Apparently, on average, the Torchwood premiere achieved a massive (for BBC 3) 2.4 Million viewers.
TORCHWOOD - EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT IT
More news as we get it: but if this number is true, it's the highest rating ever for a BBC launch...
UPDATE: 2.4 Million is now a confirmed number! Our friends at unitnews report:
"The premiere of Torchwood on BBC Three attracted 2.4 million viewers, one of the biggest multichannel audiences of all time and the channel's largest ever audience.
The opening episode 'Everything Changes' was the third most show in its slot beaten by ITV's Prime Suspect and Channel 4's showing of the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The episode equalled the audience for BBC One's Wide Sargasso Sea and secured a 12.5% share of the total audience which is believed to be a record for the channel.
The second installment, 'Day One', held on to almost all of the audience attracting 2.3 million viewers.
Multichannel audiences tend to be far smaller than those for the traditional 'big channels' with channels such as Sky One rarely creeping over the one million mark for non-sport events.
For the last week reported by BARB BBC Three's highest rated show was an advance viewing of hit spy drama Spooks which was seen by 814,000 viewers.
Giving his reaction to the viewing figures Julian Bellamy, Controller BBC THREE said: "I'm delighted that last night's Torchwood was such a big hit. It's an incredible achievement to be the highest rating show ever on BBC THREE and one of the most watched programmes on a digital channel."
The news has also been picked up on the BBC News Service.
Excellent news I'm sure you'll agree! Season two, here we come...!
10 comments:
The show may have attracted millions of viewers for the first episode, but I think it will decrease very rapidly. What a shame such an interesting series is being ruined by ridiculous sexism and an obsession with voyeurism.
If I want to see women being treated as sex objects I can look at billboards on every street, buy lads mags or watch channel 5. I thought the BBC had more about it. I, for one, wont be watching again.
A quick update: "Everything Changes" is the second highest ever drama/comedy broadcast on non-terrestrial tv. Apparently, an episode of Friends screened on Sky One six years ago beat it with 2.8 Million. Still, it's the best British programme rating ever!
Although it's meant to be for adults, the fact that it's linked with Doctor-Who means it WILL be associated with childrens T.V.
Even based on an adult view, I thought the first episode was uneccesarily graphic in violence and the second for sex. The same intentions can be conveyed with 'off screen shots' where the viewers can use their imaginations.
This could have been a good series but I turned-off part-way through the second episode and won't be watching this garbage again.
The BBC has gone way down in my view over the years as it tries to copy the gutter T.V. of other channels.
T.V. has a lot to answer for in the way society has gone downhill.
No, TV is the scapegoat politicians and the like use to draw peoples attention away from the real problems of the world.
Just because you're a prude doesn't give you the right to try and dictate to the rest of us what we can and can't see.
What a great show - so refreshingly different. John Barryman - what a man - good job. Looking forward to next week - if people want to moan about the swearing and sex then turn over - it is nothing more than you see on a regular basis on satalite TV - also if people are moaning about "gay" references - remember equality and they are most probably jealous becuase they cannot get a piece of JB - well done BBC
I tuned into the second episode last night and thought id put on a porn channel! (no i dont have porn channels!).
sex & violence on tv = sex and violence on the streets.
Thumbs down for this show.
"sex & violence on tv = sex and violence on the streets."
I bet you read the Dail Mail or Express.
And if you thought that was "porn" you really need to step out into the real world some time.
The mary whitehouses are always around when you don't need them. The show was on late, had a warning before it, really only just the tiniest bit of sex and violence, and still you get the complaints.
There was even a scene with Carys walking through the sex-filled streets of Cardiff, suggesting how we are numbed to it being all around us. Unlike public signs you do have the choice not to watch Torchwood if you don't like it, but let the rest of us enjoy it.
It isn't helpful to criticize it for not being a family show as it was never meant to be. If you're going to criticize it for whatever reason, be aware that it's actually meant to be an adult drama and go from there.
"sex and violence on tv = sex and violence on the streets". Sweet! Everything I see on tv is true! Here's to me gettin laid courtesy of an alien killer sex gas next week! fools!!!
Come on people!
People used to complain about the violence in Doctor Who, too!
Let's not forget that if a bunch of prudes deem something 'too violent' it can only increase viewing figures ;-)
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