Series 9 Newspaper Reviews / Viewing figures etc

[Tea Lady]

(02-11-2010 12:44 PM)Aria Wrote:  According to Digital Spy last nights episode of Spooks had an audience of 4.93 million compared to 6 million for ITV's Little House. That's very disappointing for such a crucial episode.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a285...t-6m.htmlh

Hmmm, I've just been looking the Spooks episodes guide on Wikipedia and the viewing figures posted on there are much higher than we seem to find on the net each week. They use BARB for their figures. The last figures available on there are for episode 9.5. They give Spooks 6.35 million viewers and Whitechapel 6.21 million. The information released on the net the day after said it was a tie between the two episodes which each had around 5.3 million viewers. I am no expert here, but how come these numbers vary so much? Do BARB take into account iplayer and Sky+ viewings?

http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopPr...rview?_s=4