[supertv247]

2.36 (13.6%) million last night which is
Up 800k on the BBUK launch
Up 120k on last years launch
Most noticeably - down 400k on January, when last summer was down on January 2015 by 1 million.

Pretty strong I'd say. Last year dropped to 1.55m overnight (also a Froday) so hopefully it holds up better than that.

[Mrmattybeck]

An excellent rating for c5s biggest show CBB gets great treatment by five


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[Maxxie.]

That could be nearly 3m when officials are counted. CBB17's official was 3.3m and it's only down 400k!

[Cal.]

Oh wow a great launch rating!

[Rob!]

Wow! I didn't think it would hit 2m last night so fair play! Amazon start.

[Jake.]

agreed, what an Amazon start

[Rob!]

I've literally just woken up

[Jordan.]

And thats why they favour CBB

[Jack_]

And the reason it succeeds is because they favour it. It's a cyclical thing

I've never wanted a series to flop so bad

[Greg!]

Originally Posted by Jack_

And the reason it succeeds is because they favour it. It's a cyclical thing

I've never wanted a series to flop so bad

It's the other way round. They favour it because it succeeds

[Jack_]

And the reason it succeeds is because they favour it by putting more time and effort into it, again it's a cyclical thing

[TomC]

Originally Posted by Jack_

And the reason it succeeds is because they favour it by putting more time and effort into it, again it's a cyclical thing

Yep, typical they built a new house and exterior for CBB

[Jason.]

Great rating

[Jack_]

pmsl you cite that as a reason but in typical fashion with C5 twists they closed it after a bloody week. Building an extension is for the long term of the franchise, not exclusively the civilian series, they can still axe that and use the house for CBB - makes no difference

[Greg!]

There's like no proof they deliberately make cbb better than the normal one. Why would they do anything other than try and make both shows good?

[Jack_]

There's mountains of proof, it's been evident from the day they acquired the show that they prefer CBB and thus put more effort into it

- They launched with bloody CBB
- They commissioned a summer CBB that no one wanted and underperforms most years but they keep flogging it, all at the expense of a shorter civilian version
- They generally put much more promo into CBB than they do civilian, i.e. Rylan announces everything on Twitter versus billboards/bus ads (it doesn't matter if they don't always do these, it's the fact that they ever did)
- CBB gets vote to save to protect their precious celebs while civilian gets the backwards system
- CBB gets weeknight live feed while civilian doesn't (there is literally no justifiable excuse for this cause I'm pretty sure the figures suck either way)
- CBB gets special live shows in cases of surprise evictions or twists, civilian does not. The chances of them doing an Alex and Sam style eviction with celebrities is next to none
- They cut the civilian series back to SEVEN weeks to accommodate their prized possession, and don't bother to extend it when it does well despite the fact CBB has been extended under the same circumstances
- There's way more updates for CBB than there is civilian

...and so on and so on. I'm sure there's multiple things I've forgotten

Even if you subscribe to the notion of 'well CBB's more successful so obvs they care about it more duh', you're missing the simple point that it is basic business to promote things that are underperforming and leave the things that are doing well already to survive on their own. If they put in the same amount of promotion for civilian as they have done for a few of their CBB's, who knows how much better it would be doing? But they don't, they just promote the version that's already established and leave the other one to flag which is absolutely moronic and something no other channel would do (see: ITV2 with Love Island). And they do this because they do not give a **** about civilian

People can bend over backwards trying to justify and rationalise their disdain towards the civilian series and swallow C5's Kool-Aid all they like, but the evidence is there for everyone to see and has been since 2011. I find it so disheartening when apparent fans of this show are willing to just roll over and let this **** show of a channel steamroll the original and better version, but that's what they want you to do so I guess all power to them

[Maxxie.]

Well the most recent BB was probably most promoted since about 2010 but I'll give you that it wasn't really from c5 but it's had good media coverage and slightly higher ratings.

[Rob!]

Anyway

[Babayaro.]

Originally Posted by Jake.

agreed, what an Amazon start

lmfao

[*mazedsalv**]

Disappointing drop last night.

It got 1.58m incl +1. Some would say that the final of Masterchef which got almost 5m dented it.

It was up 30k on last summer, but down 170k on CBB14 first show.

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by Will.

Shut it!

[Rob!]

Ouch.

[Northern Monkey]

Oops.I thought this was an 18 rated thread and would be full of filth

[lewis111]

Mess
Could be that a lot of people were disappointed by the cast

[Greg!]

How is that bad?