No I agree I thought it was doing rather well before Silk came along. Plus as you say both should time shift well.

Surprised 'Can't pay? We'll take it away!' did so well, I thought it was dire and switched off after 10 mins. Normally trash like that is right up my street but it was just so boring yet trying so hard not to be. Didn't help that we were seemingly supposed to find bailiffs likeable amongst the wacky rough characters.

I imagine the thinking behind L&O:UK being on Wednesday is that it did ok last summer on Sundays (around 4.7m-4.2m ish overnights IIRC) with a ~3.5m Mr and Mrs Lead in and Drama opposition. So in theory*It should be better than putting a new drama with no support. Not as exciting as Samuels L&O will die without Corrie theory mind!*

It was very poor. Their entire primetime schedule last night was the stuff of cheap, generic daytime cack. Decent ratings for 5 so if it works for them, fair enough.

I think so. Corrie fans that don't like the show at the moment care looking for signs of falling ratings when do far there are none. Friday is a low rated night for all soaps, some competition for Corrie was stronger last week and explains slight dips. But those are blips, also it's still high in consolidated ratings.

You need two weeks of consistently low ratings before you can say there's a trend. Some here are saying that after a couple of episodes. If ever the Monday episodes look in trouble you can say Corrie is faltering.

A danger of the latter perhaps: EE's ratings only started to fall off a cliff around a year ago, after about two years of poor quality, by most accounts. At the moment it's just hairline cracks appearing in Corrie's ratings, e.g. the 2nd ep being dented significantly by sub-5m rugby last Friday, when not so long ago it would have held up better.

Emmerdale seems low some nights to me, the quality is good by all accounts but the ratings are having a wobble.

EastEnders is great but the ratings still haven't gone past 8m on Monday. And this is with the return of Stacey in a much publicized storyline.

The One Show managed 4.80m (23.0%) against Emmerdale last night. That's full-slot but typically-lower-rating Inside Out followed it so the tape-checked rating could actually be a little higher.

EE's recovery is slow but there are signs of resilience, as evidenced by the decent showings against Emmerdale and Man U football coverage recently.

That's high for "The One Show" surely? It surpassed a 9pm drama on both networks?

"Silk" has opened solidly but it would be best to build on that next week if it wants another commision again next year. I have a feeling it will make way for another series in the drama portfolio next time. "The Village" was also Moffats creation I think but "Criminal Justice" has been his outstanding best I would say. The other two dramas lack interest for me and id like to see him create something completely different. He is a talented scriptwriter.

"EastEnders" is holding a solid figure and consistant but I did think Lacey Turner would really bring an extra lot of viewers back. The scenes are good and pace of episode. Charlie Brooks also a wonderful villianess that unfortunately wont be enhanced by Dominic Treadwell Collins leadership on the programme. Hopefully she will be persuaded to make a return.

I beg to differ. I thought it was very well produced indeed and suspect the dropoff won't be all that big next week. And with a 2m average we can assume you were in the minority in switching off after 10 minutes, must have been fairly stable across the hour.

C5 seem to be on a roll in that Monday 21:00 slot. It wasn't that long ago it was one of their worst performing slots, now it's quite regularly where they score their biggest ratings of the week.

Good to see the Mentalist back tonight, unfortunately can only do so well against Death in Paradise and Champions League football but hopefully 1.3m is achievable.

High-ish but not that much higher than it's post Christmas ratings have been. Since it came back after it's Christmas break it seems to have been comfortable at 21-22% audience share and hitting that 23% mark a few times (notably the 5m rating for the "floods special"). That contrasts with a more usual 19-20% share pre-Christmas

Don't know why really - maybe it's the new studio having an effect on "feel" of the show or maybe Emmerdale is just having some off weeks?

C5 kids block milkshake! enjoyed it's best performance across key audiences for more than a decade last month. 11% share amongst children and 9.6% share of Housewives with Children.

http://about.channel5.com/node/1942

Just think its down to Emmerdale flat lining. I didn't even notice the new studio but guests have improved a bit and the flood show was very topical.

Bad news for BBC3 with the end of Bad Education after next series: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-confirms.html

Although if the US series flops (and on ABC there is a good chance of that), he may think otherwise!

Actually it is probably down to the higher than average regional news figure on before it rather than what I suggested previously

ITV still running trailers for Edge OF Heaven. You have to admire their determination. They might as well run the trailers with the announcer announcing at the end, "Jonathan Creek. Starts Friday at nine o'clock on BBC1".(meow)

Yeah certainly there is an audience there for it evidently, I was disappointed as I went in wanting to like it but just didn't do it for me.

Channel 4s ground braking Live From Space season kicks off next month.
Its great to see a channel taking risks like this... I cannot wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OwMShNbsY

Well that promo tells you absolutely nothing - any idea whats planned?

The big question surely is how low can Edge of Heaven go?

"Being an astronaut is the most dangerous and extraordinary job there is. But what's life really like in microgravity?
This March, Channel 4 will boldly go to space with a ground-breaking new season, Live from Space. We'll meet the astronauts on the International Space Station, visit NASA and see Earth from space."

I'll bump this one up as Cylon B always have something interesting to say. Some of the Baker stories were falling as low as 5 million, he was bored with the role and rumours of heavy drinking and rows with the cast were rife, and ITV was starting big time to try and reclaim Saturday nights from BBC One. By the middle of 1982 the BBC One dominance of Saturday nights was in tatters, it would take another three years for them to recover. What would you sooner watch, some B list " action " movie on BBC One or Leslie Crowther inviting you to come on down?
TISWAS is even more interesting. It was only shown on ATV until 1976, the year Swap Shop started, so everyone outside the Midlands and HTV region( they started taking it in 1976) was still watching the genteel, middle class BBC show as ITV's efforts in other regions were often woeful. Then in 1977 Border, STV, Anglia and Grampian joined the party and as I was in the Border region, TISWAS soon became far more popular than Swap Shop. The show finally went national in 1979 and it seemed from playground conversations, only the stuffy middle class, my dad never watches ITV types were watching Swap Shop.

Below 2million probably, but even if that scenario happens I imagine ITV will keep it in that slot.

I doubt Edge of Heaven will go below 2m. The Corrie lead-in will be much better from now on.

OK but whats actually ground breaking about it?