Big Brother Eviction Brings In Viewers

Big Brother‘s Friday night eviction was well watched, with viewers clamouring to see who the public would kick out of the house.

Lisa, a 27-year-old upholsterer from Manchester, was the public’s choice and the live eviction was watched by a peak of 5.2 million adults, making it the most watched programme on at the time. The show managed an average of 5 million adults (a 25% audience share) in its 10 o’clock time slot.

Since last Tuesday, people had been voting to decide whether Imogen, Lisa, Mikey or Nikki would be the fifth housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house, with Lisa eventually getting 60% of the total votes cast.

Big Brother‘s eviction show also managed a respectable audience figure for ABC1 Men, with an average of 971,000 (a 23% share) watching the drama unfold on Channel 4. The ABC1 Men figure peaked with one million viewers, beaten only by the News on BBC1, which followed straight on from the Togo v France World Cup match.

Overnight data is available each morning in mediatel.co.uk’s TV Database, with all BARB registered subscribers able to view reports for terrestrial networks, ITV2 and Sky One.

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