Despite the disasters which were Jekyll and Hyde, Peter and Wendy and Harry Price ITV drama is in a better state than the other departments at the network. Indeed, all three probably would have done better had they been scheduled a little differently with some support.

Could this be a shock rating

I doubt it. Twitter regularly explodes over some Channel 4 show with 1m viewers. It doesn't take much.

The biggest shock is that the Mirror could pull a few tweets off the Internet and call it journalism.

ITV viewers cancel New Year's Eve partying to watch a panda doc, which finishes at 9.35. Seriously?

Ridiculous. This won't get more than 3m as nice as it was.

I suspect MBB Movie will be over 5m despite being a complete dud.

Hits Of The Year
Sorry anyonefortennis, but I have to nominate the "Usual Suspects"
GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF
DR FOSTER
& STRICTLY COME DANCING (very impressive that it posted a year-on-year increase in the later weeks of its series)

But I also nominate SILENT WITNESS.
A lot of us thought BBC1 had stuck this on against series 2 of Broadchurch in an attempt to kill it off. (Maybe the BBC thought that too.) But despite being nearly 20 years old, and despite the BBC giving the impression that they don't care much about it, it more than held its own in the ratings. still attracting over 8m viewers (and holding up in a way that New Tricks didn't)

New Show Of The Year
CAR SHARE
The long gestation period between the announcement and the transmission, complete with the BBC's erratic scheduling led many on here to believe it was going to be a disaster. But it turned out to be warm, charming, sweet, real and very funny. A triumph for Peter Kay and Sian Gibson.

Deserved flops of the year.
PRIZED APART
A real life W1A programme. On that funny, but deeply worrying sitcom, programme ideas drowned in the interference from too many BBC executives. It seems that many BBC bigwigs, including Charlotte Moore, were involved in the development in this disaster. I find it deeply disturbing that these programme makers thought viewers would come flogging to their televisions just because the games were being played in Morocco (or wherever it was). This isn't 1949, you know, Charlotte. We don't sit in our living-rooms in front of the telly going "Ooh, look at the magic box."

CUFFS
A very lazy commission which sums up the lack of effort from BBC1 towards its pre-watershed prime-time weekday schedule. A unoriginal rip-off of The Bill, Characters and plots by numbers. No wonder it generated no interest from viewers whatsoever.


edit: HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE

i'm hoping EE gets 6m for the first episode and 7m for the second episode tomorrow!

happy new year folks

Best of British for me this year, Wolf Hall, Car Share and Cradle To Grave.

Has no one mentioned Wolf Hall yet, or was it on too long ago and been forgotten?

Happy New Year everyone.

It's telling that two repeats of Russell Howard on BBC3 and a repeat of 2014 Gogglebox on E4 have been the best things on NYE TV so far (till the fireworks of course).

Hopefully ITV will bring Jason Manford back next year, his show was amazing and the highlight of New Year's Eve . That panda documentary is obviously incredible but could have gone on any other day of the year.

And we'll have 'Flop of the Year' lined up straight away.

EDIT: They've got the guy who messed up the Athletics on Channel 4 presenting the Fireworks on BBC One. If they're not careful they'll miss midnight.

Wasn't it Ortis Deley who famously messed up athletics?

This guy is someone else Ore something.

Oh I thought it was the Ore guy? Was it Otis Deley? On the plus side that mistake was in 2015 so I can safely say I'm error free in 2016.

Bryan Adams Rocks Big Ben now extended to 12.45am

Happy New Year to you guys in the ratings thread



And to you guys who take the time & effort to post ratings - it IS much appreciated by serial lurkers like me

Just noticed that the fireworks "programme" is a dead cert to increase its rating this year. Why? Because it was billed to run 00:00-00:10 this year, rather than starting at 23:55 as before. Assuming there isn't any tape checking.

Happy new year everyone.

Happy New Year ratings thread regulars. Good BBC1 trailer for 2016.

Re: Ratings, BBC schedule their biggest comedy for 2nd year running after Fireworks. And for a 2nd year running its sure to get a super rating.

I didn't think much of this year's lead up to the fireworks. Preferred last year.

Queen and Bryan Adams are both huge names

My tv guide has it down as always finishing at 12.45am

I have a feeling it's going to do well and the line up is very promising, I hope it'll lead to more comedy entertainment commissions.

I think Channel 5 needs to ramp up original drama in 2016, Suspects doesn't cut it I'm afraid and given how well BBC Two and Channel 4 have done with Humans, Wolf Hall, London Spy, No Offence etc proves drama can be successful outside of BBC One and ITV. I hope The X Files is a hit for them and perhaps we may see a few more US acquisitions.

Happy New Year.

Chris McCluskey ‏@chris_maccc 44s44 seconds ago
An impressive 12.5m tuned in for the New Years Eve fireworks last night on @BBCOne with a 62.9% audience share watching

Fantastic rating, unsure if this is the peak or the average. Still amazing though!

Fantastic share. I assume that is a peak?

Firstly, Happy New Year H, keep up your positivity throughout 2016!
That share is, well, unthinkable. And firmly suggests that the poor Christmas ratings was down to the way programmes were scheduled and that an event piece was missing. People will watch if they want to see something big. A tip for broadcasters next year perhaps.

Happy New Year.

But despite the high share 30% of viewers were still watching something else. But 10% for ITV, that is still 20% of viewers watching something completely different.

This is only 5 minutes to celebrate the new year. Much more appealing to many than perhaps watching TV over Christmas.