Not looking great for EE. At this rate the show will have another tough year.

Death Comes to Pemberley - 5.9m

Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows - 3.7m (4.3m inc +1)

Open All Hours should have been Christmas Day

Another bad rating for EastEnders this Christmas.

Never saw that coming for Still Open All Hours. A superb rating. EastEnders isn't really providing a big lead in as more people are tuning in for the programme after it.

'@davidwalliams' family comedy drama #GangstaGranny beat #Emmerdale at teatime - 5.79m/26.6% vs 5.36m/24.2%.


Maybe ITV need to come to the conclusion that film premières just do not work over Christmas?

The Harry Potter premiere averaged 4.27m/19.2% across ITV's peaktime schedule, losing out to BBC1 up until 9.20pm.


Proof that being a premiere didn't help Potter much then. The HBP repeat did quite a bit better than that on Sunday, and OOTP wasn't much lower last Saturday. Not a great result at all but maybe not such a shock with BBC1 so strong for most of the night. It was probably c4.5m tapeckecked and no doubt they'll get a load more for it through endless repeats anyway.

There are two schools of thought I suppose: one is that, but the other is that, especially considering last year's results, what else could have held 4.5m/20% (what it will have been tapechecked) across primetime for ITV on Boxing Day against a strong (for the most part) BBC1?

C4's #bigfatquizoftheyear pulled in more than 2.7m Total including C4+1 overnights.tv

Harry Potter is pretty much getting what the other films have had in primetime over Christmas. It does better when weaker programmes are on the other side. Thought it would be 5/6m with Still Open at 7-8m.

As I said before, New Year's Day is all about Sherlock and it will be fine against Harry Potter.

10pm - 11pm

News (BBC1) - 5.2m
MotD - 4m

I am Britney Jean (ITV) - 800,000


Elsewhere....


Cars 2 (BBC1) - 3.5m

Big Fat Quiz of the Year (C4)- 2.2m (2.7m inc +1)

Idris Elba, King of Speed (BBC2) - 900,000
Ben & James (BBC2) - 1.1m

Poor old Len flopped then.

That figure for SOAH wow. Plus that figure for EE isn't that bad I mean what where people expecting? Some thought it would be under 7mil against HP. Also there wasn't a big aftermath like last year.

SOAH the clear stand-out there. Gangsta Granny also did really well at teatime. Elsewhere, another underwhelming EastEnders, which is no shock given the Christmas Day rating. Very solid, but maybe slightly underwhelming for Death Comes To Pemberley. It's a good rating but with that lead-in, all the promotion and a Boxing Day slot I expected a little more. Emmerdale suffered at 6.15pm, whilst Potter did OK-ish but could have done much better elsewhere. It'll probably get a better rating than that through a repeat at some point. Very strong for Big Fat Quiz. Looks like C4 are having a good Christmas. I Am Britney Jean was a total disaster! It was even lower than I thought it would be. Wow.

Wonder how Len Goodman did?

ITV averaged only 2.7m across the same sort of time last Boxing Day so Harry Potter was massively up on that, even though it looks a bit poor out of context.

Len Goodman - 3.3m

That's actually not to bad.

There wasn't a big aftermath, it was a big episode on its own, which was heavily trailed and aparantly was the start of a new era.

Still Open shows that people like nostalgia. Does it bode well for Birds Of A Feather?

Thanks. Not a good rating at all really, but a deserved one for filler like that. When you consider how BBC1 normally do in that slot on Boxing Day it's especially poor.

Embarrassingly low for Len in an otherwise triumphant night for BBC1. Hopefully this type of programme will never be allowed near Boxing Day again.

The everyone with family and full and drunk scenario won't help BOAF, Thu 2nd is back to Normality for many

The BBC have the headline numbers they want for any press release with Gangster granny, and Still open all hours, Pembley did well as well.

Not half as embarrassing as ITV's 'I Am Britney Jean' - which shouldn't have been allowed on at any time.

I don't think that can be disguised as anything other than dreadful in the context of part of a winning night overall. Remember it is Boxing Day. BBC paying the price for spreading the butter too thin this year. Len was very cheap filler and should have been nowhere near such a prime slot.

Agreed, Britney Spears hasn't had a hit in the UK for several years and whoever thought this scheduling was a good idea needs firing.