BIB: By who? The general public? Unlikely. Most people hardly notice idents anyway. To most people, BBC1 has just become Christmassey. People on forums discussing TV pres may not like it, but when Joe Public sees their messages being aired over Christmas, I think you'll find most of the public will enjoy that.

BBC One has about 47 million viewers. Of those that submit a message a very tiny minority will have them shown so enjoyment value from this will be limited.

This kind of thing works on radio stations at times of the day when not many people are listening. On the biggest TV channel in the country it's just plain daft.

Clever way of getting people to keep watching the channel though!

Oh please. Their biggest competition is serving up dancing dogs, I Love You've Been Framed! and The Corrie Years.

Viewers don't need any further incentive than that.

I've been drawing up the Prediction Game schedule for Christmas week and Friday night (28th) is particularly hideous across all the channels - I could only find one 'special' and that It'll Be Alright On The Night! Anyone would think it was the middle of August.

As for last night - I suppose now The X Factor has trotted off for another revamp we're going to have 'EastEnders in crisis' posted every day instead? The soap has a few issues but it always comes good at Christmas and I don't doubt that this year will be the same. It's also worth noting that Emmerdale - as well as it is doing - is still riding off the back of the brilliantly plotted anniversary episode which has led to a number of story strands development and last night had a 9m lead out. It's going to be in a better state than EastEnders which is treading water so it can explode over Christmas.

Inside Claridges is the rating for me yesterday; what a stunning figure for the show!

Oh that's mean, just because Robbie doesn't know the difference between discrete and discreet and being discrete would probably be rather painful.


I'm amazed at that Inside Claridges rating. Watching Last Tango in Halifax tonight it did seem like a show that would have been shown on ITV a few years ago.

It was a good tribute to Sir Patrick Moore tonight. I hope people watched it.

I would like to know if the information is available, which show out of XFactor Final 2012 or Britains Got Talent Final 2012 was the most popular in the overnght ratingss with all viewers, with children, with 16 to 34yr olds and with high earning viewers. Thanks for your help.

People have incredibly short memories regarding Christmas schedules. In fact, it seems most people's memories don't even last 12 months (last year we had a New Tricks repeat on the Friday night). I think this is a really, really good BBC1 Christmas schedule, and Christmas Day is actually nigh on perfect IMO. As for the presentation though, that is the poorest for a long time undoubtedly.

Guess what? It's back! It's the Tuesday night FlopZone:

20:00 - Inside Guinness World Records: 1.84m (7.9%)
21:00 - On the Run: 1.97m (8.3%)

6m for Last Tango In Halifax last night. Down on last week.

odd, against weaker competition it lost 200k viewers

elsewhere.....

Emmers - 6691 + 455
EE - 7747
Holby - 4986

Masterchef - 3279
Is Our Weather - 2228
Heston - 1743
Body of Proof - 1022

Been possessed by the spirit of the Daily Mail have you, they said virtually exactly the same things a week ago.

That was completely unexpected.


Body Of Proof holds up well for Channel 5 against some tough competiton. EastEnders can't crack 8m on a Tuesday. It used to be its strongest night.

Sky1 has picked up the rights to 3 seasons of Revolution.

Would have watched Guinness World Records but was watching a weather program on channel 4.

Will be lucky to makes it past one season.

Emmerdale - 7.15m (33.2%) [+ 1 190k]
Eastenders - 7.75m (35.4%) [+3 440k]
Holby City - 4.99m (21.4%)



Attentional's soap slots:

19:02-19:29 Emmerdale
19:30-19:59 Eastenders
20:02-21:00 Holby City



Nothing tape checked last night.

So that Sky survey from two months ago where they said they'd picked it up, was right.

In fact that was a repeat of the same story from 2011 with the same headline

I will be amazed if it gets to the end of the current season. It is pretty badly paced and the extended break in America will kill the audience retention for the second part of the season

Crap ident wot did it.

Viewers switched off their tellies in disgust!

Quite specific there Samuel....

Britain's Got Talent vs The X Factor
All Viewers - 11.87m (48.38%) vs 11.07m (39.58%)
Children - 1.53m (12.9%) vs 1.28m (11.5%)
16 to 34 - 2.42m (20.4%) vs 3.07m (27.7%)

AB (high earners) - 2.44m (20.5%) vs 2.33m (21.0%)

It's the only explanation! Last year's Consider Yourself added 2m viewers per show!

Speaking of ratings here's a thought. Had the terrible Siberian snow storm hit the UK, I think Christmas ratings would have been some of the highest since 2008/2009.

Wasn't it you, Mike, who said earlier in the week that compettion is now more than two channels?

Last week ITV1 viewers were watching Chanpions League football. I'm not sure many of them would have been Last Tango type viewers. I think a good few of them may have opted for the hilarious comedy on Sky Sports 1 (Arsene Wenger - the funniest Frenchmen on TV since Rene Artois.)

Awful ratings for Itv1 yesterday, less than 2million between 8 to 10pm is unacceptable in December. Thank you dmn.