I checked DS' ratings report and wondered how Fake Britain managed to hurt Coronation Street so badly.

On a serious note regarding EastEnders - ratings wise, it's going through a tough patch; that's all. All soaps have and will do again, it just happens to be EastEnders' turn.

Soaps are far more resilient than shows from other genres though. EastEnders is under no threat at the moment and nor should it be.

Home and Away back on form?
The storyline with Casey is pathetic. He's in some kind of desert where his mobile phone seems to be working
he has brothers and sisters popping up all over the shop and while I like the River Boys I feel the show is just about them
I think they have ruined the Character of Dex too.

Doctors for me is the best soap on the box right now
and while it's share is down it's still rating pretty well.

Exactly and my posts shows that just because EastEnders is 'Underperforming' doesn't mean it won't rate well at xmas. Just like last year I expect the figures to surge (and perhaps more give it's not at weekends)
I think the storylines are better then last year and the last time we had a 'branning' Christmas it was quite a big draw in 2007.
Every Family has a storyline of some kind this festive season too so there's a number of storylines all running at once.

[quote=Fudd;62630889]I checked DS' ratings report and wondered how Fake Britain managed to hurt Coronation Street so badly. [/QUOTE]

Sssshhhh!


Old and female? Dr Who, Royles, Mrs Brown, Room on Broom?

Sure, Scd and Midwife might. But it looks like a very balanced line up to me!

Christmas Day was a bit bizarre last year; it was all about the build up with the big event happening on Boxing Day. To be fair, I can understand the logic - set something explosive on the highest rating episode of the year to keep people hooked to the next episode. But Christmas Day has always been THE episode. To be honest I don't think they've really been able to match the Stax reveal for drama and intrigue...maybe this year could be the year.

Yeah it was strange but then it kept the 9.9m on xmas day for boxing day too.

This year they have done a similar thing.
They have a reveal to a long running storyline the end of the week before xmas which of course will bubble away but then they have been building a few other storylines where one comes out on xmas eve and the rest xmas day and boxing day.

As for intrigue we have seen max doing things but the viewers don't know the secret yet

A Whodunnit then takes place over the new year and the list of suspects are huge as everyone wants to kill

There's also the brief stint from

while last year there was only really Yusef and the masoods storyline which seemed the main focus for Christmas and the lead up to.

I just think EastEnders will rate better and keep it's viewers holding on longer this year than last year.

EastEnders is not in any trouble it's beating Corrie in the officials.

Last night got 8.1million and also 300,000 on repeat so 8.4million.

Corrie is ahead but it has the advantage of older viewers.

EastEnders will be top of the pile of the ratings christmas time.

Eastenders doesn't beat Corrie in the officials.
Corrie is on 8.85m, Eastenders 8.20m in the officials so far this year:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=3352

I don't think it is; if you're going by BARB you have to remember that ITVHD isn't included in ITV1's figures.

Eastenders at 8.68million for Monday's episode on the 12th November.

I think last night's episode could timeshift to 9million.

I don't think that we can say that Eastenders ratings were similar in the run to X-mas 2011 as they are now.

Broadly speaking year-on-year:
Main showing DOWN - 600k to 1m (if doing exact day comparisons factor in a buffer for Emmerdale/football clashes etc)
BBC3 showing DOWN - 400k to 500k
Omnibus DOWN - anywhere from 500k to 1m
Iplayer viewings UP - 190k

However I do agree with you that Eastenders still has enough strength/Christmas reputation to beat Corrie on Christmas day this year.

But Coronation Street got over 9m without timeshift - both last night and on 12th November.

It is shocking how brilliantly TBBT is doing. 9m for a repeat is fantastic considering 17.7m watched that episode that week. Could we see 18m for the first time on Thursday in the US? It's on a massive roll, and has been for 4 years now.

Arrow still huge on Sky1. Third episode got 1.75m and by far the highest on the week for the channel, second place for Sky1 was 692k (Modern Family). Arrow is huge!!

Neighbours is doing well at 1:45pm!

ITV to axe its 0530 Morning News according to another thread (and confirmed by Broadcast apparently).No great loss as it was essentially a repeat of News at Ten with a bit of NBC Nightly News thrown in (usually incomprehensible reports about US politics).

I'll tell you something that's boring. You following Dan all over the forum.

Emmers - 6739 + 412
EE - 7602
Holby - 4685

IAC - 6742 + 904
Last Tango - 5506
George Clark - 2123
Heston - 1105

Get Me Out Now - 1011

so Tango looks like it has taken some viewers off of IAC - can't be that boring Robbie

The One Show: 4.23m (20.0%)
EastEnders: 7.60m (34.5%)
Holby City: 4.68m (19.3%)
Last Tango In Halifax: 5.51m (21.6%)

Emmerdale: 7.15m (33.7%) , +1: 207k (0.9%)
The Martin Lewis Money Show: 3.01m (13.6%) , +1: 147k (0.6%)
You've Been Framed!: 3.00m (13.2%) , +1: 171k (0.7%)
I'm a Celebrity: 7.65m (29.9%) , +1: 465k (2.3%)

Looking at the half-hour breakdown, it seems like the 8.30pm start hurt IAC a lot last night:

20.30- 6.24m (24.4%)
21.00- 8.57m (33.4%)
21.30- 8.13m (32.0%)

In the 9pm slot, IAC averaged 8.4m which was up from the 8.1m 9-10pm average it had for its previous Tuesday outing. But the 8.30-9pm segment pulled down its average significantly. The episode was -3% down year-on-year. Last Tango held up well considering the much tougher competition it faced than last week - it looks set to become the highest rated new drama series for BBC1 in that weekly Tuesday slot in quite a few years.

Great for Last Tango in Halifax, it has relatively easy competition for the rest of it's run, although it's final episode being on a different day and against another drama might hurt it, so should hopefully stay around that level or even grow a bit.

It lost 700k viewers, and Celeb was probably dented by Flanagan's norks (or lack thereof)

Possibly I'm A Celebrity and Holby City have a similar audience, so once 9pm kicked in and the older skewing Last Tango, IAC could pull away. Another good rating and way up on ITV's usual Tuesday.