Christmas Ratings

CY

cylon6 26 December 2007 1:52pm

Charlie Wells posted:

The BBC News site has slightly different ratings...

Quote:

1. EastEnders part two (13.9m)
2. Dr Who (13.8m)
3. EastEnders part one (11.8m)
4= To The Manor Born (10.1m)
4= Shrek 2 (10.1m)
4= BBC News at 1800 (10.1m)
7. Strictly Come Dancing Special (9.9m)
8. Coronation Street (9.6m)
9. Finding Nemo (8.3m)
10. The Queen's Christmas Message (7.5m*)
* BBC One and ITV1 combined
Source: BARB

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7160322.stm

That'll be their 15 minute peaks rather than the averages for each show as quoted in the first post in this thread. And their 5 minute peaks are even higher than that with 14 million for Doctor Who and 15 million for EastEnders.

:-(

A former member 26 December 2007 2:11pm

The complants are coming on about the BBC shows at xmas

GM

nodnirG kraM 26 December 2007 2:16pm

Complaints about Christmas TV? Am I really the only one that switched the box off and spent time with my family and friends then?

:-(

A former member 26 December 2007 2:31pm

No, well not sure. We had the TV on while having Christmas dinner, then played the DVD Deal Or No Deal Game and stuffing our faces.

CY

cylon6 26 December 2007 2:33pm

623058 posted:

The complants are coming on about the BBC shows at xmas

Well I didn't think it was a vintage Christmas but it scored the best ratings for a Christmas Day schedule since 2002 I think.

BL

Blob 26 December 2007 2:36pm

I think ITV pretty much gave up on Christmas this year. Hopefully with he relaunch next year it will be back to normal.

CY

cylon6 26 December 2007 2:40pm

Blob posted:

I think ITV pretty much gave up on Christmas this year. Hopefully with he relaunch next year it will be back to normal.

But they give up on Christmas most years, they usuallly do quite well with Corrie and Emmerdale though. And I do remember a time when they gave us 2 or 3 editions of Millionaire on Christmas Day when it was still red hot.

MA

mansoor 26 December 2007 2:54pm

The combined peak share of audience for BBC1 and BBC2 was 51.7 per cent this year, while, last year it was 44.4 per cent.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "This is considerably higher than the last few years and means that more than half of available viewers watching TV in the evening were watching programmes on the BBC."

BR

Brekkie 26 December 2007 2:57pm

Noelfirl posted:

breakingnews posted:

The BBC trounced ITV. Even Corrie performed badly, although that's fully deserved because it's awful at the moment. ITV are too reliant on soaps at Xmas and because the soaps on ITV have been dreadful this year, the whole ITV schedule suffers.

Pretty much a given, every year. The most absurd one is probably the News at 6 o'clock being the 11th highest watched programme of the year.

Not as absurd as the possibility of EastEnders being the most watched of the year.

BH

BillyH Founding member 26 December 2007 4:36pm

They are some INCREDIBLE ratings, Doctor Who's not seen those ratings for over 25 years I'd say. Big ratings for EastEnders as well, I think that's the highest peak since the last ever Only Fools and Horses in 2003.

Some very good TV there, though!

DA

David_02 26 December 2007 4:47pm

Brekkie Boy posted:

Noelfirl posted:

breakingnews posted:

The BBC trounced ITV. Even Corrie performed badly, although that's fully deserved because it's awful at the moment. ITV are too reliant on soaps at Xmas and because the soaps on ITV have been dreadful this year, the whole ITV schedule suffers.

Pretty much a given, every year. The most absurd one is probably the News at 6 o'clock being the 11th highest watched programme of the year.

Not as absurd as the possibility of EastEnders being the most watched of the year.

I'm not surprised. It was a superb episode. Put any episode that Corrie has produced this year in the shade.

PC

p_c_u_k 26 December 2007 5:15pm

ITV never cares about Christmas Day. The advertisers are only interested in the week or two beforehand as that's when everyone splashes the cash. All you ever see on the day itself and the days afterwards are ultra-cheap adverts for the likes of DFS. Ergo, they don't give a crap and put any rubbish on.

Another great advert for why we need the BBC then...

Incidentally - OT - BBC Scotland appear to be running without continuity this afternoon. Presumably they've got one member of staff on, and he'll be compiling the regional news.

(December 2007)