The Ark will probably air at Easter unless it's saved for Next Christmas.
The Ratings Thread (Part 62)
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It sounds like Corrie is on top form...
Is this the best they can come up with in the run up to Christmas? No wonder soaps are struggling!
Quote:
“Coronation Street was Friday's most-watched soap (December 5) as the Websters' sofa saga continued, overnight figures show.
6.95m (35.1%) tuned in at 7.30pm on ITV as the estranged wife of the sofa seller tried to get the expensive item back from Kevin, while 6.78m (31.0%) returned at 8.30pm and 110k (0.5%) on +1 as Kevin found himself entangled in a web of lies over the situation.”
“Coronation Street was Friday's most-watched soap (December 5) as the Websters' sofa saga continued, overnight figures show.
6.95m (35.1%) tuned in at 7.30pm on ITV as the estranged wife of the sofa seller tried to get the expensive item back from Kevin, while 6.78m (31.0%) returned at 8.30pm and 110k (0.5%) on +1 as Kevin found himself entangled in a web of lies over the situation.”
Is this the best they can come up with in the run up to Christmas? No wonder soaps are struggling!
Ouch for Corrie last night. Very poor for the second episode in particular. Well they do serve the fall if a filler plot is the main storyline of the night.
It through does prove quality and ratings are not in line as Eastenders has been much better for many weeks than the corrsponding corrie episode on the same night yet always rates at least half a million less.
It through does prove quality and ratings are not in line as Eastenders has been much better for many weeks than the corrsponding corrie episode on the same night yet always rates at least half a million less.
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“Thanks for the additions. I somehow thought The Ark had already been shown and had never heard of Taboo.
The only reference I can find for the BBC2 show is the link below, although there is nothing on BBC media.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...oXEWEBup5yLKaA
So additions to BBC1 Drama list
The Ark (1x90) - David Threlfall in retelling of biblical story - filmed April 2014
Taboo (8x60) - Tom Hardy in period adventurer drama - announced April 2014
Danny and the Human Zoo (1x90) - Fictionalised account of Lenny Henry's teenage years - announced Feb 2014
Laurel and Hardy (1x90) - biopic written by Jeff Pope - announced Dec 2013”
“Thanks for the additions. I somehow thought The Ark had already been shown and had never heard of Taboo.
The only reference I can find for the BBC2 show is the link below, although there is nothing on BBC media.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...oXEWEBup5yLKaA
So additions to BBC1 Drama list
The Ark (1x90) - David Threlfall in retelling of biblical story - filmed April 2014
Taboo (8x60) - Tom Hardy in period adventurer drama - announced April 2014
Danny and the Human Zoo (1x90) - Fictionalised account of Lenny Henry's teenage years - announced Feb 2014
Laurel and Hardy (1x90) - biopic written by Jeff Pope - announced Dec 2013”
There's also another bbc2 drama that Is filming now.
Banished by Jimmy mcgovern 7x60
I must admit I was expecting the Ark this Christmas,it's been filmed for a while.Easter it must be then.
Originally Posted by omnidirectional:
“It sounds like Corrie is on top form...
Is this the best they can come up with in the run up to Christmas? No wonder soaps are struggling!”
“It sounds like Corrie is on top form...
Is this the best they can come up with in the run up to Christmas? No wonder soaps are struggling!”
I did let out a bit of a giggle when I read that!
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“Media Nooze @medianooze · 20 hrs 20 hours ago
Television News: BBC3: plans submitted for channel’s closure in 2015 http://bit.ly/1z1QI8q #medianews”
“Media Nooze @medianooze · 20 hrs 20 hours ago
Television News: BBC3: plans submitted for channel’s closure in 2015 http://bit.ly/1z1QI8q #medianews”
Why not axe an army of managers and bureaucrats.
Axing a channel but continuing to make many of its programmes anyway, is not on.
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“All the soaps low then as ED got 5.76m (30.8%) - I think thats excl.+1.”
“All the soaps low then as ED got 5.76m (30.8%) - I think thats excl.+1.”
ED's lowest Friday rating since 21 Sept.
4th in a row where it has dropped lower than the previous one!
Has the decline of EastEnders not taught ITV anything? Coronation Street lurches from one awful figure to the next and yet nothing is seemingly being tried to halt the slide. Emmerdale's shares are just about holding on to respectability for the most part (relatively speaking) but Coronation Street is in a very bad place.
Originally Posted by sheepiefarm:
“ED's lowest Friday rating since 21 Sept.
4th in a row where it has dropped lower than the previous one!”
“ED's lowest Friday rating since 21 Sept.
4th in a row where it has dropped lower than the previous one!”
I suppose lasts night gay wedding may sadly put of some of Emmerdales older more conservative viewers as well.
Originally Posted by basdfg:
“I suppose lasts night gay wedding may sadly put of some of Emmerdales older more conservative viewers as well.”
“I suppose lasts night gay wedding may sadly put of some of Emmerdales older more conservative viewers as well.”
Or the fact that it was just a rubbish episode
Originally Posted by sheepiefarm:
“Or the fact that it was just a rubbish episode”
“Or the fact that it was just a rubbish episode
”
Fourth Friday episode in a row where it's dropped from the Thursday or fourth episode in a row where it's dropped from the previous one?
Either way, that's easily explainable and I think the show's ok as long as it doesn't dip below 30% in the 7pm slot.
Originally Posted by Rob1985:
“Neighbours Season Finale
652k (9.3%) at 1.45pm + 850k (5.5%) at 5.30pm.”
“Neighbours Season Finale
652k (9.3%) at 1.45pm + 850k (5.5%) at 5.30pm.”
DS believes Neighbours has returned to form. Good article from the soaps editor yesterday detailing why.
I have to say, not much evidence of it in the figures. 1.5m total is about average for the past 12 months. Lunchtime still doing well but not as well as it was a few months ago and ideally it would be over a million at teatime.
It could take ages to recover from a break as long as this one as well.
Originally Posted by JordyD:
“That is bad for Coronation Street isn't it. Sub 7m for a December nights show.”
“That is bad for Coronation Street isn't it. Sub 7m for a December nights show.”
Seems harsh to single out Corrie as I don't think many shows came out of last night well when looking year-on-year.
The second episode was actually marginally up year-on-year in terms of audience share and only slightly down in terms of viewers, however the first was markedly down.
Question for Dancc: I know it's a bit premature, but with Gotham's midseason finale airing on 5 in a couple of weeks, do you have any idea when it will return post Christmas? Around February time? Thanks in advance
Originally Posted by Dancc:
“DS believes Neighbours has returned to form. Good article from the soaps editor yesterday detailing why.
I have to say, not much evidence of it in the figures. 1.5m total is about average for the past 12 months. Lunchtime still doing well but not as well as it was a few months ago and ideally it would be over a million at teatime.
It could take ages to recover from a break as long as this one as well.”
“DS believes Neighbours has returned to form. Good article from the soaps editor yesterday detailing why.
I have to say, not much evidence of it in the figures. 1.5m total is about average for the past 12 months. Lunchtime still doing well but not as well as it was a few months ago and ideally it would be over a million at teatime.
It could take ages to recover from a break as long as this one as well.”
Read the article too, though I haven't watched the show for years.
it seems as though the producers are catering more and more for the UK audience, timing the 'cliffhangers' to coincide with the UK episodes taking a break for Christmas etc no surprise as the show is now on a digital channel in Aus, so badly needs the UK rights money.
Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Seems harsh to single out Corrie as I don't think many shows came out of last night well when looking year-on-year.
The second episode was actually marginally up year-on-year in terms of audience share and only slightly down in terms of viewers, however the first was markedly down.”
“Seems harsh to single out Corrie as I don't think many shows came out of last night well when looking year-on-year.
The second episode was actually marginally up year-on-year in terms of audience share and only slightly down in terms of viewers, however the first was markedly down.”
i think corrie is singled out, partly because it has had the biggest drop of the big 3 year on year.
Originally Posted by JB92:
“Question for Dancc: I know it's a bit premature, but with Gotham's midseason finale airing on 5 in a couple of weeks, do you have any idea when it will return post Christmas? Around February time? Thanks in advance”
“Question for Dancc: I know it's a bit premature, but with Gotham's midseason finale airing on 5 in a couple of weeks, do you have any idea when it will return post Christmas? Around February time? Thanks in advance”
February I'd expect Gotham to return, but only a guess. There was nothing in that week's Programme Information to suggest when exactly it might be back.
But I think they will want to bring it back as soon as they can so that towards the end of the run we are very close to US transmission. And the timing should be right with the extended CBB for it to return almost immediately after that finishes.
Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“Is it too late to put a Ronnies Sketchbook on at 9.30 xmas eve instead of NGO? Might help BBC1 hold up better....”
“Is it too late to put a Ronnies Sketchbook on at 9.30 xmas eve instead of NGO? Might help BBC1 hold up better....”
Robbie it's over!
Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“Looking at all the new BBC1 drama coming up it's even more surprising that the Xmas schedule is repeat strewn.
A game is being played, I tell thee!”
“Looking at all the new BBC1 drama coming up it's even more surprising that the Xmas schedule is repeat strewn.
A game is being played, I tell thee!”
Certainly its an astonishing slate of upcoming drama from the BBC, and it must be more mud in the eye for the increasingly frustrated MP's/press/detractors/haters that the corporation keeps churning out such a body of challenging work. Its strange that there were periods in the three channel/four channel age when the BBC was under more pressure to deliver programming variety/success than now. The detractors must have thought their "anachronistic" BBC would have been swallowed up by now. Instead it very much remains the standard bearer.
Originally Posted by sally_bowles:
“i think corrie is singled out, partly because it has had the biggest drop of the big 3 year on year.”
“i think corrie is singled out, partly because it has had the biggest drop of the big 3 year on year.”
I think, if Corrie was a sofa, it currently wouldn't be sold as part of the Manhattan range. But more of the Value range.
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