BBC3 - "cant wait until next week?"

[nothingisasitseems]

I wonder why the BBC actually show the next episode on 3 in advance for it surely hits the ratings?

Since it is in a different week the totals can't be amalgamated. I think something like over 500,000 watched BBC3 and I would think a good percenatge of those would not watch when it was shown on BBC1.

The show was regularly top 30 and BBC top 10 last year - if they only showed the same episode each week it would surely have been top 20.