The Victorians - 4.3m - I was expecting a little more from this.

Any news on what Damages got last night?

Anyone got the ratings for Damages on BBC One last night (10:20PM)?

What are the chances!?

Sunday 15th February 2009
BBC One
19:00 - Antiques Roadshow - 6.27m (24.8%)
20:00 - Lark Rise To Candleford - 5.73m (21.1%)
21:00 - The Victorians - 4.33m (16.6%)

BBC Two
20:30 - Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - 2.89m (10.7%)
21:20 - Explore - 1.31m (5.3%)

ITV1
18:55 - Dancing On Ice - 9.24m (35.8%)
- Up 260,000 on last week
20:30 - Wild At Heart - 7.58m (28.1%)
21:30 - Dancing On Ice: The Skate-Off - 7.93m (31.5%)

Channel 4
19:00 - Christianity: A History 6/8: Dark Continents - 750,000 [inc +1]
20:00 - Celebrity Come Dine With Me - 2.43m (9%) [+1: 466,000 (2%)]
21:00 - FILM: Mission: Impossible III - 2.66m (12.6%) [+1: 327,000 (2.7%)]

five
21:00 - FILM: The Dirty Dozen - 1.02m (4.2%)

BBC Three
19:00 - Match of the Day Live - 697,000 (2.9%)
21:30 - Being Human - 656,000 (3%)

ITV2
21:00 - Supernatural - 515,000 (2.2%) [+1: 126,000 (0.7%)]

E4 [inc +1]
21:00 - FILM: Without A Paddle - 480,000

Film4 [inc +1]
19:15 - FILM: Stormbreaker - 370,000
21:00 - FILM: Venus - 120,000

More4 [inc +1]
21:00 - The F Word - 160,000
22:00 - The World's Tallest Woman... - 280,000

Sky1
21:00 - Lost - 876,000 (3.7%)
22:00 - Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan - 794,000 (4.7%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1 - 29.4% (last week: 26.5%)
BBC One - 19.6% (21.5%)
Channel 4 - 8.7% (8.1%)
BBC Two - 7.7% (7.8%)
five - 3.6% (5.4%)
Multichannel - 31% (30.7%)

For the All-Day Shares, see my post here.

Source: DS, Channel 4 Sales

It was heavily promoted with Paxman in the papers, on the One Show, on This Morning and various other shows.

I enjoyed it, but it was pretty heavy going for the BBC1 Sunday night 9.00pm slot. More of a BBC2 programme I think.

I don't know - I think the fact it was so heavily promoted with Paxo would have put some off thinking it was going to be a turgid egghead arty-farty programme. 4.3m isn't too bad really for a programme which was always going to be a difficult sell and bit heavy for today's want everything instant and fluffy audiences.

Just out of curiosity does anyone know how it did compared to the David Dimbleby British artfest which occupied a similar Sunday slot last year?

If that was the case then should it have not aired on BBC2 perhaps with their Thursday 9pm Victorian show airing on BBC1 in that Sunday slot?

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - Mini Breakdown (14/02/2009)
19:45 - 6.90m (30.5%)
20:00 - 7.10m (31.7%)
20:15 - 7.30m (32.9%)
20:30 - 8.10m (34.1%)
20:45 - 7.95m (34.7%)
21:00 - 7.80m (35.2%)

In italics indicates that this is a guess on my behalf. For ratings not in italics, the source is Broadcast.

I think the 7.8m is for 20.45, as that was the last 15 minute chunk of the show.

Saturday
BBC1
2.30pm Six Nations Rugby - France vs Scotland: 3.2m (25.6%)
5.15pm Six Nations Rugby - Wales vs England: 6.6m (32%)

ITV1
12.10pm FA Cup Live - Swansea City vs Fulham: 2m (20.7%)
2.55pm Inspector Morse: 1.4m (11%)
5.55pm Creature Comforts: 2.9m (14.7%)
6.05pm Creature Comforts: 2.9m (13.8%)
6.15pm Best Ever You've Been Framed: 4.8m (21.9%)

Sunday
BBC2
2.00pm Six Nations Rugby - Ireland vs Italy: 2.6m (20.3%)

ITV1
4.00pm FA Cup Live - Derby County vs Manchester United: 5m (27.1%)

Source: Broadcast

No surprise really that it does better against Casualty considering the lottery show and A&D have cross over audiences. This should bode very well for when the lottery show finishes next(?) week.

I understand that, but all it is doing is speeding up what would have happened anyway. ITV has been on this track for a very long time.

Dont forget that ITV has already made two rounds of substantial cutbacks. Any company that is forced to now do this again is in serious trouble, that isn't just caused by a 20% drop in revenue.

And I wasnt just talking about the programming front. In fact he seems to have had very little involvement there. I really meant his entire turnaround plan for the business.

A very interesting Broadcast article which confirms why ITV had success on Saturday really as the rugby peaked with 7.7m before going to analysis. At that point viewers switched to TV Burp which digged into the lotterys show and by that time viewers decided to stick with ITV for A&D then afterwards it would be pointless putting Casualty on for 15 minutes so viewers continued to stick with ITV and the 8.2m peak for Bolero would probably be just after Casualty finished. If only ITV produced clever schedules like that more often

In It To Win It finished on Saturday. Next week, Takeaway goes up against the last 15 minutes of Lets Dance, followed by a 10 minute lottery draws show, and all of Casualty.

Yeah, thanks. That's me being lazy not checking the schedules. ITV's schedule next week (up until 9pm) will only be a success if The Colour Of Money is a hit I think, but A&D should pull in another 7m+ audience next week I think considering there is no lottery show.

Media Guardian are reporting different ITV Sunday ratings to DS. Media Guardian are reporting:

18:55 - Dancing On Ice - 9.1m (36%)
20:30 - Wild At Heart - 7.8m (28%)
21:30 - Dancing On Ice: The Skate-Off - 8.1m (33%)

Whereas DS are reporting:

18:55 - Dancing On Ice - 9.24m (35.8%)
- Up 260,000 on last week
20:30 - Wild At Heart - 7.58m (28.1%)
21:30 - Dancing On Ice: The Skate-Off - 7.93m (31.5%)

Who is right?

Did the football overun? If so I would say DS' are right as I think they take exact broadcast times into account.

I don't think it did.

Damages-1.7m (11%)

I expected at least 2m to be honest considering the competition as that's very similar to Pushing Daisies debut in a similar slot. Also considering the huge hype over this show.

Shame as it's a sublime show. If it was in a 9pm weeknight slot it'd do extremely well on BBC One. (But they're not allowed to show imports at primetime on BBC1.) Perhaps it'd have been better in a primetime slot on BBC2?

1.7m isn't that bad a figure for 10.20pm on Sunday night though? Its similar to what it got last series, and I can't think of many US imports which get higher ratings (just CSI and NICS I guess as even Desperate Housewive's ratings seem to be slipping under the 2m mark).

As I said in a previous post and in agreement-BBC2 or BBC4.I watched it and it was fascinating but you have to interest specifically in art and that time period-great if you are doing a course or something but I wouldnt have put this on BBC1,PSB or no PSB. 4.30 million is actually better than I expected but I can see it dropping next week. No-one should be surprised at DOI results doing well with this rather dry opposition.

Well the last series averaged around 1.1 million, so I'm surprised it got this much. I'd expect it to drop to around 1.3. Also remember it didn't start here in Wales until 11:10pm.