It isn't even getting 8m against bloody Atlantis. Next year with no Atlantis, against Strictly and the usual yearly decline it will be lucky to be get 6.5m in your fantasy schedule.
Jekyll will start well and decline just like The Musketeers, Demons, Primeval, Robin Hood and Atlantis. It's only chance is to skew old like Merlin

Last night's episode was also down 700,000 on the equivalent episode in 2012 and at least 400,000 on the equivalent episode in 2011.

More data needed certainly - but I don't accept your argument at all that 9.33m is a normal figure for the show on a miserable Sunday night in November.

It was IAC's worst performance for that Sunday since 2009. Fact not spin.

If Colin Morgan plays Jekyll then it'll work. Merlin worked because of Morgan and Bradley James. Get the casting right, that's the crucial thing. Charlie Higson is usually pretty good in that department.

Don't mention the 'M' word.

That is never going to work with an ITV audience and are we pretending that Primeval was a hit? Held up by Dancing on Ice for 2 years and then performed so poorly in its third year that it boosted the awful Barrowman "Tonight's the night" show on BBC One.

Yes it is. You've got adverts in there depressing the average.

You are consistently aggressive in your tone of posts, and way to defensive of the BBC. Perhaps we should all walk on eggs shells around you, so we aren't been spoken to in a rude manner.

Commendably, Andy's glass is always half full, never half empty.

Precisely. SCD has faced competition every year - last year the hugely expensive spoiler Stepping Out, and this year the still-expensive Bradley Walsh ent vehicle Keep it in the Family.

Big money, potentially big competition seen off by the old war horse....

He is consistently the most aggressive person on this thread.

And the programmes ITV put against SCD appeal to a similar audience, therefore rate lower as many watch Strictly.

Antiques Roadshow appeals to the older generation, a complete opposite to TXF. I guarantee though something like Takeaway against SCD would knock it down a peg or two.

I agree though that even if the competition weakened for TXF at 8pm its unlikely to increase its viewers. Those viewers have left and are never coming back.

Sometimes channels can be more competitive against big shows, they won't win but can increase their audience share. By The Sea was BBC1 just shutting down. I'd rather a drama/entertainment alternative than a documentary.

Remember Me reminds me of 2012 when BBC1 put on The Secret Of Crickley Hall. An entertaining alternative to I'm A Celebrity..... the only difference is Remember Me is scarier!

Slightly disappointed with Remember Me - both the content and the rating. It was pretty bleak and miserable, yet too silly to be either plausible or scary. Palin seemed an odd choice for the part he played (although he did, as with everything he does, do it incredibly well), and there was the usual BBC drama problem of bad lighting and poor sound.

This was supposedly one of the years highlights, so a 5.3m overnight even against IAC is slightly anaemic. I suspect it may have started a bit higher then drifted. Hard to think this will sustain 5m+ overnights and consolidated figures c. 6.5-7m.

Excellent F1 figures. Wish they'd finish the season in Brazil though so we could get 10m+ peaks.

At last we have one SPOTY contender who has actually won something this year...

The most defensive poster on the thread criticising someone else for being defensive. Hilarious.

Anyway, pretty good for Strictly and IAC. IAC has just fallen from astronomical levels to high levels. And although I'm not a fan it clearly has a pretty loyal audience.

Nothing much to say for X Factor now, at least it stopped dropping.

It was a bit slow and in parts clichéd (the rocking chair, e.g.), but still enjoyable enough and intriguing enough for us to return to it next week.

The young lead actress was good and it was sufficiently scary.

It's only poor anecdotal stuff from me, but I stopped watching this years IAC, after enjoying it for the first few days. The CIA stuff is just sub-BB, and concentrating on the Playboy-skank, and the x-factor reject just doesn't do it for me personally.

Weekend's football:

Arsenal v Manchester United (Saturday 5:30 K/O): 1.51m / 7.6%
Crystal Palace v Liverpool (Sunday 1:30 K/O): 0.81m / 5.9%
Hull v Tottenham (Sunday 4:00 K/O): 1.13m / 7.0%

The F1 must have dented the Liverpool game. Even the way we're playing at the moment I can't imagine that Sky Sports viewers considered us a worse watch than Hull v Spurs.

More multichannel ratings via ITV Media: http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/highlights/ratings

Sweeping statements again. If you actually look at my posts you might see that is quite untrue.

Digital Spy has updated with more of yesterday's ratings:

BBC Two
19:00 Secrets of the Castle: 1.52m
20:00 Sue Perkins's Mekong River: 2.30m
21:00 World's Greatest Food Markets: 1.19m

Channel 4
20:00 Woolly Mammoth Autopsy: 1.59m
21:00 Homeland: 1.23m
22:00 Sarah Millican: 0.85m

Channel 5
19:15 Hancock: 1.12m (exc. +1)
21:00 The Green Hornet: 0.83m

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...on-sunday.html

Sue Perkins' show is great, I'm glad its performing well. I hope she gets to do more travel shows.

And a few more:

ITV:
KITF: 2.78m / 157k

BBC1:
Countryfile: 6.51m
Antiques Roadshow: 5.58m

ITV2:
Xtra Factor: 220K
IAC: Now: 712K

The Woolly Mammth doc last night was very interesting.

Is Xtra Factor really worth bothering with at this point? Last night ITV2 could have aired a film repeat between 8pm and 10pm and doubled their ratings minimum. And even on a good day i.e. away from IAC it's hardly been firing on all cylinders.

There might be a case for keeping it along the lines of increasing viewer engagement but perhaps these days its future lies online.

It is just proof that people are getting fed up of reality shows and want more Quality TV to watch.

Australia: ABC confirms redundancies and cancellations following federal government budget cuts:

http://www.c21media.net/abc-confirms...rogramme-cuts/