Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“No, neither do I, it might have been a case in the seventies and eighties when they had to show religion in primetime. But even then you've got 1977 which was The Greatest Light Entertainment Line-Up In The History Of Television with Mike Yarwood and Morecambe and Wise getting 21 million each (though not 28 million). And that was Sunday.”
“No, neither do I, it might have been a case in the seventies and eighties when they had to show religion in primetime. But even then you've got 1977 which was The Greatest Light Entertainment Line-Up In The History Of Television with Mike Yarwood and Morecambe and Wise getting 21 million each (though not 28 million). And that was Sunday.”
I think in this multichannel era we will see a few channels getting "record lows" far more often. When I was 5 and watching BBC1 that night in 1977 I had no idea that I was witnessing history. I think that night has to be BBC1's biggest victory since the Olympic Opening/Closing Ceremonies.
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“And last year the ratings went up anyway, nothing beat ten million on the overnights, no, but that's because there was stronger competition - the combined audience of BBC1 and ITV at 9pm was way higher than in 2010 when Poirot was only getting four million on ITV.”
“And last year the ratings went up anyway, nothing beat ten million on the overnights, no, but that's because there was stronger competition - the combined audience of BBC1 and ITV at 9pm was way higher than in 2010 when Poirot was only getting four million on ITV.”
I thought that was the case. Even though no show topped 10m the choice brought in more viewers. If you make the shows the viewers will come.
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“Even if that's not the lowest ever, that's a major embarrassment because usually that was the kind of thing that could easily fill a night for ITV. You can imagine series repeats doing badly, as we've seen in the past, because people who couldn't be bothered watching the series first time round wouldn't be bothered then either, but if you get a complete story in one night, that should surely get something of a casual audience.”
“Even if that's not the lowest ever, that's a major embarrassment because usually that was the kind of thing that could easily fill a night for ITV. You can imagine series repeats doing badly, as we've seen in the past, because people who couldn't be bothered watching the series first time round wouldn't be bothered then either, but if you get a complete story in one night, that should surely get something of a casual audience.”
Makes the performance of other primetime repeats like New Tricks/Call The Midwife look very good now.
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