I'm sorry but I just cannot take that seriously at all.

A near 30% share on a weekday slot in 2013 sounds pritty darn good to me, so was Doc martin yesterday and so was Downton on Sunday.

I see nothing to criticise at all.

On the talk of a BBC Gymnastics LE show, it's not the most original idea of them all but ITV's ideas this year haven't been that original and they have outperformed the BBC's awful sill little efforts by a mile.

It sounds to me though like a replacement for lets dance. Like strictly at first (If it does go ahead) it will probably be in aid of charity. I doubt Let's dance id back if this goes ahed.

but as for the idea it's "meh" really, If however the program is made well with a good presenter and line up it could do well. As I keep saying "If it's entertaining, enjoyable and well made. No matter what it is people will watch." Bake off proves my point. What a stunning number.

Ken

Since when was it a competition between Doc Martin and New Tricks?

New Tricks hasn't hit 9m this series.

Doc Martin is miles behind Doc Martin in the ratings these days. Easier timeslot so no excuse for it really.

Sarah Millican isn't funny, That show was awful.

Are we talking about New Tricks here?

This Morning celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. How are the ratings for it these days?

I would assume around the 800k-1m mark.

Oh, and I've hit 15k. I'm on here way too much.

Are there any other ratings providers (e.g, digital-i) that give out free trials?

I think Cylon is pointing out that Doc Martins ratings are down about 1m average this year.

We are indeed. Or at least I hope we are or else my stats are wrong!

Yes I am.

New Tricks and Doc Martin are being compared by GeorgeS and Robbie. New Tricks has never reached the ratings highs of Doc Martin but Doc Martin isn't reaching them now either. New Tricks has faced tougher competition on Tuesday with the football and it always does better on Monday. Why BBC1 never tried it on Sunday I don't know.

Brekkie said New Tricks was BBC1's blockbuster equivalent to Downton and it's not. That will be Call The Midwife but it too was down this year and never cleared 11m unlike series 1.

CBS is going to have a bad season ratings wise its slate is pretty poor ,Brooklyn 99 is actually ok but I agree a 1.4 is poor

I particularly asked because your post said this:

Doc Martin is miles behind Doc Martin in the ratings these days. Easier timeslot so no excuse for it really.

See the mistake?

I meant it as in Doc Martin isn't rating as well as it used to. That's intentional!

Pointless has about 10 categories rather than questions: the contestants have to come up with a lot more than 10 answers collectively!


Not forgetting Sherlock, which cleared 10m twice officially in January 2012, although it appears to be biennial (like Doc Martin) and has short runs (unlike the Doc). That's probably back on New Year's Day again, do you reckon?

Miserable night for ABC. Must be painful to see a show they've put an extraordinary amount of effort into pulling ordinary numbers already - but it's not exactly a huge surprise. I imagine within a few weeks Modern Family will be the only thing left on the network pulling more than a 3. Still, that might well prove to be one more show than Fox.

NBC the big winner again last night. They have to be pleased with Chicago Fire, which is doing everything that could be asked of it.

US television is clueless about what shows are true hits and which are hits purely due to timeslot.

CBS weakened themselves on Monday and I don't think Person Of Interest was ready to move yet. ABC could keep tumbling and end up a regular 4th at this rate. NBC is doing well but they don't see that some shows won't do well away from The Voice. Revolution anyone?

I think everybody was shocked that Midwife did better than Sherlock. I can't see Sherlock being on before next year. It's too crowded for it to fit in now. The first episode of series 3 could be huge but BBC1 need to keep it at the same time each week.

Ignore that post.

The Evening Standard has an article by the editorial director of 'London Live in which he states, "we've largely lost the habit of all watching the same TV programmes simultaneously", is that true?

Have the ratings for +1 or iplayer etc ever outstripped a first run showing?

Sherlock is scheduled for March

They have for Sky viewers. An episode of Arrow had only 210k live viewers out of a total of 1.49m.

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/281

In fairness Revolution wasn't doing well with The Voice by the end of season one and actually came back more or less in line with where it ended season one (which was slightly miraculous really). Chicago Fire meanwhile was doing relatively well on Wednesday night last year which is why they moved it behind The Voice this year. But NBC is more than aware that The Voice provides a boost to shows that run out of it. Although as the likes of Smash and Revolution have both proven in reality that boost is pretty short term. If audiences don't like what they're seeing they won't stick with it even if its running out of The Voice. There's only so much a big lead-in can do.

When it comes to CBS its easy to argue that Monday is a problem of their own making (and I wouldn't disagree) but at the same time they had limited options. Two and a Half Men just isn't strong enough any more to anchor that block leaving them with limited options. They gambled on 2 Broke Girls being stronger than it ultimately was and its hard to fault them on that. Moving Big Bang back to Monday's would have been (and still would be) an easy solution to the problem but it leaves them in a huge hole on Thursday. You can however maybe fault CBS for sticking with 2 Broke Girls as the 9PM anchor for a second season on Monday. I'm not sure why they thought things would change this year and not just get progressively worse.

Person of Interest is a tricky one. In the short term at least the decision to move it seems to be working out. The Crazy Ones/Two and a Half Men combo will likely rate more strongly than Person of Interest did in that slot for at least the first few weeks of the season. Whether that holds remains to be seen. And until this week I would have bet on Person of Interest out performing Vegas last year. Yes Person of Interest might have been down year-on-year but the overall net gains for CBS would have been worth it. The problem is Person of Interest currently isn't living up to its end of the bargain. I think they made the right call and regardless of whether they were expanding comedy on Thursday I don't think they should have stuck with Person of Interest in that 9PM slot. It wasn't going to magically breakout as the big new drama hit they wanted this year. They needed to try something else there and given the slate of shows they had comedy was by far their best option.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D with a huge drop, not good! Shame to see New Girl that low
Meanwhile, Chicago Fire beats last weeks record rating with another record rating, well done to that!

That seems the exception? The rest of the programmes illustrated show most people watch on the day?

I wonder how it works on Dave or Pick TV where they strip the same edition of a programme day after day, month after month.

ITV2 releases the hounds this Halloween

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press...n#.UkyFLhAjrAk

This could be good