To be honest, there aren't many things "ratings wise" that stand out at the moment... but I'd expect posts to increase over the weekend as per normal.

I wonder if Moving Wallpaper will get back up above 2m, or whether it'll fail to increase after Comic Relief last week? I can't see ITV recommisioning it, though.

Any US ratings today? Curious to see how Obama went down on Jay Leno. That special Olympics gag was a bit of a faux pas wasn't it?

I think he is a sort of Derren Brown pseudo psychic who isnt really but is simply gifted at using psychological skills, people reading and manipulation and instead of using this to do stage shows he helps out the police.

Yet another ex Home and Away/Neighbours star making it big in the States!

True. Especially if Sonny posts the ratings for us tomorrow.
Who? I might remember him if he's from Neighbours. Haven't seen Home and Away since about 1990.

Very good ratings for Paris Hilton, I think thats quite an increases for the final episode
Not so good for the JLC chat show, it should have been pushed back 2 weeks so it didn't have Skins as competition.

Very surprised by those ratings for Paris. Did quite well in the end. Wonder if they'll bring it back next year...

Someone mentioned Skins being down last night? It was actually up, it fell a bit last week.

Ratings up slightly this week despite the early finish. Expect a larger than usual increase when it comes to the official ratings as they account for start and finish times. Overnights just measure the slot.

Overnight ratings so far this series, including E4+1:
3.01 - 834,000
3.02 - 872,000
3.03 - 829,000
3.04 - 868,000
3.05 – 973,000
3.06 – 922,000
3.07 – 997,000
3.08 – 830,000
3.09 – 887,000
AVERAGE – 890,000

The first 4 weeks official ratings are also available now. Official ratings include people who Sky+ the show or record it. These figures do not include E4+1.

2.01 - 1,061,000
2.02 - 757,000
2.03 - 767,000
2.04 – 742,000
2.05 – 709,000
2.06 – 751,000
2.07 – 686,000

3.01 - 877,000 (-184,000)
3.02 - 916,000 (+159,000)
3.03 - 857,000 (+90,000)
3.04 – 915,000 (+173,000)
3.05 – 913,000 (+204,000)
3.06 – 957,000 (+206,000)
3.07 – 997,000 (+311,000)

There was an improvement of more than 300,000 compared to last year which is brilliant. Episode 7 also added 325,000 on E4+1 taking its total audience from one showing to 1,322,000. No doubt a few hundred thousand more watched repeats.

He had an 11.2 household rating (17m-ish, perhaps). It was the fourth highest rating in the 16 years that Leno has been hosting the show and the highest since 2005.

It improved on the series average by 187%.

Very impressive. Bodes well for the new 10pm show.

19th March 2009
USA Overnight Ratings

Sorted by 18-49 Rating

Network - Show - 18-49 Rating/Share - 18-34 Rating/Share

8.00pm:
CBS - NCAA Basketball.......3.4/11.......3.2/11..........9.77m
FOX - Bones.......................3.0/9.........2.4/8..........10.19m
NBC - My Name Is Earl.......2.4/8.........1.8/5.............6.42m
ABC - Ugly Betty.................2.1/6.........1.9/7.............7.55m
CW - Smallville...................1.4/4..........1.5/5.............3.29m
9.30pm:
NBC - The Office.................2.0/6..........1.8/6............4.64m

9.00pm:
ABC - Greys Anatomy.........5.0/13........4.5/13........14.36m
NBC - The Office.................3.9/10........4.4/12..........7.95m
CBS - NCAA Basketball.......3.8/10........3.3/10........10.26m
FOX - Hells Kitchen.............3.3/9..........3.0/9............7.55m
CW - Supernatural.............1.2/3..........1.5/5............3.14m
9.30pm:
NBC - 30 Rock....................3.2/8...........3.1/9............7.02m

10.00pm:
ABC - Private Practice........3.6/10.........3.1/9..........10.03m
NBC - ER............................3.3/9...........2.4/7............9.46m
CBS - NCAA Basketball.......3.3/9...........3.0/9............8.22m

NETWORKS:
ABC - 10.65m & 3.5/10 & 3.1/10
CBS - 9.42m & 3.5/10 & 3.1/10
FOX - 8.87m & 3.1/9 & 2.6/8
NBC - 7.49m & 3.0/8 & 2.6/8
CW - 3.22m & 1.3/4 & 1.3/4

NOTES:
The Office at 8.30pm was a repeat.
Private Pratice won thanks to its lead-in which it gradually lost, ER won the last half hour.
It was apparently the most closely contested night between the networks for 2 years in the demo's.

Source:
tvbythenumbers

The CBS Lineup was lower than usual ratings wise but I've read they get more ad money since the NCAA plays from the afternoon onwards and also online so it CBS will be more than happy.

Bones pulled in a decent audience even though FOX doesn't treat it well. Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Lost do attract a much younger audience which is good for ABC as it means more ad money.

Thanks for this. Nature's Great Events seems to have underperformed, unusual for a prime time BBC1 nature series.

Does anybody have the viewing figures for the Sunday evening repeats please?

For decades the gold standard has been the Attenborough "Life" series, which have been the peak of UK wildlife production for almost 30 years. Now that series has ended, although the great man may still be involved, there isnt the same kind of anticipation. Especially when the subjects, however stunning the photography may be, have been shown many times before.

The Sunday evening repeat gets rouhly the same ratings as the Wednesday screening, so that means the programme is getting about 8 million viewers in total.

Thanks by the way C14E.

Any idea how Letterman is fairing these days? I must admit I fancy his chances of increasing numbers once Conan takes over The Tonight Show.

Season to date:

11pm:
Jon Stewart (CC) - 1.8 million (0.8)

11.35pm:
Jay Leno (NBC) - 5.0 million (1.4/6)
David Letterman (CBS) - 3.9 million (1.1/5)
Nightline (ABC) - 3.9 million (1.1/4)
The Colbert Report (CC) - 1.3 million (0.7)

12.05am:
Jimmy Kimmel - 1.8 million (0.6/3)

12.35am:
Conan/Jimmy* - 2.4 million (0.9/3)
Craig Ferguson - 1.9 million (0.6/3)

1.35am:
Carson Daly - 1.2 million (0.5/3)

* Conan O'Brien left in February ahead of his move to replace Jay Leno. Jimmy Fallon took over.

You can get weekly and special events data from:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/late-night

John Stewart does pretty well considering he's on at 11pm, I do wonder how Conan will fare in the Tonight Show as Leno is a hard act to follow.

Thanks again. Very good for Letterman really and I think he will go up a bit when Conan takes over and The Tonight Show will drop a bit IMO, perhaps ending up around 4.5m each? I think it'll be close anyway.

Dreadful for Jimmy Kimmel by the way. Not sure why ABC bother.

Well Leno & Letterman also lose a lot of viewers across the hour.

Thanks iaindb. 8 million across the 2 broadcasts isn't too shabby at all.

I still think BBC One are not doing their natural history shows an favours in their scheduling. I personally feel that they belong on a Sunday night, as it's something the whole family can sit down and watch. Also, they're not really 'appointment' to views, and so need a good led in. Nature's Great Events got a 4m lead in from Waterloo Road on a Wednesday when it could have had a 6m lead in from Lark Rise... on Sundays.

Some ratings from last night;

BBC1
One Show 4.27m 22%
QofS 3.26m 15.4%
Eastenders 8.32m 37.8%
Outtake TV 3.31m 14.3%
QI 4.67m 21.7%
Not Going Out 3.59m 17.4%

BBC2
Genius 1.67m 8.9%

ITV1
Emmerdale 6.65m 34.3%
Corrie1 9.09m 42.6%
Corrie2 8.15m 35.3%
Moving Wall 1.82m 8.5%
Al Murray 1.27m 6.1%

C4
Ramsey 2.56m 12.1%
Free Agents 0.67m 3.6%

lowish ratings for TV last night.

EastEnders down 0.2m from thursday night but thats understandable as it was a friday night and more people are out. Coronation Street was low at 8:30 with just over 8million they better watch out with EastEnders hotting up though they haven't got much good stuff coming up at all.

Thank you for posting the ratings, Sonny2001.

Is it my imagination, or are the soaps quite a way down on the same period last year?

Decent start for Genius. Much better than the 1m attracted by BBC2's other new 10pm comedy this week, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

Wonder how many viewers came across from the radio version.