Does anyone know how Last of the Summer Wine has been rating over the last three weeks? I can't find any figures anywhere.

Last night's episode was the funniest of the current series by a long way, and, as no aspects of the story followed on from the previous episodes, they should probably have swapped this episode with the first episode, as the first one was not very good.

Last week 2.53m 18.22%
7th June 3.46m 20.36%
31st May 2.82m (Don't know the share.)

These are overnights.

Ah, thank you, Iain.

Just thought I'd compile the below - note, only reported ratings below.

Top 30 Overnight Ratings - Monday 15th June to Sunday 21st June
01 - 08.85m - Coronation Street (MON, ITV1)
02 - 08.37m - EastEnders (MON, BBC1)
03 - 08.35m - Coronation Street (WED, ITV1)
04 - 08.22m - Coronation Street (MON, ITV1)
05 - 07.96m - Coronation Street (FRI, ITV1)
06 - 07.63m - Coronation Street (FRI, ITV1)
07 - 07.62m - EastEnders (FRI, BBC1)
08 - 07.46m - EastEnders (THU, BBC1)
09 - 07.10m - Top Gear (SUN, BBC2)
10 - 06.39m - Emmerdale (WED, ITV1)
11 - 06.05m - Emmerdale (MON, ITV1)
12 - 05.95m - EastEnders (TUE, BBC1)
13 - 05.85m - Emmerdale (FRI, ITV1)
14 - 05.75m - Emmerdale (THU, ITV1)
15 - 05.36m - Holby City (TUE, BBC1)
16 - 05.34m - Emmerdale (TUE, ITV1)
17 - 05.27m - The Bill (WED, ITV1)
18 - 05.22m - Casualty (SAT, BBC1)
19 - 04.70m - BBC News at Ten (THU, BBC1)
20 - 04.70m - BBC Regional News and Weather (FRI, BBC1)
21 - 04.65m - All Star Mr and Mrs (SAT, ITV1)
22 - 04.60m - BBC News at Ten (FRI, BBC1)
23 - 04.57m - Kingdom (SUN, ITV1)
24 - 04.52m - New Tricks (MON, BBC1)
25 - 04.44m - The Bill (THU, ITV1)
26 - 04.39m - Occupation (TUE, BBC1)
27 - 04.39m - Lottery (SAT, BBC1)
28 - 04.35m - Celebrity Masterchef (THU, BBC1)
29 - 04.28m - Spain: Paradise Lost (WED, ITV1)
30 - 04.28m - Hotel Babylon (FRI, BBC1)

Plus those of us who had to watch Top Gear on iPlayer.

Agreed-it was actually funny.

If the BBC do end LOTSW, it would be criminal not to have a final sign off episode.

Totally Saturday has taken out a Lottery game show. If the BBC don't want the game shows to run all year round (or is it Camelot), they should time the gaps better.

They should drop them when they have a ratings banker in the schedule - Strictly Come Dancing would take it off for 3 and a half months, Doctor Who for 13 weeks. Then they could run a quiz show like 1 vs 100 in the Summer, which would match the ratings on All Star Mr & Mrs and they wouldn't need to bother with the likes of Totally Saturday or Tonight's The Night. Or just have the one Lottery game show - In It To Win It gets 7m viewers when it's up against ITV rubbish in the winter. I reckon it could beat ASM&M.

Of course, BBC1 will have the perfect excuse to drop Totally Saturday without admitting it's a flop - the ALW search for a theatre star show returns next year.

Top Gear had trailed the idea that 'The Stig' was going to remove his helmet, it was all over the online world before and after the show.

It turned out to be a joke, Michael Shumacker was revealed and then did an interview.

I only watched for this 'bit' since the show has gone stale for me.

It's Top Gear's equivalent of Antiques Roadshow's much-hyped £1million pound item

I loved the bit with the photographer telling the bride to "Lift your Chin. Both of them!"


Yeah, if they want to finish it, it would be good to have a final episode to provide a neat ending.

I guess we'll find out, one way or the other, in the next few weeks.

I agree! to end it right now would be so wrong! It needs one more final episode to say bye to it. It could bring in pretty good figures IMO if its promoted as "The last ever last of the summer wine" Maybe have it around Christmas time?

I think there seems to be a bit too much concentration on the BBC1 weekend primetime flops - no matter how bad the ratings are BBC1 won Sat primetime and Sun primetime was virtually a draw. Dont see how some seem to think ITV weekend primetime is OK based on those results.

... which was about three years old!

Anyone remember the sitcom The Magnificent Evans by Summer Wine writer Roy Clarke? Ronnie Barker playing a Welsh photographer. I'll wager this joke featured in that.

I was thinking that. I've a Ronnie Barker DVD containing clips from all his sitcoms, and I think there's a clip from The Magnificent Evans where he asks the bride to lift her veil, then promptly tells her to put it back down again.

Ugh, I hope Corrie falls to something stupidly low like 3 million or something. Abhorrent scriptwriting, storylines and acting. I actually cannot believe how quickly Kim Crowther has managed to balls up this programme. Absolutely fcuking disgraceful.

Yes, well regardless of the overall share, it's that the the centrepiece BBC One family drama, Robin Hood could not get the better of a repeated animal clip show and that their high profile Saturday night entertainment format with their number one talent is performing so dismally.

That's the big story of the night.

So Casualty rescued the night for them, as it always does. I won't however knock Michael McIntyre. But Saturday was clearly a story of two halves, early and late primetime.

Also, it's not exactly shock ratings news that Mumbai Calling is flopping, giving that it's an ITV sitcom.

I'm enjoying Mumbai and will watch the rest of the series, but I can see that it's a flawed series.

Like My Family, instead of having a team of writers all contributing one-liners. they need a ruthless script editor who would rip through a script yelling "This is not how people talk in real life" or "This scene is too contrived" or "This character is too silly to be believable" or "This joke may read funny on the page, but acted out on the screen it's stodgey". (Rant over.)

Strong views indeed. What happened?

Totally, unbelieveably stupid storyline about how a character who was previously only there for comic effect, who now weaps on a nightly basis over her imprisoned, perverted boyfriend who has refused to grant her visiting rights because he's trying to move on. So she decides to chain herself to some poles outside the prison until she's allowed in, then her boyfriend sees her on the CCTV holding up a banner saying "MARRY ME!".

And this was a serious storyline.

This crap was paired two other lame-assed storylines that are as far from reality as humanly possible. To top it all off the acting was shite from all parties involved and none of the stories seem to be ending anytime soon. This last few months have just been indescribable (sp?). Just go into the episode thread in the Soaps forum and you'll see how none of the fans have enjoyed any of the recent episodes. How on earth has it managed to plummet in quality at such fast speed?

Same old stuff, then?


Excellent rating for Top Gear, another enjoyable hour of television from the team. The show has BBC1 written all over it because of how great it does in the ratings, but I'm glad it's stayed on BBC2. To nearly beat BBC1 and ITV1 combined is a bloody fantastic achievement.


Not looking good for LOTSW. Could this be the final series?

Oh I was just waiting for that! But normally when Corrie has an off episode, the fans will just let it pass. But the standards of it all has gone right through the drain, all of the fans are complaining. There isn't the humour that we're used to, the decent storylines, the acceptable acting, it's just a massive mess and I prey the ratings reflect this some time soon.

BBC1 + ITV1 = 6.25m.

There's no nearly beat about it. Top Gear tanked them!

That's just how Corrie goes, weeks of brilliance, followed by weeks of mediocrity.

It's in it's summer lull, remember it was Corrie that brought us Derek & Mavis's missing gnome storyline back in the day.

Top Gear ratings were great. Good on them!