Isn't the Carling Cup going to be shown on the BBC next year? If so then I expect 6-7m on BBC One.

Moving Wallpaper and AMMPD did poorly coming last in the timeslot, BBC Two did very well with Six Nations and marks a very good week for them with UC and Masterchef hitting 5m.

BBC One was dented by the rugby but I expect it will bounce back next week, Channel 4 did okay with APITS and Kitchen Nightmares but Free Agents did badly while Five was relatively unaffected by Six Nations with Police Interceptors, NCIS and Numb3rs doing well was neck and neck with Channel 4 on share and was only 60,000 behind Kitchen Nightmares.

NCIS has really helped Five improve its Friday ratings beating BBC Two, Channel 4 and at times ITV1 and they should seriously consider acquiring the upcoming spin-off.

a very good night for BBC1

Ant and Dec beaten by Rugby, Lets dance for Comic relief, lottery and Casualty

Hah! The Colour of Money went UP 500k this week.

Surprised to see COM rise, and even more happy to see Lets Dance's audience grow

Just read the Digital Spy ratings report for Satutrday. Blimey!! It's unusual to see Takeaway so low.

But Colour Of Money went up so a bit of positive news for ITV there.

Didn't Britannia High see a rise for its second week, but we all know what happened to that .

In all seriousness, I'm surprised by the rise for The Colour of Money. But I still don't think its figures are good enough.

COM goes up?! Didn't expect that. Might not be a major disaster just yet.

Let's Dance benefitted massively from that rugby lead-in I see.

And and Dec well down - big problem with the format and the viewers seem to concur.

Bizzare ratings for Saturday night. The rugby really helped BBC1 for the night, giving Lets Dance a few more viewers. Ant & Dec were down sharply again but Colour of Money did a good bit better.

I think A&D will be back above 6m next week, Lets Dance will be down, Harry Hill will go up and I have no idea what COM will do!

Might depend who is in it? Often lower appeal sides end up contesting it.

It will be simulcast on Sky Sports & the BBC.

Not amazing but a substantial rise nevertheless. Not sure if it'll hold on to that or even build on it (which it probably needs to continue doing if it's deemed a relative success).

The only reason BH got higher for it's second episode was because it started 15 minutes late, so the first quater of an hour was people still watching Lewis Hamilton win the F1, and last bit people turning over early to see Heartbeat or something like that

Lets Dance is proving to be a big success for the BBC. The show was better this week too.

I agree, it really was great entertainment last night. Glad to see it doing so well

Britannia High had the F1 season finale as lead in on Week 2.

On Week 1 TCOM ratings stayed steady throughout the show. The AI was not as bad as you made out, as its frequently the case for new quiz shows that Ep 1 gets a low AI as viewers get familiar with the set up.

When I first read about this show I thought it was a stupid idea. But you know what? It actually works as an entertainment show. And I am more surprised about that than anybody as I was dismissive of it originally.

I think Let's Dance will have to return next year, with ratings like that: possibly tied in with March 2010's Sport Relief, or even as a standalone show in place of Your Country Needs You, or as springtime opposition for the Saturday night Britain Has Talent shows.

TV burp - on far too early (prob because of bbc's schecudling)
Colour Of Money - Should be in daytime slot but on saturday after takeaway, because of a big lead in.
Takeaway - move it back after tv burp, that way both shows perform well.

The last time Takeaway dropped that low, was on the last show of series 7.

It seems like the kind of show that needs to be associated with a charity event in order to justify it's silliness.

Surprised to see The Colour of Money rise, but that could all be down to Harry Hill as others previously mentioned.

That's a poor figure for Ant and Dec really, but I'm sure ITV will be pleased with the Colour of Money's slight rise.

Great night for BBC1

Yes the BBC really need more celebrity dancing shows

Fair enough. But maybe the better lead-in from TV Burp this week helped out TCOM's ratings, instead of the actual programme being that good?


I still think it's a low AI. Stastically it was the worst AI on any terrestrial channel between Thursday and Saturday of that week - you can't debate that. Duel's premiere last year got a better AI, so did Pokerface.

Golden Balls started off with a very low AI at the start. I think it was low 60s IIRC

I'm surprised COM went up, but A&D went down. Good news for ITV that COM went up and if it maintains those figures it could become a reasonable hit, but I still think its slotted wrong and is seriously harming TV Burp and to an extent A&D.

Decent night for BBC2 and I think QI should have stayed on BBC2 for all its screenings.

Great night for BBC1 and they are winning schedules now which I thought ITV would win hands down. Let's Dance has turned into a much bigger hit than I thought-around 2 million up on what I thought! It also seemed to benefit later shows, but if Casualty didn't get over 6m then there would be something wrong with it up against 2 film repeats.

Unfortunately for ITV next week, BBC1 have played a similar trick to what ITV played a couple of weeks ago starting Lets Dance just as ITV's football match goes to the analysis. That way it takes a head start on TV Burp and I think TV Burp and A&D will perform similarly to this week, but in general ITV have a stronger schedule with the FA Cup, Midsomer repeat and FA Cup highlights not against MOTD.

I think we'll get it in Q1, tied in with Sport Relief but probably for a longer run. Q2 will have the return of the Lloyd Webber shows after a year off. Q3 will be Last Choir Standing and Q4 is Strictly.

I think the Eurovision thing will be cut back to the one weekend special, this years just seemed to be something to keep Lloyd Webber and Graham Norton on our TV's and The One and Only also appears to have been a one-off.