Yep thats right a few weeks ago when they had TRT in their schedule they had about a 20% share but the daytime hasent been performing as well as it was a few weeks ago and since then its been consistently at 18-19% with more on a Sunday and less on a Saturday.

anyone have doctors and Neighbours ratings?

Shame about the BAFTAs on Sunday; but for that, BBC1 could very well have had a perfect 7 nights out of 7 for the first time since ITV's failed relaunch.

Great ratings for the football and Ashes.

Can see why ITV paid over the odds for the football, not that it would have got those figures on ITV1. What a shame that money has won the day and we'll have to endure ITV's shoddy and commercial-heavy coverage from August.

Well deserved figures for Ashes, it was far better than I imagined it would be. Let's hope it holds the audience. Nearly 2m ahead of T&R, quite unexpected.

Although, even worse, England home friendlies will actually only be shown on Setanta, with ITV having only the competitive games.

There's a home friendly due at the end of May, opponents yet to be announced (Scotland rumoured, I think). I think that will be the final game, unless a home friendly is squeezed in afterwards.

Would think England v Scotland would get a sizeable audience fitting for the BBC's last live England game, 10m perhaps, in the absence of a domestic appearance in Euro2008? (the tournament ITV has already meekly run away from screening the final of)

Have you lot had five c**** put up your bum recently?!

only kidding

Neighbours gets basically the same audience each day. About 2.5m for the lunchtime show, with doctors slightly ahead with 2.6m. While the evening gets about 3m

And a glass of white wine

This BBC versus ITV nonsense is of the past. It made sense when it really WAS just ITV versus BBC, but it has'nt been that way for some time. Or have people not noticed?

Multi-channels have split the "BBC-alternative" audience. Night after night the BBC alternative is the winner.

Why should it be BBC vs "the rest"? Why not "Sky" vs "the rest"?

K

Probably because generally BBC1/ITV1 have the highest audiences compared with other chanels, and are still seen as the two main channels (even in this multi-channel world). How many of those multi-channels get 6-10million viewers for a programme?

Any idea what the Royal Today is getting please? Thanks.

Gets about 1.2-1.8m.

Is that up or down on what it was getting at the start?

Yes, BBC One and ITV1 are the big two, by a long way!

Yet in recent years Channel 4 has been able to beat both channels in peak time, and sometimes all-hours. So I don't think it is by a long way. ITV getting beaten or nearly beaten by Five on some nights.

How many times has C4 beaten BBC One or ITV1 in all-hours?

How many times has C5 beaten ITV1 in primetime shares?

Just because American import CSI has occasionally beaten ITV1 on Tuesdays at 9pm, it doesn't follow that C5's overall primetime share that night would be anywhere near that of ITV1's.

Trust me, BBC One and ITV1 are big players. C5 ain't.

During 2002, 2004 and 2005 C4 has been able to beat BBC One in peaktime by more than 4 share points, and ITV1 as well. The days it has been able to beat both BBC One and ITV1 were on Friday 26th July 2002, Friday 12th August 2005 and Monday 12th September 2005. On other nights C4, BBC One and ITV1 all had over 16% share of all viewing.

I never said Five beat ITV1 in peaktime. But the fact that it has been able to beat it in some slots show that ITV1 is no longer supreme and is very vulnerable. Just because it is one of the Big 2, it doesn't mean that it gives good performances all the time like it used to.

So two Big Brother finals in the days when people actually cared about it, and the day the English cricket team won the Ashes?

Just goes to prove my point, really. BBC One and ITV1 are way ahead of pack.

Any ratings?

So that's three nights out of a grand total of .... well over 1,000. Impressive stuff indeed.



How many "other nights"? Do those "other nights" occur regularly? Is that figure covering a complete evening (including peak)?

Cheers for that. That's pretty good isn't it? For a new show in that time slot anyway.

Exactly. DG is just picking out extreme examples as if it's something that happens regularly.

Friday 8th February Overnights
BBC1
17.30- Neighbours: 2.4m..(17%)
19.00- The One Show: 4.3m..(22%)
20.00- Eastenders: 8.9m..(39%)
21.00- New Tricks: 4.3m..(19%)
22.00- BBC News; Weather: 4.8m..(24%)
22.35- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: 4.0m..(27%)

BBC2
21.00- The Choir: Boys Don't Sing: 2.6m..(11%)
22.00- QI: 2.7m..(13%)

ITV1
19.00- Emmerdale: 7.8m..(38%)
19.30- Coronation Street: 9.8m..(46%)
20.30- Coronation Street: 9.0m (38%)
21.00- Moving Wallpaper: 2.7m (11%)
21.30- Echo Beach: 2.3m (10%)
22.00- Al Murray's Happy Hour: 2.4m (12%)

Channel 4
21.00- Peter Kay Live: 3.5m..(15%)
22.00- Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong: 1.8m..(9%)

Five
20.00- Ice Road Truckers: 2.2m..(10%)
21.00- NCIS: 2.3m..(10%)

Two repeats end up beating ITV. Ouch.

So ITV1 came joint 4th out of 5 channels from 9.30-10pm last night.

And lost out to BBC2's QI repeat at 10pm.

I'll stop laughing in a minute...

Wonder how long ITV's shareholders will put up with this?