Lets hope so but lets remember this is Charlotte Moore who binned 6m+ rated The Crimson Field for no logical reason.

It's not quite as huge as in the rest of the UK, going by the episode two weeks ago:


A couple of points below the UK share, although that deficit may be typical of how BBC One fares generally in Scotland; I'm not sure.

In a post today D.M.N. reported 459k officially for BBC Two Scotland's showing last week of GBBO at 20:00 (opting out of Long Shadow which they showed at 19:00). If we assume a +20-25% timeshift (as has been typical lately UK-wide on BBC One) then the GBBO overnight in Scotland was about 370-380k, and therefore roughly 1.46m in the rest of the UK watched Long Shadow at 20:00. That then fell to 721k across the whole UK last night. Still one more episode to go. Very PSB, ratings don't matter too much for it, but that's a huge -1.1m (-61%) headline fall in the overnights with less than a third of it attributable to the Scotland GBBO effect.

the beeb are not pulling away from eastenders, there is no need to have an omnibus any longer, with iplayer and soon bbc1 +1. so many more people watch on catch up now.

Jake Kanter ‏@Jake_Kanter 10m
Peaky Blinders returns with 1.7m (8.3%), down some 700,000 viewers on last year’s series debut of 2.4m (11.2%). #tellyratings

Around where last series finished with so not bad in that sense. Better than The Hour series did which completely collapsed, so if PB can stay closer to 2m than 1m it might be able to survive. (I hope so, it's one those shows if a loud online fanbase, cancelling it won't be pretty.)

Slot-winning #whodoyouthinkyouare with @Billy_Connolly attracted 2nd-highest audience of season - 4.8m/23.3% http://www.overnights.tv

EastEnders topped Thursday evening's soap ratings (October 2) as Phil and Sharon's wedding day drama continued, overnight figures show.

The Walford drama pulled in 6.67m and a strong 35.0% share at 7.30pm on BBC One as the ongoing tension between Phil, Sharon and Shirley led to a shock shooting at the Mitchell house. BBC Three's repeat screening secured 349k (2.6%) at 10.30pm.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...-thursday.html

That's what I thought. Peaky Blinders launched higher in series 1 then overnights stayed around the 1.5m mark. Consolidated ratings stayed over 2m. I'd say that was a decent launch figure. I thought it was outstanding.

Will be interesting to see how The Fall 2 holds up. Another great drama that I hope keeps its audience.

Emmerdale - 5.74m/32.8% +1: 117k (6.65m/34.9% +1: 115k)
EastEnders - 6.67m/35.0% BBC3: 349k (6.50m/31.9% BBC3: 463k)
Emmerdale - 5.97m/30.0% +1: 287k (6.02m/27.6% +1: 305k)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...thursday.html?

I meant "The Hour's second series" in my post above btw, didn't catch the error in time to edit it.

Good to see EastEnders have a bit of a bump this week. It has deserved it plus its Best Soap awards recently. Emmerdale having a good run too. Can't just be a change in weather.


The Hour tumbled spectacularly. It was no surprise it went. The first series took too long to get going.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...-thursday.html

Great share for Neighbours at lunchtime. 13% for Channel 5 is massive. Hollyoaks also doing very well. Underwhelming for EE, only 0.4m ahead of Emmerdale for its big episode, but the share does look good.

Are those the 2013 equivalent figures in brackets, guestofseth? If so, the total TV audience is still way down on last year:

1st ED: 17.5m (19.1m)
EE: 19.1m (20.4m)
2nd ED: 19.9m (21.8m)

Not even 20m at 20:00!

Yes they are, I probably should have mentioned that.

Would have liked to have seen EE above 7m again but can't really argue with the solid share.
It seems currently that 8m is pretty much a blockbuster rating for the show - will be particularly interesting to see how the live 30th rates and if we'll see any further significant increase in the meantime.

The weather is still very good at the moment, 20 degrees in the South in October. It's all change from tomorrow though.

Peaky Blinders was actually second in its slot last night. Just 1.42m/6.9% (+1: 148k) for Blenheim Palace: Great War House. Ouch. You'd have thought a lead in from Paul O'Grady (4.10m +1: 246k) would have helped it do better than that.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s259/...oRCykC3rwtVLMf

Those shares for POG Dogs and Blenheim Palace that DS reported must be wrong as ITV Media reports a 20.8% share for POG Dogs. Anyway, a roundup

BBC 1
13:45: Doctors - 1.22m (22.2%)
18:00: BBC News at Six - 4.29m (28.0%)
18:30: BBC Regional News - 4.76m (29.0%)
19:00: The One Show - 3.49m (20.0%)
19:30: EastEnders - 6.67m (35.0%)
20:00: Your Home in Your Hands - 2.61m (13.1%)
21:00: Who Do You Think You Are? - 4.77m (23.0%)
22:00: BBC News at Ten - 4.12m (24.0%)
22:35: Question Time - 2.27m (21.8%)

BBC 2
18:30: Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two - 1.18m (7.1%)
19:00: Antiques Road Trip - 1.59m (8.7%)
20:00: Jungle Atlantis - 1.29m (6.4%)
21:00: Peaky Blinders - 1.69m (8.3%)
22:00: Mock the Week - 1.43m (8.5%)

ITV
18:30: ITV News - 3.09m (19.0%)
19:00: Emmerdale - 5.74m (32.8%)
* +1 - 117k (0.6%)
20:00: Emmerdale - 5.97m (30.0%)
* +1 - 287k (1.4%)
20:30: Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs - 4.10m (20.8%)
* +1 - 246k (1.2%)
21:00: Blenheim Palace: Great War House - 1.42m
* +1 - 148k (1.0%)

Channel 4
18:30: Hollyoaks - 0.91m (5.5%)
20:00: Location, Location, Location - 1.48m (7.4%)
* +1 - 210k (1.0%)
21:00: Educating the East End - 1.33m (6.5%)
* +1 - 128k (0.9%)
22:00: Scrotal Recall - 0.636m (3.8%)

Channel 5
13:15: Home and Away - 0.198m (3.4%)
13:45: Neighbours - 0.729m (13.0%)
17:30: Neighbours - 0.887m (6.8%)
18:00: Home and Away - 0.635m (4.2%)
* 5* First Look at 18:30 - 0.319m (1.9%)
20:00: Benefit House: Me and My 22 Kids - 0.907m (4.5%)
* +1 - 116k (0.6%)
21:00: No Foreigners Here: 100% British - 0.782m (3.8%)
22:00: Mummy’s Little Murderer - 0.656m (4.4%)

ITV 2
22:00: Celebrity Juice - 0.84m (5.4%)
* +1 - 149k (0.7%)

ITV 4
16:45: UEFA Europa League Live - 0.951m (5.6%)

BBC 3
22:30: EastEnders - 0.349m (2.6%)
23:25: Family Guy - 0.527m (6.6%)

E4
18:00: The Big Bang Theory - 0.51m (3.4%)
18:30: The Big Bang Theory - 0.686m (4.1%)
19:00: Hollyoaks - 0.868m (5.0%)
* +1 - 209k (1.0%)
20:00: The Big Bang Theory - 0.514m (2.6%)
20:30: The Big Bang Theory - 0.553m (2.7%)

Film 4
21:00: Film: Die Hard 4.0 - 0.495m (3.1%)

Sources - DS, ITV Media

Terrible for ITV at 9pm, not good for Educating the East End either unable to beat it and C5 on a poor figure too. Finally a bright spot for ITV2 this week with Celeb Juice inching back up to that 1m mark inc +1.

Is there anywhere on the internet that has a region by region breakdown of the viewing figures. What programmes does best and where. And the age group

Good start for Detectorists on BBC Four, 655k/3.9%, beat Channel 4's Scrotal Recall exc. +1.

Thanks lewie for the round up, didn't even notice how odd POG Dogs' share looked, guess I was too focused on how poor the 9pm rating was.

Thanks for the ratings round up Lewie!

Does It Takes Two look a bit on the low side or is it just me?
That title alone for Scrotal Recall turned me off. Good to see BBC4 do well with a comedy in The Detectorists and Mock The Week still pulling in good numbers at 10pm.

Thanks for the roundup Lewis. You get a real sense of how the audience is split across multichannel these days!

It only needs a 2m rise in available audience to a more typical 22m at 20:00 for a 30% share to mean 600k more and a 35% share to produce 700k extra.

And then the usual pattern is for gradually rising TV audiences with a leap when the clocks change three weeks tomorrow.

I don't know what it's like for other people, but this year it's probably the first time I've hardly watched anything live. Even Grand Designs which I like I've been catching up at the weekend through Sky Catch Up, it's great that nearly every programme is now available to watch when you want.

Ive also developed this tendency to binge watch my favourite shows in blocks in one go. Even better.

I think there needs to be some sort of ratings system for the VoD players both online and through YouView, Sky+, etc.

New series of ITV's Birds of a Feather starts recording at Pinewood next Wednesday.