Yes Masterchef will be going up against Food Glorious Food for the second half hour in a fortnight. Masterchef's ratings were far from spectacular last year though.

Those figures exclude viewing through Virgin and Sky. Wonder when/if they're going to start including them, should make quite a difference?

9. I think

Channel 5 commissions 'Trauma Doctors' a 4x60 medical ob-doc series from Cineflix Productions for TX in April:

http://about.channel5.com/node/1778

Food Glorious Food was awful. Patronising concept, lacked any warmth that you would associate with the GBBO (something built up for a good three years), and critcism from the judges was banal. Not least to mention that beehive cow, having a dig at a teenager one minute for making an effort behind her back, yet treating a group of disabled students with a fawning tone.

Not great when the BBC's highest non-news rating of the day is The One Show!

Absolutely - but I don't think ITV has much to crow about, with FGF already looking dated before it even aired and Lightfields a pointless retread of Marchlands. A distinct lack of imagination all round, really.

It is amusing to see ITV doing copycats of its own shows as well as other peoples!

Come on Gary, ITV launched two big new shows last night and both were way down on what they would have expected. FGF lost over 5m from it's Corrie lead-in and Lightfields is down nearly 3m on it's first incarnation.

Even Jenny Cummins hasn't found the will to tweet about ITV's victory in the 9pm hour.

I thought everyone had stopped trusting and watching BBC News post-Savile, at least acording to the Daily Wail.

Crikey looking at ITVs ratings for new shows there, you would be forgiven for thinking that they had aired on Tuesdays flopzone. Those are horrible ratings especially when you consider the competition.

I know it's easy to post this after the event but it was never going to be a hit, though. What it reminds me of the most is the Trinny and Susannah shows they did when they joined ITV which were blatant attempts to do shows that were almost but not quite like What Not To Wear. This is the kind of format you might have got had ITV poached Paul Hollywood or Mary Berry and tried to find a vehicle for them, it is not in the slightest bit distinctive and massively derivative.

And of course while the Bake Off got huge ratings on BBC2, that is not primetime ITV and like when they put Trinny and Susannah there, they have no tradition of that kind of show in primetime. People don't watch ITV for that kind of thing.


Well, it is, because BBC1 were showing three programmes in primetime, one of which was opposite the soaps, one of which was a bit of PSB science programming opposite a flagship drama and one of which was a rather dull magazine show opposite a new Cowell-produced programme. Not only were they competitive, one won its slot and another one was only beaten by 10k. And the news counts as well because despite a worse lead-in, BBC News thrashed the ITV News which illustrates continual viewer loyalty.

A real pro-BBC agenda in this thread, I can see.

In other news, both Mayday and Broadchurch have excellent reviews in the Radio Times and it'll be fascinating to see how well they fare. Let's hope they both do well, we need as much popular drama as we can get.

I read a comment yesterday with someone saying Simon Cowell has basically sold them Britain's Best Dish.

Very disappointing night for ITV, the two shows were plugged quite heavily and with one being a Cowell show and the other being the successor of one that got 6m last time, its obvious they had higher hopes for both.

Hadn't realised the food flop was the much hailed Eggs Factor!

Well they have well and truly buried that then!

Excellent stuff, Cowell truly is now the man with the Reverse Midas touch!

In other news, I see David Brent returns in The Office Ten Years On for Comic Relief night. The clip on the BBC news website (for this surely must be news... ) looks hilarious.

Poor night for ITV, particularly FGF. The risk with that 8pm slot is that if whatever is in it flops like this then your 9pm drama doesn't have a lead-in. So it all becomes a bit Tuesday-like. All Star Mr and Mrs was doing 4m+ towards the end of last year so entertainment can work in that slot, just not this particular show.

Although on the negative, ASMM was doing well in the big number but pretty badly in ABC1/16-34's and the 9pm dramas generally look for those ABC1's. Generally entertainment probably isn't the best lead-in for drama.

I wonder if ITV might be interested in experimenting with the US idea of 2 hour reality slots? 2 hours of FGF might not have solved their problems last night but in terms of getting the best audience for their dramas, it might be an idea. The challenge is finding those rare reality hits. I think the US networks have typically done it with shows that were already successful then got an extended slot.

Although what I think the 8pm Wednesday hour is really crying out for is a Waterloo Road/Holby City/The Bill type "continuing drama" (although I accept WR isn't quite at that length yet!).

Channel 5 had a good night with NCIS holding up well, interesting that the Born to Kill repeat did over a 1m. Think they'll do good tonight since the competition is pretty poor.

I have absolutely no agenda whatsoever, and I don't see how you can come up with that from the post I made.

We gave Food, Glorious Food all of 15 minutes and realised it was a clone of every other such show and switched off. Probably would not have given it that but for the Cowell link - which as far as I can see was only evident in the 'new idea' of the prize.

For Britain's Got Talent = Half a million and a spot in front 0f millions on the Royal Variety show.

For Britain's Got Pies = Twenty thousand and a spot on the back shelves at Marks and Sparks.

If his 'Saturday Night family entertainment' format reported last week is up to this standard expect Britain's Got Noel's Generation Party = Fifty quid for the family to buy luxury goods in Poundland.

Wednesday 27th February 2013:

BBC One:
13:00 - BBC News at One: 2.83m
13:30 - Regional News & Weather: 2.77m
13:45 - Doctors: 1.54m (23%)
17:15 - Pointless: 3.36m
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.85m
18:30 - BBC Regional News: 5.87m
19:00 - The One Show: 3.94m
20:00 - The Holiday Hit Squad: 3.84m
21:00 - The Child of our Time: 3.56m
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.56m
22:30 - A Question of Sport: 2.26m

BBC Two:
19:30 - Great British Menu: 1.59m (7.2%), +120k on HD
20:00 - Hairy Bikers Everyday Gourmets: 1.96m (9.1%)

ITV:
17:00 - The Chase: 3.09m (3.4m inc.+1)
18:00 - ITV News London: 3.61m
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.46m
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.76m (32.7%), +1: 235k
19:30 - Coronation Street: 8.16m (36.9%), +1: 380k
20:00 - Food Glorious Food: 2.64m
21:00 - Lightfields: 3.65m
22:00 - ITV News at Ten: 2.1m

Channel 4:
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 881k (4.4%)
20:00 - Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners: 2.05m
21:00 - One Born Every Minute: 2.0m

Channel 5:
13:45 - Neighbours: 740k (11.1%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 901k (5.9%)
18:00 - Home & Away: 657k (3.6%)
20:00 - Born to Kill [rpt]: 1.36m (6.3%)
21:00 - NCIS: 1.56m (6.8%)
22:00 - Law & Order S.V.U. [rpt]: 875k (5.1%)
22:55 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [rpt]: 649k (6.9%)
23:55 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [rpt]: 370k (8.1%)
00:50 - True Crimes [rpt]: 211k (7.1%)

Sources: Mike Teevee, Dancc & DS Soaps

So Corrie is down over a million on Mondays episodes
and rated similar to EastEnders on Monday
Barely over 8million on a cold Wednesday in Feb (Corrie's natural home) can't be good surely
I think had this rating been on a Thursday we would have heard 'People forgot' its not Wednesday...........

And Emmerdale below 7million

Funny how nothing gets said now but had it been EastEnders we would have 10 pages by now

I must be the only one who sees those shares as abnormally high. At this time of year 6m would be less than 30%.

Was it a 'cold Wednesday in February'? The weather is picking up here now. It was quite nice yesterday (and today).

Oh yeah of course it's been 20oc

Not hear it's freezing last week in the daytime it was sunny and warm but from about 5:00pm the temp falls but looking at things that's pretty much like everywhere.

Only for ITV viewers (or non-viewers to be precise) I suspect. EastEnders viewers obviously all took a 30-minute break from their BBQ to watch.

It's only down 300k week on week and had a big +1 figure. Still higher than EE

FGF's next 2 episodes face EastEnders, they should have aired it at 5pm maybe they'll switch it with the Chase

Lighfields deserved more, it was good enough and the first ITV drama I've watched this year.

I didn't see the DS article until it was too late to edit.

Some more ratings:
Derek: 1.12m (6%)
TOWIE: 769k (4.4%)
MasterChef: The Professionals: 1.45m

The Lady Vanishes airs in week 12. Looks like it'll air on St. Patrick's Day (Sun 17th).