ITV1
8pm Foyle’s War 7.1m (28%)
10pm Headcases 4.0m (19%)

So, Headcases didn't drop any viewers from last week?! Seems like people like it.

Headcases held up really well.

Foyles War did quite well in the 8pm slot as well.

Wow for Headcases I really don't think it's in a great slot, but it's doing very well.

I'm glad some aspects of ITV1's schedule are doing well. I feel sorry for The Fixer, though, which IMO is superb but will probably get lower ratings tonight against Waking The Dead.

If ITV don't commission a second series thought, they are dumb. It could really be their answer to Spooks, if it's nurtured and given a decent slot and backing.

They need to make their minds up; according to their ratings page it had a "strong debut". Clowns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...ngs.television

A few bright spots are appearing for ITV. English teams are doing well in the Champions League, Headcases must be its first show this year to hold its audience between two episodes. The Saturday schedule looks alot better than expected (particularly All Star Mr and Mrs and Pushing Daisies), The Fixer has been its best new drama this year (even though it's figures are hardly great) and Benidorm is doing well on Friday nights even against the return of My Family.

Definitely, although some people on this forum dislike ITV so much they'll be desperate to rubbish it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...tv.itvbusiness

What on earth were expectations?! And those 16-34 numbers look really good.

Poor Big Brother

Couldn't BGT just have left if alone

For every poster who is anti ITV there is one who is pro ITV/anti BBC - its just the way of the world.

Very true.

On Saturday, the peak time shares for both ITV and BBC were very good:

Peaktime (6pm to 10.30pm) shares: ITV1 – 27.6%, BBC1 – 25.5%, BBC2 – 8.2%, Five – 6%, C4 – 4.9%, multichannel – 27.6%.

SUNDAY 13th APRIL 2008:

ITV1
7pm TV's Funniest Music Moments 3.9m 18%
8pm Foyle's War 7.1m 28%
10pm Headcases 4m 19%

BBC1
7pm My Family 4.3m 21%
7.30pm I'd Do Anything 5.9m 26%
8pm Tiger - Spy in the Jungle 4.8m 19%
9pm Casualty 1907 3.5m 14%
10pm News 5.3m 24%
10.20pm Match of the Day 2 2.7m 17%

London Marathon averaged 3.2m 36% share between 8.30am and 2pm.

BBC2
7.30pm US Masters 2.4m 13%

Five
8pm The Legend of Zorro 1.4m 6%


Link to ratings for this night last year:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...postcount=1288

Big improvement for BBC1.
Anyone remember Castaway?

I'm glad Casualty 1907 and Holby Blue aren't performing...perhaps now they'll stop trying to milk this brand for all it's worth and put something more original on instead.

My Family repeat did well, doesn't that make it around 10m for both showings?

10.2m. I can't believe how well it's doing

ITV1 did extremely well on Sunday with Foyle's War and Headcases though I think if there is a second series of HC, ITV should try it out in the Friday Comedy Block with Bernidorm and Teenage Kicks.

Interesting to see that the repeat of My Family did extremely well though I suspect that weak competition from ITV1 probably helped.

Is there a possiblity that Benidorm will come out on top in the officials? ITV usually has a higher time-shift than BBC due to adverts, plus Benidorm finished around 9.25 and I suspect a lot of people turned off from 9.25-9.30 (as the Teenage Kicks rating indicates).

I take my hat off to it. Awful tired cliched show but it obviously appeals to a lot of viewers. At this rate we will see My Family continue through several more implausible sets of casts until eventually the parents are put into an old folks home.

My Family is a by the numbers sitcom which I always found amusing than laugh out loud funny. I remember that the creator of the show Fred Barron tried to pitch it to US Networks but they rejected it as being too dark! I bet he's having the last laugh as the show has run for 8 series.

It will interesting how well Half Man Half Tree does in the ratings considering how well I Am The Elephant Man did 3.5m for Channel 4 and also people have been talking about it.

My Family too dark Says alot about American Sitcoms.

My forum name is itviss**t. But now, I don't know. Pushing Daisies, Benidorm, Headcases (which actually isn't great), the Prisoner on ITV4. They're getting a lot better.

Actually Amazing Race isn't that expensive by all accounts, its a show that really does lend itself to recouping costs as the exposure for travel firms, airlines, attractions is such that alot of it can be done for pretty much nothing. It might be a little harder for the UK as you cant be as obvious with your product placement but with the rules relaxing next year you have to think it would be the ideal time to bring a Uk Version of The Amazing Race to the air.

Anyway the issue with The Amazing Race isnt the cost but the planning and organisation. Since season 1 the worlds got alot more scared and suspicious and security has heightened. It makes a season of the show very hard to put together with all the different countries and hence the different visas, travel arrangements both internally and exteranally , tasks ect ect that have to be arranged. Its one of the reasons that only a single season was Scheduled this season in the states


ITV totally screwed it up in both seasons. The first by simply over exposing it. Whats fun about Survivor US is it cuts out all the crap about every day life on the island, its about the challenges, surviving and the plotting not about an hour of them mainly sitting around chatting, it basically became Big Brother on a beach.

The second season they screwed it up by allowing the viewers to have a say in who wins. The audience sees pretty much everything and it becomes a popularity contest rather than who played the smartest and most devious game as it does when its just tribal council deciding.

I also think though the UK's population doesnt help on these shows. Even with things like the editing being done in a more enetertainment driven way in the US rather than a sociological way in the UK our versions of shows like survivor and big brother are less 'exciting' because the uk contestants are less driven to win, they are more likly to be all about the experience where in the US they see it as a game and a game they will do anything to win.

Now this is where Amazing race could be a real success, it forces you into competition mode and doesnt let you spend most of the day just getting to know the other contestants. You are busy racing and everyone is your competitor that could knock you out

I never think they are milking the brand per say. Holby Blue and Casualty 1907 from what I have seen (And I haven't watched a whole episode of either so I may be wrong) have a totally different feel and style imho to Casualty and Holby City.

As such it strikes me as if they are shows that were pitched to the BBC as stand alone shows which the BBC have then decided to throw into the casualty brand as a way to get a few extra mill to tune in (and I know they arent supposed to ratings chase but when they have alot of people bitching that they don't watching their shows and shouldn't have to pay they understandably try and get all the viewers they can for shows like this)