1 Christine is almost absent from TV and anything she has done seems to die a death, for two years of her first ITV contract she was on paid gardening leave. If she stuck at the BBC she was lined up as the Golden girl for the Olympics that would have boosted her rather than ITV ending any chance of a high profile.

2. The zone show is not just OAPs often it's the BBCs best weekday performer outside of news and soaps the ratings here show it's steady and a habit for viewing, and the OAPs are watching Emmerdsle.

3. Strictly if you do well seems to boost anyone's careers if you appear in it, Natasha, for example boosted her and she did leave but then had children and has had some difficulty coming back, Chris Hollins got Watchdog, , rumours then in the sun he was lined up for Daybrake.

I could never see what role Bleakley would have had for the BBC during the Olympics - she is not a journalist and has no sporting background that we know of. Perhaps an in-vision continuity announcer ? Anyhow it was obviously a negotiating ploy and the BBC did well to call her bluff.

The sister show of "The Voice" is an idea I hoped they would be smart enough to go for, but as the audition commenced it seemed they again missed a trick. The live process is so short that the flaw is the contestants are forgettable and un engaging. A running narrative through the week would help break down the austere chill "The Voice" can sometimes create and bring a warmth and viewer inclusion to the show that "The X Factor" has. "Strictly Come Dancing" has benefitted from viewers getting familiar with the professional dancers personalities and not just watching them as models on the floor. Hopefully the live shows can benefit from "The Voice" using this complimentary show on BBC TWO

And of course vastly more important!!!

Takes chip off shoulder and exits.

I agree. I stick on cartoons in the background before we go to school/work.

Although the ratings don't seem to change when Susannah fronts BBC Breakfast, so it would seem that viewers are not watching because of her (I guess that they watch for the content and style, not the presenter). Therefore she is unlikely to carry over many BBC viewers.

BBC Breakfast is a far stronger programme journalistically than either Daybreak or Sky Sunrise, the BBC has huge resources the others can't match. I watch for the latest news and sport not for the presenters although I find most of them perfectly acceptable.If any one of the presenters did move I can't see legions of viewers going with them - it didn't work with Chiles, Bleakley,Barbet et al.
ITV needs to improve the content not waste money on quizzes (incidentally why do we never hear who has won these cash prizes ?)

I think maybe itv should relaunch a mix of frivolous elements involving media stars and the public from the nineties like "Noels House Party" and "The Big Breakfast" "Thats Life" each weekday morning in the hope they could skew a lost younger demographic that BBC Breakfast isn't getting to tune in on their programme. Then follow it up with more news based programme at 8.30

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#TheVoiceUK continued to rule Saturday night with 8.44m/36.5%. Splash! dropped to a new low of 2.87m/12.4% - down 880k.

Ouch for Splash, surely this is the last series? Samuel will be beside himself!

And again, can we PLEASE not have slanging matches on here today?

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#TheVoiceUK continued to rule Saturday night with 8.44m/36.5%. Splash! dropped to a new low of 2.87m/12.4% - down 880k.
9:37 AM - 9 Feb 2014

Bad rating for Splash.

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The #WinterOlympics helped BBC2 beat ITV yesterday. The men's #slopestyle final peaked with an impressive 2.51m/30.5% at 9.45am.

Good rating for The Voice, but we know its rating that high with a good lead in and minimal competition (as Splash did last year)so once they both change and the auditions end then it will fall.

Very bad ratng for Splash, though not surprising I imagine not many people care who goes through to the final. If ITV were pondering whether to bring it back for Summer, well they certainly won't be now.

Any Six Nations ratings yet? Thanks

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Liverpool's thrashing of Arsenal peaked with 1.44m/13.9% on BT Sport. #MOTD averaged 3.97m/28.7%, peaking with 5.04m/28.2%.
9:46 AM - 9 Feb 2014

That's brilliant for that time of the morning.

ITV have a Noel's House Party type show and it's called Saturday Night Takeaway.

Wonder if the Winter Olympics on.BBC TWO is gonna unbalance the audience shares for a couple of weeks now its going on and affect middling ratings as the audience draws to the channel.

Ron Chakraborty ‏@RonChak · Major Events Editor for BBC Sport.

2.5m watched @jamienichollsuk and @billymorgan89 in the Slopestyle yesterday, and 3m more for the highlights. (6.7m for Eng-Sco 6Nations

All peaks I think

Don't have individual BBC Two ratings, but here's a split of the day:

06:00 to 09:30 - 624k (15.4%)
* peak: 2.28m (29.3%)
09:30 to 12:30 - 1.22m (15.0%)
* peak: 2.51m (30.5%)
12:30 to 15:30 - 803k (7.1%)
* peak: 1.82m (13.5%)
15:30 to 17:15 - 1.93m (12.6%)
* peak: 2.39m (14.8%)
17:15 to 19:00 - 2.69m (13.3%)
* peak: 3.28m (15.4%)
19:00 to 22:30 - 1.77m (8.1%)
* peak: 3.19m (14.5%)

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#6Nations: Scotland v England - 5.40m/28.4% (peak 6.78m/31.4%); Ireland v Wales - 3.42m/25.6% (peak 4.81m/32.2%).

LOL at that dire Splash rating. A huge drop from previous weeks! It's a disasterous rating. Delighted at how well the Voice is holding up, smashing it for the bbc this series.

Im not so sure really. Id guess Samuel would like Splash to be there next year in the same slot. Splash is weird as there is so little action. The fact that people will sit through so much build up and adverts (in any numbers) for so little return is testament to the general power of celebrity/talent/reality style tv today.

Great rating for The Voice-the BBC have done what they had to do and extend the audition gimmick rounds and its sold itself well enough already for another year imo. Bigger test next year-fascinating to see where ITV schedules Rising Star.

Much the same as The Jump.

Interestingly we could well have a medal in the womens equivalent - on BBC TWO now.

Rising star has no hope against the Voice. Look how well the blind auditions are rating, and more importantly how consistently it is doing. No show Itv airs against it next year will be able to knock it during the blind auditions phase. Hopefully BBC increases the no. of blind auditions next year to about 9 episodes. Actually like you say, Itv may as well just continue airing Splash against it and focus on other times of the year.