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How much do people think Gladiators has legs? I'm not convinced it will hold up for that long.
 
cwej said:
How much do people think Gladiators has legs? I'm not convinced it will hold up for that long.
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I think it could probably run for 3 - 4 series'. There are classic events (some mentioned in the episode thread) that haven't appeared yet, and it seems are unlikely to unless they're saving them for the later rounds. I imagine its appeal won't be all that different from Nina Warrior UK.

There are tweaks that could be made. The Wall, for example, now seems much easier, and I just wonder whether it's because indoor climbing is a more common recreational activity now than it was in the '90s (has any contestant failed to make it up so far?). I also suspect the popularity of this series will attract a wider range of applicants to the next one; with a few exceptions, most contestants this year so far seem to have been reasonably local to Sheffield.
 
It really does need tweaking, but it's an easy watch and the gladiator types are arguably an aspirational aesthetic for many people these days, so it would be a misshap if the BBC failed to develop it more for the next series.
 
cwej said:
How much do people think Gladiators has legs? I'm not convinced it will hold up for that long.
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It got 4.5 million in the overnights last night and would assume it will pick up another million or so on other platforms which is still a very respectable figure for any tv show in 2024. I think the second weeks consolidated figures will be in the chart @lolly posts this week?
 
Rita said:
It got 4.5 million in the overnights last night and would assume it will pick up another million or so on other platforms which is still a very respectable figure for any tv show in 2024. I think the second weeks consolidated figures will be in the chart @lolly posts this week?
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Yeah I'm not saying it's not doing great NOW... I'm wondering how long it will last. I just can't imagine people wanting to tune into it week in, week out - I feel like the novelty will wear off quite quickly.

Wikipedia says 7.01 million for episode 2 which is great (but down 1.35m from episode 1, as you'd expect to be fair). But it feels like it's nostalgia only - maybe I'm wrong!
 
January 22 - 28

01 The Traitors 7.679m
02 Call The Midwife 6.850m
03 Gladiators 6.483m
04 Trigger Point 6.368m
05 Silent Witness 6.344m
06 After The Flood 5.740m
07 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.535m
08 Antiques Roadshow 5.018m
09 The Masked Singer 4.424m
10 Coronation Street 4.213m
11 Emmerdale 4.124m
12 Dragons' Den 4.134m
13 EastEnders 3.897m
14 The Tourist 3.865m
15 BBC News At Six 3.854m
16 FA Cup: Liverpool vs Norwich City 3.702m
17 FA Cup: Newport County vs Manchester United 3.700m
18 FA Cup: Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City 3.546m
19 Big Night Of Musicals by The National Lottery 3.458m
20 Would I Lie To You? 3.390m
 
That was 8.026m for the final of The Traitors. And the last episode of Uncloaked got 3.967m immediately after.

Dancing On Ice (3.330m) and Ant and Dec's Limitless Win (3.289m) both out of the top 20.
 
That's got to be the closest I've noticed the three soaps ever being.
 
I know it spent most of its years on BBC2, but it's crazy to think that 21 series in, Dragons' Den is pretty much as popular as it ever was. According to Wikipedia, its highest ever audience was for the opening episode of series 9 in 2011 with 4.39m - when it was the #2 show of the week on BBC2.
 
lolly said:
That was 8.026m for the final of The Traitors. And the last episode of Uncloaked got 3.967m immediately after.
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Is Uncloaked not classed as a programme in its own right? Why does it not appear in the chart?
 
lolly said:
Surely it will return as more than a 'visualised podcast' next year. I can imagine it getting something more similar to You're Fired for The Apprentice.
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Oh is this why it doesn't count?
 
cwej said:
Is Uncloaked not classed as a programme in its own right? Why does it not appear in the chart?
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Because I use the average for shows with multiple episodes. And neither of the other episodes of Uncloaked appeared in the Top 50 shows of the week, so I don't know the figures.

The #50 show (ITV Evening News on Monday) had 2.822m.
 
lolly said:
Because I use the average for shows with multiple episodes. And neither of the other episodes of Uncloaked appeared in the Top 50 shows of the week, so I don't know the figures.

The #50 show (ITV Evening News on Monday) had 2.822m.
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Ah I see. I didn't realise you were compiling the chart yourself - thought it was an official chart. I thought BARB et al usually took the top episode of the week rather than average episode, if there were multiple episodes of a show.,
 
lolly said:
Surely it will return as more than a 'visualised podcast' next year. I can imagine it getting something more similar to You're Fired for The Apprentice.
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Why bother though? It's relatively cheap and cheerful, and this way it tops the charts for both iPlayer and (presumably) BBC Sounds. I could see You're Fired adapting to become more like Uncloaked than the other way round tbh.

I think Uncloaked works pretty well as a tv show too*. It's interesting enough to look at for the traitor reveals to the losing contestants alone, imo.



*as long as Ed Gamble keeps his horrible tattoos covered up
 
I'm really enjoying Gladiators for the nostalgia, they all seem rather nice (to the contestants) compared to the originals.
 
BARB lists all episodes. I decided to only include one (or else sometimes the top 20 would have around 10 shows in it and be quite dull), and thought the average was better than the top show only. Although for the soaps, there's not much variation as you can probably imagine, unless an episode has been put on at a different time which always catches people out, despite iPlayer and ITVX. It happened this week when an episode of Coronation Street was on at 9pm and consequently ITV lost over half a million viewers for it.
 
Finn said:
Why bother though? It's relatively cheap and cheerful, and this way it tops the charts for both iPlayer and (presumably) BBC Sounds. I could see You're Fired adapting to become more like Uncloaked than the other way round tbh.

I think Uncloaked works pretty well as a tv show too*. It's interesting enough to look at for the traitor reveals to the losing contestants alone, imo.



*as long as Ed Gamble keeps his horrible tattoos covered up
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I just think it could be better. And you could have a podcast AND a better TV show.

Agreed about You're Fired though, particularly if The Apprentice continues to track down.
 
If I included the highest rated show of the week rather than the average, Coronation Street would be one place higher, with no change for Emmerdale or EastEnders.
 
lolly said:
BARB lists all episodes. I decided to only include one (or else sometimes the top 20 would have around 10 shows in it and be quite dull), and thought the average was better than the top show only. Although for the soaps, there's not much variation as you can probably imagine, unless an episode has been put on at a different time which always catches people out, despite iPlayer and ITVX. It happened this week when an episode of Coronation Street was on at 9pm and consequently ITV lost over half a million viewers for it.
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I'm pretty sure they used to release a chart in which they didn't include repeats - it always ended up in the newspapers etc on a weekly basis. But it may have been the newspaper journalists choosing to take the top show for the week rather than BARB themselves.

I find the secrecy about viewing figures really weird to be honest and appreciate everything you do to publicise what you can! :)
 
I don't think there's much secrecy, to be honest - at least for the 7 day figures, which are in the public domain. It irritates me that BARB don't give the 28 day catch up figures any more, which they used to until about 2 years ago. Now you'll only hear about them if the BBC or ITV decide to tweet about an individual show or issue a press release.

There's also more transparency for commercial TV than the BBC. On Thinkbox you can filter for the top 50 of all commercial channels - right down to tiny audiences of less than 10k for some shows. And get interesting ( :david: ) demographic info.

Top programmes report

The top 50 programmes on TV based on the size of their total viewing audience over the week (including live, VOSDAL, time-shifted and total audience viewing figures). Filter by channel or audience.
www.thinkbox.tv www.thinkbox.tv
 
lolly said:
I don't think there's much secrecy, to be honest - at least for the 7 day figures, which are in the public domain. It irritates me that BARB don't give the 28 day catch up figures any more, which they used to until about 2 years ago. Now you'll only hear about them if the BBC or ITV decide to tweet about an individual show or issue a press release.

There's also more transparency for commercial TV than the BBC. On Thinkbox you can filter for the top 50 of all commercial channels - right down to tiny audiences of less than 10k for some shows. And get interesting ( :david: ) demographic info.

Top programmes report

The top 50 programmes on TV based on the size of their total viewing audience over the week (including live, VOSDAL, time-shifted and total audience viewing figures). Filter by channel or audience.
www.thinkbox.tv www.thinkbox.tv
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It's annoying that you can't see viewing figures for BBC shows that don't make the top 50 - I was wondering about Survivor figures after it dropped out of the top 50 and was never able to find them.
 
cwej said:
It's annoying that you can't see viewing figures for BBC shows that don't make the top 50 - I was wondering about Survivor figures after it dropped out of the top 50 and was never able to find them.
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Just looking at Wikipedia to see if anyone has posted them, but for some weeks it just states < a figure - so I assume that's someone looking at the #50 of the week.

You could try a request under the Freedom of Information Act :D
 
lolly said:
If I included the highest rated show of the week rather than the average, Coronation Street would be one place higher, with no change for Emmerdale or EastEnders.
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Could we average the shitty FA Cup matches to find out the remaining programmes that would have made the top 20 without them? Annoys me seeing 3 places taken up by football :D
 
Well that would be Dancing On Ice and Ant and Dec's Limitless Win, and I quite liked excluding them!
 
January 29 - February 4

01 Death In Paradise 7.656m
02 Call The Midwife 7.060m
03 Gladiators 6.581m
04 Trigger Point 6.559m
05 The Apprentice 6.257m
06 After The Flood 6.146m
07 Silent Witness 5.979m
08 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.799m
09 Antiques Roadshow 5.003m
10 The Masked Singer 4.902m
11 Coronation Street 4.568m
12 Emmerdale 4.069m
13 Dragons' Den 4.021m
14 Six Nations Rugby: Wales vs Scotland 3.835m
15 BBC News at Six 3.726m
16 EastEnders 3.676m
17 Six Nations Championship: France vs Ireland 3.634m
18 Countryfile 3.606m
19 Six Nations Championship: Italy vs England 3.470m
20 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 3.441m
 
Halli said:
YAY at Gladiators
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Yes, it's up a little on the previous week - so appears to have levelled out after two weeks of falling. And I think the BBC would have been very happy had it opened with 6.5m in the first place.
 
As expected, The Apprentice does very well on catch up - adding over 2.6m from the overnights. It's still down over 800k on the opening week last year, but I don't think it will be going anywhere for a few years yet, unless it collapses over the run of the series, which it doesn't usually do.
 
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For the shows that were also on in the week spanning January and February last year

UP

5.7% Death In Paradise
1.0% Call The Midwife
0.9% Michael McIntyre's Big Show

DOWN

16.4% Dancing On Ice
10.1% Countryfile
9.9% The Masked Singer
8.3% Emmerdale
8.3% Ant and Dec's Limitless Win
8.1% Coronation Street
5.1% The Apprentice
3.3% Dragons' Den
1.0% Silent Witness
0.3% EastEnders
 
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lolly said:
As expected, The Apprentice does very well on catch up - adding over 2.6m from the overnights. It's still down over 800k on the opening week last year, but I don't think it will be going anywhere for a few years yet, unless it collapses over the run of the series, which it doesn't usually do.
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Wow didn't expect it to end up top 5 - that's actually fine!

Those drops for the ITV shows so much worse! :o
 
I didn't realise that the next series of Saturday Night Takeaway was going to be the last. That's a bigger success for ITV than Limitless Win - it got between 5.0m and 5.5m for the run last year, although was at 6.5m - 7m the year before. It's still going to leave a hole in the schedules next year for ITV though.

The main question for ITV surely has to be when are they going to put Dancing On Ice out of its misery?
 
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