It's not shown in Scotland

It's shown on Sunday in Scotland. I watched it last Sunday as I have sky & it suits me better than a Thursday night. Don't know how this impacts the figures??

Yeah cos in Scotland they usually show Holby City, which is counted in the overnights but not in the officials. Lots of things go down actually - Antiques Roadshow often goes down cos Waterloo Road is being shown in Scotland on Sundays at 8.

The Green Green Grass slips in this way too.

Thanks for clearing that up-so basically The Bill is still coming out on top

Well BBC1 is coming out on top overall, and Waterloo Road is probably coming out on top in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But obviously The Bill has an advantage in the UK wide officials as its broadcast in Scotland and WR isn't.

Hi... I was wondering what the highest rated multi-channel programme has been this year? Also does anyone have a top 5-10 for this? Thanks in advanced.

I think Secret diary of a call girl will be near the top with 1.8m.

A quick scan seems to come up with:

SkySports1 (Carling Cup final) 2.4m
SkySports1 (we 21/1) 2.1m
ITV2 (Call Girl ep 1) 2.0m
SkySports1 (we 28/10) 1.97m
SkySports1 (we 19/8) 1.95m

Only a quick check, though, so could easily have missed something...

K

Not strictly relevant but regionally ITV does better in the North of England, Scotland & NI than BBC1. BBC1 does better in the South & South East of England. Because the South of England has a greater population than the rest of the country BBC1 generally gets a higher share than ITV1

ITV1 does feel like 'the Northern channel' a lot of the time what with Corrie, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, The Royal, Where The Heart Is, Ant and Dec and endless Northern dramas like Blue Murder and Northern Lights or whatever it is now.

Couldnt agree more!

Same thing happens here too! Scotland and NI don't show it at 8:30pm on a friday. So the overnights are inflated.

Never thought Sold would do this badly, I didn't expect it to set the ratings alight but thought it would get around 4 million. It's doubly surprising as I thought Kris Marshall had a big fanbase from My Family.

And now they've brought out a more detailed press release.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...07/shrek.shtml

What's going to happen with tonight's overnight figures? Will they be based on the original BBC One schedule with SCD due to end at 7.10pm, or the new schedule with SCD finishing at 7, with the rest of the evening running ten minutes early?

The mad fools have indeed brought everything forward 10 minutes.

An utterly bizarre decision, means people who tune in to, say, Casualty or MoTD at the expected start time, they'll have missed 10 minutes.

Why not just start SCD 10 mins later? Did they think SCD viewers wouldn't bother watching it if the start time was put back?

It will indeed have a detrimental impact on BBC1's ratings all night.

ITV don't pull shows mid run as often as people think, I can't think of any this year, only Tycoon which was rescheduled rather than pulled

ITV need to come up with a formulaic drama to show in early peak, as it's obviously what the viewers want. Holby and Waterloo Road are hardly groundbreaking dramas

I agree. WR is rather typical fare really but obviously has a fanbase. But I think 9pm drama does need to be different.

I also agree that ITV don't pull shows as much as they used to, and I reckon they'll let this one finish its run.

I expect they will because there's less competition from here on in. No footie on Five next Thursday so that's at least 1 million extra viewers to play for. It also marks the end of the current series of The Street, so ITV1 might creep up on BBC1 for the last episode as I don't believe Crimewatch does spectacularly in the ratings?

Any news on last night? We usually have it by now

We'll get the ratings within the next hour. The BBC have said in an article that both X Factor shows got above 9m, which is brilliant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7135169.stm

Also I'm hearing from a very good source that Strictly Come Dancing peaked with an amazing 11.36m! That's more than last year's final performance show peak!

I hope SCD managed to stay on top. It could have been doing better in a later slot

From X Factor ratings thread:

BBC1 must have suffered then between 7.10-9.55.

Saturday night

10.1m..(47%)..Strictly Come Dancing (peak 11.36m)
5.9m..(26%)..Robin Hood
4.8m..(21%)..The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins
6.5m..(28%)..Casualty
2.7m..(12%)..The Omid Djalili Show

4.2m..(19%)..Best Ever Worst Auditions 3
9.2m..(40%)..The X Factor (peak 10.60m)
6.3m..(28%)..All Star Family Fortunes
9.3m..(41%)..The X Factor Results
4.0m..(18%)..The Big Fight Live (peak - 6.5m 22:00/22:15)

SCD - wow and X Factor