Just a rumour, I think it came from Wikipedia. But if she can't cope with attractive, younger females sitting beside her, she might not last long on AGT if Cowell keeps adding 4th judges.

Strong performance for Unforgiven. But I think that before people get carried away with the "resurgence of ITV drama" they should recognise that BBC1 managed to kill off the ITV drama premieres a year ago with New Tricks repeats which were getting 5-6m. Repeats of Traffic Cops don't offer the same competition, and really, it would be pretty dire for ITV if they were not getting 7m+ for new drama against that sort of competition.

Hunter should offer a sterner test - but I wish the Beeb had put that out a week earlier to not give ITV a head start.


But will ITV1 actually bother to show all the episodes this time?


Sounds like ITV's Griff Rhys Jones on, er, whichever cities he went to series. Should do about the same sort of business too I should think - 3-4m?

Well I'm worried about Hunter I think it could get lost on Sunday with Wild At Heart and Dancing On Ice and Unforgiven has established itself on Monday, people will be intrigued to see how Unforgiven pans out. The thing is Unforgiven and Hunter both look good but it's great to have too much good television rather than too little.

You have to remember that it isn't a fact of people not seeing Hunter as Dancing On Ice is on. They are looking for alternative entertainment, and BBC1 is providing it with Lark Rise and Hunter.

I'm guessing that Hunter will be left on a cliff hanger to get people roped in for the Monday night episode. Did Unforgiven finish on a cliffhanger or could people just assume it was a one off.

ABC
19:00 ABC News 968,000
19:30 The 7.30 Report 663,000

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1,350,000
18:30 Today Tonight 1,392,000
19:00 How I Met Your Mother (R) 995,000
19:30 Wild Vets 829,000
20:00 Coastwatch 850,000
20:30 Eli Stone 787,000
22:30 Extreme: Skinny Celebrity Mums 2 388,000

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1,080,000
18:30 A Current Affair 840,000
19:00 Temptation 765,000
19:30 Twenty/20 Cricket Australia v South Africa 2nd Game 2,160,000
22:40 Movie: Hard to Kill 607,000

Ten
17:00 Ten News at Five 904,000
18:00 The Bold and The Beautiful 478,000
19:00 Friends (R) 616,000
19:30 The Simpsons (R) 692,000
20:00 Rules of Engagement (R) 652,000
20:30 NCIS (R) 879,000
21:30 NCIS (R) 942,000

SBS
20:30 Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery 336,000

Primetime Shares
ABC 10.8%
Seven 22.1%
Nine 44.3%
Ten 17.8%
SBS 4.9%

LOL at Seven's 10.30pm programme - winging its way to ITV1 primetime no doubt.

NCIS does well on Ten even in repeats, it's amazing how successful this show does considering it's not a new show. I bet that if the proposed spin-off goes ahead, I would bet Five will try and nab exclusive rights.

I think the Extreme programme orginated from Living as the title seems familar.

Something positive about the BBC and ITV.

BBC deal could secure ITV local news until 2016

I'm looking for viewing figures for a Eurosport programme on boxing day and something on Sky Sports 2 on the 2nd of Jan - could anyone point me in the right direction?

http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammes?

Select the channel(s) and week on the left side panel and click "view figures". Only the top 10 for the week is shown but it should give you an idea of the rating...

1st Week of January not there yet but boxing day should be covered.

K

3.8 million for the new CSI only losing out to BBC One's New Tricks in the ratings but seeing off the combined might of C4, ITV and BBC2

Now that is very impressive for Five. Wasn't that the episode where they search for Warwick's killer? It got rave reviews in the US.

Didn't get rave reviews here!:


K

Happily ignoring the Guardian and the Telegraph like most of the general population...I thought it was ok, to be honest but not completely fantastic, anywya my views are airmed more in the CSI thread but regardless of the views the ratings won't lie

As for the Wire it has its atrocious moments too but its a completely different show so I don't know why the reviewer made that remark. Its like comparing ER to Holby City

Well the media in general love The Wire and want to make every single television viewer love The Wire....but they don't. As good as The Wire might be it is a bit of a clique in the media that enjoy it just like 30 Rock.

What did Oz and James get yesterday?

Would it be possible for anyone to tell me the rating for last night's Richard & Judy on Watch?

Thanks.

Tuesday 13th January Overnights
BBC One
19.30- EastEnders: 6.83m (30.4%)
20.00- Holby City: 6.2m (26.7%)
21.00- New Tricks: 4.69m (19.9%)

BBC Two
21.00- Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey: 2.19m (9.3%)

ITV1
19.00- Emmerdale: 6.5m (29.8%)
20.00- Trinny & Susannah Meet Their Match: 2.39m (10.3%)
21.00- Extreme Slimmers: 2.42m (10.3%)

Channel 4
18.30- Hollyoaks: 1.56m (7.6%)
20.00- Country House Rescue: 2.25m (9.7%)
21.00- Celebrity Big Brother: 2.96m (12.7%) +1: 285k (1.8%)
22.00- Derren Brown: Evening of Wonders: 2.49m [inc. +1]

Five
17.30- Neighbours: 1.53m (9.4%)
18.00- Home and Away: 919,000 (4.7%).
20.00- Secrets of Egypt: Valley of the Kings: 1.56m (6.7%)
21.00- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 3.86m (16.4%)
22.00- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (repeat): 1.94m (10.9%)

BBC Three
22.00- EastEnders: 1.38m (7.6%)

E4
19.00- Hollyoaks: 750,000 (4%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One: 24.0% (last week: 23.6%)
ITV1: 14.9% (15.4%)
Channel 4: 9.8% (8.8%)
Five: 9.0% (5.0%)
BBC Two: 8.4% (9.3%)

Source: DS

Superb rating for CSI. Is that higher than last year's launch? BBC One had a good night, with all their shows winning the slots. Apart from Emmerdale, ITV rated poor as expected. Celebrity Big Brother gets back up past the 3m mark, but it's still not brilliant.

Some more ratings from Broadcast.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2..._with_39m.html

Got the rating for R&J - 28,000/0.16% Peaked at 31,000/0.19% and pulled in a extra 9,000 on the timeshift channel - It improved the slot average of 10,000/0.06%

Source: Broadcast Now

Well, I guess that's kinda OK since hardly no one knew the show was on at 6pm - What are "Watch" playing at - Who doesn't promote a show when it's changing time? Am sure and I pray it picks up after a few months - And the new set is lovely by the way

Media Guardian have updated but they said Emmerdale won the 7-8pm hour. But I thought EastEnders beat it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...r-channel-five

Probably just typical lazy Guardian journalism - presumably if you average across the full hour ITV would have been in front.

I guess they're working off averages for the whole hour. It just means Emmerdale beat TOS between 7-7.30, by more than EastEnders beat Emmerdale between 7.30-8. Which isn't surprising.

Good night for Five. They really prospered from the lack of decent programming on BBC One and ITV1. C4 and BBC Two both put in decent performances at 9pm too. Holby City looked like it benefitted with a really strong performance at 8pm against Trinny and Susannah. Just how much longer does their contract with ITV last?

I like The Wire but I find the media love for it a bit tiring at times, CSI may not be perfect but it is well written and well acted. Shows like 30 Rock, Mad Men may be critical darlings and award winners but they're not exactly ratings hit which is why Awards Ceremony like The Golden Globe or The Emmys don't attract high audiences.

Back to ratings, CSI did fantastic second only to BBC One, with poorer competition next week aside from Channel 4, it stands a good chance of coming first next week. BBC One did very well with EE, Holby and New Tricks winning their slots, ITV1 did poorly with Extreme Slimmers and T&S, Channel 4 did well with CBB back to 3m and CHR and Derren Brown breaking 2m and BBC Two did well with Oz and James doing well as did Masterchef.

The fact that a repeat of CSI did 1.9m at 10pm makes me wonder how well a new show would after CSI.

Five was very cany to show a teaser of Minder throughout CSI as it's exposes it to a potentially big audience. Personally, I think it will really well and most likely outrate CSI as most watched show on Five this year and hopefully will lead to more homegrown drama on the channel.

The One Show Overnight Ratings
Mon 12 Jan: 5.21m (24%)
Tue 13 Jan: 5.0m (23.7%)

Very good rating for TOS.

Thanks for that rzt. Where did you find it? Do you notice though how The One Show more often than not goes down in the official ratings?

Talking of official ratings BARB has updated with ratings for the week ending January 4th.

http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyT...esttimeout=500

I can't say where I got it from, I'm afraid.

Yep, I've noticed that The One Show often goes down in the officials. It particularly goes down on Tuesdays when EE follows it. But still, it pulls in a reliable 4.5-5.5m which is very good. The BBC really used to have problems in the 7pm slot, but TOS has sorted it out now.

Looking at those latest BARB officials, fantastic for Jonathan Creek. Could possibly get into the Top 10 by the end of the year. Top 20 is a definite I reckon.