EastEnders not up by that much on Thursday. A big episode for Good Friday they'd better promote it.

Going out in that timeslot what could The Guess List realistically get? Just hope to inherit the Casualty audience?

EE acually level with last Friday - its the Thursday number that was low. Big episode on a Friday - will they never learn?

I would actually say the Monday and Tuesday aftermath episodes are bigger.

I don't understand why they don't air their big episodes on Monday and then the rest of the week is aftermath.

Didn't Catherine Tate's Nan episode get around 4m in January in the same timeslot? This has had slightly more promotion, but it's not coming off the back of Christmas like Nan. So somewhere between 3 and 4 million maybe, perhaps closer to 3 million?

I'm not sure Jamie Foxx was much of a draw with young people compared to Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Would be interesting to see how Chatty Man did.

Good point although I thought Graham's audience was skewed a bit older tbh compared to Alan's.

How long will the interest carry on from Good Friday though? And if there is a boost will people stay with it or drift away as the storyline won't be resolved until next year. If EastEnders doesn't get a boost now I doubt it will for the rest of the year.

Probably more than had it aired earlier. Remember its not unknown for a Mrs Brown repeat or something that is just shoved there to fill before MOTD rates better than most of the other programmes shown all night.

Very true. I think Norton's audience is slightly older than Carr's but it usually doesn't go that low.

Channel 5 really love those countdown shows don't they which is fine by me becasue so do I

Yeah, I didn't watch last night for that reason - not a particularly inspiring guest list.

ITV soaps:

Emmerdale: 5.63m (32.7%) / 5.75m (33.4%)
Coronation Street: 7.21m (37.2%) / 7.35m (37.9%)
Coronation Street: 6.83m (30.1%) / 7.02m (30.9%)

Thanks DMN I think the soap era is over just like the US twenty years ago. Comedies/
dramas are the new ratings pleasers.

Well I don't think the BBC would want an hour dedicated to business news anymore, nor will ITV. But I do see a place for proper business news on somewhere like Channel 4, a Working Lunch style breakfast programme. Possibly only for 90 mins or something like that.


It's a shame but it will take a long long time for ratings to pick up, if they ever do. The quality is much superior to last year and the show's really watchable but it'll take more than the Lucy Beale story to ignite interest, frankly. Viewing figures have remained stubbornly around the 31% mark, which must be of slight concern, because that means it will crumble against BGT and post some pretty low figures (below 6 million, possibly below 5) in the summer if we have a heatwave.

And those figures just aren't good enough. Especially when EE has actually consistently been a million or so down on Corrie when HD's factored into Corrie's figures.


Exactly. I completely agree. I actually don't think Lucy's death will provide the boost to EE...I think the ongoing Stan/Mick/Shirley story is much better paced and will provide EE with the long-term boost. Reminds me a bit of the Archie/Ronnie story.

P.S: Didn't realise Good Friday was next week. In that case the pacing has been pretty rubbish then. It's happening too fast. And thing is, Lucy isn't really a character I care a great deal about.


Don't even remember Business Breakfast, which should give a clue as to how old (or young) I am

Also I think factual is starting to become a force for ratings again, certainly is for Channel 4. I think we could see a few big hits this year.

Be interesting to see how The Cube did in the Friday slot. Could be a new home for it if it went well.

Will they sacrifice GBBO to prop up EE and curtail the ITV soap sandwich?

Emmerdale is looking poor but the One Show is too. Maybe it is the bright evenings affecting ratings

The Guest List has been getting major trailing on BBC services including radio. But I didn't see anything mentioned about it on BBC News which will have limited its potential publicity. The target for that slot will be about 3.5m imagine and beating Law and Order.

Adding in Eastenders 6.24 really does ram home just how throwaway soap has become since the glory days. Countryfile might beat all these figures on Sunday.
And to think we have a World Cup and possibly heat disrupted summer to come.

Perhaps putting the EE ratings into a bit more context. ED share OK but the figure is bad.

Awful rating for the second CS. EE stuck around the same figures. I don't think the soap era is over, but it will take a long time for viewers to come back to EE after the terrible state it was in last year. With regards to CS, it's the poor quality that's turning people away. If the quality was there, I think it could still quite easily be pulling in a million extra viewers.

The Graham Norton figure is a bit low, which is surprising because I thought the guests were particularly good last night. Maybe it was hit by Alan Carr.

But Eastenders' 6.24million is worth more than Countryfiles 7mill because it has a younger audience, who are tougher to reach.