There's a lot to be said about the football league highlights following Match Of The Day. Early evening at 9pm on Saturday is very competitive.

Football League Tonight is actually a better programme than The Football League Show in my opinion, but as you say the timeslot is wrong, there are frequent and incessant adverts and people don't want to stay in and watch football highlights on a Saturday night.

August is over and during it Eastenders has recorded an overnight monthly average of 5.65m (28.7%), which is down 60k year-on-year. August's highest rating came on Monday 31st with 6.25m (27.7%), whilst the lowest of the month came on Tuesday 4th with 4.27m (20.8%) during an Emmerdale clash. August 2015 has featured 3 Emmerdale clashes, whereas August 2014 saw 2 Emmerdale clashes, one of which Eastenders had the head-start.

2015
Jan - 7.26m (32.1%)
Feb - 8.11m (35.9%)
Mar - 6.51m (30.8%)
Apr - 6.13m (31.4%)
May - 5.85m (29.4%)
Jun - 5.85m (31.5%)
Jul - 5.93m (31.2%)
Aug - 5.65m (28.7%)
* W/O Emm - 5.92m (30.2%)

2014
Jan - 7.33m (31.8%)
Feb - 7.26m (31.8%)
Mar - 6.84m (31.4%)
Apr - 6.97m (33.3%)
May - 6.52m (31.9%)
Jun - 5.45m (28.1%)
Jul - 5.19m (27.8%)
Aug - 5.71m (29.5%)
* W/O Emm - 5.82m (30.0%)
Sep - 6.10m (30.5%)
Oct - 6.62m (31.6%)
Nov - 6.68m (31.0%)
Dec - 6.73m (30.5%)

Previous August average overnights
2015 - 5.65m (28.7%)
2014 - 5.71m (29.5%)
2013 - 6.20m (31.5%)
2012 - 6.77m (31.7%)
2011 - 7.66m (35.6%)
2010 - 8.01m (37.2%)
2009 - 7.36m (36.3%)


Last EE ratings update

The latest Iplayer pack available is for June/July, so an update for Eastenders Iplayer monthly average ratings, based on the entries that appear in the Iplayer top 20 each month.

2015
Jan - 1.35m
Feb - 1.50m
Mar - 999k
Apr - 948k
May - 1.04m
Jun - 997k
Jul - 933k

2014
Jan - 1.19m
Feb - 1.32m
Mar - 1.04m
Apr - 1.12m
May - 1.08m
Jun - 1.04m
Jul - 946k
Aug - 915k (minor data issues, some views not caputured)
Sep - 885k (minor date issues, some views not captured)
Oct - 1.15m (30 day catch-up window introduced 4th Oct)
Nov - 1.06m
Dec - 1.31m

Previous July Iplayer ratings
2015 - 933k
2014 - 946k
2013 - 844k
2012 - 573k
2011 - 516k
2010 - 512k


Last EE Iplayer update

Corrie's Live episode trailer has been released. It is rather cringeworthy in my opinion but it will generate some interest. It focuses on the Callum storyline as Callum chases the Platts through the street:

https://youtu.be/jGiSdmK2hPI

John Barrowman's Small Animal Hospital To Receive Primetime Slot on C4.

The show is to receive a new primetime slot this autumn.

The original series will be re-versioned as three one-hour episodes and given a new title. The current working title is Pet Hospital.


http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/2...primetime_slot

Fear The Walking Dead started with 126,000 (0.6%) on AMC in the UK.

Not too shabby considering availability is a real problem with this channel at the moment.

It is cringeworthy.

Emmerdale knows how to do trailers.

It was amusing when ITV scheduled The Premiership at 7pm, displacing Blind Date, with Lynam making much of the supposedly better timeslot. Better for him, no doubt, but the ratings crashed and in due course it was moved to 10.30. If September shows little uplift, will Channel 5's highlights scuttle off to midnight?

Thanks for the round-up Lewie. Strange to see EastEnders getting its best rating of the month on a Bank Holiday. It was a fantastic episode, award worthy.

August 2015 overnight average for the Big Three:

Coronation Street: 6.72m
Up 200k yoy

Emmerdale: 5.88m
Up 460k yoy
Best since March

EastEnders: 5.65m
Down 60k yoy
5.92m exc. 3 ED clashes

2015 overnight average for the Big Three: (Jan - Aug)

Coronation Street:: 6.84m
Down 470k yoy

EastEnders: 6.41m
Level yoy

Emmerdale: 5.76m
Down 180k yoy

The 3 BBC dramas at the top of your list plus Lady Chatterleys Lover are all one off features though and The Darkness is only 4 eps/ Doctor Foster 5 eps and Capital 3 eps so its not as much as you might think. Can only assume those classic one offs will be Sunday nights.

Was not the Leagues justification for giving the contract to C5 the earlier timeslot though?

I think you're right, but then the Premier League were probably equally enthused by ITV's promise to schedule in peaktime - until they saw the ratings.

I watch it on my PVR early on Sundays so the scheduling doesn't really bother me.I seem to remember the BBC version was getting 800,000-900,000 even following MOTD.

All ITV bar the soaps under 2.65 million w/e 23/8/15

12 ITV NEWS (THU 1830) 2.64
13 ITV NEWS (WED 1830) 2.46
14 ITV NEWS (MON 1830) 2.40
15 ITV NEWS (TUE 1830) 2.37
16 KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY (SERIES 2) (SAT 1900) 2.32
17 LOVE YOUR WILD GARDEN (TUE 2000) 2.31
18 MIDSOMER MURDERS (SUN 2003) 2.22
19 TRAVEL GUIDES (MON 2102) 2.15
20 ITV NEWS (FRI 1830) 2.13
21 VET SCHOOL STV (MON 2004) 2.11
22 THE SATURDAY NIGHT STORY (SAT 2001) 2.05
23 FOYLE'S WAR (WED 2004) 2.01
24 ANIMAL MUMS (SUN 1900) 1.93
25 REAL STORIES WITH RANVIR SINGH (FRI 2003) 1.84
26 ITV NEWS (SUN 1844) 1.82
27 THE DALES (TUE 1932) 1.78
28 ITV NEWS (SAT 1810) 1.59
29 YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED! (SAT 1829) 1.59
30 SCHOOL SWAP - THE CLASS DIVIDE (TUE 2101) 1.48

ITV firing off all cylinders, what we all like to see.

Those figures don't include HD fugitive. Still woeful though.

Soap Officials w/c 17th August 2015

Coronation Street:

Mon: 8.15m [+1.08m} / 7.94m [+1.23m]
Wed: 8.09m [+1.19m]
Thu: 7.64m [+1.03m]
Fri: 7.55m [+1m] / 7.51m [+960k]

Avg.: 7.81m [+1.08m]


EastEnders:

Mon: 7.02m [+860k}
Tue: 7.15m [+1.05m]
Thu: 6.96m [+1.01m]
Fri: 6.5m [+1.19m]

Avg.: 6.91m [+1.03m]


Emmerdale:

Mon: 6.59m [+580k]
Tue: 6.37m [+560k]
Wed: 6.49m [+590k]
Thu: 6.45m [+630k]

Avg.: 6.48m [+590k]


TOP 10 OFFICIALS W/C 17TH AUGUST 2015:

**exc.News


Figures inc.HD and exc.+1.

Source: Barb

They need to go to Freeview and Freesat.

Some impressive demos for episode 1 of this series of Bake Off in Broadcast.

Even the main Evening News is starting to tank.

and You've Been Framed 1.5 million for a new episode part of their Saturday Night schedule?

Is that from BARB? That's without HD and +1 I'm assuming.


Not great but Doc Martin and Downton Abbey will make that look a bit better. Does show how much the soaps prop up ITV. Looking at the BBC1 chart and news bulletins help them out across the week.

Was Emmerdale dented by Bank-Holiday Monday? Very low rating for it.

BBC One's ratings superiority over the commercial channels isn't news. And FLT isn't doing that badly compared to the BBC version, according to your own ballpark figure. As BBC One is roughly five times more popular than C5, you would expect FLT to have lost more than half its audience.

The fact it hasn't suggests the earlier timeslot has helped to an extent, but not enough for it to be a success. Move it post MOTD and the figure would fall to around 0.2m-0.25m no doubt which is something they might consider towards the end of the contract if things don't improve but surely not this early. Better to give it more time and work on improving the product in line with viewer feedback.

What has been most depressing about the failure of FLT thus far is the way this news has been gleefully received on here. If you're massively pro BBC you can't really spin it as testament to the power of being on that channel as the gap between the two programmes is smaller than it should be, so that doesn't work. As with all risks taken you win some and you lose some, but it's better than staying the same and not trying anything out of your comfort zone which is why TV in this country has become so stale. If it doesn't work, which looks very likely now, it'll soon end up back on everyone's beloved BBC, and people can get back to just leaving it on in the background after MOTD, only half watching and then moaning when the Beeb can't be bothered to do a show for Leagues One and Two only.

Dancc, I'm not sure I buy this idea that when a property moves from BBC One to Channel 5, the benchmark for it should be the old audience adjusted for the lower channel share. That may be fair for, say, a generic factual series on a particular topic, but we're taking here about an identifiable brand, albeit not a stellar one in non-top-flight football highlights. When Neighbours moved channels C5 was less than 30% the size of BBC One in terms of share, but noone expected the audience to fall by 70% and of course it didn't (in fact it only fell a few hundred thousand at first).