[Red Moon]

Viewers flee the jungle

More than 2 million viewers abandoned I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! for last night's second episode despite a first-night catfight between Janice Dickinson and Lynne Franks.

The ITV1 reality show saw its audience drop from 8.7 million viewers on Monday night to 6.5 million viewers last night. The channel's share in the 9pm slot dropped from 38% to 26.6% overnight.

There was a bigger audience drop-off between the first and second episode of I'm a Celebrity this year. In 2006 the series six opened with 8.9 million viewers and had lost 1.3 million by its second outing.

In spite of this, I'm a Celebrity still triumphed over BBC One in the 9pm slot. Returning drama Spooks only pulled in 5.2 million viewers and a 21.5% share for the corporation.

Gordon Ramsay also saw his ratings plummet for the second episode of his new Channel 4 series. While the show debuted with 3.9 million viewers and a 17% share last week, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares dropped to 2.9 million and a 11.8% share last night.

This, however, was enough to give Channel 4 the edge over Five and BBC2 in the 9pm slot. US import CSI: Miami continued to deliver solid ratings for Five with a 2.2 million-strong audience and a 9.2 percent share.

For the second week running BBC Two's music talent show Classical Star trailed in last out of the five terrestrial channels in the 9pm hour. The series scored a lowly 1.6 million viewers and a 6.7% share.

BBC Two did shine an hour earlier with Autumnwatch, the fortnight-long nature series fronted by Bill Oddie and Kate Humble, watched by 3.4 million viewers, a 14.4% share.

The programme came in second behind slot winner Holby City, which captured 6.4 million viewers and a 27.4% share.

Trinny and Susannah Undress the Nation came in third at 8pm. After attracting 5.1 million viewers to ITV1 for its cleavage special last week, this week's episode about men's clothes brought in a less impressive 3 million viewers and a 13% share.

Source: The Gaurdian

[XxShortyxX]

I don't know why, I thought last's night was funny and pretty good.

[001steven]

i watched last nights.... and was really dissapointed with it.. i just feel that the WHOLE cat fight thing was ALL for publicity

[Ruth*Star]

I watched it and i thought it was okay, the only thing that made me laugh was Janice doing the bush tucker task thingy.

[Jackie]

It usually is for publicity,the programme is becoming boring.

[dbh-g]

I actually didnt enjoy last years contest but am really enjoying this years and cant wait for the camps to merge.

[Shaun]

I'd expect it to drop from the first night, to be honest...it happens with all reality TV. Especially BB.

[CassetteFinger]

Imagine if janice wasent in there how far it would have dropped.

[001steven]

I really hope it picks up...BUT i dont see that happeneing....... the whole thing from winning the NTAs for best reality..and the whole cat fight thing looks like the need for publicity... BB 8 went through similar thing with being boring

[Billy]

But it isnt boring :S

[XxShortyxX]

Originally posted by Rice_Snap
Imagine if janice wasent in there how far it would have dropped.

Yea I agree. Although I tihnk it's good. First time I have watched it as well.

[aj2463]

God, everything is about ratings nowadays, I miss when shows were for entertainment instead of competition for other channels!! x

[Stu]

Originally posted by aj2463
God, everything is about ratings nowadays, I miss when shows were for entertainment instead of competition for other channels!! x

Errr TV was ALWAYS about ratings. Its a business making money through entertaining their audience.

[supernoodles!]

I think Janice might walk,i think its pretty boring

[Tom]

Originally posted by aj2463
God, everything is about ratings nowadays, I miss when shows were for entertainment instead of competition for other channels!! x

If they don't get the ratings, they don't get as much money from the advertisers, so they don't have as much money to put back into their programming.

[001steven]

yeah am finding this series very boring

[Redmond]

I would've watched Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares anyway but it was a repeat (well the majority of it, as he was returning to a restaurant that featured on the show last series, so about 45 minutes of the show was showing what happened last time). So I decided to opt for I'm A Celeb, but I agree this series is pretty weak.

[Mrluvaluva]

I haven't even bothered watching it this year so far.