The Ratings Thread (Part 67)

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lewiep93

14-03-2016

Haven't done this for a while, most watched shows of the year so far.

Most Watched Programmes of 2016 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 11.64m - Sherlock (01/01/16) - BBC 1
02 - 10.89m - Call the Midwife (06/03/16) - BBC 1
03 - 9.40m - EastEnders (01/01/16) - BBC 1
04 - 8.97m - Coronation Street (04/01/16) - ITV
05 - 8.76m - Countryfile (07/02/16) - BBC 1
06 - 8.72m - Silent Witness (05/01/16) - BBC 1
07 - 8.71m - Death in Paradise (07/01/16) - BBC 1
08 - 8.63m - Happy Valley (09/02/16) - BBC 1
09 - 8.42m - War and Peace (03/01/16) - BBC 1
10 - 8.42m - The Night Manager (28/02/16) - BBC 1
11 - 8.11m - Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (20/02/16) - ITV
12 - 8.06m - Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (24/01/16) - BBC 1
13 - 7.92m - Mrs Brown’s Boys (01/01/16) - BBC 1
14 - 7.87m - The Voice UK (09/01/16) - BBC 1
15 - 7.75m - Still Open All Hours (24/01/16) - BBC 1
16 - 7.45m - Emmerdale (04/01/16) - ITV
17 - 7.44m - The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (03/02/16) - BBC 1
18 - 7.17m - When Ant and Dec Met the Prince (04/01/16) - ITV
19 - 7.03m - BBC News (01/01/16) - BBC 1
20 - 6.73m - Grantchester (02/03/16) - ITV

Most Watched Programmes of 2016 [Top 20 - Officials inc. +1]
01 - 11.64m - Sherlock (01/01/16) - BBC 1
02 - 10.89m - Call the Midwife (06/03/16) - BBC 1
03 - 9.40m - EastEnders (01/01/16) - BBC 1
04 - 9.14m - Coronation Street (04/01/16) - ITV
05 - 8.76m - Countryfile (07/02/16) - BBC 1
06 - 8.72m - Silent Witness (05/01/16) - BBC 1
07 - 8.71m - Death in Paradise (07/01/16) - BBC 1
08 - 8.69m - Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (20/02/16) - ITV
09 - 8.63m - Happy Valley (09/02/16) - BBC 1
10 - 8.42m - War and Peace (03/01/16) - BBC 1
11 - 8.42m - The Night Manager (28/02/16) - BBC 1
12 - 8.06m - Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (24/01/16) - BBC 1
13 - 7.92m - Mrs Brown’s Boys (01/01/16) - BBC 1
14 - 7.87m - The Voice UK (09/01/16) - BBC 1
15 - 7.75m - Still Open All Hours (24/01/16) - BBC 1
16 - 7.69m - When Ant and Dec Met the Prince (04/01/16) - ITV
17 - 7.66m - Emmerdale (04/01/16) - ITV
18 - 7.44m - The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (03/02/16) - BBC 1
19 - 7.38m - Vera (31/01/16) - ITV
20 - 7.12m - Grantchester (02/03/16) - ITV

Dancc

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by kwynne42:
“I watched all 8 of those Drama's got to be a record of me and the various 5's”

WOT A LAD. No, seriously. Some good choices there. I'm not sure they've ever had as many quality US imports airing at the same time before!

This week added interest comes via NCIS moving to Saturday nights and how well that will be received. I'm hopeful, but not confident, of a good showing from both shows in their new slots. It doesn't help that they are airing new episodes as normal on Friday, as some viewers might think they are repeats. They should have had an 8 day gap and fully promoted the switch.

What would you like to see Five buy next following the success of X-Files? I suggested Lucifer, but nobody seemed to like that idea.

cylon6

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by dave01:
“Indian Summers fell an awful long way down the ratings during its first series last year. Starting at 1.3m does not bode well for where this 2nd 10 episode series will end up by the end.”

Originally Posted by Jonwo:
“I suspect Indian Summers will not be back for another series after this one. Since the drama competition is only going to get tougher in the coming weeks, I wouldn't be surprised if it slips below 1m”

When Indian Summers started it became Channel 4's highest rated drama in several years with over 5 million, that record was broken by the infinitely better Humans a few months later. After episode 1 Indian Summers dropped all the way to the end of the series and was scraping 1 million in the overnights. But it did timeshift fairlly well. It also skews very old unlike Humans and most other Channel 4 dramas. It's nothing special. No doubt got a second series as it is a co-production with PBS and sells abroad. It hasn't pulled up trees critically or ratings wise though.

cylon6

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by lewiep93:
“Few notable ratings w/e 6 March:

Call the Midwife - 10.89m (+1.69m)
Happy Valley - 8.36m (+1.99m)
The Night Manager - 8.11m (+1.92m)
Coronation Street (Mon 1930) - 8.10m (+1.06m)
Countryfile - 7.89m (+0.13m)
EastEnders (Mon) - 7.46m (+0.72m)
Saturday Night Takeaway - 7.36m/7.70m (+1.08m/+1.11m)
Emmerdale (Mon) - 6.91m (+0.60m)
Grantchester - 6.73m/7.12m (+1.72m/+1.81m)
The Voice UK - 6.05m (+0.79m)
Shetland - 5.71m (+1.52m)
Gogglebox - 4.40m/5.15m (+1.15m/+1.30m)

Series 5 of Call the Midwife finished with an official average of 9.95m (+1.91m), this is down 400k on last year's series average.

Call the Midwife Ratings (Series 1 - Series 5)

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Call the Midwife Ratings Series 1 (2012) Episode Overnight/Share Official/Timeshift Episode 1 (15 January 2012) 7.95m (27.5%) 9.83m (+1.88m) Episode 2 (22 January 2012) 8.64m (30.7%) 10.47m (+1.83m) Episode 3 (29 January 2012) 8.76m (29.3%) 10.66m (+1.90m) Episode 4 (05 February 2012) 9.02m (29.6%) 10.89m (+1.87m) Episode 5 (12 February 2012) 8.50m (28.2%) 10.42m (+1.92m) Episode 6 (19 February 2012) 9.24m (32.1%) 11.41m (+2.17m) Average 8.69m (29.6%) 10.61m (+1.92m) Christmas Special 25 December 2012 7.27m (28.3%) 10.18m (+2.91m) Series 2 (2013) Episode Overnight/Share Official/Timeshift Episode 1 (20 January 2013) 9.32m (32.3%) 10.79m (+1.47m) Episode 2 (27 January 2013) 8.69m (29.6%) 10.24m (+1.55m) Episode 3 (03 February 2013) 9.22m (31.4%) 10.85m (+1.63m) Episode 4 (10 February 2013) 8.77m (30.2%) 10.42m (+1.65m) Episode 5 (17 February 2013) 8.62m (30.4%) 10.15m (+1.53m) Episode 6 (24 February 2013) 8.63m (33.3%) 10.26m (+1.63m) Episode 7 (03 March 2013) 9.15m (31.3%) 10.68m (+1.53m) Episode 8 (10 March 2013) 8.59m (29.1%) 10.38m (+1.79m) Average 8.87m (31.0%) 10.47m (+1.60m) Christmas Special 25 December 2013 7.08m (30.1%) 9.16m (+2.08m) Series 3 (2014) Episode Overnight/Share Official/Timeshift Episode 1 (19 January 2014) 9.61m (36.1%) 11.35m (+1.74m) Episode 2 (26 January 2014) 9.26m (33.8%) 10.83m (+1.57m) Episode 3 (02 February 2014) 8.94m (32.1%) 10.55m (+1.61m) Episode 4 (09 February 2014) 8.77m (31.9%) 10.23m (+1.46m) Episode 5 (16 February 2014) 8.43m (30.9%) 10.15m (+1.72m) Episode 6 (23 February 2014) 8.80m (31.8%) 10.49m (+1.69m) Episode 7 (02 March 2014) 8.95m (32.9%) 10.65m (+1.70m) Episode 8 (09 March 2014) 8.20m (28.9%) 10.09m (+1.89m) Average 8.87m (32.3%) 10.54m (+1.67m) Christmas Special 25 December 2014 6.83m (27.9%) 9.41m (+2.58m) Series 4 (2015) Episode Overnight/Share Official/Timeshift Episode 1 (18 January 2015) 8.31m (32.8%) 10.15m (+1.84m) Episode 2 (25 January 2015) 9.04m (34.1%) 10.49m (+1.45m) Episode 3 (01 February 2015) 8.94m (33.5%) 10.60m (+1.66m) Episode 4 (08 February 2015) 8.81m (33.4%) 10.38m (+1.57m) Episode 5 (15 February 2015) 8.95m (35.0%) 10.73m (+1.78m) Episode 6 (22 February 2015) 8.63m (33.2%) 10.10m (+1.47m) Episode 7 (01 March 2015) 8.64m (34.0%) 10.13m (+1.49m) Episode 8 (08 March 2015) 8.67m (32.8%) 10.22m (+1.55m) Average 8.75m (33.6%) 10.35m (+1.60m) Christmas Special 25 December 2015 5.80m (24.5%) 9.30m (+3.50m) Series 5 (2016) Episode Overnight/Share Official/Timeshift Episode 1 (17 January 2016) 7.98m (32.0%) 9.88m (+1.90m) Episode 2 (24 January 2016) 7.78m (31.7%) 9.77m (+1.99m) Episode 3 (31 January 2016) 7.60m (30.1%) 9.50m (+1.90m) Episode 4 (07 February 2016) 8.07m (32.0%) 10.05m (+1.98m) Episode 5 (14 February 2016) 7.57m (30.3%) 9.62m (+2.05m) Episode 6 (21 February 2016) 7.66m (30.5%) 9.66m (+2.00m) Episode 7 (28 February 2016) 8.45m (35.5%) 10.20m (+1.75m) Episode 8 (06 March 2016) 9.20m (38.4%) 10.89m (+1.69m) Average 8.04m (32.6%) 9.95m (+1.91m)

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Thanks Lewie.

Impressive for Grantchester. Happy Valley and The Night Manager continue to do well.

Dancc

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“When Indian Summers started it became Channel 4's highest rated drama in several years with over 5 million, that record was broken by the infinitely better Humans a few months later. After episode 1 Indian Summers dropped all the way to the end of the series and was scraping 1 million in the overnights. But it did timeshift fairlly well. It also skews very old unlike Humans and most other Channel 4 dramas. It's nothing special. No doubt got a second series as it is a co-production with PBS and sells abroad. It hasn't pulled up trees critically or ratings wise though.”

Indian Summers' ratings trajectory makes for depressing reading, true. But why on earth would you bring it back last night of all weeks, especially with the above in mind? Up against another period drama on ITV - the below par performance of which was not known by C4 when they made the scheduling call - and a huge hit on BBC One in the shape of The Night Manager, which would have been known about.

Sundays are never easy, but there will be far better opportunities than last night in the next couple of months. Bringing it back there was asking for trouble, and if anything the rating was slightly higher than I expected in the circumstances.

Alleycat666

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by lewiep93:
“Haven't done this for a while, most watched shows of the year so far.

Most Watched Programmes of 2016 [Top 20 - Officials]
01 - 11.64m - Sherlock (01/01/16) - BBC 1
02 - 10.89m - Call the Midwife (06/03/16) - BBC 1
03 - 9.40m - EastEnders (01/01/16) - BBC 1
04 - 8.97m - Coronation Street (04/01/16) - ITV
05 - 8.76m - Countryfile (07/02/16) - BBC 1
06 - 8.72m - Silent Witness (05/01/16) - BBC 1
07 - 8.71m - Death in Paradise (07/01/16) - BBC 1
08 - 8.63m - Happy Valley (09/02/16) - BBC 1
09 - 8.42m - War and Peace (03/01/16) - BBC 1
10 - 8.42m - The Night Manager (28/02/16) - BBC 1
11 - 8.11m - Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (20/02/16) - ITV
12 - 8.06m - Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (24/01/16) - BBC 1
13 - 7.92m - Mrs Brown’s Boys (01/01/16) - BBC 1
14 - 7.87m - The Voice UK (09/01/16) - BBC 1
15 - 7.75m - Still Open All Hours (24/01/16) - BBC 1
16 - 7.45m - Emmerdale (04/01/16) - ITV
17 - 7.44m - The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (03/02/16) - BBC 1
18 - 7.17m - When Ant and Dec Met the Prince (04/01/16) - ITV
19 - 7.03m - BBC News (01/01/16) - BBC 1
20 - 6.73m - Grantchester (02/03/16) - ITV

Most Watched Programmes of 2016 [Top 20 - Officials inc. +1]
01 - 11.64m - Sherlock (01/01/16) - BBC 1
02 - 10.89m - Call the Midwife (06/03/16) - BBC 1
03 - 9.40m - EastEnders (01/01/16) - BBC 1
04 - 9.14m - Coronation Street (04/01/16) - ITV
05 - 8.76m - Countryfile (07/02/16) - BBC 1
06 - 8.72m - Silent Witness (05/01/16) - BBC 1
07 - 8.71m - Death in Paradise (07/01/16) - BBC 1
08 - 8.69m - Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (20/02/16) - ITV
09 - 8.63m - Happy Valley (09/02/16) - BBC 1
10 - 8.42m - War and Peace (03/01/16) - BBC 1
11 - 8.42m - The Night Manager (28/02/16) - BBC 1
12 - 8.06m - Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (24/01/16) - BBC 1
13 - 7.92m - Mrs Brown’s Boys (01/01/16) - BBC 1
14 - 7.87m - The Voice UK (09/01/16) - BBC 1
15 - 7.75m - Still Open All Hours (24/01/16) - BBC 1
16 - 7.69m - When Ant and Dec Met the Prince (04/01/16) - ITV
17 - 7.66m - Emmerdale (04/01/16) - ITV
18 - 7.44m - The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (03/02/16) - BBC 1
19 - 7.38m - Vera (31/01/16) - ITV
20 - 7.12m - Grantchester (02/03/16) - ITV”

I just love Countryfile being the 5th most popular programme. Does anyone reckon Bake Off will beat Sherlock's figure when it gets to the final?

Dancc

14-03-2016

One other consolidated rating that is well worth a mention this week...

The Walking Dead: 1.97m

A new all-time high for the show in the UK for season 6 episode 11 "Knots Untie", two weeks after it returned from its midseason break.

Greg_Scott

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Ray Tings:
“Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury: 3.7m (18.9%)
Gogglebox: 4.0m (19.4%)
including +1”

Julia's show goes from strength to strength. I know this will please everyone after her rocky start. Good to see her career flourishing on the other side

iaindb

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Alleycat666:
“I just love Countryfile being the 5th most popular programme. Does anyone reckon Bake Off will beat Sherlock's figure when it gets to the final?”

Easily - unless Whittingdale bans it before it returns. Which seems a high possibility, the way he's started picking on it again for apparantly not being distinctive enough.

cylon6

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by iaindb:
“Easily - unless Whittingdale bans it before it returns. Which seems a high possibility, the way he's started picking on it again for apparantly not being distinctive enough.”

Countryfile? A programme nobody else was doing. How is that not distinctive? Oh you mean Bake Off. A programme nobody else was doing in primetime.

cylon6

14-03-2016

Sunday 13th March overnight ratings from Hassaan.

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Dancc

14-03-2016

Nice peak for Crufts.

Here's something you don't see happen very often: Episode 3 of Who's the Boss? rated better on repeat for BBC Two than it did for its first showing (0.71m/3.5% vs 0.61m/2.9% last Tuesday at 9pm).

Ray Tings

14-03-2016

Some overnights for Friday, Saturday and Sunday from ITV Media:
https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/
ITV Media's figures include +1 and are not tape checked

cylon6

14-03-2016

Ray do you have any old daytime ratings in your ratings archive?

welshfoxy

14-03-2016

Slightly off topic but has anyone noticed the PR onslaught from ITV daytime of late? Almost every day on every tabloid's website there's some "wacky" story from This Morning, Loose Women and / or Good Morning Britain. This Morning is by far the worst - every little thing is now a news story from that show for the tabs. If I didn't know better I'd think some of it was set up, too. Seriously if I have to see Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby "breaking down in giggles" like it's an important show again, I'll scream.

Ray Tings

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“Ray do you have any old daytime ratings in your ratings archive?”

I have the weekly Top 100 for most weeks from 1983-1992 which may include some children's programmes (Television Weekly/Broadcast would usually just give an average for anything shown more than once a week) and some weekend afternoon programmes. I have also got the top 30s for BBC2 and C4 from 1989 until mid-1994 which may include some daytime. In 1993, Broadcast's chart was for the top 50 only, then the top 70 from 1994, and unlikely to include much from daytime.

Dan R

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Alleycat666:
“Does anyone reckon Bake Off will beat Sherlock's figure when it gets to the final?”

Lots will. Bake Off, BGT, Strictly.

welshfoxy

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“Countryfile? A programme nobody else was doing. How is that not distinctive? Oh you mean Bake Off. A programme nobody else was doing in primetime.”

But..but...what about Food Glorious Food?

(It wasn't as good as Bake Off because ITV don't have a penny to rub together for a budget, obvs...)

Andy23

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Latest crisis on Top Gear 2.0: How not to handle photo publicity.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...c-matt-leblanc”

The BBC a don't help themselves sometimes. Surely they should be avoiding all controversy until their future is fully signed off.

But instead Top Gear has already ended up with negative publicity, a film having to be junked, and yet more sticks for the Daily Mail etc to bash the BBC with.

welshfoxy

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Andy23:
“The BBC a don't help themselves sometimes. Surely they should be avoiding all controversy until their future is fully signed off.

But instead Top Gear has already ended up with negative publicity, a film having to be junked, and yet more sticks for the Daily Mail etc to bash the BBC with.”

Are people not able to work out that the BBC is a rather large organisation? I doubt the filming was signed off by Tony Hall.

Pizzatheaction

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by Chris1964:
“Yes you could just tell the BBC was winding down where Cricket was concerned-and they have never been tempted back in any meaningful way. Iv got some old VHS recordings of highlights (basically a few Warwickshire knock out games that I attended) and Tony Lewis is presenting them. I loved the style, and its my era of watching, but I would bet on it sending the modern audience to sleep in some ways. The pre end credits with Tony's quiet thoughtful approach in the silent dusk is a world away from now.”

Warwickshire were very strong in that era, too.

cylon6

14-03-2016

That's Top Gear's fault rather than the BBC's. If the production team do something that buggers up filming that is more their fault than anybody else's. ITV bosses didn't know what a mess the phone-in scandal was a few years back and hoped their employees were doing things in good faith.

Anyway, The Daily Mail will always bash the BBC and it is screwed anyway with Whittingdale making decisions.

cylon6

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by welshfoxy:
“Are people not able to work out that the BBC is a rather large organisation? I doubt the filming was signed off by Tony Hall.”

The Director General does everything at the BBC, even takes the milk in at Broadcasting House and serves food at lunchtime.

Andy23

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“The Director General does everything at the BBC, even takes the milk in at Broadcasting House and serves food at lunchtime. ”

Just like how Adam Crozier and Peter Fincham were directly responsible for every second of output on ITV.

welshfoxy

14-03-2016

Originally Posted by cylon6:
“The Director General does everything at the BBC, even takes the milk in at Broadcasting House and serves food at lunchtime. ”

He's been known to drop in as relief cover last minute when some local BBC station in the hills has required it...the BBC is after all a threadbare organisation in reality (well it will be once the Tories are finished with it...they're making it so obvious as well, talk about chomping at the bit to trip the Beeb up, they have to be more subtle when it comes to the NHS. Anyway..)

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