The triggered BB fans in the replies to that tweet :joker:

Holy **** it’s bigger than miss BB

3.1m (16.3%) inc. +1 for last night.

2.7m (14.8%) inc. +1 for last night's show.

It’s better than BB ratings by far in this climate. BB was at its peak when loads of people watched tv and tv shows got great ratings. A 5m average now is equivalent to about a 9m average then.

If you look at the difference between channels, and all shows in 2002-2005, and 2019 in terms of ratings it’s basicslly halved since. Love island would be on like 10m if you scaled it up

Love island is far more relevant now than BB ever was

Good ratings. I think they should put the show on ITV. It would get even more viewers.

You’re right in saying that, but also; BB never had the reach that Love Island does now, as it didn’t have as great catch up and on demand services available at such ease. There’s no reason to say that the 5.8m average for BB3 couldn’t have still been the same these days, but then easily 7 or 8 million with a wider audience also watching on demand etc. It isn’t really comparable

Even with the reach and the services available ratings still aren’t even close to what they used to be 15 years ago, still far lower. So BB would have been at like 3 million at its peak had it aired now and remained just as popular.

Basically every room you walk into people are taking about Love Island, they are where I work anyway and I work with different people everyday

Last night's episode averaged 2.7 million which is up 200k on last year but 200k down on last week.

Last nights Love Island averaged 3 million viewers (15%) - up 2% and 210k viewers on 2018

RATINGS: Week 2 official figures for #LoveIsland (+ what each episode added)

Mon - 5.45m (+2.65)
Tue - 5.34m (+2.64)
Wed - 5.53m (+2.73)
Thu - 5.49m (+2.59)
Frid - 5.50m (+3.00)
Sun - 5.62m (+2.62)

Series Average - 5.60m (+1.8)

#UnseenBits - 1.78m
#LoveIslandAftersun - 1.56m

Phenomenal ratings :clap1:

Yewande and Maura did that :clap1:

Again, good ratings. This cast is great!

Last night was the most watched episode since launch with 3.1 million viewers (17.2%) up over 500k on last year.

Brilliant :dance:

That’s spectacular. This show is on fire atm!

higher than BB3 :shocked:

Not really. Tim's eviction in BB3 was watched by over 8 million people. Also half way through BB3 ratings picked up to average between 6 and 7 million per highlights episode.

It launched with 6 million and ended with 10 million.

Love Island is killing it and i think people expected it to drop in the ratings this year but its only risen however its not reached the heights of BB3 and i dont think it will either as it doesn't represent a broad enough age range.

Last night's Love Island got 3.1 million viewers beating Eastenders 2nd episode which got 2.9.

I always thought BB3s average was 5.3 for some reason. Love Island is currently averaging 5.6 and BB3 was 5.8 (officials) so not far off

2.9 million viewers for last nights episode.

Insane ratings.

No other words!

It’s doing far better. You can’t compare ratings of 2002 to ratings of 2019. Viewership of all television channels has halved since. Love Island getting 5 million would be the equivalent of it getting like 10 million in that time. Taking into account the date differences Love Island is far more relevant and larger than BB3 ever was

How is it more relevant if its getting less viewers? That don't make no cents luv

But yeah these ratings are obvs incredible

That's the answer :laugh:

The officials are online views too. The number of people watching TV hasn't declined at all, people just choose to watch on catch up now using laptops or tablets because it's easier for them if they miss the show on TV. So, if you think about it, Love Island really should have more views and 5 million today is not in-fact equivalent to 10 million back in the day but 2.5 million because people have far more options to catch up on shows today then they did in 2002.

The logic doesn't make sense. If it was more relevant than BB3 it would have more viewers, especially as there's a lot more ways to catch up nowadays.

I'm not disputing that it's doing amazingly, but to say it's doing better than BB3 did is inaccurate. Soz if I'm coming across pedantic but its true! But who knows it could still grow and the officials could take over BB3's :shrug:

I think you're underestimating how immense BB was in its peak, especially BB3.

It was everywhere and everyone was talking about it in the same way people do with Love Island now. The difference then was it was all magazines and tabloids as opposed to Twitter and Instagram.

Not to mention it made the most famous and successful BB housemate in Jade Goody, who was arguably a more well-known name than anyone from Love Island. You even had people like Johnny Depp appearing on Graham Norton supporting her.

Yeah and as well as Jade, 3 of them are still prominent in the media now with TV/Radio jobs (Alison, Adele and Kate)

I’m pretty sure, if anything, BB3 would be the one with bigger ratings if it aired today with even more ways for people to watch it than the 5-10 million who watched it live back then. Love Island gets 3 million live right now and another 3 on catch up, back in 2002 this live figure would probably be bigger yeah but the catch up one would be non existent (as it was with BB back then) - so imo it shows that BB was far bigger, if you can even try to compare

BB3 was huge in 2002 yes, but it wasn't the leading show on television. Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale were still very popular and was getting a lot more viewers. Shows like The Bill, Bad Girls and Bad Lads Army were also very popular and often got more viewers than BB3 as well.

When you compare this to 2019 where soaps are nowhere near as big and the only shows that get a "big" amount of viewers are IAC and BGT it does seem like Love Island is the go-to show and has definitely beat out all the local competition (Gogglebox, TOWIE, Hollyoaks) There isn't another big show on right now what everyone is talking about.

Also not discrediting BB3 at all, it was a huge success and really put Big Brother on the map. If BB3 flopped there probably wouldn't of been a BB6 so I will always have love for ha

I get your point but the big 3 soaps still get bigger ratings than LI does now (which is crazy to me since you never really hear people talk about EE for example, maybe it’s bc it has more old skewing demographic)

I remember during BB7 all the older kids at school (I was like 6 lol) would talk about it every day. LI is basically the modern version of BB it’s peak, but BB was slightly bigger imo

It was at such different times so it's so hard for them to be compared, but regardless of everything I'm glad there is a popular reality TV show in the summer with similarities to BB. It's pretty cool to be part of a reality TV forum where one of it's shows are in their golden era

Same. I'm glad there's Love Island that we could look forward to in the summer. I'd struggle to think what to watch in the summer now that BB is dead.

Yet IAC And BGT still get well above 10 million so this theory fails.

Why are people trying to disprove BB3's success? lol It was huge, without the help of catchup and online streaming and it also went up against the World Cup.

BB3 was massive and this years Love Island is huge, more so because it's on a digital channel but defo not as big a talking point as BB was back in the day (for us who can remember).

Do any of the islanders make it on the lunch/evening time news? Coz the housemates of BB3 did lol It was discussed amongst every age group not just the 13 to 35 year olds.

Let's all remember celebrity Love Island was created by ITV and put in direct competition with BB, It is at it's core a rip off of Big Brother but in the simplest way and something that most BB viewers werent interested in..Fake romances.

EDIT: Just seen your respect for BB3 response, it did really pave the way for other reality shows. That same year IAC launches and had live streaming just like BB. Everyone was trying to imitate it.

Updats:

Last nights was the most watched episode so far with 3.3 million viewers (slightly more than launch) and aftersun also hit a high of 1.3 million for this series (but still down on 2018)

officials for week 3

Mon - 5.70m (+2.60)
Tue - 5.33m (+2.63)
Wed - 5.31m (+2.51)
Thu - 5.37m (+2.67)
Frid - 5.50m (+3.00)
Sun - 5.36m (+2.36)

Running Average - 5.52m (+1.6)

Unseen Bits - 1.66m
Aftersun - 1.78m