"The Village" won't just be considered a ratings project by the BBC its also looking at history. It could be argued that the best decades are still to feature. Likewise "The Mill" isn't all about the figures but what the companies are actually producing in terms of drama and social depiction I would say. "The Village" perhaps would have been better to have launched on BBC TWO away from the glare of the ratings.

"Let's shut that door on it for now" tweets Miranda Hart on "The Generation Game and her " private brainstorms"

I have had a go at Ms Moore a few times but only jokingly as she has made no mark so far (although it could be argued she needs more time) but I cant see anything in that small list that should merit much praise. GBBO move was obvious, from what I saw of Boomers it does not look like a hit to me and Harry Hill outside of TVBurp is hardly a big star. Jurys still out for me.

Any Controller of BBC1 that got Bake Off would have had higher audiences with it. Boomers started well but let's see if it holds onto the viewers, I hope it can. When Moore gets a few hits of her own and/or rejigs the schedule so ratings go up then we can really judge her.

The Village would have been best to air on BBC2.

Yeah she is only at the beginning and had a few hits so far "Happy Valley" was a stand out drama this year. I think she will do well I like what she says about wanting "BBC one to be in the national conversation" and I think she will do it.

Charlotte Moore brought "The Great British Bake Off" to BBC one though. She would decide on no format changes etc. The transition is down to her and she has been successful in doing it, she should be quite pleased she brought 8-9 million viewers to a Wednesday evening. There aren't many controllers who have done that.

Happy Valley 2 confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...alley-series-2

Yes, you're right. Happy Valley was a Charlotte Moore commission and she deserves credit for it. I think Danny Cohen told Janice Harlow Bake Off was moving to BBC1 rather than Charlotte Moore. Need to check that one.

UKTV Ratings
BBC2's strong ratings gave it a 10.4% all day share, beating ITV's 8.3%. ITV just got the better during primetime however (10.0% vs 9.8%).

ITV's #ComeOnDown watched by 2.3m/12% at 7pm, losing out to #antiquesroadshow on BBC1 (4.2m/22%) in the timeslot http://www.overnights.tv

#dragonsden put in strong showing with 2.7m/12.3% at 8pm on BBC2 but #Countryfile's 5.1m/23.8% won the slot for BBC1 http://www.overnights.tv

#RichardIIITheNewEvidence doc for C4 at 9pm did well with 1.5m/6.8%, and 191.1k/1.2% on C4+1 http://www.overnights.tv

Million Pound Drop is a good format however Channel 4 never seem to advertise when it's on . Channel 4 schedule is a complete shambles with many worn out formats . Undercover Boss back I thought that finished years ago .

Channel 5's movie premiere Safe starring Jason Statham performed exceptionally well at 9PM last night, becoming the channel's most watched film so far this year.

1.75M viewers tuned in on the main channel across the two hours with a further 222K on +1, adding up to a huge overnight of 1.97M.

C5 beat ITV and C4 very very comfortably across its timeslot.

The format is OK but the questions let it down. I hate that the money can "drop" because the contestants don't know the answer to some ridiculously trivial question that life's too short to know.

It's not a proper quiz. That's been my beef with it since day one and it still stands. The ratings are terrible now, C4 should take the hint. But they don't know what they are doing, pretty sure any of us could do a better job of deciding what to renew and what not to renew. It's not rocket science, really.

BBC One or Two took the highest 7 places in ITV Media's top 10 on both Saturday and Sunday (inc +1, not tape-checked).

BBC Three's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was top of the multichannels yesterday with 1.30m (6.4%) from 19:00. Crazy how well these repeat.

Ouch - a bit of a slapdown there.

Extraordinary. Now "Gen Gate" is going to overshadow Moore's first big proper season launch. What a balls up.

Well there was a rather interesting program on cars on BBC2 at 21:00 but a tad too niche for BBC1.

That's fantastic for Safe!

This reminds me of Ben Elton saying that when people asked him what alternative comedy was, he said his favourite comedy act used to slap each other about the face and then get into bed together, which sounded like a very alternative act indeed. It was, of course, Morecambe and Wise.

I think suggesting Harry Hill wouldn't work on BBC1 is to underestimate both Hill's skill and the audience's intelligence. Harry absolutely dominated TV Burp from start to finish, it was his idea, he wrote it and had an enormous say in every aspect of it. It's ludicrous to say it could have worked without him, the whole point of the programme is that it was Harry Hill's TV Burp. If he didn't do it, it would have been a totally different programme. It would have been Screenwipe. TV Burp was a success not because it showed funny telly clips - Tarrant on TV did that for many years, so did Commercial Breakdown and that was crap - but because of Harry Hill. It's like how we were talking about Caught In The Act the other day, the clips probably weren't that different from You've Been Framed but the presentation was bloody awful.

You may as well argue Shooting Stars could carry on without Reeves and Mortimer. Harry Hill's TV Burp was a huge success and 100% of that is down to Harry Hill. To suggest the general public can't handle him seems daft. I still don't see the joke of Keith Lemon but he's managed to work on primetime ITV1. Why can't Harry Hill?

Chicago PD on the increase for 5USA; nearly hit a new high for the season. These are first run figures from BARB excluding the repeat on Thursday which varies in line with the first showing but adds around 300K on average.

Season 1, Episode 1 Stepping Stone (16/07/14): 735,000
Season 1, Episode 2 The Wrong Side of the Bars (23/07/14): 498,000
Season 1, Episode 3 Chin Check (30/07/14): 569,000
*NEW* Season 1, Episode 4 Now is Always Temporary (06/08/14): 728,000

Now is Always Temporary was 68% up on the next most watched 5USA programme (a rerun of NCIS).

Speaking of repeat performances:

BARB has updated:

1 INSPECTOR MONTALBANO (SAT 2101) 796k

K

BARB have updated for we 10th August.

GBBO 8.51m
The Village 5.26m
WDYTYA 5.23m
In The Club 5.07m

I remember Ben Elton The Man From Auntie being beaten in the same week by Stand Up Jim Davidson. The more traditional humour won out.

TV Burp was the perfect showcase for Hill's humour. Away from that and just a sketch show, which was inspired lunacy on Channel 4, it didn't rate as highly as other contemporary sketch comedies on BBC2 or Channel 4.

I never said TV Burp could work without Hill, I just said it was the perfect vehicle for his humour. There's a difference.

Shooting Stars was the perfect vehicle for Vic & Bob, got higher ratings than any of their sketch shows. I think Hill's surrealness worked in TV Burp, away from that format will 7/8/9m be interested? I have my doubts.

Carrott's Commercial Breakdown wasn't crap. That's nonsense. The follow up series with Rory McGrath, Patrick Kielty, Jimmy Carr and Jo Brand were crap. It should have been kept as occasional specials with Carrott that sometimes hit 13m

Tarrant On TV was just a lesser version of Clive James On Television that worked because of James's wit. Tarrant On TV and Floyd On TV never reached that level of brilliance.

As for Keith Lemon he has a very specific filthy act. When they tried to tone him down and put him in primetime he flopped on ITV. Doing a familiar show after 9pm with Keyhole and toning down slightly made him work.

For Harry Hill to be mainstream his humour needs to be more mainstream, but when it is it loses the essence that makes Harry Hill great. Surreal doesn't always work in mainstream TV, Look at Monty Python's figures on BBC1 as an example. Dress it up in a format that is accessible and uses popular targets and it can get ratings like with The Goodies.

Let's not forget that the first series averaged a brilliant 2.5m back in 2010. Of course, Channel 4 took that as good reason to overexpose it to death with pointless celebrity specials and multiple series' in one year.

BBC1 has confirmed two MBB specials, presumably for Christmas.

To be honest they will probably be looking for 4,5,6m. If it's good and accessible, it will do well.

Are the Two Miranda episodes confirmed as well?

If so that's got to be 1hr of comedy confirmed for Christmas day.

What an awful time shift for the Village, just 640k and add to that the big drop for last night and it isn't looking promising for a series 3. Would be interesting to see how it fared with better competition that the Great War Stories on ITV which is rating pitifully with no where near 2m too. The Village isn't bad either but I can see why viewers didn't take to it with last years series quite dismal viewing at times, a shame though as the acting is top notch.

I hope the BBC are preparing themselves for the Musketeers figures next year as I only see it following a similar pattern!