The Ratings Thread (Part 3 (3))

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rzt

03-02-2009

Ratings rise as snow falls

Quote:
“The adverse weather conditions had a strong impact on television viewing yesterday as audience levels were up by over a third across the day.

According to figures from media research company Attentional overall TV viewing, across all channels yesterday was up by 36.2% with an average audience of 9.4m across the day. This compares with an audience of 6.9m on a Monday across February last year.”

Source: Broadcast

hopeandfaith06

03-02-2009

I'm wondering how Ladies of Letters will do tonight on ITV3. It might not do well, but i would have thought it could have been a good show for ITV1 tonight as it could possibly be a strong contender compared to some of the stuff they put on.

Thebenster

03-02-2009

Excellent ratings for BBC and ITV1 last night. BBC2 did very well between 8-9pm and got high shares which was surprising. Moses Jones should have performed better with a 4m+ lead in but viewers flocked to the big 2 terrestrials.

davey_wavey

03-02-2009

Some amazing ratings there, with the snow certainly being the cause for such high figures. It's just wonderful to see Corrie hitting over 11 million viewers, as it happens so rarely now.

Whitechapel did brilliantly too. I can see the audience falling slightly next week though, as the figure does decrease slightly for these three part dramas.

Tonight should be interesting. Quite a weak night for TV, but with snow still present there could be an increase again.

square_eyes

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by hopeandfaith06:
“I'm wondering how Ladies of Letters will do tonight on ITV3. It might not do well, but i would have thought it could have been a good show for ITV1 tonight as it could possibly be a strong contender compared to some of the stuff they put on.”

Yes, I don't really see the point of commissioning new stuff for ITV3, as a channel it's doing just fine with it's line-up of repeat runs.

Viewers know that it's a repeat channel, so I expect Ladies of Letters to get lost there. It's ITV1 that needs the attention, and this drama with a strong cast would better have been going out as a double bill at 9pm. Or maybe Sunday nights ?

Anyway with the high ratings last night, the age old question is, wonder what News at Ten got ? Potential for it's highest rating ?

Dancc

03-02-2009

Excellent ratings, as expected the heavy snowfall provided a boost especially for BBC One and ITV1. Superb for Whitechapel.

And there's more to come! The Met Office now have advisories out for further heavy snow on Thursday and Friday

jojo2008

03-02-2009

BBC should have put WDYTYA on Wednesdays

square_eyes

03-02-2009

Just to flag up The Brit Awards is on ITV1 Wednesday 18 February 8pm - 10pm presented by Kylie Minogue, Matthew Horne & James Corden.

Not great for the start of Minder really is it on Five, ITV have an Everton v Liverpool match, then an England match, and the Brit Awards on successive Wednesdays.

CheekyTV

03-02-2009

Wow 8.1 for Whitechappel on ITV1 I've recorded this on series link so will watch them all together..and well done WDYTYR on BBC1 with 6.3 that is a decent rating considering the competition at the same time, some good ratings there..looks like people stayed in due to the weather!!

yorkie100

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by jojo2008:
“BBC should have put WDYTYA on Wednesdays”

Yes the BBC scheduling yesterday was completely barmy.
A new drama on BBC2 thrown away against 2 of the biggest shows of the week. Then tonight at 9pm filler shows on all 3 channels.WDYTYA would have got 7m+ tonight easily.

GeorgeS

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by jojo2008:
“BBC should have put WDYTYA on Wednesdays”

But its a spoiler designed to impact the launch of new ITV shows.

D.M.N.

03-02-2009

I'm not sure what scheduling idiot would put WDYTYA on against what is undoubtedly ITV's strongest night of the week.

Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“But its a spoiler designed to impact the launch of new ITV shows.”

Well that failed obviously. I suspect Whitechapel will lose about 1.5m next week, with WDYTYA losing about 1m if conditions turn better, if we are still in snow-like conditions, then who knows.

Cent

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“I'm not sure what scheduling idiot would put WDYTYA on against what is undoubtedly ITV's strongest night of the week.

Well that failed obviously. I suspect Whitechapel will lose about 1.5m next week, with WDYTYA losing about 1m if conditions turn better, if we are still in snow-like conditions, then who knows.”

Its not failed.

BBC1 were just trying to keep their share up.

It worked - they got a higher share than ITV yesterday.

They know they can beat ITV on a Tuesday - its full of crap.

KennyT

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“I'm not sure what scheduling idiot would put WDYTYA on against what is undoubtedly ITV's strongest night of the week...”

Surely, BBC1 were only doing what we all want, that is, programming for a different demographic.

Now, BBC2's decision to put a new police procedural up against ITVs (becoming) established monday night thrillers...

Cent

03-02-2009

BBC News at Six - 7.1m (30.1%)
BBC Regional News - 9m (35.5%)

BBC News at Ten - 7.4m (32.3%)
ITV News at Ten - 4.7m (21.4%)

from Broadcast article above

Jesus! I cant remember seeing that before.

KennyT

03-02-2009

I wonder what TOS got!!!

soupnazi

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by KennyT:
“I wonder what TOS got!!!

K”

GMTV 1.3m (27%)
Breakfast 1.8m (38%)

The One Show 6.6m (25%)
Watchdog 5.9m (22%)

Tonight 4.5m (16%)
Panorama 3.2m (11%)

KennyT

03-02-2009

Madness!

Tks

K

KennyT

03-02-2009

Just as a technical point...

Should these couple of days be "barred" from having entries in the "topXof the year" charts or not? Doesn't seem fair somehow either way!

K

GeorgeS

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by Cent:
“
BBC News at Ten - 7.4m (32.3%)
ITV News at Ten - 4.7m (21.4%)
”

Best ever News At Ten (the real one!) figure. And more importantly an excellent share % figure.

GeorgeS

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by KennyT:
“Just as a technical point...

Should these couple of days be "barred" from having entries in the "topXof the year" charts or not? Doesn't seem fair somehow either way!

K”

Why not bar Christmas as well? Thats a day when people are confined to their homes against their will as well.............

Cent

03-02-2009

Is that the highest ever One Show?

D.M.N.

03-02-2009

Still a proper rating.

The One Show at least has passed the 6m figure it seems.

KennyT

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“Why not bar (humbug?) Christmas as well?”

There, fixed it for you!

K

Thebenster

03-02-2009

Originally Posted by Cent:
“Is that the highest ever One Show?”

Yes, its previous high was about 5.9m IIRC.

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