That's true but at the same time it could take away some of In The Club's 'there's nothing else on' audience.

The BBC used to show them but late at night on BBC1, think they may have been on BBC3 around 9pm too. Makes sense for MOBO to move them with BBC3 becoming an online channel.

Nobody watches Neighbours but they do watch Sky1, to the extent it might partly excuse yet another dreadful EE rating?

You're funny.

Just to add regarding Antiques Roadshow, it actually started in 1977 with Arthur Negus so its a pretty remarkable success story.

I think Neighbours though must be one of the most surprising results in UK tv history. The BBC started it off iirc with morning and lunchtime showings but eventually realised it needed a more prominent tea-time slot. The figures are extraordinary, everyone was talkin about it (to coin a phrase) and alongside the usual brickbats from some quarters there was a rare national affection sustained and propelled all the more by the pop careers of Kylie and Jason which ran alongside the growth and peak of its popularity.

Looking at the figures today(which might require a microscope in comparison), if you had no knowledge of the past, would you even begin to imagine 20 million audiences? I doubt it. Its incredible really.

Looks like both Aussie soaps benefitted from the dull weather.

Over on Channel 5, Neighbours appealed to 570k (8.3%) at 1.45pm and later bagged its best teatime rating since May 7 as 865k (6.9%) watched at 5.30pm.

Home and Away also saw its strongest evening rating since June 10 as 669k (4.5%) watched at 6pm, while the lunchtime screening at 1.15pm and 5*'s first look at 6.30pm had 200k (2.8%) and 262k (1.7%) respectively.

Well done to Judge Rinder, it didn't fall as I predicted. However that recent flop in the same slot (the name escapes me, ends in -mans) was steady on day 2 yet soon plunged to 0.4m. Interesting to see how this one pans out.

Broadcast reports that The Mobo Awards are moving from BBC Three to ITV2 this year. The BBC blamed reduced budgets. Last year's event attracted a consolidated viewership of 236K (1.0%).

Excluding +1, EastEnders beat Emmerdale according to DS

What do you mean widens the gap? surely you mean shortens?

going off the figures you posted EE suffered the lowest year on year drop only being 500k down compared to Corrie which is almost 1 and a half million down on last year.

Tell me how a film beginning at 8pm would effect a programme which had finished at 7.57?

Its surprisingly decent, The campy act is funny but it has a lot more Law in it that I was expecting (Being a Law Student its basically revision ) and the format is identical to Judge Judy so I'm assuming they bought it in?

Eastenders topped Tuesday evening's soap ratings (August 12) as the Lucy Beale murder mystery continued, overnight figures show.

5.67m (30.5%) watched at 7.30pm on BBC One as Lucy's father Ian made an emotional appeal for new information to help solve the case. BBC Three's repeat screening secured 376k (2.6%) at 10.30pm.

Emmerdale wasn't far behind as 5.47m (31.1%) tuned in at 7pm on ITV and 249k (1.3%) on +1 for Diane's attempts to fix things between Katie and Andy

How did the club get on?

It's a bit early to tell, but it also overlaps with Doctors, which seems to be down this week.

It usually get around the 19% mark but this week it's been 16.7% on Monday and 17.2 yesterday. Of course it could just be that the storylines don't appeal at the moment.

Are you telling me your that lazy you can't even go onto the previous page?

It got 4.25m (20%)

Any other ratings? Channel 4 and Channel 5 with +1? Odd DS hasn't updated yet. (ratings aren't delayed like yesterday, a few have come out already)

How did Jumanji do out of interest? It was trending strongly on Twitter (so that means sod all)

Astonished at how high the two Australian soaps were! Were their timeslots any different back in 1992?

I think they both had lunch and teatime slots hence the high ratings
ie: 7 million watching at 1pm & 9 million at 5.30pm.

IIRC Home & Away was on 5.10-5.40 on ITV and Neighbours was 5.35-6.00 on BBC1

Yep, repeats are accumulated. The post a few pages back on the 1989 ratings highlights how strong soaps did on BBC One because viewers were given a second chance to watch.

Good thing Neighbours and Home and Away they didn't overly clash with one another too.

Thought I might put the timeslots next to all the programmes in those 1992 charts, just so you can get a bit of context...


Although we were talking about Wednesdays being a weak night fo BBC1, that Only Fools repeat benefited from a) being the first repeat of the incredibly popular 1991 series and b) going up against live football on ITV which obviously split the audience.


Brrr. I posted about Gladiators yesterday - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1259

Antiques Roadshow was promoted to primetime in 1996, moving from around 5pm to around 7pm, and it ended up being the initial opposition to the Sunday Corrie where initially it held up well. But I remember there was a bit of a wobble in late 1997 because in January 1998 it was relegated back to 5pm. But they couldn't find anything better to put in its place so after a few months it was back in primetime where it's stayed ever since.


Well, we know Neighbours was at 5.35, but obviously it had the most fantastic lead-out from the news and nobody else was showing anything of interest, ITV had the news. I know Andy Crane has since marvelled at what another world it was because they were getting ten million viewers for the end of CBBC with everyone tuning in for Neighbours and nobody ever told them what to do there, so they would just talk about Edd The Duck's jumpers and whatever they felt like for five minutes, in front of an enormous audience.

Home and Away, of course, was never networked until 1999 so some regions would show it at 5.10 and some at six (and presumably BARB were able to work out who was watching it at what time). In 1992 most of the big regions were showing Home and Away at six - Thames, Granada and Central definitely were, the biggest region showing it at 5.10 was probably Yorkshire - which would have helped it out. But by the time it was finally networked at 5pm in 1999, only Central and HTV were still showing it there, everyone else was showing at 5.10.


Well, as we've mentioned it has been on the Beeb for many years, in primetime on BBC3 and then a few days later in a late night slot on BBC1. It's been there about a decade now, I think, before that it was on C4 and before that I remember watching I think was its first ever TV screening in 1997 when it was only on Carlton and Central, when I was at university in the Central region.



Sounds like an old people's home in here sometimes.

I am a bit surprised that low 30% shares are not over 6m even at this time of year.

Thank you Steve for the Gladiators info accidently missed it.

Not that i remember exactly back what was on in the 90's but im sure H&A's competition at 5.10 was CBBC on BBC1, not alot on BBC2 and Ricki Lake on Ch4. Neighbours was against the ITN News on ITV i think?