas Day by default as they had nothing else.
”

It doesn't necessary follow that if Birds returns to TV it will be on the BBC. Possible homes for a new series: Sky1, Sky Atlantic, Gold (the favourites IMHO), Channel 5(?) or how about ITV1 - something for the comedy slot they're supposed to be planning for Thursdays at 8.30.

BBC2's Red Dwarf returned on Dave and ITV's Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was revived on BBC1.

edit: just saw a trailer on Challenge** for the new series of Mount Pleasant now on Sky Living, the women's channel. Another possible home for the all-female-cast Birds.

**it's Bullseye on at the moment. The perfect escape from deeply depressing soap operas and deeply depressing dramas about child exploitation or psychotic stalkers.

Dancc

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by gottago:
“Interesting to see the Paralympics opening and closing do quite well there. The ABC's share goes up somewhat compared to the previous weeks.”

Good spot.

Brekkie

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“233k. Most watched show of the day on digital.”

Thanks. The daily shows struggled towards the end of the week but the Sunday night live show held up quite well and tonights live nomination show was viewed as the best show of the series by most folk over on Behind Big Brother.

Originally Posted by C14E:
“It's a million better than Holding Out For A Hero was doing in that slot in the depth of winter before the X Factor results last year. 3.5m for a quiz show in that slot seems OK, I think stuff like All Star Family Fortunes does similar business (maybe a bit better depending on the competition). The share was only slightly lower than Red or Black as well.”

All Star Family Fortunes would probably be closer to the 4.5m mark at least - it usually does rather well.

And thanks for those Sydney 2000 ratings Dancc - so based on that C4 might be looking at around a third of the Olympic figure for the ceremonies, so around 8m or so - which sounds about right actually.

D.M.N.

20-08-2012

Sunday 19th August 2012
BBC One
18:30 - BBC News: 3.59m (22%)
19:00 - Britain's Hidden Heritage: 4.12m (22%)
20:00 - Countryfile: 5.78m (27.1%)
21:00 - Silent Witness: 5.63m (24.5%)
* slot average: 6.24m (23.84%)
22:00 - BBC News: 5.38m (27%)
22:25 - Match of the Day 2: 2.57m (18.6%)

BBC Two
20:00 - Exploring China: 1.16m (5.5%)
21:00 - Toughest Place to Be a Miner: 1.58m (6.86%) inc HD
22:00 - Page Eight: 1.04m (6.6%) inc HD

ITV1
13:25 - The X Factor: 1.1m (11.7%)
18:45 - ITV News & Weather: 2.16m (13%) inc +1
19:00 - The Chase: Celebrity Special: 3.51m (18.3%) inc +1
20:00 - The Cube Celebrity Special: 2.77m (13%), +1: 71k
21:00 - The Last Weekend: 3.19m (13.88%), +1: 212k (1.25%)
* slot average: 5.88m (22.47%)

Channel 4
20:00 - Come Dine with Me: 1.12m (5.2%), +1: 156k (0.7%)
21:00 - Lee Evans: Roadrunner: 1.44m (6.4%), +1: 370k (2.2%)
* slot average: 1.53m (5.93%)
22:10 - I’m Spazticus: 510k (2.9%), +1: 106k (1.1%)
* slot average: 1.13m (5.52%)

Channel 5
20:00 - Once Upon a Time: 958k (6.4%)
21:00 - Celebrity Big Brother: 1.69m (7.3%), +1: 198k (1.15%)
22:00 - Mutt Ugly: World’s Ugliest Dog: 470k (2.7%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 24.1%
ITV1 - 13.2% (+1: 0.6%)
BBC Two - 5.8%
Channel 5 - 4.8% (+1: 0.6%)
Channel 4 - 4.4% (+1: 0.7%)
BBC Three - 4.4%

All Day Shares inc +1's
BBC One - 18.5%
ITV1 - 10.6%
BBC Two - 6.1%
Channel 5 - 5.1%
Channel 4 - 4.7%
ITV2 - 4.0%
- best day since August 17th, 2009
Film4 - 2.4%
BBC Three - 2.2%
ITV3 - 2.2%

Multichannels
Alibi
21:00 - FILM: Magnum Force: 83k (0.44%), +1: 7k (0.05%)

BBC Three
19:10 - FILM: Raiders of the Lost Ark: 1.12m (5.4%)
21:00 - The Batman Shootings: 463k (2.01%)
* slot average: 582k (2.22%)
22:00 - Family Guy: 968k (4.9%)
22:20 - Family Guy: 1.15m (6.8%)
24:00 - The Batman Shootings: 290k (5.6%)

BBC Four
21:00 - FILM: Wilde: 390k (1.9%)

Dave (inc +1)
21:00 - Tim Vine's One Night Stand: 201k

E4
19:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 663k inc +1
20:00 - FILM: Cheaper by the Dozen 2: 251k (1.1%), +1: 155k (0.77%)

Film4
18:40 - FILM: Sahara: 422k inc +1
21:00 - FILM: Along Came a Spider: 509k (2.57%), +1: 94k (0.72%)

GOLD (inc +1)
21:00 - Only Fools And Horses: 155k

ITV2
18:45 - The X Factor: 791k (4.2%), +1: 239k (1.1%)
20:00 - The Xtra Factor: 715k (3.3%), +1: 224k (1%)
21:00 - Benidorm: 725k (3.2%), +1: 217k (0.9%)
22:00 - The Only Way Is Essex: 970k (5.4%), +1: 179k (1.72%)

ITV3
21:00 - FILM: The Portrait of a Lady: 194k (1.15%), +1: 6k (0.05%)

ITV4
21:00 - FILM: Jaws the Revenge: 192k (0.93%), +1: 13k (0.09%)

More4 (inc +1)
19:25 - Come Dine With Me: 651k
21:00 - One Born Every Minute: 348k

Sky1
19:00 - Sinbad: 362k (1.89%)
* last week: 340k (1.58%), which coincidentally timeshifted to 1.00m

Sky Sports 1
13:00 - Live Ford Super Sunday: 930k (9.8%)
* MG claims 1.21m (9.8%), possibly match average
15:30 - Live Ford Super Sunday: 1.315m (10.1%)

Yesterday (inc +1)
20:20 - Last Of The Summer Wine: 274k

Source: Attentional, Broadcast (1, 2), C4 Sales, DS, ITV Media, MG

AlexiR

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“BBC Three
21:00 - The Batman Shootings: 463k (2.01%)
* slot average: 582k (2.22%)”

I cannot put into words how happy I am this did poorly.

Benjamin Sisko

20-08-2012

Very happy The Chase beat the Cube.

danisfunny

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by AlexiR:
“I cannot put into words how happy I am this did poorly.”

Why??

Hassaan13

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Benjamin Sisko:
“Very happy The Chase beat the Cube. ”

Wasn't The Cube a repeat?

iaindb

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by Benjamin Sisko:
“Very happy The Chase beat the Cube. ”

Well, so it should have, giving that The Cube was a month old repeat.

A month old repeat at 8pm on a Sunday night. Ludicrous. But ITV were punished because their 9pm drama, The Last Weekend, with The Cube lead-in, got tanked by Silent Witness.

Disappointed by those ratings for The Chase. It was brilliant last night and deserved to do much better than that.

AlexiR

20-08-2012

Originally Posted by danisfunny:
“Why??”

It was a terrible rush job that represents the current worst of television journalism/documentaries.And basically television in general in fact.

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