House is doing very well on Five. Am I correct in thinking that Hustle's ratings have decline this series? I'm sure it used to get 5-6 million but now seems to be hovering under the 5 million mark - perhaps it will be axed as I've heard discussion that its running out of steam.

Last night by the way EastEnders had 8 million viewers and a 42% share of the audience.

Thanks Poplar for Posting Eastenders - Where did you get the information from ?

It's on media guardian

Thanks Not Bad - Solid Ratings !

Next Week Looks great again - Dr Legg is back , Stacey sleeps with Deano and Sean and Carly have a passionate sex scene !

got house and shark ratings correct.
nothing else
nvrgot, who was surprised at the news's high ratings.

Tonight's Guess

BBC1
Football 7.2m

ITV1

Emmerdale 6.2m
Coronation Street 8.6m

Channel 4
Big Brother 1 4.6m
Big Brother 2 5.2m

Tonight's football will definitely get lower than 8 million. If this year's Champions League final surpassed 8 million, then maybe or possible a qualifier will get lower.

Top and Bottom AIs: Sunday 20th to Saturday 26th May

Top AI
Thu 24/05: 2100 House (five) 89
Tue 22/05: 2000 Return of the Tribe (five) 88
Thu 24/05: 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (five) 88
Fri 25/05: 2200 Law and Order: Criminal Intent (five) 87
Mon 21/05: 2200 Prison Break (five) 87


Bottom AI
Sun 27/05: 2215 This Is David Gest (ITV1) 57
Wed 23/05: 2305 Celebrity Sex Tapes Unwound (Channel 4) 59
Sat 26/05: 1955 National Lottery Draws (BBC ONE) 59
Mon 21/05: 2100 Greatest Britons 2007 (ITV1) 60
Fri 25/05: 2130 Ronni Ancona & Co (BBC ONE) 61
Wed 23/05: 2235 National Lottery Draws (BBC ONE) 61

Top five places all taken by Channel 5 this week

Friday Night's Top Ten

BBC1
6.00 News 3.4m 25.3%
6.30 Regional News Magazines 4.5m 30.5%
7.00 Celebrity MasterChef 4m 25.3%
7.30 Match of the Day Live 8.4m 40.5% (Match: 9.5m, Peak: 10.3m 47%)
10.00 News 5.9m 28.9%
10.35 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 4m 26.3%

ITV1
7.00 Emmerdale 5.7m 36.1%
7.30 Corrie 7.5m 42.5%

CHANNEL 4
8.30 Big Brother 3.3m 15.1%
10.30 Big Brother 4.3m 24.6%

Fantastic ratings for the footie - friendlies don't usually do that well, probably Becks' return and being Brazil added a few. The BBC will miss those matches when they go to ITV.

Any ideas what friday night project and ugly betty got?

That's brilliant for a friendly. More people watched this than the Champions League Final.

Don't know exactly, but they got below 3.3 million.

The actual match averaged 9.5m on ITV1, exactly the same as last night, and 1.2m watched it on Sky. And BBC1 Scotland were showing EastEnders/River City/Holby Blue so that will push the final figure down slightly. Still brilliant ratings though!

The return of Becks seems to have brought in many more viewers. Big Brother needs to get more men in as soon as possible. Both soaps suffered big dips too.

The friendly matches are going to Setanta as part of the new deal. ITV will only have the competitive matches.

WRONG. According to the FA website, ITV and Setanta will both share the home friendlies.

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromT...sstatement.htm

well I stand to be corrected but I understood setanta get live coverage & ITV1 highlights of the friendlies.

Brilliant ratings indeed! I wonder if the BBC regret not going the extra mile to keep the deal! Especially as it seems to have even dimmed the bright ratings light that is Coronation Street.

im guessing 2.4m for ugly betty.
nvrgot, who's seen all of it.

not far off, 2.3m

Most BBC shows don't get 9 million so they should have tried harder to hold onto the football in my opinion.

I agree, and obviously ITV are going to make the most out of what is arguably the best football contract terrestrial tv can get. The England story is, good or bad, always big box office.
The other point is that there are millions of football fans and many of them licence fee payers who want their money spent on something they value-perhaps the BBC should remember that when it brings out the lame excuse that they couldnt possibly have spent so much on the contract for fear of annoying those very same licence fee payers.

cheers matt
nvrgot, whos's guessing 3.8 for grease, 6.3m for any dream will do and 7.8m for dw.
plus 1.7 for seven ages of rock.

I agree - its a shame I prefer football on the BBC and they are going to suffer in the ratings - but Michael Grade knew what they were going to bid so you could argue that it was inevitable ITV would get it when he went there.

Corrie really dropped in the ratings - EastEnders has been getting more than 7.5 million for the past two weeks.

Didn't Eastenders get 4.4 million recently when it was up against football or something like that anyway?
So 7.5 million is pretty good, no?