Televisions Greatest Hits only has one entry for YRML which has 12.3 million in Feb 1990 at Sunday 7.15, but only two weeks in the top twenty-iirc it hovered around 10 million for most of its life getting just enough presumably for it to carry on.
Are You Being Served may have lost something by 1985 but was pulling 14 million audiences right up to the last series.

Thanks Mike.

TV viewing being up is interesting. More choice this year perhaps?

Let's Dance For Comic Relief is back! God help us all!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...-dance-cr.html

Really scraped the barrel last year and to me is now very lazy uninspired tv imo.

It was good though when it started.

They need to do iconic pop videos we all know and love, even if done before in earlier series, rather than the latest from Dizzy Rascal that only a few 14 year old boys have seen.

It beats Secret Service or Britain's Brightest, of course...

I think it's more to do with people being stuck indoors by the snow. Generally viewing over 30 hours is seen at Christmas, when lots of families are together.

I think the snow fall 'brought people together' - though not necessarily by choice

I wish BBC would bring back Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, the dubious reasons for scrapping the main show looks weak now they're showing The Voice.

Which means they should be able to bring back CRDFA, much more fun that Let's Dance

Yep I dunno why he decided that was his best work in a tribute programme he does confess to making it his favourite but I think he felt it had some seriousness to it. (Where I would say dads army had more dramatic moments. ) It was an odd sitcom neither funny nor dramatic or believable characters.

From ozoo on GB.

*_Top 20 programmes - week ending 20th January 2013_*

1. Call The Midwife [Sun 2000] - BBC1 - 10.79m
2. Coronation Street [Mon 1930] - ITV - 10.42m
3. Mrs Brown's Boys [Mon 2130] - BBC1 - 9.66m
4. Eastenders [Mon 2000] - BBC1 - 9.64m
5. Miranda [Mon 2100] - BBC1 - 8.88m

6. Africa [Wed 2100] - BBC1 - 7.97m
7. Death in Paradise [Tue 2100] - BBC1 - 7.84m
8. Emmerdale [Thu 1900] - ITV - 7.81m
9. Lewis [Mon 2100] - ITV - 7.58m
10. Silent Witness [Thu 2100] - BBC1 - 7.44m

11. Mr Selfridge [Sun 2100] - ITV - 6.98m
12. Ripper Street [Sun 2100] - BBC1 - 6.95m
13. Dancing on Ice [Sun 1815] - ITV - 6.88m*
14. Six O Clock News [Fri 1800] - BBC1 - 6.73m
15. Countryfile [Sun 1900] - BBC1 - 6.69m

16. Casualty [Sat 2050] - BBC1 - 6.07m
17. The One Show [Fri 1900] - BBC1 - 5.83m
18. Blandings [Sun 1830] - BBC1 - 5.66m
19. In It To Win It [Sat 2000] - BBC1 - 5.48m
20. Holby City [Tue 2000] - BBC1 - 5.15m

BBC1 - 15
ITV - 5

BBC2 - University Challenge [Mon 2000] - 3.46m
C4 - The Undateables [Tue 2100] - 3.28m
C5 - Celebrity Big Brother [Tue 2200] - 2.82m
SS1 - Live Ford Super Sunday [Sun 1530] [Spurs v Man Utd] - 2.59m
E4 - The Big Bang Theory [Thu 2035] - 2.13m

ITV3 - Midsomer Murders [Sat 2100] - 1.28m
BBC3 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [Sun 1950] - 1.20m
BBC4 - Only Connect [Mon 2030] - 1.17m
Sky1 - Stella [Fri 2100] - 1.11m
SSN - Gilette Soccer Saturday [Sat 1200] - 0.77m

2nd last week of CBB officials out for those interested:

Monday 14th - 2.79m
Tuesday 15th - 2.96m
Wednesday 16th- 2.66m
Thursday 17th- 2.55m
Friday 18th- 2.97m
Saturday- 2.30m
Sunday- 2.66m

Official average so far from the first 18 days: 2.77m

It will certainly average between 2.7m-2.8m as there are only 5 ratings left to be released next week.

Mr Selfridge's official is down on last week I've noticed. When will the drop stop?

I see Selfridge did nose in front of Ripper on consolidation, but 6.98m is not what ITV were hoping for.

Ripper still getting 6.95m is quite impressive though given how we all expected that to fall after the disappointing first episode.

And DOI in 13th with under 7m. Golly.

They would surely have axed that by now if the cupboard wasn't so bare!!

Bit like EastEnders then.

..... and I'm done with this thread for another week

*same old arguments*

Interestingly, Mr Selfridge has only dropped 6.8% from episode 1 to 3 in the HD chart and from 3rd to 6th place.

In the SD chart it's dropped from 4th to 14th and the audience by 19.6%.

Not true, Dancing on Ice had 7.53m consolidated (with HD added, but not including +1).

Just ignore it. I have a question for you. Does BARB publish a top 100 programmes of the year list?

Anyone got the BBC HD numbers for Borgen (both overnights and officials) and thanks to Dancc for the BBC4 overnights yesterday.

K

Big order for The Chase.


http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...051149.article

I took the above figures in good faith.

I thought it looked even lower than it is!

Wow at that enormous commission for The Chase (is it a record?) (300 standard episodes = 60 weeks and 24 prime time(?) celeb specials - though I dread to think who ITV will regard as a celeb by number 24 of these!)

Well deserved, of course, but a huge risk of killing the golden goose.

BTW on This Morning today Phil had several digs at Ally Ross and his predicted reaction to their utterly bonkers item on a psychic telling your character and future by the shape of your belly button.

Even Phil struggled to hide his incredulity at that one.

All this series CBB officials so far, with and without +1:
http://i.imgur.com/Ph1u1vT.gif

no, there's only the top ten of the year (within TV Facts section of Resources)

I guess their thinking is if people really want that they can work it out from the weekly data (however time consuming)

Just noticed that The One Show is now being repeated on BBC2 at 1 pm on weekday afternoons.