ROBBIE!

Last week's episode of Mrs Brown's Boys ended up with 9.2m! It bloody crossed the 9m mark from an overnight of 6.8m! Timeshifting demon! I TOLD YOU!

Tape checked soaps:

BBC1
20:00 - Eastenders - 8.77m (34.1%)
* +3 361k
20:30 - Rip Off Britain - 3.44m (13.4%)
21:00 - Miranda - 7.11m (26.6%)
21:30 - Mrs Brown - 7.27m (27.6%)

ITV
19:00 - Emmerdale - 7.79m (33.9%)
* +1 159k
19:30 - Coronation St - 9.72m (40.2%)
* +1 215k
20:00 - Cornwall with Caroline Quentin - 4.13m (16.1%)
* +1 101k
20:30 - Coronation St - 9.5m (36.7%)
* +1 218k
21:00 - Lewis - 6.12m (23%)
* +1 403k


Strong ratings last night for the comedies. Corrie pulled some cracking ratings too.

Nice high ratings everywhere last night!

Does anyone have ratings (16-34's as well if possible) for The Magaluf Weekender on Sunday on ITV2? I know the first week got about 750k including +1 but haven't seen anything else.

Very heavy snow again today. Can onky be good for ratings

The snow over parts of the UK must surely have played a part. Didn't it?

Wowzers! It's a beast! Do you have any ratings for Miranda or Lewis?

We should certainly mention Only Connect on BBC4.

1.02m viewers, 4% share.

The total TV audience was up at 9pm but by less than a million by my working.

26m last week, 26.7m this week. Although that seems pretty high both weeks.

when it snowed on my birthday back in 2009, the soaps managed ratings of 11m plus

IMO last night's figures aren't that impressive when compared to 2009

so the Lewis and Saturday repeated haven't hurt the figures

I was a bit confused by some of the downer comments last week

The snow event you refer to in 2009 was a whole different ball game, though, with 8 inches falling in parts of London and causing chaos. Yesterday for most in the south was a cold day with occasional light snow showers, with some places getting a sugar coating of slushy snow, causing little in the way of disruption.

Overnights
Episode 1 Total: 767k
Episode 2 Total: 637k

Episode 1 16-34s: 292k (38% of the total audience)
Episode 2 16-34s: 311k (48.8% of the total audience)

Officials
Episode 1 Total: 889k
Episode 1 16-34s: 364k (41%)

It's doing pretty well. ITV2 haven't had much luck with its new formats recently (the stuff they launched last year mainly only got around 300k) so it's an improvement and should certainly be enough for a recommission.

In addition, the Wednesday 10pm repeat averaged 451k and a Thursday 10:45pm repeat got 208k so it's getting a very healthy total.

Massive numbers.

Miranda got 8.84m and Lewis got 8.21m so huge all round.

Brill consolidateds for three of my favourite shows!

I find the Lewis figure more impressive than Miranda or MBB tbh!

Last nights MBB could consolidate to close on 10m based on last weeks shift...!

Great ratings for the soaps.

Corrie is so overated at the moment and it annoys me when it gets better ratings than Emmerdale and EE.

EastEnders doing much better than before Christmas though. I can see it rating higher tonight.

It was quite significant snow across the whole country then. When that happens numbers really can be huge


I think some saw the lower overnights and thought it wouldn't hit 9m based on previous timeshifts and the fact it had a repeat in the week to slow down timeshift. But Mrs Brown's Boys is one of the biggest timeshifters out there and more timeshifted last week's episode than the week before. Amazing.

Thanks for this - seems to be doing well and that second episode 16-34 audience looks really good. Sunday does seem like an odd slot for it although I guess that's allowing them to pick up a healthy repeat audience with a midweek slot. I never really watch ITV2 apart from Celebrity Juice and the occasional Xtra Factor but I'm also quite liking Fake Reaction at the moment although its ratings are a lot lower.

If Danny Cohen isn't out there busting a gut to get at least a xmas day special each out of O'Connell and Hart for 2013, he should be taken out and shot.

An EE, Miranda and MBB xmas night trio would be mammoth.

As long as its not another The Royle Family I'll take anything! Jonathan Creek would be good. Imagine that Christmas Day line up:

5.45 Doctor Who
6.45 Strictly Come Dancing
7.45 EastEnders
8.45 Miranda
9.15 Jonathan Creek
10.45 Mrs Browns' Boys

That would be the perfect line up. Alas though TPTB seem to be living on a different world to the rest of us.

The power of timeshifting now! Just shows how popular Mrs Brown's Boys, Miranda and Lewis are.


All bets are off with MBB! Anything can happen!

The snow is more widespread today. Moved out of Scotland and the North East and more of the UK is now seeing snowfall, so I think we'll see a spike tonight

Indeed and iirc most of the schools were shut. This is nothing like 2009 yet.

Is the north still covered in snow and has the snow in other parts of the UK been heavy?