They should do something like, three acts and then a break.

Watchdog ends next week. Anyone know what's replacing it? BBC1 will be hard pressed to find anything that performs as strongly in that slot.

Anyone have the breakdown for Palin. Considering its inheritance, I suspect the audience dropped across the hour.

Its rated in C5s top 5 (most of the time No.1) since it started. So its still on air and will surely be back.

The first series of Dallas in 1978 rated around 22nd in the ratings back then. It was the third series which built up to "Who Shot JR?" that really saw the show take off.

Steady night for BBC1, ITV and C4. Not often that can be said.

Reasonabe for Brazil, excellent for Watchdog.....

The only two things I ever used to run into the house for as a kid....live football and Dallas.....my mates must have thought I was mad.....

Unsafe Sex in the City was 2nd in the MC ratings in the end (719k/3.1%), not far behind TOWIE an hour later which had 846k/4.8% inc +1. It may even have beaten TOWIE stripping out the latter's repeat showing. Very good for a BBC3 doc.

Re:21:00- The Paradise: 4.90m (21%)
I was just looking at that rating and thinking how much better it's done than other autumn dramas such as Good Cop, Hunted, Homefront, Monroe...

Yes, but where's the fun in that?

Yeah, I agree. A bit of straying never did anyone any harm.

What did Cuckoo get on Tuesday, i've been wondering.

How did Chanel five do?

True, but those have done particularly badly. After a lot of hype during The Olympics and with ITV having lots of new stuff it has been a really disappointing couple of months for drama.

I'm wondering whether it's just a temporary thing, or if we need to start lowering our expectations for new dramas on BBC One and ITV1.

BBC3 22:00 Cuckoo 777k (4.2)
http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/inside-itv...uesday-ratings

Thanks It doesn't seem to have been able to reach that launch rating throughout the course of the series, I wonder why.

Dallas: 1.22m.

Seems to be stabilising at a very mediocre level now.

US TV RATINGS

FOX
World Series - 3.2 (10.99m)

CBS
Survivor - 2.8 (10.14m)
Criminal Minds - 3.0 (11.51m)
CSI - 2.4 (9.84m)

ABC
The Middle - 2.5 (8.61m)
The Neighbours - 2.0 (6.87m)
Modern Family - 4.9 (12.46m)
Suburgatory - 2.7 (7.45m)
Nashville - 2.0 (6.58m)

NBC
Animal Practice - 1.2 (3.80m)
Guys With Kids - 1.3 (3.83m)
Law and Order:SVU - 1.8 (6.68m)
Chicago Fire - 1.8 (6.30m)

CW
Arrow - 1.1 (3.47m)
Supernatural - 0.7 (1.89m)

FOX - 3.2 (10.99m)
CBS - 2.7 (10.49m)
ABC - 2.7 (8.09m)
NBC - 1.6 (5.59m)
CW - 0.9 (2.68m)

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...series/154658/

Because it's not very good? I think it's done enough to earn a second series ratings wise though.

Is that inc +1 or not? If with its down 100k, if without its up 30k...

I'm waiting for a rating that will liven up this thread Maybe the unlikelihood of the XF final peaking at 15m+, or a Corrie episode averaging over 10m.

The rating includes +1.

So Dallas is pretty much doing exactly what it did on TNT in the States - a strong performance for the first episode, declining every week after that. If it follows the pattern right to the end, we would see quite a big uptick for the final episode of the season in a couple of weeks. It's a great show, IMHO, and I hope it does well enough to keep going beyond the (already commissioned) season two.

Often (though not always) the US ratings for a series can be a strong guide for what will happen with the same format or episodes over here. The collapse in ratings for the first series of the UK Voice, for example, would have been less of a surprise to some if they had noted that the US original had exactly the same problem for its first season.

Dallas had huge curiosity value - hence the 3 million plus ratings for the start. But a lot of people I know said there was too much bland kids and not enough of the original cast and walked after week 1/2.

I disagree and have loved it, but admit to having a bit of a vested interest as I visited the set during the original show and was driven to South Fork in an Aston Martin.

1.2 is an OK audience for a Five drama and it has been around there for 3 weeks now. But I am sure they hoped for more given the hype. It fizzled quickly and the Thursday night repeat was quickly axed (replaced by old repeats eg of the Jack the Ripper documentaries) and moved to a Sunday morning slot.

Not sure Five was quite the right channel for Dallas. It might have done well on BBC HD and multichannel in the Saturday evening Killing/Wallender/Borgen slot. I think its natural audience were those that knew the show on the beeb 30 years ago and who often find Five a bit young for them.

Be interesting to see if Surprise, Surprise proves more resilient or follows the same decline after the initial curiosity audience switches off.

Though (for the last time, honest ) I would still like the BBC to use Dallas as a template to bring back The Onedin Line as a next generation plus surviving oldies continuation. I think it would work.

The Thursday night rerun simply shifted across to 5*, and this was cross-promoted on the main channel so viewers couldn't miss it.

Incidentally it's doing okay there (209k for the most recent rerun in the officials, well above average for the slot and the channel's 7th most watched programme of the week).

Yes, it's not been a vintage autumn for new shows.

Speaking of which, has anyone heard anything about Ripper Street on BBC One? They seemed to be building it up as a big tentpole this season, but it's all gone quiet since the Olympic trail. Unless they double up each week (which is possible, I guess) they won't be able to fit it in before Christmas now. Perhaps they're waiting for a New Year start. Would be a bit miserable to air as part of the festive schedules, but then thats never stopped EE...