A coronation or monarch funeral should manage that.

BREAK = New record for peak at midnight!!!

BBC One
06:00 - Olympic Breakfast: 1.7m (39.0%)
09:15 - Heir Hunters: 1.4m (22.8%)
12:00 - London 2012: Countdown to the Olympics: 1.4m (22.7%)
13:00 - BBC News at One: 2.5m (33.8%)
13:30 - Regional News and Weather: 2.6m (33.8%)
13:45 - Bargain Hunt: 1.5m (20.2%)
17:00 - London 2012: Countdown to the Olympics: 1.9m (13.5%)
18:00 - BBC News at Six: 5.0m (32.2%)
18:30 - Regional News and Weather: 6.3m (37.1%)
19:00 - Olympics Countdown: 10.1m (44.8%)
21:00 - Olympics 2012: 23.02m (82.7%) excluding 3D on BBC HD
* peak: 27.00m (81.94%) including 3D on BBC HD
25:00 - BBC News: 1.9m (39.4%)

ITV1 (inc +1)
17:00 - Tipping Point: 2.1m (17.6%)
18:00 - Regional News: 2.8m (17.9%)
18:30 - ITV News: 2.9m (17.2%)
19:00 - Emmerdale: 5.2m (27.1%)
19:30 - Coronation Street: 6.2m (27.5%)

Channel 4 (inc +1)
16:00 - Deal or No Deal: 1.4m (15.8%)
17:00 - Four in a Bed: 1.5m (13.3%)
17:30 - Come Dine with Me: 1.5m (11.5%)

Primetime Shares
BBC One - 62.4%
ITV1 - 13.0%
BBC Two - 2.7%
Channel 5 - 1.7%
Channel 4 - 1.6%

Ratings include HD, but are NOT tape-checked.

Time ………. BBC1 ……………… ITV ……………… BBC2 ……………… CH4 ……………… CH5
19:00 ….. 6.8 (36.5%) ….. 5.1 (27.6%) ….. 0.7 ( 4.0%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.2%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.8%)
19:15 ….. 7.2 (36.6%) ….. 5.3 (27.3%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.2%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.5%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.4%)
19:30 ….. 7.8 (38.0%) ….. 6.2 (30.0%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.4%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.3%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.0%)
19:45 ….. 8.7 (39.7%) ….. 6.5 (29.8%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.3%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.6%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.7%)
20:00 ….. 9.9 (42.6%) ….. 6.3 (27.3%) ….. 0.8 ( 3.4%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.8%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.5%)
20:15 ….. 10.5 (43.0%) ….. 6.5 (26.5%) ….. 0.9 ( 3.7%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.0%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.8%)
20:30 ….. 13.4 (53.9%) ….. 2.5 (10.1%) ….. 1.2 ( 4.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.8%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.7%)
20:45 ….. 16.5 (61.2%) ….. 1.7 ( 6.3%) ….. 1.3 ( 4.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.5%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.0%)
21:00 ….. 23.7 (77.8%) ….. 1.3 ( 4.3%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.6%) ….. 0.3 ( 0.9%) ….. 0.6 ( 1.9%)
21:15 ….. 25.5 (80.0%) ….. 1.1 ( 3.6%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.5%) ….. 0.3 ( 0.8%) ….. 0.6 ( 1.8%)
21:30 ….. 26.3 (80.8%) ….. 1.0 ( 3.1%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.5%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.0%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.1%)
21:45 ….. 26.7 (81.2%) ….. 0.9 ( 2.8%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.5%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.1%) ….. 0.8 ( 2.3%)
22:00 ….. 26.4 (81.4%) ….. 0.9 ( 2.6%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.5%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.3%) ….. 0.6 ( 1.9%)
22:15 ….. 25.7 (81.8%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.3%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.4%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.2%) ….. 0.7 ( 2.3%)
22:30 ….. 24.6 (82.5%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.1%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.1%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.7%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.7%)
22:45 ….. 23.7 (82.1%) ….. 0.5 ( 1.9%) ….. 0.4 ( 1.3%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.6%) ….. 0.3 ( 0.9%)
23:00 ….. 22.7 (82.0%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.2%) ….. 0.8 ( 2.8%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.4%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.9%)
23:15 ….. 21.5 (83.1%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.8%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.9%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.4%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.1%)
23:30 ….. 21.0 (84.4%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.6%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.6%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.4%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.3%)
23:45 ….. 21.0 (85.9%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.7%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.6%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.4%) ….. 0.2 ( 1.0%)
24:00 ….. 20.0 (86.0%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.8%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.7%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.2%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.9%)
24:15 ….. 19.8 (86.6%) ….. 0.2 ( 0.7%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.5%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.2%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.2%)
24:30 ….. 19.2 (88.8%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.5%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.5%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.2%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.1%)
24:45 ….. 9.8 (76.6%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.7%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.9%) ….. 0.1 ( 0.9%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.3%)
25:00 ….. 2.9 (45.6%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.0%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.3%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.7%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.4%)
25:15 ….. 1.7 (36.0%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.7%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.9%) ….. 0.1 ( 1.4%) ….. 0.0 ( 0.5%)

What impresses me isn't the 27m peak, but the fact the average was so close to the peak, and there were 20m evidently still watching at twenty to one in the morning!

I feel so proud that almost everyone who was in front of a telly last night (over 8 out of 10 of them) didn't just tune in for a bit of it, but watched the whole damned lot!

Almost 90% share peak then (not sure why I'm slightly shocked at that, you'd have to be pretty foolish to be watching a repeat on Dave rather than an historic national event, whether you care about The Olympics or not).

Proud of Big Brother. Spanked the Channel 4 opposition and wasn't far off ITV in extremely challenging circumstances.

So the official peak was definitely 26m?

23:55 - 21.21m (87.1%)
00:40 - 17.49m (87.8%)

Stunning rating! Just wondering how well it could timeshift and what the official figure could be.

I suspect that breakdown is without +1 too, I think with +1 it would have been around 900k maybe.

Official average figure I think could be around 28m.

So those aren't the official figures I guess?

The official figures - assuming you mean the Barb consolidated finals - will not be released until one weeks time

WOW! That rating is amazing! The average was higher than I thought but the peak was lower than I thought. The opening ceremony deserved it.

Wow totally incredible figures!!

Those will possibly be higher than what was posted. I'm pretty sure the peak could have been higher than 26m.

Does anyone have a list of the largest UK peak audiences ever?

Off the top of my head, the only single channel peaks over 27m I can think of are the World Cup Final 1966 on BBC1 (supposedly 30m but I take that with a major pinch of salt). And the England v Argentina WC 1998 match peaked with something like 26-27m on ITV. Diana's funeral averaged 31m but across BBC1 and ITV (not sure of peak).

What else?

I thought the ceremony averaged just over 23m?

Amazing! For a Friday night when so many watched at pubs and clubs - couldn't have imagined better. Cynics be damned - the Olympics are huge!

The most amazing thing is the average. People just stuck with it right through.

22.4m is from 9pm to 1am

Any figures for the Opening Ceremony on BBC HD (3D)?

Do they include figures from pubs and clubs? If they do I imagine the peak audience/average audience could be an extra 4 million.

Ah right! Has a five minute breakdown been released yet?

There is a 15 minute breakdown above.

Surely the official peak has got to be over 27-28 million.

https://twitter.com/Jake_Kanter/stat...33375556960256

113k (0.34%) at the culminative peak.

Any BBC News figures for the opening ceremony? Only just remembered the news channel showed coverage of it.