Getting the excuses in before the Friday ratings come out are we?

The following article may be of interest, it talks of the Nine Networks massive debts that almost put it out of the game and other issues affecting commercial tv down under.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/telev...019-27wmj.html

A paragraph from the article reads,

As better analysis of the audience opens up in the digital arena, media buyers will start challenging the statistical rigour of TV ratings company OzTam, which bases its data on just 3135 households in metropolitan markets plus another 1400 for pay television.


I wonder what may happen here if media/advertising buyers start challenging BARB regarding its data ect.

I think Dan like many of us, would love C4 to have won primetime last night, shows like that make you realise yet again what is really important on television......It is nice to know how important EE ratings are to you.....

Regarding your Aussie post, the standard of broadcasting there is abyssmal, very few homegrown dramas in the 2010's, a huge reliance on imported US/UK content and programme ideas.

Compared to a country such as Denmark (which had about 25% of the population of Australia) which has global hits and a very healthy PSB and commercial side, plus heaps of critical acclaim. I don't think many people would be upset at the demise of a few Aussie commercial channels.

Watching Aussie tv makes (even) me realise how fortunate we are to have ITV......We have BBC as our flagship (Denmark has DR) but other countries lag way behind in quality.....

Thats excellent news, take in account of time shift viewing etc, looks like we will be getting a RDXI

I donated because my brother sadly lost his fight with cancer about 10 years ago now. But you don't what to know about that.

I found the show last night a bit boring to be honest and it got on my nerves so I switched off. It should get 2m maybe 3m but I found it a difficult watch.

And as for EE ratings. I really want to see more people tune in but that's just a fantasy. If they are above 7m then good. 6m for EE at this time off the year is really shockingly bad. If you look at its January ratings it looked quite healthy but it has just slumped and I don't think they will ever regain the ground they have lost over the last few year.

It's been a trend. The show has been mostly poor for along time and people have lost interest. It is improving but not by enough yet. Corrie can still get pretty good ratings so EE should as well.

Ked

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Ken

Overnights delayed.....

What time did SUTC finish? it was still going at 12.15am when i flicked past

Why has Being Liverpool been dumped in an 11pm slot next Friday? I thought it was doing well. First Channel 5 show in ages I've heard people talking about.

Looking in the live thread, Stand Up for Cancer finished at 02:00.

Couple of things I have spotted:

- on the Ten news last night it speculated that Mondays Savile Panorama will be extended to an hour. Goodness knows how they would fit that in, but presumably New Tricks would be bumped

- apparently the New Jersey grand prix next June is about to be axed, leaving only 19 races, and the BBC with only 9 live races out of 19

does anyone know when the itv rebrand takes place and itv1 becomes itv again??
will this mean changes to the times of shows etc or is it just idents that are set to change??

I've done some more calcuations on total TV audiences.

At the peak of the XF final last year, 30.9m were watching.

At the peak of the BGT final in 2010, 24.7m were watching.

Generally, at around 8am (when Breakfast is on), there are roughly 4.9m watching.

29.9m were watching at the peak of the England vs Italy match in June (quite high for the summer).

As for last night, I think Channel 4 will have around 3-4 million for 'Stand Up to Cancer'.

I would say the idents only. i don't see why they would change the schedule. I believe it is due to happen early next year.

Some Friday ratings:

https://twitter.com/leethommo/status/259604126386765824

EastEnders 7.21m
Miranda 3.62
HIGNFY 5.15
Me & Mrs Jones 2.42
Graham Norton 3.51
Coronation Street 8.16 and 7.94
Piers Morgan 4.34.
Stand Up To Cancer 1.2m

Of course. I had grand parents die of cancer and an uncle that has a battle with it right now. Everyone knows someone with it or thats had it and i think the Channel 4 show will rate pretty well and rightly so.

Only 1.2m for SU2C? Disappointing for something that went on for so long.

Is it just me or does Corrie look higher than normal, I haven't seen it over 8m in a while.

I think thats pretty decent for Piers Morgan, I believe that's higher than he has usually gotten recently.

I've just got my new copy of Broadcast and I notice something that seems to have eluded this thread:

For week-ending October 14th, Saturday night Strictly was number 1 in the overnight ratings, beating Downton Abbey and Sunday night X Factor even including +1. This is certainly something for Sir Brucie to be boasting about. Quite a significant acheivement for his show.

Obviously Downton will move ahead in the officials due to its gigantic timeshift, but I also notice from Broadacst that in its first weekend, Strictly timeshifted considerably more than X Factor adding 1.22m on Friday and 1.27m on Saturday compared with X Factor's 0.76m on Saturday and 0.49m on Sunday.

X Factor's relatively low timeshift on Sunday is completely understandable because of the four Strictly / X Factor programmes on at the weekend Sunday night X Factor, with its elimination, is the one people would be most anxious to see live or as near to as possible. (A Strictly elimination is not quite such a "life-changing" moment.)

Didn't watch it, but SUFC seemed very flawed, just the same acts and presenters you get for CIN, but without the tradition, and the promo across all BBC.

Should have tried to be different, Rock acts, a proper concert, fresh new presenters to differentiate.

Corrie is always very resilient. EastEnders is only strong depending on the day. Stand Up To Cancer performed well for fundraising but as a TV show it bombed in the ratings. Will it return?

Oh dear.

I find this show quite funny but there were plenty of people, myself included, who thought Sarah Alexander's previous BBC1 sitcom, Worst Week Of My LIfe, was better than funny, yet that never took off in the ratings.

Quite frankly, any BBC executive who deserves their wages should have looked at that and said "I see 2.42 million viewers. Perhaps no thank you."

There's nothing there to suggest it's ever going to take off in the ratings.

There've been hints the Savile Panorama won't be ready for a Monday TX - watch this space

Awful for MAMJ

It is more likely such a long programme doesn't rate so well. The average will include the whole show, and with SUTC finishing at 2am, there will be less viewers at this time dragging down the averages.


Just you I'm afraid. EastEnders is the soap not hitting 8m at the moment.
October's ratings for Corrie, exluding +1, are as follows:

Mon 1st - 8.4m & 8.4m
Wed 3rd - 8.0m
Fri 5th - 7.8m & 7.5m

Mon 8th - 8.7m & 8.5m
Wed 10th - 8.0m
Sun 14th - 6.2m

Mon 15th - 8.7m & 8.9m
Fri 19th - 8.2m & 7.9m

I don't think we can say this yet unti the breakdown for the show is revealed. It may have been a lot higher in the peaktime hours?