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November 17 - 23 (7 day consolidation)

01 I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 8.474m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 8.004m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.031m
04 Celebrity Race Across The World 5.382m
05 Shetland 4.829m
06 Antiques Roadshow 4.760m
07 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.641m
08 Kingdom 4.584m
09 Coronation Street 3.925m
10 BBC News at Six 3.624m
11 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 3.521m
12 Emmerdale 3.395m
13 EastEnders 3.332m
14 Countryfile 3.234m
15 Gogglebox 3.017m
16 Match Of The Day 2.972m
17 Return To Paradise 2.901m
18 Prisoner 951 2.711m
19 The Chase 2.708m
20 Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing 2.707m
 
That's over half a million down on last week's average for the first week of IACGMOOH (excluding the launch episode), but Strictly is down just over a million.
 
October 20 - 26 (7 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 13.442m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.529m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 6.975m
04 The Great British Bake Off 6.836m
05 Have I Got News For You 5.234m
06 Trigger Point 5.136m
07 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.766m
08 Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles 4.439m
09 Antiques Roadshow 4.436m
10 Blue Lights 4.302m
11 Riot Women 3.890m
12 Coronation Street 3.810m
13 Match Of The Day 3.587m
14 Emmerdale 3.477m
15 BBC News at Six 3.469m
16 Gogglebox 3.421m
17 Countryfile 3.329m
18 EastEnders 3.327m
19 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.059m
20 Dragons' Den 3.015m
October 20 - 26 (28 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 14.948m
02 The Great British Bake Off 7.807m
03 Strictly Come Dancing 7.661m
04 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.100m
05 Trigger Point 7.048m
06 Have I Got News For You 5.583m
07 Blue Lights 5.210m
08 Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles 5.124m
09 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 5.079m
10 Riot Women 4.777m
11 Antiques Roadshow 4.496m
12 Coronation Street 4.040m
13 Gogglebox 3.798m
14 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.642m
15 Film: A House Of Dynamite 3.614m
16 Match Of The Day 3.609m
17 Emmerdale 3.600m
18 EastEnders 3.527m
19 Countryfile 3.469m
20 BBC News at Six 3.469m
 
That's over half a million down on last week's average for the first week of IACGMOOH (excluding the launch episode), but Strictly is down just over a million.

I thought it would drop significantly. I would have thought that will happen all the way to the finals figures. Strictly will probably overtake in next weeks chart.
 
I saw something that ITV were heralding about it getting over 350 million streams or something on ITVX. Is that good?
 
I've not read anything. But that figure sounds too high, surely.
 
November 24 - 30 (7 day consolidation)

01 I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 7.647m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.517m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.227m
04 Have I Got News For You 5.348m
05 Celebrity Race Across The World 5.345m
06 Shetland 4.679m
07 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.647m
08 Antiques Roadshow 4.605m
09 Kingdom 4.485m
10 Coronation Street 4.053m
11 Stranger Things (episodes 1 - 4) 3.933m
12 BBC News at Six 3.608m
13 Emmerdale 3.522m
14 EastEnders 3.408m
15 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 3.171m
16 The Martin Lewis Money Show Live 3.128m
17 Countryfile 3.120m
18 Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing 2.945m
19 Match Of The Day 2.908m
20 Return To Paradise 2.873m
 
October 27 - November 2 (7 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 13.944m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.877m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.476m
04 The Great British Bake Off 6.995m
05 Have I Got News For You 5.576m
06 Trigger Point 5.243m
07 Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles 4.653m
08 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.639m
09 Antiques Roadshow 4.633m
10 Blue Lights 4.588m
11 Riot Women 4.166m
12 BBC News at Six 3.908m
13 Coronation Street 3.772m
14 Gogglebox 3.634m
15 Emmerdale 3.454m
16 The 1% Club 3.364m
17 EastEnders 3.336m
18 Return To Paradise 3.298m
19 Countryfile 3.250m
20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.204m
October 27 - November 2 (28 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 14.858m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.991m
03 The Great British Bake Off 7.649m
04 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.596m
05 Trigger Point 6.813m
06 Have I Got News For You 5.969m
07 Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles 5.426m
08 Blue Lights 5.399m
09 Riot Women 4.986m
10 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.866m
11 Antiques Roadshow 4.723m
12 Return To Paradise 4.383m
13 Coronation Street 4.031m
14 Gogglebox 3.990m
15 BBC News at Six 3.908m
16 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.699m
17 The 1% Club 3.647m
18 Emmerdale 3.601m
19 EastEnders 3.560m
20 Countryfile 3.477m
 
Its good to see the BBC and ITV current big reality shows literally neck and neck and healthy figures.

I love EE but I just can't help wondering what these constant 3m figures mean for its future. Corrie is doing a bit better.
 
Is there a big Christmas story for EastEnders this year?
 
I am baffled as to how the Eastenders finances must be working.

They're doing a quarter of the numbers they were doing twenty years ago. And whilst the reasons for that are all very understandable, it doesn't seem like they have slashed their budgets to anywhere near a quarter to match.

The sets haven't shrunk. The cast have neither shrunk nor shifted towards more junior actors; it's still all Steve McFaddens and Jessie Wallaces and Adam Woodyatts who must be earning top whack. If the casts and sets haven't shrunk, then presumably neither have the crews.

That equally applies to Corrie and Emmerdale. If anything Corrie must have an even heavier payroll bill - they never move anyone on, so they've still got almost 30 actors who have pulled 20+ years of service. HOW are they all getting the funding?

i don't know whether the BBC or ITV would be more likely to take action first. Although you'd assume the BBC would face more external pressure to deliver "value for money", you'd also think ITV would be more profit-driven.
 
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I just don’t understand how long they can keep making them for and Eastenders can keep relying on their Christmas episode.
 
I am baffled as to how the Eastenders finances must be working.

They're doing a quarter of the numbers they were doing twenty years ago. And whilst the reasons for that are all very understandable, it doesn't seem like they have slashed their budgets by anywhere near a quarter to match.

The sets haven't shrunk. The cast have neither shrunk nor shifted towards more junior actors; it's still all Steve McFaddens and Jessie Wallaces and Adam Woodyatts who must be earning top whack. If the casts and sets haven't shrunk, then presumably neither have the crews.

That equally applies to Corrie and Emmerdale. If anything Corrie must have an even heavier payroll bill - they never move anyone on, so they've still got almost 30 actors who have pulled 20+ years of service. HOW are they all getting the funding?

i don't know whether the BBC or ITV would be more likely to take action first. Although you'd assume the BBC would face more external pressure to deliver "value for money", you'd also think ITV would be more profit-driven.

Yes, this. The BEEB must be moving money around and subsidising EE at the cost of other departments/budgets I would imagine. But how long can they do that for?
 
I am baffled as to how the Eastenders finances must be working.

They're doing a quarter of the numbers they were doing twenty years ago. And whilst the reasons for that are all very understandable, it doesn't seem like they have slashed their budgets by anywhere near a quarter to match.

The sets haven't shrunk. The cast have neither shrunk nor shifted towards more junior actors; it's still all Steve McFaddens and Jessie Wallaces and Adam Woodyatts who must be earning top whack. If the casts and sets haven't shrunk, then presumably neither have the crews.

That equally applies to Corrie and Emmerdale. If anything Corrie must have an even heavier payroll bill - they never move anyone on, so they've still got almost 30 actors who have pulled 20+ years of service. HOW are they all getting the funding?

i don't know whether the BBC or ITV would be more likely to take action first. Although you'd assume the BBC would face more external pressure to deliver "value for money", you'd also think ITV would be more profit-driven.
But then Corrie and Emmerdale have been cutting costs - they're both losing an episode in the upcoming schedule changes which come into effect in a few weeks, plus you can see the cutbacks on screen with the reduction in the number of extras. The Rovers rarely looks full these days, and if a pub in real life had so few customers, it would be going out of business! I'm not a regular EastEnders viewer but I'm impressed by how many extras they still have in the pub and in the market - it seems business as usual there.

And I'm not sure if soap actors get paid as much as we would think - the big stars certainly do, but I remember not long ago the guy who plays Kirk in Corrie (dead wood who should have been axed years ago) posted on Instagram when he bought a new car - nothing flash at all, something like a Kia Sportage - and someone said in the comments "surely you can afford something better than that!" and he replied that they don't get paid as much as we think. Maybe he was just brushing off a cheeky comment, but I wouldn't like to think he was getting paid huge amounts when he gets away with doing basically a few scenes a week.
 
It's probably still good value for them. They still after everything beat nearly everything on Netflix which must cost many times the amount.
 
December 01 - 07 (7 day consolidation)

01 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! 7.528m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.443m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.226m
04 Celebrity Race Across The World 5.359m
05 Have I Got News For You? 5.269m
06 Shetland 4.786m
07 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.725m
08 Kingdom 4.293m
09 Coronation Street 3.972m
10 The War Between The Land And The Sea 3.934m
11 BBC News at Six 3.507m
12 Emmerdale 3.478m
13 EastEnders 3.248m
14 Film: Robin Robin 3.135m
15 Match Of The Day 3.085m
16 Countryfile 2.932m
17 Return To Paradise 2.925m
18 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 2.920m
19 Gogglebox 2.869m
20 The Graham Norton Show 2.595m
 
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November 3 - 9 (7 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 14.941m
02 Strictly Come Dancing 7.419m
03 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.048m
04 The Great British Bake Off 6.944m
05 Celebrity Race Across The World 6.735m
06 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked 5.610m
07 Trigger Point 5.462m
08 Shetland 5.239m
09 Have I Got News For You 5.224m
10 Kingdom 4.887m
11 Blue Lights 4.852m
12 Antiques Roadshow 4.754m
13 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.583m
14 Riot Women 4.185m
15 Coronation Street 3.822m
16 Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance 3.791m
17 BBC News at Six 3.664m
18 Gogglebox 3.573m
19 Emmerdale 3.440m
20 EastEnders 3.325m
November 3 - 9 (28 day consolidation)

01 The Celebrity Traitors 15.382m
02 Celebrity Race Across The World 7.917m
03 Strictly Come Dancing 7.544m
04 The Great British Bake Off 7.361m
05 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 7.128m
06 Shetland 6.851m
07 Trigger Point 6.658m
08 Kingdom 6.426m
09 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked 5.761m
10 Have I Got News For You 5.745m
11 Blue Lights 5.408m
12 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.843m
13 Antiques Roadshow 4.818m
14 Riot Women 4.805m
15 Coronation Street 4.048m
16 Return To Paradise 3.937m
17 Gogglebox 3.860m
18 Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance 3.817m
19 BBC News at Six 3.664m
20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.614m

21 Emmerdale 3.550m
22 EastEnders 3.471m
 
I can't help but think Tess and Claudia jumped at the right time. The show is definitely dipping noticeably this year, but I don't think the press have really jumped on it, have they? The narrative has all been about them leaving. It seems to be down around a million this year - although it had been dropping for a few years, it felt more gradual, and more in line with declining figures across the board for pretty much everything.

So now whoever takes it on is taking on a show that is in decline, and likely to shoulder the blame for any further fall, even though the rot had seemingly set in already.
 
I can't help but think Tess and Claudia jumped at the right time. The show is definitely dipping noticeably this year, but I don't think the press have really jumped on it, have they? The narrative has all been about them leaving. It seems to be down around a million this year - although it had been dropping for a few years, it felt more gradual, and more in line with declining figures across the board for pretty much everything.

So now whoever takes it on is taking on a show that is in decline, and likely to shoulder the blame for any further fall, even though the rot had seemingly set in already.

Yes, even the final was a million down and that had the interest of being their final show. I wonder whether the endless negative publicity had an impact or if it is just the age of the format catching up with it (like I'm a Celeb, though this year's dip for that was smaller).

On The Rest Is Entertainment they've banged on at least twice about how Dancing With The Stars US has reversed declining ratings by getting a younger audience, through innovations and going hard on the social media. It has felt like Strictly has been pushing more online content than ever but maybe this was me looking for it in the light of these comments.

Next year is going to be very interesting all round. They've always gone with incremental changes to the format and I don't know how much they will do having already lost both presenters.
 
With apologies to @Fa la la la la la la lolly

Christmas Day overnights

1 The King (BBC One) - 4.6m
2 The Scarecrows' Wedding (BBC One) - 4.4m
3 Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) - 4.3m
4 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (BBC One) - 3.7m
5 Call The Midwife (BBC One) - 3.4m
6 Gladiators (BBC One) - 3.2m
7 Amandaland (BBC One) - 3.1m
8 EastEnders (Part 1, BBC One) - 2.8m
9 The 1% Club (ITV1) - 2.7m
10 The Weakest Link (BBC One) - 2.6m
11 Shaun The Sheep (BBC One) - 2.5m
12 EastEnders (Part 2, BBC One) - 2.2m
13 The Great Christmas Bake Off (Channel 4) - 2.1m
14 Coronation Street (ITV1) - 1.9m
15 Emmerdale (ITV1) - 1.8m
16 Mrs Brown's Boys (BBC One) - 1.6m
17 Bullseye (ITV1) - 1.5m
18 Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening (ITV1) - 1.4m
19 Home Alone 2 (Channel 4) - 1.4m
20 It'll Be Alright On The Night (ITV1) - 1.3m
 
Apparently The King had 6m across BBC1 & ITV.

Strictly was the only show up on last year.
 
That's not too bad for Gladiators and I am hoping it gets loads more on iplayer - i thought the timing may have meant it was lost in the schedules on the christmas day
 
Does Eastenders usually beat the other two soaps on Christmas day? I guess people do just put BBC1 on and leave it on.
 

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