Do you have the women's Euro final highlights on Three from 7pm please ronant? I know it's less than 541k, my guess is 370k.

I think FG could crack 2m consolidated for its finale in the depths of December (it's running a couple of months later this season).

I watched The Lost World last night.... my first time ever seeing it


Wall.E Still doing the business despite being shown countless times

Not quite! Just 48k/0.3% for that one. But the live showing did well earlier in the day.

Blinkin' eck, that's atrocious!

WOW- has newman been sacked or has she decided to leave?
I would have thought they would have waited until early next yr/spring to decide- supposedly she and the writers have planned a big autumn/winter with many story lines (something kinda missing nowadays in eastenders)- i.e. mitchell family focus, return of a lot characters esp. ronnie's return, big exits (michael, jack etc). I thought the bbc would have waited until they saw how eastenders did over the coming months. Anyway, it does show that the bbc has been actively engaged and thinking about the state of eastenders for a long while (something I thought they won't interested in).

Children love puppets and this is quite daring for peak time. Remember Sooty ran for 44 years and Andy Pandy, actually a repeat for most of its career, had 26 years. I think the curiosity and the junior vote should give this about 4 million.

BBC Three last night:
19.00 Women's Euro 2013 48k (0.3%)
20.00 The Best Sport Film Ever! 94k (0.4%)
20.30 Wall-E 748k (3.2%)
22.00 Family Guy 1.30m (6.8%)
22.25 Family Guy 1.06m (6.7%)
22.45 Badults 510k (3.9%)
23.15 American Dad! ...
23.40 American Dad! 620k (8.4%)
00.00 Live at the Electric 316k (6.2%)
00.30 Bad Education 254k (6.9%)
01.00 Bad Education 263k (9.4%)
01.30 Cuckoo 240k (11.2%).

I think "That Puppet Game Show" looks fab! Totally different. A bit like The Muppet Show for the 21st century. I hope it's successful.

Amusing that American Dad repeats got higher ratings then there own rubbish comedy.

Is that correct? It's higher than both of the first two showings.

That is correct. The power of being in a Family Guy, American Dad! sandwich.

This press release looks to me like she was pushed. Why bring in a previous producer? It's because you think a programme is in trouble.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...ving-soap.html

To be brutally honest, I think she's done well to last so long

I'm looking forward to it too. It's a shame David Walliams couldn't host it, but Gabby Logan is a safe pair of hands, and Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan should be good as team captains. The guests they've got on seem pretty decent too, an eclectic bunch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love..._(UK_TV_series)

I've seen clips of the Dutch version and it looks a lot of fun. It's been sold to 25 countries so it's certainly been successful. There's an article from the Independent about it here - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...y-8709615.html

That Puppet Game Show starts 10th August and is seven episodes, whilst I Love My Country is 8 episodes. So both should finish on September 21st. Then it'll be time for Strictly and Atlantis.

Fascinating to watch that trailer for the pilot linked earlier of the US version of 'Les Revenants'.

Watch that and the trailers Channel 4 showed for 'The Returned' and you can see the differences between US TV and European TV in an instant.

The US version hits you immediately with the premise and has cops and doctors spelling out what is going on just to assure that you do not need to think through ambiguous plotting. The French version is all atmosphere, subtlety, great location shooting (every scene shot at twilight on purpose to create a mood) (US TV producers would throw a wobbly at the very idea!).

That said, the US pilot was intriguing and entertaining and if I had never seen 'The Returned' I would be curious enough to watch what looks like an original and promising concept.

So it does its job capturing the market for US TV who would be even less likely to watch anything in French than a UK audience would.

Plus it seems like 'Resurrection' will use the broad theme of 'Les Revenants' only meaning it is a show that even those who have been lucky enough to give the French version a chance will see something totally different. If it survives - that is - as for a main US channel it will have to carefully balance 'zombie of the week' storylines vs an ongoing arc to develop any desire to stick around and fathom out what is going on.

Will be fascinating to see which tack the UK version follows. More French then American I suspect. But this might also depend on the channel being aimed towards. Does look in good writing hands, though. So a hopeful start.

Fascinating though to have such an interesting premise developing as three separate drama series at the same time - all presumably watchable in the UK.

'Les Revenants' series 2 is unlikely to be out before either of these new shows are on air.

Amazing numbers for The Mill last night. Great to see a drama (or any programme for that matter) finally doing well on Channel 4. I hope it stays strong next week. Will catch up myself on 4od soon.

As for the overall week, it was pretty much up and down. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday down compared with last week, whilst Thursday was marginally up and Saturday and Sunday rocketed thanks to X-Men and The Mill. Still though, I think it may boil down to daytime numbers. Even if the weekly share for the week just gone is 5% (excluding +1), the four weekly shares for July will average 4.38%. The last time it hit 5% (excl. +1) was for w/e 7th of April.

I think that C4 might be hit a bit this week with the return of Celebrity Masterchef and New Tricks. However, next Saturday night looks great for film geeks with X-Men and Kick Ass getting a back-to-back showing. Should do very well.


Disappointing for the Anniversary Games considering how well they did on the Beeb on Saturday. Impressive for Euro 2013 final and the Challenge Cup. F1 Highlights roughly what I expected.

LOL. The faux concern was a tad premature then. I was expecting ratings to fall back a bit following the departure of one of this series' biggest characters, but no sign of it just yet.


It's moronic in my view to feel that way about people who watch an entertainment show. BB is a show about real people forming relationships and sharing a very unique experience. Being interested in that stuff does not make you uncultured, that's an absurd thing to say.

Drama is fantastic escapism and is rightly the most consistent rater on telly but there's room for some reality TV in most people's viewing schedules as well. Labelling BB viewers this that or the other is just silly and makes you look bad. BB's appeal is abundantly clear and the audience is still fairly broad.


I beg your pardon. I did not ignore it at all. Nobody did, some were positively revelling in it. I faced the music straight away by breaking the news and making it very clear how poor a start it was. But it's baloney to suggest that it made the subsequent retention irrelevant, a complete nonsense even. Whilst it was reasonable to expect a lower dropoff than normal given the circumstances, nobody could hand on heart say they honestly thought it would pull in a near identical audience on night two. Nobody. Not even you. So why pretend? It was always infinitely more important where it settled down at than where it launched, and so for it to be now up YoY despite that very bad beginning, is clearly good news for the show.


Well last night's show was up 220k on the equivalent episode last year (which aired on July 22) and the Olympics hadn't even started by then. So that particular YoY comparison is perfectly valid.


Nobody is saying they are absolutely exceptional. Although CBB's ratings at times are for the channel it is on IMO. But 1.4m-1.8m a night for the main version which is what it's been consistently pulling in these past few weeks minus the usual dip on Saturdays is great stuff.


What a rotten thing to say. I contribute more to this thread than most through roundups, scheduling info, C5/UKTV/multichannel analysis, etc. I won't be spoken down to by people who either post one liners that mean nothing or put others down. That's not what this thread is about.


Not really exciting me. I think one-off stunts on soaps are a bit boring actually. They need something with longer term appeal. For instance, Hollyoaks did well recently with a serial killer storyline. And there's plenty of deadwood on EE that nobody would miss.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say that Robbie might be referring to Bonjour La Class

Failing that there was a Lenny Henry drama set in a comprehensive (not that it was meant to be funny)

Big Brother officials including +1 show that the highlights shows have now outrated the launch (well, some of them) So happy, its such a great series that has taken the show back to its roots;

See here: the show picked up 2.10m on Monday, 2.11m on Tuesday, and 2.08m on Sunday!

Resurrection on ABC is a scheduled for midseason so looking at past trends it could air as late as early April..

It looks like a very weak imitation in my opinion and will likely be canned after the first season...If it winds up on Sundays at 10 which is really where I see it going, its doomed (GCB, Red Widow, 666 Park Ave, Pan Am all recently occupied that slot and all one season and done).

Uh oh. Inconvenient truth alert. Don't worry, I'll stick up for you when the bullies come out to play.

Very consistent set of officials there. And Bit On The Side-

Fantastic officials for LLF 5.98million (inc+1 6.23million) super rating for it, I imagine thats it highest ever?

That cost £1m?

EastEnders needs a lot of work. The event episodes don't get event ratings. It's wallpaper. BBC bosses should have stepped in sooner.

The Muppet Show, an American format bought in by Lew Grade in 1976 and made in Britain, was enormous in the late seventies, pulling in 16 million viewers. Also as it had adult guests and the humour could be appreciated by all age groups this explained its success.

I completely agree. Well done Channel 4! Oh how nice it is to be able to say something positive for a change.


The share seemed more stable through the week than it has been. It's an ongoing process but they're starting to get a few shows together capable of doing 2m+ that can now anchor some key nights where they had been underperforming previously. Thursday is still a bit of an issue and has been for some time, but at least Dates is now done and dusted.


Yeah, very strong night in prospect there as Kick Ass 2 is due out shortly so the timing is once again strong. Shame it's showing as late as 10pm though. I would have shown X-Men at 7pm and Kick-Ass at 9pm.