They're good but still expected higher from both (CS was only relatively higher than normal just for last night's fire, the rest of the week wasn't high) Any BB ratings????

BGT is posting some decent numbers when you look at the shares. Considering it's a big week of Corrie I think the overnights look a little disappointing.

Big Brother got 960k and that includes +1!

He's posted in here in the past.

I thought Corrie would and should have been nudging 9m with last night's episode. You'd expect more than 8.5m for tonight. These Coronation Street ratings would be great for the aftermath episodes but for BGT week they feel slightly disappointing to me.

Oh dear! But expected.

I think those Corrie figures are pretty good given the ratings for the last couple of nights. Tonight's episode looks like the biggest of the week so I'm expecting a higher figure.

970k incl +1 just doesn't cut it for BB obviously, it came 3rd in its slot which is quite embarrassing to think that the 10pm slot struggles so much (not just for Ch5 but every channel bar BBC1).

Everything last night did dreadfully bar the obvious ITV big week and 24 Hours on Ch4.

8.01m is obviously higher than Corrie has been in ages but I'm slightly underwhelmed. That's what episodes should be getting in the winter months anyway and would be if ITV hadn't let Stuart Blackburn stuff the show.

And the ep itself was so awful - I doubt it's done much for Corrie's reputation with the casuals who tuned in. They will be less inclined to tune into any future big storylines because of what they were lured into last night.

We saw this with EE as it made its slow recovery. It had lured casuals into hyped episodes that didn't deliver so much so that when they finally did start delivering on the big episodes/storylines viewers were slow to come back to it.

This was pushed as a big week. I don't think it has been in terms of overnight ratings. It's rating like Corrie would in the cold Autumn months. The rating last night was what most expected it to get at the start of the week.

Not sure why there is such a subdued reaction to the BGT figures, since when was being significantly up on last year suddenly the benchmark of success and being level with last year just about ok nothing special?

Corrie is also doing really well relative to recent figures, way up on last week. If you expected the ratings so suddenly return to 2013 levels then you were heading for disappointment.

Based on those rules presumably Big Brother would need about 3m to be declared a success and EastEnders live week rated poorly as well?

Most of us expected closer to 2014 numbers. You didn't expect Corrie to be closer to 9m with +1 for the fire episodes? If you say no I don't believe you.

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Though take away the Eurovision dented episode and the gap would have been larger; though admittedly last year's auditions somewhat bizarrely aired at 7pm.


I expected the Monday episode to average 7.8m (on the DSRPG) so, in general, I didn't expect Coronation Street to be closer to 2014. It came into the week at a lower level so had to claim more 'casual' viewers to make up the deficit.

Regarding Big Brother - it's not going to find an additional 500k viewers out of nowhere; sustaining an audience of between 800k and 1m is the best it can do for the moment.

I expected over 8m with +1 for the start of the week and close to 9m with +1 for the fire episodes. We will see what tonight brings but I don't think this week has been particularly special storyline wise or ratings wise. I'm not sure this story generated the casual interest the way Tina's demise did last year.

EastEnders had some shocking ratings for most of 2013 going into 2014 but saw a boost with Lucy murder week on Monday & Tuesday getting over 8m. Corrie should have been able to manage that excluding +1 on Monday & Tuesday when you see it was sandwiched between BGT.

I don't like Corrie, but have watched it this week as its sandwiched between BGT, and must say its very disappointing. There could have been soo much better between Liz and Tracy, but it all sort of climaxed on Monday when Tracy confessed. The fire was obvious. Pretty poor considering it's supposed to be big drama week.

I've said I'm not a regular Corrie viewer but I've watched here and there. Last year was much better. This year it all feels very contrived. People acting in odd ways with the fire. Doesn't work for me. But the fire has been plugged like crazy and I think the fact hasn't moved around much during the week so far is disappointing.

I guess you don't know what you would do/what would happen in the situation, but I found it odd that:-

There was a whole block of flats and nobody seemed to appear from any of the apartments - even when the fire was really going.... and ho hum the emergency services were taking ages because the "ring road was closed"...

I don't know whether I was expecting the ratings to shoot up or anything given the show's general state now but it still feels underwhelming to see them at a level that should be common for Corrie for at least several months of the year but isn't thanks to Blackburn.

Big Brother hasn't gotten 3m for years, certainly not as recently as 2013. I presume Andy was talking about comparing to past figures in general and with the EE reference meant in comparison to the live episode in 2010. But overall ratings have fallen a fair bit since 2010 and when BB was getting 3m. They haven't fallen that much since 2013 though.

The main reason a soap would lose the amount of viewers Corrie has in the time it has is severe poor quality. EE was in exactly the same boat from 2012-2013. The sad fact is it is often hard to win back viewers who switched off due to the poor quality. EE has shown that the most realistic outcome is stemming the flow but Corrie needs a new producer first.

I was most offended by Beverley Callard's acting.

What would a 2018 world cup rate if most of Uefa except Russia and Spain boycotted it. I couldn't even imagine BBC and ITV showing much of it. What parts they did I could suspect not rating well but what does everyone think.
I wonder how corrie live will rate. It doesn't seem like it will have a massive plot to grab people in.

Regular BB hasn't gotten 3m in years but the last two January series of CBB have. The gap keeps widening among the two. Corrie is fine, I don't get the worry st all. Mid 8m when its almost June is something to celebrate.

It needs someone who believes in their ability to host it 100%.

I think it'll be brought back with someone, providing the swivel-eyed brigade don't get their way over the BBC not having entertainment shows.

Broadcast has launched its Backing the BBC campaign today, ahead of the upcoming licence fee negotiations.

Full coverage at www.broadcastnow.co.uk/backingthebbc and on the app. Well worth a read.

What did the Europa League final on ITV4 get last night ?
Did Thunderbirds Are Go Sunday's teatime rating get reported in the end ?

Europa League Final 749k (3.6%) including +1, from ITV Media. I'm not sure about Thunderbirds.