I think there's two more left including tonight's.

Not just gun groups, but now transgender groups. Probably others along the way. The fact he's survived is bizarre, the ratings have been very poor with odd blips, and it's dragged CNN down to unprecedented levels. I guess now they just want to see the original contract run out. It's been a disaster for CNN whatever.

Understandable for EastEnders and Coronation St, perhaps, with one slowly emerging from a disappointing few years, and the other sliding into a bad patch, but we're told nothing but good things about Emmerdale from those who watch it, so surprised to see it at 6.2m even allowing for the fag end of the Olympics ceremony.

Not sure the BBC One Scotland football will have helped EastEnders. It's been a bad few years for "Rangers", for various reasons, so I'm not convinced they're the draw they once were. Think EastEnders would have been better off with BBC One Scotland showing it.

Getting to the fun part then! Reckoning, Judgement Day, Proof in the pudding....any more cliches?

Three left, including tonight's.

The supplies of Ratings Thread standard issue y-fronts won't be in demand until the first weekend of March.

If anyone has the share for the Scottish football, that should help us work out whether it helped or hindered EE's overnight. You might think the latter but these BBC One Scotland matches typically seem to do very well IIRC.

It's much longer than the XF audition stage isn't it? (or just feels like it!)

Yes, a Minogue March Meltdown!

..are they in the same cupboard as the tin hats?

He's certainly not doing particularly well but he's not doing all that badly in the context of CNN and that's why he survives. His original contract ended ages ago and has been renewed at least once according to some reports.

The much lauded Anderson Cooper isn't doing significantly better at 8pm and his other 10pm show is a bigger headache than Morgan. Every time they replace one anchor with another they just end up with lower and lower ratings and this has been going on for 10 years at least. The problem isn't really any one person on CNN, it's the whole network - what it stands for, what the programming strategy is when there's no big news and who it is targeting.

The difference now is that Jeff Zucker might be planning a more significant change in terms of the kind of programming that CNN puts out in primetime. So while Piers might have a role in that, I wouldn't be surprised if his nightly show does come to an end in the next year or so.

I thought I had predicted about 3m for the Olympics ceremony, so I was pleased to check the RPG thread and see it was actually 2.5m.
Yep. Proper Aladdin's Cave.

Itv making the same old mistakes once again, thinking that poaching a popular BBC personality will bring viewers to their breakfast show. It wont happen. BBC Breakfast has a loyal audience especially among viewers aged over 50. Daybreak is very lightweight in comparison to Breakfast, focussing a lot on fashion, celebrities and 'human stories' which doesnt appeal to the OAP masses. The pensioners - who need to be attracted in order to get big daytime audiences - are loyal to Breakfast and wont turn over to Daybreak unless Breakfast suddenly turns really bad and changes its focus onto celebrities and lightweight stories [which isnt going to happen anytime soon]. It would be career suicide for Susanna Reid and she'd follow in the footsteps of Des Lynam, Adrian Chiles, Parkinson, Steve Ryder, Christine Bleakley etc whose careers all fell off a cliff after moving from BBC to Itv. Im optimistic she'll remain loyal to the BBC family.

I thought she'd already denied this a couple of weeks ago

Sometimes money can sway people's decisions. Itv are potentially offering her 4 times as much money to do the same kind of job. That must be tempting for anyone. But I think Susanna has integrity and loyalty so am optimistic she wont be swayed by the $$$.

Out of interest, why do all your posts refer to OAP's as if they're the only ones who watch TV? Breakfast appeals to many workers as it's a solid programme to eat your toast and have your coffee with. It's informative and basically is like the "i" newspaer by just focusing on the key news stories, weathjer and business news. I doubt many OAP's watch Breakfast!

Breakfast is popular with all ages. But the core audience of it are the OAPs. Breakfast beats Daybreak by about 3 viewers to 1 every day. In terms of pensioners, it beats Daybreak by about 6 to 1! So it is particularly popular with the more maturing, older generation. Nothing wrong with that, it's a good thing actually in terms of maximising ratings potential.

OTOH you could say Daybreak isn't popular with any group. This ITV obsession between 7.00 and 1.30 with catering to a so called female audience isn't working, with once mighty shows like This Morning struggling to get more than a million. A lot of women aren't interested in soaps, zelebs, reality shows and diets.

Gutted for Wales but they didn't play well at all.

It's not exactly like they calmed down on pushing out X Factor stories every five minutes whilst he was away though, is it?

cant say ive seen This Morning recently, but when you see clips on Screenwipe, of a couple drinking piss, you know something has gone very wrong.

I saw it last year, not by choice, and it was some woman looking like a man in drag yapping on about soaps to a simpering Schofield and then some feature about BGT. It was mind numbing and a shame when you think that Richard and Judy made it very watchable and also it was getting three times the audience.

in fairness, the soap corner has always been part of the show, and is harmless enough.

Wales have had a fair bit of good fortune in the Six Nations in the last few years particularly against Ireland. They were well beaten today.

England - Scotland should do well ratings wise today and may boost TVUK again. At least it would annoy the Cowell worshippers!!

How can you say that they won last year because they played well. This year so far they haven't there's no good fortune about it.

Hmmm. Regardless of start time I expected the level of attention it's got in the news recently to push it at least towards 4m. Obviously far too optimistic.

We started drifting away from the show without realising it during the 'peak' 2010 series, then at the end of that series we looked back on it and just thought "that was so ridiculously manipulative, we're never ever going to watch that again", and indeed we never have. I remember the moment when One Direction got knocked out and our whole living room burst out laughing at Cowell's face because it was so clear that he'd believed his own self-generated hype about how they were such certainties to win. That level of manipulation isn't going to go away because Cowell is back working full-time on the show, if anything it'll increase right back to 2010 levels again and maybe even beyond if he doesn't get the results he wants. If the BBC stick Doctor Who against X Factor this year I would be very surprised if there was much of an increase for the latter at all, and if there was the 2m increase which someone on here suggested last night I think I'd faint.

in this case however, her integrity will be shot the moment she takes the money, thanks to Daybreak and whats her name (seriously, what was her name?) that money is a poison chalice.