Where did I say anything about Honest's ratings not being solid?

Mistresses consistently got 4-5m so in that respect they were 'solid' whereas Honest got 6m to start then went under 4m for a number of weeks and then rose above 4m on the final ep.


Great news.

From a Press Association article on Sport Relief

Audience figures peaked at 7.9 million during a Sport Relief Strictly Come Dancing special.

So a peak of under 8m for the evening....I guess anything is better than the last Sport Relief in 2006 in it's Saturday night summer slot on July 15th

13 SPORT RELIEF 2006 (SAT 2013) 4.63
25 SPORT RELIEF 2006 (SAT 1900) 3.85

figures from Barb

It did beat the competition on ITV1 that night tho

Well, the timeshifted comparison goes like this:

Mistresses: 5.05,4.92,4.76,4.63,4.73,5.12 (average 4.87m)
Honest: 6.30,4.75,4.05,4.26,3.68,4.26 (average 4.55m)

So, I'm not sure how one defines 'solid', but Mistresses certainly had more consistent ratings...

K

I bet ITV1 had a bad night last night - Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach were probably under 2 million and Corrie was probably under 9 for the 7.30pm edition and possibly under 8 for the 8.30pm episode.

By the way do we know what EastEnders got on Thursday night?

Do you have a link to the article at the Press Association or is it subscription only?

http://ukpress.google.com/article/AL...i0_Am-ROoG3QCQ

It peaked during the Sport Relief Strictly Come Dancing special.

Well maybe not you personally, and if you didnt I apologise for singling you out, but the common criticism here is that Honest was a flop, when really its series average is neck & neck with a newly launched series on BBC1 which is deemed to have done enough to be recommissioned

Mistresses is in a better position, though. About 1.5 million people stopped watching Honest after episode 1. If you don't include the first episodes of both series, Honest averaged: 4.2m and Mistresses averaged: 4.83m.

The Mistresses finale averaged higher than the premiere, whereas Honest was 2 million down. Mistresses definitely has a lot of potential, but I don't think the same can be said for Honest.

Honest took a one off hit as well because it was up against an England football match.

But if it was good enough, people would have tuned back the following week to watch it. Look at Hotel Babylon on BBC1. It goes lower for days up against Champions League matches, but go back up the following week.

Also, the England football match was on 6/2/08. Honest had already dropped it's viewers to about 4m by then.

Oh here we go again...

Easter Saturday 22nd March 2008

Repeat of the Vicar of Dibley at 9.35pm on BBC1, this is really bad considering it's another repeat showing plus it's the Easter Holiday Weekend you would think they would have made a bit more of an effort considering it's a Holiday weekend...V.o.D goes up against Pride and Predudice the 2004 film on ITV1 around 9.25pm.

The broadcasters really don't do Bank Holidays anymore..not like they use to..

As I understand it, Honest has been dropped because it did not attain its target 6 million average audience. However there was still some faint hope that Peter Fincham's arrival may offer it a stay of execution.

They shouldn't drop Honest. A new drama needs to be aired against consistent opposition or it won't get consistent results.

So, it should get a 2nd series, unless ITV are complete boneheads.

I agree - I would say it has potential. In fact I think ITV1 should comission everything apart from The Palace.

Yeah, I think whoever schedules on ITV should have thought that The Palace was not good enough for a competitive Monday night slot on ITV1 and should have moved it onto ITV2.

Thank God You're Here is a family show and why it is aimed at young males I don't know. It's just not. I would air it at 8:30pm on a Friday night or 7pm on a Saturday night. My opinion.

Honest probably deserved the Monday night slot and it would have picked up a solid audience.

But The Fixer is doing well and received good critics.

My Uncle has already seen He Kills Coppers and highly recommends it. I am generally very excited by it.

So I wouldn't give up hope on ITV1 just yet, there is a lot coming up in comparison to other channels:-

Benidorm
Affinity (a one off drama)
Taggart (10 part series for autumn)
Lost in Austen
The Changeling (starring Ray Winstone)
The Children (starring Kevin Whately)

I personally enjoy drama premieres on ITV1 and it gets good audiences because viewers are familiar with its brand and success.

To get contemporary drama doing well on ITV1, we need to see shows like Talk to Me being re-commissioned and there needs to be a specific night to aim at the younger demographic.

I think it should be Thursday because there is a lot of competition on that night and a good show would not get its potential audience. Therefore, it would be best to have a variation of Moving Wallpaper, Echo Beach, Benidorm, News Knight, Get a Grip (with new presenters), Tough Gig, 24 Hours With..., The Abbey, Mumbai Calling and others in this slot because they're all similar programmes in a recognised time slot and a recognised day.

I fear for Benidorm. They've gone and put it on a Friday which could be damaging because the show went out on a Thursday last year and is popular amongst young people who will probably be out.

The Pushing daises publicity seems to have gone a bit quiet, what happend to this?

Has it? The new trailer started airing tonight.

Did it say a date?

No, just "coming soon" again.

I fear for it as well.

As I said in my above post, I think that Thursday nights should be for these new contemporary comedy shows. They should shift Trial & Retribution to a Sunday & Monday while delaying Lewis and putting The Fixer on a Friday night, leaving Benidorm on a Thursday night.

Benidorm would fit right in on a Thursday at 10.45pm, not long after its old slot and still not messing up the other schedules whilst at the same time freeing up a Friday. This slot is usually just a repeat anyway. I just fail to see ITV's logic in appealing to the 16-34 category on a Friday. As if someone in that age group will stay in on a Friday especially to watch ITV!

this is something we actually agree on, if honest is getting 4 million then its holding on to a decent audience, its time that we all looked at the picture and not jumped to the conclusion that four million on itv is bad when shows on the bbc can command the same figure and we say well done bbc, i love my bbc but want itv to get better and then it will ensure a battle royal for viewers that both channels will compete for with the best offerings,

by the way going slightly of point we are getting a barb box as we are now one of the few thousand who will have their viewing habits monitored, considering we like mainly bbc and hardly switch over to itv they are still allowing us on the monitoring

I'd say 10:45pm would be a bit too late, but what about this schedule...

Thursday 22nd March

9:00pm Benidorm
9:30pm Moving Wallpaper
10:00pm News at Ten
10:35pm Echo Beach

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