I imagine people will be asking for Tonight to be axed again tommorow

I haven't specified in the rules, so I suppose you can.

For season 3, I'll specify that once you submit, you cant change.

This tennis is quite gripping. I think BBC 1 will do well.

Thanks, it'll probably flop now.

The Tennis was a great watch and I don't even like Tennis! Should be a good lead in for Criminal Justice which looks quite good.

Will be interesting what the ratings for that hour on BBC One, I would say between 6-8m.

EDIT - Just had a thought, will the overrunning of the tennis and CJ starting late mean News at Ten may come on top tonight?

Certainly not.

Re the tennis on Wednesday - the first match on Centre Court will be Federer v Ancic for certain. Federer has won every match so far in straight sets. If he does this again, Nadal v Murray wil start soon after 3pm which would mean it could easily finish by 6pm. If it isn't over by 6pm, it should be near the end which I think would lead to a delayed News/Regional News rather than them switching to BBC2.

Obviously if Federer does not win in straight sets then the Nadal v Murray match will start later and I think it would be a case of BBC deciding what to do based on the exact state of the match, like they did tonight.

Also rain is scheduled for Wedensday at Wimbledon....

2 mens quarter final matches on court 1 the other 2 on centre.

The Murray match will 100% be second on centre therefore an estimated 4pm start.

See the BBCs mantra of ratings don't matter hasn't quite stretched to yesterday evening.

They could have easily kept the tennis on BBC2, and aired On the Fiddle/Criminal Justice/BBC News at Ten at the normal time. The BBC1 schedule was a lot fresher than the BBC2 plan, which were programmes which, in all honesty, could have simply be moved to another date. The obvious reason for the change was so CJ didn't clash with the tennis, as it would effect the rest of the week's ratings of CJ.

I'm so glad murray is through

A bit annoyed that Tipsarevic, Djokovic, Ivanovic and Jankovic have all failed to make it to the QF's.

I expect that the classic Federer V Nadal won't pull that many viewers, but Maybe a Williams V Williams would on the Women's side of things!

Federer v Murray might

K

Phew...4 pages since last night to read through!

I think NaT will get a boost last night, but BBC News will probably still win.

I'm annoyed the tennis was moved to BBC1 as I am not a fan of the tennis, but wanted to watch Criminal Justice so I ended up waiting nearly 40 minutes, and so gave up at 10.10, however I'll give it another go tonight.

Even though the tennis will get good ratings on BBC1, it could have harmed the Criminal Justice audience, or boosted it, however there could be many people like myself who gave up.

The average age of viewers to shows in the US is getting older

http://www.variety.com/VR1117988273.html

Not that I wish to get into a statistics debate, but do they understand the difference between "median" and "average"? They seem to use the terms interchangably, when they shouldn't. (Without seeing the total population age distribution, it's difficult to be sure, but I think that's getting older too, hence the change, probably)

K

Median being the midpoint and the average being the sum divided. I suppose the baby boom of the 40's & 50's would push the average age even higher than the median. The average age of viewers would be a lot more important than the median age.

Some interesting 16-34 shares for Sunday:

TOP 6:

1. BBC1-21.8%
2. CH4-10.9%
3. BBC2-9.8%
4. FIVE-4.3%
5. ITV1-4.1%
6= ITV2-3%
= E4-3%

ITV1 trails the terrestrial pack and only 1% difference between ITV1 and digital channels E4 and ITV2!!

Monday night:

ITV1

9pm Police, Camera, Action 4.4m (19%)

Ch4 Incl. +1:

7.50pm THE TRUTH ABOUT STREET WEAPONS: The Mother's Story 493,800
8pm DISPATCHES: THE TRUTH ABOUT STREET WEAPONS 834,700
9pm KIDS, KNIVES AND BROKEN LIVES 1.0M
10pm BIG BROTHER 2.9M
11.05pm THE TRUTH ABOUT STREET WEAPONS 554,200

That is quite frankly embarrassing.

Murray match peaked 10.4m at 9.15pm, 43.5%.

^ ^^No real surprises there. Police Camera Action pulls in a respectable audience which ITV will be pleased with.

I thought the Disarming Britain season would perform poorly, because although it is in the news a lot it is a sensitive issue which people don't want to watch.

Police Camera Action looked like it was a new format. Did anybody watch? And once New Tricks returns next Monday I wonder if Police Camera Action will dip in the ratings.

Fantastic, think that warrants being on BBC1! Shame the whole thing wasn't on 1 but im certain the whole of Nadal v Murray will be. Looking forward to seeing the rest of last night's ratings...

It held up pretty well and still beat ITV. It shows how important the lead in is to shows like The Royal, without a soap or talent show before it people don't go out of their way to watch it seemingly.

The Tennis was the most watched show yesterday. I'm not a 100% sure with the timing, but if it ran from 8.30-9.35, it averaged 8.6m. It peaked with 10.65m at 21.30. It's the 14th most watched programme of the year.

Corrie (1) got 7.6m. EastEnders got 7.4m. Corrie (2) also got 7.4m. Sorry don't have the shares atm.

It was definitely the right decision to put it on BBC1. The ratings back it up.