The peak will be 18 million and I'd go for 15 million for the average.

Damage limitation from ITV perhaps?

Could be testing the water for a permanent post late news slot for next year as this post suggested.

Not many people care about the World Athletics Championships. Races which were getting 10million+ in the Olympics last year will probably be getting something like 2-4million for World Athletics on bbc2.

BBC will make a big deal of next summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow though. Im expecting 23 July 2014 to 4 August 2014 to be a very strong period for BBC1. As it's in Britain, Im expecting lots of publicity and coverage on BBC1. Certainly way more than the Delhi commonwealth games 3 years ago.

Wimbledon and the BBC are inseparable. Far more than ITV and the Champions League, which is a knock-about in the local park by comparison. The BBC haven't kept SW19 happy for 76 years by providing merely adequate coverage. At least give them credit for a polished production year in, year out.


Agreed on the BIB.


It would count as a 'former Great Britain/UK' win, like 'former West Germany' for pre-3 October 1989 World Cups. The Scots can bugger off in autumn 2014; the UK has chalked up a Wimbledon victory



A win isn't a win until it's a win. Don't discount the casual audience. It seems bonkers to me, a Wimbledon nut, but people will have been out, not watching from the start, and streaming off the beaches and back in from the gardens at teatime, after their fill of hot weather, and a good proportion of them will tune into Wimbledon to see how 'our guy' is doing. That potential was restricted by the relatively early finish, although for a three-set match it was relatively lengthy.


It has to be Centre Court for the defending champion's first match, doesn't it?


The peak was 26.899m (81.6%) at 21:50.
The peak share was 89.4% (19.94m) at 24:35.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...702208&page=12

Just think, part 50 of this thread will be one of the classics that people come back to in years to come (like the Olympics one), to gawp at the Murray victory peak! Even if it is lower than last year's non-victory peak.


Might as well earn some patriotic points, rather than try to big up repeats of Love Your Garden, A Touch of Frost, and Johnny English.


Viewing not via a TV in the home will not count.

I honestly think ITV are quite relaxed about it because today is a one-off and they won't suffer an August battering like last year.

They have the TdF rights (with Chris Froome), the Ashes are not live on terrestrial TV and the World Athletics Champs are in the afternoon UK time.

One Sunday doesn't make a summer.

Actually going back to when the BAF contract was with ITV in the eighties, a meeting from Gateshead could attract 10 million viewers. However, football wasn't such a big deal then and going through a huge crisis, so other sports muscled in.

Is the White Queen on tonight, have read posts on here saying the Murray Documentary is on but others saying it is on tomorrow night.

Can BBC One please stop beggaring about with their schedules? It's playing havoc with the Ratings Prediction Game.

If the Lions series is so big and important, why isn't it a listed event at all? Not even the highlights of it are listed where as Six Nations is at least on the B list.

I still think the BBC or ITV should have highlights as poorer rugby men I know have to go to the pub and watch it.

Relax, the BBC website says Murray is tomorrow at 9. Maybe a record rating for a repeat? Steve?

EDIT: it's doing a switcheroo with the Apprentice final 5 doc, as speculated by ronant. I have to agree with Dancc that this perhaps should have been at 22:40 in the first place. Particularly as ITV are having rare factual success with Long Lost Family at 9.

It's not big or important, certainly not playing Oz where it's about the 7th most popular sport over there. Silly hype, which got very low figures considering the hysteria from some.

Mixed doubles final of Wimbledon demoted because of Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon

Regarding repeat documentaries, don't forget all the terrestrial TV channels will be getting their 'royal baby' documentaries off the shelves in the next few weeks.

Also (I know this was posted a few days ago, but wanted to repost), London Anniversary Games coverage:

Friday 26th July
19:30 to 20:30 - BBC Two
20:30 to 22:00 - BBC One

The Saturday schedule is 14:00 to 17:00 so won't interfere with primetime. No idea who is covering Sunday, it should be Channel 4, but I've not read anything to confirm that.

Anyone know why the Open Golf concludes on BBC Two from 12:30 to 19:00 on Sunday 21st July? In the past few years it has been on BBC One.

Rugby league, Aussie rules and cricket are bigger. RU is seen as more of a raa raas sport in Australia, as it is to an extent over here.

Where are you getting that? Digiguide is showing golf from 12:40 to 19:00 on BBC One.

I wonder if they will stick with it, or go to Top Gear at 8?

Ah, okay, that's BBC Media Centre for you!

UKTV's new channel Drama launches tomorrow. It will take on ITV3 with a mix of classic programming from the archives including Jonathan Creek, Monarch of the Glen, New Tricks, Inspector George Gently and Call the Midwife. Reruns of the soon to be revived Birds of a Feather will also be a staple. The first programme to TX on the channel will be The Bill at 8am.

http://drama.uktv.co.uk/

Looks like Top Gear is being delayed.

I don't understand showing out-and-out sitcom under a Drama banner. They would be better off widening the remit of GOLD, ditching the cringeworthy premise of Go On Laugh Daily, and including some drama, like the UK Gold of yesteryear. That would have the benefit of reducing the overload of key comedy series (OFAH etc).

To give credit to UKTV, re-branding all their channels (most notably UKTV G2 to Dave) has been a great move.

Well, there was a message in the TV guides that if it did go to extra time they'd also do a double bill on Friday from 7.30 to 8.30, which they did. But it wasn't very well communicated at all. It used to be that they would show Corrie at 9.45 after football unless there was a chance of it going to extra time in which case it would be at seven o'clock (with an hour long Emmerdale some other day), don't know why they didn't do it then,


I wonder what would have happened if that had been the case, I imagine quite a lot of people would have wanted to have seen both, and you would have had complaints from F1 fans had it been moved to BBC2 and their recordings got buggered up, and also complaints if it was delayed, because some of them complain about everything. Presumably they would have just kept their fingers crossed.

I know they couldn't get the benefit of it in primetime but I guess this was a perfect result for BBC1 in that it was all finished with half an hour to spare so they could get all the presentations and interviews and so on done and then be out of there in time for the F1. Oh, and he won, as well.


Well, whose fault is that? The other channels should do better. How is it BBC1's problem?


I'd actually completely forgotten about Mad Mad World, which tells you how many shows Paddy McGuinness has done. In fact we talk about Nick Knowles but in the past twelve months McGuinness has appeared in umpteen episodes of Take Me Out, Hotel GB, Text Santa, Mad Mad World, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Paddy's TV Guide and presumably a load of other things. I think he's doing another show for C4 as well. Hardest-working man on television!

People do seem to like him, so I guess it was an inspired decision to put him on Take Me Out when he was perhaps unknown among a more mainstream audience. And to think when Peter Kay dumped him everyone assumed he'd be completely down the toilet.

I'm really interested to see how this channel rates and how it'll fare compared to ITV3. I predict this channel will establish itself very quickly, seeing as ITV3 does very well and hits 1m+ fairly regularly these days. I'm very pleased the Bill is being repeated and that this channel is on Freeview!

Even Posh watches Channel 5 these days. Who knew!!

https://twitter.com/victoriabeckham/...45763421765632

I'm betting this 45 year old classic rated well this evening. Especially the way things panned out with the tennis, the timeslot was accidentally strong.