Its time it was axed

What are you on about??? Thats pretty much exactly what it gets day in day out. It alway beats ITV1, always beats Richard and Judy and often beats Paul O'Grady. Its doing very well indeed - and look at it's 1.40 audience, incredibly that hasn't changed for years and years despite the growth of digital.
Last edited by ronant : 04-03-2007 at 13:30

But the shares are really really low!

No its not its the same as normal.

Hiya Everyone - Are Saturday's ratings available yet ?

I Hope Comic Relief Does Fame Academy did well against ITV1 - I'm hoping they had at least 7million

Well they are quite low comapred to last year. For e.g. on a random date, like 20-6-06, it got 3.6m (25.1%), and for 22-06-06 it got 3.7 (27.4%)... much higher than 18/19%.

Fair enough, i was just comparing them with the last few weeks and months.

A daytime show which reaches 1m viewers is doing well. A daytime show which reaches nearly around 3m, then manages to do it again at teatime is a massive success.

This Morning, for example, struggles to find 800,000 viewers, never mind 6m.

And I don't the problem with an 18% share. Considering multi-channel will get a 40-50% share at that time, I'd say around 30-40% of terrestrial viewing is excellent.

You can't compare its share with Emmerdale, Eastenders or Corrie, because they are huge. You also can't compare it to the first Neighbours and Doctors, because they are in a non-competitive slot.

What multichanel shows get large audiences in the 5-6pm slot as I wasnt aware that there were any big hitters on other channels at that time

BBC1
5.35 BBC News; Regional News; Weather 3.8 (24.1%)
5.55 Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 4.5 (23.9%)
7.15 Weakest Link 4.1 (18.3%)
8.05 The National Lottery: Saturday Draws 6.2 (27.4%)
8.15 Casualty 6.6 (28.0%)
9.05 Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 4.2 (18.6%)
9.35 The Vicar of Dibley 3.6 (16.5%)
10.05 BBC News; Weather 3.9 (17.9%)
10.25 Match of the Day 3.8 (24.3%)

ITV1
5.55 New You've Been Framed! 4.9 (28.9%)
6.25 Harry Hill's TV Burp 5.3 (27.6%)
6.55 Dancing on Ice 8.9 (41.0%)
7.55 Primeval 5.6 (24.0%)
8.55 PokerFace: The Million Pound Final 6.3 (27.9%)
9.55 Dancing on Ice - The Skate Off 6.8 (31.2%)
10.25 Al Murray's Happy Hour 2.6 (15.3%)
Last edited by ronant : 04-03-2007 at 16:25

I've only just realised how well YBF does, a 28.9% share is brilliant. 5.3m for TV Burp is great aswell.
Last edited by CoxyAppo : 04-03-2007 at 16:22

Casualty ratings seems poor for the slot it is in.
Excellent ratings for Pokerface and DOI!
Fame Academy quite low aswell.

Saturday Overnights In Full:

BBC1:
10:00- Saturday Kitchen - 1.6 (25.0%)
12:10- Football Focus - 1.4 (19.0%)
13:00- European Indoor Athletics Championships - 1.6m (16.9%)
16:30- Final Score- 2.7m (21.6%)
17:30- BBC News; Regional News; Weather- 3.8m (24.1%)
17:45- Comic Relief Does Fame Academy- 4.5m (23.9%)
19:15- Weakest Link- 4.1m (18.3%)
20:00- The National Lottery: Saturday Draw- 6.2m (27.4%)
20:15- Casualty- 6.6m (28%)
21:00- Comic Relief Does Fame Academy- 4.2m (18.6%)
21:30- The Vicar of Dibley - 3.6m (16.5%)
22:00- BBC News; Weather- 3.9m (17.9%)
22:25- Match of the Day- 3.8m (24.3%)

BBC2:
20:15- Comedy Map of Britain (20:15) - 1.5m ( 6.6%)

ITV1:
17:25- London Tonight - 3.0m (21.0%)
17:40- ITV News; Sports Results; Weather- 3.6m (22.6%)
17:55- New You've Been Framed! - 4.9m (28.9%)
18:25- Harry Hill- 5.3m (27.6%)
18:55- Dancing on Ice - 8.9m (41.0%)
19:55- Primeval - 5.6m (24%)
20:55- PokerFace: The Million Pound Final- 6.3m (27.9%)
21:55- Dancing on Ice - The Skate Off - 6.8m (31.2%)
22:25- Al Murray's Happy Hour- 2.6m (15.3%)

CHANNEL 4:
19:00- Born Survivor: Bear Grylls - 1.4m ( 6.6%)
20:00- Bremner, Bird and Fortune - 1.8m ( 7.6%)
21:00- The 50 Greatest TV Dramas - 1.4m ( 7.7%)

CHANNEL 5:
18:00- Godzilla - 1.6m ( 7.8%)
20:45- NCIS - 1.9m ( 8.3%)
21:30- CSI:NY- 2.6m (12.0%)
22:00- Law and Order - 1.7 (11.0%)

Once again Dancing On Ice rules Saturday night, Primeval drops viewers once again however it was up against Casualty, which did good as usual. Poker Face does well in its finale. Ratings are dissapointing for Comic Relief Does Fame Academy- I'm sure the Beeb were expecting at around the 6 million mark.
Last edited by rizstar : 04-03-2007 at 16:34

Hmm, I remember it starting quite low a couple of years ago as well. It tends to build its audience up during the weeknight shows.

no morning stuff for ITV1?

No, none of their morning stuff got into the top thirty ratings yesterday

oooh i see

Casualty was down on previous weeks and Primeval did well considering it was head to head with Casualty.

I wish that ITV would run to the same timings every week. The have a strong and varied line up at the moment, so why not have some faith in it and start with Harry Hill at 6pm each week running through to Al Murray starting at 10.15?
Last edited by GeorgeS : 04-03-2007 at 16:32

I agree with that-then ratings would probably be more consistent.

Fame Academy ratings from 2005:

Saturday 26th 6.15: 5.69m 9.00: 6.79m
Wedensday 8.00: 5.08m
Thursday 8.00: 5.99m
Friday 9.00: 6.81m 10.35: 5.70m
Saturday 6.45: 5.85m 8.45: 8.18m
Sunday 6.35: 5.71m 9.00: 7.05m
Monday 9.00: 6.74m 10.35: 5.66m
Tuesday 8.00: 8.15m 10.35: 6.22m
Wedensday 8.00: 6.88m 10.40: 5.74m
Thursday 8.00: 8.10m 9.30: 7.19m

So it had a lower start this year. Still not bad considering the competition.

WOW! Never knew it got into the 8 million range. Doubt it will this year as it goes head to head with Emmerdale and Corrie.

This was the competiotion in 2005 - Stars in Their Eyes which got 4.93m and for the results Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which had 6.38m.

Ratings are down for everything compared with two years ago, so it's a pretty similar start really. The difference now is all the weekday episodes go out at 7pm up against ITV's soaps - so it could find things a bit more difficult.

Think it may be suffering from the 'overload' of these celebrity singing shows. When it was first on it was new & had novelty value but now it is just more of the same!! The pull of red nose day 'may' increase rating later in series but just don't think it will hit the viewing figures of earlier series.

MB

Will be interesting to see if the soap's suffer