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OOooooo..... BBC Three must be the highest rated digital channel if it expects to gain the 2 million viewers that didn't watch Eastenders earlier on BBC1! I'm sure there may be a slight increase but nothing that significant and nothing to take it away from Emmerdale actually beating Eastenders in the first place.
Out of all the soaps Emmerdale is now my favourite. Eastenders (followed by Corrie) used to be my favourite but I feel Emmerdale have got the soap formula spot-on. Each episode of Emmerdale is totally enjoyable and doesn't seem as long as an episode of Corrie.
ohwhatanight
Founding member
LONDON posted:
Eastenders is also repeated the same night on BBC3, and normally when Emerdale and Eastenders go head to head the later repeat gets a surge in viewers. Also Eastenders has an omnibus on Sundays on BBC 1, when you get the viewing figures for this you can judge if Eastenders is failing again.
OOooooo..... BBC Three must be the highest rated digital channel if it expects to gain the 2 million viewers that didn't watch Eastenders earlier on BBC1! I'm sure there may be a slight increase but nothing that significant and nothing to take it away from Emmerdale actually beating Eastenders in the first place.
Out of all the soaps Emmerdale is now my favourite. Eastenders (followed by Corrie) used to be my favourite but I feel Emmerdale have got the soap formula spot-on. Each episode of Emmerdale is totally enjoyable and doesn't seem as long as an episode of Corrie.
LO
OOooooo..... BBC Three must be the highest rated digital channel if it expects to gain the 2 million viewers that didn't watch Eastenders earlier on BBC1! I'm sure there may be a slight increase but nothing that significant and nothing to take it away from Emmerdale actually beating Eastenders in the first place.
Out of all the soaps Emmerdale is now my favourite. Eastenders (followed by Corrie) used to be my favourite but I feel Emmerdale have got the soap formula spot-on. Each episode of Emmerdale is totally enjoyable and doesn't seem as long as an episode of Corrie.
Its clear that you have only read half my post. There is also an omnibus on Sundays you know. Until you can produce the ratings for these showings i feel it is unfair to judge.
ohwhatanight posted:
LONDON posted:
Eastenders is also repeated the same night on BBC3, and normally when Emerdale and Eastenders go head to head the later repeat gets a surge in viewers. Also Eastenders has an omnibus on Sundays on BBC 1, when you get the viewing figures for this you can judge if Eastenders is failing again.
OOooooo..... BBC Three must be the highest rated digital channel if it expects to gain the 2 million viewers that didn't watch Eastenders earlier on BBC1! I'm sure there may be a slight increase but nothing that significant and nothing to take it away from Emmerdale actually beating Eastenders in the first place.
Out of all the soaps Emmerdale is now my favourite. Eastenders (followed by Corrie) used to be my favourite but I feel Emmerdale have got the soap formula spot-on. Each episode of Emmerdale is totally enjoyable and doesn't seem as long as an episode of Corrie.
Its clear that you have only read half my post. There is also an omnibus on Sundays you know. Until you can produce the ratings for these showings i feel it is unfair to judge.
BB
I was wondering how long it would be until you chimed in - now the trio is complete. Andrew starts the ball-rolling with another "here's one more reason that ITV is better than the BBC" thread, then ohwhatanight throws his hat in the ring, and Brekkie Boy shows up to fart in the BBC's direction. Predictable, if a little tedious.
I'm not going to argue that EastEnders suffered a pretty poor year in 2005, and this was largely due to some dismal storylines, but the quality has picked up significantly in recent weeks. It's a shame that you feel the need to constantly berate EE in order to create the illusion that because it went through a poor patch that it will forever be poor. Coronation Street has been through equally dark periods of falling audience figures due to utterly vacuous storylines, but clawed its way back with exceptional writing and engaging stories to deservedly take the top spot for the last few years. However biased your opinions, and however great your inability to make impartial judgements, the reality is that EastEnders has been improving. And yes, it is not really threatening to dethrone Corrie any time soon, so you can probably scale back on your automatic jittery defensiveness of Corrie, Emmerdale and all things ITV for now.
Oh, and really, let's have a reality check here, shall we: the sheer enormity of Emmerdale's lead on that one episode was clearly down to the fact that Emmerdale started half an hour earlier and carried its audience through. If you're unable to comprehend that, then you're either more ignorant than I thought, or choosing to ignore facts for the convenience of your own argument. I'm not blindly saying EastEnders rules the roost, or that Emmerdale or Corrie are crap - I'm simply asking that the hard core of ITV lovers that bloviate ad nauseam about how ITV is better than the BBC try to retain at least a token amount of objectivity in their rants.
Brekkie Boy posted:
It shows how crap EE is by the lengths a couple of members will go to defend it here!
It's crap - and been crap for getting on for four years now!
It's crap - and been crap for getting on for four years now!
I was wondering how long it would be until you chimed in - now the trio is complete. Andrew starts the ball-rolling with another "here's one more reason that ITV is better than the BBC" thread, then ohwhatanight throws his hat in the ring, and Brekkie Boy shows up to fart in the BBC's direction. Predictable, if a little tedious.
I'm not going to argue that EastEnders suffered a pretty poor year in 2005, and this was largely due to some dismal storylines, but the quality has picked up significantly in recent weeks. It's a shame that you feel the need to constantly berate EE in order to create the illusion that because it went through a poor patch that it will forever be poor. Coronation Street has been through equally dark periods of falling audience figures due to utterly vacuous storylines, but clawed its way back with exceptional writing and engaging stories to deservedly take the top spot for the last few years. However biased your opinions, and however great your inability to make impartial judgements, the reality is that EastEnders has been improving. And yes, it is not really threatening to dethrone Corrie any time soon, so you can probably scale back on your automatic jittery defensiveness of Corrie, Emmerdale and all things ITV for now.
Oh, and really, let's have a reality check here, shall we: the sheer enormity of Emmerdale's lead on that one episode was clearly down to the fact that Emmerdale started half an hour earlier and carried its audience through. If you're unable to comprehend that, then you're either more ignorant than I thought, or choosing to ignore facts for the convenience of your own argument. I'm not blindly saying EastEnders rules the roost, or that Emmerdale or Corrie are crap - I'm simply asking that the hard core of ITV lovers that bloviate ad nauseam about how ITV is better than the BBC try to retain at least a token amount of objectivity in their rants.
CA
Even the Test Card would beat Eastenders in ratings.
Andrew posted:
Emmerdale special once again knocked EastEnders' ratings
Even the Test Card would beat Eastenders in ratings.
BA
Facts-
Eastenders won the "BIG" one chrismas day
Eastenders won boxing day
Eastenders won the first week on 2006
Eastenders won a head to head with Emmerdale when they had a big storyline on that day.
EastEnders was the 1st most popular UK search term in 2005.
# EastEnders holds the record for the highest rated soap episode in Britain.
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
The fact we have no Emmerdale thread here says alot.
The fact the press haven't made a big deal out of it says it means ****.
FACT-Emmerdale won because they had a more watchable storyline on that day
Other soap fans are just trying to have some fun over there rivial soap and its sad
Eastenders won the "BIG" one chrismas day
Eastenders won boxing day
Eastenders won the first week on 2006
Eastenders won a head to head with Emmerdale when they had a big storyline on that day.
EastEnders was the 1st most popular UK search term in 2005.
# EastEnders holds the record for the highest rated soap episode in Britain.
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
The fact we have no Emmerdale thread here says alot.
The fact the press haven't made a big deal out of it says it means ****.
FACT-Emmerdale won because they had a more watchable storyline on that day
Other soap fans are just trying to have some fun over there rivial soap and its sad
AN
Says you who's entire posts here are either becoming too excited in the EastEnders thread or saying something negative in the Corrie thread!
Andrew
Founding member
Banksoriginal posted:
Facts-
Eastenders won the "BIG" one chrismas day
Eastenders won boxing day
Eastenders won the first week on 2006
Eastenders won a head to head with Emmerdale when they had a big storyline on that day.
EastEnders was the 1st most popular UK search term in 2005.
# EastEnders holds the record for the highest rated soap episode in Britain.
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
The fact we have no Emmerdale thread here says alot.
The fact the press haven't made a big deal out of it says it means ****.
FACT-Emmerdale won because they had a more watchable storyline on that day
Other soap fans are just trying to have some fun over there rivial soap and its sad
Eastenders won the "BIG" one chrismas day
Eastenders won boxing day
Eastenders won the first week on 2006
Eastenders won a head to head with Emmerdale when they had a big storyline on that day.
EastEnders was the 1st most popular UK search term in 2005.
# EastEnders holds the record for the highest rated soap episode in Britain.
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
The fact we have no Emmerdale thread here says alot.
The fact the press haven't made a big deal out of it says it means ****.
FACT-Emmerdale won because they had a more watchable storyline on that day
Other soap fans are just trying to have some fun over there rivial soap and its sad
Says you who's entire posts here are either becoming too excited in the EastEnders thread or saying something negative in the Corrie thread!
7N
That's not actually true. On at least 2 occasions prior to this, Coronation Street has been pitted head to head agains EastEnders.
In April 1994, just after EastEnders launched it's third weekly episode, Coronation Street had a double episode, which comfortably beat EastEnders, and in December 1997, a Monday one hour special of Coronation Street, saw EastEnders ratings sink to about 4-5 million on that occasion. ** Edit ** - I stand corrected, The EastEnders episode on 15/12/97 got 7.13 million viewers, as opposed to the Coronation Street one hour special got 17.4 million viewers. That's quite a difference.
Also, was it not EastEnders who launched at 7pm on a Tuesday and Thursday, in direct competition with the then Emmerdale Farm, which was screened at the same time, in some regions, only for EastEnders to be moved to 7.30pm some time later as it was losing viewers to Emmerdale Farm.
You can call it dirty tricks on all sides really, they all do it at some point, whether it's right or not really won't concern them.
Banksoriginal posted:
Facts-
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
That's not actually true. On at least 2 occasions prior to this, Coronation Street has been pitted head to head agains EastEnders.
In April 1994, just after EastEnders launched it's third weekly episode, Coronation Street had a double episode, which comfortably beat EastEnders, and in December 1997, a Monday one hour special of Coronation Street, saw EastEnders ratings sink to about 4-5 million on that occasion. ** Edit ** - I stand corrected, The EastEnders episode on 15/12/97 got 7.13 million viewers, as opposed to the Coronation Street one hour special got 17.4 million viewers. That's quite a difference.
Also, was it not EastEnders who launched at 7pm on a Tuesday and Thursday, in direct competition with the then Emmerdale Farm, which was screened at the same time, in some regions, only for EastEnders to be moved to 7.30pm some time later as it was losing viewers to Emmerdale Farm.
You can call it dirty tricks on all sides really, they all do it at some point, whether it's right or not really won't concern them.
DA
Well we'll see if EastEnders is
crap
once we get the figures from last nights episode back. And I really don't see why you have to bring Coronation Street into, last time I checked, this was a discussion about Emmerdale and EastEnders.
Emmerdale had a big episode and a 30 minutes head start. If it were Emmerdale that started at 7.30pm then it may have been a different story.
Emmerdale had a big episode and a 30 minutes head start. If it were Emmerdale that started at 7.30pm then it may have been a different story.
BR
I was wondering how long it would be until you chimed in - now the trio is complete. Andrew starts the ball-rolling with another "here's one more reason that ITV is better than the BBC" thread, then ohwhatanight throws his hat in the ring, and Brekkie Boy shows up to fart in the BBC's direction. Predictable, if a little tedious.
I'm not going to argue that EastEnders suffered a pretty poor year in 2005, and this was largely due to some dismal storylines, but the quality has picked up significantly in recent weeks. It's a shame that you feel the need to constantly berate EE in order to create the illusion that because it went through a poor patch that it will forever be poor. .
Three years ago the excuse of the soap going through a "poor patch" was viable - but this "poor patch" hasn't ended!
All they've done is have short term boosts by bringing back characters (which were past it when they left) for a couple of weeks!
EE just hasn't moved on in the way the other soaps have - and it shows!
For the record I've not watched Emmerdale for months either (since E4 came to Freeview with first look Hollyoaks!) and it's obvious Emmerdale has an advantage in starting earlier.
What it does show though is when EastEnders is challenged, a significant number of viewers will switch off - but until ITV tackle EastEnders agressively rather than defensively, it'll still attract 10m idiots a night!
BBC LDN posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
It shows how crap EE is by the lengths a couple of members will go to defend it here!
It's crap - and been crap for getting on for four years now!
It's crap - and been crap for getting on for four years now!
I was wondering how long it would be until you chimed in - now the trio is complete. Andrew starts the ball-rolling with another "here's one more reason that ITV is better than the BBC" thread, then ohwhatanight throws his hat in the ring, and Brekkie Boy shows up to fart in the BBC's direction. Predictable, if a little tedious.
I'm not going to argue that EastEnders suffered a pretty poor year in 2005, and this was largely due to some dismal storylines, but the quality has picked up significantly in recent weeks. It's a shame that you feel the need to constantly berate EE in order to create the illusion that because it went through a poor patch that it will forever be poor. .
Three years ago the excuse of the soap going through a "poor patch" was viable - but this "poor patch" hasn't ended!
All they've done is have short term boosts by bringing back characters (which were past it when they left) for a couple of weeks!
EE just hasn't moved on in the way the other soaps have - and it shows!
For the record I've not watched Emmerdale for months either (since E4 came to Freeview with first look Hollyoaks!) and it's obvious Emmerdale has an advantage in starting earlier.
What it does show though is when EastEnders is challenged, a significant number of viewers will switch off - but until ITV tackle EastEnders agressively rather than defensively, it'll still attract 10m idiots a night!
MA
That's not actually true. On at least 2 occasions prior to this, Coronation Street has been pitted head to head agains EastEnders.
In April 1994, just after EastEnders launched it's third weekly episode, Coronation Street had a double episode, which comfortably beat EastEnders, and in December 1997, a Monday one hour special of Coronation Street, saw EastEnders ratings sink to about 4-5 million on that occasion.
That is not true, EastEnders lowest rating is 6.2 million >>>>> EastEnders hits record low
7 Network posted:
Banksoriginal posted:
Facts-
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
# In 2001 EastEnders went head to head with Coronation Street for the first time, EastEnders won the battle with 8.4 million viewers (41%) while Coronation Street attracted 7.3 million (36%).
That's not actually true. On at least 2 occasions prior to this, Coronation Street has been pitted head to head agains EastEnders.
In April 1994, just after EastEnders launched it's third weekly episode, Coronation Street had a double episode, which comfortably beat EastEnders, and in December 1997, a Monday one hour special of Coronation Street, saw EastEnders ratings sink to about 4-5 million on that occasion.
That is not true, EastEnders lowest rating is 6.2 million >>>>> EastEnders hits record low