Having established a stong following, Season 3 of The Inbetweeners smashed the record for the series and for the E4 channel. Across the series, which started on 13 September, it secured an average overnight audience of
2.45m (11.91%). Prior to its launch, the slot average for the year to date had been 347,500 (1.7%). It managed to beat all other multichannel competition in the slot and also surpassed audience figures for BBC2, Channel 4 and Channel 5, which all hovered around the
million mark at the time.