Channel 5 Ratings
 

So now that Love Island has been on for a few weeks with no Big Brother competing with it either directly or indirectly, how is Channel 5 doing in the ratings so far this summer against itv2 and the other channels compared to how it did when BB was on, even last year when the ratings were at an all time low? Im curious as to what kind of ratings channel 5 can muster without its flagship show in the summer. It could be important data for 5 to consider when deciding whether to renew. Anyone know these ratings details?

Seems to be ticking by as normal though the shows that get the regular ratings they still are may have a different audience?

Idk the ratings but I agree that it will show how 5 does without their biggest show

Last night at 9pm on C5:

Cruising with Jane McDonald: 1.47m (8.2%) exc. +1

That's quite a bit more than what BB got last year :worry: I'm not sure about other nights though

I think the Jane McDonald shows are the only thing she apart from BB that get that much on the channel

Nah shows like The Hotel Inspector allways rate well to but like I said with the Jane Mcdonald show that's a different audience....Still worrying though as the Channel will focus on that. I want BB gone from Channel 5 anyway.

I think there are handful of shows that rate well but there aren’t many.

Just to add they are filling their time slots with crap like "cats make you laugh out loud" so they really are desperate to fill the schedule without BB.

The week LI launched most of their programs at 9 brought in over 1m

THE SPACE SHUTTLE: TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY 0.85m
HOTEL INSPECTOR 1.32m
RICH HOUSE POOR HOUSE 1.31m
INSIDE... 1.55m
CRUISING WITH JANE MCDONALD 2.28m
SECRETS OF TUTANKHAMUN'S TREASURES 0.89m
THE YORKSHIRE STEAM RAILWAY: ALL ABOARD 0.51m

https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/

Hmm

All these shows are aimed at a different demographic aswell which backs up my point...Though I do love The Hotel Inspector ;)

They are but still if these shows are performing for them then it might make them question how important BB is to them

That is what I meant but these are only a handful of shows and they are struggling to fill their current schedule without BB being on at the mo.

Remember BBUK was on at 10pm though, not 9pm... that makes quite a difference in terms of overall audience and key demo audience.

Plus, the first week of BB18 averaged an official 1.55 million which is more than all of these, Jane being an exception.

Thanks very much MTVN for those numbers, do you have access to the 10 PM figures? I think they will be less then 9PM and hopefully illustrate that the ratings of the shows that are airing where BB would have are not doing as well.

Yeah they are quite down on BB numbers. The site just gives the top 30 rated C5 shows for that week and the only ones at 10pm that made it were:

TRAFFIC COPS*0.84m
THE STORY OF...*0.63m
EGYPT UNWRAPPED*0.59m
TOP OF THE BOX 0.51m

So the other three would have rated less than that

Thanks thats exactly the info I was looking for. So we can safely conclude that 5 is taking a big ratings hit without BB, food for thought for Ben Frow. I know some will ask does the shows high cost justify the ratings increase, but getting those kind of ratings at least 4 months out of the year also has a big halo effect on the entire channel itself. It also illustrates that despite Frows warped and pretentious view of the channel as more highbrow than lowly BB, the highest rated show at 10 by far is traffic cops with all the rest at .63 or below.They really have nothing near what theyd need to fill BBs slots in terms of replacement programming either available or even in development.

Channel 5 is an old people’s channel now. Look at the schedule.

no, they’ve been airing that for a good couple years now.

It’s always been full of needless ****e but now it’s literally aiming towards the older people because they presume everyone else streams **** now, even though they’re right next to itv2 who’s rolling in it because they’ve actually made something people want to watch.

Oh god even worse lol isn't that what YouTube is for?

Jane McDonald single-handedly saving Channel 5? :clap1:

They were advertising that when Big Brother was on tbf

But it shows the crap they put out. Actually they don't even advertise BB Primetime so shows the level of support they have for the show.

It just shows what a clueless bitch Frow is. Clearly BB and 5 both need each other, yet he pretends as if he doesn't and only they do in some very badly misconcieved negotiating hardball. In the process, by making disparaging comments toward the show and insisting he doesnt need or want it, he absolutely destroys the biggest and most popular show on his entire cheesy network. He will look like a fool if the show goes, because overall ratings for the channel will obviously and unquestionably drop (as demonstrated by the ratings data in this thread) and 5 will then actually be showing a few hundred more hours of the crappy content they fill the rest of their schedule with now, with even worse results.