There's is usually a Lizo Mizimba fronted report which airs across BBC News

At one time only ITV's programmes rated lower on Christmas Day now it seems all BBC1's do as well, but then again a wins a win and that's all they will be concerned about.

Actually not the disaster I thought they would be. Have you exact ratings for Queenie?

Edit - that Frozen rating!!!!! Wow.

Was expecting much higher for Frozen.

Corrie beats EE for second year in a row.

Cylon has posted the figures and Corrie was ahead albeit marginally. I actually expected EE to be much lower than that.

The Lion King did extremely well relative to Frozen. And deservedly so too. ITV will take that all day long.

Who knows, maybe they'll go after the main Disney/Pixar deal in the future?

The big shows will consolidate well so I don't think there's much of a news story to be has in these ratings.

EastEnders on too late? It beat Coronation Street in share but not on raw figures.

Surely millions of households with kids thought 'jesus, not Frozen AGAIN'?

Even though it was a premiere.

Was it actually trailed anyway?

Indeed and that Corrie figure likely includes +1 so probably 6m vs 5.9m, given EE last few months thats pretty close

I saw more trailers for Frozen than anything else!

The majority of its target market have already seen it a dozen times.

Sky's seven day consolidated in 2014, beats BBC One overnights.

BBC1 scheduled it all badly. EE doesn't merit an hour block. CTM took up too much prime acreage. MBB (which seems to embarrass the bbc1 controller) on too late.

I think MBB and GCBO are star performers yesterday given their slots. DW did ok too.

Easy to say after the event. Not many on here saw it doing less than 5m, that's for sure.

And yes, it was trailed very extensively.

Biggest surprise there is how low Frozen was. I thought it had a shot at winning the day but instead it got a below average rating for that slot and was about a million below Brave last year!

Looks like The Lion King really dented it. That did better than I expected, a 22% share is really solid. ITV made much better use of it than Channel 4 did.

In reality Lion King and Frozen will have been closer than those numbers suggest as the overnights aren't tapechecked on public holidays (certainly the Christmas Eve ones weren't) and Lion King ended a good 7 or 8 minutes early.

Elsewhere BBC1 was all about where I expected it to be, although I thought Mrs Brown might have been slightly higher. That show feels quite tired now though. Not brilliant for ITV. Corrie about where I thought it would be but I thought Emmerdale and POG Dogs would hold up a bit better. Pretty poor for Maigret, it wasn't a great Christmas Day fit but I thought it might have managed 4m. I suppose that's all Poirot used to get though and Xmas Day numbers have fallen since then. Be interesting to see the timeshift and how the next two do.

That Potter lunchtime repeat did great business for ITV with 3.1m and must have outdone BBC1.

That Harry Potter rating is impressive, now you see why it's being repeated this Christmas. Why bother putting new shows on when tried and tested films rate better?

Good for Midwife, that will have a big timeshift as will Mrs Brown.

At least ITV will have a Victoria special next year

Top 10 from @lizo_mzimba on Twitter:

1) The Queen at 3pm - BBC One and ITV - 7.7m
2) Strictly 7.2m
3) Bake Off 6.3
4) Mrs Brown's Boys 6.1m
5) Call The Midwife 6.1m
6) EastEnders 5.9m
7) Coronation Street 5.8m (not incl +1)
8) Doctor Who 5.7m
9) Frozen 4.7m
10) Emmerdale 4.2m (not incl +1)

Hopefully the bubble is finally bursting and we can have some proper comedy back on BBC One at Christmas.

We watched Father Ted on More4 for the umpteenth time instead. That's an hour and 15 minutes more than we watched of BBC One last night!

BBC1 schedule has an easier time of rating well compared to ITV rating well against BBC1. It shouldn't in reality be that close, since so many don't like watching adverts at Christmas.

But last night with a great film on at 3.10pm, ITV came close to BBC1.

As long as they don't do something stupid like schedule Potter to end after midnight.

Oh...


Though that will be lucky to get 4m considering Downton used to get 6m from a much higher starting point for it's normal episodes.

I think Corrie has proven it has a very loyal viewers base - the Christmas episode could have been Eva playing with her rampant rabbit and get 6m.

[quote=Dancc;84969486]Hopefully the bubble is finally bursting and we can have some proper comedy back on BBC One at Christmas.

We watched Father Ted on More4 for the umpteenth time instead. That's an hour and 15 minutes more than we watched of BBC One last night![/I QUOTE]

Surely you were watching gypsy porn on Channel 5

Given that at least 6 of those will possibly add 3m to their final numbers, not all that depressing necessarily. Habits have changed. It's a new universe.

Just clocked that one. That's a cracking rating and share across more than 3 hours. Must have beaten Top of The Pops (across the hour even if not in overall figures) and it can't have hurt The Lion Kimg that ITV had the family movie audience locked in going into The Queen.


I still can't get over that scheduling. Awful, awful, awful. The Spider-Man premiere is left in a weird slot too and Emmerdale gets screwed over. No idea what possessed them to do that.