TV rating 29-06-2021

 BBC1 coverage of England beating Germany in the second round of the European Football Championship was seen by  over 20 million viewers.

Old rivals clash again

 England will play Germany in the next round of the European Football Championship. It is one of the longest running rivalries in Football. BBC1 will get huge  ratings when they cover the match next Tuesday.

Having the pick

 With both England and Wales getting through to the next round of the European Football Championship the BBC with first pick of second round matches. Wales are already to play Denmark but England will have to wait to see who they play.

TV ratings 18-06-2021

 Last night's European Championship match between Scotland and England drew a massive 19 million viewers. These figures will probably be unbeaten for the rest of the tournament.

TV ratings 16-06-2021

 BBC1 coverage of Wales 2-0 win over Turkey was watched by a peak of 8 million viewers.  It is expected that this figure will be beaten tomorrow match between old rivals Scotland and England.

Best of Friday Night Dinner

 The comedy about a Jewish family, mum Jackie (Tasmin Greig)  dad Martin (Paul Ritter) and forever bickering sons Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) and their chaotic attempts to have traditional dinners not help by weird neighbour Jim played by Mark Heap. These are the 10 best episodes.

1. Mr Morris

Gran has an New boyfriend who is not a very easy going person. As the evening goes from bad to worse the family finds themsleves locked out of the house.

2. Mercedes

It is Adam's birthday and after getting a rather tasteless present from his dad finds his mum can't cook dinner. So the family goes to a Chinese restaurant where they come across an old girl friend of Martin's  who always talks about her Mercedes.

3. Mr Morris Return

the troublesome Mr Morris has made up with Grandma. He proposes marriage to her to the horror of Jackie. They then go to the local 10 pin bowling alley where Jim is there dressed in a Dog with his own addition.

4. The New Car

Jonny has been given a promotion at work and with it an new car. But an embarrassing phone call reveal that it may not have legitimate reasons

5. The Anniversary

It is Martin and Jackie's  anniversary but Jonny has a couple of secrets. Then Jim turns up having accidentally taken his dog's sleeping pills.

6. Christmas

Grandma and horrible Grandma have come for Xmas. Though the latter has brought their own dinner.

7. The Fox

the boys were discover that their dad has been keeping the body of a dead fox. What then follows is a desperate attempt to stop Jackie discovering it.

8. The Loft

Martin and Jackie are having and the boys try to discover why. Meanwhile Jonny Daley claims to have broken his arm to get out of cleaning the  loft.

9. The Funeral

Martin's uncle has died and horrible Grandma wants him to do a reading. But as always things go wrong especially when Jim turns up.

10. The Sofa bed

The first ebutpisode of the show. Martin is giving away a sofa bed but between the boys bickering and the man supposed to take away the sofa bed getting bad news. Things do not go to plan.

Going down the river?

This Friday the delayed 2020 European Football Championship starts. One of the most eagerly awaited games sees Scotland take on England. The match is being shown on ITV. 

In BBC ONE Scotland schedule at the same is Scots soap River City. Not a great time for the soap.

Trouble for enders

The soaps once posted huge ratings. But times have changed. Eastenders for example nowadays gets 4 million viewers is even beaten by satire show Have I got news for You. Given the recent fate of Holby City soap watchers will be concerned about their favourite show.

No more going to the city

 It has been announced that BBC medical soap Holby City has been axed. The spin off of Casualty started in 1999. Ratings for the show have been on the decline hence the announcement. The show will still be on screen until March next year.

TV ratings 31-05-2020

 Coronation Street was one of it's lowest over night ratings. In an of place slot it was watched by 2 and a half million viewers. The Masked Dancer the reason for the move hardly did any better.