DS will be tape-checked, I imagine.

Thursday 4th July Overnights

BBC One
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.18m (28%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 4.63m (29%)
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19:30 - EastEnders: 6.39m (34.2%)
20:00 - Waterloo Road: 2.78m (13.8%)
21:00 - Supermarket Secrets: 3.75m (18.7%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.39m (24%)
22:35 - Question Time: 2.59m (21.3%)

ITV
18:00 - ITV Regional News & Weather: 3.30m (22%)
18;30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.34m (21%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.11m (35.0%) / 6.26m (35.7%)
20:00 - Emmerdale: 5.86m (29.1%) / 6.21m (30.9%)
20:30 - For the Love of Dogs: 4.75m (23.6%) / 5.01m (24.9%)
21:00 - Happy Families: 1.84m (9.2%) / 1.96m (9.9%)

BBC Two
20:00 - Today at Wimbledon: 1.63m (8.1%)
21:00 - Who Were The Greeks?: 1.69m (8.5%)
22:00 - Mock the Week: 1.60m (8.8%)

Channel 4
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 771k (4.8%) / 889k (5.4%)
20:00 - Supersize vs Superskinny: 757k (3.8%) / 885k (4.4%)
21:00 - First Dates: 781k (3.9%) / 924k (4.7%)
22:00 - Eye Spy: 624k (3.7%) / 766k (5.2%)

Channel 5
13:15 - Home and Away: 242k (3.5%)
13:45 - Neighbours: 609k (9.1%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 800k (6.3%)
18:00 - Home and Away: 635k (4.3%)
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20:00 - Cowboy Traders: 909k (4.5%)
21:00 - Extraordinary People: 1.44m (7.2%) / 1.55m (7.9%)
22:00 - Big Brother: 1.46m (8.4%)
23:00 - Bit on the Side: 597k (6.1%)

E4
18:30 - The Big Bang Theory: 830k (5.1%) inc +1
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 540k (3.1%) / 668k (3.7%)
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20:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 1.31m (6.5%) / 1.74m (8.6%)
20:30 - How I Met Your Mother: 685k (3.4%) / 925k (4.6%)

BBC Three
21:00 - Russell Howard's Good News: 563k (2.8%)
* series low
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22:30 - EastEnders: 434k (2.8%)
23:00 - Family Guy: 557k (4.8%)
23:25 - Family Guy: 620k (7.0%)

5*
18:30 - Home and Away: 435k (2.7%)

ITV3
21:00 - Lewis: 1.11m (6.0%)

ITV4
19:00 - Tour de France Highlights: 556k (3.1%)

Dave
20:30 - Storage Hunters: 582k (2.9%) inc +1

Agree but would love to see this show bck up to the 4m again

I expect EE to be down tonight. For some reason an Andy Murray lead-in won't help it. I saw the last couple of mins of EE last night...my God it is woeful. It was like panto acting!

CH4 - Sack Jay Hunt, and save yourself.

This is happening fairly regularly now, C4 should be regretting their job offer to Jay Hunt.

Supermarket Secrets (done to death) and the Your Money Crime thing are both pathetically weak programming by the BBC. It's almost akin to sticking Homes under the Hammer in primetime. Same audience

Wouldn't surprise me if Will.i.am quit The Voice too, his actions of walking off when Leah didn't win reminded me of Pete Waterman walking off in a huff when Michelle McManus won Pop Idol.
Waterman didn't return, and I can see Will.i.am doing likewise, spending a lot of time in the recording studio with Leah whilst he has a lot of his own products to promote too.

Hope so. I think he's getting fed up of getting a Countryfile calendar or Strictly annual every year...

Sherlock repeats to contain hidden words giving clues to the next series' episode title (or if you're cynical, making sure fans watch it again).

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sherlock...in-bbc-repeats

and yet it trounced itv's flagship 9pm offering

that's an awful figure, 1.8m!

I think there's a market that it appeals to, though those type of shows tend to target the rather shall we say, less aware of consumer law and scams? (ie - the grey brigade)

And again the element of 'nowt else on, switch BBC1 on comes into play'

hardly surprising as it was a "best bits" summary (and at a different time from usual)

K

Think the rating of yesterday has to be Paul O Grady - never fails to deliver that show. I don't think it shows any sign of slipping, no matter the weather. Happy Families didn't seem to work out for ITV.

Seems relatively warm today - reckon most shows will be slightly down, but shares will probably be up.

2 Broke Girls and Don't Trust the B**** Ratings anyone ? Please.

Is Russell Howard only contracted to do 10 eps in a series? An improvement on last summer...8/12 were new.

Yes, the young and youthful X Factor audience will be on the edge of their seats waiting for a BBC crime drama, always their favourite genre of programming. As a general rule, when X Factor finishes, the section of its audience that broadcasters want either goes over to ITV2 or switches off the TV and goes online or to a games console. Hence why that audience is so valuable.

ITV have given up chasing that and now focus on keeping the older but upmarket ABC1 portion to watch Downton Abbey.

Sherlock would dent that audience more than the young ones. And it would be an utterly pointless exercise.


You say this and to some extent I agree. I mean, she's bloody awful. But there's a reason she was there - it's because there is no obvious replacement for a 20 something British pop singer with personality and a high profile. Same as X Factor going with an older panel of Nicole and Sharon rather than anyone in their 20's.

And given the "brand image" of The Voice in the UK at the moment, their best hope might be to pick up the phone to Tulisa and make sure her trial dates don't clash with the live shows.

There is absolutely no way The Voice would make the same mistake Itv/XFactor did by recruiting Tulisa. No chance of that happening. Possibilities for a young-ish British female popstar include: Joss Stone, Cheryl Cole, one of the Saturdays, Kimberly Walsh, amongst many others. I'd rather Michelle McManus be a coach on the Voice than Tulisa, who should be right on the bottom of the list.

Now you tell us she was awful.

I dont think she was awful. She was quite good but it's fantastic for the show in terms of press coverage that a new coach will be joining. Ramps up the interest for the show ahead of series 3 and injects a bit of freshness to the series too. For some reason, a lot of people didn't like Jessie because she's quite outspoken so I think any kind of replacement is likely to be received better than her, which can't do the series any harm.

Ah to be fair to Tulisa she was quite good in her first year. It just went horribly wrong thereafter! But who knows, drug trial during the week, The Voice at weekends... think of all the news coverage!

Joss Stone became terminally unpopular in the UK and it killed her career. Cheryl won't do it (nor should she). "One of The Saturdays" are hardly an inspiring appoinment. Kimberly Walsh, like Cheryl, can't really do it because she can't sing live to an acceptable standard. As I said, there's a reason X Factor didn't go for someone young.

Ellie Goulding is one of the few (relatively) attractive young British popstars out there at the moment. But she's not exactly that exciting and I don't think she'd even be interested. Someone like Paloma Faith might be interesting and distinctive enough to avoid being seen as a poor imitation of Cheryl Cole - but her voice could drive anyone mad and again, would she do it?

Michelle McManus might be available though.

Punt Tom Jones and get Will Young (if he's still interested).

It's not like the Beeb have never done this before, in the nineties Watchdog was something like 26 weeks of the year, and then there was also the absolutely dreadful Weekend Watchdog (which was just all the Matt Allwright "funny" bits and virtually no content) at the same time, and then when Watchdog was on holiday there would be the umpteen spin-offs like Face Value and Healthcheck and The Big Dinner and so endlessly on. So to suggest it's any kind of lurch downmarket is incorrect. They've always done light factual and consumer programming (and far worse than they're doing it now).

It's not like it's the middle of the autumn season anyway, it's July. And it's not as if ITV aren't doing equally flimsy light factual either.

Even though I don't much like her I think Palmoma Faith would be the best possible judge they could get, as you say she's distinctive and would certainly stand out, and she goes on the comedy shows and everything so she seems to have a bit of wit about her and realise that what she's doing is light entertainment.

Won't be sorry to see Jessie go. If you're dumping judges I'd get rid of Danny next because of his endlessly tedious song choices, at least Tom and Will remember it's Saturday night telly for the whole family and make choices with that in mind.


And posts like these add so much to it. Is it too much to suggest that if people don't like what's being posted, they post more constructive stuff and just ignore the less interesting fare, so it gets drowned out? Not just continually draw attention to it.

Hardly. Danny's departure would be far more welcome than Jessie's. She's a bigger loss to the show.

TBH I can see all of them quitting.

Likewise the BBC, with their endless Pointless repeats and Celebrity Pointless being repeated primetime on a Saturday night. :yawn:




You sussed him - almost as bad (well not quite) as his cringeworthy twitter a/c.




Yip - almost as bad as the AWFUL Waterloo Road at 2.78m being beaten by a farmy soap and a dog show - beaten - positively hammered.





Are you kidding? She is worse than useless - and hasn't been in the charts for years. Get a grip - her last outing on primetime STV was so awful it was axed after 3 weeks. The only thing "oor Meeeshelllll" is good for is to buy you a pint in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night... :sleep:

Australian drama is making a comeback to BBC One daytime. After the success of Neighbours and not so much successful Out of The Blue, BBC are taking a punt with new Aussie crime drama Doctor Blake Mysteries: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...058037.article