It's supposed to be their BIG show, 1.4 incl +1 is dire.

Dallas was the best thing on last night. If Match Of The Day starts while The X Factor is on people would switch over to that if they both clash

What are the ratings like for Revenge? It's the nearest thing I can think of to Dallas.

As others have noted Dallas should be doing better than that. Poor rating especially with the lesser competition. Baffled as to why it's still falling, it's one of the tv highlights of the week.

Hotel GB isn't covering itself in glory either however. Very good for Exposure in that timeslot.

Dallas is one of my favourite shows of the week. A shame ratings are still falling.

That X Factor scheduling does make ITV look really weak. Do they not have enough tricks to pull out of the bag? The only way they can be successful as commissioners and schedulers is to rely on the same old tired format and, luckily for them, it kept rising and rising? This is the time when the likes of Peter Fincham should actually be working, not taking the glory for what Cowell and his production team pulled off in previous years. But no, let's cower against Strictly. If The X Factor was as strong as they proclaim, they'd give it a refresh and Strictly would be dead in the water. As it is, they would seem to have no new ideas. I can't remember X Factor finishing as late before. BGT may have done during that crazy 2009 year, but they could have run it till 11 and it'd still get a sizeable audience in those heady days.

If The X Factor was stronger in the ratings they wouldn't be budging. Remember that year when Strictly had a combined performance/results show that went against The X Factor and Strictly lost badly? Now ITV won't risk it. Also before the BBC would move earlier to avoid a clash, now it looks they're tired of always going earlier and getting smaller ratings.

As mentioned, the BGT semi-final which finished at 10:30pm in 2009 averaged 14.66m (official figures) and peaked at 15.35m. I think we ought to focus on this week's schedule and see how it rates before making a judgement on the next week's show ending at 10:35pm.

Any ratings for The Chase?

Agreed; I watched eps 4 and 5 on PVR last night and it's still really gripping IMO. It will probably continue to timeshift decently but of course that's of limited value to C5. A co-worker (female, 40ish) gave up after the premiere as it didn't appeal. Horses for courses.

He's rolling in it, he runs Flying TV, a company that supplies helicopters to TV companies so whenever there's a bit of aerial filming on the telly, it's almost certainly from one of his choppers - and often he flies them himself as well. So well done to him. Certainly he's doing much better now than in the mid-nineties when he applied to be controller of BBC1 and there used to be an advert in Broadcast every week saying "MIKE SMITH - award-winning presenter for hire". Went off him and Sarah a bit when they humourlessly complained when Cheggers went to their house on The Big Breakfast, mind.

As Seen On TV, the not very interesting telly quiz with Steve Jones from the other year, was referred to everywhere as the new Telly Addicts but if anything it was a revival of That's Showbusiness with its teams of celebrities answering questions, right down to the team captains being a comedian against a mumsy TV presenter. Although Jason Manford and Kenny Everett aren't really in the same league, I feel.



I'm amazed I'm more positive about a C5 rating than Dancc but I think that rating's far worse for C4 than C5, this is supposed to be a major event with all the big C4 names that has been stripped across the week and promoted to death, it should be getting ratings up there with the likes of Grand Designs, not failing to beat Channel Five. Hotel GB reminds me of Home For The Holidays, an attempt to create an event by stripping it across a week without an obvious hook or point to it.

And here's me thinking that the BBC wasn't ratings chasing.



I agree with Steve Williams; I'd argue that Channel 4's rating is far more concerning than Channel 5's. As long as Dallas bottoms out now that would still be a decent rating for the channel even if it's not the 3m+ hit they were maybe hoping for. It's strange that it losing viewers, though, considering that it seems to be getting good reviews.

As for Channel 4;I'm not sure what planet they're on but the commissioning and scheduling is dire. Hotel GB should have been a weekly programme; not a stripped event.

Mrs. Biggs didn't have an awful end and the extra viewers who deserted BBC One in the 9pm hour weren't going to watch the final episode of a drama when they've missed the rest. Panorama's scheduling is bizarre to say the least; I guess they want as many episodes of Who Do You think You Are? against DCI Banks as possible. Watchdog and All Star Mr. and Mrs. seem to compliment each other pretty well and the Wednesday soap hour is doing well.

Talking of the soaps, in Emmerdale's anniversary week, Coronation Street is having a double bill on the Monday and a double bill on Friday with nothing between; the potential Thursday 8.30pm slot being taken up by a new comedy, Emmerdale at 40...oh wait. I'm guessing that there could be another Strictly clash on the following Sunday as they look to 'catch up'.

According to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...yearweek=&day= Brazil With Michael Palin replaces WDYTYA leaving one episode unaired. Where this leaves The Secret of Crickley Hall, who knows, I doubt even the BBC do. It's starts on BBC America on the 28th so unless they somehow fit it in on Saturday it's airing in the US first, with it airing after the news, possibly stripped 30th/31st/1st, which seems like a waste.

Has George Dixon taken over BBC One scheduling again??? What on Earth are they doing on Wednesday nights? It would've make more sense to let Who Do You Think You Are? finish off it's run (last episode airing on 17/10/12); then Panorama (airing 24/10/12) with Crickley Hall taking the slot on 31/10/12?

Of course BBC1 might not have told the media centre that they were inserting an extra Panorama into the schedule, I mean they barely bothered to inform anyone else until it too late, so they might not have noticed the was a spare Who Do you think you are still to show, so maybe Brazil will be delayed a week, or not of course depending on the scheduling mysteries.

I think they needed to get the Panorama out sooner rather than later, before its topicality (such as it was, it didn't seem particularly important to me) faded.

If that's the case surely they could've aired it tonight and pushed Hunted back a week?

Looks like Hotel GB and Dallas are just not doing the business... it makes you think how successful Celebrity BB is when you see the ratings that Ch5 gets for massive hyped shows after 3 weeks. I don't see anything getting over 2m on Ch5 unless it's CBB or a film... Christmas films always do well for both Ch4 and Ch5. Elf being one of the most successful after it got over 5m in Ch4 three years back.

What amuses me about The Cube is that it's first episode on 22nd August 2009, which had 5.85m and a 26.7%, still remains it's highest rated episode, closesly followed by the episode on 3rd October 2010 which had 5.78m and a 24.5% share. Also, not one episode this year has gotten more than 20% share. I wonder why people have decided not to tune in.

Will Toy Story 3, The Karate Kid (2010 remake) and Home Alone be shown on TV in the coming months?

And Monday's ratings haven't been out yet either, I'd be interested to know what Citizen Khan got.

Citizen Khan (1/10/12) - 2.59m (19.2%)

UK Overnights, 3rd October

BBC One
18:00 BBC News at 6 - 4.76m (27%)
18:30 BBC Regional News and Weather - 5.29m (28%)
19:00 The One Show - 3.70 (18%)
20:00 Watchdog - 4.72m (21.6%)
21:00 Panorama - 3.22m (14.5%)
22:00 BBC News at 10 - 4.93m (25%)

BBC Two
21:00 Welcome to India - 2.01m (9%)

ITV1 (+1)
18:30 ITV News and Weather - 3.93m (21%) [inc +1]
19:00 Emmerdale - 6.73m (33.1%) [256k/1.2%]
19:30 Coronation Street - 7.99m (37.3%) [373k/1.7%]
20:00 Mr and Mrs - 4.14m (18.9%) [107k/0.5%]
21:00 Mrs Biggs - 3.87m (18.2%) [181k/1.2%]
23:10 Exposure - 1.72 (21%) [155k/4%]

Channel 4 (+1)
18:30 Hollyoaks - 1.14m (6.0%) [114k/0.5%]
21:00 Hotel GB - 1.23m (5.6%) [217k/1.8%]

Channel 5
13:45 Neighbours - 650k (9.4%)
17:30 Neighbours - 886k (6.2%)
18:00 Home and Away - 806k (4.2%)
21:00 Dallas - 1.30m (5.9%)

ITV1 - 22% (+1: 0.8%)
BBC One - 18.6%
BBC Two - 5.6%
Channel 4 - 4.4% (+1: 0.9%)
Channel 5 - 3.8% (+1: 0.3%).


Multi Channel (inc +1)

ITV2
15:40 Real House Wives of Orange County - 564k
22:00 The Only Way Is Essex - 825k

BBC Four
20:00 Top of the Pops - 566k (2.7%)
20:30 The Best of Kenny Everett’s Television Shows - 616k (2.7%)
21:00 Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story - 803k (3.8%)
22:30 Meet Kenny Everett - 508k (3%)
22:40 Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows - 558k (4.2%)

E4
18:00 The Big Bang Theory - 699k
18:30 The Big Bang Theory - 784k
19:00 Hollyoaks - 903k (4.4%)

Film4
21:00 Transporter 2 - 675k

Sky Sports 2
19:00 Live UEFA Champions League - 628k

5*
18:30 Home and Away - 468k (2.5%)

Thanks, but is there anything I can use a source (it's for the ratings section on it's page on Wikipedia).

Just source Rzt's post, you can't get a better source than Rzt when it comes to ratings.

US ratings, show NBC on top for the debate, and their comedies up week on week.. But this is all subject to alot of change... Supernatural got a 0.8 which is great for the CW!!

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...verage/151499/

Great ratings for Hollyoaks .. question is how many more decent characters do they have to kill off!!

I always thought NBC thrashed the other networks when it came to airing the likes of the Presidential debate? Obviously not though the post-debate coverage did well in comparison to the other networks.

The X Factor is up 0.1 while Survivor is down 0.1; The Middle is down considerably but I assume that's because of people switching over to other networks for the debate. Guys with Kids presumably saw a debate bounce but Animal Practice did well despite not having that lead out, being up 0.1 week on week; maybe it took viewers from The Middle? Supernatural did perform well for CW.

I know all this is subject to change.