I don't think so. I'm guessing the football brought in approx. 1/1.2m, which would bring the combined audience to 2.5m (if including +1) so Taggart would need at least 1m to beat the audience on ITV1.

By the way, it just gets more surreal. Over 3m Google hits, whereas the previous two winners have had just over 2m Google hits, while her YouTube videos have got a combined viewership of 30 million!

All good for last night! I thought Hells Kitchen would go up, should do ok tonight too. Inbetweeners still going strong, as are the other 2 E4 comedys!

According to his blog, Piers Morgan's Life Stories has been commissioned for 12 episodes, and his travel series has had 3 more commissioned.

I'm surprised about the travel show, as its ratings dropped sharply to 3.5m over the run. It must be cheap, though. No surprise about Life Stories, with a series average of 4.3m at 10pm, a longer second series was inevitable. He wants to have Simon Cowell, Alan Sugar, Helen Mirren and Paul O'Grady on the next series. I very much doubt that Helen Mirren and Alan Sugar will go on.

Wait till after she appears on Oprah Winfrey and Larry King

EastEnders down over 3 million on it's big Thursday episode a few weeks ago. Bit disappointing.

did you put quotes round the names?, if not it shows pages that have the words anywhere in the page, so it might give a hit on a page that has paul daniels and eddie potts , for eg.

With quotes i get
Susan 3,900,000!!
Paul 1,200,000
George 550,000

Rounded.

It doesn't help really when one of its episodes per week are up against an hour long Emmerdale. As it clearly hurts both episodes, why don't ITV see sense and move the hour long episode or cut it to half an hour?

ITV4
Uefa Cup Manchester City vs Hamburg SV
7.25pm - 10pm: 1.7m (8.3%)
9pm -10pm 1.9m (9.1%)**

ITV3
9pm Taggart 517,000 (2.6%)**

ITV2
9pm Katie & Peter: Stateside - 989,000 (4.6%)**

ITV1
9pm Hell's Kitchen - 3.54m (15%)*

* all channel share
** M/C homes share

So a total of 3.4m vs. 3.54m Close

- seems like ITV1 is becoming just another channel on the menu at certain times.

Well deserved for a thrilling game. Match average would have been almost 2.5m.

The game should have been on ITV1 IMO. News at Ten is really providing a big barrier for them, they could do:

19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - UEFA Cup
22:00 - Hell's Kitchen
23:00 - The Late News and Weather

I think it would have struggled to beat The Bill or Hells Kitchen though. I think it would rate 3.5m -4m tops. And people think there is too much football on ITV1 already.

Where is everyone, this thread is quieter than usual.


Ah.... the first thing I looked at was the match average that Thebenster posted, I presume that's his guestimate, I think he meant to put nearly 2m considering the 21:00 hour averaged 1.9m.

Trying to get some discussion, I think Hell's Kitchen will improve for a bit possibly nearer the 4m mark tonight. I don't expect a huge jump even though it follows Britain's Got Talent tomorrow... last week it never gave The Colour of Money a huge jump, that still stayed round the 3m mark, so I don't expect a huge jump for Hell's Kitchen tomorrow.

With all the interest in Susan Boyle this week, do you think that its a safe bet that the ratings could be higher than last week for Got Talent?

BBC just seem to be creating more and more awful Saturday entertainment shows. What with HITW, Total Wipeout, Tonights the Night and now this http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...saturday.shtml.

They do drama realy well on a Saturday but the other programmes just seem to be utter tripe. Leave ITV to the entertainment formats, they do it a hell of a lot better

Today is the quietest it's been for a while......


It is a guesstimate, I meant 2.5m as I would have expected a large switch off by the audience for the last 15 minutes of the 9pm hour due to the game finishing at 9.45.


Hell's Kitchen is against Gordon Ramsay tonight which will split the audience. I reckon it might claim 4.5m as Casualty and an Apollo repeat is the only competition, with Got More Talent taking another million over to ITV2.


It will be interesting if the hour long episode will do better or worse than last week's 90 minute launch episode. I doubt it will average over 11m tomorrow night but should peak well above it.

Seems quite likely. All this publicity can't hurt!

Yes, most definitley. I expect it to either retain the same audience it had last week, or improve on it. I guess around 10.8m, possible 11m.

It sounds abysmal.

Why do they even bother?

There seems to be a total lack of originality in anything coming out of any channel right now.

ITV's next entertainment show seems to be Jim'll Fix It with Amanda Holden.

Jonathan Ross has said on twitter that his show is going to be shown in America, presumably BBC America, but he didn't say.

Oh my, that sounds horrific :sleep:

Possibly, but I can't see them being that much over 10 million.


Graham Norton couldn't be off Saturday nights for too long! This sounds like the worst ever.

Also, I saw Hells Kitchen tonight. It's not a great bunch, I don't like the absence of public vote and Marco Pierre White is awful. God knows why they persist with him, NBC had the right idea. Getting rid of the host because Marco didn't like him seems ridiculous. A bit of conflict would have been great.

The eels might cause a few OFCOM complaints, though. Overall, it seemed OK, but I can see why it hasn't replicated the success of the first series.

US Ratings:

NBC might have a hit! It's not a big one, but it's an improvement on their recent efforts. Southland easily won the 10pm slot among 18-49's and had 10 million viewers with little audience change from last week.

CSI had 15 million viewers and a 3.8 but The Office had 0.3 more in the 18-49 demo and with 30 Rock taking 3.5, NBC equalled CBS for the hour. Hell's Kitchen was third with a 3.4. Greys Anatomy was still on repeats.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/04/17...ion-dips/16922

I turned this tripe off after 15 mins of ep 1. But why is a drama about a church choir called "All the Small Things"? Surely they should have kept that name free for a documentary investigating ITV1's weekday 9pm ratings performances?


Surely BARB will correct this anomaly? Mind you, with their record, probably not...

Is GeorgeS writing an official protest letter?


I imagine all 5 would make it into ITV1's Top 30 though...


Perhaps now the series winner is such a nailed-on foregone conclusion, the viewing figures will fall back a little? At least until the next time she next appears?

(I assume ITV won't be milking this for all it's worth and having her on every week?)

lol, they will squeeze her in.

I can just picture the X Factor style introduction with "12 million" viewers, "30 million" on Youtube, talked about around the world, blah blah blah at the start.

The bloody woman looks like she's on the front pages of at least 5 of tomorrow's papers, broadsheets included.

Christ on a bike.

Anything less than 14m tuning in tomorrow will be a major setback for ITV1...



On a more positive note:

Saturday weather: 1900h Sunny, 14C; sunset 20:15.

May the clement springlike weather continue for the next few weekends....