8.2 Million Turn In To See Pete Win
Last night's Big Brother final, which saw Pete walk away with the ?100,000 prize, attracted at its peak 8.2 million viewers - a 45.6% share of those viewing television at the time.

And when the voting lines closed, estimated money raised for charity from voting throughout the series totalled approximately ?1.2million. Approximately ?257,365 of that was raised from the vote to return ex-housemates to the house.

Unofficial overnight viewing figures from BARB have indicated that last night's (Friday 18 August) 10pm finale show - where Glyn was revealed as runner-up and Aisleyne in third place - was watched by an average 7.7 million viewers and a 39.2% share of viewers at the time.

This is up on last year's series finale which averaged 6.7 million viewers and a 34.4% share, and peaked at 7.8 million, and attracted a peak share of 43.4% of available audience.

Last night's 8.00pm show, where Jennie left the house in sixth place, Nikki in fifth and Richard in fourth, attracted an average 6.3 million and a 28.7% share, peaking at 7.4 million and a 33% share.

Last night's 10 pm final was the highest rating show of the series, the second highest being the 18 May launch night which attracted an average of 7.1 million viewers, followed by Grace's eviction on 16th June which averaged 6.3 million viewers.

All of this year's figures above are based on overnight and not consolidated ratings.

Source: Big Blagger

Wow, thats really good!

This years ratings have been brilliant

Thats good! Well done Big Bro!

MORE reason for C4 TO KEEP BB then. WELL DONE BIG BROTHER! MESSAGE TO ITV KEEP YOUR GREEDY HANDS OFF BB, just because your reality shows are flops dont make BB 1 so STAY AWAY!!

I thought Love Island and The X Factor were successful

Well done Big Brother! w00t! Yeah, ITV keep your mitts away from Big Brother, you have Love Island remember? I mean, c'mon... Who watches Love Island? I can't stand it.

Love Island has been anything BUT successful Davey lol
I like it, but its been one of the biggest flops on ITV ever apparntly

Really? Haha

Thats huge.are the individual VOTE %`s anywhere.?

Love Islnd is one of the worst reality shows ever created ITV should of axed after the flop of last years one but no they keep it. If they even consider makeing a Love island NEXT YEAR I WILL WRITE TO THEM and tell them your embarassing yourselfs. BB WILL ALWAYS BEAT LOVE ISLAND. Thats the only reason why ITV want BB because its sucsessfull but i wouldnt watch it on ITV bwcause youll have dimwits like Ant and Dec popping up every 5mins and plus there wont be as much live coverage like it has on E4. But i think C4 WILL sign BB untill 2012 because of the succsess this sereis has had. KEEP BB C4

C4 is better than ITV

Great viewing figures last night. Enjoyed it all, 8 out of 10 cats was good too with lea and grace on the teams, and jade, mikey, nadia, shabaz, jayne and eugene on it!!

Well done Big Brother. A truly brilliant finale.

ITV dont want it now!