A huge audience tuned in to watch London’s amateur baking competition, The Great British Bake off on BBC Two, even breaking the previous record which was held by Top Gear. The finale episode of the baking competition show recorded the highest audience views for the show as well as for the network channel.

If we look at the numbers, The Great British Bake off was watched by an average audience of 8.4 million people on Tuesday and with this figure gave BBC Two, the highest ratings of all time, after the channel launched a new measurement system and also, with this the show outdid the previous record, which was held by Top Gear. As per the record, the previous benchmark was established by Motor Vehicles Show under the old rating system, in the year 2007, which drew a viewership of around 8 million people. But, The Great British Bake off raised the bar as the show was watched by a total of 32.6% of the total number of British viewers, watching television at that particular time.

This year the number of viewers during the peak of finale episode was somewhere close to 9.1 million, covering a share of 34.2%. On the contrary, the finale episode of the previous season, i.e. Season 3 accounted for the audience of 6.5 million in general and a viewership of 7.2 million people, during the peak time of the episode. The public broadcaster of U.K. announced that the fifth season of the king show will be transferred from the BBC Two Channel to BBC One, which is UK’s highest-watched Television channel.

The Great British Bake off is a show which showcases inexperienced, but passionate bakers whose baking items are judged by a couple of experts. The show is known to have inculcated a growing interest in baking across Britain. The show has seen a continuous rise in popularity over its four seasons. Some of the other hit shows of BBS Two include Line of Duty, The Fall and The Wrong Mans.

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London – The eleventh Season kick-off of BBC’s celebrity dance series, Strictly Come Dancing received higher ratings than the last year and not only that, it also left behind ITV’s Simon Cowell singing talent show, The X Factor, in terms of average viewership. On Saturday night, while an average of 8.4 million viewers watched Strictly, an increase from the 8 million last year, X Factor attracted an audience of 8 million or 8.3 million, after including the viewers of the repeat of the show. X Factor saw a decline from the last week premier show’s viewership, which was an audience of 9.2 million people.

And if we look at the viewership in terms of peak ratings, we have a mixed picture here.

While, for the first five minutes, Strictly saw a peak viewership of 9.4 million, The X Factor was at 9.1 million viewers. It’s after the instantaneous repeat episode, the show on ITV made it to the top. ITV said in a statement “The X Factor drew a peak audience of 9.5 million viewers last night, the highest peak audience of the night”. One week before, the peak viewership was 10.3 billion, and then what went wrong? It’s quite evident that X Factor is losing out on its audience due to Simon not being on the judging panel. Another reason of these slightly lower ratings is Strictly airing before The X Factor.

In 2012, The X Factor season finale saw an average viewership of 10.9 million and 11.1 million after the immediate repeat, which was still a decline from the 13.1 million in 2011 and 17.2 million viewers in the 2010 season finale episode. It was X Factor’s lowest-rated season finale in the UK since the year 2006, besides the known fact is that this ITV’s show created by Simon Cowell is the highest rated and watched television series in British Television.

Strictly, on the other hand, saw an average viewership of 12.4 Million, higher than the previous number of 12.2 million viewers. Moreover, the celebrity dancing series saw stronger average ratings than the singing talent show in several other weeks.

Let’s see which of these shows will build up the maximum viewership in the coming weeks. Which one’s your favorite? Share your views with us. 

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