We all know most on this thread are BBC employees anyway so that doesn't surprise or shock me.

Good rating for Eastenders last night to be fair still massive room for improvement though. I knew it was Derek all along it was obvious to me from the start

Agreed. Plus this won't help; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...p-8406153.html Basically C4 could lose up to £200m in ad revenue from one of the world's biggest ad firms. Bad programming certainly won't be helping C4's cause.


It can't go on like that, that is the problem. I don't think 4od would impact C4's viewing figures greatly, in the same way that the iPlayer doesn't affect the BBC greatly. Channel 4 just have aging programmes that need to be sorted out quicker rather than later. If you want to watch a certain show, you'll watch it in its given timeslot.

EastEnders is good at the event episodes but sometimes it's the episodes inbetween that let them down some years.

Sky is putting various shows on Pick TV. This will be from 7pm every Thursday for 12 weeks starting on Thursday 24 January:

Modern Family
Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
Elementary
Game of Thrones
Spy
Stella
Boardwalk Empire
The Borgias
A Young Doctor’s Notebook

Schedule for Thurs 24 Jan:

7pm Modern Family
7.30pm Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
9pm Elementary
10pm Game of Thrones

Source: SPI website - no link as not publicly available

Fantastic! Can't wait to see some of these shows! Will it be full series?

Sorry this might be a silly question- but what's SPI?

Don't know - doesn't say. But it looks like 12 full evenings so if you know how many programmes there are in each series etc you should be able to do a rough calculation of how much will be shown in total. It looks like 12 evenings * (approx) 4 hours 20 mins each = (approx) 52 hours of new programming.


Sky Programme Information. It used to be a public site but isn't any longer. But I fortunately managed to retain access - don't ask how!

And the fact millions of people probably had the day off today or finished at lunchtime. Didn't Pointless get its best ever daytime rating on this day last year?

The top ratings from Austria.

http://images.derstandard.at/2012/12...5487623167.jpg

Austrias Toprating was the Stratos Project from Felix Baumgartner. Bundesland heute is a regional news programm like your programs for your regions like West Midlands, London etc.

ORF is like BBC, ATV and Puls4 are private Channels and Servus TV is owned by Red Bull.

Why would you have the day off today?

Even schools were still in today.

I suspect the low-ish looking donation count for Text Santa will translate into low-ish ratings. My prediction between 3-3.5m.

Only £300,000 raised by 8.30pm, very low when you compare Children in Need raised £11million by 8.55pm. Might as well cancel the thing next year and Itv can donate money to charity without having this unpopular Text santa stuff.

The trouble is C4 bosses don't seem to be accountable to anyone but themselves. Hunt, Abrahams and Dixon have been nothing short of a disaster over the last couple of years and really should be under the threat of the boot - but there seems to be no sense that their jobs are underthreat at all.

Wow I thought it looked low, but had no idea it was THAT low. I may have to revise my ratings prediction further downward. I think you're right it should be cancelled. It feels cheap and wholly inferior to CIN and Comic Relief.

Dear god, not satisfied with comparing ratings, you are now comparing charity monies raised. Do you only ever give money to the biggest charity not the smaller charities?

That's really an invalid comparison SamuelW. The £865k is the amount of money raised from texts between 20:00 and 21:00 with £500k on top for government donation, whereas the Children in Need total at 20:55 includes all the organisations that have donated by that particular time. Comparing apples and oranges IMO.

Agreed.

D.M.N do you have the rating and share for 2 Broke Girls last night? Thanks.

688k (3.1%) excluding +1

As in the drink company? Interesting to see Downton Abbey being the only international series there, as one of the top rated of 2012.

Link (Star Ac/French): http://www.ozap.com/actu/audiences-t...-faible/444681

Speaking of international ratings, France has bought back Star Academy on NRJ12 (similar to 4Music in the UK). Third week in and the audience numbers are stable, still attracting just over 1 million viewers - decent numbers for the network. Star Ac's previous season was in 2008 on TF1.

This is great! Thanks DMN!

What planet are you living on? Good grief.

Did I?! You have a better memory than me. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know it was a big episode until I saw comments about it on here/Twitter. All I'm saying is, EE's usually bouncing around this time of year - but this year its just not happening. Its been posting average figures for months now. And of course its ahead of Corrie. It was out of its normal slot again but was only behind by 0.4m. Not exactly a disaster is it?


So 8.4m (inc +1) on a random Thursday outing that wasn't advertised is poor? Strange logic when the EE big reveal only got 8.4m too....

It's quite a novel concept but maybe ITV should try keeping Coronation Street in it's usual slots instead of throwing it into different slots and expecting it to hold up? The share is poor for the programme even if the audience figure itself isn't bad.

EastEnders saw an unsurprising boost for a highly publicised episode and it appears as though they're going to push it from now until Christmas to try and bump the ratings.

Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? appears to have reached the end of it's shelf life but could do ok in stripped across a couple of weeks at the height of summer IMO. Comedy Roadshow and Young Apprentice both provided adequate figures for BBC One while BBC Two had another stable but unspectacular night. World's Strongest Man is the greatest rating programme Channel 5 ever aired but I reckon it must be doing well in the demos but credit must go to Big Bang Theory which is really finding it's feet this series on E4; in comparison, Celebrity Juice looks low - was it a compilation show?

THE CHRISTMAS BUMPER PREDICTION SCHEDULE CAN BE FOUND HERE.

Agreed. He could not have come up with a more apples to oranges comparison if he tried, particularly as Text Santa is still raising a lot of money tonight and is on course to beat last year's total. But yes because it doesn't get 8-10m like Children In Need it should be cancelled. Samuel's trolling has hit a new low.

It's a shame Text Santa isn't going to do well in the ratings because it's actually been quite good night. Do you reckon about 3.5m?

Probably peak at 4m.

I didn't see it (or can't recall) last year, but from what I remember, it was awful. This time round it's been a pleasent surprise, some cracking sketches.