waiting for the highlights on ITV

That must be during the penalties, the two Ashleys will be reminded for many years to come of how they 'failed' their country!!

The question is will that rating be submitted separately like they did in 2004 I think (pre match/post match/match) or the total programme duration?

Impact wrestling on Challenge.

And given I was at my uncle's Barb house (or whatever it is called) Once upon a Time had at least one viewer heh.

It looks like they are splitting the officials, so the match average goes from the first whistle to the final penalty kick.

Thankfully there were no adverts to drag down the averages last night.

Does anyone expect ITV1 to have a single digit primetime share last night?

I can't see any further updates on Twitter as of now, lots of number crunching will be going on, hopefully the match average will top the year to date ratings chart.

Nice, that's the rating I've been waiting all tournament for. Brilliant peak. The biggest TV audience for a single channel since 2004 when Portugal kicked us out on penalties. (royal wedding not counted as was many channels).
Can the Olympics opening peak beat that? I'm not so sure.

kevinbakhurst
BBC1 England vs Italy audience figures: average 17.4m; peak (15 min) 22.2m - 74.0% share. (5 min peak to follow.) #euro2012
9:51 AM - 25 Jun 12

If 17.4m is the programme average, obviously easily the most watched programme of the year so far.

How does that compare with previous England penalty exits?
Shame, I was hoping the Jubilee stuff would be the most watched event this year. After all, soccer tournaments are on every other year.
I can't see any Olympic stuff beating that.
And today the bat and ball stuff starts

'Big Brother slipped to 774k last night against the football. Is that an all-time low for the series?'

Source: Twitter @dsrealitybites

If that is the slot average including pre/post match, it is an incredible figure, getting close to 2004 standards.

It just shows that people love to watch England play in crunch matches, I wonder if the shares in Wales, Scotland and NI were as high - obviously cheering for Italy

That's actually quite respectable in the circumstances in my opinion.

Yes I would have expected BB to rate strongly on C5 +1 last night. However not up against penalties.

I agree, I feared 500k and under to be honest. I noticed they were plugging C5+1 on the official twitter feed last night, but that wouldn't have made much difference anyway given the match didn't finish until 10.30pm or round about then. Why was it on at 9pm last night anyway? They've moved Once Upon a Time around that much I'm sure an hour delayed for BB wouldn't cause too much distress for viewers.

Which idiot thought that putting it on at 9 rather than 10 would be a good idea?

@LiamHamiltonDCD: 17.4m average viewers for 4 hr BBC1 coverage of England penalty exit from #Euro2012 v Italy, biggest audience of tournament by country mile.

Amazing average, that is a lot of disappointed people...."England expects.....to be knocked out on penalties"

England v Portugal 2004 - 24.7m peak was the last penalties peak.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=637

So largest average programme audience since The X Factor 2010 final. (or BGT 2009 final depending on how much it timeshifts)

Actually 10 would have clashed with the pens, so they were right to do it really.

Good that the football beat the cretinous royal suck-up.

Thanks, pretty similar then. Just a shame that it seems to be only football that can grab >20m these days, and that's the peak.

If you're going to use 'cretinous' then at least apply it to footballers too, after all it's quite fitting for most of them

Well Andy Murray in Wimbledon final, Olympics opening ceremony, Team GB in Olympics football final could get there. Only one is likely however.

Sensational numbers, much higher than could have been expected. Wonder what the match average was - 19m?

Can't see the Opening Ceremony beating either the peak or the programe/match average from last night. Top slot of 2012 assured.

I wonder how many extra million could be added to the Euro 2012 figures if they included the pub viewers.

The game was scheduled to finish by 10 had it not gone to extra time so C5 should have scheduled it at 10. That way I would have been able at least to catch the full episode on +1.