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Old 28-04-2015, 14:11
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Eastenders ratings are getting lower and lower by week it doesn't help the storylines are boring. Eastenders needs to start improving and needs another big storylines because It is crap and boring atm. This shows me eastenders is not as strong as corrie with the loyal viewers.
EastEnders isn't terrible, it's just mediocre with flashes of brilliance. Nothing about makes me think it's unmissable at the moment. They teased the return of Kathy in Live Week and she hasn't been seen since. They need her for the ratings.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:24
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522k (2.5%) tuned in to see Bournemouth promoted to the Premier League with a cosy 3-0 win over Bolton on Sky Sports 1.

Full top 10's for Tuesday: http://www.itvmedia.co.uk
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:25
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Eastenders ratings are getting lower and lower by week it doesn't help the storylines are boring. Eastenders needs to start improving and needs another big storylines because It is crap and boring atm. This shows me eastenders is not as strong as corrie with the loyal viewers.
There are a lot of decent people working on Eastenders behind the scenes. They do not deliberately set out to make the show appear boring. What looks good on paper sometimes does not translate to the screen into what some viewers want. However there are still many millions of viewers tuning in each week and the show is very stable. You can only do so much with what you are allowed to do.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:32
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There are a lot of decent people working on Eastenders behind the scenes. They do not deliberately set out to make the show appear boring. What looks good on paper sometimes does not translate to the screen into what some viewers want. However there are still many millions of viewers tuning in each week and the show is very stable. You can only do so much with what you are allowed to do.
You could say the same about any soap. Every soap goes through dull periods but it just seems like bad planning after the 30th anniversary boost. I still think that making Bobby the killer was completely bonkers and almost a way of avoiding an aftermath with actual consequences.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:32
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There are a lot of decent people working on Eastenders behind the scenes. They do not deliberately set out to make the show appear boring. What looks good on paper sometimes does not translate to the screen into what some viewers want. However there are still many millions of viewers tuning in each week and the show is very stable. You can only do so much with what you are allowed to do.
Nobody sets out to make a bad show but if they do people will comment on it. To come off such a big week and not have enough in place to keep some extra viewers is bad planning.

It's stable but stable at a lower level compared to last year. This is only one rating and will probably pick up across the week, but it needs more moments to get more people watching.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:35
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Nobody sets out to make a bad show but if they do people will comment on it. To come off such a big week and not have enough in place to keep some extra viewers is bad planning.

It's stable but stable at a lower level compared to last year. This is only one rating and will probably pick up across the week, but it needs more moments to get more people watching.
It will be interesting to see if the Friday episode receives a boost following the end of the omnibus edition, or whether the episodes the following week receive a slight boost following the realization that the omnibus has gone.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:37
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You could say the same about any soap. Every soap goes through dull periods but it just seems like bad planning after the 30th anniversary boost.
Yes. To pretty much say they tried their best and never mind gives any programme that's not doing as well as it should a free pass.

And you are 100% right. To not have planned the post 30th anniversary episodes better is inexcusable.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:49
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EastEnders isn't terrible, it's just mediocre with flashes of brilliance. Nothing about makes me think it's unmissable at the moment. They teased the return of Kathy in Live Week and she hasn't been seen since. They need her for the ratings.
Nothing is happening atm. I hope there another big storyline. I think all soaps are going to drop low in the summer big time.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:53
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ITV Entertainment overnight averages so far this year:

1 - 10.1m (46%) - Britain's Got Talent*... (-1%)
2 - 5.9m (28%) - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway... (-10%)
3 - 4.0m (19%) - You're Back In The Room... (NEW)
4 - 3.9m (21%) - Ninja Warrior UK*... (NEW)
5 - 3.7m (19%) - Celebrity Chase... (+3%)
6 - 3.5m (16%) - Take Me Out… (-11%)
7 - 3.4m (16%) - Big Star's Little Star... (-10%)
8 - 3.3m (15%) - Off Their Rockers... (-12%)
9 - 3.1m (14%) - Bear Grylls: Mission Survive... (NEW)
10 - 3.0m (15%) - Play To The Whistle*... (NEW)
11 - 2.9m (12%) - All Star Family Fortunes… (-36%)
12 - 2.8m (14%) - Give A Pet A Home*... (NEW)
13 - 2.5m (13%) - The Jonathan Ross Show… (-7%)
14 - 2.5m (12%) - Stars In Their Eyes… (NEW)
15 - 2.3m (10%) - Get Your Act Together… (NEW)

* means the series is currently airing. In brackets is the change compared to last year's averages.
The gap between BGT and everything else has grown since this post. Sweet domination.
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:57
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Some early details coming through on events planned for this year's TV Festival.

In addition to the usual channel controller sessions they will also be trying a leaders debate style format with multiple controllers taking questions from the audience.

https://www.c21media.net/us-cable-gi...for-edinburgh/
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Old 28-04-2015, 14:59
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EE is poor at the moment according to the soaps forum and Corrie is most definitely improving.
Your spot on.
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Old 28-04-2015, 15:12
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The worrying thing for EE is that I think Corrie is past its worst spell now. Corrie is still far from it's best but the quality is slowly improving. Plus of course it still has BGT week to come with the fire storyline, Deirdre's death, and of course the live episode in September, all of which will draw in huge ratings. If anything I can see Corrie pulling further away from EE in the months ahead.
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Old 28-04-2015, 15:35
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Ouch for EastEnders only 330k ahead of Emmerdale. With the rumoured big summer storyline for Emmerdale it could overtake it like it did in 2013.
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Old 28-04-2015, 15:52
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Nothing is happening atm. I hope there another big storyline. I think all soaps are going to drop low in the summer big time.
I can't see any of the current storylines boosting ratings significantly. EastEnders used to be neck and neck with Coronation Street regularly. You can see it didn't capitalise on live week.

They only have themselves to blame.
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Old 28-04-2015, 15:58
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Some BGT stats Rankings for ep. 1 & 2 over all series:

Episode 1
1. Series 8 (2014) - 12.4m
2. Series 7 (2013) - 12.12m
3. Series 4 (2010) - 11.87m
4. Series 6 (2012) - 11.57m
5. Series 5 (2011) - 11.42m
6. Series 9 (2015) - 11.25m
7. Series 3 (2009) - 11.21m
8. Series 2 (2008) - 9.44m
9. Series 1 (2007) - 5.2m

Episode 2
1. Series 3 (2009) - 12.95m
2. Series 6 (2012) - 12.18m
3. Series 7 (2013) - 11.86m
4. Series 4 (2010) - 11.6m
5. Series 9 (2015) - 11.47m
6. Series 8 (2014) - 11.05
7. Series 2 (2008) - 10.96m
8. Series 5 (2011) - 10.63m
9. Series 1 (2007) - 6.73m

I'll make a new version every monday when consolidated figures come out Good to see episode 2 up YOY, episode 3 should be too!
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Old 28-04-2015, 16:09
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I can't see any of the current storylines boosting ratings significantly. EastEnders used to be neck and neck with Coronation Street regularly. You can see it didn't capitalise on live week.

They only have themselves to blame.
I agree with this. You would have thought they learn from their mistake back in 2010.
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Old 28-04-2015, 16:34
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EastEnders isn't terrible, it's just mediocre with flashes of brilliance. Nothing about makes me think it's unmissable at the moment. They teased the return of Kathy in Live Week and she hasn't been seen since. They need her for the ratings.
Kathy is Back in the coming weeks. It's not her proper return though.

Ouch for EastEnders only 330k ahead of Emmerdale. With the rumoured big summer storyline for Emmerdale it could overtake it like it did in 2013.
EastEnders has a big summer planned too



On another note the BBC 3 repeat is back in it's 10pm home next week and thats where it will stay until BBC3 is axed (Which i doubt it's going anywhere tbh)
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Old 28-04-2015, 16:35
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I can't see any of the current storylines boosting ratings significantly. EastEnders used to be neck and neck with Coronation Street regularly. You can see it didn't capitalise on live week.

They only have themselves to blame.
It is still
Friday right behind first Corrie and beating second Corrie.
They have been neck and neck lately. Dunno what happend last night though.
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Old 28-04-2015, 17:08
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EE is poor at the moment according to the soaps forum and Corrie is most definitely improving.
Corrie improving ? I dunno. Its very predictable at the moment.
I haven't seen any spoilers so far but its clear Jenny is going to try and take the kid, Kylie will comeback and save the day with Max and Todd is going to tuck his Mum up.
Very little humour as well....
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Old 28-04-2015, 17:15
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Treading water in a sea of Carters.
Yes, the producer really does seem to love them. I see next week there are more episodes of them sitting round a table "to sort everything out"

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2...pbaGf1SOvWwSls

Total overkill. Corrie is improving and it can't be a coincidence that as soon as Gail/Michael/Gavin were away last night, it was far better. That story needs wrapped up ASAP.
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Old 28-04-2015, 17:21
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Corrie improving ? I dunno. Its very predictable at the moment.
I haven't seen any spoilers so far but its clear Jenny is going to try and take the kid, Kylie will comeback and save the day with Max and Todd is going to tuck his Mum up.
Very little humour as well....
In an odd way, I think Corrie's predictability is working in its favour at the moment. Storylines such as the Jenny Bradley plot are following a kind of 'tried and tested' path of characters turning out to be unhinged. I think the audience find that kind of pay-off strangely comforting.

EastEnders is at least trying to be different and original, but it's lacking the pacing that's needed to keep viewers involved.
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Old 28-04-2015, 17:37
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Kathy is Back in the coming weeks. It's not her proper return though.

EastEnders has a big summer planned too



On another note the BBC 3 repeat is back in it's 10pm home next week and thats where it will stay until BBC3 is axed (Which i doubt it's going anywhere tbh)
Unless they decide to stick The One Show and Snooker on BBC3 to ruin it even more.
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Old 28-04-2015, 19:18
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Was this already known or is this new information? https://twitter.com/bbcthree/status/593038357363597313

BBC Three ‏@bbcthree
Catch up with what's been going on in the Square at the new time of 10pm on @bbcthree from Monday 4th May #EastEnders
2:05 PM - 28 Apr 2015

Should have never moved it to 10:30pm in the first place.
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Old 28-04-2015, 19:30
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Was this already known or is this new information? https://twitter.com/bbcthree/status/593038357363597313

BBC Three ‏@bbcthree
Catch up with what's been going on in the Square at the new time of 10pm on @bbcthree from Monday 4th May #EastEnders
2:05 PM - 28 Apr 2015

Should have never moved it to 10:30pm in the first place.
Dan mentioned it above.

It's probably only moving back there because BBC Three is winding down somewhat whilst its online future is finalised and they simply won't have the content to keep it filled. A safe choice to keep things ticking over okay in an important enough slot, and might help EE a bit which as pointed out multiple times today is in fairly poor form at the moment.
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Old 28-04-2015, 19:50
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BBC1 will have its lowest ever rating from prime time tonight from 7.30 to 8 pm.
Three sub 3m programmes for BBC One last night. Can't have helped EastEnders being surrounded by this lot in fairness.

SNP Interview: 2.38m (11.9%)
Who Will Win the Election?: 2.19m (10.0%)
New Tricks: 2.57m (12.1%)
Well, as we "know" (ie, I remember Sandi Toksvig saying it on Light Lunch) the lowest rated BBC1 primetime rating was probably the SNP Leader Interview in 1997, inexplicably networked, shown at 8.30, not opposite a soap and at a time when the SNP were totally irrelevant outside Scotland. This time the SNP are far more relevant nationwide and it was opposite Corrie so there's no way it can be worse scheduling than that.

I don't think last night was that big a disaster, Panorama's gone lower than that before and Panorama's never going to rate well. The Leader Interviews are PSB ballast opposite Corrie and I know New Tricks is never that welcome but it's a bit of a funny week because next week is a Bank Holiday so you can't really start anything new there. And obviously Dispatches was on a very populist subect. Swings and roundabouts, could well be Panorama beating Dispatches next time.

Good to see Jack Dee's show rating well for BBC Two. I enjoyed that last night. Between this, The Last Leg, Screenwipe and also C4's Alternative Election Night, viewers looking for a light hearted take on the election are spoilt for choice this time around.

I see C4 are also doing overnight coverage of the results this year with Paxman. Something tells me the BBC and ITV won't be too pleased about that, more so the latter.
I don't think ITV will be that bothered, they know they're never going to win on the night but they have all the resources there and they've got to cover everything for the news anyway, so it's a no-brainer to do a show regardless, it'd probably be less cost-effective not to do one. For all we talk about dumbing down, ITV have done more regarding elections in recent years because we now have an all-nighter for the US Elections whereas in the nineties we never had that.

It's an interesting one, the C4 one, because with both last time round and the Election Night Armistice I always found it was falling between two stools a bit because people interested in politics are going to watch the proper coverage and people who aren't interested in politics aren't going to watch political comedy at all. Certainly in 1997 nothing the Armistice did was more exciting than the actual election coverage. But this time, as you say, it's going on until 6am and does seem to be sold as proper full coverage. In the past that wouldn't have been possible because you'd have needed a huge infrastructure to do this kind of thing but these days, what with all the silicon chips and such, you can do it all making use of Twitter, Skype and so on.

Of course the other interesting thing we've got coming up too is the royal baby. Part of me really wants Kate to hold on until election night itself, just because I'd love to see them have to juggle between the two, or indeed the next day just to add to the chaos of the weekend with the VE Day commemorations to fit in as well. I really don't want her to give birth just before polling day, in case everyone is so happy they think everything's brilliant and all go and vote Tory.

BBC One will be hoping for better ratings the next few evenings, with Car Share, George Gently & Question Time in primetime. I just watched Car Share on iPlayer - not sure if it is more BBC Two in its style, all 6 episodes were pretty good. I can see it opening to around 4.5m but dropping to 3.0m by the end of its run.
Oh, dear me, what is it with all these under-predictions? No slight on you personally, but it's a new Peter Kay sitcom, it'll get a huge audience, he has more goodwill than any other comedian on the planet. He gets at least three million viewers for the trilionth repeat of one of his DVDs on Channel Four. Surely the nearest thing to a guaranteed hit BBC1 can get. Like having Samuel back!
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