Another top 20 update Changes in bold, no duplicates or +1, etc. If I've made an error (I think I've copied the correct data) then please say.

Most Watched Shows of 2013 [Top 20 – Officials]
01 – 12.28m – WIMBLEDON 2013: MURRAY v DJOKOVIC (07/07/2013) – BBC 1/HD
02 – 12.23m – BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT (08/06/2013) – ITV/HD
03 – 11.56m – DOWNTON ABBEY (29/09/2013) – ITV/HD
04 – 11.03m – CORONATION STREET (23/01/2013) – ITV/HD
05 – 10.85m – CALL THE MIDWIFE (03/02/2013) – BBC 1/HD

06 – 10.61m – THE X FACTOR (22/09/2013) – ITV/HD
07 – 10.53m – STRICTLY COME DANCING (28/09/2013) – BBC 1/HD
08 – 10.47m – MIRANDA (01/01/2013) – BBC 1/HD
09 – 10.28m – COMIC RELIEF (15/03/2013) – BBC 1/HD
10 – 10.03m – EASTENDERS (01/01/2013) – BBC 1/HD

11 – 9.89m – BROADCHURCH (22/04/2013) – ITV/HD
12 – 9.78m – MRS BROWN’S BOYS (01/01/2013) – BBC 1/HD
13 – 9.50m – THE VOICE UK (20/04/2013) – BBC 1/HD
14 – 9.31m – UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: MAN UNITED v REAL MADRID (05/03/2013) – ITV/HD
15 – 9.04m – DOC MARTIN (02/09/2013) – ITV/HD

16 – 8.89m – NEW TRICKS (27/08/2013) – BBC 1/HD
17 – 8.75m – JONATHAN CREEK (01/04/2013) – BBC 1/HD
18 – 8.54m – MR SELFRIDGE (06/01/2013) – ITV 1/HD
19 – 8.52m – AFRICA (02/01/2013) – BBC 1/HD
20 – 8.44m – DOCTOR WHO (30/03/2013) – BBC 1/HD

What sensational out of leftfield news!!

Who could have predicted that?!

No doubt at all this will be the 9pm main feature against DA with Mrs Brown.

David Jason front and centre in the BBC1 Christmas, what could possibly go wrong?

However...



I agree with this too.

Granville was the support, the foil to his uncle. The Ronnie Barker sized hole in this is going to be massive!


Big, big numbers. Atlantis way way above expectations!!

I think this is gearing up to be one of BBC1's strongest Christmas line ups for years.

Open All Hours
Mrs Browns Boys
Doctor Who
Call The Midwife
Not Going Out
Death Comes To Pemberley
Little Fockers
The Whale
Citizen Khan
Catherine Tate: Nan
Strictly Come Dancing
Gangsta Granny
Mouse and Mole (animation)

Quite a strong line up there!

Did The X Factor peak when it was against Strictly or after it finished? And I don't think that 2010 figure is right. Strictly results got around 9.5m in the finals for that week.

1 THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF (TUE 2000) 7.32

In the words of Kate Bush - wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! Stonking rating! 8 million for the final is a certainty surely?

Wow! For Atlantis.

Broadchurch asides, does this make Atlantis the biggest brand new drama this year?

I thought a lot of the comedy in The One Ronnie was weak. People watched out of goodwill.

Open All Hours without Ronnie Barker is like Columbo without Peter Falk

It misses the point somewhat

Don't know about ITV but Mayday (7.68m), Shetland (7.97m), and The Village (8.17m) all launched higher than it. Ripper Street (7.89m) also did but that was technically last year.

BBC One aside, is ITV the most watched channel in the UK?

I agree. But it sorta worked at 5.10pm on Christmas night. The comedy was enough to make you snuggle up and relax for a good nights telly! If it went out later it wouldn't have worked at all. I think Open All Hours could do the same thing as a curtain raiser for Christmas night.

A few years left in him yet then.

The X Factor used to get a few more older people tuning in. You don't get massive ratings without appealing to several demos as you well know.

I am suprised with that Atlantis consolidated figure. Some scope for it fall now I suppose.

I didn't include Broadchurch because it was never intended as a returning drama. I recognise it as 2013's biggest new drama launch, I also thoroughly enjoyed it. But since we are in the Autumn schedules, no drama has been exactly spectacular. That's why I said "Broadchurch asides".

Exactly!

Ronnie Barker was the best thing about Open All Hours. Granville wasn't one of the all time great comedy characters.

I can't see it falling spectacularly.

I was only teasing/mocking

You old tease you! Naughty!

David Jason as Dangermouse is a better comedy character than Granville

If only ITV would follow up the vague interest in doing 3D versions of the old cartoons, but I digress......

OAH without Ronnie Barker? No thanks

Not comfortably, exc +1 they were neck and neck.

And it peaked with 10.1m so I don't see an 8 or a 9 in there.

You seem to be on repeat with this kind of post. Your fault for overpredicting, that XF was to beat SCD by a million.

Hassaan, you know as well as I do that at the time of broadcast SCD won. XF only wins when you add in the 78 repeats each show gets. Can't you just start ignoring Samuel?

Last week's X Factor shows timeshifted to 8.96m and 10.50m. So higher than 2008 on the whole.

ITV are going to have to work hard to drum up a lot of momentum to ensure that the figures don't go backwards again when we get into the live shows (at this moment in time, I think they will).

I wish I could. It's the nature of his posts that just irks you.

Get him a bodyguard to make sure nothing goes wrong. How about a royal one perhaps?