I know I missed off a or a or a , but I think the spirit of my last post was fairly obvious...

Some Britons have more stamina than others getting up at silly o'clock on a Saturday?

It certainly was. It must have been its most expensive episode ever. It was almost like a proper film the way it was made and with many of its camera shots.
Very entertaining.
It deserves good ratings. It would be good if it could keep that level up.

Without getting into a pantomime exchange , we will agree to disagree.
What about Celebrity Wrestling, Love Island, that BBC series where Davina Macall followed the birth of babies. Some of the segments in the show were ok-the public participation bits are no different to those people turning up on BGT. Im not the greatest Barrowman fan but the show is watchable even if it will never change the world.
There is an agenda against BBC entertainment attempts, because people dont tend to see further than the massively hyped up reality formats. Most peoples opinions here were made before the show even came on.

I wasn't being entirely serious either Robbie, I even included a , which I wouldn't use in a serious post. I was just doing what you do (not anywhere near as well, I must admit) in reverse.

I give credit to the BBC where it's due - Strictly and the Lloyd Webber shows have been brilliantly produced. And I'm no fan of many of ITV's entertainment attempts either - Beat the Star and other shows of that ilk are not to my taste at all. But it's hard for me to find any show fronted by the ubiquitous Barrowman tolerable.

Steady on, considering the time of year, I think it's as good as Wallace & Gromit. Xmas Day is always going to pull surprising ratings.

And yes, I suppose all the hype has helped, but there won't be as much hype after this week's episode, so if viewing figures go up or stay the same next week, you'll have to admit it is THAT stellar.

Looking at the graph, it seems that Robin Hood and Primeval are about on par ratings wise, RH just being stuffed by its early start time.

I'd say Primeval needs to keep that rating minimum if it wants to come back (although I still reckon they were expecting 5m+ for it)

Agreed.

I know it was slightly the pre-digital age, but even Les Dennis and Family Fortunes used to get those sort of ratings ten years ago.

Some other stats:

ITV2: Britain's Got More Talent did 1.5m

Arsenal v Chelsea on Setanta Sports 1 peaked at 1.3m.

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Superb for BGMT, guess that's OK for SS1.

I'm struggling to see your point.

They have on BGT.
I remember people annoyed last year that for the lineup of the final last year it was made up of the final act of each preliminary round show of the series, plus the other good one from each respective episode.

So anybody who is last in the lineup of these BGT preliminary shows is a shoe-in for the final and we shouldn't be surprised that the final act of each show is going to get a massive reception no matter how much they play them down before they perform on the night.

If it's the last act of the show, and they play them down as having a tough life showing a VT, and they imply that they might not be very good, you can be guaranteed that they will be the favourite act on the night.

Yeah, it needs to at least stay there, although the weather was very good last night, so that will have dented it. All the more reason to praise, BGT, really.

I expect Primeval to rise next week, as they advertised it several times during BGT and HK last night, and I'd imagine they will continue to do so this week, which will help it, as they are giving it a 'new team, same goal' campaign.

Thank you, kind sir. Strong for BGMT but suprised it didn't do better actually given the surge the main show is experiencing. I suppose this goes to show that for most 1 hour is enough for their "talent" fix.

The footie looked a little low until I saw it was on Setanta. That explains it

Cheers for those, brilliant for BGMT.

Do you have anything for Friday's Hell's Kitchen? Thanks.

I don't see how the ratings can be knocked because of "hype". The hype came as a result of the programme. If the programme didn't connect with people then there would be no hype.


They did it last night as well and they'll probably do it for the next few weeks as well in the auditions.

And you're not meant to be surprised in the semi-finals. You're meant to stick with the show through the whole 90 minutes to see the best and most anticipated act at the end. It happens on every show. On X Factor the last act is always good, same on SCD, American Idol etc. Any kind of live entertainment event should have a big finish.

That said, last years final was wide open. The top 5 were all very good and equally hyped. It could have gone to anyone.

What? I'm talking about the Susan Boyle news of the last week...it's been in the newspapers, etc...that won't happen this week...that's all I'm saying...I'm not talking about the programme itself...the programme itself would bring in 10 million on its own, without any extra media hype.

Have you ever considered being a judge on reality tv. You have the personality for it.


ITV must be disappointed... blah blah blah. Well the repeats will add another few million to that number as well and the show is still building. Hope you have no plans for the last week of May

Start the campaign!

"Robbie for Strictly Come Dancing judge 2009!"

Cheers for those, brilliant for BGMT.

Do you have anything for Friday's Hell's Kitchen? Thanks.

Hell's Kitchen on Friday did 3.9m / 17.7% share.

Solid rating for Hell's Kitchen... better than ITV's past offerings on Friday this year anyway! (excluding T&R).

Thanks.

That's a solid rating, and so far, the series average is 4m (17.2%), which is decent enough, if nothing special.

I agree with that. Whether it's Robin Hood or Primeval they both suffer if put on around 6pm. Put them on at around 7pm and they do fine. The same can be said of Merlin too.
You can even put them up against each other at around 7pm too and they'll still both do well.

But put any of them on around 6pm to 6.15pm and they get caned.

It was very reassuring reading that graph to see that Primeval's ratings rose over the hour. That's a very good sign.

Thank you. It probably won its slot and it's ITV's highest Friday 9pm rating in a while.

Do you know what Genius got on BBC2 at 10pm? I don't think the overnight ratings for Genius has been reported in recent weeks, so would be interesting to see how it's getting on .