Ah right I thought there where already included, although I really don't like including plus 1 as its not really fair. Stil like you said with this Tyrone storyline an al I thought it might b a bit higher

Lol I know who would of thought the news would be nearly as popular as the soaps

I hope it continues to do well, and gets a second season. It is eminently exportable, and deserves an evening repeat slot too. Pat on the back for whoever commissioned it.

To be honest the ratings are only going to get lower and lower, they urgently need new ideas, otherwise they'll be squeezed out and it'll all be about BBC1 and ITV at that time, whereas not so long ago it was all about BBC2 and C4.

The Chase got 3.79m with +1 included. Also 1.89m for Tipping Point.

Somerthing tells me that Father Brown should be bang on for another batch of 10 eps next year.

I I think with commercial channels using them so much purely for an easier life I just include them so we don't get all of the "Pointless beat The Chase! Yeah but not with +1!" backwards and forwards arguments around here. BARB don't use them in their end of year charts and that's the main rule for me.
I wish you were around a few minutes ago before I posted the quiz ratings.


I think Liam Keelan commissioned Father Brown and he's off to Sky soon. It's working very well in daytime.
Could it work in primetime?


They've shifted Countdown to put on other shows that rate worse, DOND has been burnt out and nothing else has much appeal. Daytime is poor on Channel Four.

On the subject of Adrian Chiles have ITV quietly axed 'That Sunday night show'? Is he down to just the football already.

A shame if true because I actually quite liked it.

The BBC regional news at 6.30 always puts more than a million on the Six figure demonstrating the strength of their regional programmes - BBC News has,of course, allegedly lost the nation's confidence post-Savile.

According to the BBC Press office/Media Centre (whatever the hell its called) Being Human starts the week of the 2-8 February.

You're right it was the 9pm slot that they targeted not 10pm. They should have tried that with some of their recent dramas. They really have been excellent. Utopia is one of the most stylish dramas I've seen in quite some time, but making the opening episode 90 minutes long with a 10pm start wasn't the best scheduling for it.

And Being Human is usually on a Sunday so February 3rd for a start?

As Death in Paradise and Lewis have both shown, there is definitely a prime-time audience for straightforward, non-gory, whodunnits. Midsomer proves the point regularly too, albeit with a tad more gore - but still way short of the abattoir approach of Ripper Street.

Given that Father Brown has already been shown in daytime, it is probably unrealistic to imagine that the (current) series could be repeated in prime time anytime soon - but why not, like Death in Paradise or Wallander or Sherlock, in a summer slot on either BBC1 or BBC2, or in the Killing/Borgen Saturday night slot on BBC4? It might be a welcome alternative to the cheap factual stuff which BBC1 often chucks into the schedules in July or August.

Just a random bit of Information in that Simon Cowell's Food Glorious Food must be starting soon, they're filming the finals tomorrow and Saturday (I was asked to adjudicate :O) so I'd expect it to take the Tuesday 9pm slot-The format sounds naff though, basically its two meals head to head and the public are asked which they prefer with a sort of token system but hey if competitive baking works.... :P

It's easy to sneer and look down your nose at light dramas which the TV critics often do, but there is an audience for them. They don't want gore all the time. It really wouldn't surprise me if Father Brown did well with a primetime repeat.

STV were showing Miss Marple instead of the football, possibly the one that was on ITV on Tuesday as STV showed some Roman epic instead on that day. I have a figure for the third channel in Scotland of 349k (17.9%) for Marple last night but I guess that would include a few Border viewers who presumably had the match along with the rest of ITV plc's franchises. I believe Border is tiny so the figure probably is about right for STV. The share is good: Marple got 8% for ITV on Tuesday (including some Roman epic viewers on STV).

Certainly sounds like Sky's most exciting drama commission to date, worth noting it is a co-production with BBC America.

The Sky Living commissions on the other hand sound a bit dodgy (the 'modern day witches' one in particular!), although Dracula with Rhys Myers is intriguing and has potential.

And no wonder - up here in Scotland (IMO) it's miles ahead of STV's News - far better in terms of quality, newsreaders etc... Well done them if that quality (as the figures suggest) is replicated across the country.

Channel 5 should be beating C4 in daytime anyway.

Channel 4 is just a mish mash of lifestyle programmes that could be on More4 from 9-2 ish. Channel 5 has got a good line up.

1. Strong brand identity for childrens programmes (Milkshake)
2. Wright Stuff (in its 13th year)
3. Trisha (US show) still an audience for this.
4. RPT of popular shows ( Big Brother, Hotel Inspector etc.
5. RPT US programme ( Law and Order or CSI)
6. Australian soaps (Neighbours and Home and Away
7. USA TV Movies.

There is something for everyone here, Variety. Something that has been lacking on C4 for years. All C4 is is lifestyle and dated quiz shows.

Does anyone have Adults 16-34 numbers for daytime on C4 ?
They are getting kicked by ITV / BBC this days in daytime ,but I think they can still pull good numbers in this demo, especially for DoNd and Four in Bed.

Also The Undateables is doing terrifically ,winning the slot in 16-34 .
Am I the only one that thinks they should have paired it up with full series of Derek ,which already finished filming and gave Utopia Saturday 9pm slot ?

Breakfast ratings yesterday: @BBCBreakfast 1.69m (38.2%), peaking at 2.23m; @Daybreak 630k (15.4%), peaking at 997

The football peaked with 6.27m (26.8%) inc +1 at 20:10.

I can't remember the last time BBC1 was this strong during peak-time.

9pm hour update (consolidated figures):

Saturday 5th Jan:
6.02m -Casualty

Sunday 6th:
6.94m - Ripper Street

Monday 7th:
8.84m - Miranda
9.20m - Mrs Brown's Boys

Tuesday 8th:
8.20m - Death in Paradise

Wednesday 9th:
7.52m - Africa

Thurs/Fri 10/11th:
7m+ ?? Silent Witness ??

Yog published these ratings so far for last week's Silent Witness so they'll both be 7m+ in the finals. No idea where they're up to now though.