Originally Posted by Digital Sid:
“It got 2.1m, the 1.7 rating was for the second show, in BOTS usual slot of 11pm, for which 1.7m is a VERY good rating.”
“It got 2.1m, the 1.7 rating was for the second show, in BOTS usual slot of 11pm, for which 1.7m is a VERY good rating.”
Making the total overnight average for the final less than 2m.
Might explain why this years final was a game of two halves and the 1st half led straight into the The Dome, I believe Dancc has conceded the no break artificially boosted BB's peak at 21.59.
Haven't channels recently been artificially boosting their ratings by chopping up long programmes into distinct segments, for example by divorcing a football match from the preamble?
Lots of sitcoms in autumn 1989: 'Allo 'Allo!, First of the Summer Wine, Last of the Summer Wine, Bread, Streets Apart, Birds of a Feather, In Sickness and in Health, Blackadder Goes Forth and a series of six Victoria Wood sitcom-type shows. Although, most of the new comedy and drama had run out by December, perhaps more obviously than any other year in the late 1980s or early 1990s, with December 1989 having film repeats on Saturdays after Noel and Bob's Full House, another on Sunday before Bread, Mondays having Wildlife on One repeats, Tuesdays and Wednesdays continuing with the Dad's Army (Tue) and Bergerac (Wed) repeats they'd been running for all sixteen weeks of the autumn, and Fridays having repeats of the 22 Years of The Two Ronnies compilations from the previous autumn, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em reruns, and a repeat of a 1988 Charles Dance drama serial, First Born.”
