From ITV Media:

Monday Top 10 (inc. +1)

1 ITV - 07:30 PM Coronation Street 6.697m 34%
2 ITV - 08:30 PM Coronation Street 6.488m 31% Probably around 6.8m tape checked
3 BBC One - 08:00 PM EastEnders 6.234m 30%
4 ITV - 09:00 PM Cold Feet 6.091m 29%
5 ITV - 07:00 PM Emmerdale 5.927m 33%
6 BBC One - 06:30 PM Regional News and Weather 5.042m 31%
7 BBC One - 06:00 PM BBC News at Six 4.457m 30%
8 BBC One - 10:00 PM BBC News at Ten 4.029m 24%
9 BBC One - 07:00 PM The One Show 3.366m 19%
10 ITV - 06:00 PM ITV Regional News 3.270m 22%

Monday Top 10 (inc. +1) (not including the five main channels)

1 E4 - 07:00 PM Hollyoaks 766k 4.3%
2 BBC Four - 08:30 PM London 1666 673k 3.2%
3 BBC Four - 09:00 PM London: A Tale of Two Cities 673k 3.2%
4 E4 - 09:00 PM Made in Chelsea: South of France 597k 2.8%
5 ITV2 - 09:30 PM Family Guy 522k 2.5%
6 E4 - 06:30 PM The Big Bang Theory 478k 2.9%
7 ITV2 - 10:00 PM American Dad! 459k 2.8%
8 ITV2 - 09:00 PM Family Guy 424k 2.0%
9 ITV2 - 10:30 PM American Dad! 417k 3.2%
10 5 USA - 09:00 PM NCIS: Los Angeles 414k 2.0%

That's not a bad idea. Years ago Land Girls went out Monday to Friday at 5.15pm. Just checked and that was 2009. I wouldn't mind a few Father Brown repeats late afternoon from time to time.

Also Doctors used to get a repeat at 7pm on BBC1 are One Show.

I saw an advert on Drama last night for Father Brown on Friday's at 9pm.

Yes those are the ones! Thanks Mike.


Those post 3pm shows are rating poorly. Nothing getting over a million! Very poor! Notice how Tipping Point is giving The Chase a near 2m boost at the start. That's what Antiques Road Trip used to do with Pointless when Tipping Point was at 3pm.

Who said that all dramas need to be relentlessly positive and happy? I didn't say that. I simply questioned the scheduling of "One of Us" which the BBC clearly thought would be a big hit. We had just come out of a hugely successful and positive Olympic Games and the last thing people wanted to watch was relentless grimness. Had BBC1 put Ordinary Lies on instead and put One of Us later in the Autumn, it might have worked out differently. I don't blame or object to Channel Four making National Treasure. I'm sure it will find an audience in the same way as the Fred and Rose West drama did, but it isn't unreasonable for me to question why people would want to watch it. It's all kind of macabre.

Sometimes I just think that the scheduling of dramas at the times they're scheduled does more harm to a series than the drama itself.

Father Brown repeats well on Alibi channel as well, they show it at 9pm. With a bit of promotion viewers always find it.

There was a period in the nineties when most BBC dramas took themselves seriously or were gritty and viewers didn't bother with them. The same was true with Channel 4 drama for the last few years. Both had lots of award nominations and few viewers. The Kevin Bishop Show did a great sketch called "gritty BAFTA" and that's what those shows were.

When they lightened up a little the viewers came back. Nothing wrong with gritty but viewers like light and shade, also generally dramas that aren't relentlessly bleak rate better.

Good to see eastenders above 6m again it was a good episode and looks like a good week, and there arent any emmerdale clashes which will help.

Cold feet is about what i expected it will probably consolidate to 7.5m even 8m ? Which is great for these days.

I know I'm a few days late with this, but haven't seen it mentioned in here. Channel 5 has picked up the rights to next season's Formula E and will screen coverage live on the main channel:

http://current-e.com/chatter/exclusi...-to-formula-e/

Good to see some live sport back on C5. Not sure it's going to rate fantastically but certainly Formula E being quite a new thing is growing in popularity and if done right can do some sort of a job for them.

Eastenders has recorded a monthly overnight average of 5.18m (26.8%) during August 2016, which is down 470k year-on-year. August's highest rating came on Monday 1st with 6.16m (30.4%) and the lowest came on Tuesday 23rd with 4.16m (22.2%), which was during an Emmerdale clash. This August has featured five Emmerdale clashes, compared to three during August 2015.

2016
Jan - 6.79m (30.7%)
Feb - 6.45m (30.5%)
Mar - 6.13m (29.6%)
Apr - 6.07m (30.7%)
May - 5.81m (30.4%)
Jun - 4.97m (26.1%)
Jul - 5.35m (28.8%)
Aug - 5.18m (26.8%)
* W/O Emm - 5.50m (28.5%)

2015
Jan - 7.26m (32.1%)
Feb - 8.11m (35.9%) [anniversary month]
Mar - 6.51m (30.8%)
Apr - 6.13m (31.4%)
May - 5.85m (29.4%)
Jun - 5.85m (31.5%)
Jul - 5.93m (31.2%)
Aug - 5.65m (28.7%)
* W/O Emm - 5.92m (30.2%)
Sep - 5.46m (26.8%)
Oct - 5.80m (28.5%)
Nov - 5.89m (27.8%)
Dec - 5.96m (28.2%)


Previous August average overnights
2016 - 5.18m (26.8%)
2015 - 5.65m (28.7%)
2014 - 5.71m (29.5%)
2013 - 6.20m (31.5%)
2012 - 6.77m (31.7%)
2011 - 7.66m (35.6%)
2010 - 8.01m (37.2%)
2009 - 7.36m (36.3%)


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Thanks for this.. though do you have consolidated figures as well? Without those it's not the full picture.

Whilst I agree with you that they do seem to make the questions easier (often by making them relevant to the celeb) they do still lose a fair bit. I guess ITV do not want to seen to be mean to charity, and you have to make allowances given that they are often giving away £60,0000 to £100,000 on these celeb editions whereas Pointless jackpot is harder to win for the charities and yet about a fiftieth of that.

Mind you however easy they make these questions someone will get them wrong.

On two separate game shows we saw yesterday contestants were asked -

What was the other common snake found in the UK apart from the adder - and they answered cobra!!!

And what famous cathedral was destroyed in the Great Fire of London - and the answer they gave was Coventry!!!

So maybe they need to be easier for everyone if that is what we are learning at school these days.

That Cold Feet rating is good. I think we tend to over expect for drama these days as ratings are down everywhere. And you need a pretty extraordinary combination of circumstances to get much more.

Cold Feet was excellent and a new series will surely be commissioned immediately.

It was a bit like Goodnight Sweetheart - great cast who clearly love doing the show slipping into the parts like they have never been away even though they have for 15/17 years - and writing from people who equally clearly love writing the show.

Both will be coming back for more and rightly so.

And it is really nice to see both the BBC and ITV managing to pull off this difficult revival concept so well in one weekend.

So bring on my next hobby horse - The Onedin Line: - The Next Generation.

It did yeah but selected episodes and before it properly took off.

I think a Doctors repeat would work. Even on BBC2 at 6pm

There is a rather odd ratings article in The Sun today (not exactly a shock).

Whilst the figures are not odd the conclusions drawn seem a bit of a 'guess'.

Of course, it is true that we ladies like watching Aidan Turner with a bare chest.

But in today's page 3 story: 'Poldark is simply the chest:- Girls turn off after strip'

they seek to claim a 'source' (ha!) has explained the drop early in the show from 5.25 million to 5.07 million as 200,000 women turning off once he put his top back on. Then later 70,000 of these women apparently turned back on for a 'heavily trailed sex scene'. Before it ended on 4.9 after all the voyeurism was over.

Not only is this sexist drivel - as in women are not watching the show at all and just his body - how on earth do you justify such precise analysis from the up and down way these five minute ratings always go in any transmission.

No doubt a few women (and some men, probably) paid more attention to these scenes, of course. They are distracting. But to even suggest they were tuning in and out just for those bits is ridiculous and can only be supposition. Nothing in the ratings figures can actually tell you this can it?

Even common sense ought to suggest the absurdity of someone even knowing when precisely in an episode a sex scene will appear so as to turn back on just for that. However, 'heavily trailed' it did not include the suggestion of what time in the episode it would air so you could miss the rest and come back for it.

So surely women wanting to do this would keep the whole episode on snd simply watch the screen when Aidan comes on to grab their attention.

Which would not show up like this in the ratings figures.

Maybe someone was reading this thread and from the in show breakdown decided to invent (um, sorry, sensibly argue for) this explanation.

To a degree this might go on during a show but to use it as a basis for the up and down nature of the figures in a show where Poldark might rip his shirt off or get frisky at any moment seems crackers.

I would bring back Howard's Way and maybe even Waking The Dead, but with a new lead of course.

I'm sill holding out for Juliet Bravo

Loved Juliet Bravo, especially as it was filmed in and around the Rossendale Valley where my family come from and featured many places I knew well. I even had a cousin married to the local police sergeant whose name was Hartley. The local police station was used for exterior shots and set in the fictional town of Hartley.

So we had a family attachment to it given that coincidence!

Of course, it immediately preceded Casualty in the Saturday night slot.

In repeats it looks quite quaint and anachronistic. Happy Valley is filmed in a few of the same areas (though just a couple of miles over the border into places like Todmorden, Yorkshire).

The difference in tone, grittiness, crimes committed and the passage of 30 years in these Pennine valleys says so much about how British society has changed.

Here's my new look weekend schedule of old shows for a modern world:

BBC1 ONLY

SATURDAY:

5.05pm BBC News, Weather
5.25 Father Brown
6.10 The Re-Generation Game with Not Nick Knowles
7.05 Strictly Come Dancing
8.30 All Creatures Greater Not Smaller
9.20 Goodnight Sweetheart
9.55 The National Lottery Draws
10.05 BBC News

SUNDAY:

5.20 BBC News
6.20 Countryfile
7.20 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results
8.00 Casualty
8.50 Are You Being Served?
9.20 Lovejoy Returns
10.15 BBC News

I actually think having Father Brown on a Saturday early is quite a good idea. Although I would have it just before Strictly. Or failing that it could work very well on a Sunday evening before Countryfile. - comfy slippers TV (and bath night )

Rose tinted views of old programmes coming back. Perhaps there is a room in the BBC filled with a few people mulling over old Radio Times trying to find the next show to bring back.

Casualty though, I would permanently give the Friday 9pm slot, and move HIGNFY to a Sunday 10pm slot

Given the year off from Doctor Who the BBC should have experimented with an early Saturday evening light drama like Father Brown this autumn.

It is far too good to be tossed away stripped at lunchtime.

As for Casualty I think the day will come when it effectively becomes a soap and they merge Casualty and Holby City entirely (probably as soon as they move the two sets together in Cardiff).

Then it will end up as half hour episodes say 4 times a week - and a bit like Emergency Ward Holby (as in Emergency Ward 10 from the very old days).

They can then have cases admitted via the ED and moved onto the wards and not have to find ways to do it all on the ward in Holby (when it should be in the ED) and vice versa. And you would not have to write all stories to end in one episode which is very unrealistic for many of them.

With this Casualty and now continued in Holby accident storyline for the anniversary they seem to be testing that out.

Done right this could boost both shows.

Yeah I know what you mean. I was honestly expecting a 7m sort of number. Don't get me wrong, it's decent enough for a new/returning drama. Let's hope it adds a lot in the consolidated numbers and hopefully will pick up as the weeks go along.


Thanks for this Mike. I do like these lists.

All up week-on-week for the big 3 soaps. Hopefully can start to build slowly as the dark nights draw in.


Decent start to Hollyoaks' big week. ITV Media report 766k inc +1. It should do well this week as a big storyline all the way from January reaches it's climax.

If people had PVR'd it and spun through at x30 looking for the raunchy bits, only the scenes they watched in real-time would be picked up by BARB.

Same as recording a commercial channel and spinning through the ads, has a marked effect on peaks and troughs in the overnights.

It depresses commercial channels' ratings. Say one BARB panellist watches Poldark and records Victoria to watch ad free afterwards.

He would count as one viewer for the BBC, but only 3/4 of one for ITV, in the overnights, even though he'd fully watched both programmes.

The BBC are looking for a new Script Editor for Casualty. 24 month contract down in the Bay

Cold Feet won its timeslot, had a 6m launch. That's another successful drama launch for ITV. Expected it to be 6.5m or higher but that's a good number considering other dramas struggle to get that in consolidated ratings.

Father Brown would be good at 6pm on Sunday's I think even if just repeated at first.

What about Red Rock at 5:15 - 6:00? a repeat of the first series before the second series starts means it would last more than 12 weeks anyway. Would be a nice break from Pointless.