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Thank you. High +1 there!
2.34m incl +1 then. Should be 2.5m+ again tonight. |
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I have never heard of any of those apart from On the Buses
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Salv will have your guts for garters you beat him to the +1 question.
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I have never heard of any of those apart from On the Buses
![]() Man About The House and spin offs George & Mildred and Robin's Nest, Please Sir, LETs Doctor.... series of sitcoms (which used multiple writers to make 20+ episodes a series), Me & My Girl, Shelley, Agony, The Upper Hand, Shelley, Only When I Laugh. ITV had a ridiculous number of popular sitcoms back then. |
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Duty Free was the Benidorm of its day. 16/17/18m some weeks and was absolutely massive.
Man About The House and spin offs George & Mildred and Robin's Nest, Please Sir, LETs Doctor.... series of sitcoms (which used multiple writers to make 20+ episodes a series), Me & My Girl, Shelley, Agony, The Upper Hand, Shelley, Only When I Laugh. ITV had a ridiculous number of popular sitcoms back then. G&M only really ended because Yootha Joyce died |
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on a semi related topic, why did British sitcom move away from the 20+ episodes of The Army Game to the now traditional 6 episode format
Even during the 70's sitcoms used to have a high(ish) number of episodes per series. Surely there should be a happy medium between the US template of 18-24 episodes and the current 6 model we're all used to. |
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Duty Free was the Benidorm of its day. 16/17/18m some weeks and was absolutely massive.
Man About The House and spin offs George & Mildred and Robin's Nest, Please Sir, LETs Doctor.... series of sitcoms (which used multiple writers to make 20+ episodes a series), Me & My Girl, Shelley, Agony, The Upper Hand, Shelley, Only When I Laugh. ITV had a ridiculous number of popular sitcoms back then. Quote:
I knew I'd missed a few off my previous list, also The Two of Us and The Piglet Files (proving Nicholas Lyndhurst could do something other than Rodney Trotter), Girls on Top, Chance in a Million etc etc
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Duty Free was the Benidorm of its day. 16/17/18m some weeks and was absolutely massive.
Man About The House and spin offs George & Mildred and Robin's Nest, Please Sir, LETs Doctor.... series of sitcoms (which used multiple writers to make 20+ episodes a series), Me & My Girl, Shelley, Agony, The Upper Hand, Shelley, Only When I Laugh. ITV had a ridiculous number of popular sitcoms back then. Most ITV sitcoms were bilge, churned out from a cliched sitcom sausage machine, and kept getting recommissioned because 14m+ were watching. They weren't watching because these were good, classic, revered sitcoms, but simply because they were on ITV, the one of the 3 channels available that you could rely on to leave on all night without having to get up off the sofa and walk across the room to press the BBC1 button on the set. I always felt there was an inverse quality<>ratings ratio with ITV comedy. Tripe like Fresh Fields or The Upper Hand used to get long runs and 14m viewers simply because they were on after Corrie and BBC1 was airing something dismal. Yet really good, funny, critically acclaimed ITV comedy like Watching or Outside Edge or The New Statesman used to get 8-9m (considered disappointing then). Although I personally loved Duty Free, which could get 14-17m at its peak, I was only about 7 and that was a very divisive comedy - folked either loved it or hated it with an absolute passion. Mum would leave the room when dad put it on. I don't think ITV ever produced anything that consistently hit the 20m big league like BBC1 regularly managed for OFAH, One Foot, Bread, Some Mothers etc. Or which was anything like as revered. When the nation voted on the best sitcom ever, nothing from ITV (as I recall) made the top 20. (correct me if i'm wrong) Everyone harps on about Rising Damp, but I don't know why. It was miserable and grim and not particularly funny. Had Leonard Rossiter not been in it, or had folk not needed to make entertainment through doing "Miss Jonessssss, Misss Jonessss" impressions, then I doubt it would be so fondly remembered. I don't think it actually rated that spectacularly anyway. |
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You can add Watching and Barbara, Barbara is criminally underrated in my opinion. I think Barbara was ITV's last "hit" sitcom and that was almost 15 years ago.
I never got into Barbara, possibly due to missing it on Sunday's. At a stretch Surgical Spirit and Second Thoughts were the only other good sitcoms from ITV in 90's. |
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2.5 Million seems a bit on the low side for The Undateables but still....brilliant figure.
Its been a great week for Channel 4
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Don't forget though how rubbish BBC1's schedules were for most of the week and most of the year, and how the 9pm News killed off BBC1's chances of competing across the piece.
Most ITV sitcoms were bilge, churned out from a cliched sitcom sausage machine, and kept getting recommissioned because 14m+ were watching. They weren't watching because these were good, classic, revered sitcoms, but simply because they were on ITV, the one of the 3 channels available that you could rely on to leave on all night without having to get up off the sofa and walk across the room to press the BBC1 button on the set. I always felt there was an inverse quality<>ratings ratio with ITV comedy. Tripe like Fresh Fields or The Upper Hand used to get long runs and 14m viewers simply because they were on after Corrie and BBC1 was airing something dismal. Yet really good, funny, critically acclaimed ITV comedy like Watching or Outside Edge or The New Statesman used to get 8-9m (considered disappointing then). Although I personally loved Duty Free, which could get 14-17m at its peak, I was only about 7 and that was a very divisive comedy - folked either loved it or hated it with an absolute passion. Mum would leave the room when dad put it on. I don't think ITV ever produced anything that consistently hit the 20m big league like BBC1 regularly managed for OFAH, One Foot, Bread, Some Mothers etc. Or which was anything like as revered. When the nation voted on the best sitcom ever, nothing from ITV (as I recall) made the top 20. (correct me if i'm wrong) Everyone harps on about Rising Damp, but I don't know why. It was miserable and grim and not particularly funny. Had Leonard Rossiter not been in it, or had folk not needed to make entertainment through doing "Miss Jonessssss, Misss Jonessss" impressions, then I doubt it would be so fondly remembered. I don't think it actually rated that spectacularly anyway. Watching used to get 12m viewers for ITV and was very much acclaimed at its time. Outside Edge used to rate around 10m for Mondays erm after Coronation Street. Man About The House, Doctor series, Agony and On The Buses are considered classics, but terribly dated. You can even include the racial dubious but very popular Love Thy Neighbour into the mix. Also I think Rising Damp made the top 20 list from the best sitcom show that was BBC2 years back. |
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Duty Free was the Benidorm of its day.
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The Two of Us and The Piglet Files (proving Nicholas Lyndhurst could do something other than Rodney Trotter)
They must have paid him a pretty penny, and his agent was probably saying "this will avoid you being typecast as that plonker from Peckham" - but he always plays Rodney Trotter. (though I haven't seen him in New Tricks - I haven't yet seen New Tricks full stop....!) Still think there was a bit of ITV thinking "get Nick Lyndhurst in anything so he can't do more OFAH, and see if we can get David Jason too - oh, we have - perfick..." |
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you're memory's playing tricks on you Robbie
Watching used to get 12m viewers for ITV and was very much acclaimed at its time. Outside Edge used to rate around 10m for Mondays erm after Coronation Street. Man About The House, Doctor series, Agony and On The Buses are considered classics, but terribly dated. You can even include the racial dubious but very popular Love Thy Neighbour into the mix. Also I think Rising Damp made the top 20 list from the best sitcom show that was BBC2 years back. Outside Edge aired on Thursdays IIRC and never got more than 7-8m? |
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I knew I'd missed a few off my previous list, also The Two of Us and The Piglet Files (proving Nicholas Lyndhurst could do something other than Rodney Trotter), Girls on Top, Chance in a Million etc etc
G&M only really ended because Yootha Joyce died Thames had Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke who did Father Dear Father, Man About The House and its spin offs. They were ITV's Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Yorkshire had Eric Chappell who wrote ITV's greatest sitcom in Rising Damp as well as Only When I Laugh and the blockbuster Duty Free. Granada turned out hits too like The Army Game, The Dustbinmen one of the only programmes to debut at number 1 and stay there for its whole series, Watching, The Cuckoo Waltz, Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt! LWT also turned out several hits like the Doctor sitcoms, On The Buses, Agony, Please Sir, Agony, Me & My Girl. So many sitcoms from so many regions. |
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It's been a very good start of the year form Channel 4, very impressive! Also a great week for Ch5 after a not very bright Christmas period.
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Still think there was a bit of ITV thinking "get Nick Lyndhurst in anything so he can't do more OFAH, and see if we can get David Jason too - oh, we have - perfick..."
Wind in the Willows Dangermouse A Bit of Do it's not like he didn't split his time between the broadcasters
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Well, yes, I think Watching did get 13m from time to time in certain slots, but it was often on Sundays at 7.15 and got no more than 8m or so. Someone posted a scan of an 80s ratings report before Xmas and it had something like 8m-odd in that.
Outside Edge aired on Thursdays IIRC and never got more than 7-8m? |
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Well, yes, I think Watching did get 13m from time to time in certain slots, but it was often on Sundays at 7.15 and got no more than 8m or so. Someone posted a scan of an 80s ratings report before Xmas and it had something like 8m-odd in that.
Outside Edge aired on Thursdays IIRC and never got more than 7-8m? |
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2.5 Million seems a bit on the low side for The Undateables but still....brilliant figure.
Its been a great week for Channel 4 ![]() |
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Well, yes, I think Watching did get 13m from time to time in certain slots, but it was often on Sundays at 7.15 and got no more than 8m or so. Someone posted a scan of an 80s ratings report before Xmas and it had something like 8m-odd in that.
Outside Edge aired on Thursdays IIRC and never got more than 7-8m? Code:
Period_From Period_To Programme_Name Programme_Provider Value 15/02/1993 21/02/1993 Watching Granada 12.74 22/02/1993 28/02/1993 Watching Granada 12.63 01/03/1993 07/03/1993 Watching Granada 12.59 08/03/1993 14/03/1993 Watching Granada 12.16 15/03/1993 21/03/1993 Watching Granada 12.71 22/03/1993 28/03/1993 Watching Granada 12.79 29/03/1993 04/04/1993 Watching Granada 13.46 28/06/1993 04/07/1993 Watching Granada 7.92 13/12/1993 19/12/1993 Watching Special Granada 9.67 18/07/1994 24/07/1994 Watching Granada 7.23 25/07/1994 31/07/1994 Watching Granada 7.54 01/08/1994 07/08/1994 Watching Granada 7.41 08/08/1994 14/08/1994 Watching Granada 7.6 15/08/1994 21/08/1994 Watching Granada 7.75 22/08/1994 28/08/1994 Watching Granada 8.92 |
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Atching started on Sunday night's at 10pm then moved to Fridays at 8pm where it became massive. Well over 16m during this period then it moved to Sundays and was still massive there.
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A great rating for CBB yet again, this series is turning out to be the best yet on Channel 5 for obvious reasons.
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I have never heard of any of those apart from On the Buses
![]() 6. Bootsie and Snudge Granada 6.471 million 18. Here's Harry (Harry Worth) BBC 5.372 m 19. Citizen James (Sid James) BBC 5.250 m Bootsie and Snudge was a spin-off from the aforementioned Army Game Top-rated programme was the Monday Coronation Street seen in 8.424 m homes (it was only on twice a week in those days) TAM was the ratings organisation in those days |
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BOAF fell a million viewers yesterday. Expect further ratings erosion over the next few weeks after the bad feedback yesterdays episode got. It's heading downhill. A good pass by the BBC, they were smelling a turkey with this one.
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