The Ratings Thread (Part 66)

510 of 532

omnidirectional

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Already been announced.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/c...096762.article”

Indeed. Hopefully we won't be seeing any more benefits programmes on C5. There haven't been any so far this year (only 18 days to be fair) and I can't see any in the listings up to the end of January.

I'm delighted with Lip Sync Battle's ratings, and CBB is doing well. With the C5 rebrand finally nearing and The X Files in February, they seem to be off to a good start this year.

Dancc

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by omnidirectional:
“Indeed. Hopefully we won't be seeing any more benefits programmes on C5. There haven't been any so far this year (only 18 days to be fair) and I can't see any in the listings up to the end of January.

I'm delighted with Lip Sync Battle's ratings, and CBB is doing well. With the C5 rebrand finally nearing and The X Files in February, they seem to be off to a good start this year.”

One more thing is needed before we can say with certainty that C5 is on the way up. Viacom has made so many positive changes already, but there's something major holding C5 back and it needs to be addressed now, not later. Time to do the right thing for the viewers...

http://www.seenit.co.uk/its-time-for...d-the-paywall/

RobbieSykes123

18-01-2016

Staggeringly good numbers for SW the old warhorse - c9m, or it will be when the 28 day numbers come in. I can't really ever remember it getting much more than 9.5m in the different tv universe when it started 20 years ago!

6.2m for Casualty. If it only ran from January to April , as once was the case, it would be regarded as a hit still. In fact it would probably get substantially more than 6.2m too if not on all year round....

Mike Teevee

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Night Fever was hosted by Suggs out of Madness. Are you thinking of something else?”

Doh!

Mike Teevee

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“One more thing is needed before we can say with certainty that C5 is on the way up. Viacom has made so many positive changes already, but there's something major holding C5 back and it needs to be addressed now, not later. Time to do the right thing for the viewers...

http://www.seenit.co.uk/its-time-for...d-the-paywall/”

Wasn't that part of the long term plan under the old management, granted N&S weren't exactly the most believable of media organisations.

Until the last channel refresh Freeview had kept 105 free for Channel 5 HD. I'm guessing there will be another re-jig in April once BBC Three...sorry II! gets shunted off to online.

Dancc

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Mike Teevee:
“Wasn't that part of the long term plan under the old management, granted N&S weren't exactly the most believable of media organisations.

Until the last channel refresh Freeview had kept 105 free for Channel 5 HD. I'm guessing there will be another re-jig in April once BBC Three...sorry II! gets shunted off to online.”

That's right.

Never been a better time to do something about it. Hopefully hear something positive soon.

cylon6

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Jay Lee:
“The Getaway Car = a new addition to Saturday night flops on BBC One. It's downhill from here. A Total Wipeout clone was never going to do well.”

Worked for Ninja Warrior UK.

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Last night's ratings: David Haye's return to boxing pulled in a massive 1.17m (6.0%) over on Dave, despite being all over after less than 1 round.”

Standout rating for Saturday. Great figure for Dave.

cylon6

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by northlad:
“In theory once BBC studios are privatised I presume they will have to sell any programme to the highest bidder.Similar to what happened to The Voice. So everything will be up for grabs,Strictly,Eastenders etc.”

The worst thing that could happen to the BBC is if BBC Studios is privatised. I don't like the idea of BBC Studios purely for this reason.

ITV buying The Voice was more about it also owning the production company. A shifty way to secure a deal.

Cherry-choc

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Here's how a bunch of other random Channel 5 entertainment shows have launched over the years, to try and put that rating for Lip Sync Battle into some sort of context, for those that haven't followed C5's ratings as closely as I have and don't understand the fuss I'm making over LSB:

Fort Boyard (Game Show, 1998): 1.69m
It's a Knock Out (Game Show, 1999): 2.27m
The Mole (Game Show, 2001): 1.45m
Fifth Gear (Motoring, 2001): 1.18m
Back to Reality (Reality Show, 2004): 1.84m
The Farm (Reality Show, 2004): 1.16m
The Hotel Inspector (Factual Entertainment, 2005): 1.32m
Extreme Fishing with Robson Green (Factual Entertainment, 2008): 1.28m
Unbreakable (Reality Show, 2008): 1.01m
Farmer Wants a Wife (Dating Show, 2009): 0.99m
Don't Stop Believing (Talent Show, 2010): 1.54m
The Bachelor (Dating Show, 2011): 1.43m
Celebrity Super Spa (Reality Show, 2013): 1.31m
10,000 BC (Survival Show, 2015): 1.93m
Lip Sync Battle UK (Light Entertainment, 2016): 2.61m

official ratings via www.barb.co.uk”

I wonder if the Mole would work these days. I was gutted that it ended after two series.

Originally Posted by Mike Teevee:
“Better off reviving Channel 5's Night Fever, though that would require a host as good as Shane Richie and celebs other than Shaun Williamson who are half decent at singing.”

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Night Fever was hosted by Suggs out of Madness. Are you thinking of something else?[/url]”

Originally Posted by Mike Teevee:
“Doh! ”

I thought Mike was describing Don't Forget The Lyrics, which was hosted by Shane Richie and was on sky1 not so long ago.

hyperstarsponge

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Semierotic:
“In the UK, CBB must surely be the king of 'most talked about shows which get low ratings', though most of that is probably down to Channel 5's owner.”

Variety of reasons for that I think.

Ryan_Richards

18-01-2016

CBB and Lip Sync Battle doing very well for Channel 5 this month.

anyonefortennis

18-01-2016

Any ratings for Deadline Gallipoli on Drama for Saturday and Sunday night?

Aaron_2015

18-01-2016

ITV News at Ten receives its Tom Bradby fronted refresh tonight. The new titles have already been shown on social media.

Dan R

18-01-2016

Hopefully the success of LSB will encourage C5 to invest less in nasty Big Brothers/benefits nonsense and more in LE and other quality genres.
Today's consolidated rating shows that Channel 5 can have successes (by their standards) if they put an ounce of effort into their programming.

cylon6

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Aaron_2015:
“ITV News at Ten receives its Tom Bradby fronted refresh tonight. The new titles have already been shown on social media.”

And they're still not a patch on these titles for News At Ten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0njc6SGvY&sns=em

When I see Tom Bradby on News At Ten all I see is The Day Today.

H of De Vil

18-01-2016

Its quite ridiculous how many viewers tune into BBC1 at 6pm knowing it will be news then Countryfile. But this is only the effect of ITV's weak Sunday 7pm programming.

Also I notice SOAH can be as poor as any flop sitcom on BBC1 or ITV and yet still recive 7m viewers. If Birds is poor, the next episode drops. If SOAH is poor (which it has been all this series), the rating doesn't budge. Surely this is the very definition of default audience? Apart from i being nostalgic, is ther any other reason why its this high?

Beowulf needs to be pulled. 3 episodes in and its below 2m. 9 more to go. Even a clip show at 6pm beat it.

Endeavour impressively held onto 4.6m viewers despite a dire lead in and facing the return of CTM. Appealing old is the only way ITV will stay strong on Sunday.

davies88

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“Its quite ridiculous how many viewers tune into BBC1 at 6pm knowing it will be news then Countryfile. But this is only the effect of ITV's weak Sunday 7pm programming.

Also I notice SOAH can be as poor as any flop sitcom on BBC1 or ITV and yet still recive 7m viewers. If Birds is poor, the next episode drops. If SOAH is poor (which it has been all this series), the rating doesn't budge. Surely this is the very definition of default audience? Apart from i being nostalgic, is ther any other reason why its this high?

Beowulf needs to be pulled. 3 episodes in and its below 2m. 9 more to go. Even a clip show at 6pm beat it.

Endeavour impressively held onto 4.6m viewers despite a dire lead in and facing the return of CTM. Appealing old is the only way ITV will stay strong on Sunday.”

Isn't that why ITV used to storm Sundays with Corrie, Heartbeat and 9pm dramas etc...

Ratings started tumbling when they kicked out the Sunday soap slot and 8pm dramas and replace them with strictly come skating on ice and YBF!.

cylon6

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by davies88:
“Isn't that why ITV used to storm Sundays with Corrie, Heartbeat and 9pm dramas etc...

Ratings started tumbling when they kicked out the Sunday soap slot and 8pm dramas and replace them with strictly come skating on ice and YBF!.”

ITV used to own Sundays long before the soaps were there. You've Been Framed getting 19m at 7.15pm then Darling Buds Of May at 7.45pm getting 18m. The 8-10pm slot was lost when they didn't have the successful dramas to go there. The lack of a soap hour isn't ITV's main problem on Sunday.

cylon6

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“Its quite ridiculous how many viewers tune into BBC1 at 6pm knowing it will be news then Countryfile. But this is only the effect of ITV's weak Sunday 7pm programming.

Also I notice SOAH can be as poor as any flop sitcom on BBC1 or ITV and yet still recive 7m viewers. If Birds is poor, the next episode drops. If SOAH is poor (which it has been all this series), the rating doesn't budge. Surely this is the very definition of default audience? Apart from i being nostalgic, is ther any other reason why its this high?

Beowulf needs to be pulled. 3 episodes in and its below 2m. 9 more to go. Even a clip show at 6pm beat it.

Endeavour impressively held onto 4.6m viewers despite a dire lead in and facing the return of CTM. Appealing old is the only way ITV will stay strong on Sunday.”

They know the news is at 6pm plus they choose it over ITV News. That's another problem for ITV.

If you keep chasing the youth demo you won't get the older viewers.

dullagj2

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by lewiep93:
“From Hassaan.

Sunday 17th January 2016 - Overnights
BBC One
17:00 - Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough: 2.75m (14.9%)
”

More than its first showing on Wednesday!

Soap Officials w/c 4th January 2016

Corrie:

Mon: 8.96m [+890k] / 8.64m [+830k]
Wed: 8.64m [+1.13m]
Fri: 8.31m [+1.02m] / 7.58m [+1.3m]

Avg.: 8.43m [+1.03m]

EastEnders:

Mon: 8.26m [+990k]
Tue: 8.06m [+860k]
Wed : 7.31m [+1m]
Thu : 8.24m [+940k] / 7.36m [+1.12m] +650k BBC3

Avg.: 7.85m [+982k]

Emmerdale:

Mon: 7.45m [+480k]
Tue: ?
Wed: 7.2m [+500k]
Thu: 7.12m [+570k] / 7.21m [+700k]
Fri: 7.24m [+600k]

Avg.: 7.24m [+570k]

TOP 10 OFFICIALS W/C 4TH JANUARY 2016

Code:

 1. CORONATION STREET (MON 1932): 8.96m
2. SILENT WITNESS (TUE 2100): 8.72m
3. DEATH IN PARADISE (THU 2100): 8.71m
4. EASTENDERS (MON 2001): 8.26m
5. THE VOICE UK (SAT 1930): 7.87m
6. COUNTRYFILE (SUN 1830): 7.46m
7. EMMERDALE (MON 1900) : 7.45m
8. STILL OPEN ALL HOURS (SUN 1930): 7.31m
9. WAR AND PEACE (SUN 2100): 6.95m
10. WHEN ANT AND DEC MET THE PRINCE: 40 YEAR (MON 2101): 6.53m**

**HD estimated at 600k.

Figures inc.HD and exc.+1.

Source: Barb

ftv

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“Its quite ridiculous how many viewers tune into BBC1 at 6pm knowing it will be news then Countryfile. But this is only the effect of ITV's weak Sunday 7pm programming.

Also I notice SOAH can be as poor as any flop sitcom on BBC1 or ITV and yet still recive 7m viewers. If Birds is poor, the next episode drops. If SOAH is poor (which it has been all this series), the rating doesn't budge. Surely this is the very definition of default audience? Apart from i being nostalgic, is ther any other reason why its this high?

Beowulf needs to be pulled. 3 episodes in and its below 2m. 9 more to go. Even a clip show at 6pm beat it.

Endeavour impressively held onto 4.6m viewers despite a dire lead in and facing the return of CTM. Appealing old is the only way ITV will stay strong on Sunday.”

The news is at 1705 next Sunday and Countryfile at 1730

davies88

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“ITV used to own Sundays long before the soaps were there. You've Been Framed getting 19m at 7.15pm then Darling Buds Of May at 7.45pm getting 18m. The 8-10pm slot was lost when they didn't have the successful dramas to go there. The lack of a soap hour isn't ITV's main problem on Sunday.”

I'm aware they was successfull before soaps was there... But it is what ultimately lead to the Sunday night downfall. Everything was strong until they changed it. They chipped away at their very strong Sunday night lineup. Now they have big gals everywhere, and their 9pm Sunday dramas now suffer because of it, too.

sn_22

18-01-2016

I have to say, it is good to see some positivity around C5. LSB isn't my kind of thing, but I can see it's a popular format that seems to have been translated well for a British audience. Always nice to see a channel finally find a hit in a genre they have (BB aside) struggled with. It can only bode well for further investment.

Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“Staggeringly good numbers for SW the old warhorse - c9m, or it will be when the 28 day numbers come in. I can't really ever remember it getting much more than 9.5m in the different tv universe when it started 20 years ago!

6.2m for Casualty. If it only ran from January to April , as once was the case, it would be regarded as a hit still. In fact it would probably get substantially more than 6.2m too if not on all year round....”

Silent Witness is very much at the peak of its powers. Just see the ratings by series. The earliest available numbers for Series 4 put it at just over 9m. It had sunk to the 6m region by the mid-late 2000s, but has risen again since with a move to the January slot. Quite remarkable.

H of De Vil

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“They know the news is at 6pm plus they choose it over ITV News. That's another problem for ITV.

If you keep chasing the youth demo you won't get the older viewers.”

Viewers manage to find it on weekdays where they are often over 20% shares at 6pm. But Sunday it seems viewers just regard BBC1 as the channel to go too whatever new programming ITV are showing in the earlier evening. his is mostly because its usually clip shows (Planet's Got Talent) or crud.

Thank goodness Fincham has gone, now hopefully he can build Sunday back up from BBC1's dominance.

Roscoe Barnes

18-01-2016

Here are some more consolidated numbers for w/e 10th January 2016:

Coronation Street (Mon): 9.14m (37.9%)
Emmerdale (Mon): 7.66m (33.4%)
When Ant And Dec Met The Prince: 40 Year (Mon): 7.69m (28.0%)
Endeavour (Sun): 6.73m (23.3%)
Midsomer Murders (Wed): 6.63m (24.7%)
Birds Of A Feather (Thu): 5.34m (20.2%)
Mr Selfridge (Fri): 5.26m (19.9%)
Jericho (Thu): 4.93m (19.0%)
The Martin Lewis Money Show (Fri): 4.57m (20.2%)

All include HD and +1

I don’t have the excluding +1 numbers unfortunately. But quite a few of the +1 numbers made the ITV +1 Top 10 chart on BARB so just a matter of some simple subtraction.

510 of 532