Rugby - 4880
FAC - 4314 + 1022
DOI - 6061 + 637
Mr Selfridge - 4788 + 533

Film: Limitless - 1481
Top Gear (BBC2 only) - 4729
MotD2 - 2570

Might get to 11m for last week's ep, or at least close.

I think that might be more to do wth DOI consistently staying around 6.6m (better than ASFF got against CTM)

Lowest ever final then for Dancing on Ice - 6.70m excluding +1. Or...

ITV Ratings: The Dancing on Ice final peaked with 7.5m, averaging 6.9m across the 2 hour show. Mr Selfridge was up 300k on last wk with 5.8m

Tbf logic and reasoning would wreck that theory

that Mr Selfridge figure includes +1 (which was 513k)

Hardly until this week most eps with MH had 9m+ and without had around 8.6m, i'm not saying it was totally accurate but followed an interesting pattern.

[quote=

I can't believe Whovians still think the BBC don't care about Doctor Who. What other dramas on TV get thirteen episodes a year every year. None. It used to be on thirteen weeks a year because every drama used to be like that. There were no episodes of Doc Martin last year. Do ITV now care about that? No, it's because the cast and crew have other commitments and don't want to flog it to death, Do I want 26 mediocre Who episodes for the sake of it? No, I want as many high quality episodes as they think they can produce without them being dashed off in five minutes, Quality, not quantity!.[/QUOTE]

Should point out there were just 6 eps of DW last year and likely to be 10 this.

Tonight's ratings battle between Broadchurch and Shetland should be interesting...........

Indeed. And in the last five years BBC1 has aired more new episodes of Merlin (65) than of Doctor Who (52). Of course DW is still going, while Merlin is not, but the idea that DW has been aired of late far more frequently than any other non-soap drama is not true.

Football and DOI look low/very low.

Excellent start for Shetland. But I expect Broadchurch will win tonight, there seems to be more hype around this one.

No surprises that the Blackburn Millwall replay is on ESPN, with ITV doubtless having picked Chelsea vs Manchester United.
When the Chelsea game will be played will probably become clearer after Thursday night's Europa League game (they're 1-0 down), which will tell us when Chelsea have some spare dates.

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/News/2...pn-110313.aspx

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...v-beth-tweddle

I assume the peak was in the last half hour, once Spurs v Liverpool had finished on Sky?

In the mid 90s before Uncovered came along, Sky One had original programming on the channel including Blockbusters, Games World and Spellbound, although none were the important part of the schedule.

I loved the latter, it was one of the first UK interactive gameshows.

When Elisabeth Murdoch became a Sky boss, she started the push on original programming such as Uncovered nonsense, shame they axed Spellbound.

Wait a second, Newsnight being delayed for Comic Relief rubbish is unacceptable. If the news isn't on at BBC2 at 22:30 I will pop back over to BBC4.

considering Newsnight is meant to have been axed, its not a massive shock.

Great score for Shetland for what was a very slow moving and drab hour imo-cant imagine the Shetland Tourist Board will exactly be jumping up and down with glee at the way it came across.
Slightly concerning about the FA Cup, a simply fantastic game of football end to end with two huge teams and the rating is a bit lacklustre imo.
Not sure what to make of DOI, its coming back because PS says it is. Not sure what they can do to revitalise it as they did that this year.Still its outrating Ant and Dec who are being heaped with praise so maybe there is no crisis.
Great score for Countryfile which is also beating Ant and Dec and many others which still has the effect of raising my eyebrows. And CTM signing off with a very respectable figure-interesting to see if it adds anything extra than normal on consolidated as it was the last one.
Big big day yesterday for a range of programming.

Any figures for Livepool vs Spurs yet,?

It stays for box ticking at BBC2 and does quite all right in the ratings

Channel 4 Sales reports a 1.72m average (inc +1) for the full programme (17:30-20:00). Great rating: should be a nice peak in the last half-hour.

EDIT: it had a 53% skew to ABC1 Adults.

EDIT2: DS reports an average of 1.64m (7.2%) exc +1.

And they're currently advertising for a new editor who is not afraid to take risks

More tape-checked ratings from DS:

CTM: 8.59m (29.1%)
Shetland: 6.37m (25.5%)
MOTD2: 2.48m (19.1%)

TG: 6.01m inc HD (~20%)
Toughest Place to Be a Taxi Driver: 2.27m (9.2%) inc HD

DOI: 6.69m (24.5%) exc +1
Mr S: 5.32m (21.3%) exc +1

Stonehenge Skeletons: 1.66m (5.6%) exc +1

Rocky II: 667k (2.5%) exc +1
POI: 843k (3.4%) exc +1

Got to Dance: 382k (1.7%) exc +1
TOWIE: 828k (4.6%) exc +1
Being Human: 560k (3.25%)

Channel 5: A screening of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed during Sunday teatime topped the day with an average of 1.18m (5.8%) opposite Manchester United v Chelsea, and a peak audience of 1.42m (6.5%) at 6.30pm. Person of Interest meanwhile fell just short of the magic million with 971k (3.9%) tuning in to the latest instalment. And later at 10pm, the premiere of Drive Angry delivered the channel's biggest shares of the day with 879k (8.0%). The latter 45 minutes of the screening achieved double-digit shares with an impressive 923k (14.4%) watching as late as 11.55pm.

Who said it was being axed?

data for week ending 3rd March 2013 now on BARB website

enjoy!