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Old 17-05-2015, 15:33
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Surely this is seriously nearing axeing territory? I remember a year ago it would get around 1m, so who knows how much further it is going to fall. Maybe sub 300k?
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Old 17-05-2015, 15:53
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Surely this is seriously nearing axeing territory? I remember a year ago it would get around 1m, so who knows how much further it is going to fall. Maybe sub 300k?
Ratings are a funny thing. In HO's case it just means a very very small member of the 1100 or so people - out of the entire country - whose viewing habits are monitored - watch HO.

Millions who are not monitored probably also watch it.

In other words, they'll take no notice of 'official figures' and carry on.
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Old 17-05-2015, 15:58
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Ratings are a funny thing. In HO's case it just means a very very small member of the 1100 or so people - out of the entire country - whose viewing habits are monitored - watch HO.

Millions who are not monitored probably also watch it.

In other words, they'll take no notice of 'official figures' and carry on.
You make a good point, how accurate are the BARB figures?

Also Hollyoaks attracts the younger democraphic which is what CH4 and E4 want.
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Old 17-05-2015, 16:02
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Ratings are a funny thing. In HO's case it just means a very very small member of the 1100 or so people - out of the entire country - whose viewing habits are monitored - watch HO.

Millions who are not monitored probably also watch it.

In other words, they'll take no notice of 'official figures' and carry on.
Evidence? Anything at all to back that up? It may just be the opposite, in that a larger than average portion of that 1100 people watch Hollyoaks.
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Old 17-05-2015, 16:06
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Surely this is seriously nearing axeing territory? I remember a year ago it would get around 1m, so who knows how much further it is going to fall. Maybe sub 300k?
all the soaps have dropped, as they tend to when the weather is nice.

Hollyoaks has first view, +1 channels sunday omnibus and 4od so they numbers will actually be much higher cos those not watching at 6:30pm ill be catching up another time
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Old 17-05-2015, 16:07
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Evidence? Anything at all to back that up? It may just be the opposite, in that a larger than average portion of that 1100 people watch Hollyoaks.
then they would have higher viewing figures than they do?
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Old 17-05-2015, 17:37
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then they would have higher viewing figures than they do?
The sample size is just that. You have no idea if that extrapolates in its favour or not. You're just assuming more people watch Hollyoaks than the barb average, rather than less.
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Old 17-05-2015, 17:39
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The ratings have dropped significantly but C4 and Lime wait until they have the official, consolidated figures and add the C4 showing figures with the E4 figure to get an overall rating for an episode so, at the moment they are probably viewed by an average of 1.2-1.5 million. According to an article I was reading recently, last year they averaged 2.3 million so the ratings have dropped marginally y-o-y.
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Old 17-05-2015, 17:41
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I'm amazed they have that many
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Old 17-05-2015, 17:56
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I know ratings are not everything, but I assumed Hollyoaks got at least a million . 500k? That isn't very good. Hollyoaks should scrap the first look episode.
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Old 17-05-2015, 18:07
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The ratings have dropped significantly but C4 and Lime wait until they have the official, consolidated figures and add the C4 showing figures with the E4 figure to get an overall rating for an episode so, at the moment they are probably viewed by an average of 1.2-1.5 million. According to an article I was reading recently, last year they averaged 2.3 million so the ratings have dropped marginally y-o-y.
This is true, you need to add C4 + E4 to get a more accurate figure, and then there's +1, E4 repeats, omnibus, on demand/catch up etc so the ratings are still much higher than the headline '500k' might suggest. However there's no doubt the C4/E4 figures have fallen quite sharply recently, on Friday Neighbours at 17:30 got 755k, easily beating Hollyoaks at 18:30 which had 590k.

Hollyoaks was pulling in good ratings during 2013/14 despite most of that era being hated here on DS, but average viewers seem to be getting bored and turning off now.
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Old 17-05-2015, 18:21
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I know ratings are not everything, but I assumed Hollyoaks got at least a million . 500k? That isn't very good. Hollyoaks should scrap the first look episode.
it was just friday, the. rest of the week looked 750-800k

the OP is over exagerating somewhat
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Old 17-05-2015, 18:23
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The sample size is just that. You have no idea if that extrapolates in its favour or not. You're just assuming more people watch Hollyoaks than the barb average, rather than less.
thats not exactly what you said in your post!

but twitter, snapchat, facebook and social media in general will tell you that hollyoaks is very very popular
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Old 18-05-2015, 18:35
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I see you've made quite a few of these threads regarding Oaks...
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Old 18-05-2015, 19:06
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it was just friday, the. rest of the week looked 750-800k

the OP is over exagerating somewhat
Such a stirrer
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Old 18-05-2015, 19:40
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It's a youth soap- it doesn't have to do as well as the bigger soaps.
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Old 18-05-2015, 19:43
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Threads about Hollyoaks and its ratings have been around since 2005. It revamped in 2006 with the Dog Fire, it revamped in 2010 with the death of Steph and co no doubt it would get another revamp before its axed. Its more likely just to remain on E4 if anything it brings a steady 400-600k per day to the channel which without Big Bang Theory struggles. Even E4's primetime programing such as Revenge, Empire, 2 Broke Girls etc gets less then Oaks atm.
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Old 18-05-2015, 19:57
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In the past it would have been in trouble, sure, but it's really just an advert for shifting pizza and hair product to tweens now. I guess as long as the sponsors are happy with a few hundred thousand, on it goes.
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Old 18-05-2015, 20:01
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Not forgetting Hollyoaks is on E4 and E4+1 and on Channel4 and Channel 4+1 and online on 4od, So i doubt they will base it on one channel as people could be watching it at anytime. .
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Old 18-05-2015, 20:34
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it was just friday, the. rest of the week looked 750-800k

the OP is over exagerating somewhat

Well said, they were as high as 1million earlier this year. The lighter night will also have something to do with this.
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Old 18-05-2015, 23:54
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I had no idea the ratings were this shocking but the show is a shambles these days so I don't know why I should be shocked.
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Old 19-05-2015, 02:07
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In the past it would have been in trouble, sure, but it's really just an advert for shifting pizza and hair product to tweens now. I guess as long as the sponsors are happy with a few hundred thousand, on it goes.
This, as long as the advertising revenue keeps rolling it it'll stay on air, when that starts to drop that'll be the end.
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Old 19-05-2015, 05:23
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Considering Hollyoaks gets a lot of publicity and won the 'best soap' award last year, there really is no excuse for ratings as low as 500k. Hollyoaks is a british soap and gets a lot of media coverage. Yes, Hollyoaks have on demand and channel 4 plus one, but so do Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

I understand Neighbours and Home And Away getting these kind of ratings, like 500k, because they don't get as much media coverage as Hollyoaks and aren't put forward for so many categories in the British soap awards, or baftas. Hollyoaks is also shown on This Morning too, unlike the aussie soaps. Not good ratings for Holllyoaks and there is no excuse. Brookside got axed, yet Hollyoaks can get away with bad ratings.
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Old 19-05-2015, 05:29
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Ratings are a funny thing. In HO's case it just means a very very small member of the 1100 or so people - out of the entire country - whose viewing habits are monitored - watch HO.

Millions who are not monitored probably also watch it.

In other words, they'll take no notice of 'official figures' and carry on.
Advertisers take notice, does not matter the reality, the price of ad slots goes down and C4 can't do much about that.
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Old 19-05-2015, 07:29
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Considering Hollyoaks gets a lot of publicity and won the 'best soap' award last year, there really is no excuse for ratings as low as 500k. Hollyoaks is a british soap and gets a lot of media coverage. Yes, Hollyoaks have on demand and channel 4 plus one, but so do Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

I understand Neighbours and Home And Away getting these kind of ratings, like 500k, because they don't get as much media coverage as Hollyoaks and aren't put forward for so many categories in the British soap awards, or baftas. Hollyoaks is also shown on This Morning too, unlike the aussie soaps. Not good ratings for Holllyoaks and there is no excuse. Brookside got axed, yet Hollyoaks can get away with bad ratings.
all the soaps were down on friday not just Hollyoaks!
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