Also Me and Mrs Jones's ratings aren't too surprising. Its a shame though as its actually an excellent cast.

Also DS seem to be wrongly indicating that was Apocolypse's third part on Ch4. Unless am missing something.


Just saying its not its usual trajectory. Should be pulling in viewers atm; its not done that since it launched this year.


You miss out on last week where it collapsed. I don't see how its not 'good' that its back to at least this series 'usual numbers'.

I remember Dale Winton being the original host of Hole In The Wall then Du Beke being promoted to host for series 2. Just don't think he has enough charm as a presenter from what I've seen on Hole In The Wall and Step Up To The Plate. But as you say racegate is the main reason why the ship has sailed on him becoming Strictly host.

Another great rating for The Mentalist here in the UK (1.57m). Comfortably up on last season for these first two adventures with Jane. And fast closing in on the real life Mentalist on the other side.

I suspect the title Director of Vision will go soon. There is nothing companies love doing more than renaming their titles after they've let a few management people go.



So true. I suspect most people will be seeing the current crisis at the BBC through the BBC's eyes too.


Didn't Steve and Claudia originally do Let's Dance together? I would hope should Bruce go sooner rather than later they let Tess and Claudia host - no reason not too. If they made a direct replacement Paul O'Grady's name has long been in the frame. It's the BBC though - so whatever decision they make they'll be slated for it.


P.S. See C4 are putting Peep Show in the so successful Sunday night comedy slot from the 25th. It's never rated brilliantly on Fridays, so can't see it doing much better than Friday Night Dinner here. Also be interesting to see how Full English does tomorrow at 10.50pm - it probably has a chance after 8 out of 10 Cats and to be fair to C4 is the sort of comedy they'd traditionally play in a weeknight 11pm slot rather than on Friday nights, but it does feel all C4 comedy is having to stand on it's own two feet nowadays when it could actually do much better if they were blocked together and supported each other.

Hmm I thought the show was definitely missing something last night. Claudia and Tess did OK and there was definitely a novelty value about it. They got away with it for the one live show, but I think the series would be in trouble over an entire series with that combination.

if I have watched enough Chaser, I know what the BBC needs to do.

It needs to hire someone from ABCs "Lateline", and produce a UK version of it.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/about.htm


http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/conte...2/s3629921.htm

Eh? As another poster said, they are 2 of the highest rated shows on British tv. And are you someone who always needs a programme to tickle a brain cell? There are millions of people who want to be entertained by tv sometimes without having to think too hard.




I've got to agree with you there - actually contrary to other opinions on here, I think Tess is fine - it's Claudia I can't stand. She is a twittering idiot at times, and those awful looking smocks she wears all the time! I think the 2 of them on the show permanently together would be a disaster.

reading further down the page to which I linked above, I know who the BBC should get to do a Lateline UK.

Anyone come across the soap ratings for friday please?

SCD and TXF deliver huge ratings in modern terms so they are bound to attract a lot of intetest. If this forum was around in the seventies, I dare say one of the biggest conversation topics would be how big the ratings would be for Morecambe and Wise and a flop would be a peak time show with 10 million viewers.

X Factor and Strictly replaced The Generation Game and Stars In Their Eyes, not some high brow drama, if they got rid of them they'd just replace them with something else you don't like.

Or in the case of X Factor, at all .

Well one of them is

Disappointing to see HIGNFY drop below 5m for no good reason.

Good rating for The Natural World.

And Celebrity Millionaire Live. The once-biggest-programme-on-TV now taking less than 3.5m. Are you watching, Simon Cowell? This could be X Factor if you sign a new contract with ITV. Think about it.

As for Me And Mrs Jones - why was this commissioned for primetime BBC1. Pretty obvious it was never going to do anything in the ratings when the central character is so nondescript and unmemorable. The absence of a studio audience for something like this doesn't help matters, either. They might just have got away with it on BBC2.

Apologies if it's been posted already, looks like Peep Show will start Sunday 25th at 10 on 4. Friday probably was a bit daft, with much of the audience out and it seems like C4 are trying to establish Sunday night as their own. Hope it does well there, its ratings are quite underwhelming given how good it it.

Ouch, another very bad rating for XFactor. Beaten by Scd by more than 2million viewers

Advertisers must be demanding their money back due to these poor ratings. A recent Guardian report said that this series of XFactor is losing Itv millions of pounds in potential revenue.

But that Sunday night slot has done Friday Night Dinner no favours. Just 622,000 last weekend (plus a few more for +1, but not enough to register with DS)

I notice that BBC TV is not showing the Andy Murray ATP semi-final - not on BBC2, not BBC3, not even Red Button. Dimwits.

Meanwhile, I have now seen the trailer for Channel 4's new daytime quiz, 1001 Things You Should Know, twice. It looks distinctly "meh" and not likely to be the next big thing in TV quiz shows. Possibly a bit unfair to just a programme just for a trailer, but, hey, I had Hunted and Me And Mrs Jones sussed from their trailers, so why not?

Good point! Wonder if they'd have been better putting them together? Suspect both do pretty well on 4od either way.

Surely your second sentence was the reason and it wasn't a bog standard Natural world either. It was a David Attenborough special. Marking the start of the Attenborough 60 years in the wild season.

XFactor was a massive 2.5million viewers down from last year even though last years episode had technical difficulties and a blank screen for about 20mins. Am I right in thinking that's the biggest ratings slide for a Saturday episode so far this series? Compared to 2series ago, its a gigantic fall of 5.5m.

Actually TXF and its Popstar predecessors turned round ITV on Saturday nights. Ten years ago it was football highlights and clapped out Blind Date in peaktime and for Auntie SCD has been a huge success.

Excellent for SCD. Is that up or down y-o-y? TXF continues to post pretty much the same rating every week. The results may get a boost tonight for viewers tuning in for IAC at 9pm. I'm still fully expecting IAC to beat TXF tonight. 10m+ should be achievable.


Revenge on E4 averaged 828k across its 22-episode run. Those are some big numbers for E4. Safe to say its been a hit. When it returns next year hopefully they'll treat it right and keep it in the 9pm Monday slot where it did very well.

We may have found a way to boost X Factor's ratings.

They don't have the rights to it. They only get one game a day and are at the mercy of the tournament schedulers. It'll be on Sky. It's a bit of an odd deal, really - trying to balance Pay and FTA and winding up a bit confusing.