As People are having a little fun with guessing ratings I'll join in

The BBC have great programming this Easter Holiday - i am most looking forward to My Family , George Gently , Dot finding a baby in Eastenders and also New Tricks.

My Family (BBC1, Fri) 6.8m
Film: Starsky & Hutch (BBC1, Fri) 6m
Emma (rpt) (ITV1, Fri) 4.2m

Boat Race (ITV1, Sat) 3.6m; actual race 6.5m
Grease is the Word (ITV1, Sat) 5.6m
Doctor Who (BBC1) 7.9m
Any Dream Will Do (BBC1) 6.3m
Gameshow Marathon 5.7m

George Gently (BBC1 Sunday) 6.9m
Murder in the Outback (ITV1 Sunday) 5.2m

New Tricks (BBC1, Monday) 7.2m
Diamond Geezer (ITV1, Monday) 6m
Eastenders (BBC1 , Monday - Dot Finds a baby ) 9.5m

Any more ratings?

Have you got any for The Bill and the soaps?

You might be right - i just thought that Gameshow Marathon did very, very well last time, getting about 8 million i think. As for Sunday, Murder in the Outback seems like an odd choice for ITV1 on Easter Sunday. Anyway we'll soon see

The Apprentice gained 4.7m

WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACTUALS:


9pm

BBC1 The Apprentice 4.7m 20%
ITV1City Lights 5.5m 23%
BBC2 Natural World 1.8m 7%
Ch 4 Grand Designs 3.6m 15%

8pm
BBC2 Dishing It Up 1.3m 6% share
Channel Five I Know What You Ate Last Summer 600,000 2.7% share

8.30pm
BBC2 Sweet Baby James 1.9m 8% share
BBC1 Car Wars 3.6m 16% share

10pm
ITV1 Get a Grip 2.1m 10% share
ITV2 Deadline 166,000 a 1.1% share

ITV1
11pm Deadline (same as ITV2 at 10pm)800,000 9% share

- does this mean it was on ITV2 at 10pm, ITV2+1 @ 11pm and ITV1 @ 11pm? Overkill anyone?
Last edited by GeorgeS : 05-04-2007 at 14:08

BBC1
Orangutan Diary 4.2m (26%)
Eastenders 7.8m (46%)
Waterloo Road 4.7m (24%)
Hotel Babylon 5.1m (25%)
BBC News 4.6m (25%)

ITV1
Emmerdale 6.2m (39%)
Sevilla v Tottenham 4.1m (21%) from 7:45pm, peaking at 4.5m at 9:00pm
Corrie in the Dock 2.1m

any ratings for corrie wed
house thursday
thanks

Eastenders 7.8m (46%)
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The number of viewers isn't good, but the share is very good compared to recent shares. I guess not many people were watching telly last night.

Wednesday's soaps
Emmerdale - 7.2m (42%)
Coronation Street - 9.4m (48%)

I hate to be a pain in the backside, but does anyone have the rating for The Bill on Wednesday?

Ouch! That's low for EastEnders they need to sort out 4 episodes a week before they think about adding a fifth.

could you please post a link from where you get your tv ratings please
thanks

Waterloo Road has established a loyal fan base and hopefully will return for a 3rd series.

Share is more important these days and 46% is EastEnders highest in weeks.

It's going to - 20 episodes.

Well today they've come from a Doctor Who forum - http://www.gallifreyone.com. You'll need to register first though. On an average weekday they come from www.mediaguardian.co.uk.

Yeah, it will for a 20-part third series.

The extended Waterloo Road series 3 for BBC One is the single biggest drama commission Shed have taken according to Broadcast!

Media types talk about share, Joe Public talks about numbers. Even though EastEnders had a fantastic share the headline figure will be that ratings plummeted. It can't be good for morale on the show. The BBC just need to be cleverer about how they schedule it.

How are they meant to schedule it? It's been in the same slots for donkeys years, if it's on later like it was a few weeks ago with Fame Academy it loses viewers, up against tougher opposition. If they start tinkering around with the scheduling of EastEnders they'd destroy it.

much appreciated
thanks....

Well leaving it on at 7.30 when they know Emmerdale will do one of their pain the arse hour long spoiling tactics episodes doesn't help. Then moving it around for Fame Academy didn't help it, it went against the super hot Master Chef on BBC2. BBC1 and BBC2 bosses should have sat down to avoid the schedule clash. And now ITV will have a monopoly on terrestrial football that will harm the show big time so they should keep it out of harms way as much as they can. The show is damaged anyway in terms of public perception share means nothing to them headlines about it only being watched by 8 million makes it seem a lame duck show.

BBC still have the FA Cup and England Home Internationals until the end of the 07/08 season.
That gives plenty of time for EastEnders to be strengthened and brought back on form by the time ITV take control of the football rights in August 2008.

Waterloo Road's Commison Is Shed's Biggest Comisson Second To Bad Girls which had 16.

I don't see why the Football will bother EastEnders - the England matches will be on Wedensdays, i would imagine ITV will chose to show FA Cup replays on Tuesdays at 7.45, but that will have very little effect on EastEnders. Big Champions League matches hardly knock it down.


EastEnders is fine where it is - against weak opposition on all channels. it might be vulnerable to the odd hour long Emmerdale, but if it was later it would do worse weak in weak out, rather than just occasionally. Masterchef wasn't a problem for 2 out of the 3 later EE's due to FA - but it's rating was still well down. I'm not sure why that schedule clash was an important one to avoid - they're both totally different programmes.
Last edited by ronant : 06-04-2007 at 19:42