I know that
Seven normally gets twice that in that slot.

I disagree. Of course, it will beat the accurateness and consistency of Season 1, but it is a lot better than Season 2, which was bound to be crap, but I didn't think it would be that bad. I wasn't interested at all.

I'm with you on that one. Series 3 has adressed many of the problems of series 2, it's pacier, most of the characters are involved in something and the episodes so far have been much better.

Australian Overnights: Friday 24th October 2008

ABC
19:00 ABC News 926,000
...
20:30 Taggart 920,000
21:40 Murphy's Law 575,000

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1,313,000
18:30 Today Tonight 1,213,000
19:00 Home and Away 1,123,000
19:30 Better Homes and Gardens 1,496,000
20:30 7 Sport: International Rules Series - Australia v Ireland* 571,000

Nine
18:00 Nine News 926,000
18:30 A Current Affair 958,000
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 1,020,000
19:30 Movie: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 892,000

Ten
19:00 Friends (R) 448,000
19:30 Download 526,000
20:30 Movie: United 93 563,000

*Shown at various times locally

Source: OzTAM

Looks like Harry Potter movies always get a solid audience in Australia, as well as in Britain, despite how many times they've been shown.

As for last night, The weather was rotten, which combined with easily the best X Factor of the series, could mean some good ratings.

For reference, when last nights ratings come out, below are last Saturdays ratings:

18.40 to 20.10- Strictly Come Dancing: 8.56m (37.1%)
19.25 to 21.25- The X Factor: 9.28m (38.5%) *peak: 10.86m (45%)
22.10 to 22.50- The X Factor - The Result: 7.87m (39.7%)

I hope the X Factor results show got over 8 Million this week.

Here I am again .. Another sunday morning, waiting for the ratings to come in!

Same.

Anyone finding the UK ratings wait really bad at the moment? DS has only just posted Wednesdays, somedays we get nothing, others we get daytime, primetime and multichannel theres no consistency, apart from Ch4 sales.

We even get USA and Oz Ratings quciker

We get ratings on weekdays at a consistent time, but at weekends it varies.

DS often catch up at the weekend, and generally report Saturday night ratings on Sunday mornings (fingers crossed we'll get them soon!)

Oh I feel the Banner coming soon , now that the time has been corrected and an article about Call Girl has been written!

Atleast I am not alone then.


Oooooo, Bring it on!

Banner Banner Banner

Where art thou ?

I don't think there was a banner last week. Some people on the 'Broadcasting' forum complained about the banner, so it might not come back.

It might be a while before Saturday overnights are posted, especially if DS do the Friday overnights article next. Looks like it's taking about 1-2 hours between each article.

Oh yeaaaaah, I remember now What do they expect breaking news to be on a Sunday morning on a website that has a major TV Section and one of its biggest threads is a ratings thread ?

I hope it does come back.

Killjoys on the broadcasting forum!

Hopefully it won't take that long (can't they do Friday later?)

Predictions:

Merlin: 5.7m
SCD: 9.2m
Harry Hill: 6.4m
XF: 9.5m
Family Fortunes: 5.6m
XF Results: 8.1m

Any news?

Australian Overnights: Saturday 25th October 2008

ABC
19:00 ABC News 986,000
19:30 Rough Diamond 811,000
20:30 The Bill (Double Episode) 796,000

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1,191,000
18:30 Movie: Toy Story 874,000
20:15 Movie: Toy Story 2 816,000

Nine
18:00 Nine News 966,000
18:30 Australia's Funniest Home Video Show 903,000
19:30 Movie: Elf 653,000
21:30 Rugby League World Cup: England v PNG* 320,000

Ten
18:30 Movie: Johnny English 517,000
20:30 Movie: Sleepers 661,000

*Some regional variations apply

Source: OzTAM

Really low rating night. ABC News did well to beat Nine News though.

Saturday 25th October Overnight Ratings
BBC One
17:50 - Merlin - 5.48m (28.6%)
18:35 - Strictly Come Dancing - 9.27m (39.3%) *peak: 10.61m (44.4%) [19:40]
20:05 - The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins - 5.02m (20.7%)
20:55 - Casualty - 5.21m (21.7%)

BBC Two
20:10 - Timewatch - 1.77m (7.3%)
21:00 - Have I Got a Bit More News For You - 1.99m (8.3%)
21:40 - The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector: Arena - 0.84m (4.3%)

ITV1
18:15 - Totally You've Been Framed! - 5.61m (25.4%)
19:15 - Harry Hill's TV Burp - 6.0m (25.2%)
19:45 - The X Factor - 9.69m (39.7%) *peak: 10.77m (44%) [20:55]
21:25 - All Star Family Fortunes - 6.33m (27.9%)
22:10 - The X Factor: The Result - 7.7m (38%)

Channel 4
20:00 - Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live - 0.65m (2.7%)
21:00 - Secret Millionaire - 0.84m (3.6%)
20:00 - Saw - 1.13m (6.9%)

five
19:05 - NCIS - 754,000 (3.2%)
19:50 - NCSI - 1.19m (4.9%)
20:45 - NCIS - 1.19m (4.9%)
21:40 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 1.62m (7.6%)

ITV2
19:25 - The Xtra Factor - 864,000 (4.4%)
22:55 - The Xtra Factor - 876,000 (6.9%)

Strictly v X Factor 20 Minute Clash
Strictly Come Dancing - 9.25m, X Factor - 8.18m

Primetime Shares
ITV1: 34.2% (last week: 34.9%), BBC One: 25.6% (25.5%), BBC Two: 6% (7%), Five's 5.5% (4.1%), Channel 4: 3.6% (3.9%).

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a1337...ings-lead.html

Well if YBF can manage nearly 6m in the same slot on a Saturday against Strictly, the pressure really is on for the much hyped Britannia High this evening.

Definately. YBF did really well, as did Harry Hill.

SCD improved significantly, but XF also improved, and stayed on top.

Merlin is doing fairly well in the ratings, but i just wish they kept the same slot each week! I missed it last night because i thought it was on after SCD

It's stupid isn't it. Next week it's on at 7.30pm, 100 minutes later than this week!