For those wondering about Doctor Who promotion. @BBCOne: *NEWS* The trailer for the brand new series of @bbcdoctorwho will premiere online at 6pm this evening, we'll tweet the link when it's live.

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Digiguide now has this for the 30th:

18:10 - Doctor Who
18:55 - To Be Announced (i.e. The Voice)
19:55 - The National Lottery - Who Dares Wins
20:45 - To Be Announced
21:20 - Casualty
22:10 - News
22:30 - Match of the Day

against this on ITV:

18:00 - Regional News / News
18:30 - You've Been Framed (r)
19:00 - SNT
20:15 - The Cube
21:15 - Ross
22:15 - News
22:30 - FILM: 300

Doctor Who trailer on BBC1 tonight just after Celebrity Pointless at 7.57pm. 6.10pm on March 30th. Too early perfect time to avoid Takeaway? We'll see.

With more sunlight in the evenings and with weather improving you would think they would schedule the Voice for 7.30

Looks like that is going to keep changing. The Voice was 75mins last year for the first stage. So they have ether cut it down or thats just going to change. They have a 35min slot free. I would say move everything back into that slot.

Hmm?

Ken

Great ratings - and not a bad night overall apart from a couple of things which completely missed the mark (Peter Kay, I mean you!)


Not really - it's about on par. I've not seen any of Cheltenham this year but what I've seen of the Saturday shows just feels so stale compared to the C4 Racing of old.

They were the 2011 numbers. We don't have the 2013 averages yet. Or maybe I'm wrong?

Ken

post 2758 has them.

BBC1 now running trails confirming The Voice starts on March 30.

Does that mean Eastenders is back above 10m?

Wonder how much it was ahead of Corrie?

Any other ratings from yesterday?

That was just the peak.

EDIT: DS report just published: 9.87m (40.6%) between 19:00 and 22:30. Late segment averaged 2.4m (35%) up to 26:00 cut-off.

Life Stories: 2.82m (11.4%), +1: 117k
FILM: The Bank Job (C4): 907k (4.2%), +1: 174k
The Mentalist: 1.16m (4.7%) exc +1
Comic Relief (BBC Two): 4.48m (26.0%)

Representing a fall of how many million on last week?

Must have been the guest

Unfortunately the odious one has a Get out of Jail free card for this one, with Comic Relief.

Really wish the Beeb would put something decent up against it on other weeks, really get's a free ride.

About 3m? Though it was to be expected.

Primetime shares (19:00-23:00)

BBC One: 38.6%
BBC Two: 6.9%
ITV: 17.7% (+1: 0.5%).
Channel 4: 3.0% (+1: 0.4%).
Channel 5: 3.1% (+1: 0.2%)

Here are the ratings I have for this week;

TUE - 783k (9.4%)
WED - 676k (9.1%)
THU - 631k (8.9%)
FRI - 820k (10.3%)

Here are 2011's figures;

TUE - 753k (10.0%)
WED - 732k (10.2%)
THU - 729k (10.4%)
FRI - 897k (11.2%)

Tuesday up, but the rest of the week down year-on-year.

I'm not a racing person myself but believe there have been a lot of complaints from the racing fraternity about the allegedly poor coverage on C4 from the new company.Apparently they have acknowledged this and have promised changes. A pity really that C4 ever switched horses in the first place

You mean like this:

18:45 - Doctor Who
19:30 - The Voice
20:30 - The National Lottery - Who Dare Wins
21:20 - Casualty
22:10 - News
22:30 - Match of the Day

That could well happen. I can't think of a 35-minute programme that would go in at 20:45, so it's probably just the Beeb playing their cards close to their chest.

There had been speculation that the audition shows will be shorter than last year. Someone said that last year they had to be longer but fewer in number than originally intended, in order to get the series finished in time for Euro 2012, so a 60-minute length would not be unexpected.

2012: 4 x 80 mins for Blind Auditions
* 320 mins to produce 40 successful auditionees (8 mins each)
2013: 6 x 60 mins (?) for Blind Auditions
* 360 mins to produce 48 successful auditionees (7.5 mins each)

By no means confirmed, of course.

Any word on Corrie's ratings?

Channel 4's coverage was always good and now they have the ratings winner, the Grand National, so please don't mess this up as it's the first time they've ever shown the world's most exciting race.
On a sporting note, I think ITV have hit paydirt with the Europa League coverage, now more important as the ECL has no British teams. Moving Coronation St back into its rightful home, has meant ITV can use Thursdays for other things and the EL has suddenly become a big deal. Ok as a sport, I don't really bother, but from a ratings point of view, this is interesting.

Listening to the barrage of foul mouthed Irish bad language live on BBC1 in the last half hour was like watching a daytime episode of Mrs Brown.

George will be unhappy - he hates both bad language from Irishmen and rugby getting cracking ratings across all demographics on BBC1, two at the same time will make him unbearable!

So bbc one now struggles to fit everything in to a springtime saturday evening schedule cramming in as many programmes as it can early evening. Dont understand the schedulers logic when doctor who could go in january february when they have nothing to offer its audience or on a sunday evening after countryfile lead in