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Old 20-04-2008, 11:53
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Resorting to personal abuse is just pathetic.

Where did I say that I didnt like Doctor Who?
where are the dr who fans talking about emigrating then? first I heard
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Old 20-04-2008, 11:55
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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.
Its going to be on Friday 30th May

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.
Some huge generalisations there. By your logic, 1 in 6 people in the UK is a chav as last night, 1 in 6 people did watch BGT You don't like it so its for chavs right?

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.
 
Old 20-04-2008, 11:57
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Wow absolutley colossal figures for BGT!

I'm thinking with these ratings BGT could achieve astronomical ratings for its finale. 15/16 million?
That would be fantastic!

So BGT is the fourth most watched show this year, I'm sure it will rise.
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Old 20-04-2008, 11:57
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No - its about taste, clearly something you lack
Oh dear. How ridiculously immature.
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:00
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where are the dr who fans talking about emigrating then? first I heard
A few on another forum. Talk about over reacting. Its only tv folks!
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:03
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The Doctor Who fans are talking about emigrating, just because BGT got higher ratings last night. Over reacting, never!
Not sure what yout point is, since BGT isn't even on at the same time as Doctor Who and therefore isn't in competion with it.
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:17
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A few on another forum. Talk about over reacting. Its only tv folks!
A few being the key word. Just like a few ITV shareholders are probably messing their pants this morning over BGT's massive audience last night. Talk about overreacting!

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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Old 20-04-2008, 12:24
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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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Old 20-04-2008, 12:27
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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...
Yep, my "typical" household (blimey we could save BARB a fortune!) watched the Rugby League and the ManU game live, and watched DW later when it was nice and dark...

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.

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Old 20-04-2008, 12:31
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Yup, the Man Utd game average 870,000 (5.3%) during Doctor Who
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:36
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I dont like Mr & Mrs, but I dont lose any sleep because about 7m seem to enjoy watching it.
Thats certainly debatable, I was one of the 6.7m to watched it and thaught it was bloody awful the most pointless show to grace TV in a long stretch. Its the same thing with TOS and EE. The likelyhood is that people were waiting to watch BGT.
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:38
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The likelyhood is that people were waiting to watch BGT.
I can think of better ways of passing an hour. But the figures are solid across the full 60 minutes.
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:41
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I can think of better ways of passing an hour. But the figures are solid across the full 60 minutes.
Fair point assuming you have a break down of figures across the hour.
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Old 20-04-2008, 12:54
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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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Old 20-04-2008, 12:56
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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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Old 20-04-2008, 12:57
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Fair point assuming you have a break down of figures across the hour.
GeorgeS is right- Mr and Mrs was pretty stable for the majority of 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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Old 20-04-2008, 12:58
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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.
Actually this is not my point at all. I watch The Bill and record Holby Blue, but almost did not bother as I was not impressed by the first series. It would not really bother me if it was axed.

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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Old 20-04-2008, 13:11
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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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Old 20-04-2008, 13:17
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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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Old 20-04-2008, 13:28
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Britain's Got Talent got an absolute peak of 11.2m (45%).
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Old 20-04-2008, 13:31
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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.
Well most people do, look at tv guides and so on.

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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Old 20-04-2008, 13:32
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I dont like Mr & Mrs, but I dont lose any sleep because about 7m seem to enjoy watching it.
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? You said the same thing about your preferentially not being critical of Rock Rivals as some people were watching and enjoying it, so does this "live and let lie" dealy only apply to ITV programmes?
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Old 20-04-2008, 13:35
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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?
I said I take my hat off to My Family. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...postcount=9720 It is very popular. I have no idea why, but fair dues to them if they keep getting away with it.

And I cant stand Rock Rivals & have never tried to defend it. It has no redeeming features at all.
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Old 20-04-2008, 13:38
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No - its about taste, clearly something you lack
What are you talking about? That means 10.3 million lack taste. It's about opinion, I'm sorry. So, I don't know why you are making these kind of remarks. If these are the only kind of posts you are going to make, then please just leave. Nobody wants to hear it. Sorry.
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Old 20-04-2008, 13:40
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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.
I wonder how they will react to Christopher Biggins & his partner next week? You would expect the older generation to be a bit more conservative. Will it affect the audience?
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