Probably is the case. After last years winner people have stopped watching regular BB.a shame because I reckon this year will be much better.

CBB still does incredibly well though.

Really liking Car Share. It is so simplistic but is so relateable. It really is a good comedy. Hoping for a second series.

At what level would Big Brother become un-viable. I mean it has lucrative demographics so perhaps it's worth more to them than hitting their target slot/channel share. Would they axe it if highights shows permenantly fell below 1million?

It doing well enough for a new comedy, look at how hard it is to get them off the ground at ITV atm, and the iplayer debut was a big success so I think the beeb will be happy with its performance (It's whether Peter Kay's wants to do any more is the question)

We are making these assumptions after one main highlights episode! I think lets wait and see. It's figure is not that much different from last series. I do think though if a series ever continually got under 1 million viewers, then it would be time to pack up.

I think perhaps it's time to give regular Big Brother a break for a year but as Dancc suggested do All Star Big Brother in its place.

The Island must be a lock for a third series. I think they'll likely have a mixed island next series.

I think that's a good idea for BB, posted it yesterday in the BB forum. Rest civilian BB, have the final two summer series for this contract as All Star BB and then if renewed, bring back civilian. Not a great start at all.

Wednesday is fast becoming a problem recently as it's regularly seems to be the lowest audience rating for both soaps, though I suspect the weather played a part last night as that +1 for ED is about 100k above normal.

What poor treatment has it been given I'm curious?

Exactly.

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Why are itv's hd viewing figures separate aren't they included in all the other channels figures ?

I think its to do with regional advertising, something BBC don't require and Ch4 and Five are "country regions" rather than ITV's mix

Ah. I didn't realise it had a break in May.

I don't really understand sorry? Yes I get itv is broken in to regions yes and hd is one region.

It's just when they report the overnight figures we never get itv hd figures so don't get the full exact figures for itv. The hd figures are quite high for soaps and bgt etc if you look on barb.co.uk

Two unintentionally funny publicity photos on that article.

6m seems to be the new 7m for soaps.

The DS overnight reports include HD I believe.

I remember writing a comment recently on ds on a soap ratings story and someone from ds replied saying itv don't include there hd ratings maybe someone from ds can confirm ?

ITV HD is included in the overnights you see here on DS, on the Broadcast website and on the Mediaguardian website.

Only the Broadcast app excludes HD for some reason, and so some of the figures posted on here by me will exclude HD but I always state when this is the case.

Big Brother, fast looking like it's hardly worth bothering with the normal series, particularly how it takes up so many hours and shapes the reputation of Channel 5, might be soon more bother than it's worth

Car Share, good rating for a good programme, quite odd how it was on the shelf for ages and then thrown all over the shop. I doubt any other BBC1 comedy will rate as well until 24th December. If there is a second series it'll probably be in 2018 by current speeds.

Newzoids, low rating again, deserves more, really well liked by those that actually are watching. Should be recomissioned but then again if people aren't watching now when there was so much material from politicians, will they watch when there are fewer topical gags. Might be worth moving to ITV2 with an ITV repeat.

Delivery Man, low rating made lower by clashing with Car Share. Too wish you washy to stand up. The sort of thing that would be amusing if you came across it sandwiched in between two other shows, but not strong enough for people to go out of their way to record. Can't see it being recomissioned even for ITV2.

Delivery Man had no adverts in it bar ITV promos, I think the only reason it hasn't been pulled is they have nothing else to pair with Newzoids and seem to want to keep that on.

Repeats of Vicious would probably do better.

Awful for Delivery Man!

I just hope for BB it's a series which grows like 2 summers ago. I will e terrible if it goes under last year's awful series. As of now, it deserves better figures.

Well it won't because they don't have the little web cams on the website like they used to on Channel 4.

Neither did BB14 or CBB13 and they still grew throughout the run.

Poor for Delivery Man. Strong as ever for The Island.