I have a feeling next Sunday will be huge.

Predictions:

BBC1:
Strictly- 9.7m
Planet Earth- 9.0m

ITV:
X Factor- 7.0m
I'm a Celebrity- 9.3m

I think X Factor will be helped a little by being on before IAC.

David Walliams and Friends starts a six part series on November 25 with Christmas special to end off

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/med...ams-and-friend

Amazing overnight for Planet Earth II. Should easily pass all Series 1 totals. It's also looking very likely that (with timeshift) it could become the highest single rated episode ever for a BBC NHU programme. Previous BARB high was 12.1m for The Blue Planet (2001) but that included a 2m rated Sunday repeat.

Previous Planet Earth consolidated ratings (March/Nov 2006):

Ep 1 - 9.41m Ep 6 - 6.37m**
Ep 2 - 8.57m Ep 7 - 6.72m
Ep 3 - 8.83m Ep 8 - 7.04m*
Ep 4 - 8.98m Ep 9 - 7.32m*
Ep 5 - 9.23m Ep 10 - 7.42m*

*against IAC
**against 10m A touch of Frost

Frozen Planet consolidated ratings (November 2011):

Ep 1 - 8.81m
Ep 2 - 9.73m
Ep 3 - 8.85m
Ep 4 - 7.27m*
Ep 5 - 8.29m*
Ep 6 - 6.65m*
Ep 7 - 8.07m

* against IAC

The Blue Planet consolidated ratings (September 2001):

Ep 1 - 12.01m* Ep 5 - 9.75m
Ep 2 - 11.51m* Ep 6 - 9.80m
Ep 3 - 10.98m* Ep 7 - 10.35m
Ep 4 - 12.10m* Ep 8 - 9.97m

*includes Sunday repeat

Oh! I wonder where that will go?

Tut held its rating so I was wrong earlier there. Clearly 4m people liked it and I'm sure it'll make money abroad.
Magician matched Chase which is a fine achievement. Twitrer is very unrepresentative on the GB public but it went down very well. Rockers continues to do okay and is certainly stronger than YBF.

I'm not convinced BBC has quite won the autumn. Yes its bankers came good but they were not new shows. ITV has gained two new dramas and Magician and TTNY probably are returning too. Next weekend is a huge test for itv as XF needs to grow on Saturday and IAC will be expecting 8m.

Last night was a good night for British TV. Lots of variety (dance, wildlife, country issues, costume drama, magic, song and gotcha tv) pleasing 25m people. Both channels should be happy.

Planet Earth II.

I guess Sundays are the new Saturdays.

Utterly stunning for BBC PEII. I thought I was being over optimistic in predicting 8 million, but 9.2! Wow! Well done to BBC Strictly too. Fab-u-lous!!

Wow at last nights Planet Earth ratings being closer to the Blue Planet ratings from 15 years ago out of the other similar shows!

Tuesday 29th?.

yes as Ordinary Lies will have finished week before

ITV have axed Brief Encounters. Slightly surprised as it seemed to be received really well and the numbers were decent, if unspectacular. Another victim of the new leadership team I guess, along with Home Fires.

I suspect certain members on here would hope not, because they just want the BBC to succeed.

All that promotion, and doing quite well in the ratings, and they axe it! Really don't understand. Same with Home Fires.

The BBC have dominated this Autumn. Even if the BBC have new shows which flop, they have the reliable rating bankers to fall back on, so they don't look quite so bad.

ITV don't have that luxury (their own making), and generally the entire night can do poorly, or one show down YOY surrounded by flops.

It starts week commencing 19/11.

Why?? It did well for Summer, and only dropped in ep6 because its was dented by something on BBC1 - can't remember what.

Does that mean Summer will be drama free again, or filled will lower rating factual.

Really stupid decision. What a way to piss off viewers.

Well Thursday is the only night free that week?.

Lygo is like one of those new football managers who has to sell all of his good players so he can bring in his own players.

Those two shows need to be replaced by a show involving a cop with a dark past who has to face their demons whilst solving a murder in a sleepy town...

Axing Brief Encounters is as mad as axing Home Fires, It's been promoted so much for the repeats on ITV Encore I thought series 2 was certain.

The Level and Paranoid? lol.

Sez who? Can't find any confirmation of this.

From BBC 1 I want a new great LE show though the autumn isn't the time to give us that. ITV needed new dramas more than BBC and has made some progress. The bankers have come home big style for BBC but my concern is that what replaces PE2 and GBBO next year? The BBC mustn't do what itv did and rely on certain shows too much.

In a way the real interesting TV comes in January. For both sides.

Data for week ending 30th October 2016 now available on BARB website

enjoy!

From ITV Media:

Sunday Top 10: Main channels (inc. +1 where applicable)

1 BBC One - 07:15 PM Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 10.083m 42% 10.24m (43.1%) tape checked
2 BBC One - 08:00 PM Planet Earth II 9.232m 36%
3 ITV - 08:00 PM The X Factor Results 6.454m 25%
4 BBC One - 06:00 PM Countryfile's Ramble 5.779m 29%
5 BBC One - 09:00 PM Poldark 5.759m 26%
6 BBC One - 10:00 PM BBC News 5.475m 32%
7 BBC One - 05:35 PM BBC News 3.419m 20%
8 ITV - 09:00 PM Tutankhamun 3.349m 15%
9 ITV - 07:00 PM The Next Great Magician 3.288m 14%
10 ITV - 06:30 PM Off Their Rockers 2.623m 13%

Sunday Top 10: Other channels (inc. +1 where applicable)

1 Sky Sports 1 - 01:30 PM Live: Nissan Super Sunday 1.085m 9.6%
2 Sky Sports 1 - 04:15 PM Live: Nissan Super Sunday 965k 5.7%
3 BT Sport 1 - 11:15 AM Live Arsenal v Tottenham 659k 7.2%
4 BBC News - 08:00 AM Breakfast 559k 10.3%
5 Yesterday - 09:05 PM Only Fools and Horses 553k 3.0%
6 ITV4 - 07:00 PM World Series of Darts Finals Live 517k 2.3%
7 ITV2 - 09:00 PM The Xtra Factor Live 499k 2.3%
8 Film4 - 02:50 PM Hocus Pocus 466k 3.7%
9 ITV2 - 04:45 PM The Smurfs 429k 2.5%
10 E4 - 06:30 PM The Tooth Fairy 425k 1.9%

Top Ten Most Watched Programmes w/e 30 October 2016 (updating):
The Great British Bake Off - 15.90m
Strictly Come Dancing (Sat) - 11.22m
Coronation Street (Mon 1930) - 8.34m (8.20m exc. +1)
The Apprentice - 7.65m
Emmerdale (Mon) - 7.62m (7.43m exc. +1)
EastEnders (Tue) - 7.03m
The X Factor (Sat) - 7.04m (6.71m exc. +1)
Cold Feet - 6.81m (6.46m exc. +1)
The Missing - 6.75m