UK season premiere is E4's most-watched show this year Posted November 16, 2012

UK season premiere is E4's most-watched show this year

The UK premiere of The Big Bang Theory: Season 6 on E4 last night became the channel's most-watched show of the year and The Big Bang Theory's best performance for the station yet.

The sixth season opener, "The Date Night Variable", was watched by 2.31 million viewers, the digital channel's biggest audience of the year so far. The show brought in a large adults 16-34 audience, the key demographic for E4, with 1.17m viewers in the demo and a strong second-place share of 25.2%.

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The Date Night Variable
Season 6, Episode 1 - Aired September 27, 2012

A lonely Raj interrupts Sheldon & Amy's and Leonard & Penny's dates. Meanwhile, Howard and his mother are arguing, even as he's 220 miles above earth in the International Space Station.

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