That might give the "EE in crisis" mob something to think about, unless they just stick to their "9m a night relaunch" mantra...

That seems a good number for an unusual night with absolutely no clues to viewers that it was on - the BBC seem to be playing hide and seek with EE at the moment.

Await the match average numbers with interest - assume it best WDYTYA as expected, but it may be close. On the face of it, a desperately poor number for the coverage overall!

Oh dear.

Considerably down on the last "episode" in June which peaked at about 24m didn't it?

rzt would no doubt do the percentage change had he not vanished into the ether....

I just wonder if Channel 5 are in danger of milking the format rather too much by having one format following on so quickly after the last one, leading to viewer fatigue. Especially so given the lukewarm reception that BB seemed to have all through its run.

There's also talk of having the Celeb version twice a year, overkill, it's just not event TV anymore.

Haha i do think there is a slight difference between the consequences of the 24mill match and last nights, but lets not that get in the way of another Robbie Hates ITV rant

The reveal was promoted in several newspapers although not on screen which seems rather odd bearing in mind the coverage Sharon's return got.BBC very inconsistent at the moment in promoting its own programmes.

No, but I don't think a England primetime match on ITV or BBC has ever been that low. (Team GB from last month doesn't count)

Common sense of course.

Sorry didn't mean to be mean, right on the first one but obviously life in the old dog fading WDYTYA

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He also claimed CBB peaked at 3m.

CBB had no promotion and for once, I don't think many viewers will tune out of this one. C5 will be happy with that.

No, but I heard a distant voice singing...


Yes, I think it'll take a year or so to sort everything out. Worth remembering what we're seeing at the moment is stuff Kirkwood had planned, with perhaps a few minor adjustments. With a soap, you can't just tear everything up and start again. You have to mend it bit by bit, and that takes time.

Great numbers for the late night spinoffs:

11pm: Celebrity Big Brother Live: 1.7m (14.0%)
11.30pm: Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side: 712k (10.3%)

Good, for both of them, that late night share must have made it about the same as BBC3 in those hours??

I find those CBB ratings depressing...still 1.7mil in need of guidance.

Eastenders-8.192 (7.44m BBC One; 752k BBC3)



Everything is pretty much what I'd expected. Football I don't think was 'bad' and it was never going or supposed to rate 'big'.
CBB did well though.


Very positive. Fair to say the line ups a hit then. I think theres a possibility of CBB growing over the weeks.

Wednesday 15th August 2012
BBC One
13:45 - Doctors: 1.29m (15.8%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 4.60m (27%)
18:30 - BBC Regional News: 5.44m (30%)
19:00 - The One Show: 4.39m (22%)
19:30 - EastEnders: 7.44m (35.7%)
20:00 - The Flowerpot Gang: 3.43m (15.9%)
* slot average: 4.54m (19.96%)
21:00 - Who Do You Think You Are?: 4.70m (20.1%)
* previous series launch: 5.81m (24.22%)
22:00 - BBC News at Ten: 4.99m (25%)
22:35 - The National Lottery Draws: 3.05m

BBC Two
19:00 - Escape to the Country: 1.54m (7.6%)
20:00 - Restoration Home: 2.06m (9.5%)
* MG report 2.2m and 0.091m on BBC HD
21:00 - Vexed: 1.16m (5.00%) inc HD
22:00 - The Culture Show at the Edinburgh Festival: 451k (2.3%)

ITV1
18:30 - ITV News & Weather: 3.59m (20%) inc +1
19:00 - Emmerdale: 6.33m (32.5%), +1: 151k (0.7%)
19:30 - Live International Football: England vs Italy: 4.04m (18.32%), +1: 47k (0.23%)
* peak: 5.21m (23.64%) at 20:35
* 21:00 to 22:00 - 4.21m (17.99%)

Channel 4
18:00 - The Simpsons: 1.57m inc +1
18:30 - Hollyoaks: 886k (4.8%)
20:00 - Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not: 1.19m (5.5%), +1: 150k (0.6%)
21:00 - 24 Hours in A&E: 2.05m (8.7%), +1: 313k (1.7%)
* series average: 2.25m (9.69%)
22:00 - Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey: 968k (5.4%), +1: 169k (1.8%)

Channel 5
13:45 - Neighbours: 598k (7.3%)
17:30 - Neighbours: 846k (5.8%)
20:00 - Britain's Strangest Pets: 1.18m (5.5%)
21:00 - Celebrity Big Brother Launch: 2.61m (12.4%), +1: 99k (0.7%)
* peak: 3.16m (17.44%) at 22:30
* January 2012 launch: 3.46m (15.8%)
* August 2011 launch: 5.16m (22.13%)
23:00 - Celebrity Big Brother Live: 1.66m (14%)
23:30 - Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side: 712k (10.3%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 21.5%
ITV1 - 17.8% (+1: 0.3%)
Channel 5 - 8.3% (+1: 0.2%)
BBC Two - 6.3%
Channel 4 - 5.9% (+1: 0.9%)

All Day Shares inc +1's
BBC One - 20.6%
ITV1 - 15%
Channel 4 - 6.7%
Channel 5 - 6.5%
BBC Two - 5.9%
ITV3 - 3.3%
ITV2 - 2.3%
E4 - 2.2%

Multichannels
5*
18:00 - Home and Away Classics: 194k (1.1%)
18:30 - Home and Away Classics: 177k (1.0%)

BBC Three
20:00 - FILM: War of the Worlds: 716k (3.2%)
22:30 - EastEnders: 752k (4.6%)
23:00 - Family Guy: 808k (6.6%)
23:20 - Family Guy: 730k (7.9%)
23:45 - American Dad!: 602k (8.3%)

BBC Four
21:00 - Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories: 605k (2.6%)

Dave (inc +1)
22:00 - QI XL: 501k

E4
18:00 - The Big Bang Theory: 646k (3.8%) inc +1
18:30 - The Big Bang Theory: 753k (4.1%) inc +1
19:00 - Hollyoaks: 450k (2.3%)
20:00 - FILM: Cheaper By The Dozen 2: 444k inc +1

Film4 (inc +1)
21:00 - FILM: The Last Exorcism: 392k

ITV2
21:00 - Peter Andre's Bad Boyfriend Club: 377k (1.6%), +1: 63k (0.3%)
22:00 - The Only Way Is Essex: 669k (3.5%), +1: 216k (2.1%)

ITV3 (inc +1)
20:00 - Agatha Christie's Marple: 956k (4.2%)

More4 (inc +1)
21:00 - Grand Designs Australia: 258k

Yesterday (inc +1)
19:25 - Last Of The Summer Wine: 340k

Source: Attentional (1, 2), Broadcast, C4 Sales, DS (1, 2), ITV Media, MG

I wonder if the very good rating for the live show between that and Bit on the Side shows Channel 5 that live feed would actually get better figures between the two shows than a completely different show?

22:00 - The Only Way Is Essex: 669k (3.5%), +1: 216k (2.1%)

Does this mean we can stop pretending its the most popular show in the world yet? Please...thanks.

TOWIE seems low even for a Wednesday.. Did it clash with CBB?

Not that I watched it but it's Julian Clary, Julie Bloody Goodyear, Coleen "Noreen Colon" Nolan, Cheryl HeatheroffofEastEnders and Martin "From Spandau Ballet and 'stEnders to SCS and this, he must have had a massive tax bill" Kemp. Quite an interesting line-up as these things go.


In primetime certainly, but let's not write off football because the minute we get a big Premier League match MOTD will be enjoying huge ratings. I think this is the last time there's going to be this August friendly as nobody likes it.


And 'stEnders on BBC3 as well. But it's never got big audiences.

Yeah, it has a good cast, CBB9 had a high retention with smaller names.

Yeah, CBB dented it, similar audience.

Celebrity Big Brother 2012's summer series debuts with 2.7m viewers
Reality TV show averages 12.9% audience share on Channel 5, double the network's 9pm ratings in the past three months

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...er-2012-summer

I wonder if George and rzt are holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy claiming ratings asylum until ITV's big hitters safely return?

Interesting extra nugget of info here regarding CBB (via MediaGuardian):

Flogging a dead horse is not in the remit of the BBC Charter.

Regarding its 7.44 rating, pretty poor for the reveal, it should be closing the gap on corrie but it's stagnant.