Yesterday's soap ratings from DS :

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/east...hock-decision/

EastEnders 6.38m/30.8% (BBC3 373k/2.1%)

Emmerdale 5.81m/29.1% (+1 118k/0.6%)

Thanks for posting. Saves having to go on the muddle that is the DS Soap site.

Respectable figure and share for EE, ED share a little low and a good figure for HO.

Thanks Ray.

Anybody changing their minds about Christmas soap ratings?

In the US they had Carrie Underwood who was miscast and universally slated and a Brit from a premium cable drama in the lead roles.

No big stars in the supporting cast, either.

Not really, they will be a little lower than last year, but I see EE being the most watched soap, followed by CS and then ED. I still think EE will pip DA but the top rated two shows will be MBB and CTMW. Ratings in the over nights will be pretty low I would think.

Nothing on Christmas Day that we'll be watching, apart from Downton.

The ad free Sky Catch Up version for us when we get the house back, family free.

I LOVE Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer , horses for courses.
At least she can sing, 6 grammys and all that.

Great episode, shame about the overnights.

Wouldn't be surprised if it surpasses Doctor Fosters catch-up figures.




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Just saw this. Rating of the year (for the wrong reasons).

That's BBC2 Sign Zone level low!

It's been recommended to us by a friend so we are going to watch over Christmas.

I assume our friend is related to one of the cast or crew though...

Interestingly, I was at a panel discussion in London last night where Greg Dyke (BBC Director General between 2000-2004 and, prior to that, worked for ITV; now FA Chairman) was speaking. He commented on how the BBC is "scared" at the moment, in the run up to charter renewal, and needs to be a lot more confident in itself, given how it's under attack from most sides and criticised the current ITV regime for being so hostile towards the BBC - something that he doesn't recall ITV being when Dyke was based there. ITV management back then realised that a creative and successful BBC was good news for the broadcasting industry generally.

Dyke also spoke about how it was very much in the FA's interest to rejuvenate the FA Cup by returning it to the BBC after several years of dwindling interest on ITV, even if that meant accepting a lower bid.

Dyke was certainly right about the FA Cup - ITV bought it and then ran it down.Bit like when they ''scooped'' the Boat Race, realised it was too expensive and handed it back to the BBC.

Greg Dyke is definitely right about the current ITV regime. That's all down to Crozier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AedB9HDFUg

Beowulf extended trailer

Looks more and more like Merlin - why 7pm on a Sunday though?

Actually yes - I think they may be lower than I first thought !!

More likely that the BBC had to behave like the national broadcaster of all the nations and pick a broad range of games from all the qualifying nations. Not just England fans pay the licence fee. ITV on the other hand are able to behave like a commercial broadcaster and go straight for the biggest rating ties which means England and prime peak time games.

A rare occasion where the BBC as the licence fee national broadcaster is at a disadvantage, but of course it should be about providing good broad coverage not just high ratings for them surely?

Terrible overnight rating, considering the first series performed fairly well. Watched the first part of the new pair last night.

Didn't disappoint. Hilarious. But I love low rating comedies (Toast, House of Fools, Arthur Strong etc.).

edit: First series is available in Box Sets.

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QUOTE=yorkie100;80766133]Looks more and more like Merlin - why 7pm on a Sunday though?[/quote]

Fine by me as I liked Merlin. Merlin skewed old which is why it was effective opposite X Factor. If Beowulf skews old then it will have problems opposite BBC1 on Sunday.

Keep your fingers crossed people watch it. We need more popular fantasy drama and ITV needs it so that they don't think about ditching fantasy.

I thought Merlin too. I share your concerns about the timeslot, Saturday seems a better fit although at least it has a Saturday 5pm repeat.

A pity they didn't delay it a few weeks and launch it out of Saturday Night Takeaway, but I guess it wasn't feasible as they started filming in April so presumably if there's a second series it'd start filming in April again so they need to air it so they have time to see the early ratings and make a decision. It's similar to how Atlantis and The Musketeers got renewed just a few weeks into their first series as they also had long runs.

LOL at people on this thread still thinking ITV are relevant.

There's an excellent review and a few clips of Hunderby on this week's Andrew Collins Guardian vlog.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...P=share_btn_tw

Yes corrie or Emmerdale would of been the really obvious lead in. Isn't there an extra episode tomorrow as it's not on Friday at 8.30pm due to text Santa that ep could been shown Sunday before sound of music.

Clueless comes to mind 😄 😲

Eastenders up from Monday if I remember that's unusual for ee well done ee ☺