Thankfully ITV have enough money to afford this. I assume its the thing Ch5 showed earlier this year!?

Personally I think ITV should do some more pantomimes at Christmas. The ones they did before are on ITV2 every Christmas and seem like they could be a good rater over the Xmas period.

It will be in the region of 2m-2.5m - nothing much.

Only if Barrowman/Subo/Stewart etc all promise to go home and never come back.

Intentionally?

Rod Stewart isn't even Scottish!!!

/rant

Can the rest of the country vote yes for Scottish Independence?

I'm pretty sure people said that about the Olympics Opening Ceremony and it didn't happen.

Apparently it is now overrunning. The BBC News is now at 23:30

More pledges.

The late finish might hinder its prospects of getting that 6million average. Think the peak will still be in that 8-10million bracket but the 11-11.30pm portion will drag down the average.

Not quite the slick smooth event of Edinburgh Live then with Alex Jones!!

According to the EPG, a repeat of Super Saturday is now reduced to just 10 minutes at 00:10. Maybe it's just the best bits?

..it cant be- its far too excessive

Come on-theres fireworks now-there will be at least 14 million glued to the tv

The fact it turned into Children in Need complicated matters in my opinion. Huw having to read a disclaimer for the text line being overloaded wasn't great.

I'll be surprised if people stuck with that. In our house we got bored after 30 minutes and watched a film we had on the Sky+ planner since there were no good alternative programmes. I'll predict a 6m average (due to the waffle and late finish).

Very much "little London" and rather disjointed but still watchable imo. Liked the Rythym of my Heart slot and the nations walk ins are always interesting.

Do you think it'll get the 6million average or will the late finish drag down its number?

Well the a opening Ceremony was a total disaster. I had high hopes for it ratings-wise but not now. It'll average 7 million at best and probably will be closer to 6 million and will have trailed off throughout I suspect.

It felt like Poundland's answer to London 2012. Just awful.

All things considered I cant see it helping. London held its astronomical audience all the way past midnight but, nice as Glasgow was at times, its more barn dance than symphony in both status and style, and I think the audience will treat it as such and drift off to bed before the end-work tomorrow! (ahhh -got to be up at 5.00)

So you think people will turn off in droves due to the 'total disaster' you witnessed, let us see in the morning and we will be quick to praise you if your predictions were close. Naturally it didn't have the London budget - due to the fact Glasgow has less than 1/10th the comparable population. I would hope it averages 8 million, with a peak of 10 million. The show had dire competition, I hope it had a 40% audience share.

I wonder what the BBC Scotland share adds up to, maybe 85%

I recommend you all watch the factual episode that was on BBC4 last night at 9pm. A superb doc that brought home how we are affecting the planet, with some beautiful aerial views. I urge you lot on here to watch it please.

Voiced by Glenn Close is called 'Our Planet from the Air: Home'

Not sure that makes much sense, people watch telly later in the evening in the summer. It's still light at half past nine so often people will be out until then, 10pm in the summer is probably the equivalent of 9pm in the winter. I don't know why you'd write off a whole evening based on what was on earlier either. Am I the only person who switches on for what they want to see, and then switches off again? I thought most people watched telly like that?


But surely that's worse! Instead of 'stEnders opposite Emmerdale you've got Holby instead which will rate worse, and then nobody will watch the second half of Holby if they've missed the first. You just end up with the same problem as before.

Despite the presence of Barrowman I thought the Opening Ceremony was alright, and the past few years have proven people are interested in this kind of thing. I'm not sure why the fact the show started at 8pm before the Ceremony at 9pm is such a problem either, apart from 2012, where the build-up went on for several hours so was split-up in the EPG, every Opening Ceremony programme has started with at least half an hour of build-up.

At least you have made me smile this morning. No idea about its ratings though could go either way.

They showed a bit of VT of Andy Stewart - is he still alive (serious question)