I agree.

They really should have called it 'Grind the B*stards Down'.

Well I really enjoyed DIP I hope the move to Thurs doesn't hurt it.

Thanks Dave. I suppose you have to admire their restraint in not running back-to-back Big Bang through the day as Comedy Central does with Friends. I know it's still on plenty enough, but given the audience appears out of nowhere for it at 2pm amongst lower rating shows it's fair to say the demand is there for even more.

Tongue in cheek but that's what was behind the suggestion - a shock title supposedly draws people in.

I thought the Six would go well. With 33% share, probably the performance of the day.

It seems your poinion is completely different to most viewers though.

It certainly got better as it went on.

Agreed.

Said almost exactly that in my next post hun

Well it was a night when people were going to tune into the news so not unexpected. What did ITV news get?

Wow for 'Silent Witless' , good retention from Tuesday looking forward to seeing it now. Only Corrie had more viewers. 😍


😝😜 I don't watch EE the better half does and she knew it was on.

How many times has that excuse been used lately? 😜

Seriously Four must be annoyed at the success of CBB, their alternative was another offering from the big bag of shite they got for Christmas.😄

Impressive stat from CBB launch:

16-34's:
29.9% share - +399% vs slot.

Brilliant. And that is why CBB is so successful for Channel 5.

The last series of DIP premiered with an overnight of 7.13m, but it did involve a heavily-promoted change of lead actor.

The only other episode to overnight above 7m was episode 5 which had the highest overnight of the series, 7.19m. The lowest overnight rating was for episode 6 (6.42m) which was on against Man City v Barcelona (overnight 5.71m).

Be about 6.5m I reckon.

So the slot average is a 6.0% share of 16-34s? This seems quite high, but if it's a 12-month average for Wednesday 21:00-23:00 then it will include a fair amount of BB and CBB I guess.

Nigh on 30% share in that demo is fantastic and surely made the channel #1. I wonder what was #2 - Channel 4's 24 Hours in A&E and Big Fat...Quiz repeat I would guess.

Broadcast magazine confirms that the top pure-timeshifting programme in week ending 28 December was the Top Gear Patagonia special on Saturday 27th, which went from 4.70m (20.7%) overnight to 7.21m (27.45%), a pure timeshift of +2.50m (with a tape-checking adjustment of +0.01m).

The second part on Sunday 28th was the runner-up, with +2.49m in pure timeshift (4.84m/19.4% => 7.38m/25.5%, tape-checking adjustment of +0.05m).

Sadly I can't see it getting that figure, but I would guess 6.5mil.

Many in here complained about how "poorly" the Top Gear specials did over Christmas, but 4.7m is a brilliant consolidated figure for BBC2, never mind an overnight. And, as we all already knew, even those who moaned, Top Gear is one of those programmes where a significant chunk of its audience watch at their own convenience. It has that sort of viewer.

You can see why the BBC let Clarkson get away with so much. He could present a whole programme dressed as a Black & White Minstrel and they still wouldn't sack him. "What?! I was making an ironic satirical comment about 1920s racism."

Couple of other timeshifters I noticed:

Wed 24/12 (22:55) - Mrs Brown's Boys (r): 4.26m (26.4%) overnight + 0.88m pure timeshift
= 5.14m (28.4%) consolidated
* repeat of a 2013 Christmas special

Sat 27/12 (23:05) - Not Going Outtakes: 2.04m (16.2%) overnight + 0.79m pure timeshift + 0.01m adjustment
= 2.84m (19.6%) consolidated

Unsurprisingly on the day of the omnibus, no place in the top 30 consolidators for Boxing Day EastEnders (so less than +0.79m in pure timeshift), but the rest of the weeks' episodes do chart: Monday (+0.95m), Tuesday (+0.81m), Xmas Eve (+1.03m) and Xmas Day (+1.24m).

Can anyone help me with these overnight ratings? I need +1-included figures and shares please.

- Downton Abbey (r), ITV, 16:15 on Boxing Day [ronant gave 1.72m but I need the share please]
- Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., C4, 19:05 on Boxing Day [exc +1: 0.58m/2.6%]*
- Homeland, C4, 21:00 on Sun 28th [exc +1: 1.31m/5.7%]

Many thanks

* It was barmy of C4 to put S.H.I.E.L.D. on Boxing Day; it got completely lost.

I liked the Death In Paradise opener. It would be a shame if the move to Thursday had a detrimental effect.



I'd like to see it match the highs of series 3 but 6.5m sadly seems more likely.

I think it was promoted badly, the overnight would have been higher like with the series last year. The enormous timeshift must be partly down to seeing The Argentina row and people rushing to iPlayer as they didn't know it was on. 7m is a great figure for Top Gear nd BBC2.

Question Time and This Week both compelling TV tonight, the latter in particular well worth 'iPlayer-ing".