Posts like this really help make it more interesting...


Haha, ITV do make it quite easy for you.

I remember that. Wasn't it packaged with Here's One I Made Earlier?

Pretty quiet on the ratings front but I wonder what Bank of Dave got last night.

How did big reunion do yesterday?

630k..

Great to see Jack Taylor held up. Slightly up on the premiere in fact.

Numbers from DS & DS Soaps (exc +1 unless otherwise stated):

BBC One
Doctors: 1.53m (22.9%)
EastEnders: 7.85m (35.3%)
Waterloo Road: 3.53m (15.8%)
Child of Our Time: 3.32m (15.2%)
Question Time: 2.80m (23.0%)

BBC Two
Great British Menu: 1.97m (8.9%), + HD: 183k (0.8%)
The Planners: 1.69m (7.5%)
The Sea King: Britain's Flying Past: 1.91m (8.7%)
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe: 1.06m (5.6%), + HD: 115k (0.6%)

ITV
Emmerdale (19:00): 6.94m (33.3%)
Emmerdale (20:00): 6.44m (28.7%), +1: 335k (1.5%)
Nursing the Nation: 2.93m (13.1%)
The Wedding Shop: 2.58m (11.8%), +1: 142k (0.8%)

Channel 4
Hollyoaks: 830k (4.3%)
Britain's Secret Shoppers: 1.22m (5.4%), +1: 137k (0.6%)
Hugh's Big Fish Fight: 1.03m (4.7%), +1: 131k (0.8%)
Bank of Dave: 930k (5.5%), +1: 121k (1.3%)

Channel 5
Neighbours (13:45): 671k (10.1%)
Neighbours (17:30): 852k (5.5%)
Home and Away: 628k (3.4%)
Horsemeat and Other Food Shockers: 540k (2.5%)
Murder Files: 1.02m (4.6%), +1: 113k (0.5%)
Jack Taylor: The Pikeman Murders: 1.24m (6.1%)

BBC Three
EastEnders: 519k (3.4%)

BBC Four
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: 757k (3.6%)

ITV2
Celebrity Juice: 1.42m (8%), +1: 209k (2.1%)

E4
Hollyoaks: 611k (2.9%)

5*
Home and Away: 524k (2.7%)

Primetime shares (exc +1, from DS)
BBC One - 19.9%
ITV - 16.1%
BBC Two - 7.2% exc HD
Channel 4 - 4.7%
Channel 5 - 4.7%

All-day shares (inc +1, from C4 Sales)
BBC One - 23.0%
ITV - ~17%
BBC Two - 5.3% inc HD
Channel 4 - 5.5%
Channel 5 - 4.5%
BBC Three - 1.5%
BBC Four - 1.2%
ITV2 - 3.3%
ITV3 - 2.9%
ITV4 - 1.3%

Less than 22m watching in the 21:00 hour (inc same-day timeshift). It seems many people found something better to do.

The darts on Sky Sports is a huge hit in the ratings at that time.

I think Light Lunch rated well enough (probably excellently in the demos), but these formats are ten a penny nowadays. Indeed at the moment it seems like all daytime chat shows have to have someone cooking to get commissioned.

C4 used to have that fantasy share game too (Show Me the Money?) and I think they did a spin off based on something like losing weight IIRC. They could surely do a lot worse than restoring the News at Noon too - that half hour has to be filled and it can't be that costly surely when reporters are already out and about filing reports for C4 News and the website, while there is a complete lack of a news bulletin on TV now before 1pm (as the rolling news channels tend to be doing just that).

That article on NBC ratings puts ITV woes into perspective.

No show in February could get within a million of Downton on PBS! No wonder NBC want Jullian Fellowes to write a new show for them.

Or NBC could just buy the rights to show Downton in the US?

PS It is amaxing that SNL which runs from 11.30PM to 1AM Saturday night/ Sunday morning is their top rated show of the week.

Of course the great irony is that Downton is made by a subsidiary of NBC anyway, so they may have had the chance to show it but passed. Mind you, they were badly burned when they imported two previous UK made series - Crusoe and Merlin, both of which crashed and burned on NBC Saturday nights a few years ago, so it might be understandable if they had expected Downton to fail with their audiences too.

IIRC Merlin was on Sundays and in the Summer.

ITV shopped Mr Selfridge around both US networks and cable last year after casting Piven and there was no interest and so they ended up back at PBS.

Last year of course ABC aired the ITV 'Titanic' series by Julian Fellowes. They burnt it off on a Saturday iirc.

RTS nominations announced...

http://www.rts.org.uk/nominations-rpa

How did Dani's Castle on CBBC do yesterday?

Dire ratings again for Waterloo road anyone think its time for it to go not Wat it used to be

Since it jumped the plesiosaur and moved north it has been heading only one way (the bottom of Loch Ness) - as many on here predicted when this daft move was plotted.

What is even more stupid is there was no need to move it 200 miles to film in Scotland if half the cast were going to remain from Rochdale. A more credible plot could have brought extra Scottish cast south and not lost the audience via such a nonsensical move of an entire school. They could have still filmed in Scotland without relocating the fictional school as they did not move Holby into Wales when filming was switchwed from Bristol to Cardiff.

Another bunch of luvvies getting together to elect their chums

Finally a figure - 3.3m.

http://www.theloop.ca/showbiz/tv-gui...record-ratings

3m on Global, 300,000 on Slice. Obviously it'll fall for episode 2 as it's not simulcast on Global, though Slice is free to air at the moment for the launch of Big Brother, but will presumably go back to subscribers only sooner rather than later. The US version of Big Brother usually attracted 1.5-2m viewers on Global, while I think the record ratings for Slice are around 1.2m for Real Housewives of Vancouver.

Quite the sense of humour they have, Charlie Brooker V's Will.i.am for the best entertainment performance.

Just to note tonight there are variations on BBC Wales tonight, with BBC1 showing St Davids Day programming from 8.30-10pm, and as a result Mary and Martha airing at 9pm on BBC2.

Not sure what to make of Mary and Martha - it seems a bit pointless creating a drama with people "acting" their reactions to Malaria victims when we're so used to seeing genuine reactions from UK celebs anyway, so it's not like it's highlighting an issue we don't know about. I'd certainly be more inclined to watch a documentary, but I guess this is aimed at those who wouldn't.

Does anyone have the ratings for "Tonight" on ITV yesterday at 7.30pm?

Thank you!

2.92m (13.1%)

Have you ended up losing your ratings access?

Never mentioned much on here, but Question Time continues to win its late night slot and 2.8 million is still good considering people have very low confidence in politicos now. Also the use of a guest from outside parliament has been a good move.
Mind you during the highly charged 1983 election, this was like a soap opera for its high drama.