Post by sunbeam on Jun 7, 2005 10:51:42 GMT
Guardian
Boy did the tabloids bet on the wrong horse! They've given all their space to Big Bro and yet Love Island is now beating it in the ratings.
Boy did the tabloids bet on the wrong horse! They've given all their space to Big Bro and yet Love Island is now beating it in the ratings.
Celebrity Love Island beat Big Brother in the ratings last night, causing a surprise upset that almost matched the look on Lee Sharpe's face when viewers separated him from his new fancy woman, the glamour model Abi Titmuss, in the ITV dating show.
According to unofficial overnights, ITV's island reality series attracted its second highest audience ever as nearly 5 million people tuned in.
Aided by a considerable boost from ratings juggernaut Coronation Street, Celebrity Love Island pulled in an average of 4.7 million viewers, a million more than Big Brother.
Kicking off at 9.30pm, the Patrick Kielty and Kelly Brook-fronted show kicked off with 5.3 million viewers.
By the time Big Brother began at 10pm, ITV's audience had slipped to 4.3 million. By the end of the show it was down further to 3.9 million, but that was enough to earn an average of 1 million more viewers than its Channel 4 rival.
Big Brother drew an average of 3.8 million and a 20% share, two points behind Celebrity Love Island and 200,000 viewers down on the same time last year,
While both shows appear to be sponging up the typical reality audience of 16- to 34-year-olds, BBC1 scored by rolling out the oldies.
New Tricks, BBC1's veteran cop show with a rejuvenated James Bolam and Dennis Waterman, drew an audience of 6.4 million between 9pm and 10pm, inevitably losing out to the last half-hour of Coronation Street but getting the better of Celebrity Love Island.
That helped tee up BBC1's 10 O'Clock News and the ensuing repeat of One Foot in the Grave. The BBC's 10pm bulletin attracted an audience of 5.5 million while the Richard Wilson comedy classic held on to 3.4 million.
Elsewhere Five scored with a documentary double-bill. She Stole My Foetus, the extraordinary tale of Elijah Evans who was cut out of his mother's womb and abducted by a family "friend", drew 1.5 million viewers at 9pm, while the ensuing Air Crash Investigation landed 1.4 million viewers and a 10% share.
According to unofficial overnights, ITV's island reality series attracted its second highest audience ever as nearly 5 million people tuned in.
Aided by a considerable boost from ratings juggernaut Coronation Street, Celebrity Love Island pulled in an average of 4.7 million viewers, a million more than Big Brother.
Kicking off at 9.30pm, the Patrick Kielty and Kelly Brook-fronted show kicked off with 5.3 million viewers.
By the time Big Brother began at 10pm, ITV's audience had slipped to 4.3 million. By the end of the show it was down further to 3.9 million, but that was enough to earn an average of 1 million more viewers than its Channel 4 rival.
Big Brother drew an average of 3.8 million and a 20% share, two points behind Celebrity Love Island and 200,000 viewers down on the same time last year,
While both shows appear to be sponging up the typical reality audience of 16- to 34-year-olds, BBC1 scored by rolling out the oldies.
New Tricks, BBC1's veteran cop show with a rejuvenated James Bolam and Dennis Waterman, drew an audience of 6.4 million between 9pm and 10pm, inevitably losing out to the last half-hour of Coronation Street but getting the better of Celebrity Love Island.
That helped tee up BBC1's 10 O'Clock News and the ensuing repeat of One Foot in the Grave. The BBC's 10pm bulletin attracted an audience of 5.5 million while the Richard Wilson comedy classic held on to 3.4 million.
Elsewhere Five scored with a documentary double-bill. She Stole My Foetus, the extraordinary tale of Elijah Evans who was cut out of his mother's womb and abducted by a family "friend", drew 1.5 million viewers at 9pm, while the ensuing Air Crash Investigation landed 1.4 million viewers and a 10% share.
