Liverpoool got 4.1m (19%) two weeks ago versus Arsenal 3.4m (15%)

Channel 4
9.00pm Jamie's Ministry of Food - 3.0m (13%)

What about the match itself, I imagine the audience share is brought down by the 30 minutes of waffle at the end.

Overnights from Brand Republic. The big news is Mutual Friends won the n9pm slot with 5 million!! Where did they suddenly get the viewers from?


Tuesday overnights

It is possible that Manchester United carry more of the audience over to ITV4 than Chelsea? I'd be interested to see how the Man United audience compared with Chelsea's a fortnight ago for a full comparison between the two matchdays on the ITV channels.
Last edited by PremierFella : 01-10-2008 at 12:08

yes indeed

Does it strike anyone that the BBC's scheduler's have made a hash of it this week. Although Mutual Friends did well, perhaps that is because it remained in the same slot all through its run. And perhaps Who Do You Think You Are? was diminished by being moved from its usual spot so Silent Witness could appear, thus angering Heroes' fans as this prevented an HD simulcast of the first episode of series 3.

Although I think that Who Do You Think You Are? may have reached its natural end as the stories are becoming rather repetitive (Holocaust, slavery) and a failure to make the middle and upper class stories compelling, it can't be helped by sloppy scheduling.

Many thanks for that GeorgeS. I had a suspicion that the difference between the Liverpool and Arsenal ratings might be explained by the relative ITV4 ratings on the nights.

I'm a United fan, and can fully understand the frustration other clubs' fans have with ITV showing preference for Manchester United on ITV1 over many years, but given the ratings its hard to see what else a commercial channel can do (at least ITV this year have the Celtic game as an excuse to show the extra Man United group game on ITV1).

WDYTYA was moved to Monday and BBC1 didn't show any trailers for it. MUPPETS!!

They should have kept it on Wednesday for its entire run. I don't understand why they moved it. Mutual Friends has been getting middling viewers most weeks so I was stunned to see it get 5 million.

On a sidenote Broadcast has been talking about Casualty's ratings slide.

Casualty in need of first aid

And Five have bought US show The Mentalist.

Five goes Mentalist

Media Guardian is saying Mutual Friends got 3.5 million.

That's a big rating for ITV4, just shows the pull of Man Utd that the London clubs just cannot match.

possibly its highest ever rating?

1.9m! Amazing!

I must admit, I'm one who watched ITv4,

I was flicking between both matches. It's a shame ITV couldn't do a multiscreen coverage like Sky or the BBC do with their interactive services.

Tuesday 30 September 2008 Overnights

BBC1
19.30- EastEnders: 8.09m (38%)
20.00- Holby City: 5.65m (24.5%)
21.00- Mutual Friends: 3.49m (15.3%)
* series average: 3.64m (16.2%)
22.00- BBC News at Ten: 4.8m (25%)

BBC2
20.00- Tiger: Spy In The Jungle: 1.37m (5.9%)
21.00- Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones on Anger: 1.08m (4.7%)
22.00- Later Live... with Jools Holland: 605,000 (3.2%)

ITV1
19.00- Emmerdale: 6.04m (30.5%)
19.30- UEFA Champions League Live: 3.41m (15.1%)
* match average: 3.8m (17%)
* peak: 4.3m (19%) at 20.10
22.00- News at Ten: 1.7m (9.5%)

C4
20.00- The Sex Education Show: 1.82m (7.8%)
* 2.0m inc. C4+1
21.00- Jamie's Ministry of Food: 3.0m (13.2%)
* +257,000 on C4+1
* audience rise from 2.7m (11.6%) to 3.4m (15.7%)
22.00- Dawn Porter: Free Lover: 1.75m (10.7%)
* +111,000 on C4+1

Five
20.00- Megastructures: 1.32m (5.7%)
21.00- CSI: Miami: 2.41m (10.5%)
22.00- CSI: NY: 1.7m (10.1%)

Multichannel
19.30- UEFA Champions League Live (ITV4): 1.67m (8.5%)
* match average: 1.9m (9.6%)
* peak: 2.25m (11.3%) at 21.30
20.00- Sister Act (ITV2): 449,000 (2.3%)
21.00- Don't Tell The Bride (BBC3): 659,000 (3.3%)
22.00- EastEnders (BBC3): 892,000 (5.5%)
22.30- Coming of Age (BBC3): 274,000 (2.2%)

All hours shares for Tuesday 30 September 2008: BBC1 – 22.2%, ITV1 – 16.8%, C4 – 8.7% (C4+1 – 0.6%), Five – 6.7%, BBC2 – 6.3%, multichannel 38.7%.

Peaktime (6pm to 10.30pm) shares: BBC1 – 24.3%, ITV1 – 16.8%, C4 – 9% (C4+1 – 0.7%), Five – 6.3%, BBC2 – 6.3%, multichannel - 36.5%.

EE must have won the clash as Neil Wilkes hasent reported it.

I only realised it had moved as I have it on sky+ series link. It did finish on a weaker celebrity as well.

Apologies - I didn't realise DS had an article up so I am editing more in.

It stared with 9, them fell to around 7m.I really dont think it can beat CBS but thy should put it on in a 9pm slot.. they have nothing else!


There was no clash.

Awful night for ITV1 Low all hours share.

Broadcast are saying it was ITV4's highest ever rating last night.


Source : http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2..._for_itv4.html

Does anybody know what The One Show got yesterday?

ITV were abit stupid with the matches last night#
I was surprised Man Utd was on ITV4 because it is Man Utd and Liverpool which do bring in the high ratings and they should really always go on ITV1.

Well given that they come in for a lot of criticism of fans of the other clubs for their Man U bias they can't win.

They looked at the games, and the Arsenal match should have been more competitive so went out on ITV1.