So nearly 11m average across BBC1, which is a stupendous average for the slot.

Surely 9.73m does change the year end charts??

Also means another programme outrated Downton over Christmas. Now only the 10th most watched show over Christmas (22/12 to 1/1)

Hadn't though about it but now you mention it he sounded very English

I think Splash has made the lead "sports" story on the back of the Mail today where its descibed as "woeful". Cant say i agree with the Mail very often but I do here. Apparently there are concerns about the amount of real world training that Tom Daley is putting in while its going on.
I have no doubt that ITV will go for it again though. If they shorten it to an hour and make it a bit less "Lets Dance for Diving" and get it more competitive I think it would be more worthy. I know it was a first show but for me as a spectacle it was very poor.

Yes, we watched and enjoyed. Best new gameshow format since The Chase. Will watch again - unlike the last thing in that slot which we watched once and never again.

Rory's take on a decent game show host was also his best impression in a few years.

Incidentally, to answer a question last night - Call the Midwife has 8 episodes.

If Omid was sincere and ITV have re-commissioned Splash already, that seems very premature with four more weeks to go. It's highly possible it could fall heavily each week, although it does have some room to drop before it reaches the typical new LE level for ITV1 in recent times. Surely they should see how the rest of the series goes, at which point they will still have plenty of time to prepare for a summer run, if that's the intention?

Interesting article on BARB's website. Especially about the percentages of time shifting viewing outside the seven day and even the 28 day period in Sky+ homes.

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/267

Glad you enjoyed it. My only gripe is that some of the questions were too easy (capital of Spain?) just like Weakest Link.

With roughly 500k excluding +1, it beat Countdown before it, although that legendary gameshow is now virtually back to lunchtime. I wonder if they'll ever dare axe it.

In case anyone is unaware Sky 1 - quite unusually - is screening the last ever two hour episode of Fringe simultaneously with its airing on the US network next week - so that means from 01.10 am to 03.10 am UK time in the early hours of Friday - Saturday 18/19 Jan.

So what?

Do they not count?

The constant ageism on this thread is appalling. We'll all be old codgers one day, Horlicks in hand, waiting for Corrie....

whilst I am not going to say that EastEnders ratings and the show itself, couldn't stand some improvement, its good to see that the Christmas ratings boost, has not totally left the show, before Christmas the show was struggling to get 8 million.

ouch for Trisha USA, was expecting more than that. Still im betting its cheap and adds a little more variety to the Channel 5 daytime schedule.

Does anyone know why ITV are not repeating Mr Selfridge?

As it skews older it might not attract as much i player access as a linear repeat does. Expected a repeat next Sunday like they did with Downton. But tried to find one for a friend whom I persuaded to watch after she had written it off as 'a copy of The Paradise' and not bothered. But she is 75 and will not acccess i player but might well have watched a repeat.

Seems a missed opportunity to garner word of mouth viewers.

All part of an elaborate ruse by ITV to nobble the Olympics 2016 ratings.

When does Extreme Skydiving with Bradley Wiggins start?

Though the contestant got that question wrong so it was not really 'too' easy. I think the pressure of answering against the invisible clock with a buzzer any moment costing you all your money and bringing an early bath will make even easy questions seem harder.

Looking at the 2 new comedies, it pumts come fly with me into perspective. Even popular comedies are gonna get that Xmas drop off!!!

That stat is misleading because ITV offer up five and a half hours of soaps and BBC1's primetime staples are from a number of genres. I can't imagine many people watching all the regular weekly shows on BBC1 but I can imagine many people watching at least one of them. Whereas if you don't like soaps on ITV, you're screwed.

It's possible for people to like Casualty and not like Holby (my mum is one of them) and Casualty at least is often dropped for special occasions, it's just taken off the whole of Christmas. Countryfile has often been shown as early at 5.30 so its effect on the primetime schedules is minimal - especially in the winter when audiences are at their highest - and Antiques Roadshow isn't on every week either. I know it looks like it. In addition the last two weeks have seen the first lottery quizzes for three months, between October and December it was simply ten minutes for the draw.

The One Show offers up a wide mix of features, it's the same as This Morning and Loose Women on ITV - and the Beeb offer far more flexibility and innovation in daytime. And furthermore, ITV show virtually no new programmes after 10,30 whereas BBC1 do constantly.

Im sure if it was viable ITV would go for that, in fact making it more general celebrity skydiving might be more appealing-with a 3 hour build up ofcourse

Africa (02/01/2013) is up to 8,369

It was repeated.

At 10pm on Sunday.....

If it's anything like the deal that was made with 'Red or Black?', it is possible that when they bought the rights to make 'Splash!', they may have agreed a 2 year deal. So it could be that the second series was commissioned before the 1st episode even aired.

Didn't it also get 3m+ sunday afternoon, getting onto nearly 12 million viewers for both showings.

Crumbs, hope I've not given any ITV employees who read here any ideas!


Crumbs again!

Ah! It's only ITV shows that are repeated that are allowed to be added together. It doesn't work with BBC1. It's the law.

Yeah, the repeat is up to 3,752

Blimey!!

Blimey again!

Have Splash, Britain's Brightest and Dancing On Ice shifted much from their overnights Yog?

ITV will be pretty pleased about Lewis last night. Cant remember any of Lewis recent ratings but I just got it into my head it was slightly on the wane. I thought both Miranda and MBB would have got something over 7 million on what is probably the most stay at home Monday of the year. As far as the soaps go, both EE and CS posted their biggest ratings for last year in January I think (not sure if the Xmas EE eventually got more) so those figures probably a bit down on what might have been expected.

Regarding Sunday, the Countryfile AR block is always so solid with CTM to come. DOI ratings can only be underwhelming imo as the launch show has peaked the series in recent years, it does give it a rare chance to grow though. However the shows will presumably be elongated after next week when the two heat type shows are over which may stunt any growth. Not sure what to make of Selfridge. The figure is good but its a much grander slot than The Paradise had tucked away on Tuesdays, I guess the BBC will be glad that the figures dont suggest another Downton style hit though will have to wait and see if the figure dips this week to be sure of the trend.