Sunday Multichannel Ratings
BBC3:
19.45- Shrek 2: 1.39m (7.1%)

ITV2:
18.15- American Idol Final 2008: 220,000
20.15- Britain's Got Talent: 843,000 (4.2%)
21.15- Britain's Got More Talent: 743,000 (3.7%)

Sky One:
18.00- Gladiators: 814,000 (5.4%) * lost nearly half its audience in 2 weeks.
19.00- Don't Forget the Lyrics: 632,000 (3.5%)

How unfortunate that ITV News finally gets people through the door so to speak on the very day that it isn't 'At Ten.'

Just goes to show the bulletin can still get strong figures at 10.30 (where it was in the first place), providing it has a decent lead-in, even without Trevor and Julie!

Any ratings for Greek on BBC3 (Sunday) and Britains Got More Talent on ITV2 last night?

I don't think we'll find out these ratings until the officials come out in 2 weeks time.

Apparently the soaps' share of the audience was unexpectedly low last night - probably due to Springwatch. Corrie from 7.30-8.00pm only had 41% with 9.4 million viewers - down on what it usually has; EastEnders had 8.8 million viewers but only 36% of the audience, when it usually can get over 40% and the final Corrie had 9.5 million viewers but only 37% of the audience. Springwatch is probably part of the reason, but I suppose also if more people were watching on the Bank Holiday then they might have been attracted by other stuff such as Shrek 2 on BBC THREE, taking viewers away from the main channels.

ITV's peaktime share must have been incredible last night!

Amazing ratings for BGT last night. Apart from football, I can't imagine anything coming close for the next few months, apart from the rest of the week, of course. I wonder could it complete a "clean sweep" and take the top 6 positions this week in the ratings?

The Apprentice could be in for a rough ride this week. I was enjoying it but because it was the same night as football, I got a bit lost and I'll be sticking with BGT this week. Between the move from Wednesday and BGT having a 30 minute head-start, it won't do too well. Probably low 5's. (and Piers Morgan will slag off Alan Sugar for winning the ratings "war")

BGT will probably take some kind of hit, though. But considering I was thinking 9m for last night, it will still be excellent. Not sure about Wednesday. Friendlies have done really well in the past, but Thursday and Friday should be big nights again for BGT with little competition. Saturday has Doctor Who which will be a big clash but the results could do well with no competition.

Corrie is very dull recently.

I have stopped watching it.

Yep it was very good last night:

All hours share for Monday 26 May 2008: ITV1 – 21.8%, BBC1 – 20.4%, BBC2 – 8.3%, C4 – 7.1%, Five – 3.4%, multichannel – 38.9%.

Peaktime (6pm to 10.30pm) shares: ITV1 – 32.5%, BBC1 – 19.4%, BBC2 – 9.7%, C4 – 6.2%, Five – 3.6%, multichannel – 28.6%.

Weird that considering ITV1 had a brilliant peaktime share, that it's All hours share is quite low. The ITV1 daytime programmes must've done quite badly. But the main thing and good thing for ITV is that they completely dominated the evening which is the most important thing. However, to be fair to BBC1, their peaktime share was not bad, it was ok.

Not longing good for Gladiators , only two weeks in and it can't keeps its audience.

Personally, I'd call it depressing....

Does anyone know how Jonathan Ross is doing compared to when it launched in 2001 please?

I feel Britain's Got Talent will get similar viewing figures tonight, perhaps slightly down. The Apprentice will still be big for BBC1 but it's unfamiliar on the Tuesday night and Springwatch should still be able to pull in nearly 4 million viewers. But I can't see much other competition so I still think BGT can get at least 9 million tonight and tomorrow, and then get more on Thursday and Friday leading into the big finale.

Though, there is a slight advantage & disadvantage - Britain's Got Talent is starting at 8:30pm tonight, therefore before the Apprentice, then again, will viewers remember it's 8:30, which is not the best starting time, but I think it is in the circumstances it's the best with News at Ten and all.

Emmerdale doing well too, hopefully this was JUST what it needed and perhaps ITV needs to consider, horror of horrors, bringing its Evening News, which performs okayish, back to a 5:30pm slot, and bravely giving the hour slot to Golden Balls or hoist Paul O'Grady back into the act, giving him a nice contract and also letting him have a better slot than last time which is 6pm. Then, Emmerdale will have a nice entertainment filler before it, which seems to make sense. It showed last night. It will be interesting to see how the news went at 5:30 on ITV1 on Bank Holiday Monday and that might be the cue to introduce it.

Personally, I think News at Ten should have been on last night as the brand would have got a lift and probably about half a million more viewers because the BBC News was on later, and nobody wanted to watch the Kiss of Death, even fewer would have watched that because it started at 9 and Britian's Got Talent would have started at 8:30. The viewing figures could have been something like this:-

7:00pm Emmerdale (7.1m)
7:30pm Coronation Street (9.8m) - only one edition, more will watch
8:00pm Tonight (4.1m)
8:30pm Britain's Got Talent (10.9m)
10:00pm News at Ten (5.8m) - with no competition

But, still, what a night for ITV last night, even though I thought it could have been even better.

Some good news at last!!!

When do we think the Saturday, Sunday and Monday shares will be coming out?

Totally agree with this. The Fixer was pretty average tbh and he Kills Coppers just didn't work for me at all.
MM was a good little series I thought.

Nowadays, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross officially averages about between 3.7m-4.3m.

I've just looked back at 2001, and Jonathan Ross wasn't in the Top 30, so it was getting lower than 5.5m back then. It was probably getting around 4m-5m, so it's only dropped a few viewers.

Sorry, couldn't give you more details.

Sorry, do you mean you think it got a high or low ratings? Because one could interpet that 5.5m in two ways. Some would say it's good because it won its slot. Some would say it's bad because it's lower than the usual 7m+ it gets.

There is a problem with that because ITV seem not to air NaT on Bank Holidays as they use the ITV News labelling and shorten the programme-this happens to other news bulletins across the channels and several programmes are affected aswell e.g This Morning.

Also Tonight is never on and regional programming is put in its place as per last night.

Awesome rating for BGT. 10.9m is fantastic!! ITV are going to have a very good week!

Exactly-people (including myself) have been saying it's a poor rating and Heartbeat will be axed soon BUT it did win its slot comfortably and is still ITV's 5th most watched programme of the week behind Corrie, Emmerdale, BGT and the football so is the best ITV rated drama of the week.

Friday from C4Sales
All hours share for Friday 23 May 2008: BBC1 – 23.1%, ITV1 – 18.7%, BBC2 – 7.8%, C4 – 7%, Five – 5.3%

Saturday from C4Sales
All hours share for Saturday 24 May 2008: BBC1 – 25.7%, ITV1 – 16.2%, BBC2 – 5.9%, C4 – 5.7%, Five – 5.6%

Sunday from C4Sales
All hours share for Sunday 25 May 2008: ITV1 – 19.0%, BBC1 – 16.3%, BBC2 – 8.2%, C4 – 7.5%, Five – 3.6%

Monday from Broadcast Now
All hours share for Monday 26 May 2008: ITV1 – 21.8%, BBC1 – 20.4%, BBC2 – 8.3%, C4 – 7.1%, Five – 3.4%, multichannel – 38.9%.

Peaktime (6pm to 10.30pm) shares: ITV1 – 32.5%, BBC1 – 19.4%, BBC2 – 9.7%, C4 – 6.2%, Five – 3.6%, multichannel – 28.6%.

6.2% - that is atrocious for C4 on a Monday. Big Brother can't come fast enough!

Five didn't do very well either but at least its peaktime share was higher than its all hours share, and it did beat C4 in a few key slots such as the 8pm slot.

MONDAY

EDIT-rzt beat me to it.

I'm surprised ITV wasn't higher tbh with excellent peaktime share and the 10-11pm hour performing much better than usual.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004...adcasting.bbc2

According to that he was getting "around 4m" in 2004.

It just shows how much they need Neighbours & Home & Away to prop up the daytime schedule.