BGT in crisis will take over now...

BGT got 8.3m on ITV and a massive 1 million on +1. Just shows how dreadful the slot is and the damage it's doing. Wonder what the timeshift will be like.

I don't see anything wrong with that BGT rating. A rating of over 9 million these days is not to be sniffed at.

BGT averaged only 8.3million excluidng +1

Amazing Greys tanked!: #AmazingGreys which fell to 3.66m/17.8%

3.66m for Amazing Greys, they need to move BGT now!

8.3m (inc +1: 9.3m)

The schedule clearly isn't working for ITV. Greys has got to go earlier.

The whole point of the schedule was to give another Itv show a leg up. Itv need to find new hits, they cant do that as well by having BGT at 8pm. Thank God Amazing Greys flopped though, the BBC are probably celebrating that they won the ratings from 8.20pm onwards!

Makes the dubious scheduling look even more daft. ITV has no hope of utilising that BGT lead-in effectively with average filler material such as this.

Wonder what BGT's peak was? That might show if it grew a lot over the show and what damage the slot does.

The rating is around where I predicted, the share though is similar to previous second ratings. It will bounce back next week.

ITV have given BGT around 4 showing, 8 inc +1 for viewers to catch up.

#Casualty was the second most watched programme of Saturday with 4.22m/20.4%. It beat #AmazingGreys which fell to 3.66m/17.8% (down 810k)

But plus 1 viewers don't count, not even 1m of them! (We really need a rolls eye smiley!!)

They can still find new hits with BGT on later. Look at Through The Keyhole. If anything they could do with more Saturday 9pm shows anyway.

Strip out the repeat and Greys mustve had 3.3m viewers. That is a terrible retention. It's interesting to see how Itv viewers completely abandon the channel after a big lead-in. This doesnt happen on BBC1 when they have a big lead-in like from SCD or CTM.

BGT peaked at 11.1m/50%. Good peak at least.

Good old ITV. Despite the on demand era still filling the schedule with repeats left right and centre.

The advert break between shows doesn't help. Perfect opportunity for viewers to jump ship. Whereas BBC1 only run a couple of trailers normally.

Based on that rating for Amazing Grey's, they need to put BGT at 7.30pm/8pm and shift AG before it. The idiots at ITV always seem to give there big shows a small lead in and small lead out. Could you make it any more difficult.

Strong peak.

You cant blame Itv for trying to launch a new show in a easy slot. But even in such an easy slot with a lead-in of over 10million, they still make a mess of it. All they would've needed would've been a half-decent show and Im sure over 4m would've stayed. But they cant even come up with a half-decent show to retain 50% of the BGT audience. Some BBC bosses must be laughing their heads off at how badly Itv have exposed their post 8.20pm schedule due to the failure of Greys and also airing a Law and Order repeat in prime time.

The Guess List anyone ? Bit quiet on that front which makes me think it went down, and it didn't start that well last week.

Good on you, Casualty.

Pointless seemed to do a good job holding back BGT's audience. Im sure it held up above 16% which means job done. BGT's share excluding +1 should've been higher than 40%.

I've always wondered why ITV do that, surely it makes sense to not run a break between a big show and a new hope so the lead in doesn't vanish and so they stick with the first 10 mins of whatever follows, if its good then it may give a boost?