Obviously that's the reason which has offset the increase in TV ownership, the breakdown of traditional family households and the near 10m increase in the population since the 60s.
Maybe the biggest effect is people have more disposable income and go out more. Am.i right in saying that audiences on Xmas day are falling?

As Tut goes down Poldark goes up. This is like the situation Poldark experienced with series 1. Do you think those are new viewers watching Poldark, or previously catch up viewers watching live? We'll see with the consolidated figures. The most recent consolidated figure for Poldark was 6.16m

The Carry On Films are doing gret for ITV3. If only they could build on that rating more.

I think one of the things for XF is that it never recovered from the chavy period, which in essence is when ratings started to drop.

It went all chavy in 2011 with Tulisa and the whole show when all youth. Then it's second incarnation when Chezza returned with her attitude and fake luvving up to Simon.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.d...n-new-show/amp

Which channel?

"The list was compiled by the Press Association to mark the 80th anniversary this week of the start of television in the UK."

Therefore it is available for those to subscribe to PA to post the article and data which comes with what the PA posted.

Data for week ending 23rd October 2016 now available on BARB website

enjoy!

Humans did poorly considering the huge advertising campaign Channel 4 have done for it. It's likely to dip further during the series.

Thanks Mike.

The X Factor and Countryfile both got 7.22m, The Apprentice 7.37m and The Fall is flying with 3.31m.

Definitely disappointing for a series premiere. And it got beat by a clip show on C5. How well it holds up next week will be very telling.

Looking back it did have a rather easy time of things last summer, facing only factual on ITV and a fairly low rated drama by BBC One standards in the shape of The Outcast.

Q4 is a different kettle of fish altogether but you might have expected it to cope rather better given Poldark has shown little signs of picking up to S1 levels prior to last night and ITV's Tutankhamun has been a disaster on every level.

I'm sure the official C4 response would be something along the lines of; with catchup and all other data included they are confident of a good result. And they may well be right.

But it's maybe not this huge breakthrough for them in scripted that it appeared at the time.

Humans also has the disadvantage of looking new and different last year and now - possibly to any browsing viewers - a bit more like - oh, a UK show trying to imitate that very similar big budget Westworld thing.

Not at all true, but perceptions can create ratings issues.

I also thought that Humans lost a bit of the cutting edge feel from series 1, as I feared that it might do almost by definition.

That ratings turnabout for The Mike Yarwood Show makes you wonder what would have happened to his career had it been always recognised as the biggest success ever.

Would he have had more chance of becoming a legend rather than disappearing off the face of the Earth.

In his day he was really popular in a way few who were not around 30/40 years ago will realise.

As he hails from my home town (Stockport) I always thought he has been underrated. Though he suffered from some problems that would never have seen him match the likes of Morecambe and Wise or The Two Ronnies - as in being an impressionist who depended on celebrities of his day - not being really an all round entertainer - or turned into one by TV.

Then, of course, his battles with alcohol, heart attack and depression.

He has made occasional appearances - such as hosting Have I Got News For You? many moons ago.

Even today he is only 75.

But would his number one show of all time ratings status have been enough to get someone to steer his career in the right direction to take advantage?

Top 20 Officials w/e 23 Oct 2016
1. The Great British Bake Off (Wed, 8pm, BBC1) - 13.44m
2. Strictly Come Dancing (Sat, 6.30pm, BBC1) - 11.21m
3. Strictly Come Dancing Results (Sun, 7.15pm, BBC1) - 10.51m
4. Coronation Street (Fri 8.30pm, ITV) - 8.54m
5. Coronation Street (Fri, 7.30pm, ITV) - 8.17m
6. Emmerdale (Fri, 7pm, ITV) - 8.03m
=. Emmerdale (Thu, 8pm, ITV) - 8.03m
8. Coronation Street (Wed, 7.30pm, ITV) - 8.01m
9. Coronation Street (Mon, 7.30pm, ITV) - 7.94m
10. Coronation Street (Mon, 8.30pm, ITV) - 7.78m
11. Emmerdale (Thu, 7pm, ITV) - 7.67m
12. Emmerdale (Tue, 7pm, ITV) - 7.5m
13. The Apprentice (Thu, 9pm, BBC1) - 7.37m
14. Emmerdale (Wed, 7pm, ITV) - 7.27m
15. Countryfile (Sun, 6.15pm, BBC1) - 7.22m
=. The X Factor Results (Sun, 8pm, ITV) - 7.22m
17. EastEnders (Tue, 7.30pm, BBC1) - 7.17m
18. The X Factor (Sat, 8pm, ITV) - 7.12m
19. Emmerdale (Mon, 7pm, ITV) - 7.11m
20. The Missing (Wed, 9pm, BBC1) - 7.08m

Top 10 Officials w/e 23 Oct 2016 - one instance of each show only
1. The Great British Bake Off (Wed, 8pm, BBC1) - 13.44m
2. Strictly Come Dancing (Sat, 6.30pm, BBC1) - 11.21m
3. Coronation Street (Fri 8.30pm, ITV) - 8.54m
4. Emmerdale (Thu & Fri, 7pm, ITV) - 8.03m
5. The Apprentice (Thu, 9pm, BBC1) - 7.37m
6. Countryfile (Sun, 6.15pm, BBC1) - 7.22m
=. The X Factor Results (Sun, 8pm, ITV) - 7.22m
8. EastEnders (Tue, 7.30pm, BBC1) - 7.17m
9. The Missing (Wed, 9pm, BBC1) - 7.08m
10. Cold Feet (Mon, 9pm, ITV) - 6.72m

Other notables:
Countryfile (Sun, 6.15pm, BBC1) - 7.22m
Cold Feet (Mon, 9pm, ITV) - 6.72m
Poldark (Sun, 9pm, BBC1) - 6.38m
Ordinary Lies (Tue, 9pm, BBC1) - 5.71m
Tuttankhamun (Sun, 9pm, ITV) - 5.03m
Have I Got News For You (Fri, 9pm, BBC1) - 5.01m
Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs (Thu, 8.30pm, ITV) - 4.98m
Holby City (Tue, 8pm, BBC1) - 4.79m
Him (Wed, 9pm, ITV) - 3.9m
Paranoid (Thu, 9pm, ITV) - 3.85m
The Level (Fri, 9pm, ITV) - 3.66m

Figures include ITV+1.

and everything suddenly seems rosy.

Give me a decent UK show over an "amazing", overhyped American one any day. I generally just don't gel with the American character of over the topness, crap humour, serious demeanor etc. Yawnfest for me in the main. I don't get why even though they have high budget programmes they're SO popular here - as the election there shows, we're really quite different countries. Saying this, House of Cards is one of my favourite shows (Though if the BBC remade theirs for 2016, I would probably like that far more).

I was not saying this perception is true. In fact I said that it wasn't. I much prefer Humans to Westworld which is crawling along plotwise by comparison.

Humans deserved international recognition but Westworld will inevitably steal much of that from now on, possibly because it is American and because it will have a broader global viewership.

Channel 4 should be proud of leading the way here and it counters somewhat the feelings after Bake Off about its ability to lead rather than follow.

But the TV universe has changed - ironically by US TV following the previous UK model in terms of not going 100% out for big hit ratings that can run 26 episodes a year but follow the long recognised potential in the UK of shorter run dramas that can hold an audience and develop a story over a few weeks.

As for a 2016 UK House of Cards. Yes please. I agree that would be worth doing. Maybe with someone like Hugh Laurie as PM.

I thought that there was going to be a British version of Borgen involving House of Cards and Borgen creators. Borgen is the best political drama since House of Cards UK - though missed by most due to it being subtitled.

Ironically its lead Prime Minister is now in Westworld speaking perfect English, of course!

No idea where that UK Borgen idea has gone to, though. Perhaps real politics have just been so absurd lately that any fiction would have seemed a bit dull by comparison.

Any ratings info for Thunderbirds Are Go this past Saturday? I know the ratings don't matter for the show's future, but I'd like it to keep its afternoon slot (where the ratings probably do matter), even if that means we have an ad break.

Series 2 has been pretty good so far.

And as you seem to realise a 26 part series 3 has already been commissioned.

Sadly, the one they made a big fuss of as the pilot for the big relaunch was pretty much the worst episode they have made. And it probably caused a lot of people not to bother and so miss how much better it became.

What with those consolidated numbers Strictly come Dancing's average is 10.254M (exld Launch Show) only 366K down on the series average of the entire of Series 13 of 10.62M

Yes sorry, I realised that, was just thinking (moaning) aloud really

Yes, apologies, too, I was not really saying that you were misunderstanding. Just elaborating on my reasoning.

SCD continues at great levels Poldark really doing well - it was great drama last night, very consistent. Oh My on X Factor. Viewers have really fallen out with it. Quite dire, more Fix claims from last nights show. They seem to ignore the PR disaster of this series.

Yarwood's shows were hugely expensive because of the make-up for his characters and studio time (Stanley Baxter found he had the same problem at LWT).M & W were the BBC's golden boys who could come in, record a few minutes with a full studio crew in TC1, and go home.Bill Cotton was usually on the studio floor during recording chatting to the camera crews.As Bill once said, when the BBC had M & W it was like standing on Everest looking down on everyone else.

Consolidated to over 5m. ITV wishes that was disaster level.

Hold on, Poldark has less viewers than TXF, yet Poldark is 'really doing well'? And what about Tutunkhamum who was bascially neck and neck with Poldark? Or is that convenient to forget?

I'm also assuming you watched TXF. considering you said it was quite dire, but I thought you didn't like it?

But there is no doubt TXF has fallen, and nothing surprises me with that show anymore. I don't know what's fixed or not anymore.

Yeah, this is why i don't buy the "30 million people watched Den hand Angie the divorce papers". Just because they combined the original episode of 19m with the omnibus which got 11m.

So it then becomes by default the most watched scripted broadcast in British tv history. Really we all know it was Hilda Ogden's final episode.