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Except there isn't a battle between Strictly and The X Factor now is there? It's akin to saying Coronation Street and Panorama are fighting it out on a weekly basis!
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Anybody want to start a ratings thread exclusively for X-Factor vs SCD (and possibly another for soaps) and let us get on with everything else, ie. the interesting stuff?
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If the ratings in the North West are down for Corrie 7.45 - 800 pm tonight you know who to blame.
At the 7.45 ad break the continuity announcer told viewers to come back in half an hour for more Corrie. I had to check my watch to be sure I was not going mad. Others might have just believed him and turned over early for East Enders. |
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If the ratings in the North West are down for Corrie 7.45 - 800 pm tonight you know who to blame.
At the 7.45 ad break the continuity announcer told viewers to come back in half an hour for more Corrie. |
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Hasn't stopped 9 our of 10 posts on this thread being devoted to it, has it?
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If the ratings in the North West are down for Corrie 7.45 - 800 pm tonight you know who to blame.
At the 7.45 ad break the continuity announcer told viewers to come back in half an hour for more Corrie. I had to check my watch to be sure I was not going mad. Others might have just believed him and turned over early for East Enders.
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What, and reduce the thread to 5 posts a year?
![]() This thread would do just fine without X Factor discussion. |
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McIntyre's Big Show is replacing the Lottery. 8:10-9:10 on 19 Nov.
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I'd like to think you were joking, but you probably aren't.
This thread would do just fine without X Factor discussion. |
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Yeah, can't wait to see the pages and pages of Can't Pay? Well Take It Away! ratings discussion...
The thread seems to do fine between January and August when X Factor isn't on, I'm sure it would do absolutely fine with any X Factor discussion whatsoever. |
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ITV have normally aired dramas through the Summer, but didn't in 2014 and 2015. Hopefully they do again next year. They've got quite a lot in the pipeline for early next year so some of that may spill into the Summer.
They probably axed it as it didn't quite rate where they'd want it to. The numbers weren't bad but there are only so many slots and so much money and if theyve got something else in the pipeline that they'd rather have than another series of Brief Encounters then that is what it will come down to. On another topic, if The Next Great Magician holds up, do you think they'd renew it? It did better than I (and you) expected, but do you think the number is still too low, or acceptable against Strictly? I think if it can hold above 3 million (a big if, it doesn't have much room to fall) then it's worth another shot. I watched it last night, and to me, it just feels like ITV have been showing too many NEW LE shows this Autumn. It just felt a bit like I've been commissioned just to fill this slot. The BBC seem to rely on the same shows almost every year, in the exact same slot. Obviously the BBC have bigger hitters in factual : CF and AR are on mostly all year, providing a strong Sunday and dependable Sunday. And the LE is SCD and Pointless. That will remain for years to come until Pointless dies. This is where I would like to see ITV mix up Sunday. The scheduling is always a new LE show on Sunday at 7pm (bar last year), and it would be nice to see some different shows tried out in this slot. The BBC have tried out SOAH and that was a success, as is PEII. Variety is the spice of life. |
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If the ratings in the North West are down for Corrie 7.45 - 800 pm tonight you know who to blame.
At the 7.45 ad break the continuity announcer told viewers to come back in half an hour for more Corrie. I had to check my watch to be sure I was not going mad. Others might have just believed him and turned over early for East Enders. |
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Christ, you genuinely weren't joking...
The thread seems to do fine between January and August when X Factor isn't on, I'm sure it would do absolutely fine with any X Factor discussion whatsoever. |
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There's a reason that it took 7 months (January-July, funnily enough) to get through a single part of the thread. Did you see how quiet the thread got this summer in particular? X Factor does get this thread moving, I enjoy reading the objective analysis from the likes of Score, sunmbeam007 and cylon6.
There might be more posts, but they certainly aren't of any higher quality. |
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I wonder if they use live continuity announcers or recorded ones?
They said exactly the same thing at 8 pm and no apology as you might have expected or used to get when friendly local continuity announcers would add to an evening's enjoyment. I recall one show I did once from Granada in Manchester where I was in one studio waiting to do a live insert into a Scottish news programme and the continuity announcer was doing a thing just before me. He was having a good natured banter with the audience and reacting to a scene in the programme just ended that he was watching. Those little touches - along with the old Granada 'closedown' music that I can still hum all these years after it was last played - added to the colour of regional TV and I think ITV lost a lot of creativity when they became just another national conglomerate superchannel. Instead of regional styles of show and specialisation that added to the variety on the whole ITV network now we just get the same procedurals from everywhere with the big difference only being the town or city that someone thinks it is time to bother setting one in this year. Diversity of talent and creative ideas has become identikit TV that thinks variety means the same thing as we had last time just set in a different part of Manchester, or Leeds, or London. |
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From Media Guardian. Quote:
Planet Earth II most watched natural history show for 15 years
With 9.2m viewers, David Attenborough’s BBC1 documentary is already one of the most popular TV shows of the year The opening episode of Planet Earth II was the most watched natural history programme in the UK for more than 15 years, drawing in 9.2 million viewers to BBC1 on Sunday evening. Helped by airing immediately after Strictly Come Dancing’s results show, which had a series-high audience of 10.1 million, the David Attenborough-narrated documentary is already one of the most popular shows of the year so far in a field usually dominated by drama, sport and entertainment. Only six series have pulled in more viewers for a single episode this year: the BBC dramas Call the Midwife and Happy Valley and the entertainment shows The Great British Bake Off, Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor and Strictly, which on Sunday night had a peak audience of 11 million. England’s Euro 2016 football matches and the Wimbledon men’s singles final also rated more highly. Series two’s opener was also more popular than the first Planet Earth a decade ago, when 8.74 million viewers watched its debut and a high of 8.8 million tuned in for the fifth episode. The feat is all the more impressive in the era of catchup TV and iPlayer - which launched in 2007 – when audiences are increasingly deciding to watch later rather than tune in live. The team behind Planet Earth II have taken advantage of a decade’s worth of advances in technology to produce more detailed and impressive footage than its groundbreaking predecessor. The crews made 117 filming trips in 40 different countries, filming for a total of 2,089 days. The head of the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Julian Hector, said: “Audiences love Sir David’s authenticity and the craft of the programme-makers that give us a window on the motivations of the animals. When so much is going on in the human world, that the natural world has an agenda all of its own, regardless, gives us a place to escape.” It is not possible to accurately compare the show’s audience with those who watched natural history programming going back further than 15 years, as the way TV audiences are measured changed at the end of 2001. In that year another Attenborough-fronted BBC natural history programme, Blue Planet, was broadcast with an audience, under the old measurement system, of about 10 million. |
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I wonder if they use live continuity announcers or recorded ones?
I have to laugh at the comments talking about the North West or the South East. You are aware ITV hasn't had regional announcers in England since 2002? |
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Christ, you genuinely weren't joking...
The thread seems to do fine between January and August when X Factor isn't on, I'm sure it would do absolutely fine with any X Factor discussion whatsoever. |
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Don't worry, there are only a handful of weeks to go until he takes a break until April.
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Except that 90% of the discussion surrounding X Factor is pretty meaningless - we just go around in circles of the same arguments. (I.e. It's crap / It's tired / It's boring / It's doing alright / X Factor shouldn't be criticised / X Factor is the best show on TV)
There might be more posts, but they certainly aren't of any higher quality. Knowing that there are lost tribes in the Amazon singing - You say Holly, and I say G - is pretty, pretty enlightening IMHO. |
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Robin Parker @robinparker55 13s14 seconds ago
Planet Earth II debuted with 9.2m last night #tvratings Good god! That is a stunning rating! I know people will say it had a big lead in, etc but that is a brilliant rating. May well timeshift to over 11m! Richard Osman @richardosman 18s18 seconds ago 10.2m for #Strictly last night, followed by an incredible 9.2m for #planetearth2 . #XFactor held up well with 6.5m. ![]() ![]() Superb for Planet Earth II. That's a right number. Fully deserved as well, it was fantastic!XF held up well under the circumstances as it was actually up 0.3m week-on-week. Excellent for Strictly. Up 1.0m week-on-week, although it was down 0.2m versus last year. |
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From Media Guardian.
Looking at the Youtube trailer, which has 5m+ views, its not surpising its done so well. These types of factual series on the BBC are the top of the game in the entire world. I think we should have expected big ratings. These series don't come along every year. |
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Roscoe do you still have your access to ITV officials? Any idea of the X Factor official from last Sunday? Thanks
![]() I see this thread has descended into the school playground again. It's mad to compare X Factor to 2010 as some have done. It was at its peak then and that was SIX years ago. A long time. Furthermore, it would be totally wrong to ignore its decline as it has declined a heck of a lot since then. 2013-14 were stable but the trainwreck of last year has damaged it. It gets respectable figures but I do feel it should be doing better. It's funny re the 2011 and 2012 series. Was looking at the overnight figures from then the other day and the year on year declines back then were huge! 2012 was down around 2-3m you, I think that series was a turning point for lots of people. |
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Roscoe do you still have your access to ITV officials? Any idea of the X Factor official from last Sunday? Thanks
![]() I see this thread has descended into the school playground again. Don't have the exc +1 number though.
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6.92m (26.3%) inc +1
Don't have the exc +1 number though. ![]()
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