[DigitalSid]

According to a Sky Publicist! 5.1 million viewers average.

Best summer launch since BB9 according to D.M.N:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1399

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Thats amazing

[the_last_remaining_fan]

Lies.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally Posted by the_last_remaining_fan

Lies.

Nope, it's correct.

5.1m average, peak of 6m at 10pm.

[Ryan.]

im inclined to agree with the alst remaining fan, i hope i wrong tho.....

[Pronshi]

its confirmed on twitter 5.1 and peak of 6 million
Highest non sport show on channel 5

BBBOTS HAD AVERAGE OF 1.8
WHICH IS AMAZING! FOR A LATE SHOW

[AJ.]

Nope it's true & these are just the overnights.

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by the_last_remaining_fan

Lies.

No
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1402

[Ryan.]

Is that not amazing!?!?!

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by Ryan.

Is that not amazing!?!?!

Yes.

[Ryan.]

Im worried now tho lol, we'll hear tonights ratings and they'll have dropped to >1m because of no sheen or Pammie.

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by Ryan.

Im worried now tho lol, we'll hear tonights ratings and they'll have dropped to >1m because of no sheen or Pammie.

I know right. They thought they were getting Charlie Sheen and instead they got Bobby Sabel.

[joeysteele]

I read that this morning, 2 to 3 million would have been a really great launch for Channel 5s CBB, but 5+ million is phenomonal.

[Lostie!]

I expect them to drop, but at least the launch got fantastic ratings. Thanks for posting!

[armand.kay]

OMG!

[Tom4784]

It's surprising, I expect it to drop down to 1-2 million per night now though. I imagine when the deal runs out C5 might opt to keep CBB with figures like that.

[*mazedsalv**]

I don't think tonight will do too bad, all the BB related status's from my friends were pretty much jizzing over the fact that Jedward, Amy and Tara were there. Let's not forget that Jedward were watched by around 15m people.

[happybbfan]

and they did a lot of advertising but time will tell now the real show has begun and so many are complaing they cant see it

[*mazedsalv**]

Whats ven more impressive is that apparently according to a DS post, the first 5 mins only averaged 3.63m, and it rose dramatically to 6m at 10pm, an hour later!

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by happybbfan

and they did a lot of advertising but time will tell now the real show has begun and so many are complaing they cant see it

The ratings will obviously drop. CBB7's launch night got something crazy like 6.7m if I remember correctly and yet the series average was just 3.7m. The launch is always more popular than the series average.

Live feed will not affect the ratings though. 80k people bought live feed last year - that's less than 100,000, it won't even take a .1 off the ratings (and that's assuming all those 80k people abandon the show - I was one of those people and i'll still be watching this year!).

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

Thats incredible, i really didn't think it would get so many viewers.

[ElProximo]

I'm not surprised and I wont be when there is a drastic decline in those ratings. But there should be some kind of bump for the 'regular season' opener.

[Pronshi]

The reality show rated a massive +3.8m and +295% higher than Channel 5’s Thursday slot average of 1.3m (5.81%) so far this year, whilst Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit On The Side outperformed Channel 5′s usual 0.8m slot average by +1m and +126%. It meant that Channel 5’s All-Day share rocketed up to 7.4% yesterday, ahead of Channel 4’s 6.7%, and a growth of +95% compared to last Thursday. Thanks to Big Brother’s appeal among younger viewers, Channel 5 experienced an ever bigger week-on-week increase of +176% with viewers aged 16-34 to 10.5%, once again ahead of rival-broadcaster Channel 4 (8.5%) and even ITV1 (10.2%).

[Blink_Me]

I'm not surprised, because of all the hype and people wanting to see who the new housemates are.

Now watch the ratings fall; people are already getting sick of the lame tweets and crappy clips.

[Iceman]

Im delighted