First, the final "Britain's Got Talent" performance show Saturday night at 6:45 p.m. pulled a phenomenal 69 (!) share and 15M viewers to ITV, making everyone else irrelevant. Then, a big-for-digital 1.6M watched the ITV2 post-game show "Britain's Got More Talent" at 8:30 p.m. (hurting an episode of "All-Star Mr. & Mrs." on the main stem, but still doing better than terrestrials Channel 4 and Channel 5). And then at 9:30 p.m., the half-hour results show (that's right, only a half-hour, not a bloated revenue-generating spectacle the next night) in which Susan Boyle lost pulled the highest UK TV audience in five years (and ITV's biggest non-sports audience since a 2003 plot climax episode of "Coronation Street")--17.3M viewers and a 68 share, with a peak of 19.2M for the announcement of the winner in the final minutes of the show, the biggest since an England soccer match on BBC1 in 2004:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/01/britains-got-talent-tv-ratings Along with the FA Cup final soccer match earlier in the day, ITV dominated British TV Saturday--and considering their recent monetary and ratings woes, they needed a day like this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
