ITV1's new sitcom Benidorm at 10pm last night got 5.3 million viewers, a 25.7% share of the available audience.

wow lol! alot better than i thought!

Could this be the first hit comedy on ITV in 20 years??

Quite surprised by that, I expected it to get around 2 million at most

Elsewhere at 10pm:

BBC1 10pm news 4.1 million 20% share

BBC2 10pm Mock the Week 1.9 million 9% share

ITV1 Benidorm 5.3 million 26% share between 10pm and 10.30pm

Channel 4 Inside Waco 1.4 million 7% share between 9pm and 11.05pm

Channel Five Criminal Minds 1.2 million 6% share

BBC1 1.40: Neighbours 3.1m (46%)
5.35: Neighbours 2.8m (17%)

6.00:
CHANNEL 4: The Simpsons 2.2m
Hollyoaks 1.9m (9%)

7.00:
BBC1 7.30: EastEnders 6.5m (29%)
ITV1: Emmerdale 7.9m (36%)

8.00:
BBC1: Waterloo Road 4.5m (20%)
ITV1: The Bill 6.1m (27%)
CHANNEL 4: Ten Years Younger 2.9m

9.00:
BBC1: Five Days 5.8m (25%)
BBC2: The Truth About Food 2.5m (11%)
ITV1: Bonkers 4.9m (21%)
CHANNEL 4: Inside Waco 1.4m (7%)
FIVE: Build a New Life in the Country 1.3m (6%)

10.00:
BBC1: BBC News 4.1m (20%)
BBC2: Mock the Week 1.9m (9%)
ITV1: Benidorm 5.3m (25.7%)
FIVE: Criminal Minds 1.2m (6%)

All hours share: BBC1 22.5% ITV1 21.7% C4 9.2% BBC2 8.6% FIVE 5.1% MULTICHANNEL 32.9%
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6.00:
MORE4: Deal or No Deal 214,000
FIVE LIFE 6.30: Home and Away 552,000

7.00:
E4: Hollyoaks 460,000
FILM4 7.15: The Watership Down 174,000

9.00:
E4: ER 599,000
FIVE US: Half Past Dead 348,000
SKY ONE: Grease 315,000
MORE4: Relocation, Relocation 200,000
FILM4: Mickey Blue Eyes 126,400

10.00:
E4: Skins 821,000
BBC3: EastEnders 631,000
ITV2: Van Helsing 491,000
LIVING TV: Grey's Anatomy 392,000
MORE4: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares 173,000

11.00:
E4+1: Skins 221,000
FILM4: The French Lieutenant's Woman 29,000

i see skins lost viers at 10pm but then an hour late was seen by more than 200,000 viewers, so in total it got 1,041,000

is that good? i enjoy this show so far

Blimey

Deadenders is getting the crap kicked out of it by Emmerdale....lolol.

And they say ITV is in the ratings wilderness...????

Looks to me like the BBC is doing even worse.

Is TV becoming obsolete?

No. BBC1's share of viewing for this year so far is actually higher than at the same point last year - which is pretty incredible for a mass audience channel considering the growth of digital.

EastEnders still gets fantastic ratings, but dont forget Emmerdale's average is from 7-8pm, if you saw the average for the second half it would probably be lower than EE as a lot of people would of turned over. Once repeats are added on EE will be close to 10 million for that episode.

Emmerdale beat EastEnders when the two soaps were head to head from 7.30pm last night.

WOW!

EastEnders is doing terrible!
emmerdale is trashing EastEnders!

Thanks ronant!

No its not, their ratings were virtually identical between 7.30 and 8. This happens every single time - which is why ITV do it, but it has no impact long-term. EE will be back with 10 million plus on Monday and Tuesday next week.

Wow, Benidorm did fantastically. I enjoyed it last night, hopefully it will continue the success next week.

Rumour has it that BBC 1 are moving Eastenders to 10pm next Thursday to try and kill Benidorm . The 10pm news will be rescheduled to BBC2 at 3.20pm

I don't think Benidorm will see the heights of 5.3m again for the rest of its run. It was patchy at best so can't see it being a hit. I imagine it will settle around 3-3.5m and beaten by the 10 o'clock News. I don't think it needs EastEnders to kill it off.

I think the BBC should fight ITV1's childish behaviour with fire. If ITV1 attacks Tuesday's EastEnders, BBC1 should merge together Mon/Tues episodes and run a one hour episode on Monday at 8pm; if they attack Thursday, then move Thursday's to Friday and merge the Friday/Monday episodes together and show at 8pm on Monday.

ITV1 will stop being a baby when Coronation St is only getting 7m viewers.

It's a sorry sight to see a once mighty broadcaster like ITV1 being so devoid of stuff viewers want to watch that to cling on to share it has to resort to one hour Emmerdales and running Coro St on past 8pm when EastEnders is on so viewers miss BBC1's programme trails and the start of EastEnders each time.

In the past, it would have come up with some interesting and innovative programming.

I agree with you, RobbieSykes123.

The BBC should start to play with fire with ITV, as remember ITV needs us, the viewerrs to tune in to their programs, the BBC don't really need ratings as their are funded by our TV Licence!

ITV's games is only affecting us, (the viewers.)

Anybody got ratings for last night on ugly betty and corrie
disappointed with mock the week i knew about benidorm but thought it would get 3m and mock the week would get 2.5m

BBC1
3.20 BBC News; Regional News; Weather 2.4 (24.8%)
3.30 Six Nations Rugby 5.5 (38.5%)
5.50 Final Score 6.4 (33.8%)
6.00 When Will I Be Famous? 3.8 (18.7%)
7.00 Weakest Link 3.8 (17.3%)
7.50 The National Lottery: 1 vs 100 6.2 (27.4%)
8.35 When Will I Be Famous? 3.8 (16.4%)
9.05 Casualty 6.3 (27.3%)
9.55 BBC News; Weather 5.2 (25.1%)
10.15 Match of the Day 3.4 (21.0%)

ITV1
5.05 Regional News 3.4 (21.0%)
5.20 ITV News; Sports Results; Weather 3.3 (18.3%)
5.35 New You've Been Framed! 4.2 (22.2%)
6.05 Harry Hill's TV Burp 5.9 (29.6%)
6.35 Dancing on Ice 8.9 (40.4%)
8.05 PokerFace 6.1 (26.5%)
9.05 Dancing on Ice - The Skate Off 5.8 (24.6%)
9.35 Al Murray's Happy Hour 2.4 (11.6%)

CHANNEL 4:
9.05 Notting Hill 2.6 (13.5%)

FIVE:
9.00 CSI: NY 2.7 (11.6%)

Harry Hill's ratings figures continue to rise. Last week he got 5.3m (25%). The week before he got 5.6m (29%)

Pokerface started out with 5.1m before dropping to 4.8m last week, so the 6.1m this week is a bit of a surprise.


Al Murray continues to be stuck at the 2 and a half million mark though which is sad as it's a good show.

Well Pokerface wasn't up against Casualty so that would be why. Next week it'll be down again. Disappointing results for When Will I Be Famous?, but it wasn't very heavily trailed at all. It only runs for 4 weeks though. If that sort of show isn't popular then Britain's Got Talent should be worried.

I think the problem with When Will I Be Famous? is its execution which is laughably bad. On talents shows it is the delivery of the overall package not just the contestants that is key. It reeks of being a spoiler show.

Anyway well done Harry Hill again. His success is well deserved and long overdue.

hi, has anyone got the ratings for friday?

No but I could probably guess them.
I think Ugly Betty will get about 3m in the absence of BB's support.

I think the die is cast for the next couple of months. DOI, although I think slightly down on last year is maintaining its dominance for the main show. The BBC-which was the first to have a go at the ice skating format with a one-off a couple of years back-has not found an effective response. The Weakest Link could not be more aptly named and "When Will I be Famous" has a distinct seventies feel to it without the seventies style ratings.Strictly Dance Fever was much better.Primeval starts soon with everything going for it. Having said all that BBC is still ahead on all hours share so I guess its damage limitation when the opposition have powerful schedules.
One thing that does surprise me is that Casualty lost a million on last week despite having one of its best running storylines.Maybe its the shifting timeslot.
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