I think Law & Order will do well, at least initially. It hasn't been promoted very much and it tends to be the case that the "quiet ones" do good business nowadays.

I predict a healthy 6.5-7.0m premiere.

So on Piers Morgan's Life Stories we have...

Sharon Osbourne
Katie Price
Sir Richard Branson
Richard Madely
Ulrika Jonsson
Shiela Hancock

I find it hard to imagine a more boring hour of TV. I cannot express how much I want this show to fail. Piers Morgan is so smug in all these interviews he is doing it drives me up the wall. He genuinely thinks he is the next Parkinson.

I've only just realised the shows are one hour long! I always thought they were 30 minutes long-who's going to stay around for one hour?! I can't see it doing too well now & those guests aren't the best. Jonsson & Branson might do well though.

Anyone know where I can see the advert for Law and Order?

I dont think they are showing an advert on STV - unless I've just not caught it.

More Monday ratings: Digital Spy

Ouch:

I think an hour is way too long. i also thought it would be better guests. I mean Richard Madeley, Katie Price :sleep:

Have you not always wanted to see an hour long interview with Shiela Hancock?

ha ha, can't wait

lol - of course

Monday 16th February 2009 - Full Roundup
BBC One
17:05 - Newsround - 513,000 (4.2%)
17:15 - The Weakest Link - 2.2m (14%)
20:00 - EastEnders - 9.59m (37.9%)
21:00 - Who Do You Think You Are? - 5.45m (21.6%)
- Last week: 5.7m
- Began with 6.3m (23.2%) on 2nd February

BBC Two
17:15 - Cash in the Celebrity Attic - 1.7m (10.9%)
20:00 - University Challenge - 3.64m (14.4%)
20:30 - MasterChef - 3.92m (15.2%)
21:00 - Moses Jones - 1m (4%)
- Down on 2008 channel slot average of 2.1m (9%)
- Last week: 1.2m
- Debut episode: 1.4m

ITV1
17:00 - Golden Balls - 1.8m (12.6%)
19:00 - Emmerdale - 7.59m (34.2%)
19:30 - Coronation Street - 9.91m (41.2%)
20:30 - Coronation Street - 10.04m (38.9%)
21:00 - Whitechapel - 7.55m (30%)
- Up on 2008 channel slot average of 4.7m (19.9%)
- Episode 1: 8.1m (30%)
- Episode 2: 7.1m (28%)

Channel 4
17:00 - Wogan's Perfect Recall - 1.7m (13.2%) [+1: 106,000]
17:30 - Come Dine with Me - 2.1m (13%) [+1: 130,000]
18:00 - The Simpsons - 2.31m [inc +1]
18:30 - Hollyoaks - 1.9m (8.9%) [+1: 70,000]
20:00 - Dispatches: The Big Job Hunt - 970,000 (3.8%) [+1: ~130,000]
21:00 - The Gangster And The Pervert Peer - 1.2m (4.9%) [+1: 243,000]

five
17:00 - five News - 1m (7.9%)
- Started with 930,000 (7.7%)
- 17:15 to 17:30: 1.1m (8.1%)
- Up on 2008 channel slot average of 790,000 (6.4%)
- Up on January 2009 channel slot average of 913,000 (6.7%)
- Female = 63.4%
- 16 to 34 = 12%
17:30 - Neighbours - 1.7m (10.5%)
18:00 - Home & Away - 1.1m (5.6%)
20:00 - Fifth Gear - 838,000 (3.3%)
21:00 - FILM: Windtalkers - 1.2m (6%)

BBC Three
20:30 - Snog, Marry, Avoid? - 463,000 (2%)
- Previous series: 254,000 (1.3%)
- First edition: 331,000 (1.8%) on June 23rd, 2008
21:00 - Gavin & Stacey - 544,000 (2.4%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Wine - 158,000 (0.7%)

E4 (inc +1)
21:00 - 90210 - 430,000
22:00 - Samantha Who? Yr 2 - 250,000

Film4 (inc +1)
18:45 - FILM: Bride And Prejudice - 120,000
21:00 - FILM: This Is England - 270,000

More4 (inc +1)
22:00 - Country House Rescue - 240,000

Sky1
21:00 - 24 - 448,000 (2%)

Living
21:00 - America's Next Top Model - 410,000 (1.8%)

All-Day Shares
ITV1 - 21.3% (last week: 22.7%)
BBC One - 20.6% (22.6%)
BBC Two - 7.4% (7.6%)
Channel 4* - 7.1% (7.7%)
five - 4.4% (4.3%)
Multichannel - 39.2% (35.1%)

Primetime Shares
ITV1 - 27.8% (last week: 27.7%)
BBC One - 22.1% (23.7%)
BBC Two - 7.8% (8%)
Channel 4 - 4.4% (5.7%)
five - 3.8% (3.8%)
Multichannel - 34.1% (31.1%)

* = inc +1

Source: Channel 4 Sales, Brand Republic, Broadcast (1), (2), DS

For the purpose of the Ratings Game, all other sites have 7.6m for Whitechapel and 5.4m for WDYTYA.

Bad primetime share for Channel 4, but their daytime shows pull up their overall share. I also notice that Multichannel works out to be up massively on last Monday.

Last but not least, ITV will be screening Middlesborough vs West Ham in the FA Cup 5th Round Replay a week on Wednesday @ 8pm.

And that after Sky One, who have been showing it for about ten years after taking over from the BBC who aired it originally. So it has been show continuously on British TV for over 15 years now. Hallmark just have reruns of older episodes.

The spinoffs CI and SVU though are the other way around with the first run on Hallmark, before FIVE having reruns.

So the brand clearly has some appeal on this side of the Atlantic.

Michael.

I can see L&O starting woth about 5/6m no more then that :/ it really doesnt look that good!! i dont think that the return of heroes will dent it though!

Considering last time 9pm scored that high with drama, News at Ten got 4.7m (21%), I wonder how last night faired.

I suppose we won't find out though.

That figure you've quoted was from "snow day", and is obviously distorted. Using my theorm, it would have got on that day 4.24m; so anything between 3m and 4m last night I think will make ITV happy.

On a side note, the "snow day" officials are due out tomorrow, so they should make for interesting reading.

Even then the news was still inflated because people were watching it because it was huge news-there was nothing huge last night. I'd say around 3.5m for last night.

Snow day officials will probably see Corrie's highest rated episode of the year, because it's usually around this time of year it gets its highest audience and there doesn't seem to be any other big stories over the next few weeks.

Any ratings for The Shield last night on Five USA?

What about Above Suspicion and Unforgiven? They did quite well IIRC and neither had the benefit of snow.

ITV1 already has an advantage because Monday nights have seen it be the channel of choice for most people these past seven weeks. It doesn't necessarily need people to know the brand to tune in IMO - I'm sure that will be the attraction for some, but others might just tune in because they like the sound of it. I've never seen an episode of Law & Order in my life but will watch regardless.

The trailer is good I think. The promotion is just about right. ITV have perhaps learned from last year that bombarding viewers with endless ads isn't always the best way to go about things, so may be changing their approach this year.

Great figures for Whitechapel.

I'd say 5.9m for L&O UK.

..and i'll eat my gran's hat if it doesn't peak in the first 15 minutes!

Just out of interest does anyone have ratings for every single Monday night thriller that has aired? I seem to remember someone posting it a while back but I can't seem to find it considering the vast amount of posts on this thread now each day! Much appreciated if anyone has it to hand.

Hope your gran's head doesn't go cold without her hat!

I have all of 2009's Monday Night Thrillers:

8.00m - ABOVE SUSPICION (05/01) ITV1
7.82m - UNFORGIVEN (12/01) ITV1
6.47m - UNFORGIVEN (19/01) ITV1
7.11m - UNFORGIVEN (26/01) ITV1
8.13m - WHITECHAPEL (02/02) ITV1 (overnight)
7.14m - WHITECHAPEL (09/02) ITV1 (overnight)
7.55m - WHITECHAPEL (16/02) ITV1 (overnight)

Only averages for overnights, I'm not writing every single rating, because that'd take forever!

01) The Children [1st Sept to 15th Sept] - 4.75m
02) Place of Execution [22nd Sept to 6th Oct] - 4.96m
03) Wired [13th Oct to 27th Oct] - 3.98m
04) Above Suspicion [5th & 6th Jan] - 7.07m
05) Unforgiven [12th Jan to 26th Jan] - 6.41m
06) Whitechapel [2nd Feb to 16th Feb] - 7.6m

November was fillers before I'm a Celebrity began.... and December was Taggart repeats before Xmas by the look of things.

In chronological episode order, followed by series average. All officials, apart from Whitechapel:

The Children: 5.45m, 5.20m, 5.17m. Av: 5.27m
Place of Execution: 6.55m, 5.04m, 4.93m. Av: 5.51m
Wired: 5.23m, 4.41m, 3.55m. Av: 4.40m
Unforgiven: 7.82m, 6.47m, 7.11m. Av: 7.13m
Whitechapel (overnights): 8.13m, 7.14m, 7.55m. Av: 7.61m

Not technically a Monday night thriller, but:

Above Suspicion: 7.31m, 8.00m. Av: 7.66m

Whitechapel's average should top 8m when the officials are out.

Many thanks!! It just shows how it has taken off in 2009. Back in 2008 we thought The Children and POE were huge hits for ITV at the time following a string of poor sub 3m dramas, but now ITV drama is definetely back on track-it's just a shame that it's come at the worst possible time for them.