Love's argument would be if the BBC treated it like an entertainment format rather than factual they would have been able to spend more on it, even if they weren't able to match Channel 4 moving closer to Love's valuation may have resulted in a positive result for the BBC. I add this is probably Love's argument rather than my own. If Kudos couldn't reach an agreement with ITV over Braodchurch the same would have happened.

Additionally, Love want to make the most of the commercial power from Bake Off, something the BBC cannot offer - admittedly the BBC could and can do nothing about this.

As I said before I'll be interested to see how the BBC deals with indies now in terms olf drawing up contracts. But when they're letting Love off the hook by seemingly not asking them to honour the 'one year's break' deal...

So did Brief Encounters rate at about 6m? I'll be honest, I didn't even know the first series has been on! (Sorry ITV but you drive people away)

Richard Osman ‏@richardosman 21s22 seconds ago
Bake Off peaked at over 11m viewers last night. Goodness me.

Patrick Foster ‏@patrickfoster2 8s9 seconds ago
10.3 million viewers for Bake Off last night, 46 per cent of the TV audience.

Overnights.tv ‏@overnightstv 1m1 minute ago
Final BBC season of #GBBO continued to batter the opposition with 10.3m/45.6% @PaulHollywood @LoveProdHouse http://ww.overnights.tv

Very happy with this rating, actually got a prediction correct on the ratings prediction thread

I really didn't think it would jump by 2 million, hey, a figure of over 10m these days is incredible.

I thought with all this publicity, the rating would be higher. But nonetheless a good rating.

Brilliant Rating for GBBO.

So its like BBC2's Coast just with Tony Robinson?

Sorry to be a pain, what were the overnights for the first three episodes of GBBO?

Of this series?

24/08 - 10.44m (47.5%)
31/08 - 10.14m (45.1%)
07/09 - 9.68m (44.7%)

Overnights.tv ‏@overnightstv 34s34 seconds ago
#OurGirl built on last week's performance to win slot with 4.1m/20.3% http://www.overnights.tv

Yeah, thank you

Great rating for Bake Off. Wasn't expecting much higher than usual, because for all the publicity, it's still a pre-recorded show. It wasn't like people were going to tune in to see 'live' fall out from the announcement.

A climb of around 300k is very good from first episode to second episode.

Fantastic for Bake Off as per usual.

Solid as a rock for GBBO.

BBC1
The Great British Bake Off: 10.26m (45.6%)
Our Girl: 4.11m (20.3%)
BBC News (10pm): 3.52m (22.2%)

BBC2
Great British Menu: 1.16m (6.5%)
Natural World: Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats: 0.98m (4.9%)
Skies Above Britain: 0.88m (3.9%)

BBC4
Lost Sitcoms: Steptoe and Son: 0.37m (1.8%)
Catching History's Criminals: the Forensics Story (R): 0.23m (1.6%)
James May: the Reassembler (R): 0.21m (1.0%)

Channel 4 (exc. +1)
Paralympics 2016 (9pm-1am): 1.28m (10.9%)
The Last Leg: Live from Rio: 1.07m (4.8%)
Paralympics Highlights (7.30pm): 1.06m (5.9%)

2.7m viewers tuned in for Mikey Jones' #Paralympics Gold medal win at 10pm last night on Channel 4.
Avg audience of 1.3m, +70% on slot avg
Channel 4 Press@C4Press

Channel 5 (exc. +1)
Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!: 1.71m (8.4%)
GPs: Behind Closed Doors: 0.81m (3.6%)
Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters: 0.70m (4.8%)

E4 (exc. +1)
Hollyoaks: 0.50m (3.0%)
Celebs Go Dating: 0.34m (2.3%)
Containment: 0.23m (1.1%)

More of the stunning innovation we've come to expect from them. They couldn't even scare up a title that wasn't derivative!

Would you expect them too? heh

Does this one tweet suggest Paul Hollywood's intentions? Seems to be quite loyal to Love Productions doesn't he?

Good to see Our Girl rising. The cliffhanger at the end of Ep 1 brought more people back.

I was wondering what the C4 ratings would be between 9.40 and about 10.45 while Team GB was getting 10 medals in an hour and 4 minutes, very entertaining it was. seems I got my answer

Except me! I thought last week's episode was so far fetched it seemed like it was a totally different show from the previous series. I wanted the female medic to die last week because I found her characterisation unbelievable. It was a pile of poo. And just over 4 million is hardly ground breaking. Over 6 million people switched over or off once Bake Off had ended!

I still think Paul will go with the money. It wouldn't be a surprise.

Excluding +1:

Hell's Kitchen (ITV2): 0.32m (1.6%)
Ross Kemp: Extreme World (Sky 1): 0.22m (1.1%)
The Force: Essex (Sky 1): 0.20m (1.4%)
Unspun with Matt Forde (Dave): 0.18m (1.2%)
Shades of Blue (Sky Living): 0.11m (0.6%)

He strikes me as arrogant enough to think even if it's only him transferring across to C4 that it would be enough to make it work. Wrong.

DCI Banks: 2.48m (12.3%) EXCLUDING HD / excluding +1
Last week: 2.69m (13.9%) exc. HD/exc. +1

When do we get the consolidated ratings for last week's Bake Off?