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[List][*]Admin Edit: This thread is a continuation of Ratings Thread[/List] Quote:
Resorting to personal abuse is just pathetic.
![]() Where did I say that I didnt like Doctor Who? |
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Has it been confirmed if the BGT final will be on Saturday or like last year on Sunday?
If it's on a Sunday, then I think the rating could be more than if it was on Saturday. Because 19.00-21.00 Sunday is the pimp slot of the week- more people watch tv in this time period than any other time period. Often the total tv audience is around the 27 million mark, whereas on Saturdays it's around the 23 million mark. ![]() Quote:
ITV are past masters at producing lowest common denominator TV and BGT is no exception - at least it keeps chavs off the street for an hour. BBC1 needs to ditch Andrew Lloyd Webber rubbish as well as Graeme Norton (just not right for Saturday night) and concentrate on new entertainment with professional artists and comics. Also stop mucking about with the schedule for Dr Who - it peaked at 7.5m the time it started last week! And lastly shove Casualty into the 8pm slot of Sunday and give us some new drama on Saturday. Over to you Jay Hunt.
As for the rest of your comments, the shows on the BBC all got respectable ratings so they're obviously doing something right. I doubt BGT will get 15/16m, but I think its certainly looking at beating its peak of 13.5m from last year. |
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Wow absolutley colossal figures for BGT! ![]() Quote:
I'm thinking with these ratings BGT could achieve astronomical ratings for its finale. 15/16 million?
So BGT is the fourth most watched show this year, I'm sure it will rise. |
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No - its about taste, clearly something you lack
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where are the dr who fans talking about emigrating then? first I heard
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The Doctor Who fans are talking about emigrating, just because BGT got higher ratings last night. Over reacting, never!
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A few on another forum. Talk about over reacting. Its only tv folks!
![]() Britain's Got Talent is clearly just a load of tacky sob stories, Tiny Tears Holden, Chunk from the Goonies, two balding Geordies and a flabby moobed man. UK TV at its finest!* * this is an example of an overreacting clown. There are a few dozen to be found on every forum.
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Its over reacting because the state of the country cant be divined from which tv shows are most popular. You cant say that everyone are morons & chavs for watching things you personally dont like. People have different tastes and I dont think insulting people because their taste is different is very grown up.
I like Dr Who (I liked the old Who better - but thats another story) but its ratings dip last night is mainly due to Man Utd playing on Stenata from 5.15- 7pm. Its audience will bounce back next week in all likelihood. I dont like Mr & Mrs, but I dont lose any sleep because about 7m seem to enjoy watching it. |
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...I like Dr Who (I liked the old Who better - but thats another story)
but its ratings dip last night is mainly due to Man Utd playing on Stenata from 5.15- 7pm. Its audience will bounce back next week in all likelihood...SWMBO watched BGT later on (she really enjoyed the first series) but she was more than a bit put off by the sob story at the end. K |
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Yup, the Man Utd game average 870,000 (5.3%) during Doctor Who
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I dont like Mr & Mrs, but I dont lose any sleep because about 7m seem to enjoy watching it.
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The likelyhood is that people were waiting to watch BGT.
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I can think of better ways of passing an hour. But the figures are solid across the full 60 minutes.
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I liked it.
![]() Although, I love trashy, crap TV. It's not too bad, Wendy Richard giving her partner dirty looks last week was amusing and I was interested to see how well the Cheeky Girl and Lembit Opik would do this week. In general, I think gameshows like this are fun and ITV do stuff like this much better than the BBC. I can't stand 1 vs 100 and stuff like that.Russell T Davis was right about Doctor Who being on too early, the BBC have been stupid. At least they're changing it mid way through the series. |
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I'm guessing the Doctor Who repeat on BBC 3 tonight will do well.
But it should be on latter and be at the heart of BBC's Saturday night schedule. |
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Fair point assuming you have a break down of figures across the hour.
ITV1 15 Minute Breakdown 19:00 …. 5.6 (26.2%) 19:15 …. 6.5 (29.6%) 19:30 …. 6.7 (29.5%) 19:45 …. 6.8 (29.8%) 20:00 …. 9.0 (39.3%) 20:15 …. 10.1 (43.2%) 20:30 …. 10.4 (43.3%) 20:45 …. 10.6 (43.4%) 21:00 …. 8.4 (35.2%) |
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I'm not criticising 'Holby Blue' either: I've never even watched it.
I'm also sympathetic that you fear one of your favourite shows may get scrapped because of poor ratings. It's happened to shows I've liked, for the same reason. Unless there's a dramatic improvement in HB's ratings over the rest of the series, it's likely to be scrapped. The only thing that could save it, if ratings don't rise, is stubborn pride, where a TV show gets recommissioned just to prove a point, a la Moving Wallpaper. My point is solely about ratings and scheduling. just do not follow the logic of scheduling a series bound to appeal mostly to fans of a long running pretty similar series that has become established in the Thursday 8 pm slot as it requires to either attract millions of new viewers not watching The Bill or to prise those viewers away from a series that many may have watched for years. The BBC is supposed to be about providing viewer choice and enterainment and so ought to be scheduling a contrast from The Bill in that slot not an identikit series. That is simply what I am arguing. |
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As regards Mr and Mrs, it is not a surprise to me that it is a hit.
It appeals to older viewers (almost everyone I know 50 and upwards is watching that in preference to BBC). It also has a couple that the older audience know well from daytime TV fronting it. Their popularity adds to any audience just like Ant and Dec do. Since younger people are more likely to go out on Saturday nights than older ones it is bound to skew the audience a bit. If DW continues to go head to head with Mr and Mrs it will continue to be neck and neck. It reinforces my point above (in my post about Holby blue vs The Bill) about offering viewer choice. Do not split the audience by offering matching series and you will increase the overall audience. In that hour last night viewers had a credible choice between two very different kinds of show on ITV and BBC and both did very well. Schedulers should be paying attention. |
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But can you really call DW viewers, 'viewers' if they'll only watch it when the show is on late. My stance is that if the show was good enough then people would run home from shopping or work or whatever it may be if they really wanted to catch the show which their obviously not doing.
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Britain's Got Talent got an absolute peak of 11.2m (45%).
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But can you really call DW viewers, 'viewers' if they'll only watch it when the show is on late. My stance is that if the show was good enough then people would run home from shopping or work or whatever it may be if they really wanted to catch the show which their obviously not doing.
But there's about 1m who apparently don't, so come home to find it's about to finish. But that's like any show that starts in a different slot. Harry Hill got 7m one time he was on 7pm, but 5.5m for 5.30pm. Most people will watch doctor who at any time (well unless it was on 11am, cos i doubt 7m people are watching tv), but for pretty much every programme you have about 15-20% who will be in habit of timing |
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I dont like Mr & Mrs, but I dont lose any sleep because about 7m seem to enjoy watching it.
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Isn't there a bit of mild hypocrisy then in your lambasting of My Family every week when circa 6.5m watch, and presumably enjoy it?
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No - its about taste, clearly something you lack
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As regards Mr and Mrs, it is not a surprise to me that it is a hit.
It appeals to older viewers (almost everyone I know 50 and upwards is watching that in preference to BBC). It also has a couple that the older audience know well from daytime TV fronting it. |
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