The Ratings Thread (Part 42)

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cylon6

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Charnham:
“well it looks like Stephen Fry won the battle of the Gadget Shows, going to be really hard for C5 to compete, since this series at leas will be locked, with no changes that can be made.

good to see a EastEnders top 8 million, Panorama on the other hand, oops”

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“A much more convincing margin of victory than I'd anticipated, I have to say.

I probably shouldn't be too surprised, though. That special they did with Fry did really well. And Panorama massively underperformed last night, so there was more viewers around specifically at that 8:30 junction than there normally will be.

Let's see where it settles over the next few weeks. TGS didn't exactly disgrace itself as one might have expected it to drop more than 200k in the circumstances, so on that score I feel I was right. There should be room for both programmes in that slot as they aren't really offering the same thing.”

Stephen Fry won and quite considerably but this is no surprise as the show featured Stephen Fry and he is a popular personality. Also a show on Channel 5 will rate less as it's on Channel 5. Let's see how this pans out but I can't see TGS ever beating the Gadget Man, as long as it stays at its usual levels it's fine.

Dancc

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“Stephen Fry won and quite considerably but this is no surprise as the show featured Stephen Fry and he is a popular personality. Also a show on Channel 5 will rate less as it's on Channel 5. Let's see how this pans out but I can't see TGS ever beating the Gadget Man, as long as it stays at its usual levels it's fine.”

Quite right.

No shame in being beaten by a national treasure, anyway. C4's show is about Fry more than it is about gadgets.

Dancc

20-11-2012

Exciting couple of weeks coming up...

Today: Final schedules for Week 50
Tomorrow: Press packs for Week 51
Monday: Final schedules for Week 51
Next Wednesday: Press packs for Xmas/New Year (2 week)
Tuesday 4/12: Final schedules for Xmas/New Year (exc. regions)

kwynne42

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Exciting couple of weeks coming up...

Today: Final schedules for Week 50
Tomorrow: Press packs for Week 51
Monday: Final schedules for Week 51
Next Wednesday: Press packs for Xmas/New Year (2 week)
Tuesday 4/12: Final schedules for Xmas/New Year (exc. regions)”

Another early sign of Christmas is next weeks Radio Times is out on Monday rather than Tuesday, will be coming out thick and fast after that.

derek500

20-11-2012

How's Arrow doing on Sky 1?

Also, no Sky 1 top ten in last week's officials, which makes the 'others' top 30 pretty meaningless.

RobbieSykes123

20-11-2012

That's come round quick. Let the fantasy scheduling commence!

(actually, it started in June. But now it's officially permitted, nay encouraged!)

RobbieSykes123

20-11-2012

And with Downton in the mix, even spoilsport itvistas can join in the fun.

If they haven't absented themselves to other forums...

Dancc

20-11-2012

I've only just noticed The Walking Dead hit a new all-time high audience for FX in the UK for Episode 4 of Season 3:

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV 2200) 1,124,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV 2300) 95,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV TOTAL) 1,219,000

Beating the previous high set by the season premiere which had:

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT 2200) 1,016,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT 2300) 36,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT TOTAL) 1,052,000

derek500

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“I've only just noticed The Walking Dead hit a new all-time high audience for FX in the UK for Episode 4 of Season 3:

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV 2200) 1,124,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV 2300) 95,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 9 NOV TOTAL) 1,219,000

Beating the previous high set by the season premiere which had:

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT 2200) 1,016,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT 2300) 36,000
THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 (FRI 19 OCT TOTAL) 1,052,000”

It's been a good season. Interestingly the two main stars Andrew Lincoln and David Morrissey are Brits playing Americans.

Homeland has three of its main characters Brody, Quinn and Estes all Americans played by Brits.

Arrow has two Brits in the principal cast, Colin Salmon playing a Brit and Paul Blackthorne as an American cop.

dave01

20-11-2012

Thanks rzt, that is a cracking list of ratings. Lots to comment on

Originally Posted by rzt:
“Monday 19th November Overnights
BBC One
17:15- Pointless: 3.13m (18.5%)

ITV1
17:00- The Chase: 3.27m (20.5%) [inc +1 3.60m]”

Brilliant for the tea-time quiz shows, still rising as we go further into the darker evenings. I believe both saw series highs yesterday. For two shows of the same genre to be hitting over 3m in this slot at the same time is pretty amazing. I really hope we get a snow day before the new episodes finish, so we can see just how high they can go.

Originally Posted by rzt:
“18:00- BBC News at Six: 5.08m (25.5%)
18:30- BBC Regional News and Weather: 6.18m (28.4%)
19:00- The One Show: 4.87m (21.9%)
19:30- Inside Out: 3.67m (15.7%)
20:00- EastEnders: 8.02m (32.5%)
20:30- Panorama: 1.88m (7.4%)
21:00- Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature: 2.39m (9.4%)
22:00- BBC News at Ten: 3.65m (18.8%)
22:35- Four Born Every Second: 1.29m (11.3%)”

Story of two halves for BBC last night. Regional News and The One Show did well, up on its ratings of late, as did Eastenders, which has struggled to hit that 8m level this Autumn. Unfortunately the BBC3 rating did very poorly by Monday standards with just 370k. So a slight drop week-on-week in Eastenders total combined viewership. Panorama and Miracles of Nature provided some very poor ratings after 8:30pm.

Originally Posted by rzt:
“ITV1
06:00- Daybreak: 712k (17.5%)”

No sign of any increase in the figures here then, maybe even a slight drop.

Originally Posted by rzt:
“ITV1
19:00- Emmerdale: 7.39m (33.1%) , +1: 127k (0.5%)
19:30- Coronation Street: 8.97m (38.4%) , +1: 178k (0.7%)
20:00- Little England: 3.38m (13.7%)
20:30- Coronation Street: 9.21m (35.7%) , +1: 169k (0.7%)
21:00- I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!: 9.43m (38.8%) , +1: 379k (2.3%)
22:00- ITV News and Weather: 2.83m (15.7%)
22:35- The Agenda: 1.11m (8.5%)”

A decent night all round for ITV. Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Celeb all posting strong numbers. Celeb in particular has really impressed in the ratings this year, what with every other big hitter falling year-on-year.

Originally Posted by rzt:
“Channel 4
18:00- The Simpsons: 1.44m (7.3%) , +1: 291k (1.3%)
18:30- Hollyoaks: 1.24m (5.7%) , +1: 123k (0.5%)
20:00- Dispatches: 1.13m (4.6%) , +1: 131k (0.5%)
20:30- Stephen Fry: Gadget Man: 2.03m (7.9%) , +1: 245k (1.0%)
21:00- 999: What's Your Emergency: 1.20m (4.9%) , +1: 420k (2.5%)
22:00- 8 Out of 10 Cats: 1.10m (6.4%) , +1: 164k (1.9%)
22:50- Full English: 396k (3.5%)”

A mixed night for Channel 4. Hollyoaks posted a good number for a change and the new Gadget Man show 8:30pm has really done well there. I think it benefits from taking the younger Eastenders viewers at 8:30pm who don't normally watch Corrie. It has probably taken away those Eastenders viewers that would otherwise switch to C5 to see the 2nd half of their Gadget Show. [EDIT - Gadget Man has taken away some 200k 8:30pm viewers from Only Connect as well]. 999 was hit very hard at 9pm by Celeb and the awful Full English has completely tanked now.

Originally Posted by rzt:
“Channel 5
13:15- Home and Away: 253k (3.2%)
13:45- Neighbours: 639k (8.5%)
17:30- Neighbours: 1.08m (6.2%)
18:00- Home and Away: 821k (4.2%)
18:30- 5 News: 227k (1.0%)
19:00- Wild Things wiht Dominic Monaghan: 379k (1.7%)
20:00- The All New Gadget Show: 766k (3.0%)
21:00- The Contract: 822k (4.0%)”

Pleased to see Neighbours well above 1m yesterday for the tea-time showing, especially with the BBC/ITV gameshows both being over 3million. Home & Away not taking any extra viewers from the lead-in though. The Gadget show is going to struggle in that slot now with C4 directly competing. Too late to do anything at short notice but I think if they want to keep it in this slot, best to avoid the weeks when C4 are airing their Gadget Man show.

Score

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“That's come round quick. Let the fantasy scheduling commence!

(actually, it started in June. But now it's officially permitted, nay encouraged!)”

You twisted my arm...

Spoiler

kwynne42

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Score:
“You twisted my arm...

Spoiler

BBC1

Saturday 22nd
18:10 - Pointless Celebrities
19:00 - Strictly Come Dancing
20:05 - Merlin
20:50 - Lottery
21:00 - Strictly Come Dancing
22:05 - BBC News
22:25 - Match of The Day

Sunday 23rd
19:00 - Countryfile
20:00 - Antiques Roadshow
21:00 - Shetland (2/2)

Christmas Eve
18:30 - How To Train Your Dragon
20:00 - EastEnders
20:30 - Would I Lie To You?
21:00 - Call The Midwife
22:00 - Have I Got News For You?
22:30 - The Graham Norton Show

Christmas Day
15:10 - Up
16:45 - BBC News
17:00 - Room on The Broom
17:30 - Mr Stink
18:30 - Doctor Who
19:30 - EastEnders
20:00 - Strictly Come Dancing
21:00 - EastEnders
21:30 - The Royle Family
22:30 - Mrs Brown's Boys

Boxing Day
17:25 - Shrek 4
18:50 - Superstars
20:20 - EastEnders
20:50 - Miranda
21:20 - Outnumbered
22:00 - Mrs Brown's Boys
22:30 - Match of The Day

Thursday 27th
18:00 - Wall-E
19:30 - EastEnders
20:00 - Holby City
21:00 - The Moonstone

Friday 28th
18:40 - Shrek
20:00 - EastEnders
20:30 - Would I Lie To You?
21:00 - The Moonstone
22:00 - Live At The Apollo

Saturday 29th
18:35 - Alice In Wonderland
20:15 - Merlin
21:00 - The Moonstone

Sunday 30th
18:10 - Countryfile
19:10 - Antiques Roadshow
20:10 - Casualty
21:00 - The Lady Vanishes

New Year's Eve
19:30 - Celebrity Mastermind
20:00 - EastEnders
20:30 - Olympics 2012: A Golden Year
22:00 - BBC News
22:20 - Graham Norton
23:25 - New Year Live

New Year's Day
18:00 - Tangled
19:30 - EastEnders
20:00 - Blandings
20:30 - EastEnders
21:00 - Ripper Street

ITV1

Saturday 22nd
19:00 - The Cube
20:00 - Take Me Out
21:00 - The Hangover

Sunday 23rd
19:00 - That Dog Can Dance!
20:00 - The Chase
21:00 - Live: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
22:00 - The Jonathan Ross Show

Christmas Eve
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs
20:30 - Coronation Street
21:00 - Panto!

Christmas Day
15:10 - Despicable Me
17:00 - ITV News
17:15 - You've Been Framed
18:00 - Emmerdale
19:00 - All Star Family Fortunes
20:00 - Coronation Street
21:00 - Downton Abbey

Boxing Day
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - Doors Open
22:00 - The Holiday

Thursday 27th
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Countrywise
20:00 - Emmerdale
20:30 - You've Been Framed
21:00 - Paddy's 2012 Show and Telly

Friday 28th
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - Countrywise
20:30 - Coronation Street
21:00 - Spice Girls

Saturday 29th
19:00 - The Cube
20:00 - It'll Be Alright on The Night
21:00 - Girls Aloud Reunion

Sunday 30th
19:00 - Dancing on Ice Preview
20:00 - The Making of A Lady

New Year's Eve
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - That Was 2012
20:30 - Coronation Street
21:00 - Endeavour (rpt)

New Year's Day
19:00 - Emmerdale
20:00 - Wild At Heart

”

Thought the ITV santa Telethon thing was on Christmas eve.

Wild at Heart? is there no new Poirot/Marple to show then.

Score

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by kwynne42:
“Thought the ITV santa Telethon thing was on Christmas eve.

Wild at Heart? is there no new Poirot/Marple to show then.”

Text Santa is on Friday 21st this year, and no I don't think the new Poirot/Marples are due until next year.

Wild At Heart has a 2 hour special (its last ever episode).

kwynne42

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Score:
“Text Santa is on Friday 21st this year, and no I don't think the new Poirot/Marples are due until next year.

Wild At Heart has a 2 hour special (its last ever episode).”

I knew they were making/have made at least 3 new Marples and that they are making sooner or later new Poirots didn't know if any were ready yet.

glorafin

20-11-2012

According to Barb's figures published yesterday, BBC Four is now arguably more popular than BBC Three. Three BBC Four shows had more viewers than the most popular BBC Three show. I'm pretty sure that it was supposed to be the other way around when those channels were launched.

If that trend continues, I wonder how it will influence the future of these two channels.

I hope the BBC won't tweak too much with BBC Four schedules to surf on that positive tend and that they will instead try to stop dumbing down BBC Thee.

ronant

20-11-2012

Just looking through Digiguide at the schedules for the next few weeks leading upto Christmas and BBC1 in some key slots looks hopelessly thin. It looks as if they've just run out of money at the end of the year!

The next three Monday's are filled with New Tricks repeats; Wednesday has Goodnight Britain, War on Britain's Roads and Traffic Cops; Thursday has Goodnight Britain; Who Do You Think You Are? and Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis.

Really quite poor for what used to be a time chock-a-block full of treats to get you through what is of course the darkest time of the year.

Sunday nights are not hugely better, Crickley Hall was originally meant for Halloween. And Friday after HIGNFY looks like filler after Me and Mrs Smith is done too (John Bishop's Big Year for two weeks which sounds more suited for Christmas then it's Live at the Apollo).

The schedule is crying out for Ripper Street quite frankly. Terrible scheduling.

guestofseth

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by ronant:
“Just looking through Digiguide at the schedules for the next few weeks leading upto Christmas and BBC1 in some key slots looks hopelessly thin. It looks as if they've just run out of money at the end of the year!

The next three Monday's are filled with New Tricks repeats; Wednesday has Goodnight Britain, War on Britain's Roads and Traffic Cops; Thursday has Goodnight Britain; Who Do You Think You Are? and Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis.

Really quite poor for what used to be a time chock-a-block full of treats to get you through what is of course the darkest time of the year.

Sunday nights are not hugely better, Crickley Hall was originally meant for Halloween. And Friday after HIGNFY looks like filler after Me and Mrs Smith is done too (John Bishop's Big Year for two weeks which sounds more suited for Christmas then it's Live at the Apollo).

The schedule is crying out for Ripper Street quite frankly. Terrible scheduling.”

I agree, BBC2 aren't much better either, they should be taking advantage of this by showing some of the promising drama they've got available. From the excellent drama trailer that was released a couple of months ago, only Parade's End and The Hour have aired. They also seem to be burning off the last episode of The Hour, it's on both Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th.

Dancc

20-11-2012

Channel 5 Final Schedules w/c 8th December

The Expendables (2010) premieres Sunday 9th December at 9pm
Alternative screening: Wednesday 12th December 10pm

They've also snatched the rights to a couple more titles normally shown on other channels with Mr & Mrs Smith (Channel 4) and Constantine (ITV) showing on December 10 and December 13 respectively.

Elsewhere, classic laughs with Tommy Cooper's 1974 Christmas Special (Saturday 8th December, 8.55pm) providing an unlikely lead-in for their second consecutive week of live international boxing. I don't think they've shown this one before, last year they showed the one from 1973.

Not much else to report apart from that. New Irish drama import Jack Taylor won't be launching this week after all, which I think is a damn shame as the competition looks quiet and they could have capitalised on that. Perhaps the last episode airing on Xmas Eve wasn't ideal, assuming the original plan was to run it on Mondays. Maybe they'll strip it over three consecutive nights instead at some point in December.

Full schedule:

Spoiler

Last episodes of Neighbours and Home & Away of 2012 will TX on Friday 14th December.

Stephen_Simpson

20-11-2012

Good also to see BBC Breakfast & Daybreak ratings. Viewership isn't too bad for Daybreak, but their percentage is disappointing. I would like hopefully for them to get up to at least 20% for 2013 to at least keep its future on ITV safe.

Hassaan13

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Jules 1:
“Are the pointless ratings influenced by the Jackpot level.?”

Interesting thought there, as no one is winning the jackpot maybe more people are deciding to tune in to see if anyone can win that huge jackpot.

Hassaan13

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by Brekkie:
“I would think Surprise Surprise has done enough to get a recommission - the question is whether they'll leave it till next autumn and use it against Strictly again or try and get it back on air in the Spring.

Take Me Out has another series I believe in the winter and I think we're all agreed it hasn't held up as well as we thought it would against Strictly. The question is though whether ITV have anything that would rate better now Harry Hill has gone. I still think considering how well movies do on C4 and C5 in the run up to Christmas on Sundays that ITV's best bet on Saturdays might be a season of family movies in the early evening slot.”

Something that could be used as an X Factor lead-in as it is struggling a bit. They have Corrie on the Sunday on 2nd December I believe, so that'll be used as a lead-in. I think Surprise, Surprise will do much better in the spring as if they plug it before BGT in April, it'll be up against The Voice.

square_eyes

20-11-2012

ITV Press Centre updates :

Sunday 9 December

21:45 Rod Stewart's Christmas (post XF Final slot)

Monday 10 December

21:00 The Poison Tree (1/2)

Tuesday 11 December

20:00 Inside Guinness World Records (which sounds like an ITV2 show)
21:00 On the Run

Wednesday 12 December

20:00 Weight Loss Ward
21:00 The Town (2/3)

Thursday 13 December

21:00 Pensioners Behind Bars

Friday 14 December

21:00 Night of Heroes 2012

Hassaan13

20-11-2012

5-minute peak of 10.17m (41.7%) for IAC. TV audience was around 24 million.

1.44m (13%) for DOND.

Looking at the consolidated's, Wizards vs Aliens has dropped quite a bit from the 595k it got for it's premiere, to 433k last Monday.

square_eyes

20-11-2012

Originally Posted by rzt:
“Monday 19th November Overnights
BBC One
20:30- Panorama: 1.88m (7.4%)
21:00- Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature: 2.39m (9.4%)”

Story of the night there, 90 minutes of primetime BBC One on a Monday night in November averaging just over 2m. Worthy of a

square_eyes

20-11-2012

Digiguide updates :

Saturday 8 December

BBC One

18:00 Pointless
18:50 Strictly Come Dancing
20:00 Merlin
20:45 The National Lottery Awards
21:20 Casualty
22:10 BBC News
22:30 Match of the Day

ITV1

18:15 You've Been Framed
18:45 Who Wants to be a Millionaire ? - Panto Special
19:45 The X Factor Final
21:45 Rod Stewart's Christmas Special
23:00 ITV News
23:15 Film: Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Sunday 9 December

BBC One

18:00 Countryfile
19:00 Strictly Come Dancing
19:40 Antiques Roadshow
20:40 Rome's Lost Empire
22:00 BBC News

ITV1

19:00 McFly Special
20:00 The X Factor Final
22:00 ITV News
22:15 Film: The Invention of Lying

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