JE
Shame Emmerdale got so high, this will only encourage them to keep screening 6 episodes a week and hour long specials in future.
I thought the episode of Emmerdale was very average. What im really looking forward to is Corrie over the next few weeks it should be really good.
Jez
Founding member
Chris E posted:
The outcome, for those interested:
1. Emmerdale - 9.06m / 40.6%
2. Eastenders - 6.27m / 28.1% (second lowest figure ever, says DS).
1. Emmerdale - 9.06m / 40.6%
2. Eastenders - 6.27m / 28.1% (second lowest figure ever, says DS).
Shame Emmerdale got so high, this will only encourage them to keep screening 6 episodes a week and hour long specials in future.
I thought the episode of Emmerdale was very average. What im really looking forward to is Corrie over the next few weeks it should be really good.
DA
EastEnders only screened an hour episode because of Comic Relied, it was not an hour 'special', just to get a one hour episode in. I think it would have been better if they had done the hour speicla on Thursday, started at 7.30pm until 8.30, it would of worked out much better. Though, God forbid it would upset the scheduling of Lame Academy.
AN
Andrew
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The BBC's attempts to revive EastEnders by killing off its most notorious character appear to have failed after the ailing soap scored its second lowest television ratings figures ever last night.
Just 6.3 million people - little more than one in four viewers - tuned in to BBC1 to watch an hour-long special on the aftermath of Dirty Den Watts' murder in Albert Square.
This was less than half the 13.7 million audience who tuned in to see Den meet his maker in an hour-long special on February 18.
Last night's episode went head to head with Emmerdale and was roundly beaten by the ITV soap, which attracted almost 3 million more viewers in the same 7pm to 8pm time slot.
The exit of Charity Dingle helped the rural soap reach an average audience of 9.1 million, peaking at 10.2 million viewers, and a 41% audience share, according to unofficial overnights.
A spokeswoman for BBC1 played down the ratings figures, by saying EastEnders suffers when it has to go head-to-head with Emmerdale in the same slot as "the soap audience is split".
"It's par for the course when we go head-to-head. We had to do an hour-long episode because Comic Relief on Friday means we'll miss an episode then. But Emmerdale had a massive story-line, whereas we just had regular episodes," she said.
Love the comments from the BBC Spokeswomen, translating it it basically says The reason we lost was because there were better programmes on the other side, and a hint that they say regular episodes can't be expected to do any good in the ratings thesedays!
Just 6.3 million people - little more than one in four viewers - tuned in to BBC1 to watch an hour-long special on the aftermath of Dirty Den Watts' murder in Albert Square.
This was less than half the 13.7 million audience who tuned in to see Den meet his maker in an hour-long special on February 18.
Last night's episode went head to head with Emmerdale and was roundly beaten by the ITV soap, which attracted almost 3 million more viewers in the same 7pm to 8pm time slot.
The exit of Charity Dingle helped the rural soap reach an average audience of 9.1 million, peaking at 10.2 million viewers, and a 41% audience share, according to unofficial overnights.
A spokeswoman for BBC1 played down the ratings figures, by saying EastEnders suffers when it has to go head-to-head with Emmerdale in the same slot as "the soap audience is split".
"It's par for the course when we go head-to-head. We had to do an hour-long episode because Comic Relief on Friday means we'll miss an episode then. But Emmerdale had a massive story-line, whereas we just had regular episodes," she said.
Love the comments from the BBC Spokeswomen, translating it it basically says The reason we lost was because there were better programmes on the other side, and a hint that they say regular episodes can't be expected to do any good in the ratings thesedays!
MD
Fair play to Emmerdale, a decent fight and victor had the stronger storyline out the two. You would have thought that the BBC would have got the hint and dropped the extra episode altogether, its want everyone wants to see them do. Then they can do more with the episodes they have left. Of course now the have those boring Ferrieras to get rid off, lets hope they don't drag that out or we will have all switched off by then!
NH
Nick Harvey
Founding member
Chris E posted:
2. Eastenders - 6.27m / 28.1%
Nick Harvey in another thread on February 18th posted:
I predict an audience of less than half of tonight's on Monday, gradually reducing from there.
OH
It's simply BBC One playing ITV1 at their own game.
ITV1 decided to air hour long episodes of Emmerdale when Eastenders was at it's lowest to beat it with the second half of the hour long, so now that Eastenders has still got the ratings from the death of den with them they've started tonights 30 minutes earlier to try and get viewers away from watching Charity's exit.
Good on the BBC for doing so in my opinion, I don't watch any of the soaps so I'm not biased either way, though it's clever scheduling.
Oh well that backfired then!
EastEnders falls to second lowest ever audience
BBC1's EastEnders took another battering in the ratings last night, falling to its second lowest ever audience of 6.3 million (28%) as it went against ITV1's Emmerdale in direct competition.
Personally, I am very surprised at how the public voted with their remote controls! I thought it would've been much closer than what actually happened!
Well done Emmerdale!
ohwhatanight
Founding member
fanoftv posted:
It's simply BBC One playing ITV1 at their own game.
ITV1 decided to air hour long episodes of Emmerdale when Eastenders was at it's lowest to beat it with the second half of the hour long, so now that Eastenders has still got the ratings from the death of den with them they've started tonights 30 minutes earlier to try and get viewers away from watching Charity's exit.
Good on the BBC for doing so in my opinion, I don't watch any of the soaps so I'm not biased either way, though it's clever scheduling.
Oh well that backfired then!
EastEnders falls to second lowest ever audience
BBC1's EastEnders took another battering in the ratings last night, falling to its second lowest ever audience of 6.3 million (28%) as it went against ITV1's Emmerdale in direct competition.
Personally, I am very surprised at how the public voted with their remote controls! I thought it would've been much closer than what actually happened!
Well done Emmerdale!
NH
Nick Harvey
Founding member
But don't worry and never mind, as Auntie Tessa has told Auntie Beeb that they haven't got to worry about ratings any more.
I was watching a rather good programme on ITV Wales at 19:30 tonight, about roads in that country.
I'm told, though I now couldn't care less, that EastEnders, meanwhile, was starting a series of documentary like episodes on adult illiteracy.
Good for them. While EastEnders teaches old people how to read and write, others soaps actually have proper storylines!
(If you've been affected by the events mentioned in this post, please ring the Beeb's helpline and talk to a counsellor who's been paid for out of YOUR licence fee.)
I was watching a rather good programme on ITV Wales at 19:30 tonight, about roads in that country.
I'm told, though I now couldn't care less, that EastEnders, meanwhile, was starting a series of documentary like episodes on adult illiteracy.
Good for them. While EastEnders teaches old people how to read and write, others soaps actually have proper storylines!
(If you've been affected by the events mentioned in this post, please ring the Beeb's helpline and talk to a counsellor who's been paid for out of YOUR licence fee.)