The Ratings Thread (Part 44)

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iaindb

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by SamuelW:
“Just for fun, here's the Zeebox audience ratings so far today:

Shrek- 100% vs. Tangled- 80%
Room on a Broom- 100% vs. Tangled- 75%
BBC News- 100% vs. YBF- 63%
Doctor Who- 100% vs. YBF- 40%
Doctor Who- 100% vs. Emmerdale- 45%
Doctor Who- 100% vs. POG Dogs- 42%
SCD- 100% vs. POG Dogs- 62%
SCD- 100% vs. Emmerdale- 67%
Call The Midwife- 100% vs. Coro St.- 95%

Closest battle so far is Call the Midwife v Coro St. At points during the hour, Coro St. had higher % than CtM, but CtM had higher % more often. The Zeebox breakdown shows that CTM lost viewers from its lead in but has been steady in the last 20 mins. Call the Midwife is also trending above Coro St. on Twitter, which is a good sign for it cos its got an old audience normally who wouldnt normally tweet as much as Coro audience. I seen several people saying theyre watching CtM for the first time ever today:
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How accurate is Zeebox at reflecting the ratings? These figures appear to suggest Paul O'Grady will be pretty close to Emmerdale. No surprise to see the closest battle here is between Corrie and the Midwifes. This is what we would be expecting with the ratings.

Jonwo

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Shouldn't be too close, ITV's film contained ads after all and the audience figures will dip for each and every one of those breaks.

We watched both. Shrek was a bit better than the last one I saw, although I still fell asleep, the food and alcohol having taken their toll by that point! I could see it having more universal appeal than Tangled, which was good but felt geared more towards a female audience. It reminded me a bit of The Beauty and The Beast, which was similarly popular on Twitter for its UK premiere earlier this year, but didn't rate as well as some of the non-premiere Disney films that C5 have shown.”

Tangled IMO was a real return to form for Disney, The Princess and the Frog while good wasn't as memorable. Shrek Forever was a sastifying conclusion to the series and was an improvement on the awful third film.

I was surprised Tangled didn't have any ads for Disney's upcoming Wreck it Ralph, I know a few of the premieres on Channel 5 were sponsored by Disney films like Princess and the Frog etc

SamuelW

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by iaindb:
“How accurate is Zeebox at reflecting the ratings?”

Ive had mixed results with its accuracy in the past. We'll find out tomorrow how accurate it is this time

garyessex

25-12-2012

BBC One doing remarkably well to stay on time....usually CTM would still have another 5 minutes left...

D.M.N.

25-12-2012

Twitter trends TV dominated from 3rd onwards:

United Kingdom Trends · Change
#stopdomesticviolence
#BBCSporfFootballerXmasPresent
#callthemidwife
#corrie
Grease
#lordoftherings
Eastenders
Dr Who
Downton
Kung Fu Panda

jake lyle

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by iaindb:
“How accurate is Zeebox at reflecting the ratings? .”

Pretty poor, they often don't catch trends like #pogdogs
which was a top trend tonight but wasn't picked up by them in their tweet counter.

SamuelW

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by jake lyle:
“Pretty poor, they often don't catch trends like #pogdogs
tonight.”

The Audience% numbers have nothing to do with twitter trends. The Zeebox "Buzz" does have something to do with twitter trends but that's different from the Audience% numbers I quoted.

Atm, EastEnders has 100% to Downton abbey's 80%. I think thats about the same difference as the xmas ratings last year for the two shows.

Score

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by jake lyle:
“Pretty poor, they often don't catch trends like #pogdogs
tonight.”

Yeah I would take their stats with more than a pinch of salt - I remember at the start of the year they predicted that Celebrity Big Brother would win a Friday 9pm slot with Public Enemies on BBC1 close behind. Based on their typical numbers Law & Order on ITV would have been well behind, barely scraping 3m. Law & Order ended up with over 5m and won the slot with ease. I wouldn't read too much into Zeebox.

Hope everyone's had a lovely Christmas.

Relatives watching Downton so I've managed to escape! Great night for BBC1 last night - stunning rating for Mrs Brown's Boys with EE and Outnumbered posting great numbers too. Merlin ended well although A Christmas Carol let them down a bit. ITV's soaps did well (especially Corrie against tough competition) but terrible for the Spice Girls. Brilliant for Snowman/Snowdog and 8 Out of 10 Cats did very well too.

As for tonight, a few predictions:

Shrek 4 - 6.5m
Room on The Broom - 7m
BBC News - 7.0m
Doctor Who - 8.7m
Strictly Come Dancing - 10.2m
Call The Midwife - 9.7m
EastEnders - 9.4m
The Royle Family - 9.3m

Tangled - 3.4m
You've Been Framed - 4m
Emmerdale - 5.2m
Love of Dogs - 3.7m
Emmerdale - 5.4m
Corrie - 8.2m
ITV News - 4.5m
Downton - 8.4m

Ramsay - 1.2m
Lord of The Rings - 1.7m
Chatty Man - 1.6m

Including +1 where relevant.

ronant

25-12-2012

Last year's Christmas Day overnights, with officials in bold. Worth a reminder of those huuuge timeshifts...

Spoiler

Dancc

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Score:
“Yeah I would take their stats with more than a pinch of salt - I remember at the start of the year they predicted that Celebrity Big Brother would win a Friday 9pm slot with Public Enemies on BBC1 close behind. Based on their typical numbers Law & Order on ITV would have been well behind, barely scraping 3m. Law & Order ended up with over 5m and won the slot with ease. I wouldn't read too much into Zeebox.”

L&O UK skews old with over 2 million viewers aged 65+, a lot for a show of its size, and obviously you wouldn't expect those to be well represented by social networking websites.

I only find Twitter and Zeebox useful for assessing how popular certain programmes are in the younger demographics. Not really for Total People.

Dancc

25-12-2012

On that night, Friday 6th January, the figures did show CBB to be a very very comfortable winner in the Adults 16-34 demographic. So Twitter was kind of right:

Celebrity Big Brother: 908k (19.9%)
Public Enemies: 401k (8.8%)
Law & Order: UK: 401k (8.8%)

inc. +1 and HD where appropriate

Score

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“On that night, Friday 6th January, the figures did show CBB to be a very very comfortable winner in the Adults 16-34 demographic. So Twitter was kind of right:

Celebrity Big Brother: 908k (19.9%)
Public Enemies: 401k (8.8%)
Law & Order: UK: 401k (8.8%)

inc. +1 and HD where appropriate”

Oh I agree Twitter and the like are useful for predicting the 16-34 results, but it is basically useless for predicting the total audience figures. Which on a night where the main offerings include Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey and Strictly Come Dancing means that it isn't going to be much use.

iaindb

25-12-2012

BBC1 ran a trailer for the new series of Call The Midwife after Call The Midwife.

Dancc

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Score:
“Oh I agree Twitter and the like are useful for predicting the 16-34 results, but it is basically useless for predicting the total audience figures. Which on a night where the main offerings include Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey and Strictly Come Dancing means that it isn't going to be much use.”

Haha, indeed.

We'd be better off letting the DSRPG averages guide our thinking. I doubt we'll be far away on many, and certainly closer than Zeebox.

Fudd

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Haha, indeed.

We'd be better off letting the DSRPG averages guide our thinking. I doubt we'll be far away on many, and certainly closer than Zeebox. ”

We weren't that successful on Christmas Eve's figures but here we go (again

):

Christmas Day

15.00 The Queen (BBC One and ITV1): 8.1m

BBC One
14.00 Top of the Pops Christmas Special: 3.7m
15.10 Shrek Forever After: 5.9m
17.15 Doctor Who: 8.2m
18.15 Strictly Come Dancing: 9.0m
19.30 Call The Midwife: 9.1m
20.45 EastEnders: 9.3m
21.45 The Royle Family: 8.6m

ITV1
15.10 Tangled: 3.4m
18.00 Paul O'Grady's Love of Dogs: 4.3m
19.00 Emmerdale: 6.3m
19.30 Coronation Street: 8.3m
20.30 ITV News and Weather: 5.2m
20.45 Downton Abbey: 8.5m

Channel 4
16.20 The Alternative Christmas Message: 0.9m
17.40 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: 1.2m
21.00 Alan Carr's Chatty Man: 1.4m

dan2008

25-12-2012

Was downton Trending? Because it isn't now
it's mostly EastEnders,The Royle family and Alan Carr:Chatty Man

Agent F

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by dan2008:
“Was downton Trending? Because it isn't now
it's mostly EastEnders,The Royle family and Alan Carr:Chatty Man”

Point proven.

Unless Chatty Man is going to be the ratings shock of the night...

Goingtothebeach

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Agent F:
“Point proven.

Unless Chatty Man is going to be the ratings shock of the night...”

Ten million.

Zeebox tells me so.

In other news, this Royle Family is piss poor and I've been one of the defenders of it since it's return.

D.M.N.

25-12-2012

News ratings from yesterday as I did not include them this morning:

BBC News (12:00) - 2.15m (22.4%)
ITV News (12:10) - 657k (6.5%)

BBC News (18:20) - 5.96m (27.6%)
BBC Regional News (18:35) - 6.09m (27.3%)
ITV News (18:40) - 3.93m (17.6%)

BBC News (23:30) - 3.18m (21.9%)
ITV News (22:00) - 2.44m (9.9%)

And two film's from yesterday:

11:00 - FILM: The Muppet Christmas Carol: 1.06m (11.2%) - Channel 4
20:30 - FILM: Ratatouille: 1.02m (4.0%) - BBC Three

Ambassador

25-12-2012

Bizarre that C5 aired 3 hours of Eddie Stobart repeats tonight including one that was only on last night!

Joe40

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by dan2008:
“Was downton Trending? Because it isn't now
it's mostly EastEnders,The Royle family and Alan Carr:Chatty Man”

UK trends (at 10.30pm...)

#roylefamily
#TWConfessions
#downton
#District3BestBreakThroughArtist
The Incredibles
#eastenders
Final Destination 3
Derek
Merry Christmas
Alan Carr

Agent F

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Ambassador:
“Bizarre that C5 aired 3 hours of Eddie Stobart repeats tonight including one that was only on last night!”

How very festive.

Charnham

25-12-2012

I would not be on the EE average being good tonight, I expect it will loose some viewers at the half way mark, the super exciting top secret, was predictable, and as ive said before, I question the integrity and the independence of soap "journalists".

Ambassador

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Agent F:
“How very festive.”

They were all Christmas specials! (-:

But still you'd think you'd get at least onr new episode!

dan2008

25-12-2012

Originally Posted by Charnham:
“I would not be on the EE average being good tonight, I expect it will loose some viewers at the half way mark, the super exciting top secret, was predictable, and as ive said before, I question the integrity and the independence of soap "journalists".”

Yeah but it opens up a whole lot more Storyline strands
The fallout looks outstanding. I think the peak will be towards the end actually.

The aftermath tomorrow looks excellent and continues right into January

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