Yep -
16:00 - Britain's Best Bakery: 1.26m (11.5%)
17:00 - The Chase: 3.19m (20.6%)

Thanks.

Still a very good rating for The Chase, and I think it'll pick up further over the next few weeks. They need to stop giving it breaks so often at key times of year, preventing it from gaining momentum.

Not great for Best Bakery. From memory the last series got about that for the first few weeks and picked up towards the end, but when Tipping Point would easily get a million more in the slot, and boost The Chase too, it seems a waste of time. They'd be better off running Bakery at 3pm instead of Titchmarsh.

The Chase is really hurt by Pointless's strength now, and with weekend editions bordering on 6m its really got no chance of gaining back a similar audience. Presumably BBC1 will keep Pointless here until it dies?

Britain's Best Bakery like Tipping Point needs time to grow. The last series it ended with 1.7/8m i think. Unlike BBC1 it doesn't have an audiemnce their waiting, it should be over 1.5m by next week.

I personally think The Chase will be around (and healthy) much longer than Pointless. Besides, Pointless may be a beast right now but The Chase is still doing a pretty good job against it. It's great that two gameshows can perform so well against each other and maybe it will send a message to broadcasters that they don't have to completely give up when another channel is airing a big show.

My dad has a weird method of watching the teatime quizzes. He likes The Chase and Pointless, so one day he watches The Chase and the next day he watches Pointless! I said "Why don't you record one?" his reply was "I need all my recording space for anything on Andre Rieu!" I just said "Fair enough" and ended the conversation!

That one way of doing i suppose

That's actually Extremely good in my book.

BBC One's Daytime is really doing very well. Primetime was strong as well.

The Darts Must be really helping BBC Two.

But as you know it does not matter how low its ratings go it still gets recommissioned - one of the great mysteries of British television.

Well no one saw this scenario coming!! Don't think IAC is under much threat now.

Wait until Samuel sees this...


Haha!! Fancy popping round for a glass?!


So now you're working off "peaks" because your precious end of year chart hasn't gone you're way? That is hilarious. I can't believe you'd stoop so low. Let's get +1 added in too then.

Just to confirm Robbie. IAC is the most watched show of 2013 on average. Maybe for 2014 you can make a peaks end of year chart.

You beat Samuel and every other poster here in the immaturity stakes! Anyway it's already been pointed out - it'll all change in six weeks.

Ratings banter its called ronant. Not that you'd understand this.

Check the ratings thread rule book.

Which part of my post is immature exactly?

It truly is!

Demos, Demos, Demos .

It will get over 3m today. Nice lead in ,competition skews old.

BiB is not actually true. A lot of the technical staff are Australian, and the technical infrastructure and facilities are provided by the Seven Network. Much less than 100 staff (mainly production) are flown out to Oz.

One thing that should be remembered is that most of the set is there all year round. They only have to put the lighting up, set up the cameras and scanners, make props and make the set look tidy. Hardly building the treehouse, bridges, camera wall and camp from scratch.


I was just thinking that myself. The first time they've had live Darts in the afternoon. If anyone has the ratings for the afternoon darts sessions, and could post them, it would be much appreciated.

As for The Taste, what a poor start. Good to see that is was stable, but it will face trickier competition in the coming weeks. A small reminder that ITV have 4 big Champions League games in February/March, and all I imagine will do pretty well.

Man City v Barcelona.
Olympiacos v Man Utd.
Bayern Munich v Arsenal. (Probably will be the highest rating of the 4)
Chelsea v Galatasaray.

All should attract a solid 4m, if not higher. That may slightly dent The Taste, especially if one of the latter two goes into extra time. If The Taste runs without break for its' 10 episodes, the final will clash with Bayern Munich v Arsenal.

Just came home from a long hard days work to see a 13m+ 2013 topping rating for the New years fireworks and this is what we get from BARB?! This is a disgrace . New Years Fireworks should be a program in its own right topping the 2013 chart. Hopefully BBC ammends the logs like they did with the 2012 Olympic Mens 100m final so that The New Years Fireworks display gets its deserved 13m+ rating.

Why should it be a programme in its own right when it wasn't technically broadcast as one? Just curious...

Just read this. Is it definite the rating will change in 6 weeks and New Year Live will get its own rating? The BBC should make an appeal to BARB if they haven't already, this is unfair.

More good news for Samuel

"No plans to end Downton Abbey"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25651673

Pardon? It's the BBC that have submitted the programme logs.

Because it'll crush ITV. Obviously.

And the next series starts filming in April. It's all to do with quotas and out of London production (but then it was when it was made in Rochdale, it was still a BBC Scotland commission). There have been hints the next series will be the last however.

It was billed on the EPG as a separate program so should be considered as a separate program imo. For example during the News, when they switch to the Regional News, there's no credits and new titles between them. They run as one show but both still get different ratings. World Cup matches are split so they get different ratings. This is frustrating, I hope the BBC is in the process of appealing to the BARB board.


There must've been an error. Similar to the 100m Mens 2012 Final when BARB initially had the whole broadcast as one rating but eventually changed it so the race got its own rating, as a result of the BBC appealing.

Shocking! Shocking I say!

In seriousness I feel like we get this story every year now. Presumably Fellowes or someone in the cast will make similarly vague comments about the show not going on forever just before the next series starts and we'll be back on this ride again.

The Voice is getting excellent promotion this week and the hype for its return is growing. I upgrade my prediction for it to 7million so I think it will smash the 6.2m it achieved for last year's series opener, which would make it a very successful start to the series. Previews say Kylie [the best Minogue] is a revelation and that the show may experience momentum this year and even rate better than last year's series. Being up year on year in this day and age would be brilliant and would cement the show's position as Britain's Favourite Entertainment series [which started after 2007].

You started with a sub 7 million prediction?