We now have the figures for the first full week of Sky basics return to VM. See below:

Sky 1 Weekly Reach:

w/e 19 Oct - 8,123,000
w/e 26 Oct - 7,844,000
w/e 2 Nov - 7,893,000
w/e 9 Nov - 8,455,000
w/e 16 Nov - 10,174,000 (on VM for 4 days)
w/e 23 Nov - 10,905,000 (on VM for whole week)

Sky 1 Weekly Viewing Share:

w/e 19 Oct - 1.0%
w/e 26 Oct - 0.9%
w/e 2 Nov - 0.9%
w/e 9 Nov - 1.0%
w/e 16 Nov - 1.2% (on VM for 4 days)
w/e 23 Nov - 1.3% (on VM for whole week)

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

8:00
CBS NCIS 18.54m
FOX House 12.37m
ABC Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (R) 8.98m
NBC Biggest Loser: Families 8.05m
CW 90210 (R) 1.20m

9:00
CBS The Mentalist 18.77m
NBC Biggest Loser: Families 9.27m
FOX Fringe 8.69m
ABC According to Jim 6.15m
CW Privileged (R) 0.86m

9:30
ABC According to Jim 5.51m

10:00
CBS Without a Trace 12.20m
NBC Law & Order: SVU 10.31m
ABC Eli Stone 4.93m

Series high for The Mentalist-Up almost three million viewers from last week after being up against DWTS finale.

Highest rated show of the night was The Mentalist with 18.77m.
Lowest rated show of the night was Privileged(R) with 0.86m.

If your Grandad wants to watch Emmerdale, he should really be your Grandmother.

ITV1 Wednesday

7.30pm Coronation Street 10.2m (43%)
8.30pm I’m A Celebrity 8.7m (36%)
10pm News At Ten 3.3m (17%)

Coronation Street is the most resilient of all the soaps when it comes to ratings. And you were right about the Bonekickers trajectory of Survivors, but I'm hopeful it can do better next week out of the line of fire of I'm A Celebrity. I think it's a good show.

The Mentalist is easily the hit of the US season, if it carries on like this it might just hit 20 million. The fact that it beat its lead-in of the red hot NCIS is the story of the day.

ABC have suffered a total collapse without Dancing With The Stars, and I think it'll stay that way for ABC until DWTS returns in March.

Wow! A brilliant figure for Corrie. It certainly exceeded my expectations. I thought it would have got 9 million + at most. I didn't think it would hit the 10 million mark - it was a good episode last night though.

IAC is still doing well and up considerably on its Tuesday night rating.. probably because of the Corrie lead in.

Excellent rating for Corrie. I didn't think it would top 10m after recent ratings but its good to see it achieve a good rating for a big episode. IAC also very high, exactly the same as last Wednesday.

EDIT- Corrie's highest rating since April 7th.

good rating for Corrie. But I wouldn't have thought a year ago that it would take 6 months for 10.2m to be reached from Corrie or EastEnders!

Aaaarrrggghhhh! Is that shit still going?!

BBC1
7.30pm Dom's on the Case of Dentists 2.7m (11.8%)
8pm Little Dorrit 2.5m (10.3%)
9pm Rogue Traders 3.6m (15.2%)
10pm BBC News 4.9m (24%)

ITV1
7.30pm Coronation Street 10.2m (43%)
8.30pm I’m A Celebrity 8.7m (36%)
10pm News At Ten 3.3m (17%)

BBC2
8pm Oceans 2.6m (10.7%)
9pm Heroes 1.9m (8%)
10pm Outnumbered 1m (4.9%)

Five
8pm Combat Chefs 900,000 (2.7%)
9pm Dangerous Adventures for Boys 700,000 (3%)
10pm Ant and Dec: Where Did It All Go Right? 1.4m (8%)

Four
8pm The Home Show 1.4m
9pm The Devil's Whore 1.7m (7%)
10.10pm Desperate Housewives 1.3m (8.1%)

Looks like Five had a hard time last night apart from the 10pm slot. I can't see them getting 1m in every slot in primetime anytime soon.

I don't think 5.2% can be right for Rogue Traders unless there was a record TV audience last night!

Yeh lol- if it was 5.2%, it would mean 69m people watching television, more than the population of the UK .

It got a 15% share .

ITV1 did really well with Corrie and IAC, BBC One and Five had a poor night while BBC Two and Channel 4 did okay. The Ant and Dec doc did quite well, Five should consider putting The Cheryl Cole documentary at 9pm and Dangerous Adventures at 10pm.


The combo of Corrie and IAC did hit Five had last night and it doesn't help that Dangerous Adventures was doing poorly anyway.

Waterloo Road is back for another 20 episodes next month but in a new slot on Wednesday nights on BBC1.

It's still staying at 8pm, isn't it?

Yes, same time, same channel, same competition (The Bill), just different night and no 9 million lead in from Eastenders.

A logical choice for the BBC - Wednesday at 8 has been a terrible slot for them all year. Waterloo Road will bring some consistency and solid ratings.

I don't like this decision at all. Wednesday 8pm has always been a poor slot for BBC1 and I can't see Waterloo Road performing very well here. I can see the logic in that they want a Wednesday night drama which can be on for a long time and perform well, but with no EE lead in it is going to struggle.

Very strong night for ITV last night with Corrie & IAC halping ITV gain an al hours of almost 25% which is great for ITV1-probably in the top 5 shares this year.

Very poor night for BBC1 again. Didn't expect the Ant & Dec doc to perform that well, but there's a lot of appeal for them at the moment.

Very late change to BBC One's schedule tonight.

"Little Dorrit" has been moved from it's 20:00 slot to accomodate "Shannon: The Mother of All Lies" which will air in it's slot. No announcement on where the episode of "Little Dorrit" is being moved to.

Source: BBC

I'm not convinced it will be on Wednesdays at 8pm once the week 1 schedules are finalised.

A bit inconvenient if they want to show a 1 hour omnibus on Sunday. When they mess around shows like this, it makes you appreciate ITVs consistent scheduling

Can Little Dorrit now officially be classed as a flop ?

It had all of the potential but the BBC killed it.

Well, including the omnibus its still got a following of 5 or 6million or so, but in terms of what they would have been expecting, yes its done poorly. I think they'll be retreating back to Sunday nights with their costume dramas from now on.

I don't know that tonights pulling has anything to do with Dorrit though, as the Shannon Matthews Panorama is just a reaction to the court verdict today. They couldn't have aired it tomorrow night without displacing EastEnders, and by next week it would be relatively old news.