Both Britain's Got Talent and The Voice once again claimed victory in their Saturday night ratings war as early viewing figures were released.

The second round of the shows' head-to-head battle saw Britain's Got Talent once again secure the highest peak audience, with 12.6m - compared to the peak audience of 10.2m who tuned in to The Voice.

And BGT's average audience was also higher, with 9.9m tuning in for an audience share of 42 per cent - while The Voice averaged an audience of 9m - or 39.3 per cent of the audience share.

However, the BBC said that their show had once again beaten BGT during the 20 minute period from 8pm when the two shows overlapped.

During that time The Voice was watched by two million more viewers than BGT, with the latter show scoring 7.6m compared to the 9.6m who were still tuned in to BBC1.

The figures will come as a blow to Simon Cowell, who reportedly ordered a revamp of Saturday's Britain's Got Talent, after being left furious by the ratings loss to the ITV1 show during the overlap.

According to The Sun, the mogul ordered last minute re-edits of Saturday's show, with production staff not knowing until close to transmission time which acts had made the cut.

Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern was also ordered to return to London from Manchester to re-shoot links for the ITV2 show.


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The Voice will obviously get better ratings in the overlap though, people will just think they might as well see the end of it and switch over with loads of BGT still left

What are BGT's ratings like compared to previous years?

Series 1 averaged 8.00m with 33.6% share.
Series 2 averaged 9.60m with 41.8% share.
Series 3 averaged 12.35m with 52.4% share.
Series 4 averaged 10.00m with 43.0% share.
Not sure about series 5.

There are breakdowns of the figures on Wikipedia.

Hmm I reckon The Voice is going to affect viewing figures. But when they get to Semi Finals and the Final I'm sure they'll show the true figures.

Oh cool, thank you :)

I like that alot of the contestants play their own instruments. Only problem I have so far is possibly the dis honesty of the coaches. Yet to see any of then criticise the singers. At times some good feedback but alot of the time it's been the same old clichés.

I will get into The Voice in the live shows,I find the audition process is heavily staged in these talent shows anyway.

I reckon BGT is only doing better because it has the better timeslot

Updated figures:

Both The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent managed to build on their respective launches in the ratings last night (March 31).

On BBC One from 7pm, The Voice climbed to an average of 9m (39.3%), reaching a peak of over 10m between 7.45pm and 8pm.

Britain's Got Talent rose even further, with 10.28m (41.3%) tuning in from 8pm and over 11m watching at its peak. A further 548k (2.4%) caught the talent show on ITV1 +1.

But The Voice UK (9.8m/39%) overpowered Britain's Got Talent (7m/27.8%) again when they clashed between 8pm and 8.20pm, increasing its head-to-head lead to 2.8m from 2.2m last week.

Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern climbed to 819k (3.6%) on ITV2 at 9pm and 148k (0.8%) on +1.


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I only watch BGT,I watched The voice last week and didn't like it at all,but why this competition all the time?people should just watch what they like,according to 'This Morning' BGT won the ratings,but who really cares?

The Voice, definitely.

I think David Walliams is a good addition but Alesha is dull and so is the show's format.

I think the Voice is far greater than BGT.

I hate how they ridicule people on BGT.

I don't hate Simon Cowell but I am tired of that format and watching people being publicly humiliated when they're either A - Mentally challenged, B - Seriously disillusioned or C - Paid Actors

Sorry Niamh I deleted my comment, cuz I've just come to realise something.

Why on earth are we comparing a show that has comedians, dancers, gymnasts, magic acts, ventriloquists etc. to a show that purely just has singers?

BGT & The Voice are two COMPLEEEEETELY different shows ffs!!!

What we should be comparing The Voice to, is The X Factor :suspect: