Speaking of which, i don't suppose we ever did get any ratings for The Midnight Beast did we? I know episode 1 was around 200k which isn't good, however it was the same level which The Inbetweeners was for thier first series, so they should give it a second run to see if it does improve. It didn't seem like the most costly show they've ever made. Am hoping that Beaver Falls is saved by its online views as well, as it's overnights have been fairly poor this series.

Full Roundup of the Weekend's Ratings
Friday 31st August 2012
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.16m (16.4%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.01m (24%)
18:30 - BBC Regional News: 4.895m (27%)
19:00 - The One Show: 3.135m (16%)
19:30 - Cash Britain: 4.23m (22%)
20:00 - EastEnders: 6.23m (28.4%)
20:30 - Miranda: 4.06m (18.7%)
21:00 - In with the Flynns: 3.01m (13.4%)
21:30 - Mrs Brown's Boys: 4.44m (20.0%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.49m (23%)
22:35 - Would I Lie To You?: 2.53m
23:45 - EastEnders Omnibus: 446k (9%)

BBC Two
20:00 - Mastermind: 1.72m (7.8%)
20:30 - Gardeners' World: 2.12m (9.7%)
21:00 - Parade's End: 2.18m (9.77%) inc HD
* slot average: 1.38m (5.9%)
* last week: 3.12m

ITV1
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.84m (30.7%), +1: 193k (0.9%)
19:30 - Live UEFA Super Cup: 2.13m (9.88%), +1: 47k (0.23%)

Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 750k (4.2%), +1: 123k (0.6%)
19:30 - Paralympic Games 2012: 2.11m (10.4%), +1: 89k (0.5%)
* peak: 3.8m at 21:00 (3.6m + 0.2m)
* most watched programme between 21:00 to 21:15 with a 3.0m average

Channel 5
13:45 - Neighbours: 626k (8.8%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 867k (6.2%)
21:00 - Celebrity Big Brother: 2.08m (9.6%), +1: 38k (0.23%)
22:30 - Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side: 1.11m (7.5%)
23:20 - The Bachelor: 715k (8.3%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 19.9%
ITV1 - 11.1% (+1: 0.3%)
Channel 4 - 9.8%
BBC Two - 7.5%
Channel 5 - 6.1% (+1: 0.1%)

All Day Shares inc +1's
BBC One - 18.8%
ITV1 - 11.2%
Channel 4 - 9.7%
BBC Two - 6.3%
Channel 5 - 5.0%
ITV2 - 3.0%
ITV3 - 2.9%

Multichannels
BBC Three
22:30 - EastEnders: 501k (3.1%)
23:30 - Family Guy: 605k (6.4%)
23:50 - Family Guy: 674k (9.0%)

E4
18:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 555k (3.3%) inc +1
18:30 - The Big Bang Theory: 620k (3.4%) inc +1
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 449k (2.4%)

Film4 (inc +1)
21:00 - FILM: Die Hard 4.0: 672k (3.6%)

ITV2 (inc +1)
20:00 - You've Been Framed Rides Again!: 605k (2.8%)
21:00 - FILM: Mamma Mia!: 927k (4.8%)

ITV3 (inc +1)
20:00 - Midsomer Murders: 989k (4.5%)

More4
18:25 - Paralympic Games 2012: 612k (3.3%), +1: 10k (0.1%)

Sky1
21:00 - Trollied: 307k (1.4%)
21:30 - Trollied: 335k (1.5%)

Sky Sports News
22:00 - Transfer Deadline Day: 716k (4.0%)

Saturday 1st September 2012
BBC One
06:00 - Breakfast: 1.3m (31.0%)
10:00 - Saturday Kitchen Best Bits: 1.2m (17.0%)
11:30 - Football Focus: 0.9m (12.9%)
12:00 - BBC News: 1.1m (14.8%)
12:10 - Formula 1: The Belgian Grand Prix - Qualifying: 1.6m (18.1%)
14:30 - Triathlon: 0.7m (7.9%)
16:00 - Final Score: 1.3m (12.5%)
17:25 - BBC News: 2.4m (18.5%)
17:50 - A Question of Sport: 2.0m (14.2%)
18:20 - Total Wipeout: 2.5m (15.1%)
19:20 - Doctor Who: 6.38m (29.3%)
* peak: 6.9m
* Broadcast leads with the horribly inaccurate "lowest launch in seven years according to the overnights" stance
* slot average: 7.08m (31.76%)
20:10 - Lottery: Secret Fortune: 3.13m (13.6%)
21:00 - Casualty: 4.3m (18.6%)
21:50 - BBC News: 4.06m (18.9%)
22:10 - Match of the Day: 3.68m (23.2%)
23:30 - The Football League Show: 1.1m (14.2%)
25:00 - BBC News: 0.4m (11.2%)

BBC Two
12:35 - FILM: Sodom and Gomorrah: 0.4m (4.3%)
17:10 - The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain: 0.8m (6.0%)
17:55 - Flog It!: 1.3m (8.2%)
18:55 - Dad's Army: 1.8m (9.4%)
19:30 - BBC Proms 2012: 1.5m (6.6%)
21:30 - The Culture Show: 517k (2.48%) inc HD
22:35 - TOTP2: 0.5m (3.7%)

ITV1
10:25 - The Jeremy Kyle Show USA: 0.4m (5.4%) inc +1
13:50 - FILM: Dennis: 0.4m (5.2%) inc +1
15:35 - FILM: Never Say Never Again: 1.0m (8.9%) inc +1
17:55 - ITV Regional News: 1.5m (10.7%) inc +1
18:10 - ITV News & Weather: 2.0m (12.9%) inc +1
18:25 - You've Been Framed: 2.2m (13.4%) inc +1
18:55 - Fool Britannia: 2.45m (13.7%), +1: 108k (0.5%)
19:25 - Red or Black: 3.29m (15.12%), +1: 67k (0.29%)
20:10 - The X Factor: 8.14m (35.03%), +1: 421k (1.88%)
* peak: 9.2m (37.64%)
21:10 - Red or Black: 3.05m (13.36%), +1: 120k (0.67%)
21:55 - The Jonathan Ross Show: 2.33m (12.38%), +1: 155k (1.34%)
22:55 - ITV News & Weather: 1.5m (10.6%) inc +1
23:10 - FILM: Pride & Prejudice: 0.6m (8.6%) inc +1

Channel 4
09:15 - Paralympic Games 2012: 1.1m (15.8%) inc +1
13:00 - Paralympic Games 2012: 1.5m (14.0%) inc +1
* peak: 2.9m at 18:00 inc +1
* 2.6m (17.32%) at 18:10
* most watched programme between 14:30 and 16:45
* most watched programme between 17:45 and 18:30
18:30 - Channel 4 News: 1.7m (10.6%) inc +1
19:00 - Paralympic Games 2012: 2.56m (11.7%), +1: 106k (0.5%)
* peak: 3.2m (13.87%) at 20:05 exc +1
* peak: 3.5m at 20:05 and 21:25 inc +1
22:30 - The Last Leg with Adam Hills: 1.0m (6.6%) inc +1
* series high
23:15 - FILM: Cloverfield: 0.4m (4.5%) inc +1

Channel 5
15:30 - FILM: Michael: 0.5m (4.8%) inc +1
17:30 - Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost: 0.7m (4.8%) inc +1
19:20 - NCIS: 0.6m (2.8%) inc +1
20:15 - CSI: NY: 0.6m (2.8%) inc +1
21:10 - Celebrity Big Brother: 1.4m (6.2%), +1: 135k (0.78%)
22:10 - CSI: Miami: 1.0m (5.9%) inc +1
23:10 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 0.6m (5.4%) inc +1

The X Factor - 3rd Audition Ratings
2008 - 08.16m (43.5%) <-- warm weather
2009 - 11.76m (51.9%)
2010 - 10.90m (49.2%)
2011 - 10.51m (43.4%) + 0.56m = 11.07m
2012 - 08.6m (36.8%) inc +1

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 20.2%
ITV1 - 19.4% (+1: 0.8%)
Channel 4 - 11.2% (+1: 0.5%)
BBC Two - 5.3%
Channel 5 - 4.1% (+1: 0.3%)

All Day Shares inc +1's
BBC One - 18.3%
ITV1 - 12.5%
Channel 4 - 11.7%
BBC Two - 4.7%
Channel 5 - 4.0%
ITV2 - 2.7%
ITV3 - 2.4%
Film4 - 2.1%

15-minute Breakdown
Time ………. BBC1 ……………… ITV ……………… BBC2 ……………… CH4 ……………… CH5
18:00 ….. 2.1 (14.4%) ….. 1.7 (11.4%) ….. 0.9 ( 5.8%) ….. 2.8 (19.2%) ….. 0.7 ( 4.6%)
18:15 ….. 1.8 (12.0%) ….. 2.0 (13.1%) ….. 1.2 ( 8.1%) ….. 2.7 (17.4%) ….. 0.7 ( 4.6%)
18:30 ….. 2.0 (12.4%) ….. 2.1 (13.1%) ….. 1.6 ( 9.7%) ….. 1.7 (10.5%) ….. 0.8 ( 5.1%)
18:45 ….. 2.5 (14.8%) ….. 2.3 (13.9%) ….. 1.7 (10.0%) ….. 1.8 (10.6%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.9%)
19:00 ….. 3.2 (18.2%) ….. 2.6 (14.3%) ….. 1.7 ( 9.4%) ….. 2.1 (12.0%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.6%)
19:15 ….. 5.1 (25.6%) ….. 2.7 (13.7%) ….. 1.9 ( 9.4%) ….. 2.8 (13.8%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.3%)
19:30 ….. 6.4 (29.9%) ….. 3.2 (14.8%) ….. 1.4 ( 6.6%) ….. 2.8 (13.1%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.8%)
19:45 ….. 6.5 (29.4%) ….. 3.5 (15.8%) ….. 1.5 ( 6.7%) ….. 2.9 (13.1%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.8%)
20:00 ….. 5.6 (24.8%) ….. 5.2 (22.8%) ….. 1.5 ( 6.6%) ….. 3.2 (13.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.9%)
20:15 ….. 2.7 (11.9%) ….. 8.1 (36.0%) ….. 1.5 ( 6.7%) ….. 2.9 (12.7%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.6%)
20:30 ….. 3.1 (13.2%) ….. 8.6 (37.4%) ….. 1.4 ( 6.2%) ….. 2.9 (12.4%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.9%)
20:45 ….. 3.6 (15.0%) ….. 8.8 (37.2%) ….. 1.4 ( 5.8%) ….. 2.6 (11.2%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.9%)
21:00 ….. 3.7 (15.4%) ….. 7.7 (32.4%) ….. 1.3 ( 5.6%) ….. 2.8 (11.8%) ….. 0.9 ( 3.9%)
21:15 ….. 4.3 (18.5%) ….. 3.3 (14.5%) ….. 1.3 ( 5.8%) ….. 3.2 (13.7%) ….. 1.4 ( 5.9%)
21:30 ….. 4.6 (20.0%) ….. 3.1 (13.6%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.7%) ….. 3.0 (13.0%) ….. 1.6 ( 6.8%)
21:45 ….. 4.1 (18.5%) ….. 2.8 (12.7%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.2%) ….. 2.6 (11.7%) ….. 1.7 ( 7.5%)
22:00 ….. 4.2 (20.2%) ….. 2.8 (13.4%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.2%) ….. 2.0 ( 9.5%) ….. 1.3 ( 6.1%)
22:15 ….. 3.8 (19.8%) ….. 2.6 (13.5%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.5%) ….. 1.7 ( 8.7%) ….. 1.0 ( 5.4%)

Multichannels
BBC Three
21:30 - Live at the Apollo: 707k (3.1%)
23:00 - Family Guy: 541k (4.1%)
23:20 - Family Guy: 670k (6.3%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Inspector Montalbano: 794k (3.7%)

E4 (inc +1)
18:30 - The Big Bang Theory: 565k (3.4%)
19:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 604k (3.2%)

Film4 (inc +1)
21:00 - FILM: Idiocracy: 630k (2.9%)

ITV2
21:25 - The Xtra Factor: 943k (4.4%), +1: 121k (0.8%)
22:25 - Celebrity Juice: 748k (4.6%) inc +1

More4 (inc +1)
18:30 - Paralympic Games 2012: 718k (4.4%)

Sunday 2nd September 2012
BBC One
12:10 - Formula 1: The Belgian Grand Prix: 2.77m (24%)
* peak: 3.69m
18:00 - BBC News: 3.445m (21%)
18:30 - Britain's Hidden Heritage: 3.29m (17.4%)
19:30 - Countryfile: 4.96m (21.8%)
20:30 - Inspector George Gently: 6.08m (24.6%
22:00 - BBC News: 5.06m (24%)
22:25 - Match of the Day 2: 3.02m (21.3%)

BBC Two
20:00 - Top Gear: 1.82m (7.7%)
21:00 - Toughest Place to be a Nurse: 1.70m (6.77%) inc HD

ITV1
18:45 - ITV News & Weather: 2.98m (17%) inc +1
19:00 - Coronation Street: 5.87m (27.2%), +1: 392k (1.7%)
20:00 - The Cube: Gold Medallists Special: 2.81m (11.9%), +1: 137k (0.6%)
21:00 - The Last Weekend: 2.01m (8.07%), +1: 214k (1.16%)
* series average: 2.37m (10.1%)
* slot average: 5.84m (22.29%)

Channel 4
13:00 - Paralympic Games 2012: 1.7m (12.8%) inc +1
* most watched channel between 15:15 and 18:00
19:00 - Paralympic Games 2012: 3.2m (14%), +1: 107k (0.5%)
* Channel 4 only peak: 4.17m (16.44%) at 21:40
* peak: 4.6m at 21:30 inc +1 and Paralympics Extra
* 3.62m (20.07%) watching at 22:30
* 3.8m watching at 22:30 inc +1
22:45 - The Last Leg with Adam Hills: 1.3m (10%) inc +1
* series high

Channel 5
21:00 - Celebrity Big Brother: 1.75m (7%), +1: 114k (0.62%)
22:00 - 9/11: Escape to the Impact Zone: 1.1m (5.7%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 22.4%
Channel 4 - 13.9% (+1: 0.4%)
ITV1 - 12.7% (+1: 0.9%)
BBC Two - 5.9%
Channel 5 - 4.1% (+1: 0.3%)

All Day Shares
BBC One - 18.9%
Channel 4 - 12.9%
ITV1 - 9.2%
BBC Two - 5.3%
Channel 5 - 3.5%
ITV2 - 3.1%

Multichannels
BBC Three
20:10 - FILM: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: 774k (3.2%)
22:00 - Family Guy: 1.23m (5.8%)
22:20 - Family Guy: 926k (5.1%)

BBC Four
21:00 - FILM: Creation: 288k (1.3%)

Dave
21:00 - Red Dwarf: Back to Earth: 267k (1.1%), +1: 34k (0.2%)
* slot average: 227k (0.9%)
22:30 - Red Dwarf: the Making of Back to Earth: 165k (1%), +1: 28k (0.35%)

E4
19:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 784k (3.8%) inc +1
19:30 - The Big Bang Theory: 742k (3.3%) inc +1
20:00 - FILM: Big Momma’s House 2: 235k (1%), +1: 174k (0.8%)

Film4
21:00 - FILM: This is England: 402k (1.88%), +1: 27k (0.19%)

ITV2
19:00 - The X Factor: 693k (3.2%), +1: 228k (1%)
20:00 - The Xtra Factor: 685k (2.9%), +1: 244k (1%)
21:00 - Benidorm: 947k (3.8%) inc +1
22:00 - FILM: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry: 278k (2.1%), +1: 72k (1.05%)

ITV3
21:00 - FILM: Dangerous Liaisons: 167k (0.84%), +1: 24k (0.19%)

ITV4
21:00 - FILM: Every Which Way But Loose: 231k (1.12%), +1: 22k (0.16%)

Sky1
18:00 - The Simpsons: 462k (2.8%)
19:00 - Sinbad: 441k (2.05%)
* slot average: 375k (1.6%)
21:00 - Strike Back: Vengeance: 385k (1.55%)
* slot average: 335k (1.3%)
* 2011 debut: 616k

Sky2
21:00 - FILM: Airplane II: the Sequel: 95k (0.42%)

Sky Atlantic
22:15 - FILM: Freakonomics: 18k (0.14%)

Sky Sports 1
15:30 - Live Ford Super Sunday: 1.44m (10%)
13:00 - Live Ford Super Sunday: 1.33m (10.9%)

Sky Sports F1
11:00 - Live Belgian Grand Prix: 335k (3%)
* peak: 889k

Partial Sources
- Attentional (1, 2, 3)
- Broadcast (1, 2, 3, 4)
- C4 Sales (1, 2, 3)
- DS (1, 2, 3, 4)
- ITV Media
- MG (1, 2, 3)

Underbelly has got a new UK home - CBS Action are going to air all three series. Does anybody actually watch CBS Action?

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/09/...ale-to-uk.html

Interesting note: ITV are currently running two adverts for Wednesday nights:

- one for Mrs Biggs

- one covering the entire evening with an endcard saying
"Coronation Street
All Star Mr and Mrs
Mrs Biggs
From Wednesday at 7:30pm"

I haven't seen ITV do the latter for several years, so was quite surprised to see that!

the problem is those 3 have already been on STV, ive seen the last two.

Channel 5 seems to have lost ground in it's attempt to overtake Channel 4 as the UK's 2nd biggest commercial channel. A while ago Channel 5 were very close but now they are miles behind, and that's with Celebrity Big Brother in the schedule

but its probably getting ever closer to taking over ITV

It has been gradually increasing though,that might aid Beaver Falls in it's renewal, as it shows poor scheduling is/was an issue. It only needs to gain 100k in it's next two eps to reach the point at which it was saved last year. It may already be there with repeat showings, information hasn't been that forthcoming.

What doesn't work in Beaver Falls favor is the expensive of shipping a load of British and Canadian actors out to South Africa to shoot. However, Skins is ending, Mis Fits has a new primary cast, leaving PhoneShop and Facejacker as the only big name shows likely to return, which may lead to a reprisal for TMB and/or Beaver Falls...

A couple of noticeable things (to me anyway) in the latest BARB officials

Hotel Inspector over 2 million on C5 - 2.12 million
The Queens Mother In Law over 4 million on C4 - 4.09 million

Many thanks for that. I wonder if it being Easter meant more people than normal weren't at home, increasing the non-SD timeshift. Will be interesting to see the timeshifts for this series.

Ok 100k, although that is within the margin of error for overnights and doesn't really warrant endless analysis. It could well end up with more viewers than last year's opener when we get the proper ratings..


I'm not though. I never have. I'm talking about Doctor Who.

A Mother's Son was very well received on Twitter to the degree that 'ITV' was trending! If it can get over 4.5 million, I think it's done well, given that it is up against New Tricks.

Are there enough viewers around for Mothers Son to get 4.5m, New Tricks 7 or 8m or whatever it usually gets, and the Paralympics to get about 3m all at the same time?

The original comment was referring to the stability of Doctor Who's official ratings over all the series since the revival, rather than ratings within a series, I recall.


Um, I do. They repeat the Star Trek series.

On Friday at some point between 21:00 and 21:30 could C4 have been the number 1 rated channel?

I think thats a good thing to do. No doubt theres reasons NOT to (not fully advertising shows inbetween, possibility of losing the viewers not coming in for the show starting the round up) but when you have a decently strong line up like that - might as well.

Probably the strongest 2.5 hours on ITV1 in a while. All Star will be interesting to see; I don't think it'll do spectacular but it'll do decent and ITV would do well to build a slot on Wednesday there.

Its not as 'weak' as they might like, with BBC One putting out a weak line up; Ch5/Ch4 are pretty strong - Ch5 more so. Will be a very interesting set of ratings.


EDIT: Can't really see A Mother's Son doing too great; unless New Tricks is in hot water. Am not really sure what ITV are doing with their dramas atm, they all seem to be coming a bit too early and at once. I don't see the logic of putting a 2-parter against New Tricks then on a Tuesday (on ITV1).

It might be good enough to do well though, I feel New Tricks is sort of in a very odd place atm.

I remember seeing the report somewhere (may have been posted here?) and IIRC the top 5 from 2010 were:

Top Gear
BBC Earth (NHU)
Doctor Who
SCD
Spooks

I think New Tricks will hold strong and get twice as many viewers as any other show at 9o'clock.

Spooks was a Kudos production, seems odd that BBCW would have the rights...

the deal for Spooks may have been signed before NewsCorp took over, so Kudos figured it better to let BBC WW sell, rather than what Shine does with Merlin now.

It has held up really well this series. It's proved a few doubting Thomas' wrong who thought it would drop back to 2011 levels after the high in novelty value premiere at the nudist hotel. Note though that this week's episode will be a series low as it's a revisited one and they never do quite as well.

However, they've missed a trick in not placing Cowboy Builders in that slot when the series ends. Instead that goes on Monday nights where, much like The Hotel Inspector last year, it will probably find itself slaughtered by dramas on BBC/ITV and other factual on BBC Two/C4.

I dunno what they could do on Mondays to compete at this time of year but putting one of their highest rated original programmes on just feels like a waste as it will never achieve its potential there. Something more male-skewing would probably be a safer option.

.....

The poster to which you replied was actually referring to the series average: (see below)



These fluctuations between episodes have happened every year since the show returned. You're point is?

2005 - 10.8m (high) 6.8m (low)
2006 - 9.2m (high) 6.1m (low)
2007 - 8.7m (high) 6.6m (low)
2008 - 10.6m (high) 6.3m (low)
2010 - 10.1m (high) 6.4m (low)
2011 - 8.9m (high) 6.7m (low)

7.94m - Series 1: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)
7.71m - Series 2: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)
7.55m - Series 3: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)
8.05m - Series 4: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)
7.73m - Series 5: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)
7.62m - Series 6: Final BARB rating average (13 episodes)

I think Merlin started before Shine was purchased by NewsCorp though

Sky had shares in Shine, before the NewsCorp buy out, but I suspect you are correct.

Merlin is however alot later, and a deal with Elizabeth Murdoch's Shine, rather than the previously independent Kudos (and Spooks).