Wow great figures there. Am I guessing a lot of shows on the other side where dented?

It seems Davina helped with the highlights of her challenge shown the night before. Kylie and David Beckham would also have helped it. Good figure

Competition was pretty rubbish with Basketball on CBS (1.1), repeat on NBC (0.9) and Greys Anatomy with a 2.4. Idol did adjust up to a 2.0.

No one said that. If anything she was one of the huge issues with the show

Two episodes of EE next Thursday on BBC1, 7.30 and 8.30

That's a very good rating then!

Presumably because they lost one last night?

Indeed, no doubt you are poised to post your usual "low for Corri" that you usually do.

Corrie will be in crisis again and lots will be said.... Until Monday of course when it will be back to normal.

Wow!

American Idol used to be all conquering it really us a shadow of its former self. Losing in the demo to Grey's Anatomy too!

Exactly. Jessie wasn't very popular. I don't think Kylie has had much of an affect on the ratings. They have gone up because it had less competition and the Winter scheduling and the rugby has helped.

Two half hour episodes for EastEnders might do better for them than an hour long one. But they've hardly set the ratings alight recently.

That is correct.

Idol is rating horribly at this point. It isn't doing all that much better than the most recent X Factor and is now rating worse than America's Got Talent which is a Summer show. It was only 0.2 ahead of its lead-in, Hell's Kitchen, a show which FOX brought forward from the Summer because it had so many holes in its schedule. The worst thing is the numbers won't stop falling and it's got another 2 months to run yet! Give it a few weeks and I reckon oth nights will be in the high-1s and potentially below Hell's Kitchen on a Thursday. Just shocking ratings. Even this year's premiere got a 4.7 so what the hell has gone wrong since then and that's before you consider what it used to get!

I think they should announce that next year's season will be the last (like ITV did with DOI) and call it quits.

Coronation Street: 6.8m watch Kevin Webster's return on Friday

Coronation Street topped Friday's soap ratings (March 21) but was dented by BBC One's Sport Relief coverage, overnight figures show.

The Weatherfield drama was seen by 6.77m (30.9%) at 7.30pm on ITV and 129k (0.5%) on +1 as Kevin Webster arrived back in Weatherfield, but the evening's second episode was the lowest-rated of the year so far with 5.57m (23.2%) at 8.30pm and 150k (0.7%) on +1.

Emmerdale, which was also up against Sport Relief, pulled in 5.85m (29.3%) at 7pm on ITV and 121k (0.5%) on +1 with more drama surrounding Donna's return.

Hollyoaks attracted 849k (4.7%) at 6.30pm on Channel 4 as John Paul was sentenced to six months in jail, while E4's first look topped the day's multichannel ratings with 618k (3.1%) at 7pm and 123k (0.5%) on +1.

Over on Channel 5, Neighbours continued with 580k (9.2%) at 1.45pm and 768k (5.3%) at 5.30pm, while Home and Away grabbed 228k (3.4%) at 1.15pm, 597k (3.6%) at 6pm and 398k (2.2%) for 5*'s first look at 6.30pm.

Elsewhere, the latest episode of Doctors was seen by 1.37m (21.9%) at 1.45pm on BBC One.

''Lowest-rated episode of the year so far'' for Corrie - can someone have the Corrie in Ratings Crisis heading standing by please ?

Beaten by Emmerdale oh the shame

Only 5.6million for Coro, one of its worst ever ratings.

So the second Corrie was beaten by Emmerdale! I don't understand why ITV, with EastEnders out of the way, didn't put an hour long Corrie at 7:30, and move Student Nurses to 8:30pm.

Corrie and ED affected as expected although maybe a bit more than I thought. None of the soaps appear to have any underlying strength at the moment - any sort of clash and they suffer.

29.2% all-day share for BBC One. ITV actually didn't fare too badly on this measure as one might have thought (15.4% inc +1, down less than a point since Thursday).

BBC Two was on 5.6%; Channel 4, 5.3% (inc +1); and Channel 5, 3.8% (inc +1).

Your general point is of course correct and after clashes the normal ratings come back. I think however that now even CS is down y-o-y and has lost the stability which it normally had is a sign that the soaps are entering a new situation with lower overnights and more catch up. At least the soap ratings are not boring now.

LOL you actually like programmes

It's the weirdest thing ever this thread, I never knew channel bias existed till I read this thread. It's bloody hilarious. I can't believe there are people sad enough to love a channel and slate everything on the other side

I bet this particular episode of Corrie is always the lowest rating so far every year.

To be fair both Emmerdale and Corrie held up better vs Sport Relief two years ago in raw figures and share. But when comparing to recent ratings they were always going to be a poor showing last night.

The American Idol numbers when put in this context really are bad. It's shedding viewers and hasn't been able to stem the decline. Fox's problem is that they have nothing in the pipeline to replace Idol.

With the way the rest of their schedule is going they're rapidly finding themselves in a position where they can barely replace X Factor let alone Idol. I imagine for that reason they'll do another season next year but that could be the last and I have no idea what it will look like. They'll not be able to afford Seacrest and Lopez on their huge salaries. Fremantle probably wouldn't have believed you if you'd said two years ago that their top rated talent show would be America's Got Talent!

I think other networks are spotting opportunities as well as the FOX franchises crumble. ABC have Rising Star in the summer (which isn't well suited to the US at all) and CBS have got Nigel Lythgoe producing a new pilot for a Turkish format called Keep Your Light Shining (the title will need to change!). But with two cycles of The Voice every season (plus AGT in summer), NBC are somewhat limiting the opportunities for a new show because there's no obvious schedule gap for a new talent show.