I have to agree, I think keeping Jake from the clutches of Sky F1 is a far bigger priority to them and would be a much more visible loss.
Brekkie is living in a dream world if thought they were ever going to drop him from SPOTY.

If Chris Hoy is not nominated then I would think Murray has a chance of winning, but many English people don't like him because of his comments all those years ago, sowithout the full force of Scottissh votes behind him I think it will be an uphill battle, plus in terms of grand slams I would think foor SPOTY inning Wimbedon is a far greater achievement than Flushing Meadows, purely because its on home soil

Anyway on to Australian ratings for last night:

X Factor rebounded from 1.38m last night to a series high of 1.66m, all signs are pointing to a big final number, and whereas the voice lost numbers oonce the battle rounds finished, the X Factor's strength is the live shows. And Big Brother while doing ok is not pulling in huge numbers, and TEN is now getting less than half of what it got when Masterchef was on against the voice, so in theory X Factor can build momentum.

With regards the missing viewers from TEN after 7pm last night saw ABC News' bulletin at 7pm better Nine's bulletin (albeit at 6pm) and in Adelaide was the top rating News bulletin of the night even beating Seven News which is amazing consiidering Perth and Adelaide are Seven strangleholds.

Anger management sunk to 0.48m, while a TBBT repeat beforehand got 0.64m. Big Brother again hovering just above a million with 1.07m. For Ten another shocking night, I Will Survive is making ALW's ITV Superstar look like a smash hit, with just 336,000 viewers, beaten by SBS who had 349,000 for WDYTYA (not sure if this is the new British series or not, seems a tad higher than normal). Neighbours had 311,000, Home and Away 999,000 viewers

Does anyone know why BBC1 are playing a sitcom repeat at 10.35 tonight, then a new religious/science programme, not the other way round? Possibly it's to avoid as far as possible a clash with Newsnight.

Rosh Hashanah programs always seem to go out late every year. But it also clashes with the Storyville doc on the Munich Olympics on BBC2, which is a shame.

K

Football - 4550 + 1044 (I'm guessing Friday was just poor timing)

Bake Off - 3975

After yesterday's discussion, here are all the Daybreak ratings since the relaunch:

WEEK ONE (ITV1 inc +1 and HD)
0.6m 17.5%
0.7m 17.1%
0.6m 16.1%
0.7m 16.8%
0.7m 17.2%

WEEK TWO so far (ITV1 inc +1 and HD)
0.6m 15.9%
0.7m 15.7%

I hope you didn't spend so much time asking for the ratings for the monday edition that you missed the 2nd ep on tuesday heh.

I've lost track of what's a good footie rating. Is 5.6m acceptable for a competitive England World Cup qualifier now?

K

Thank you very much for these.

Do you know how they compare with the Adrian/Christine and Dan/Kate days?

Also do you have the figures minus +1?

With 7.3m viewers, #EastEnders was yesterday's highest rating show. Great British Bake led the way on #BBC2 with 4.2m #GBBO -- Sam Hodges (@Sam_Hodges)

#EastEnders' peak audience of 7.7m was the highest viewing figure of the day across all channels #BBC1 -- Sam Hodges (@Sam_Hodges)

#RudeTube returns to C4 with 917,400/5.8%. -- attentional (@attentional)

Trouble on the Estate (BBC One, 9pm): 3.25m
Rude Tube (C4, 10pm): 917k/5.8%

Spot the difference? Peak vs share? Mike not including BBCHD?

K

The latter, I would think. GBBO gets around 300k on BBC HD. (surprised so few who have HD bother to watch it in HD, it improves it immeasurably).

True, you can practically see every grain of flour!

Football peaked at 7.45m (31.71%). (Broadcast)

but it didn't kick off till 8!

K

Holby City/River City down to 4.49m (18.8%) last night. Taking another weekly drop in ratings. Bake Off/football causing more damage.
Reminder: Scotland stripped out of officials. This week's Scottish Holby sent to 10:45pm on Wednesday.



Yeh thought that was a bit odd. Someone got their 9:45pm and 7:45pm mixed up I suspect.

I was joking (perhaps you are as well!). that "7.45m" is the audience, not the time (but you knew that, right?)

K

Oh what I meant was, it says in the Broadcast article:


http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/rating...046498.article

Aah score 1 for you!

K

At number 33 Channel 5's promo about the death of Whitney Houston, and the infamous, "She looks better in a body bag" line from a sponsor.

Doctors got 1.47m/21.9%. Much better share than lately.

How many viewers did Person of Interest get yesterday?

You can't make much of a show about games anyway because people would rather just play the games than watch other people play them. The most remarkable thing is that Gamesmaster magazine is still going about fifteen years after the series was axed.


The Guardian did point out yesterday that even the expected low attendance is higher than any of the international matches played on Friday, including Germany. I know Germany were only playing the Faroe Islands but England got 70,000 against Andorra. I'm pretty sure England matches have the highest attendance of any nation in Europe. Italy have played friendlies in 15,000-seater stadia. And at this stage in the qualification process it's not massively appealing as a match, especially live on terrestrial TV.


As mentioned, the special programmes for Rosh Hashanah are always shown very late because they're religious programmes first and foremost and therefore of minority interest. This is actually one of the earliest it's ever been, I think. Same reason why Songs of Praise isn't in primetime.