Corrie is now feeling the full impact of Blackburn's dire tenure. It also doesn't help that its taking a while for things to improve despite a new producer.

Next week is a big one for the ITV soaps. In particular Emmerdale. I'm willing to bet, a couple of eps of Emmerdale will beat Corrie.

I know, hence why I posted them underneath the ITV Media full slot ratings for yesterday you found.

Anyway, Emmerdale is doing quite well compared to the other two on recent evidence.

This is the result of BBC1 appealing to the younger audience in factual.

Except Wales which has a documentary about Aberfan at 9 pm and Paxman at 10.45

The audition portion rates better than the live shows with X Factor in some recent series. The live show section of X Factor used to be the highest rated period of X Factor and this was with Strictly on earlier in the evening.

6-10pm on Saturday in the heart of Autumn is usually with 2 hours of Strictly on one side and 2 hours of X Factor on the other so really both sides are looking to fill 2 hours. There's nothing that dominant about BBC1 on Saturday apart from Strictly. Doesn't really matter what is on beforehand. If X Factor was behaving like BGT it wouldn't matter what was on before it either.

With Sundays I've often said you don't need to be number 1 but you can be a competitive number 2. Sometimes you're only as successful as the competition allows you to be. BBC1 had no answer for X Factor and Downton/I'm A Celebrity.

103,000 / 2.2% yesterday,

ITV Media's figures include +1, the figures from Mike Teevee don't.

Might as well give you the lot....


BBC1

Breakfast - 1.5m / 37.5%
Rip Off Britain Live - 1.5m / 31%
Homes/Hammer - 1.2m / 26%
Street Auction - 1m / 21%
Thief Trackers - 1.1m / 22.5%
Bargain Hunt - 1.7M / 31%
News - 2.7m / 41%
Doctors - 1.2m / 19%
Decimate - 700k / 13%
Escape/Country - 1m / 17.5%
Going Back, Giving Back - 900k / 13%
Antiques Road Trip - 1.7m / 18%
Pointless - 2.8m / 22%
News - 4.9m / 31.5%
Regional News - 5.2m / 30%


ITV

GMB - 600k / 16%
Lorraine - 700k / 14.5%
Kyle - 1m / 20%
TM - 1m / 20.5%
Loose Women - 800k / 13%
News - 800k / 13%
Judge Rinder - 800k / 14.5%
Who's Doing The Dishes - 700k / 12.5%
Tipping Point - 2m / 24.5%
The Chase - 2.8m / 23%
Regional News - 3.3m / 21%
ITV News - 3.3m / 19%

If thats poor for corrie, then what does it make eastenders??

Next week should be big for the ITV soaps with the massive week from Emmerdale and the return of Peter Barlow and 'huge' stunt sequence on Coronation Street.

Both are shrouded in secrecy for a change (or more secrecy than most plots get these days). It appears Emmerdale is a special week from Monday with each episode until Thursday focusing on the same 24 hour period from the perspective of a different pair of characters each day (with cryptic flash-forwards to a funeral intercut all week), before the second Thursday episode converges all the strands into a "cataclysmic event" which is being billed as the show's biggest ever stunt, and includes filming at Pinewood. Cast describing it as 'unbelievable'. Also apparently some (or all?) of the week is shot on film cameras so it will feel like a 9pm drama. Seems very contemporary.

Coronation Street on the other hand is building a storyline from Monday with the stunt set to occur on Friday night, and chucking in the return of a major character. Very little is known but it's thought to be a car crash (with said car filled with petrol cans). So a more standard soap stunt there, unlike Emmerdale who seem to have thrown everything at next week and are offering something very unique and different for the soap genre in terms of breaking with the linear storytelling format.

ED stands to build through the week and peak very strongly on Thursday night, while Corrie is less certain (though clearly with benefit from the strong ED week). Emmerdale will be hoping for 7m+ for the climax and Corrie too. If done right these episodes should in theory help hook back lost viewers for the autumn. Really given the episodes are airing half way through October they should stand a chance for viewing spikes. But will they manage it, or will it just be another slightly above-average week figures wise?

Probably. Or maybe The Victorian Slum gave it a boost?

Exactly!

Not going well then!

It'd probably be better off airing after Neighbours. Nothing new seems to work that well out of The Wright Stuff.

That said, it's probably not going to rate that well anywhere looking at that.

Ah, that's true.

Thanks Bushmills.

Are the ITV ratings with +1? Interesting.

Judge Rinder used to be a million regularly didn't it? BBC1 can't find a quiz that does well after Doctors. From October 31st an adaptation of The Moonstone will be on instead of decimate. That should be much higher.

Next week seems a random week to do this. Emmerdale taking a leaf out of EastEnders book with flashbacks thrown in. I wonder if Coronation Street, Emmerdale and EastEnders will ever adopt the filmic look?

You need big incidents to drive ratings and then have the smaller stories happening around it. That's what EastEnders needs.

What on earth was a tedious program about social programs in Chicago, USA doing on in prime time BBC1? Should have been swapped with Victorian Slum

Many thanks.

Tipping Point with an outstanding share there. Maybe worth a studio audience and a run at 5pm. And against SCD. Preferably without celebrities though that'd need bigger prizes and that risks devaluing the normal show.

Has GMB increased at all and/or closed the gap on Brekkie?

ITV were always going to bring back Cold Feet. These days 4 - 5 million is a good live audience for all but a few stand out dramas and you do not turn down what are by modern definitions 'banker' ratings and risking getting 2 - 3 million with some 'new' show about a burnt out female cop sent to a town full of suspicious looking locals to investigate a crime that will fizzle for a few episodes and then get boring.

The decision was made just like the BBC did with Our Girl. A steady reliable audience show is a prop that all channels need to structure your week around.

Though baffling that they did not view Home Fires in the same light.

However, I expect that Cold Feet will sell well abroad as it has an international feel to this kind of drama that easily translates.

No more news on whether Goodnight Sweetheart finds a new home - though Marks and Gran say they are trying and the support has been considerable and the BBC have had a lot of flak over the decision.

Things are on hold as they are abroad filming the Christmas Special of Birds of a Feather (minus Lesley Joseph of course).

I do not seem alone in thinking that the Goodnight Sweetheart episode was the best written of the new sitcom returns. Yet I see that the NTA has nominated the Porridge episode as the only one out of the sitcom season.

So that will certainly persuade the BBC they made the right choice about which to commission.

Though I think Porridge was a certainty to be picked up to series I really expected at least a new Christmas special of GS as it is a perfect kind of show for the Christmas audience.

That concept on Emmerdale is brilliant but it's Emmerdale so few would choose to watch it. Now imagine doing something like that for a drama running at 9pm from Monday to the Friday. It could be huge for either channel if done well.

Thanks

BBC1 can seemingly put anything in the morning slot and its basically garunteed a 20% share. A couple of weak points later in the day, but otherwise a strong schedule. I want more Animal Park

On ITV Lorraine looks weak to me, though tbh, her show should be on ITVBe. Its that type of celeb gossip. Kyle has dropped back a bit as well. Used to be 25% in the morning.

Tipping Point doing wonders at 4pm.

Tbf to EE it's actually slightly up on last year (6.06m). Friday was also higher than last year (5.14m v 5.77m) so it's not all bad news. It just needs a big storyline to give it a little push up towards 7m.

Lithuania v England was on ITV (3.98m/19.7%).

Tipping Point is the perfect lead-in for The Chase. The Chase went behind Pointless when Tipping Point was at 3pm. Tipping Point is up against Strictly this Saturday. Will probably get the same ratings The Chase has.

Before Piers joined most days Good Morning Britain was getting around 600,000 and BBC Breakfast around 1.5m. It hasn't really changed.