The time was in the trailer.

Looking at last New Year's Day 2016

EastEnders: 7.24m (31.5%) at 6.30pm and 8.29m (33.4%) at 8.00pm. This was with the Mick/Linda/Dean storyline and an exciting trailer. Nothing as exciting this year that made you think it was must see. I thought this year's EastEnders looked more might see than must see from the trailer.

Thanks Haassan

Monster University did fine.

BBC News getting its usual loyal default audience on Sunday. So EE had an excellent lead in, while Corrie had sub 2m.

ITV put out such a weak schedule during the whole day. After Christmas Day and Boxing Day doing well with films, NYD falls flat.

Ch4 had a good night - though Rio2 is below Tangled last year.

Ch5 had an excellent night, with The Adele Story rpt adding another 1.4m.

Should they have split it then? EE seems to perform better when it builds up the tension to a second episode. Emmerdale is adept at this when it has the double episodes bookending EE on a Thursday

Well, why would 900,000 viewers switch off at quarter to eight and not watch the most dramatic part of the episode? If the third quarter hour (7.30 to 7.45) had an average of 6.38m watching, I find it difficult to believe less than 6m were watching the last 10 minutes. In which case there would have been over 6m watching throughout the whole running-time of EE so the tape-checked audience would be above 6m.

I wasn't downstairs at the time but I imagine the two soap viewers in this household switched over to ITV for Corrie as soon as EE ended and other soap viewers elsewhere probably did the same

It's based on "fairly" solid statistical techniques and is set up to be as representative a panel as is cost effective (e.g. you could double the number of homes and only increase the accuracy a little). Some "naysayers" quote recent poll results, like Trump's victory, as proof of the failings of the techniques, but, in fact, the polls weren't that far out, given that they were measuring the popular vote, which Clinton did win by about 2%, which was what, broadly, the polls were predicting.

But the main thing is that they are the only figures that we get regular access to, so we have no choice but to accept them, warts and all!

K

Thanks Kenny, looks like it is difficult to tell if they are watching on a computer or on their main television via smart tv/games console.

Agree, the early EE finish and Corrie on ITV gave a big switchover at 7.55 and has had an effect on EE average, some knee jerk reactions here, when actually you can see on breakdowns it did well.

Anyone any idea when we might know the +7 consolidated figures for Christmas Day?

The irony of you accusing others of knee-jerk reactions... We hadn't seen the breakdown when we first got the figures. Looks like it isn't tapechecked, and even with it it'll be around 6.4m which, although slightly better, is still far lower than any of us expected. I still wouldn't call it 'well'.

Knee jerk reactions?

No you are right ADP. Being down 2m+ YOY is fine. Its not like it dropped 3m.

Even when tape-checked to around 6.3/4m, this will still be down heavily on last year figures. I cannot see how anyone can defend that.

The irony ADP is that you keep accusing people of always defending ITV always, which actually isn't true, yet go around defending the BBC non-stop.

Well? It didn't even manage 7m on one of it's biggest days of the year against sod all competition.

Do the C5 ratings take into account the delay as Adele Story was listed on my guide but Dirty Dancing was still on for a while.

Yes that was after a Croft/Perry retrospective and the episodes were the favourites of both of them. Brilliant they were too, the cast are almost all gone, but they are etched into the very best of television memory and legend and its an amazing tribute that its still picking up a regular audience almost 50 years after the first episode aired. The two selected episodes "Branded" and "Mums Army" have buckets of charm and emotion running through them and well worth a watch imo.

EastEnders

19:00-19:15 6.07m
19:15-19:30 6.22m
19:30-19:45 6.38m
19:45-20:00 5.28m (early finish)

So it was at least 6.3m/6.4m tapechecked. Sherlock should have started at 8.

Looks like showing the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises might have been better than the M&W thing which lets face it, BBC2 do, Ch5 do and occasionlly Ch4. Christmas is saturated now.

I pointed out a couple of weeks back, ITV's NYD schedule should have been:

6.30pm ITV News
7pm Paul O' Grady For The Love Of Dogs NYD special
8pm Coronation Street
8.30pm The Dark Knight Rises

I'm slightly confused. The first 45 minutes average was 6.22m so the last 10 minutes must have averaged very high for the tape checked average to be 6.4m unless I'm missing something? What time did EE start?

I'd say 6.3m at most would be the tape checked average.

Actually given the general fall off in audiences it's probably now a tad too large a number from a statistically significant point of view. Don't forget that it's 5000 households so in the region of 15000 actual viewers.

Do we ever get tapechecked figures for BBC shows?

We do, but only where 5-minute breakdowns are available (on nights they aren't reported). Looks like none of last night's figures are tapechecked.

So make of it what you will but it seems that a load of viewers turned off EE just after Lee Carters crying fit in the kitchen!

Currently positions 1 and 2 on IPlayer, most watched, where many EE fans watch.

Sherlock is 3rd

Overnights are less relevant, bar live LE shiny shows with voting.

Bullying, harassment, financial debt are important issues at this time of the year, EE is following its roots on a social awareness of important issues. The story line on Friday at the car park was brilliantly acted.

Men can cry and be upset, and do need help at times, the same as ladies.

And I'm not saying it isn't and you are right the episodes last week were superb but it doesn't seem like a coincidence to me that viewers suddenly switched off last night right after a scene in which Danny Boy wasn't very good at all. That kitchen scene ruined the whole episode for me and if the breakdown is correct viewers turned the episode off right after it happened.

Edited post.

EE is always no 1 on Iplayer. As is Sherlock top. This excuse isn't really valid. Corrie is top of ITV HUB as well. TXF is always top on ITV Hub.

Doesn't stop the overnights being low.