Tbh in the grand scheme of things adverts in TV is unimportant, and not worth complaining about. If the BBC was full of ads we would know no different.

Its only because we have the BBC do viewers complain, and in some cases suggest BBC drama is better than others because it doesn't have adverts. As if that is a measure of quality.

Yes - though it's less to do with adverts on commercial networks and more the fact I can watch shows when I can rather than having to stick to a schedule. I do very much the same with BBC shows as well. I do tend to just use the network's catch up devices (iplayer/ITV Player/Demand 5 etc.) so would be counted by them.

Also helpful for watching more shows in a smaller amount of time, or maybe I just watch too much TV...

Yes, that as well...

Nice to see Strictly still giving the X factor a good kicking it deserves. To add more doom and gloom to big headed Cowell with Band aid 30 there's no chance in a number 1 single.

I like ITV's ''Keep it in the family'' it's pretty fun and Bradley Walsh is not a bad host.

While your here Dan, I just wanted to ask what you think of EastEnders at present and how it is performing ratings wise?

Is the quality still high or has it dropped off from the start of the year?

I do too - do you think it'd work away from Strictly? It's nice to see it bounce back slightly last night but obviously being away from Strictly for an additional 25 minutes helped.

The final episode of Love Hate on RTE1 last night had an overnight of 1,005,400 and a 56% share - RTE News

How many series did they make? Any ratings for The Fall on RTE?

Homeland renewed for 5th season by Showtime, its a much better show this season and despite a drop in viewers it has remained consistent.

Also more surprisingly The Affair is also back for a 2nd season: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...owtime/325725/

Agree,think this could turn into a bit of a hit,Bradley Walsh is genuinely funny and in general most bits of it work. They should try next series away from SCD.

I defend The One Show and Holby City for other reasons as well, because as well as being cheap they're also doing other things in terms of PSB and independent productions and so on. You don't get that from showing The Two Ronnies Sketchbook for the trillionth time. The fact Ronnie B has been dead so long illustrates how old they are. They'd be better off repeating Only Fools and Horses there. They've just done a load more Morecambe and Wise compilations and they had plenty of those on the shelf too.


I note the ratings in Broadcast also have two ratings for Thursday's Autumnwatch when it fell off the air, 1.89 million at 8pm and 1.60 million for 8.40. Seemingly Coast didn't count.


I think it was a daft thing to show at 9pm, when ITV had the rights at the turn of the century it would be at 10.30 at the earliest, and that was a period when pop was much more prominent on primetime TV with Top of the Pops and so on and younger audiences would watch this kind of thing on a terrestrial channel. They'd have been better off doing what ITV did with the MOBOs the other week and shown them at 9pm on 5* and then repeated later on C5 itself.

Was a bit like showing the Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party in primetime.

Really? I've taken it off series link and I turned off half way through last night's episode as it was truly terrible. I LOVED the first 4 seasons.

It's alright but nothing special. I thought September and the start of October were great but then it seemed to really die down.
At present I think it's far too inconsistent but I know they have loads of great things coming up and it's looking to be one of their best Xmas with everyone having a storyline and lots going to ahead.

I think What EastEnders needs now is a massive shock (Something like a death of a character we wouldn't expect) leading into some other big storylines and hook people just in time for Christmas. I also think the BBC need to promote it some more.
The Halloween storyline had a trailer but not once did I see it on TV.

I am pretty certain EastEnders will see a rise in time for the festive season and into the 30th. I have a feeling xmas will top last year and possibly reach about 9million while the 30th week will surprise everyone ratings wise.


I think so. I think ITV should air it 8:30pm on a Friday tbh. Bump 8:30 Corrie and then have a CS on a Sunday if a 5th episode is a must.

Friday at 8:30 it's not caught up with Strictly and the like plus it kicks off the weekend on ITV just before viewers switch back over to BBC1 for Sat & Sun

I think there's an element of not wanting to slap Fellowes in the face, too, which is what they would be doing if they moved it.

Good night for the ITV digital channels, Xtra Factor up a lot no doubt due to the higher rating for the main show from 8.30pm to 9pm and the shock result. And fantastic for TOWIE - I thought the move could have gone horribly wrong but it looks like ITVBe is performing well. To be beating BBC2, Channel 4 and Channel 5 isn't bad for such a new channel.

Very close peaks for XF and Strictly but a large gap still on the averages, both suffering with the clash. Keep It In The Family bounced back a bit too.

1900 - 3.1m
1915 - 3.2m
1930 - 3.5m
1945 - 3.8m

2000 - 6.2m
2015 - 6.8m
2030 - 7.8m
2045 - 9.1m

First half hour of X Factor was down nearly 1m week on week but the last 15 minutes was up 600k. Keep It in The Family was up ~620k week on week for the 45 minutes against Countryfile and up ~580k for the 15 minutes against Strictly.

Meeoooww !

On a 2 hour drama of course thats ads taking almost 25% of the run time which I can use to watch another program.
US programs are generally 42mins so with them thats getting on for 30% of the run time.
I would rather watch programs than ads.

Yes, with a weather forecast between the two sections, but that hasn't been reflected in the BBC One Top 30 before. Presumably the forecast was too short to rate.

Channel 5 will be better off sticking a film on then the EMAs.

whilst I was cycnail about the EMA airing on C5 when it was first annouced, I get why C5/Viacome tried it, but obviously it hasnt work.

The question is, does that mean C5 viewers have no interest in music, or music award shows, was the line up to blame, did it favour the tweenager acts, the kind of acts that peope over 20 have never heard of.

Its funny those young acts with young fans, are engaged with their auidence like never before, thanks to soical media, yet they could not get their fans to watch the EMAs. Maybe the problem was that the EMAs was not a series of You Tube video and vines which can be shared and posted on a bands facebook page, or Twitter feed.

It's always baffled me why it's never had a full repeat run. I think one edition has never been repeated in full, and I don't think all six editions in the main series have been repeated as cutdowns. Yet, some of the editions have been shown several times in both formats.

Would it have been all that difficult to repeat all six editions in full, over six weeks, at some point in the last nine years?

Thanks Dan for your response. If they want to reach 9m for Xmas Day then they are going to have to work hard and pull something pretty big out the bag. At the moment its still down YOY, so an uphill struggle looks to be on the cards.

Could Keep it in the Family become a hit? I'm not so sure. Of its type it's OK, but it's hardly a must watch. Fairly amusing, but nothing amazing. Reminds me of that ant and Dec family show. Just a bit meh. But I can see it coming back for a second run. God knows they need something to fill their schedules.

This was also reflected in the officials:

10 AUTUMNWATCH (THU 2000) 2.07
19 AUTUMNWATCH (THU 2043) 1.66

Less timeshift for the later segment, presumably due to PVR viewers giving up when Coast came on.

Coast did count as a programme for BARB as it was over the 3-minute qualifying threshold (actually about 9 minutes, from 20:33:30). It just didn't rate highly enough to make the official top 30 for BBC Two (so <0.98m) or the top 30 overnights on BBC Two/Channel 4/Channel 5 (<1.49m).

Spot on - here were the timings:

BBC One Sun 02/11/2014 18:17:58 (51 mins) COUNTRYFILE
BBC One Sun 02/11/2014 19:08:51 (3 mins) WEATHER FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
BBC One Sun 02/11/2014 19:12:21 (5 mins) COUNTRYFILE
BBC One Sun 02/11/2014 19:19:17 (40 mins) STRICTLY COME DANCING: THE RESULTS

Previous airings, as you say, must have been under 3 minutes long.