Do they? Perhaps the Autumn tests would be different, but I swear there was a discussion on here a month or so ago about how the Argentina tests (live on BBC Two in primetime) had yielded very disappointing figures.

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Some more multichannel ratings for Monday, July 15:

http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/highlights/ratings

One interesting aspect of this is that Digital UK want to order HD channels on a first come first serve basis on the Freeview EPG (consultation here - http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/__data/as...L_8May2013.pdf).

Therefore the Freeview HD EPG could well be:
101 - BBC One HD
102 - BBC Two HD
103 - ITV HD
104 - Channel 4 HD
105 - BBC Three HD
106 - BBC Four HD
107 - CBBC HD
108 - CBeebies HD
109 - BBC News HD

There are two other options - by 'family' and by genre, but these are more difficult and less likely. There's also giving prominence to PSB's, but it seems likely they will simply be given the best available slot (although you'd think they probably reserve Channel 5?).

ITV's HD channels are I think tied in to a deal with Sky, but C4 are likely to launch new HD channels on Freeview (E4 and Film4 you would think).

Anyway as more people move to HD, this could be the BBC a small ratings advantage.

I dont watch Freeview but anything other than by genre just seems plain weird.

But 4.5million for factual/documentary on BBC1 on Thursday against 2million on ITV is 'brilliant'. What a suprise.

Freeview is pretty mixed up as it is, you've got Children's, News, but pretty much everything is bunged in to general entertainment.

The HD section is from 101-120. It would be difficult, as the consultation says, to then sub divide that up in to genres, given the lack of space.

I think there will be 4 new coaches for season 3 and reboot it with an earlier start

Will I Am will be next, followed by Tom Jones

Do we know how Dexter's final season has been rating for Fox? Two episodes have now gone out on Sunday nights and a lot closer to US transmission than normal. A big advertising campaign for Fox standards as well both online and in print. BARB, rather unhelpfully, has no data whatsoever for Fox this week.

Does anyone know what Dispatches (C4, 8pm) got last night?

Many thanks!

Including +1

Undercover Boss last week 1.3 Million, this week 1.8 million.


Thats a huge rise!

Skins is doing horribly.... Nobody has cared about that show since generation 2

It is. But BBC1's 9pm programme rated over 3 million below the slot average and it only had a repeat to beat on Channel 5. These were clearly factors behind Undercover Boss rallying, and it needs to keep it up next week. It doesn't want to become one of those shows that people will only watch if there's nothing else on, as there normally always is something of note on Mondays at 9pm.

Where are you getting your ratings EE was ahead of ED granted not by much but still ahead. If your going to include plus 1 for ED then you can't not do that for EE.

That's what it looks like to me, I think from what Jessie said about there being 42 dates she needed to do and could only do 2 of them, it looks like there's going to be an earlier start as she starts touring the new Album in December, so maybe the coaches schedules didn't allow it, its good for the show to have a bit of a reboot though

Coronation Street: 7.82m (39.8%)
Coronation Street: 7.69m (36.4%)
Eastenders: 6.22m (31.1%)
Emmerdale: 6.05m (34.8%)

So without +1 ... Eastenders was just 0.17m viewers ahead. Hardly a clear victory considering Corrie is 1.6m ahead despite straddling EastEnders either side and with no clashing to speak of...

And Emmerdale beat it in share.

Honestly, glossing over these issues will do EastEnders no good. You can't turn a blind eye to this performance, unless you want it to be axed?

Revised ratings now show Morecambe & Wise got 21m and Mike Yarwood's Christmas Day 1977 show rated higher. He was saying for decades that he rated higher and was finally proved right.

I was surprised how low those ratings were. But it's perhaps down to the specific rugby competition. England football matches on the other hand always seem to do decent ratings no matter if it's a competition or friendly.

Does anybody know how the women's football on BBC3 is doing?

Scarily, I think Monday on BBC1 had nothing to do with a royal baby announcement. It was just a shit line up. I didn't watch BBC1 at all yesterday. BBC1 have been poor the last few months and I hope they have some good programmes for the Autumn.

The White Queen is a big production and the BBC hoped it would have caught on. It hasn't. Pity as I think it's good. The ratings have dropped each week that's overnights and consolidated.

Maybe it should have gone out on BBC2 instead.

They should have a "channels people actually watch" genre.

Although that may pose a problem for itv1 in years to come...

I hate Sky's set in stone epg. At least the "hd and 3d" genre seems to fulfill a purpose of having most of the channels I would bother with, and with bbc news hd, bbc3hd and bbc4hd to come shortly.

Although the 7pm doc got a great rating. 4m over an hour in a heatwave is very decent. The 'Budget Britain' season, or whatever it's called, is working well.

A shame about Broken by Battle, but a very important piece of PSB programming anyway.

Must say I thought bb was fantastic last night one of my favourite series in a few years hopefully the ratings will stay very good great series also another poor rating for eastEnders but still abit ahead of emmerdale

Big Brother and Bit on the Side should do very well tonight as it has an interview with the ejected Daley on Bit on the Side.

It's been national news (The Sun, Independent, Mirror, Daily Mail, MTV, Radio 1 etc) today and we know that when Jade Goody was interviewed after the racism row 8 million watched didn't they? Correct if wrong.

Not saying it'll be anything like that but 1.8-2.0m is possible. Just for the curiosity factor. BoTS could nudge 1m, or at least peak with it.

Sometimes the 9pm Panoramas only rate well with a headline grabbing story. But I applaud BBC1 for putting this particular Panorama in primetime. Sometimes things should be shown regardless of ratings performance.