A&E cancels The Glades after 4 seasons: http://www.c21media.net/archives/125014

It's been moderately successful for UKTV's Alibi over here, with episodes bringing in around 200,000 viewers. But some way behind the channel's most successful imports Castle and Body of Proof.

Apparently it ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. Not a great advert for investing your time in long running American dramas.

Still a HUGE drop...

I predict it will be steady - ish for the next 2 weeks, and dip below 1 million when it loses its CBB lead in.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it loses more viewers tonight even.


Yeah It bodes well for Betrayal. That is such a hot property its bound to preform brilliantly *sarc*

I don't think its been mentioned but Channel 4 have Officially got the terrestrial rights to Marvels The Avengers

No doubt that came along with Agents of SHIELD.

Also some more US show updates:

Broklynn Nine Nine looks likely to be going to channel 4, for an e4 slot.

Sleepy Hollow which had interest from Channel 4 and Channel 5 is looking likely for Watch.

Killer Woman is looking to go to TCM.

While Almost Human, the latest from JJ Abrams looks to be going to Sky One instead of Channel 5.

There is a bidding war between ITV and Channel 4 for the rights to The Crazy Ones, staring Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar

Graceland gone to Universal

and Previously reported:

Mom gone to ITV2

The 100 and Tomorrow People gone to e4

Hostages and Agents of SHIELD to Channel 4

Betrayal to Channel 5

Suburgatory Season 3 going to e4

Calm down dear, it's only telly.

Whats not Calm about my post? Maybe read it again

Fantastic ratings for Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow, pulling in 5-6million up against two of itv's few big shows. What remains dropped heavily as I predicted last week, it's too dark, complex, gritty to appeal to the oap audience who stuck with the easier-to-follow Vera on itv. The XFactor is actually slightly down from the most comparable Sunday night auditions show of last series, which averaged 9.3million exc +1. Obviously it's automatically going to rate better than last year's equivalent episode which was on a saturday which gets lower ratings - we all could've predicted that weeks ago - but for a sunday episode last series, that audition show [not up against event programming like paralumpics] did get a little more last year (exc +1).

Channel viewing share graph shows a very strong performance for Other channels in recent weeks.

Prior to a few weeks ago, Other channels had only ever had a share of 49.0% (or higher) on 3 occasions - once in Aug 2011, once in July 2012 and once in Aug 2012.

Then, 10 weeks ago, Other channels had a share of 49.0% (or higher) for the 4th time.

Now, Other channels have had a share of 49.0% (or higher) every single week for the last 7 weeks in a row.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/trend-...ing-share?_s=4

It'd be interesting to know where the growth is occurring though. Could most of it be coming from the FTA broadcasters multichannels anyway?

I just looked at Sky figures compared to a year ago and weekly reach for Sky1, Sky2, Atlantic, Living and Sports News are all down on the same week last year.

How do you think Doc Martin will fare tonight?

and I think DS' ratings articles have gone to pot lately - I'm probably the only one who thinks that.

I think it wil rate worse than 2011 opening episode which got 8.4million. The reason being that in 2011 it launched towards the end of September when the weather was worse, more people watching tv then, as well as the fact that it had been trailed during XFactor and other high rating programs like Downton abbey for a number of weeks. This time round Doc martin is launching in early September with the weather quite nice today and more importantly its trails hasn't been exposed to as many viewers over the last two weeks because neither XF or Downton have been on.

No your not !!

Excellent for The X Factor. A decent bit higher than I expected, and so close to 10m! This series has got off to a really promising start, hopefully it can keep it up.

Fun fact: last night's average was higher than every single episode last year except the Sunday final. The closest any other episodes last year came to it was 9.84m for the Sunday judges houses show.

BBC1 held up really well between 7-9pm but What Remains was disappointing at 9pm. Solid for Vera, but piss poor for A Touch of Cloth. Reasonable for Dragons Den against The X Factor. I find it astonishing just how badly BBC2 has treated this show in the last few years.


Except that isn't really comparable because that was the last auditions show of the series, not the first week. Even so, last night still beat that with the +1 audiences included, which is what counts.

Well of course you would think it would rate worse.

I think it could get anything between 8-9 million which is extremely good. But of course, overnights are increasingly irrelevant don't forget.

Didn't the Sunday boot camp show get 9.84m? Though, the overnights were amended after a week, but its up on that nevertheless.

I think next weekends figures will rise by a fair amount, with people back at school/work etc.

Actually Score that's wrong. There was two episodes higher last year. The Final as you say but also Boot Camp (2). The overnights for that episode were originally reported wrong and later adjusted as follows (exc/inc +1): 9.8m / 10.2m.

Doc Martin may not get 8m but 7 million would still be good for it, as time shift will help push it a lot higher.

If Id predicted over 8.4million, Id have been accused of 'overpredicting'. Im just calling it as I see it. When 2011 doc martin launched, it had the luxury of being trailed during 10-11million rated xfactor episodes, a big rated red or black launch as well as other well rating dramas. This time promotion wise it's not been as fortunate in terms of audience reach exposure. I predict 7.9-8.2million which would still be very good.

Just to add to that, the peak (11.2m) was also above all but one audition show last year, which got 11.21m last year on the final auditions show. Only 4 shows last year had a higher peak too, one of those shows being the final.

So word of mouth from the positive response of Saturday nights show has obviously helped. This weekends ratings will be very interesting, but its steps in the right direction so far.

I thought the 9.8m figure included +1.

I don't know just how true that bootcamp rating is though. The amendments for that whole week were quite bizarre. Some shows the new ratings made more sense for like Downton Abbey, whereas others like The X Factor and Red or Black came out with numbers that were way off trend. Those XF numbers were not in line with the surrounding weeks, and the new ratings also suggested that Red or Black's 7.25pm episode got 4.3m when all the others were around c3.5m. That would be a bizarre surge. Other shows like The Jonathan Ross Show and Piers Morgan's Life Stories got ratings that were off trend yet didn't get adjusted, so the ratings for that whole week are dodgy and I'm not sure what numbers to believe (if any of them).

Nope. 10.2m is the correct figure (inc +1).

Nope, it was reported at 10.3m including +1, which in the context of the series just sticks out like a sore thumb. Same goes for the Saturday episode which was reported as 9.5m with +1. For bootcamp especially I just don't buy those numbers.

Agreed - you would obviously need to go down the entire list to do a proper analysis and I imagine a large part of it would be FTA multichannels.

The point really is that it just shows increasing willingness to look away from the main 5 channels - wherever else that may be towards.

NB. One specific is Sky Sports 2 (Ashes) - 1.3% vs 0.5% for SS2 last year though I'm sure there will be many other notable variations.

Yes it didn't follow the trend of the series but if you look at the officials for that episode: 10.97m (inc +1: 11.47m), the adjusted overnights do look correct and makes the timeshift in line with all other episodes for the 2012 run.

bbc's original drama trailer is getting a lot of attention due to the lack of female actors in it. However, have heard that its a first in a series of autumn trailers- the second one will feature dramas like the paradise, last tango in halifax, death comes to pemberly, 7:39 etc (i.e the more female skewing, gentle, warmer dramas) and the third trailer is for bbc2. Not sure what to make of all of this.

Also, just wanted to ask again if anyone had the breakdown for last night's x factor?????