Originally Posted by Agent F:
“It was because of the football - it's on Thursday like the rest of the country next week, and I assume this was the case for previous weeks. Anyway, it actually went up 400,000 on last week despite not being on in Scotland so very good figures.”
WDYTYA's official ratings will probably fall short of the overnights, unusually, because of the incomplete network showing - the WDYTYA overnight figure is actually the "BBC1 nationally from 9pm-10pm" figure (ie, whatever all the regions of BBC1 happened to be showing in that hour). However, the officials will list each show separately, so "WDYTYA (Scotland only)" will appear right down the list somewhere. Why BARB can't include any regional variations in its published figures is beyond me - doesn't matter when people in the regions of the UK watch their showing of it, the official ratings are "the top 30 shows" so it seems unfair to not count the regional showings when they vary from the English transmission. Same thing with regional news - the BBC 6.30pm nightly regional round-up is one of the most popular shows on telly, but never appears in the official charts.