I think that's a little unfair. It is August and I'm sure there are plenty of original programmes coming up in the autumn, some of which may make the chart. We have had Badults which flopped; there's Bad Education and Boom Town coming soon.

What does it say about the ITV portfolio, to have 7 shows in the multichannel top 30, compared with 18 for the Beeb?

By the way, Wolfblood is getting a repeat tomorrow night from 19:00 on Three.

I notice how BT Sport 1's top 10 includes 3 shows that weren't actually sport just talking about what sport they are going to show (and selling some broadband no doubt).

And one of the sports shows that made the top 10 aired at 3am!

Lets hope the BBC/BT axis dont get there hands on any other FTA events, with their misleading "free" advertising.....

Seems pretty disappointing given it was Moyes first game and there is presumably an extra dimension added to the interest this time post Sir AF. ITV's last Community Shield for a while.
Then again there seems little appetite for tv in general at the moment. Lacklustre figure for Bolt really considering its the second most important title in Athletics - just shows how much value is added with the Olympics.
Countryfile is amazingly resilient all things considered. And Tipping Point getting good figures- amazing considering its just watching counters drop like in ancient penny arcades. Still thing they should vary the prize values of the counters a bit.

I suppose it should have done by now-next week is the tenth and last episode.

Must be a time delay in Granada land! Or earlier sunsets?


2.599999m more than next year. Thanks BT/BBC

PS It was sunny & warm in the Home Counties yesterday

You're becoming obsessed with Axes (pron. ak-seez) of Evil, George, like your namesake George Dubya!

You probably find there wont be many responses to that

Too many Indiana Jones films I suspect!

nice that the two of you can agree on something and are giving the new entrant a fair chance.

Considering it wasn't showing anything of value, the ratings are fairly okay (inline with SS3 and better than SS4).

The big test comes when they start showing PL games, though there's only so far 38 games will go.

Thought you'd spent the weekend wargaming or something...

Soap officials, week ending August 4th, missing figures taken from Digital Spy's overnight ratings report in italics:

7.23m - EastEnders (Mon, 20:00)
6.86m - EastEnders (Tue, 19:30)
6.60m - EastEnders (Thu, 19:30)
6.55m - EastEnders (Fri, 20:00)

8.82m / 9.01m - Coronation Street (Mon, 20:30)
8.84m / 8.97m - Coronation Street (Mon, 19:30)
8.41m / 8.86m - Coronation Street (Wed, 19:30)
8.20m / 8.43m - Coronation Street (Fri, 19:30)
7.88m / 8.21m - Coronation Street (Fri, 20:30)

7.35m / 7.50m - Emmerdale (Mon, 19:00)
6.99m / 7.31m - Emmerdale (Wed, 19:00)
6.90m / 7.10m - Emmerdale (Tue, 19:00)
6.60m / 6.83m - Emmerdale (Fri, 19:00)
6.48m / 6.85m - Emmerdale (Thu, 20:00)
6.42m / 6.57m - Emmerdale (Thu, 19:00)

Averages:

8.43m / 8.66m - Coronation Street
6.81m - EastEnders
6.79m / 7.03m - Emmerdale

Wait til folks realise they are on a Saturday lunchtime (dinner time in Manchester!)

I know what you mean! Especially now it's Harry Potter again!

UFC has a hardcore following. Last time they ran the UK, at Nottingham Arena, tickets were £75-£225 and it was full. They were doing 500k viewers in a 11pm on Sunday slot on former channel Virgin 1 at one point.

First time since w/e 7th Apr that Channel 4 has reached above 5% (excl. +1). Helped no doubt by the success of The Mill and Southclffe debuting strongly. It should also be noted that daytime seems to be recovering (for the meantime) with no new or repeat episodes of Tipping Point and The Chase, which in turn is benefiting DOND. Come September, it will probably return to the status quo.

I wonder if anyone could provide DOND's ratings for the last fortnight (excluding +1) with share? If possible, it would be great to see how much it has picked up. Many thanks.

Elsewhere in weekly shares;

BBC1 - 19.6%
BBC2 - 4.9%
ITV - 13.1% (14.0% incl. +1)
Channel 5 - 4.4% (4.8% incl.+1)

BBC2 has collapsed whilst BBC1 is staying steady. ITV hit a bit of a bum note whilst Channel 5 was flat.

Outstanding timeshift for episode 1 of CSI: New York, which was hurt badly by facing BBC1 cop drama New Tricks for its series premiere on (Tuesday) July 30.

The first instalment of the final season of the long running forensic drama could only capture 1.7m viewers in the overnights. But with recordings and Demand 5 views taken into account, the total audience soared to 2.48m in the consolidated figures.

I wonder if they'll reshow the crossover episode with CSI or skip it since its already aired, there's only 17 episodes which means it'll finish its run by November so I wonder if they'll air Body of Proof or Person of Interest in that slot or just air repeats

Well seeing as it got 4million last week, your spin looks desperate (again).

And I think whats more dissapointing for the BBC is that a derided (but popular) gameshow is beating their big budget drama (and proven by New Tricks big ratings are possible in Summer) by almost a million.

Emmerdale still treading on EE toes even after timeshift.

Good to see you've stopped repeating yourself every Monday with the same dig.

I think that was the big week where Genie died. Hence the higher times shifts.

Ok not sure if this has already been asked but how did That Puppet Game Show rate last night thanks?

No doubt they would but Family Guy and American Dad do have the advantage of not being available on iPlayer so a lot of other BBC3 shows "suffer" in a way when it comes to Barb ratings with a lot of their audience not being shown in the officials.

Although i don't know the hd for LLF, I'm guessing it will be around 450k. add that to the bulk figure of 5.32 gives; 5.77million (inc +1 6.03million), another fantastic figure for this brilliant show.