I'd be interested in this too - if anyone has it please?

Thanks

Maybe someone should copy and paste your post into a memo and send it to Kevin Lygo? Because he should be asking himself, and then others, all the questions you've put forward ...

5.5m (28.4%).

Broadcast dubbing it a barnstorming evening for BBC One, with a 6.6m average across peak.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/rating...099279.article

An incredibly strong night for BBC One there.

I did think that perhaps SOAH would have dipped without Countryfile sitting earlier in the evening, but I am glad that I was wrong.

ITV really struggling to get any traction on a Sunday evening. Endeavour still holding onto 4 million is ok, especially after last weeks awful conclusion. Perhaps they should consider moving those extra episodes of the soaps back onto a Sunday before it gets embarrassing.

While I agree lets remember many other shocking programmes have made it air as well. You do wonder how though.

Cheers. Mr Selfridge going out quietly.


Indeed, the roles have reversed. It all started when they took the soaps off Sundays. Heartbeat and the others suffered and they messed around with them. The two hour dramas still play there and do well but aren't as strong as they used to be when they were more supported.

Heartbeat et al were losing a bit of steam towards the end so bad they stuck with that lineup it wouldn't be as strong now but even so it is quite a turnaround. X Factor's Sunday move helped them dominate but with that show not what it once was and Downton gone they might not even win Sundays in Q4 this year.

The thing is, with Countryfile so strong now and with Strictly results I'm not sure if moving the soaps back would work that well any more.


It probably did suffer yes. Nonetheless it overlaps with The Voice a lot more, perhaps the two factors cancelled each other out.

Full Roundup: Sunday 24th January

BBC One
17:30 Countryfile: 5.5m (28.4%)
18:30 Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur: 7.5m (34.8%)
19:30 Still Open All Hours: 7.42m (33.4%)
20:00 Call the Midwife: 7.78m (31.7%)
21:00 War and Peace: 5.23m (22.3%)

BBC Two
20:00 Dragons' Den: 2.24m (9.1%)
21:00 James May's Cars of the People: 1.77m (7.5%)
22:00 Blood Diamond: 0.76m (6.4%)

ITV
19:00 Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands: 1.58m (7.1%)
20:00 Endeavour: 4.28m (17.8%)
22:20 The Day Hitler Died: 0.84m (6.0%) exc. HD and +1

Channel 4
20:00 Walking the Himalayas: 1.96m (8.0%)
21:00 Deutschland 83: 0.82m (3.5%)
22:00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown: 0.68m (4.3%) exc. +1

Channel 5
17:05 Labyrinth: 1.7m exc. +1
19:05 The Wedding Planner: 0.89m (3.8%) exc. +1
21:00 Celebrity Big Brother: 2.80m (12.0%)
22:00 Celebrity Botched Up Bodies: 0.90m (5.6%) exc. +1

BBC Three
19:40 The Voice UK: 0.52m (2.2%)
21:00 Die Hard with a Vengeance: 0.89m (4.5%)
23:00 Family Guy: 0.59m (5.7%)

ITV2 (exc. +1)
20:00 Skyfall: 0.63m (2.9%)
22:55 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: 0.14m (2.0%)

Sky1 (exc. +1)
19:30 The Simpsons: 0.23m (1.1%)
21:00 Hawaii Five-0: 0.47m (2.0%)
22:00 NCIS: Los Angeles: 0.30m (1.9%)

Sky Sports 1
15:30 Ford Super Sunday: Arsenal v Chelsea: 1.56m
*peaked at 2.51m.

ratings include +1 unless stated otherwise

Source: www.broadcastnow.co.uk.
With thanks to cylon6, seagull_Mark and @Simonique.

I notice Planet's Got Talent returned last night at 6.30pm. Will have been utterly crushed by Attenborough. Does anyone know how badly it did?

They had Ed Balls (Norwich FC chairman) as a guest on Fletch and Sav and Robbie Savage asked him why he left Parliament!!

I don't disagree, but isn't the point here that there is a growing list of expensive ITV dramas, all from the same supplier, which are being screened without any apparent quality control, and given favourable treatment as far as recommissions go, yet they're all tanking?

What favourable recommissioning decisions have been made? I can't really see any. Jekyll & Hyde was thrown straight on the scrapheap and I'm sure Beowulf will go the same way. So will Jericho unless the numbers improve. I can't see many shows that they've renewed that they wouldn't have done had they been made elsewhere. Mr Selfridge might not have got this final series I suppose (although really it didn't do any worse last year than the likes of DCI Banks which also got renewed) but that's about it. Home Fires was ITVS but they'd have brought that back anyway.

If they renew Beowulf then I'll see your point but it doesn't look that way.

Also about quality control, yes Beowulf is awful but they haven't aired a load of awful shows. Those that actually watched Jericho seemed to quite like it and even Jekyll & Hyde had a core fanbase (it wasn't a bad show, it just didn't fit in either slot or network). I get that ITVS has now has three big dramas tank in a row but they aren't all terrible shows and I suspect none will return.

J&H was commissioned to second series, then the plug was pulled on it. I have no idea if this was reported, but the production team contacted writers and were in planning stages when the plug was pulled.

Beowulf has already been commissioned to second series (I think this has been referred to on this thread somewhere).

But they still eventually pulled the plug. As I'm fairly confident they will do with Beowulf.

Throughout the whole time it was on air (and before) Higson always said "if we get a second series" not "we've got a second series" so whilst they might have began some work on a second series (which for extended 10+ part series isn't unusual) it seems nothing was ever completely assured.

It seems that high concept show like J&H, Beowulf, Jericho etc aren't doing well for ITV but their bread and butter shows like Vera, Endeavour etc are still doing well for ITV and ITV Studios.

Simon Cowell hits back at Dermot O'Leary following NTA jibes:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/24/simon-...wards-5641287/

Ouch. Guess Dermot won't be asked back this year then! I didn't think he'd want to anyway but Getaway Car doesn't look to be going too well.

Cowell made his views on The Voice clear too (includes a video): http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/simon-co...11364035395152

Jericho is not a bad concept but a few episodes in it really is drama by numbers where you can see wwhat is going to happen well in advance - basically the writing is poor and I think because of that its the worst of the 3 mentioned.

Well done Dancc!

Don't forget Countryfile was on an hour earlier than usual at 5.30 pm

Thanks Dancc - that's down somewhat on what it's been getting in the 6.30 slot, but still pretty decent.

Just wondering though about the share - was the share the same and just less viewers overall earlier?

Big round of applause to all our ratings gatherers! We couldn't do it without you!

I'm no Simon Cowell fan, but Dermot O'Leary is coming across as a right idiot these days. Does he forget what XF did for him?

It's because of XF that he developed this cockiness and over confidence.

If I was ITV, i'd give the NTA's to someone else.

BARB has updated for week ending January 17th. Lewie do the maths!!

Doing it now, bear with!

Just so you know. The exact overnight rating for Death In Paradise on January 14th was was 6.09m.

Looking at some monster timeshifts for week ending January 17th! Lewie will show you!