They trailled it At Noon and i saw it again after pointless but didnt see it the rest of the day.
Thing is unless you watched those shows you might not have known. I know some people only go to BBC1 for EastEnders anyway

Can't they run an ad during BGT this week? I know that sounds desperate, but I hope they don't just throw loads of silly twists at it. I think the best and most likely solution with the timebomb theme is the return of an ex HM, I'd guess at Nikki Grahame.

EDIT: perhaps they are holding out for officials too?

Of course, the one thing I hadn't considered regarding Big Brother's ratings was EastEnders' move back to 10pm. It's understandably dented More Talent to an extent and it will have the same affect on Big Brother. So year-on-year figures were going to be hurt anyway - the question is by this much?

Relatively speaking it looks like a poor set of results for ITV. Springwatch held up well. EastEnders wasn't hit as much as it could have been.

Overnights: Monday, May 25

BBC One
19:00 The One Show: 3.53m (18.5%)
19:30 EastEnders: 5.10m (22.7%)
22:00 BBC News at Ten: 3.48m (21.0%)

BBC Two
19:00 A Cook Abroad: 0.98m (4.7%)
20:00 Springwatch: 2.13m (9.4%)
21:00 Churchill: When Britain Said No: 1.36m (5.9%)

Channel 4 (exc. +1)
20:00 Damned Designs: 0.68m (3.0%)
21:00 Benefits Street: 1.21m (5.2%)
22:00 The Night Bus: 0.66m (4.2%)

Channel 5 (exc. +1)
19:00 Cricket on Five: England v New Zealand: 1.03m (5.0%)
21:00 Gotham: 0.63m (2.7%)
22:00 Big Brother: 0.78m (4.9%)

ITV2 (exc. +1)
19:15 Apollo 13: 0.24m (1.1%)
22:00 Britain's Got More Talent: 0.40m (2.6%)

E4 (exc. +1)
19:00 Hollyoaks: 0.62m (3.2%)
19:30 The Goldbergs: 0.20m (0.9%)
21:00 Made in Chelsea: 0.42m (1.8%)

Early ITV figures here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=4741

EastEnders seemed to have held up well considering. Coronation St seems to have usual type figures rather than major increase given sandwich between BGT and heavy promotion.

Channel 5 beating BBC Two in the 7pm hour proves ratings miracles can happen.

Agreed. Good to see EastEnders putting in a respectable performance, especially given it was a good episode.

My God. Just horrific for BB. Thing is I don't get it, I can think of at least 4 series that deserved these numbers, not this year.

Baffling.

But then again I look at the other channels which also did horrific. Have people just all decided to throw their TVs away?

Launching a month early in the thick of exam season with no promo and only 13 days before the announcement of the launch? Stupid, stupid decision. Stick with June.

That's interesting Dancc. I thought 10pm would be one to keep an eye on as EastEnders moved the BBC3 repeat back there. It meant Corrie on +1 had to face it and BGMT.

I'm just hoping the officials today put BB in the 1.5m section. That way it's only 100k down on last season and I'd take that right now.

I think big brother is struggling because of when it launched and its earlier start. I have watched every series of big brother, however I missed the first episode due to the launch date and therefore have not got round to catching up. Also knowing that most contestants were young made me less want to watch the first episode anyway.

Lots of bad choices at the start turned me off. I will be unlikely to switch on even if they do a big advertising campaign.

Thanks Dancc.

I have to say I'm enjoying the collapse of Benefits Street in the ratings!

They would need to time shift a record amount to make the ratings look decent. The average 300k won't cut it.

I don't think ITV would ever run a ch5 show as an ad during BGT. Even if they did, ratings wouldn't get better, who'd tune in when they missed the first 2 or 3 weeks?

Inc HD and +1

Britain's Got Talent - 8.9m (39.5%)
Coronation Street - 8.1m (34.8%)
Britain's Got Talent - 6.9m (30%) - peak 7.6m (32.7%)

Disappointing.

Avengers got 3.3m (14.6%)

It probably wouldn't have been that low on a normal Monday. Not that I'm trying to take the sting out of the figures as someone accused me of yesterday, as I think I've made it perfectly clear they've been bad for days and are getting worse. But this is always a difficult week with two and a half hours of BGT and Corrie a night leading to disrupted viewing patterns across the board - C4 couldn't cope either.

The whole week is going to be like this now. It's probably not worth doing anything too major to try and claw viewers back until Monday. That's not to say they won't, though. Panic mode firmly turned on at this point I think.

Everything you said pretty much but also the HMs in general are the most likeable in years. Maybe they need horrible evil people to go around and spread malice for BB nowadays.

That's why I'm expecting an ex HM from Channel 4 era soon. The priority has to be getting above 1million now overnight.

the entire show is based around that idiot living in the flat (now back in prison)
amazed it held over a million

Pants ratings for BB. Channel 5 should axe the civilian series.

Springwatch held up well and Avengers also did well considering it was shown last xmas.

Not sure what to make of those BGT figures.

Until now it had all been going very swimmingly this run. What went wrong ? The results show is down about 1.3m year-on-year.

Corrie did well between the two, and I think has some major episodes lined up later in the week so could pull ahead of BGT performances.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the headquarters. I wonder if they are shrugging it off or are worried. AndI ewonder what they think the cause is.

It's quite interesting that in the overnights in Jan CBB rarely went under 2.6m and hit 3m+ several times in the overnights when months later they are struggling to get a million.

Which is a shame because they proved they could do it right back in the summer of 2013. Getting 1.5m nightly and almost 2m officially.

I for one know next year will be back in the June launch.

On BGT now, that's not great for the results is it? And speaking of BB drops. ..Benefit Street has fallen around 3m from last year!