Some dramas just don't click well with viewers, asking someone to watch a 5 part drama over 5 nights is quite demanding. I expect that most +1 viewers last night clicked over from Mayday. I would also expect Broadchurch to be around 5.5m next Monday, Mayday ought stay above 4m tonight.

Maydays ratings have deservedly fallen off a cliff, terrible show. After this and the Godawful Hunted, I hope BBC avoid giving Kudos any further commissions, they have produced some truly terrible shows of late.
Interesting that Broadchurch was also produced by them, though with bigger names it might have more pulling power.

for what it's worth....

Mayday
4355
4297
4294
4253

Broadchurch - ITV
5825
5668
5349
5366

Broadchurch - ITV HD
485
554
482
519

elsewhere
Emmers - 6870 + 424
Corrie - 8543 + 687
EE - 8327 (what crisis???)
Corrie - 7834 + 652

AQoS - 4176

What utter bobbins. Mayday will have been scheduled for this week for months now. It's really the only possible week in the year - after the new year dramas have all ended, and before the big new series begins. Broadchurch was no consideration at all.

It's obviously going to be an unusually good week for ITV, but BBC1's new big shows are all waiting in the wings.

Mayday, mayday. Watch it fall even lower tonight as the world stops to watch Real Madrid in the words of the special one

This morning they are claiming Mayday was much anticipated, really? by who exactly, I didn't even know it existed until 2 weeks ago.

To be honest I found Broadchurch worse than Mayday. So I suspect the former will also have a drop next week with the big BBC launch of Shetland.

Starring Jack Davenport from This Life and Pirates of the Caribbean according to todays TV Times.

The real question - which nobody seems to be asking - is why Kudos developed two apparently extremely similar dramas at the same time. This is very, very unusual, and while I don't for one moment think we will ever learn the whole truth, it would be fascinating to find out which commission came first, why the second ever happened and when the respective broadcasters found out about it. I don't recall anything like that ever happening before ...

ITV clearly believe in Broadchurch - they wanted it on air ASAP and have spent a fortune promoting it. That, along with Mayday's audience loss over its first episode on Sunday, was enough to signal it would be beaten last night.

I would say the writing is on the wall for Mayday - and, quite possibly for the drama serial stripped across five days. Viewing habits are changing to such an extent that people are no longer willing to make a commitment like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see its kind again ... unless it's done with a much higher profile cast that'll automatically get bums on seats.

Well obviously. That's the point - Robbie is claiming it was put there to damage the Broadchurch launch when it clearly wasn't. It was put there because that was the best fit in the schedule.

Although I have to ask, what big shows are coming up on weekdays? Next week they've got 2 episodes of MasterChef and the return of Prisoners Wives which didn't do much last time. I'm assuming HIGNFY will be back in a few weeks but in April/May last year they ran Silent Witness but they've already aired that so I don't know what they've got planned to fill that gap. Lord Sugar tweeted the other day that The Apprentice will be back in 'late Spring' which suggests to me that it's been delayed from its usual late-March launch, so they've got a gap there too.

Series 4 was against waking the Dead wasn't it?

DS figures put Eastenders over a million behind the first Coronation Street, even excluding +1.

Emmerdale - 7.29m
Coronation Street: 9.41m
Eastenders: 8.33m
Coronation Street: 8.98m

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3...en-by-94m.html

Church shipped nearly as many over its first hour as Day did on Sunday.

They had actually watched it by the second ep.

Now who's the hostage to fortune?

12m peak?

Ok Symmetry Sykes will still be watching Mayday tonight but I doubt many others will....... The main event is live and exclusive on itv

The big new dramas pending are The Village - already being trailed - and The White Queen.

my figures are for 15min slots, so the ratings for soaps are normally a bit higher (or a lot in this case )

Very nice rating that opposite Corrie. About 700k more than the Olympics Special got in the same slot just before the 2012 Games started.

And there's also Doctor Who, The Lady Vanishes, Jonathan Creek, The Voice, HIGNFY, Not Going Out, Masterchef, When Miranda Met Bruce, Comic Relief - all in the next few weeks. And that's on top of The Village, The White Queen and Prisoner's Wives.

The Syndicate, Luther, Paul O'Grady's Working Class Britain and I Love My Country can't be too far away either.

Should try it there permanently and move Panorama to 10.35...


I'll be watching and, as ever, hoping that "Tyldesley United" go out....

i can quite imagine you being the only Chelsea fan in Manchester. Cut off from your role models down south.

So did ITV viewers switch to HD or that BBC viewers are more likely to have HD?

Both BBC1 and ITV's dramas aren't doing much to shout about. BBC down 2 million and ITV shedding a bucketload during the hour. The ITV+1 figure seems pretty decent though

Very good start for Broadchurch and won the slot just as I thought it would. Disaster for Mayday though shedding almost 2m viewers. Robbie's twisted logic saying it held up well whilst the day before Mr Selfridge has a disaster with just over 5m against Mayday is very odd, but very Robbie!

Corrie conitnues to do well on Monday's and EE seems to be picking up abit too. It's on Wednesday this week too I noticed the other day. Not sure why. Maybe its a big week and thats why its seem a small boost.