07-07-2023, 02:43 PM
Isn't that comparing apples and oranges, though? ie, they're treating consolidated and overnight ratings as interchangeable?
Even then, the article claimed EastEnders is 'barely scraping' a million viewers. I'm just not convinced that's true - someone elsewhere wrote that the overnights for the first three episodes this week were 1.48m, 1.70m and 1.78m. Well above a million, and of course those are only overnights *and* it was relegated to BBC Two. I'd expect the number to increase substantially in the final figures.
Here is the graphic from one of the stories - I think it's absurd to try to compare modern TV ratings to the 1980s in this way:
Even then, the article claimed EastEnders is 'barely scraping' a million viewers. I'm just not convinced that's true - someone elsewhere wrote that the overnights for the first three episodes this week were 1.48m, 1.70m and 1.78m. Well above a million, and of course those are only overnights *and* it was relegated to BBC Two. I'd expect the number to increase substantially in the final figures.
Here is the graphic from one of the stories - I think it's absurd to try to compare modern TV ratings to the 1980s in this way: