The Irish launch rating in terms of UK
 

So it had 550,000 in Ireland and Ireland has a population of 4.5 Million! so thats 1/9 in people watched BB in Ireland last night.

Uk has 64M, so 64 divided by 9 is around 7.

So if the UK watched BB like Ireland it would have got 7 million last night!

Thats crazy

That's amazing really, a 9th of the country watching BB

I know amazing!! :cheer2::dance::cheer2:

That's about a third of the people who watched it in the UK. :worry:

:amazed: so I assume 550k is high for ireland then? I saw it in the ratings thread earlier and thought it sounded terrible but if thats actually 1/9th of the population then maybe it's not too bad after all. :laugh:

Its in the top three of ratings I would reckon here in Ireland. Firstly the night suited as it wasn't up against some of the most popular shows. Secondly BB is popular with a lot of the Irish and we had to add Channel 5 as an extra channel to our Sky package in order to watch it when it switched. Thirdly when I and any of the other Irish fans have been watching it on Cannel 5 we cant pause or record it which was a huge problem. Now we can.

I would reckon 550k would be in line with one of the most popular programmes over here like The Late Late show. Its a brilliant figure. I am glad. I love the fact that we can see it on our Irish channel now as well as Channel 5

it's 7m in terms of UK which is amazing!

If you knew how lousy Irish TV was you'd know why BB had large figs.

Irish television is not lousy. We have some brilliant programmes, documentaries, chat shows etc. I watch both Irish channels and other channels. The one channel I rarely watch is BBC1 as I don't find the programmes very interesting but I would never say its lousy. People have different tastes

Not bad at all.

Wait. The Irish watch our tv?

For free,

This is nothing short of a disgrace.

It certainly seems like a bigger deal in Ireland at least relatively.

Fair trade, you occupy six counties.