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ITV drama #Vera was Sunday's top rated show with 5.55m/24.3%. Countryfile was BBC1's most watched, averaging 5.28m/28.2%.

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The world snooker final gave BBC2 an impressive 10.4% all day share. Afternoon session - 1.71m/16.9%; Evening session - 2.34m/11.8%.

Countryfile not top programme on Sunday. That doesn't happen often.


It appears everything was down last night is number and share.

Can never understand why ITV dont repeat some of the brilliant documentaries for over the years.Yorkshire,ATV and Granada have some of the best ever made in the archives,
even if they shown the at 11 on ITV3 i think they would still get a reasonable audience.

Indeed:

Countryfile - 5.28m / (28.2%) = 18.7m
Antiques Roadshow - 4.57m / (20.6%) = 22.2m
The Crimson Field - 4.42m / (18.9%) = 23.4m

The 19:00 hour was down -1.8m in total TV audience on last Sunday; 20:00, down -1.1m; 21:00, down -0.2m. Likely a weather effect as the reduction was much lower after sunset.

H of De Vil is correct that the shares are down too: the above three shows were all down -2 to -4 points on last week, and Vera looks to have been slightly down in share as well. [EDIT: yep, down a couple of points, inc +1]

Snooker competition? 2.34m/11.8% is quite a hefty average from 19:00 to 23:15.

Only one ad break in Game of Thrones from tonight and in a sixty minute slot.

Usually three or four in a 65-75 minute slot (depending on episode length).

Should get more 'live' viewings - if people are aware of the change.

Just going back to Perspectives last week, and this also relates to Steve's point about keeping the news in roughly the normal slot at weekends. I think it would have been better airing it at 22:20 after the news, rather than pushing the news back to 23:00. That 5.8m rating for the BBC 22:00 news seemed very high and it may have been partly because people didn't want to wait until 23:00 to get the news. The evidence however is mixed:

Sunday 6 April
22:00 - BBC News: 4.86m (24.3%)
22:00 - ITV News: <2.41m

Sunday 13 April
22:00 - BBC News: 5.53m (27.8%)
22:00 - ITV News <2.49m

Sunday 20 April
22:00 - BBC News: 5.13m (24.7%)
* highest-rating news bulletin of the week
22:00 - Perspectives: <2.19m

Sunday 27 April
22:00 - BBC News: 5.81m (30.4%)
* highest-rating news bulletin of the week
22:00 - Perspectives: 0.78m (4.9%) inc +1

Source: Broadcast magazine

Hard to make judgements as ITV's Sunday 22:00 programme rarely makes the Broadcast top 100. Looks like the Alan Davies/Houdini Perspectives on the 20th might have done reasonably well, as the BBC news was -0.4m and -3 points lower than the previous week when it was news v news. However, it was the highest-rated news bulletin of the week so it was perhaps a slow news period.

Neil - official ratings for the above ITV bits....

6th April - ITV News: 2.20m / Piers Morgan: 1.41m
13th April - ITV News: 2.01m / The Olivier Awards: 850k
20th April - Perspectives: 1.30m / ITV News: 775k

Only 3.2million for Catchphrase yesterday, its worst rating since the revival. Big drop from last year.

The Pallisers is starting on BBC2 today, 26 episodes.

Those were the days.

The share will tell us more. If its around 18% then it should be ok. The weather and bank holiday has affected all ratings. I'm mean look at Countryfile, down a massive 1.5m from last week, and The Crimson Field down to its worst ever rating.

Thanks for this info

As I thought everything down last night by about the same margin so pretty much as you were.

I will still record it - 1 ad break or 4 makes no difference when you dont want to see any.

Does that include +1? It was hot yesterday and this week will see ratings down across the board if nice weather continues.

No, the repeat's not included.

I suspect ITV would like quite a few shows to have their ratings reported as "less than..."


It makes a huge difference when you're more concerned in the TV show than the adverts. Most of the time ads are annoying just because they're ads - but unlike most shows Game of Thrones isn't made with ads in mind, so 4 interuptions really does interupt the flow. Just the one they should be able to get away with.

Anyone got any ratings for Fargo please?

Also, has anyone got last night's ratings for ' For the Love of Cars' please ?

Thanks for that D.M.N.

Consolidated ratings (inc +1, I think)

Sunday 6 April
22:02-22:21 - BBC News: 5.22m
* overnight was 5.53m (27.8%) [correction from my last post]
* tape-checking adjustment corrected for overnight over-spill from The Crimson Field (official: 7.83m)

22:01-22:14 - ITV News: 2.20m
22:18-23:14 - Piers Morgan's Life Stories (r): 1.41m

Sunday 13 April

22:00-22:18 - BBC News: 4.85m
* overnight was 4.86m (24.3%) [correction from my last post]

22:01-22:14 - ITV News: 2.01m
22:18-24:01 - The Olivier Awards 2014: 0.85m

Sunday 20 April

22:01-22:18 - BBC News: 5.08m
* overnight was 5.13m (24.7%)

22:03-22:59 - Perspectives - Houdini with Alan Davies: 1.30m
23:04-23:13 - ITV News: 0.775m

Overnight ratings (inc +1)

Sunday 27 April

22:00-22:20 - BBC News: 5.81m (30.4%)

22:00-23:00 - Perspectives - Gary Kemp: Kick out the Jam: 0.78m (4.9%)

Sources: D.M.N., Broadcast magazine, BARB

Britain's Got More Talent's 1.22m on Saturday night (exc +1) is brilliant, that seems to be having a really good run this year. Up from 925,000 for the equivalent show last year. Probably helped by the fact that nobody is hanging around to watch Amazing Grey's or The Voice. Much needed for itv2 at the moment.


I've got 3.32m (19.0%) + 0.19m (0.9%)

Held up a lot better last night than a lot of shows, but this series has generally been disappointing.


1.17m (5.0%) exc +1


0.89m (4.0%) exc +1

On the basis of 06:00-26:00 used by Channel 4 Sales (rather than -24:00), BBC Two got 10.2%, up from 5.7% last Sunday. Knocked all the other main channels: BBC One down to 16.7%; ITV, 12.1% (inc +1); Channel 4, 4.5% (inc +1); Channel 5, 4.4% (inc +1). Channel 4 just 0.11% ahead of Channel 5.

Fantastic rating. What's more is that it's been adding about 300,000 on +1 this series too (probably because the main show has been getting some big +1 numbers) so it was probably about 1.5m (inc +1). It's been doing about 700,000 for the Sunday repeat too. Must be ITV2's biggest shows these days now Celebrity Juice has fallen off a bit. It's doing really well this year.


These revivals often tail off a bit after the initial novelty wears off. This series has averaged 3.9m (20%) so far - not a bad performance for the slot in its own right but down on the 4.6m (23%) that last year's run averaged, although it tailed off a bit towards the end last year. It came back quite strongly this year at 4.8m (21%) but the warm weather has stung it a bit since then (although the shares have remained respectable). It should still get another run though.

Of course the fall has meant Off Their Rockers has come down with it, naturally given the scheduling. A pity as this series has been so much better than the last one (much less repetitive). Do you know how that did last night? Cheers.

It probably means nothing given all the existing speculation from the tabloid red-tops, but The Times today joins in on the act by carrying a photo of Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman with the "news" that they are expected to be named imminently as the co-hosts of Strictly this autumn.

A bit over dramatic when Catchphrase was down very little compared to Country file. Still not great raw figures but the shares are decent. I expect low soaps and a decent drop for Prey with the better weather today, C4 may regret launching their new show tonight.

I think the soaps will be very low today - Emmerdale in the high 5s with Corrie and EastEnders in the low 7s.

I think Prey and Bear Grylls will be fine though. The weather will only impact shows on before 9pm.