BBC1
EastEnders: 5.80m (29.8%)
The One Show: 3.11m (18.5%)
Would I Lie to You?: 2.92m (14.4%)

BBC2
Gardeners' World: 2.06m (10.5%)
The Great British Bake Off: an Extra Slice: 1.77m (9.2%)
Mastermind: 1.65m (8.4%)

BBC4
Music for Misfits: the Story of Indie (10.30pm) (R): 0.39m (3.2%)
Music for Misfits: the Story of Indie (9.30pm) (R): 0.25m (1.4%)
BBC Proms 2016: Verdi's Requiem: 0.24m (1.3%)

Channel 4 (exc. +1)
Paralympics 2016 (9pm-1am): 1.79m (14.7%)
The Last Leg: Live from Rio: 1.50m (7.5%)
Paralympics Highlights (7.30pm): 0.88m (4.8%)

Channel 5 (exc. +1)
Carry On Caravanning: 0.85m (4.4%)
The Cars That Made Britain Great: 0.72m (3.6%)
Gypsy Kids (10pm) (R): 0.45m (2.9%)

E4 (exc. +1)
Hollyoaks: 0.66m (3.9%)
Film: Fantastic Four (R): 0.30m (1.5%)
Celebs Go Dating: 0.29m (2.0%)

From rzt:

We Love Sitcom: 2.49m (13.1%)

Joanna Lumley's Japan: 3.30m (17.3%) inc. +1

Not very good for We Love Sitcom. Clearly the audience doesn't, judging by how flat this entire sitcom season has been.

OK start for Joanna Lumley. Her series last year started with 4m but it did get a Sunday slot and because it aired in the Summer when they didn't have much else on it got a lot more promotion than this one seemed to get. 3.3m isn't bad for factual on a Friday (a place where they shouldn't be airing factual) and they'll be satisfied enough after the very disappointing number for Trevor McDonald on Thursday.

An Extra Slice seems to have been hit slightly by running at 9.30pm rather than 9pm. Paralympics doing well for C4 again.

It was very poorly made and thrown together and the stuff that made the edit made me question what didn't make the edit. It had the production values of something on BBC Choice circa 1998

Extra Slice was very dull last night (not that people would've known that going in!).

You're being kind!

And yet 2.5m watched it. Poor viewers.

Joanna Lumley did 'ok', but factual never does well on Friday's. Griffs series last year showed that.

Excellent. Martin Clunes and JOanna Lumley are my favourite travelogue companions on these series. They are both so easy to watch, and both such genuine people.

I wish I never watched it now. It truly was awful. Friday nights suit comedy better.

Yes, you're probably right. Rather like some of the ABC shows like it. This is why I prefer the shows to be on CW or cable.

Nonetheless they're still playing with concepts rather than just making more of the familiar.

Any predictions for XF tonight?
Should it be expecting 8m+ again without the strictly lead in?

CBS sets its bar higher than the others for justifiable reasons. NBC will keep dramas with 5m viewers because of its recent struggles.

Of course in America they only really care about the 18-49 rating as shown by the TV By the Numbers site.

Do we even release 18-49 data? I'm guessing not otherwise Simon Cowell would be retweeting it!!! 😁

7.6m against Casualty which I predict will get 4.7m. I watch both but will watch X Factor on catch up as Casualty has the advantage of no adverts.

The X Factor 7.5m
Newziods 3.1m

Casualty 4.7m

TXF: 7.6m
Casualty: 4.4m
Newszoids: 2.9m
Go For It: 2.6m
Pointless: 3.8m

I hope Go For It can build an audience because it's a surprisingly watchable show.

Would have been better on Tuesday or Thursday at 9pm To be fair though 3.3m isn't too bad on Friday at 9pm I don't think.

Watchable, perhaps but its not a viewer puller. Ninja Warrior UK isn't Bafta winning stuff, but its watchable to the casual viewer. Its more distinct than another 'talent' format in Go For It.

ITV still have this The Next Great Magician coming up, as well as This Time Next Year (with Davina McCall). I suspect he latter will end up in an 8pm slot on Wednesday after ASM&M finishes, and Magician on Sunday (pre-XF elimnation shows) with NWUK replacing Go For It pre-TXF. It should do better against SCD than most LE ITV have put there.

And if this is the case. It probably would have been better to launch NWUK during the period SCD is off air.

XF's equivalent 2015 episode got 7.9m. Don't know what it was up against but with the positive word of mouth, it has a good chance of matching it (or very close to).

I would have scheduled it on Tuesday at 8pm with DCI Banks at 9pm. Try and build up at least some kind of viewers watching ITV on this day.

It's not going to happen, Tuesday even less than Thursday.

Why isnt an extra slice on, on as the same night as bake off, just put it on at 9pm on bbc2 it would probably get more like 3 m or more a companion show two days after the main show whos idea was that ?

I think the reasoning was that BBC1 were launching dramas off the back of Bake-Off and they didn't want a large proportion of the audience deserting BBC1 to watch the after show. You can see their reasoning - if 12m watched Bake-Off, there's a chance a large proportion of them would want to watch an extra half hour of content instead of the expensive drama you're showing.

Shame about ITV airing Paranoid at 9pm on a Thursday. This is one that should have waited for a better slot. Maybe it's a turkey though which is why it's been given a crap slot.

Won't Ninja Warrior be back in January as it was this year? Not sure what's happened to The Next Great Magician, I thought it was supposed to have aired by now. It might take over from Go For It but it sounds like a flop to me. There's also the Holly Willougby series Meet The Parents which I assume is a Saturday show.

They taped 8 celebrity episodes of Tipping Point recently too but I'd hope they'd go at 6pm rather than 7pm.

Has anyone seen "Ordinary Lies" anywhere in the long range schedules? Thanks (Sorry If this is too much OT then just ignore)