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)