Everybody will be looking at GMB's ratings tomorrow to see if Piers has any effect on ratings.

Indian Summers slumped to a miserable 0.79m (3.3%) for its penultimate episode of this series. It was easily beaten by Channel 5's film premiere Olympus Has Fallen (1.27m/6.5%).

That is low,its in Cucumber territory now,C4 drama just isnt working for them.

Indian Summers is a disaster. Good for Channel 5's movie though. Poldark and Vera both look to be up on last week. Both doing fairly well but both would be a fair bit higher were the other not there I think, as shown by Poldark's drop from where it was a fortnight ago.

Indian Summers is still timeshifting a fair bit isn't it? I'm sure it was quite high in Channel 4's Weekly Top 30 last time i looked.

Indian Summers is still around 2.3m with +1 in consolidated ratings. That's fine but the om the day audience is weak. How can you charge advertising for that? The big difference between Indian Summers and Cucumber is that the timeshift is considerable.

Sunday Overnights

BBC One
19:30 MasterChef: 5.07m (23.8%)
20:00 Antiques Roadshow: 4.54m (19.9%)
21:00 Poldark: 5.53m (23.0%)

BBC Two
No news.

ITV (exc. +1 and HD)
19:30 Off Their Rockers: 2.64m (12.4%)
20:00 Vera: 4.06m (17.3%)
22:15 The Olivier Awards: 0.62m (4.8%)

Channel 4 (exc. +1)
19:00 Three in a Bed: 0.69m (3.4%)
20:00 Britain's Winter: Storm Heroes: 0.86m (3.8%)
21:00 Indian Summers: 0.79m (3.3%)

Channel 5 (exc. +1)
21:00 Olympus Has Fallen: 1.27m (6.5%)

BBC Three
19:40 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death: 0.36m (1.7%)
20:10 Raiders of the Lost Ark: 0.70m (3.0%)
22:00 Tatau: 0.56m (3.1%)

BBC Four
20:00 Voyager: To the Final Frontier: 0.37m (1.6%)
21:00 Do We Really Need the Moon?: 0.43m (1.8%)
22:00 The Sky At Night: 0.34m (1.9%)

ITV2 (exc. +1)
19:00 Britain's Got More Talent: 0.62m (3.0%)
20:00 The Back-Up Plan: 0.37m (1.6%)
22:10 The Bourne Identity: 0.22m (2.0%)

E4 (exc. +1)
20:05 The Big Bang Theory: 0.21m (0.9%)
20:35 The Big Bang Theory: 0.27m (1.1%)
21:00 The Big Bang Theory: 0.25m (1.0%)

Dave (exc. +1)
20:00 Top Gear: 0.36m (1.6%)
21:00 QI XL: 0.27m (1.1%)
22:00 Mock the Week: 0.28m (1.6%)

Sky 1 (exc. +1)
19:00 Wild Things: 0.15m (1.1%)
21:00 Hawaii Five-O: 0.26m (1.1%)
22:00 NCIS: Los Angeles: 0.25m (1.5%)

Sky Living (exc. +1)
19:00 Who'd be a Billionaire: 0.10m (0.5%)
20:00 Elementary: 0.04m (0.2%)
21:00 Criminal Minds: 0.05m (0.3%)

So the other way round then to yestaday ratings. Good night for BBC not so great for itv.

Dreadful for C4.

I really enjoyed C5's movie line-up yesterday - however, FAR too many ad breaks. I'm sure they were every 15 mins at one point, which totally interrupts the flow. Willy Wonka was virtually ruined by the ads (not that I hadn't seen it a billion times before, mind...)

Very good for MasterChef in an unusual slot. Probably dented Off Their Rockers a bit too, although at least that will have hit 3m this week. I'll be interested to see how the specials do later in the year as they will be changing the format a bit.

Antiques Roadshow a little lower than normal although still a decent number. Very poor night for C4 and E4 didn't really make up for it. Another strong number for More Talent. That'll be 0.7-0.8m with +1, which on top of the 1.6-1.7m from Saturday gives a very impressive total.

He will - downwards

Normally the ads are front-loaded so the breaks are more frequent at the start of C5's movies but then towards the end you get a long uninterrupted chunk.

The rules on this are quite strict so I can't imagine any Ofcom rules were broken. But obviously the inclusion of 5 News Updates enables them to carry slightly more ads. They do this on the digital channels as well, entertainment news of some kind usually.


MasterChef has really impressed me this run. When you think of its demos as well, it's a bigger show than people give it credit for.

C4 not at the races at all yesterday. Interesting you mention E4 as well because I was looking at those Big Bang Theory ratings and thinking they were quite disappointing and it's rare you can say that about BBT. But you wouldn't expect E4 to be coming in behind BBC Four, Dave and even Sky1 in some of those slots.

But then I looked back, and by my reckoning those were the 68th, 69th and 70th screenings respectively of BBT episodes that week on E4 ! They're doing precisely what I hoped they wouldn't do and are slinging it in every slot that needs filling for easy ratings, except by doing that they are lessening the demand and its ratings are becoming far more ordinary. You really can have too much of a good thing.

Its a good slot that half hour-used to great effect by SOAH. Pushing Countryfile back half an hour doesn't really hurt it and the audience seems to be carried through the extra programme. Obviously you cant just shove anything there. Masterchef, in all its guises, shows no sign of wear and is a tremendous filler show for the BBC.

ITV numbers with HD and +1:

The Chase (R) - 2.79m/14.6%
Off Their Rockers - 3.20m/15.1%
Vera - 4.83m/20.6%

Good Masterchef.

Pearl

Masterchef this series I'm watching every episode. I got a bit fed up with it for a couple of years. Last year got back into it amongst the summer of sport. It was something to watch but didn't watch it all. Best form it has ever been in on BBC1.

i

I like it, but much prefer the Celebrity series.

REGARDS
PEARL

From DS

Countryfile topped the ratings on Sunday (April 12), according to overnight data.

BBC One's long-running show was watched by 5.82m (30.2%) at 6.30pm, while MasterChef gathered 5.07m (23.8%) at 7.30pm. Antiques Roadshow followed with 4.54m (19.9%) at 8pm.

Poldark added 300,000 viewers for its latest episode with 5.53m (23.0%) at 9pm.

On BBC Two, Jordan Spieth's Masters win averaged 2.45m (13.3%) between 6.30pm and 12.15am.

ITV's The Chase: Celebrity Special entertained 2.64m (13.8%) at 6.30pm (150k/0.7%), before Off Their Rockers brought in 2.99m (14.1%) at 7.30pm (212k/0.9%). Vera rose to 4.56m (19.4%) at 8pm (271k/1.3%), while highlights of the Olivier Awards averaged 682k (5.3%) at 10.15pm (52k/0.8%).

Channel 4's Three in a Bed continued with 690k (3.3%) at 7pm (210k/0.9%), while Britain's Winter: Storm Heroes interested 860k (3.8%) at 8pm (175k/0.7%). Indian Summers followed with 790k (3.3%) at 9pm (233k/1.4%).

Spider-Man and Olympus Has Fallen were Channel 5's Sunday evening film selections, with the former bringing in 964k (4.5%) at 6.30pm and the latter entertaining 1.27m (6.5%) at 9pm.

Vera holding up well against Poldark. It's good filler drama but up against the endlessly promoted Poldark beloved by critics and newspapers it's doing better than I thought it would. Or is it Poldark not doing so well?

The two-hour special of The Morning Line on Grand National day secured 375,000 viewers, reports Racing Post. So it beat Thunderbirds which also went out at 8am (302k exc. CITV).

As for the main event the racing in the afternoon, the Grand National itself rated very strongly and in line with the past couple of years but figures for the first two days of the meeting were down.

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live....224&category=0

Countryfile 5.82m (30.2%)
MasterChef 5.07m (23.8%)
Antiques Roadshow 4.54m (19.9%)
Poldark 5.53m (23.0%)

US Masters 2.45m (13.3%)

The Chase: Celebrity Special 2.64m (13.8%) (150k/0.7%)
Off Their Rockers 2.99m (14.1%) (212k/0.9%)
Vera 4.56m (19.4%) (271k/1.3%)
Olivier Awards 682k (5.3%) (52k/0.8%).

Three in a Bed 690k (3.3%) (210k/0.9%)
Britain's Winter: Storm Heroes 860k (3.8%) (175k/0.7%)
Indian Summers 790k (3.3%) (233k/1.4%).

Spider-Man 964k (4.5%)
Olympus Has Fallen 1.27m (6.5%)

From DS

Decent rating for the US Masters, steady evening for BBC One, Channel 4 managing to turn off viewers.

BARB has updated. All the usual stuff plus a few lurkers in the top 10's we knew nothing of until this point.

Including Comedy Central's Roast of Justin Bieber, which pulled in a high 416,000. This makes it the channel's most watched programme since an episode of Two and a Half Men managed 437k on March 17 last year.

And that Cucumber blew IS out of the water quality-wise...

Yes, I noticed that. It's the age old problem of primetime ad space being shunted into earlier parts of the schedule, then them running out of ad minutes after 10pm, and the progs/films being virtually ad free. It really is incredibly annoying. I feel we should go back to stricter rules on length of ad breaks per hour, but maybe look at giving the commercial companies another 60 secs of ads per hour, say. Anything to avoid them shoving all their ads into the 8-10pm part of the day.

Not surprised at the roast figures. I enjoy all the roasts. As for what you said about Two and a Half Men, I'm guessing next weeks BARS figures should be quite high then if it was 437k last year. It was the final of the show last week, so could we expect the final to have got over 500k for CC?