Doubt it but from a purely shallow perspective Emma Crosby is much easier on the eye than her predecessor.

BBC also making budget cuts I see: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a1394...dget-cuts.html


Also, are we gonna get any more ratings from yesterday?

It was a good night for ITV.

From Media Guardian

Monday 29th December 2008
BBC One
18:30 - Celebrity Mastermind - 5.3m (25%)
*Down 200,000 on last night
20:00 - EastEnders - 9.2m (37.4%)
20:30 - FILM: Superman Returns - 4.4m (19%)

BBC Two
21:00 - Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking - 2.8m (12%)

ITV1
19:30 - Coronation Street - 9.6m (40.1%)
20:30 - Coronation Street - 9.2m (37%)
21:00 - Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Olympic Gold Medallist Special - 4.9m (21%)

Channel 4
18:00 - T4: The Simpsons - 2.36m
18:30 - Hollyoaks - 2.04m (9.62%)
19:30 - The Lost Pyramid - 1.61m
21:00 - Tony Robinson And The Blitz Witch - 1.9m (8%) [+1: 106,000]
22:00 - The Pregnant Man - 710,000

five
20:00 - The World's Strongest Man - 1.1m (4%)
21:00 - FILM: The Exorcism of Emily Rose - 1m (5%)

E4
19:00 - Hollyoaks - 640,000
21:00 - Ricky Gervais: New Hero Of Comedy - 190,000 (0.81%)
22:00 - Ricky Gervais Fame - 370,000

Film4
18:30 - FILM: The Phantom Of The Opera - 260,000
21:00 - FILM: Mr & Mrs Smith - 370,000

More4
19:00 - Property Ladder - 160,000
19:55 - Come Dine With Me - 320,000
21:00 - The Queen's Coronation:... - 150,000

All-Day Shares
ITV1 - 19.5%
BBC One - 18.4%
BBC Two - 8.2%
Channel 4 - 8.2% (inc +1)
five - 4.1%
Multichannel - 41.6%

Source: C4 Sales, MG

The lead for EastEnders over Corrie lasted for all of two days.

What do you know? Supports an idea that perhaps Who Wants to be a Millionaire? should be on Tuesday nights until Champions League finishes at 9pm.

That wasn't directed at me... was it?

3 days even.

That's quite a disappointing rating for EastEnders. I thought it would have been top yesterday, maybe even edging towards the 10 million mark. That second Corrie did well to tie against EastEnders, because it seemed to have tougher opposition.

Superman Returns rated much worse than I expected. I thought it would have got at least 5 million, but it wasn't promoted well at all. Also it's not a particularly good film, so it looks like people opted for Millionaire and Sherlock Holmes.

Millionaire's rated quite well of late, maybe ITV will consider putting it in the 9pm slot in the future. It would bring in 4.5m minimum I would think, which is significantly higher than what some of ITV's 9pm shows have got of late.

Xmas Eve - 8.41m vs. 8.39m
Xmas Day - 11.47m/9.89m vs. 7.36m
Boxing Day - 9.64m vs. 7.54m/7.54m
Yesterday - 9.2m vs. 9.6m/9.2m

Ah, I thought it was 2 days at first.

No, it's just a sentence starter...

Like...'whadda you know...'

A bit American I know...

EastEnders is going back into it's usual routine of having solid ratings after Christmas. Maybe the New Year's Day editions will have blockbuster ratings. And I've said it before Superman Returns had virtually no promotion so I'm not shocked it rated so poorly.

They packed in too many films, Superman Returns should have aired on a Bank Holiday Monday soon.

Poor for Superman Returns really - though I suppose its a bit isolated on a Monday night between Christmas and New Year. It really should have been promoted between the Boxing Day blockbusters. WWTBAM is as consistent as ever and can pull a regular 4-5 million in whatever slot ITV need - not to be sniffed at in this day and age.

EastEnders was average and it looks like people have started to revert back to their normal Monday viewing habits with Corrie back on top for its Monday double-header. It'll be interesting to see if people return to EastEnders over New Year. Last year it pulled almost 9 million for a 40 minute episode including a 30 min clash with Emmerdale - so we'd surely expect figures to be pushed comfortably above 10 million, this year?

i really wanted to see superman and didnt even know it was on!! why dont the BBC advertise these things.. there is no point in buying the film if people arnt going to watch it!

Sherlock Holmes did very well on BBC2, No other channel was offering a good'old drama in the same time slot.

Superman suffered from being against the 8.30 CS and near zero promotion!

EE did not do aswell as I expected, but CS (7.30) did very well!

I think i was more a case of too little promotion, for me Boxing Day had too many films on BBC1.

Low ratings all round, apart from EE and Corrie, and particularly the Superman Returns premiere - repeats of the original films were still getting up to 10m viewers a few Christmases ago. It's not as if Millionaire pulled a massive audience - it's down on what it got against Holby last week.

People obviously decided to watch DVDs or recordings last night. Or a very large number chose to watch the second Corrie and watch a timeshifted recording of Superman from the start when Corrie finished....

Just reading some posts back from this time last year, and it's interesting to see what people were predicting for 2008:



Hardly anyone could have predicted that the talent shows would have been so popular this year! I personally thought there would be some kind of decline because effectively they've been going on for 7/8 years now. But clearly the public haven't got bored of them. I'll be looking at the ratings for Dancing on Ice 2009 quite closely, because I think its ratings will give a good indication of how the other talent shows will rate in 2009.

Regarding the Top 10, it's pretty good that all the shows are above the 10 million mark. Big surprises for me are Antiques Roadshow, Wallace and Gromit and the return to form of I'm a Celebrity.

Some people predicted the outcome of ITV's Sunday changes well, though:


What are ITV waiting for? They really need to bring back the soaps (or at least Corrie) to Sundays ASAP in my opinion.

Yes Soaps need to be back on Sundays but at a later time. Emmerdale on a Sunday at 7pm is too early.

I'm surprised Superman didn't do much better for BBC1 last night
Nice to see Corrie doing better because its very good at the moment

I find this post interesting considering some of the Xmas ratings and the Top 2008 ratings:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...postcount=8611 - March 18th, 2008.


Although most of it is accurate, soaps can get scraped off the "more than 10 million" list apart from at Xmas.

2008 doesent seem to have been as bleak as Rzt projected last year.

We have Film, Comedy, Sci-fi and Documentry (AR) in the top 10 up there with the soaps and reality, all exceeding 10m. Interesting also 2007 and 2008 have both seen year on year increases in terms of the top rated program. 2006's top rated show also exceeded 2005's.

Well that's a bit of a surprise to see ITV win yesterday quite comfortably, even with the soaps. And when was the last time Millionaire won its slot? The show seems to have found some new viewers over Christmas-maybe this is due to the celeb versions, but whatever it is it's nice to see the show have some life left in it yet. A 9pm move wouldn't be a bad idea aswell. I would have thought Superman Returns would have dented Corrie, but the other way round with Corrie back as the No1 soap in terms of first showings.

A repeat of the Sherlock Holmes thing performed much better than I expected. CH4 held up well with its fillers, before BB starts and FIVE managed to stay above 1 million from 8-11.20pm.

Now I'd like to see the ratings for ITV NaT...

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Regarding the top ten my shocks are the same as rzt's with W&G, AR and probably the biggest shock being IAC creeping back into the top 10!

Be interesting to see the 5 mins breakdowns for last night.

With Millionaire hardly setting the world alight with less than 5m, I wonder if Superman did particularly badly when Corrie was on (say 3.5m), took the lead at 9pm and posted a healthy audience for a while, but then lost viewers as it drifted towards its 10.55pm conclusion - for a family film (I assume - have never seen it) it was a late slot and a long running one.

The average of 4.4m over 2.5 hrs including 30 mins against Corrie may not be quite as disastrous as it seems.

EDIT: Did multi-channel really have a 35% share between 9-10pm last night, for example?

I wonder, when Wallace and Gromit is repeated on Thursday, is it too much to expect it to get 6m viewers, giving it a total of more than 20m viewers!?! I think that would be great if it did happen.