Lewie, did you manage to find the missing figures for your Feather ratings charts?

Thinking The Good Wife will work well for Channel 5 as they have deep pockets now under Viacom.

I didn't I was hoping maybe people on here would post them.

Can't imagine More4 will be willing to part with it anytime soon - I've watched the first 5 seasons on UK Netflix and it's bloody brilliant. Hopefully a few more will have been exposed to it and it can take some decent numbers in.

However , I really hope 5 make use of their new financial situation and either buy / commission some decent comedy shows within the next few weeks. Viacom had the perfect opportunity to use the hugely successfull CBB to launch some promising stuff but it's all fallen abit flat at the moment and aside from 10,000 BC , I can't think of one commission that's really made me sit up and take note of a 'new direction' for the channel.

A UK version of RuPauls drag race alongside a UK Catfish, with a couple of decent comedy imports would give them a neat youth skewing schedule to take advantage of the summer CBB demographics.

In somewhat horrifying news US broadcaster ABC is reviving BattleBots, effectively the US version of Robot Wars, for a summer run. Might a UK broadcaster follow suit?

Now I've got this week's printed issue of Broadcast, the Beeb have actually dominated this category over the years, here are the winners for the past decade...
2014 - Ryder Cup (Sky Sports)
2013 - Olympics (BBC)
2012 - Formula 1 (BBC)
2011 - Indian Premier League (ITV)
2010 - Formula 1 (BBC)
2009 - Grand National (BBC)
2008 - Match of the Day 2 (BBC)
2007 - World Cup (BBC)
2006 - The Ashes (C4)
2005 - Olympics (BBC)

It turns out Sky Sports do take part. The piece about the Grand National highlights how the coverage was impressive technically, in terms of the additional cameras and microphones, and their access to the stables. It is an industry award which has just as much to do with the coverage technically as editorially.


I think the most obvious way to spot the failure of ITV entertainment at the moment is that Stars In Their Eyes, Planet's Got Talent, Get Your Act Together and Famly Fortunes all fail to make it into Broadcast's Top 100. It shouldn't be doing that. It's getting a lower audience than Panorama, The Martin Lewis Money Show, University Challenge, Wolf Hall, The Jump,.Match of the Day and Question Time. No way Family Fortunes should be getting fewer viewers than University Challenge or Panorama. If you'd suggested that ten or twenty years it would have sounded insane. It's Family Fortunes, for heaven's sake. The point of light entertainment is to engage a mass audience. If it's not doing that, what's the point of it?

That said, one on the eye for suggestions of dumbing down, ITV light entertainment being thrashed by University Challenge.


Funnily enough in Broadcast as well as that piece on ITV factual there's also a piece on C4 drama by Maggie Brown, who of course wrote the history of C4. I won't quote it all, but this passage sums most of it up...

"Is C4 choosing scrips and treatments that are too niche, too stale or even too violent for their own survival? Is it scheduling them incorrectly, or is it just being outgunned by rivals like BBC2's Wolf Hall? Has Sky Atlantic's Fortitude, launched with even greater fanfare directly opposite episode two of Cucumber, stolen a further march on viewers? Was Babylon a James Nesbitt drama too far the night after BBC1 hit The Missing?"

Also in Broadcast is the news that now the American version of Bad Education hasn't been picked up, they might be thinking of doing another series in Britain. Though hard to see where it could go given the last episode seemed very final.

Wondered what people's views were on the rumours of Ben Stephenson's exit from the bees, and who could replace him? I think his exit would be a massive blow to the BBC!

http://deadline.com/2015/02/bbc-dram...on-1201367595/

The Rugby should do well tonight. That is unless they announce they are moving to pay TV then everyone will switch out

When the series finishes, I'll post a full consolidated breakdown of the series.

Think the rugby will do huge numbers tonight, dominating the trends on Twitter and the game has only just started. Can't see CBB doing greatly for its final by this series' standards.

Well virtually all of Wales tunes in - that's a pretty good start

Rugby kicked off 6 minutes late (8.11pm) and we;ve already had the clock stopped for a 4 minute injury, could go on a bit (40 minutes each half).
Or put interviews and analysis on the red button.

Fudd, you were saying?

Good chance that the BBC News at Ten won't start at ten (for once).

BBC News yet to come on so watching ITV for a change.

Can I just ask what the hell has happen to the DS forums? How do I find the ratings thread without having to search it?

You could bookmark it in your favourites? I know what you mean, though. The search facility doesn't seem to have been working for months now

I think the Six Nations could get a big rating tomorrow - I predicted 7m on the prediction game.

That's an awful rating for Cucumber last night! Could Channel 4 be moving it to a later slot in the next week or two? There's stlll a fair few episodes to go,

If it's going to result in that happening every week I'll keep saying it.


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At the top of the thread, there's 'Thread Tools' - left click on that, then say 'Subscribe to this Thread' and then left click 'Add Subscription'. Then, when you need to find this thread, just left click on 'Quick Links' at the top of the screen after you've logged in, then left click on 'Subscribed Threads'. The Ratings Thread will be on the list.

Admittedly, this method isn't very reliable on my mobile; only my laptop.

Emma Willis confirms on Big Brother's Bit on the Side that she intends to continue presenting the main show in the summer, dismissing press speculation to the contrary.

Channel 5's "New for Spring" trailer showcases:

* 10,000 BC (Showing Mondays and Tuesdays at 10pm on Channel 5)
* GPs Behind Closed Doors (Showing Wednesdays at 8pm on Channel 5)
* NCIS: New Orleans (Starts Friday 13th February on Channel 5)
* Loch Lomond: A Year in the Wild (Starts w/c 21st February on Channel 5)
* Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (Series 4, Coming Soon to Channel 5)
* Gotham (Season 1 Part 2, Coming Soon to Channel 5)
* Chicago PD (Season 2, Coming Soon to 5USA)

Not only that but the rest of the competition will do well if England do well. ITV will be hoping for more of the same for the World Cup as well.

Six Nations would have been around 7m.average IMO. A lot of hype during the match.

As for the CBB final, a shame it was facing it. I reckon a 3m average but with it increasing throughout, so 2.6m from 9-10 but then averaging 3.4m in the last 50 mins. I reckon there would have been a big peak during the winners announcement.

You will hate yourself in the morning !!!

Oh ye of little faith

I think one new original drama and comedy a year should be a start with perhaps a limited series as well. Sitcoms and sketch shows would take a while to come but something like a panel show, a stand up showcase or a comedy entertainment show would work. I would say look at acquiring Black-ish, The Odd Couple etc and establish a comedy night.