I'm really looking forward to seeing what the ratings are for Splash on ITV.

It was bad, but bad in a kind of mesmerizing can't take your eyes away from it way.
So it's hard to judge if its ratings will tank or will get very high ratings.
It's not really an 'average' show if you know what I mean.

I've seen several trails for Blandings, most recently yesterday.

Not often do I get friends phoning up asking whether I am watching a programme, but did yesterday telling me how awful "Splash" was. Would not surprise me if it doesnt have a really high rating for the first show, but whether the format translates to keeping them interested is another matter.

(10 minutes was my limit for the show)

They had a year to get doctor who ready for january february and its makes sense to place it and the voice in january when ratings are at peak both shows should be airing now. BBC really does deserve to loose the Voice ratings when they've gone for the same quarter again

Splash!: 5.49m (22.9%), peaking with 6.12m (24.5%) at 20:15. It's second highest peak was actually at 20:40 with 5.86m. Sorry, but this breakdown is extremely stable.

Saturday 5th January 2013

BBC One
06:00 - Breakfast: 1.33m (35.9%)
10:00 - Saturday Kitchen Live: 2.07m (26.6%)
11:30 - Baking Made Easy: 1.64m (20.9%)
12:00 - BBC News; Regional News; Weather: 1.59m (19.6%)
12:15 - Football Focus: 1.23m (13.2%)
13:00 - Athletics: 751k (7.0%)
14:30 - Darts: 1.54m (12.6%)
16:30 - Final Score: 2.25m (13.9%)
17:10 - BBC News; Regional News; Weather: 2.89m (16.1%)
17:30 - Celebrity Mastermind: 2.99m (15.1%)
18:00 - Animal Antics: 3.05m (14.6%)
18:30 - Richard Hammond's Secret Service: 2.75m (12.5%)
19:10 - Britain's Brightest: 4.88m (20.6%)
20:25 - The National Lottery: In It to Win It: 5.11m (21.1%)
21:15 - Casualty: 5.17m (21.5%)
22:05 - Mrs Brown's Boys: 4.10m (18.7%)
22:35 - BBC News and Weather: 3.45m (17.4%)
22:55 - Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End: 1.64m (13.7%)
01:30 - Weatherview: 544k (13.5%)

BBC Two
06:50 - Sylvia Scarlett: 29k (1.1%)
08:15 - The Little Minister: 65k (1.1%)
10:00 - A History of Britain by Simon Schama: 228k (3.0%)
11:00 - Meet the Ancestors: 220k (2.8%)
11:30 - Map Man: 212k (2.7%)
12:00 - Indian Food Made Easy: 335k (%)
12:30 - Talking Pictures: 337k (3.5%)
13:15 - Of Human Bondage: 355k (3.9%)
14:35 - EastEnders: 417k (3.6%)
16:00 - Great British Food Revival: 347k (2.5%)
16:30 - Darts: 1.36m (7.7%)
17:50 - The Choir: a Year with the Military Wives: 1.52m (7.2%)
18:50 - Antiques Road Trip: 1.69m (7.5%)
19:20 - Coast: ?
19:30 - Dad's Army: 2.04m (8.6%)
20:00 - Stanley Baxter: the Many Faces of: 1.60m (6.6%)
21:00 - QI XL: 1.70m (7.0%)
21:45 - Cemetery Junction: 1.11m (5.4%)
23:15 - Darts: 446k (3.5%)
00:05-02:00 - Darts Extra: 301k (5.2%)

ITV1
09:30 - The Jeremy Kyle Show USA: 250k (3.6%)
10:25 - The Jeremy Kyle Show USA: 357k (4.5%)
11:20 - River Monsters: 337k (4.3%)
11:50 - ITV News and Weather: ?
12:00 - FA Cup Live: 2.12m (20.8%)
15:00 - Dancing on Ice Live Tour 2012: 955k (8.0%)
16:00 - Regional News and Weather: 1.10m (8.8%)
16:15 - ITV News and Weather: ?
16:30 - FA Cup Live: 4.78m (24.3%)
19:15 - Splash!: 5.49m (22.9%)
20:45 - Take Me Out: 4.22m (17.4%)
21:45 - The Jonathan Ross Show: 2.88m (13.0%)
22:45 - ITV News and Weather: 2.14m (11.5%)
23:00 - FA Cup Highlights: 1.95m (17.0%)
00:30-02:00 - The Store: 136k (2.7%)

Channel 4
18:10 - Channel 4 News: 751k (3.5%)
18:40 - 4thought.tv: 527k (2.4%)
18:45 - Is our Weather Getting Worse?: 997k (4.4%)
19:40 -The Day after Tomorrow: 1.60m (6.6%)
22:00 - Inglorious Basterds: 1.16m (8.2%)

Channel 5
21:45 - Celebrity Big Brother: 1.89m (8.5%)

Updating

It will be interesting to see if people switched off during the overly long show?

I think it may go up next week and then drop the week after.

2.07m (9.3%) for CBB. Excellent rating for a Saturday.

So Splash peaked near the end instesd of the beginning? People stuck with it?

Splash! Breakdown
19:20 - 5.09m (22.1%)
19:25 - 5.33m (23.2%)
19:30 - 5.66m (24.3%)
19:35 - 5.06m (21.7%)
19:40 - 5.15m (21.6%)
19:45 - 5.45m (22.7%)
19:50 - 5.65m (23.4%)
19:55 - 4.92m (20.7%)
20:00 - 5.80m (24.0%)
20:05 - 5.60m (23.1%)
20:10 - 5.61m (23.0%)
20:15 - 6.12m (24.5%)
20:20 - 5.64m (22.6%)
20:25 - 5.43m (22.4%)
20:30 - 5.75m (23.7%)
20:35 - 5.16m (21.5%)
20:40 - 5.86m (24.0%)

Splash! was beaten by Britain's Brighest from 19:55 to 20:15 although it beat In It to Win It.

I've only got a list with m% and k%

Seems so, yeah. The breakdown was very stable across the show so people did stick with it for the whole show.

Very solid start for Splash! It averaged 5.68m (23.7%) including +1.

Britain's Brightest did OK with 4.88m but Richard Hammond flopped with only 2.75m!

Maybe it indicates that we get the TV that we deserve?

Looks like people caught the "buzz" at about 20;00 and switched on to see the show and then switched off again by 8:20.

CBB overnights

Splash could still end up losing a lot of viewers next weeek even though the break down was okay. How were Splash and Britains brightest rating with the young viewers? Did Britains brighttest get more viewers as it went along?

Wow looks like ITV have got a hit on their hands I'm actually shocked by that rating, just goes to prove that anything Olympic-related is TV ratings gold at the moment no matter how bizarre.

The rating for Britain's Brightest is a little disappointing ., as I thought it was a great show. The rest of BBC1's lineup seems to have done poorly.

Take Me Out appears to have benefitted from a strong lead-in and weak opposition. That must be one of its highest ratings in quite a while.

Could the unthinkable have happened and ITV have won prime time on a Saturday night without X Factor propping up the schedule???

Britain's Brighest - Breakdown
19:10 - 3.43m (15.4%)
19:15 - 3.66m (16.1%)
19:20 - 4.30m (18.7%)
19:25 - 4.25m (18.5%)
19:30 - 4.36m (18.7%)
19:35 - 4.46m (19.1%)
19:40 - 4.76m (20.0%)
19:45 - 4.89m (20.4%)
19:50 - 5.06m (21.0%)
19:55 - 5.53m (23.2%)
20:00 - 5.61m (23.2%)
20:05 - 5.58m (23.0%)
20:10 - 5.91m (24.2%)
20:15 - 5.79m (23.2%)
20:20 - 5.58m (22.4%)

As soon as Britain's Brighest finished, the audience plummeted to low 4m's for the next 20 minutes until Splash! ended.

Watched splash from start to end..it was pure Carcrash TV.
that might be its trump card its so bad its good.

Amazing how the umpteenth repeat of Dad's Army still delivers a steady 2 million

CITV yesterday peaked with 465k (4.5%) at 13:20.

That's quite an interesting steady growth across the show. I wonder if it will start higher next week?

CBB doing very well. I expect it to rise tonight.

The britains brightest break down is better, it went up by 2million by start to finish. So people seem have enjoyed Britains brightest more.

I'll be interested in the number of viewers who decide to return to Splash next week; I think even those in the 'so bad it's good' camp will lose interest pretty rapidly. Casualty boosted, although not up the 6.99m it got for its big Cardiff relaunch episode the same time last year.