Christmas Ratings

and of course the same will be happening on the 2nd January:

Is there no continuity on BBC Scotland today? That's unusual, especially as they are now on on xmas day.

I'm surprised by the ratings as well as they go down to about 2.7 million and Channel 4 aren't anywhere to be seen

Approx Peak time audience shares from yesterday:

BBC1 - 44.7%
ITV1 - 22.2%
BBC2 - 6.4%
Channel 4 - 3.0%
Five - 2.4%
Other - 21.3%

Continuity returned after the news. They did seem to be having some technical problems tonight though (nothing that massively affected the output, just glitches in reports starting) so that may be the issue. Things are back to normal now though. Some clean snowball idents tonight if anyone caught them though.

Nice bit of gloating from BBC Scotland continuity before Eastenders (which is starting half an hour early up here to make way for River City ) - "Now it was the most watched programme on Christmas Day....

I'm going to guess you'll hear the same script on network at 8.

Regards January 2 - I think they'll be back to relatively normal staffing then because it ain't a holiday in England, and Scotland normally follows the network on bank holidays. We're the only ones lucky enough to get two days to recover from Hogmanay hangovers. (probably because we need it)

ITV give up every year, it doesn't make Commercial sense to put mega effort into a schedule, especially when the big Advertisers aren't interested and when the audience usually watches BBC1 or flips on a DVD.

ITV1's schedule was fine IMO, a couple of Soaps, a couple of Movies and a Harry Hill special is enough.

Greg Dyke when he was in charge of LWT famously didn't put any effort into the 1993 Christmas schedule, on Christmas Day 1993 all ITV showed was Movies, for the simple fact that the majority of the audience would be watching the BBC. The ratings (every year) prove correct, but the ITC didn't see it that way.

I can;t have been 93 as has he was in control of Ch4 then

Yes Doctor Who hasn't seen ratings that good since the 1979 series!!

I think you're getting Greg Dyke confused with Michael Grade there. Greg Dyke was the boss of LWT from 1988 to 1994, when Granada bought them out.

He was the other Good bloke of ITV!

Grade and Dyke, a classic act all the way, and much ITV great!

Tell me about it.

Although, to be honest I haven't actually watched it since the Max and Stacey affair began - that must be years ago now! Talk about dragging out a story - but it acheived its Christmas Day ratings even though in my eyes.. its a completely botched-up soap now.

As for the other programmes, we Sky+ most things. I watched a bit of Harry Hill and saw Emmerdale and Corrie and that was it really!

Christmas for us is a time for boasting to awkward relatives, eating and playing board games.

No surprises really with the order of the programming of Eastenders, Doctor Who, Eastenders and then the BBC News. What I did find surprising is the number of people watching. I was expecting around the 10m mark for Eastenders dropping to about 8m for the news yet they actually were two to three million up on this. I guess that Christmas Day television must be more popular than I thought.

or people hate there taking to there families.

by chance does anyone have the Boxing day ratings?