What a brilliant night for ratings. I didn't expect Above Suspicion to increase its figures for its concluding part, so that is a nice surprise. I thought the concluding part was fantastic and its the best ITV 9pm drama I've seen in the past year. ITV will be very pleased with the programme capturing over 7 million viewers - hopefully there will be a series to follow.

It's also wonderful to see Corrie and EastEnders hitting the 10 million mark and it's surprising to see Emmerdale hitting 8 million. I wonder if that figure can be kept consistent once the One Show returns.

I'd tend to agree. But I think he was pretty popular when he was on Corrie so he might rope in a few viewers from that... then it's all about the quality to sustain the ratings and that's where I'm not convinced.

It should have been a "tougher" actor, IMO. I don't watch L&O, but Bradley Walsh is no William Petersen (Grissom - CSI) or Anthony LaPaglia (Jack Malone - Without a Trace).

Top 10 most watched programmes of 2009 (Thu-Mon)
Bold = new entry

1 - 10.70M (44.7%) - CORONATION STREET (05/01, 19:30) ITV
2 - 10.00M (38.6%) - EASTENDERS (05/01, 20:00) BBC1
3 - 8.97M (35.9%) - JONATHAN CREEK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (01/01, 21:00) BBC1
4 - 8.00M (35.0%) - EMMERDALE (05/01, 19:00) ITV
5 - 7.87M (31.3%) - ANTIQUES ROADSHOW (04/01, 19:00) BBC1
6 - 7.50M (31.9%) - REGIONAL NEWS AND WEATHER (01/01, 18:50) BBC1
7 - 7.34M (28.8%) - ABOVE SUSPICION (05/01, 21:00) ITV
8 - 7.23M (29.0%) - WALLACE AND GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH (01/01, 19:00) BBC1
9 - 6.55M (24.8%) - CELEBRITY MASTERMIND (01/01, 20:00) BBC1
10 - 6.45M (29.4%) - TOTAL WIPEOUT (03/01, 18:10) BBC1

* all overnight ratings

Brilliant ratings for ITV. All the soaps seem to have added a million viewers over the weekend.

Superb ratings all round - I think most people within soapland will be relieved of the increase.

Anyone who has watched the original Law and Order will possibly recognise that Bradley Walsh will be an attempt to replicate the casting success of the veteran variety/enterainment performer - Jerry Orbach - cast as cop Lenny Briscoe. That worked so well in combination with a second hard bitten cop partner in the States (in the UK case his partner comes straight from fighting cylons in Battlestar Galactica, I believe).

Some really strong ratings last night proving ITV can still get huge ratings for dramas. That has to be one of ITV's most successful dramas in ages surely? To actually increase its audience is great and ITV will be very pleased. All the Monday night thrillers seem to have done the business (bar Wired) and ITV have marketed it just right. Unforgiven should prove just as popular with a Traffic Cops repeat against it.

Great to see the big two reach the 10m mark, with Corrie nearer the 11m mark, and Emmerdale making 8m in overnights again. Corrie will have benefited from no Watchdog and the fact there were two drama type shows preceding it on BBC and ITV, meaning more viewers may transfer to Corrie (if that makes sense). Because not just the ratings were high, the shares for the soap were very high aswell-it hasn't made a 45% share in a while!

Traffic Cops is usually reliable for at least 4.5m whatever the competition, so I don't know what happened there. It really just makes ITV's performance look even better.

Great night for BBC2 holding up very well, and surprisingly a great night for CH4 (bar Dispatches)...much higher than expected for Saving Gazza.

Relatively poor night for FIVE with 2 main primetime programmes failing to hit the 1m mark. Though very good for the 10pm film.

Comparison from last Mondays (Dec 29th) to last night
Coronation Street - 9.12m and 9.22m >> 10.75m and 10.56m
*Increase of 1.63m and 1.34m respectively.
EastEnders - 9.23m >> 10m
*Increase of 770,000.
Emmerdale - 7.67m >> 8.03m
*Increase of 360,000.

The FA Cup - 4th Round Televised Ties Announced
Friday 23rd January 2009
19:45 - Setanta Sports - Derby County v Nottingham Forest

Saturday 24th January 2009
12:40 - ITV1 - Hartlepool United v West Ham United
17:15 - ITV1 - Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur

Sunday 25th January 2009
13:30 - Setanta Sports - Cardiff City v Arsenal
16:00 - Setanta Sports - Liverpool v Everton

Instead of ITV having a filler film in between the matches on the Saturday, I'd do this as a one off:

11:30 - ITV News
11:40 - The FA Cup Live
14:40 - The Goal Rush (Around the grounds at the 15:00 kickoffs)
17:00 - The FA Cup Live
19:20 - Demons

I don't get why Five recommissions Fifth Gear as it rarely break 1m and it's a poor lead in to the 9pm show. I think Five should axe it and just air documentaries in between runs of The Gadget Show.

Hopefully Warzone and Fifth Gear are just a blip for Five although I don't hold much hope for Cowboy Builders. I expect NCIS, Ice Road Truckers and CSI: NY to all break 2m this week and CSI to break 3m next week though with weak competition it could easily do 4m.

I guess we can add war/military to the genres that people don't like watching on television.

For anyone interested in Law and Order: London (apropos the above posts) the separate thread on this forum discussing the show has a You Tube link to the opening credits.

It has stuck very firmly to the US version - same Dah Dah noise between scenes, even a fourth version of the original theme music following the tradition of the three US series.

Then, of course, instead of Sam Waterson, Jerry Orbach, Mariska Hargitai etc commanding the screen we see pics of Bradley Walsh and Freema Agyeman and the fun begins.....

Still we can hope that they live up to their predecessors.

A lot resting on this show but interesting to see on that thread a number of people who have never seen any of the class original series saying they will give this a go. Bodes well for excellent first episode ratings but then it will be up to how well they have put this together for their prospects over the next 12 weeks.

The credits are an, er, interesting clue.

I agree about Cowboy Builders-I think it will just be under 1m. Though regarding FIVE I seem to remember a lot of 8pm shows getting under 1m, some around 0.5m for quite a while back in 2007. Most of FIVE's 8pm shows are pertforming solidly lately above 1m, and not many have fallen below that mark.

NCIS has tough competition on Fridays, but should easily clear 2m.

CSI:NY I think should do extremely well-the opening last season managed over 3m IIRC and this year should do the same especially with extremely weak competition from some terrestrials.

CSI should also manage at least 3.5m.

I think Ice Road Truckers will probably come last in its slot tomorrow which is a bit of a shame.

Still hopeful it will pull in 2m though.

think they should as a girl at work told someone else neighbours was not on british tv . till i told her it was on 5

Interesting to see ITV taking both their fixtures on the Saturday. Should be good figures for an all premiership Man Utd fixture.

And with no Sunday tea time match, means Dancing on Ice can go out unaffected.

I expect it will be fourth or fifth as it's has some very tough competition with Waterloo Road, Masterchef, Relocation and The Bill. It was an unexpected hit for them last year and they've been promoting it heavily both on its own and as part of the 2009 promo trail.

I love Ice Road Truckers. On paper it sounds like a really dull show, but something about it is addictive.

Superb night for ratings, especially ITV.

I tuned into Above Suspicion after somebody was raving about it at work and thurily enjoyed it. Anybody know how the all day shares worked out yesterday?

Glad the soaps rated well. Corrie and EE had a rare spout of brilliance last night and hopefully EM can sustain some of its viewers, God knows it needs to. After those figures its going to be disapointing seeing EM and EE mid 6m tomorrow, both clearly have potential.

I'm not sure where were at with BB. 3.4m looks good to me though.

Isn't that a fanmade opening titles?

I was really shocked when i saw that Emmerdale got 8m! and Anne Frank did well!!

Great news for the other soaps 2! EE on 10m, and the corries getting nearly 11!

ITV did really well at 9, and im glad that C4 did better then BBC1

ITV1- 22.2%
BBC1- 19%
C4- 9.3%
BBC2- 7.9%
Five- 4.3%

Source: C4Sales

Well it didnt really. Traffic Cops seems to get an inexplicable 3m. I'd like to see its AI's.

'Back to normal Monday' seemed to have had an affect and the fact there was widespread snow, well in London anyway.

oh ye, C4 didnt lol, well it was close anyway

On CSI, didnt the first episide get over 4m last year, i dont expect this year as we dont have the whole 'is sarah dead' thing.

I think a CSI:LONDON is a good idea, but it would be waisted on five! it could get 6-8m viewers on BBC1 IMO, and could make CBS allot of money if they put it on a cable channel or show it in the summer... or make it exclusive to showtime? All this would also boost the normal CSI's on five, so they benifit to

also, has anybody got the top 10 ratings for BBC2/C4/Five and he multi channel ones?

Lots of people watching telly last night, giving shows higher ratings than we might expect for their audience shares?

Will be interesting to see tonight's figures to see how much of that was down to the "Monday effect" and how much was down to the (still) cold weather.

BBC Two took a fair bit of wind out of BBC One's sails from 8.30-10pm.

It's quite annoying that we only ever get the News at Ten figure up front when it is a headline grabbing poor figure, and never at any other time

The season opener of CSI last year got 3.5m for overnight but with weak competition from BBC One and ITV1 and because it is the conculsion to the season finale, it could hit 4m though 3.5m is more likely.

I suspect Five would have first dibs on a potential CSI: London given that they air the CSI Franchise and have a good relationship with CBS Paramount since their big shows like NCIS and Numb3rs.

We did find it out though... and its was just sort of average.