*The Official CBB7 Ratings Thread* *Officials now starting to be released*

[*mazedsalv**]

If a mod can make this a sticky thread, because i would like this to be a thread which is on the front page for the next month while CBB7 is on.

Here we will post the ratings that the series is getting, as well as members predictions on them, and how well they think the series will do.

So, firstly, what do you think the ratings of tomorrow nights launch be?

Its really hard to call, I say 4.5m with Channel 4+1 added. The Simpsons Movie could help it out. Would be brilliant to reach 5m.

[Lewis.]

I doubt it will get 5m.. probably 3.5 - 4m :D

[Tom]

I think it will just scrape 5m, if not with overnights definitely when official ratings are released

It has a lot going for it:

New year hangover (same as last year which got about 6m)
New ad campaign that should bring back those who watched BB10 launch
Opposition aimed at different audience
Airs on a Sunday (Sunday papers and all that) and theres a massive younger audience available that aren't there on Thursdays or Fridays
Its the last one
More publicity than previous years

[Smithy]

i think average 4.4mill peak 5.2 (including +1)

[Braden]

I reckon it will get
5-6 million.

[Brad.]

I predict 4.8m for the launch

[Billy]

I predict 5.4 million.

[Brekkie]

I really think it could go either way tomorrow. I'm predicting around 3.5-4m for The Simpsons movie, which could mean CBB easily gets 4.5-5m, but just as likely see their figures fall to around 2.5-3m. So basically anywhere between 2.5m and 5m. But just to be on the safe side, I'll say less than 10m! :D

[*mazedsalv**]

I really think it could go either way tomorrow. I'm predicting around 3.5-4m for The Simpsons movie, which could mean CBB easily gets 4.5-5m, but just as likely see their figures fall to around 2.5-3m. So basically anywhere between 2.5m and 5m. But just to be on the safe side, I'll say less than 10m! :D

Yeah i have no idea which way it will go.
If it breaks 5m, we know that the advertising defenitley has worked wonders. Im worried it will get under 4m.

[President]

Chillax about the ratings... it's been axed. Channel 4 won't change their decision.

Would be nice to see it do well though :).

[*mazedsalv**]

Chillax about the ratings... it's been axed. Channel 4 won't change their decision.

Would be nice to see it do well though :).

Im chilled, ive always been interested in ratings, I just like to see it do well this year, would be a nice end.

[President]

Im chilled, ive always been interested in ratings, I just like to see it do well this year, would be a nice end.
True. I predict 5m for launch.

[biglover]

I say about 6.5 million for the launch and about 3 million for nightly episodes

[King Gizzard]

27.4 million,

citezens of britain will be flocking to the nearest tv screen to watch vinnie and co

[Vladimir]

3.5 million.

[Tom4784]

2-4 million.

[Patrick]

4 - 5 Million.
The Adverts have helped, and alot of people who hated it want to watch it as its the last one.

It will do well.

To people that say 'who cares about ratings its axed'
Well if CBB7 and BB11 Do very well in ratings then theres more of a chance another channel will want BB.

So ratings for the next two series are very very important.

[andyman]

5m Launch.

48m When Vinnie wins.

[Patrick]

5m Launch.

48m When Vinnie wins.

:joker: So much support for Vinnie and thats before the series has even started.

[Joe.]

5.3 (ish) something at the start of the 5 mark ;)

62m When the SOV wins

[Spike]

Its a very hard one to predict
Alot of things work in its favour such as no major competition for the younger audience, it being the last series and it launching on a Sunday
But is that enough to beat the downward turn in ratings?
I'm expecting atleast a 5million average.

[*mazedsalv**]

Its a very hard one to predict
Alot of things work in its favour such as no major competition for the younger audience, it being the last series and it launching on a Sunday
But is that enough to beat the downward turn in ratings?
I'm expecting atleast a 5million average.

Yep i agree, it has so much going for it, as Tom listed above... also The Simpsons Movie Premiere is on before it which has been advertised loads.
Both should do well as both have been advertised a lot by C4.

[12bigbrother12]

2 or 3. People that is, not millions :p


Seriously, 4.2m for tonight, slipping to 2.9m for the overall series average.

[fuzzylovin]

It'll get some good ratings tonight, because its sunday and theres never anything else on. Plus people will wanna know whos going in, but if the people arnt so good, then the ratings will drop alot.

lil over 5mil tonight
will drop to about 3mil over whole series unless got some good peeps in there

[KKBL]

Is BB on the front cover of the tabloids today?

[Chels]

3.1m imo

[Arneldo]

I reckon the launch will be the most watched show of the series, but I think it will be down on last year. I think just over 3million for the launch.

[*mazedsalv**]

I reckon the launch will be the most watched show of the series, but I think it will be down on last year. I think just over 3million for the launch.

Well BB10 final got 3.4m, and launches generally add about 2m from the final before it (in the last year or something), which would mean around 5m for tonight.

I really hope that more people will watch the launch tonight than watch the BB10 final.. it has to be!!

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night, the launch got 6.3m viewers, beating BB8 Launch, BBCH Launch (as it was on E4) BB9 Launch, CBB6 Launch and BB10 Launch.

It came first in its slot.

[MarkWaldorf]

That's good to hear!

[Tom]

Last night, the launch got 6.3m viewers, beating BB8 Launch, BBCH Launch (as it was on E4) BB9 Launch, CBB6 Launch and BB10 Launch.

It came first in its slot.

It has only been beaten by BB4, BB5, BB7, CBB4 and CBB5 which in the mess BB has been in is pretty good to finish 6th out of 18 series'

[Jords]

6th out of 18? That is amazing, lets hope BB11 is just as good too!

[*mazedsalv**]

It has only been beaten by BB4, BB5, BB7, CBB4 and CBB5 which in the mess BB has been in is pretty good to finish 6th out of 18 series'

Ohh wow really?
Thats brilliant to hear!

[Brekkie]

Just shows how with a bit of effort the series can always bounce back after a poor series. Shame though it wasn't realised a couple of years ago.

Tonight's is the real test - if after the improvements last night we return to the same old story of the second show spending half an hour recapping the launch show viewers will soon turn off. There's always a fall on the second night, and I think realistically anything above 3m is a success.

[Gavin]

It has only been beaten by BB4, BB5, BB7, CBB4 and CBB5 which in the mess BB has been in is pretty good to finish 6th out of 18 series'
This website says CBB2 had 7.6m http://archive.insidebigbrother.net/cbb6/ratings/cbb.ibb more than last night.

I'm not sure if we should believe last night's rating. How can it get 6.2m all of a sudden when only 3m tuned in for the BB10 final?

I did enjoy the show for the most part, but I'm suspicious about these ratings.

[Billy]

This website says CBB2 had 7.6m http://archive.insidebigbrother.net/cbb6/ratings/cbb.ibb more than last night.

I'm not sure if we should believe last night's rating. How can it get 6.2m all of a sudden when only 3m tuned in for the BB10 final?

I did enjoy the show for the most part, but I'm suspicious about these ratings.

Because the intense and constant promo? The rumours which (as Davina said) had everyone talking, plastered over papers etc.

[*mazedsalv**]

This website says CBB2 had 7.6m http://archive.insidebigbrother.net/cbb6/ratings/cbb.ibb more than last night.

I'm not sure if we should believe last night's rating. How can it get 6.2m all of a sudden when only 3m tuned in for the BB10 final?

I did enjoy the show for the most part, but I'm suspicious about these ratings.

I think that as its the last year people are intrigued.
For example, i cant count how many of my friends said that they havnt watched since BB7 but are watching CBB7 and BB11.

[Raph]

this is fantastic news! I lovee Big Brotherr <3

[Patrick]

Im over the moon with those ratings.
Was no expecting that, lets hope they actually keep up this Hell Lies In Others Theme and then the ratings will be with us to the end :D

OMG 6.3 Million but then add all the other Sky Viewers that arent even counted because we dont have barb boxes, and that means it probley got about 7 or 8 milion?


People have been saying that it doesnt matter and it should of happened in BB10, Well it didnt!
Get over it thats what I say, CBB7 is looking good if BB11 Can do just as good then we'll have a BB12.

Shirley Jones has done it again :)

[Spike]

I can't say im surprised by the launch ratings. It had a lot in its favour and last nights launch seemed, for the first time in years, fighting to win viewers back.
It shows there is still interest in the show and if produced well that interest will be sustained.

[Princess]

Stickied :)

[*mazedsalv**]

Thank you for whoever stickied it! :D

[Novo]

Great News

was expected around 5 Million

[Novo]

Salv can you keep a list off what each highlight show got?

[*mazedsalv**]

Im going to post this series ratings here every night.

Wait, do you mean other series HL shows? That will take AGESSS lol

[Novo]

No just this series Highlight shows

[*mazedsalv**]

yes thats what the threads for :)

[Novo]

I mean on the frontpage

[*mazedsalv**]

I mean on the frontpage

I will do that when the series is finished.

[IheartBB]

Great news. Hopefully they keep up the good ratings throighout

[KKBL]

Looking at previous seasons anything above 3.5m would be good but I think 4m is possible.Tonights episode was great so i'm not expecting any sort of drop in the ratings between tonight and tomorrow's HL's.If anything its going to increase for tomorrow thanks to word of mouth and the fact that Tuesday's always get the best HL ratings.

[Brekkie]

Looking at previous seasons anything above 3.5m would be good but I think 4m is possible.Tonights episode was great so i'm not expecting any sort of drop in the ratings between tonight and tomorrow's HL's.If anything its going to increase for tomorrow thanks to word of mouth and the fact that Tuesday's always get the best HL ratings.
That's usually down to the nominations though. So far today there's nothing of note to be included in tomorrow's show, but I agree ratings should be steady tonight and tomorrow. Hopefully with an eviction on Friday they'll get nominations in Wednesdays show to give it a midweek boost. It would be a mistake to leave it till Thursday (or even Friday) IMO, but unfortunately in recent years the producers haven't held nominations in the same high regard as the viewers.

[tmx]

3.5m (23.9%)

[Tom]

3.5m (23.9%)

With or without +1? Pretty strong figure and that will have been knocked down through late start etc. Last years equivalent got 3.1m on the Saturday and 3.7m on the Monday so not bad at all. Probably down to 3m-3.3m for the rest of the week now.

[biglover]

That is really good compared to the last couple of years, I think it will drop a little though each week night, but the evictions will get about 4-5 million

[Gavin]

Terrible ratings for last night. Three million have already jumped the sinking ship!?

If it can only got 3.4m for the first highlights show, imagine how highlights next week will do when the press interest dies down!

I knew having that awful task at the end of the launch would put some people off. Dear oh dear... we have another flop once again.

[Billy]

Terrible ratings for last night. Three million have already jumped the sinking ship!?

If it can only got 3.4m for the first highlights show, imagine how highlights next week will do when the press interest dies down!

I knew having that awful task at the end of the launch would put some people off. Dear oh dear... we have another flop once again.

oh piss off

[Gavin]

oh piss off
I find it funny that some people yesterday were saying that the first highlights should get 4m which would be good, but now have changed thier minds and are saying 3.5m is good.

Anyway, you need to believe me... taht I want the show to do well. But it's not unfortunately.

[crossieKIDD]

Wow great ratings tonights will be higher I predict :D

[Jords]

I think thats pretty good. And some might not have bothered with last night as it was the HL's of the launch, which isnt normally that interesting - although tbf I thought it was good :laugh:

[Tom]

Terrible ratings for last night. Three million have already jumped the sinking ship!?

If it can only got 3.4m for the first highlights show, imagine how highlights next week will do when the press interest dies down!

I knew having that awful task at the end of the launch would put some people off. Dear oh dear... we have another flop once again.

Its not terrible, but its not brilliant either. I think you're being a bit OTT. Once it levels out it will probably be about the same as last year, which considering BB10 is not bad at all.

[Spike]

A little under what I expected for last night but thats a good rating
With the snow across the country, it being a Tuesday and a highlights shows of unseen events I am expecting a little higher tonight maybe 3.7million

[*mazedsalv**]

Thats veer good for a Monday rating. Tonight as its a Tuesday, ratings should be higher, also last night was a recap of the launch for about half of it.

The share as well was brilliant.

[biglover]

I find it funny that some people yesterday were saying that the first highlights should get 4m which would be good, but now have changed thier minds and are saying 3.5m is good.

Anyway, you need to believe me... taht I want the show to do well. But it's not unfortunately.

3.5 million for a highlights show is really good for BB, esepcially after the last 2 series, what are you on?

[*mazedsalv**]

3.5 million for a highlights show is really good for BB, esepcially after the last 2 series, what are you on?

Dont listen to Gavin, he's stuck in BB5 times.

[Gavin]

^ Well, BB9 had 3.6m and that was less than 2 years ago!

[*mazedsalv**]

^ Well, BB9 had 3.6m and that was less than 2 years ago!

Yes BUT theres a possibility that CBB7 can OVERTAKE BB9, which would also mean it would have overtaken CBB6 and BB10.

All we are looking at is a 2.4m+ for it to be deemed as "sucessful" as it would have not come bottom (where BB10 is now). If you get what I mean, lets just hope that it averages above BB10 first, because we dont want it to be the least rated. I think thats hwo people can rate its sucess, if it beats the averages of CBB6 AND BB10... then it will be seen as a hit.

[Tom]

^ Well, BB9 had 3.6m and that was less than 2 years ago!

And if we go back to BB9 times, just 2 years prior to that was BB7 where the ratings were often hitting 6m for evictions. And whilst we're there, go back another 2 years to find highlights shows over 6m. Then going another 2 years back, highlights shows were verging on 8m.

You can't base success over a 2 year period. 3, 5 and 7 are statistically the most successful yet theres a downward trend amongst them.

[*mazedsalv**]

And if we go back to BB9 times, just 2 years prior to that was BB7 where the ratings were often hitting 6m for evictions. And whilst we're there, go back another 2 years to find highlights shows over 6m. Then going another 2 years back, highlights shows were verging on 8m.

You can't base success over a 2 year period. 3, 5 and 7 are statistically the most successful yet theres a downward trend amongst them.

Agree with every word!! :thumbs:

[*mazedsalv**]

There could be millions of people tuning into the news tonight because of the weather.

Could knock BB down, the UK seems to be obsessed with weather, i think in February when it snowed a lot, around 7m watched the news.

[Tom]

There could be millions of people tuning into the news tonight because of the weather.

Could knock BB down, the UK seems to be obsessed with weather, i think in February when it snowed a lot, around 7m watched the news.

That could level out with people who don't have to be up early tomorrow though. I think it will still be above 3m

[*mazedsalv**]

I would like it to top last nights 3.5m though!
3.6m+ would be brilliant :)

Positives:

Yesterday's Hls was half of what we saw on the launch the day before, tonight they will show stuff we havnt seen.
Tuesdays traditionally get higher ratings that Monday Hl shows.
It has a lead in tonight, which could help it further.
The press is still going strong about it and positive also
The weather

Negatives:

People are very interested in the weather, maybe will tune into the news to find about the snow.
90210 starts tonight on E4, even though it gets only 400,000 or so viewers, its aimed at the same audience as BB.

So overall... predictions??

[Brekkie]

The E4 scheduling is all over the place with Glee and 90210 up against BB, and then filler shows at 11pm rather than heading straight into live streaming.

[*mazedsalv**]

The E4 scheduling is all over the place with Glee and 90210 up against BB, and then filler shows at 11pm rather than heading straight into live streaming.

when does Glee start?

[Tom]

The E4 scheduling is all over the place with Glee and 90210 up against BB, and then filler shows at 11pm rather than heading straight into live streaming.

Bit daft that they stick 2 shows like that on on the same night

[*mazedsalv**]

Bit daft that they stick 2 shows like that on on the same night

Glee isnt on tonight is it? Has it already been on?

[Tom]

Glee isnt on tonight is it? Has it already been on?

Dunno, I never watch E4 except Big Mouth, streaming and Friends. I got the impression it was from that post though?

[*mazedsalv**]

Well its not on tonight or in the next few days (just checked), so dont know when it starts.

[Loukas]

Tonight i can't see BB topping 4m if they do i will be happy. I will be happy with a stable audience of 3.5m

[*mazedsalv**]

Looks like EVERYONE is stuck at home because of the snow.
My online friends on FB have gone to their highest ever to 188 people online, when normally there is about 70... probably forced to watch tv. :D

Good things for ratings tonight?

[Brekkie]

Glee starts on Monday with a repeat of the pilot at 9pm then the next episode at 10pm (against BB).

[Gavin]

I'm loving this episode of Big Brother... they're showing a lot of Stephen who's clearly the star of the show. I love everything he is about, he's funny, witty, knowledgable and most importantly a devout and proud Christian.

I complained yesterday about the lack of Stephen coverage, but today I'm very happy. Hopefully it gets good ratings today.

[*mazedsalv**]

Positivity.... FROM GAVIN

:shocked:

[Billy]

I could see us getting about 3.9mill tonight

[*mazedsalv**]

I could see us getting about 3.9mill tonight

That would be fantastic.

[President]

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That's better than yesterday, so hopefully ratings will be around 3.5m again or even more!

[Brekkie]

Just hope they don't fall into the usual trap of editing the show around one person - tonight was a bit too much of the Stephen Baldwin show really. And certainly hope the seemingly likely prospect of him being nominated doesn't cause the producers to fear the process yet again and ditch the nominations in favour of something else.

[Spike]

I think there were enough people watching TV tonight and it was a good enough highlights show to sustain interest throughout for ratings to be close to 4million

[t.i.m.e.a]

i think last nights ratings will be very low because of the snow, my sky tv stopped working all night and i know a lot of other peoples whos tv didnt work, so i wasnt able to watch when i would of if it wasnt for the snow

[Tom]

2.97m without +1.

It will probably stay about that level

[*mazedsalv**]

:( Thats not too good.
+1 will bring it to about 3.2m.

I wanted over 3.6m! All the other shows last night did so well :(

[Captain.Remy]

I told you it was going down down. People got hyped way too quickly. It was obvious.

[*mazedsalv**]

I doubt the +1 will be high seeing as it was 11pm when it was on there.

Im really annoyed. The news got bloody 7.5m viewers last night!

[Spike]

Surprised and diasapointed at those ratings, I thought it would do better than Monday
I really don't know why it did worse, it will be interesting to see how tonight does

[Chels]

tbh i think the news dragged it down a bit because of the snow weather warnings.

[MarkWaldorf]

tbh i think the news dragged it down a bit because of the snow weather warnings.

yeah this.

[Brekkie]

Would have been nice to see it hold steady, but not surprised at all by those ratings considering what the news got (nearly 11m between BBC and ITV, compared to around 8m usually).

And frankly, if you'd offered them 3m before Sunday night, they'd have taken it.

[Brad.]

Still not bad ratings tbh. The goal is a 3m average for this series, so we can hope for that.

[biglover]

with channel 4 +1 it will be about 3.2 million which is still an improvement on CBB6 and BB10

[*mazedsalv**]

They still have not posted the +1.
I reckon it will be 3.2m with +1 and about 3.5-3.6m in the officials... which is higher than CBB6 and BB10, and equal to BB9 average.

All is still good.

[Jords]

Hmm, its still ok.

[*mazedsalv**]

The target for the series should be to beat BB10 and CBB6. So to get 3.3m+.

Looks good for now, as 2.4m was the OFFICIAL average for BB10 and 3.3m was th OFFICIAL average for CBB6.
Basically the officials of last nights show will be about 3.5m which is good!

Basically the show will be considered a hit if it beats last years summer and celeb series.
Officials normally add around 300,000 onto overnights.

So if every show gets 3m WITH +1, we can beat the CBB6's offical of 3.3m.

[Jack_]

I was expecting it to be low because of the snow, so I'm not surprised. It's still not awful, though.

[Billy]

3.0 isn't too bad, esp with +1 etc.

[Brekkie]

OK, any good work done this week will be hampered by the scheduling for the next two weeks.

We begin this week with a later but consistent 10pm slot, until Friday when as expected the eviction show is 9pm and 10.35pm.

And then it goes all over the place. Saturday and Sunday is 9pm (fair enough, the usual weekend slots), Monday it's back to 10pm, Tuesday 9pm, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 10pm, then 9pm and 10.35pm on Friday.

Then the next week it's Saturday 9pm, Sunday 8pm, Monday 8pm and 10.20pm (60 and 30 minute shows, presumably an eviction), Tuesday 10pm, Wednesday 10.20pm, Thursday 10pm and Friday back to 9pm and 10.35pm.


So even if it gets off to a good start, like last year C4 are then sacrificing viewers by not giving it any kind of consistency.

[Tom]

OK, any good work done this week will be hampered by the scheduling for the next two weeks.

We begin this week with a later but consistent 10pm slot, until Friday when as expected the eviction show is 9pm and 10.35pm.

And then it goes all over the place. Saturday and Sunday is 9pm (fair enough, the usual weekend slots), Monday it's back to 10pm, Tuesday 9pm, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 10pm, then 9pm and 10.35pm on Friday.

Then the next week it's Saturday 9pm, Sunday 8pm, Monday 8pm and 10.20pm (60 and 30 minute shows, presumably an eviction), Tuesday 10pm, Wednesday 10.20pm, Thursday 10pm and Friday back to 9pm and 10.35pm.


So even if it gets off to a good start, like last year C4 are then sacrificing viewers by not giving it any kind of consistency.

Next week with Tuesday at 9pm they can just get away with, everyone knows BB is on at 9pm or 10pm. Wednesday at 8pm is daft but unavoidable due to Slumdog Millionaire but they should have put it at 10.20pm and ran the film an hour earlier, at least with a 10.20pm slot theres some degree of consistency. But the daft thing is, they're repeating the film on Sunday 17th and BB gets bumped out the way for it!! They should have just had the one premiere on the Sunday and could've got pretty high figures for it. Plus now the BB episode that night is up against the tail end of Dancing on Ice.

The following Monday [eviction] is probably a bit unavoidable, although ideally they should have one long show but they like to prop shows up using Big Brother even though it has no effect anymore.

I hate Big Brother at 8pm, I try to watch it at 9pm on +1 but its always too censored.

[*mazedsalv**]

They just revealed the Week 3 schedule, and that is horrible...
Theres like 8pm's going round everywhere!

also theres a show that finished at around 11:50pm... a bit late.

Only positives is that Sunday could do quite well at 9pm... if DOI isnt the competition, doesnt it end before 9? And Tuesday's 9pm for next week will be good as well.

I just hope it can maintain an overnight average of 3m.

[Tom]

They just revealed the Week 3 schedule, and that is horrible...
Theres like 8pm's going round everywhere!

also theres a show that finished at around 11:50pm... a bit late.

Channel 4 now know theres a fair bit of interest left in the show even with their best attempts to sabotage it in the past couple of years. So now reverting to dirty tactics and giving it the Brookside treatment (which was ironically shoved out the way for Big Brother). I can see another ratings meltdown coming on now after a fairly good start.

[*mazedsalv**]

Channel 4 now know theres a fair bit of interest left in the show even with their best attempts to sabotage it in the past couple of years. So now reverting to dirty tactics and giving it the Brookside treatment (which was ironically shoved out the way for Big Brother). I can see another ratings meltdown coming on now after a fairly good start.

exactly!!
they should stick to 9pm all the time IMO!! except for the second friday show of course.

[Tom]

exactly!!
they should stick to 9pm all the time IMO!! except for the second friday show of course.

For the days when they physically can't put it on at 9pm or 10pm due to films or whatever, they should just skip a day like I'm a Celeb does. Or better still just stick it on at 8pm every day if they want rid that badly.

[*mazedsalv**]

Okay tonight is another night like yesterday.

BB up against the news which last night got 7m+ on BBC1 an 5m+ on ITV because of people wanting to know whats happening with the snow.

Could be the same tonight. Ratings should be higher than yesterday in general for all shows... but will it be for CBB? Or will it drop further?

Generally, tonight there should be even more people watching TV than yesterday as the conditions have got worse and people unable to drive.

What do you think?

[Brekkie]

They just revealed the Week 3 schedule, and that is horrible...
Theres like 8pm's going round everywhere!

also theres a show that finished at around 11:50pm... a bit late.

Only positives is that Sunday could do quite well at 9pm... if DOI isnt the competition, doesnt it end before 9?
Dancing on Ice performance shows end at 8.30pm, with Wild at Heart on before the results show at 9.30pm. Really BB would be best off either out of the way at 10pm, or at 8.30pm directly against Wild at Heart (and clear of DoI).

Okay tonight is another night like yesterday.

BB up against the news which last night got 7m+ on BBC1 an 5m+ on ITV because of people wanting to know whats happening with the snow.

Could be the same tonight. Ratings should be higher than yesterday in general for all shows... but will it be for CBB? Or will it drop further?

Generally, tonight there should be even more people watching TV than yesterday as the conditions have got worse and people unable to drive.

What do you think?
I think some people who tuned into the news last night may be put off tonight with actual political news now dominating the programme, and not being quite as viewer friendly as lovely snow everywhere!

[*mazedsalv**]

Dancing on Ice performance shows end at 8.30pm, with Wild at Heart on before the results show at 9.30pm. Really BB would be best off either out of the way at 10pm, or at 8.30pm directly against Wild at Heart (and clear of DoI).


I think some people who tuned into the news last night may be put off tonight with actual political news now dominating the programme, and not being quite as viewer friendly as lovely snow everywhere!

Do you think politics will be featured heavily in the news?
I fear that CBB will drop again, while all the others see boosts.

[Tom]

Okay tonight is another night like yesterday.

BB up against the news which last night got 7m+ on BBC1 an 5m+ on ITV because of people wanting to know whats happening with the snow.

Could be the same tonight. Ratings should be higher than yesterday in general for all shows... but will it be for CBB? Or will it drop further?

Generally, tonight there should be even more people watching TV than yesterday as the conditions have got worse and people unable to drive.

What do you think?

Theres only so many times people can sit through clips of snow falling and cars unable to move etc. I doubt it will have as big an impact tonight. I know on ITV, Mary wasn't in Manchester anymore so thats pretty much saying it isn't as important today as it was yesterday.

[*mazedsalv**]

Theres only so many times people can sit through clips of snow falling and cars unable to move etc. I doubt it will have as big an impact tonight. I know on ITV, Mary wasn't in Manchester anymore so thats pretty much saying it isn't as important today as it was yesterday.

Hmm maybe.
As long as it stays above 3m, all is good :)

[Tom]

Hmm maybe.
As long as it stays above 3m, all is good :)

It probably will or be around there providing it starts on time. I think it started at about 5 past last night which probably dragged it down

[*mazedsalv**]

By the way Tuesday night INCLUDING +1 got 3.2m

Last night got 3.02m NOT INCLUDING +1.... will be about 3.2-3.3m when +1 is added.
There was a 50,000 rise from the night before.

4 shows in a row getting 3m+ EXCLUDING +1 is very impressive :D, only 3 shows in BB10 got 3m+ (Launch, Finale, Karly's eviction). so we have already beaten it.

[tmx]

but this is a celeb series, silly comparing it to BB10. Compared to last year's series it's about the same

[Tom]

As expected really, the real test comes tomorrow night when up against DOI then again in the next 2 weeks with the daft schedule changes. it will probably go down to about 2.5m then

[*mazedsalv**]

but this is a celeb series, silly comparing it to BB10. Compared to last year's series it's about the same

Its higher than CBB6 slightly.
On Inside BB they have put the official ratings for the first 4 days of CBB6, and the episodes of CBB7 have beaten them (and will beat them in the officials).

[*mazedsalv**]

As expected really, the real test comes tomorrow night when up against DOI then again in the next 2 weeks with the daft schedule changes. it will probably go down to about 2.5m then

Yeah thats ridiculous but i reckon +1 will get quite a lot at 10pm tomorrow night as on C4 its on the 9pm slot.

Whats on BBC1 tomorrow? If theres not much competition, then all we have to worry about is DOI (which should get lower than the performances as its just an introduction).

If Pamela or someone very famous DOES go in, then the second show will get quite high ratings even though its on 10:35pm-11:05pm. But theres no eviction tomorrow though i dont think, so someone must be going in.

Or they automatically vote someone out (the housemates)

Inside BB saying that CBB7 is so far averaging 4.0m... 700,000 up on what CBB6 was averaging by their first Wednesday show.

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night including +1 got 3.2m.

Ratings so far of the overnights:

Launch Sunday: 6.2m (22%)
Monday: 3.5m (19%)
Tueaday: 3.2m (15%)
Wednesday: 3.2m (16%)

Wednesday was up about 50,000 on Tuesday, as it was so nearly to be 3.3m. Also the share % was up 1% from the night before. So a little rise is good :)

[Lewis.]

If Pamela does go in then they would be better off telling the public.. that was news can spread and they could easily get 4m+

[Spike]

I'm still a little dissapointed at the ratings after the good launch figures and snow
but still after BB10 these figures are very impressive, hopefully it will continue to do well because its not a bad series

[Tom]

I'm still a little dissapointed at the ratings after the good launch figures and snow
but still after BB10 these figures are very impressive, hopefully it will continue to do well because its not a bad series

So far I think its the best series since CBB4 (inc summer BB)

[*mazedsalv**]

If Pamela does go in then they would be better off telling the public.. that was news can spread and they could easily get 4m+

Its kind of too late to tell the public, unless they put it on every front page tomorrow morning.
Also it faces tough competition tomorrow up against Dancing On Ice, and also Wild At Heart. But thats whats +1 is for and +1 tomorrow night could be quite high.

I hope that the 10:35pm show is high tomorrow.

I predict this for the next couple of shows:
Tonight- 3.3m
Friday(1)- 3.5m (with about 500,000 of them on +1)
Friday(2)- 3.4m ??

[Jords]

Things are going pretty well rgarding ratings!

[Callum]

I think anything over 3m is good. Didn't BB10 get an average of 2.8m or something like that?

[biglover]

I think anything over 3m is good. Didn't BB10 get an average of 2.8m or something like that?

2.4 million was ther average for BB10, it was VERY poor in terms of ratings. This CBB is getting around 3.3 million each highlights and the launch had a peak of 6.7 million!

[President]

Something of note, perhaps. CBB is trending the best since launch night on Twitter:

· #nowplaying
· #WhatWereYouThinking
· #cbb7
· Shorty Award
· Jay Leno
· Texas
· Nexus One
· NBC
· New Jersey
· CES

Hopefully it's a good sign for tonight.

[President]

It's now up to number 2:

· #nowplaying
· #cbb7
· #whatwereyouthinking
· Jay Leno
· Shorty Award
· Texas
· Nexus One
· NBC
· New Jersey
· CES

[*mazedsalv**]

Wow, very impressive! :)

[Billy]

Thursday 7th January:

2.94m (inc +1 apparently)

[BGT-FAN!]

Alot of people couldnt watch anything on tv last night because of the snow, maybe thats affecting it

[Brad.]

Alot of people couldnt watch anything on tv last night because of the snow, maybe thats affecting it

No, it wouldn't affect it that much. The officials will push that figure to over 3m though, so that's ok.

[*mazedsalv**]

Thursday 7th January:

2.94m (inc +1 apparently)

Thats excluding +1.
We are waiting for the +1, DS reported the rating and they never include the +1 on their report. The +1 will come soon.

[biglover]

Thats excluding +1.
We are waiting for the +1, DS reported the rating and they never include the +1 on their report. The +1 will come soon.

Oh so then it will be over 3 million again, the ratings have improved by about 1 million since BB10, things are looking more promising for CBB!

[*mazedsalv**]

Oh so then it will be over 3 million again, the ratings have improved by about 1 million since BB10, things are looking more promising for CBB!

Exactly. Looking like it will be either 3.1m or 3.2m (similar to previous 2 days).

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night including +1

3.1m (15%).

Fifth time in a row to be above 3m (all their shows, something that NEVER happened for BB10), and fifth time in a row that its the highest C4 programme of the day.

[biglover]

Last night including +1

3.1m (15%).

Fifth time in a row to be above 3m (all their shows, something that NEVER happened for BB10), and fifth time in a row that its the highest C4 programme of the day.

It is their highest rated programme every day, but they are axing it due to low ratings!?!??? what the hell

[Spike]

The show is doing well and consistent but I would like to see it closer to 3.5million because its a decent series. Such a shame that the good looking series average will soon be spoilt by C4 scheduling
and if anyone is wondering what C4 have to replace the ratings of Big Brother in the summer after BB11 well the paralympic games will be filling some of the scheduling space in summer 2012

[*mazedsalv**]

It is their highest rated programme every day, but they are axing it due to low ratings!?!??? what the hell

Exactly.
Its because BB10 wasnt getting the highest C4 ratings for that day, generally it would be the 3rd most watched C4 programme of the day.

But for the fifth time in a row and for the whole of CBB7 so far, its been the highest rated show, and the only C4 show to be at 3m+.

[Brekkie]

Fairly consistent this week, and no surprise it was slightly down last night as the political storm had blew over so casual viewers could get back to watching the pretty snow on the news.

[*mazedsalv**]

Fairly consistent this week, and no surprise it was slightly down last night as the political storm had blew over so casual viewers could get back to watching the pretty snow on the news.

Yep, the news has been defenitley getting in the way, it got 6.7m on BBC1 and almost 4m on ITV.

[biglover]

The show is doing well and consistent but I would like to see it closer to 3.5million because its a decent series. Such a shame that the good looking series average will soon be spoilt by C4 scheduling
and if anyone is wondering what C4 have to replace the ratings of Big Brother in the summer after BB11 well the paralympic games will be filling some of the scheduling space in summer 2012

Oh my god, that is what is replacing BB!? Channel 4 are retarded

[Gavin]

Really bad ratings. 2.9m inc +1 is poor for first week.

[biglover]

Really bad ratings. 2.9m inc +1 is poor for first week.

For Big Brother it is good, and by the way it was 3.1 million inc +1

[*mazedsalv**]

Really bad ratings. 2.9m inc +1 is poor for first week.

3.1m incl +1

I bet its probably your precious Stephen putting people off.

[President]

Shame, I was hoping for more yesterday. 3.1m is still quite good, but I don't like the fact that it hasn't gone up yet!

As for current Twitter trending:

· #youwerecooluntil
· #nowplaying
· #cbb7
· Follow Friday
· Pete Carroll
· Shorty Award
· CES
· #tacky
· Elvis
· Seahawks

[Tom]

Interesting that DOI isn't on that list

[President]

Interesting that DOI isn't on that list
I think it'll still do well, easily beating CBB. A lot of its audience are probably older ladies who don't go onto Twitter much!

[Tom]

I think it'll still do well, easily beating CBB. A lot of its audience are probably older ladies who don't go onto Twitter much!

DOI is going to slaughter BB, theres no ifs or buts about it. I think it will be 8m v 3m. But I just thought that even with that amount of viewers I'd still expect it to trend even if it was at the bottom of the list

[pixee]

God that looked like rape...

[Tom]

I bet the figures for the second show are going to be poor, it was basically live feed and Ivana was introduced at the start ....

[biglover]

DOI will slaughter BB, but I dont understand why. They say BB is bad television and rubbish but DOI is a bunch of has beens skating very poorly on ice with silly outfits on, wow how exciting and educational!....not

[*mazedsalv**]

I think this is INCLUDING +1

Friday(1)- 3.4m
Friday(2)- 2.6m (23%)

So looks like the 9pm slot held up VERY well up against DOI, which got 6.3m (22%)
Look at the 2nd show's share!!! :shocked" Thats brilliant.

Think about it, 2.6m with no eviction.

It is 300,000 up on the 1st week average of CBB6.

CBB6 Average 1st week in Overnights- 3.3m
CBB7 Average 1st week in Overnights- 3.6m

[tmx]

But it wasn't C4's most watched show -

CBB (9pm): 3.4m / 13%
8 / 10 Cats: 3.4m / 17%

[*mazedsalv**]

But it wasn't C4's most watched show -

CBB (9pm): 3.4m / 13%
8 / 10 Cats: 3.4m / 17%

Yes it was joint. The share is irreleveant as there were different amounts of people watching at those times. They were joint most watched.

3.4m is brilliant up against DOI and Silent Witness(it was that, wasnt it on BBC1?), which both got over 6m!

The second show, you cant deny that it did really good.... the share proved that not many people were watching TV between 10:35pm-11:05pm. (as 1/4 of the share wastched the eviction), meaning there was only about 11m people watching TV at that time, as opposed to the 28m that have been watching the last 3 days in the 9pm slot.

The 2nd share beat DOI share which is odd.

[biglover]

That is very good for BB, people have to remember the disaster that was BB10, 3.4 million agaisnt DOI which got 6.3 million is very good

[Tom]

Much better than I expected especially the second show! I'm starting to think next week might not rate so bad after all, I don't think it will drop below 2.5m although it probably will tonight.

[Brad.]

I reckon 2.5m tonight, it's a Saturday

[Brekkie]

Well we've been telling C4 ever since the shows moved to 9pm and 10.35pm in BB9 that they should be one 90-minute show - I've no doubt if it had been a 90-minute show it would have maintained the average of the first show throughout, though really last nights "live event" could have been done within the hour-long show anyway.

A couple of positives though - the opening round up of the week and it's pretty clear the eviction panel has been ditched as the new stage can only really host Davina and the evictee.

[Tom]

Well we've been telling C4 ever since the shows moved to 9pm and 10.35pm in BB9 that they should be one 90-minute show - I've no doubt if it had been a 90-minute show it would have maintained the average of the first show throughout, though really last nights "live event" could have been done within the hour-long show anyway.

A couple of positives though - the opening round up of the week and it's pretty clear the eviction panel has been ditched as the new stage can only really host Davina and the evictee.

Working on averages I think it will have been about 3m. I think once people knew Ivana was going in, there was no real attraction to keep watching so probably switched off. I'm expecting that about 3.4m were watching at 10.40pm but that tailed off to about 2m by the end of the show. It was just glorified live feed.

[tmx]

2.9m (11%) inc +1

[Vladimir]

Not bad for a Saturday night. :)

[Billy]

I'm actually really impressed with that. I feared it could go down to 2.0 or even under!

[Jords]

Hmm not bad!

[Spike]

I don't think anyone was expecting such a good rating last night. Best Saturday figure since CBB5 I have read.
The series is doing cosistantly doing well which is pleasing. I think around the 3million mark is where the series will stay..well until C4's dodgy schedule next week.

[biglover]

Predictions for tonights show>> around 2.9 to 3.1, DOI begins tonight and will kill it in the ratings.

[Jordan.]

Not bad for a saturday wasnt BB10 getting around 1.8

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night's 2.9m was the highest Saturday episode since CBB5. In CBB5 tehre was only ONE episode to be avove 2.9m. So excluding that.... its the HIGHEST SATURDAY RATING SINCE BB7!!!

Outstanding!!

[Brekkie]

Working on averages I think it will have been about 3m. I think once people knew Ivana was going in, there was no real attraction to keep watching so probably switched off. I'm expecting that about 3.4m were watching at 10.40pm but that tailed off to about 2m by the end of the show. It was just glorified live feed.
They stuck around for 8 out of 10 Cats though, and at 10pm though there isn't the competition from Jonathan Ross, which is BB's main competition in the 10.35pm slot and pulled a million or so viewers away from C4.

[Tom]

They stuck around for 8 out of 10 Cats though, and at 10pm though there isn't the competition from Jonathan Ross, which is BB's main competition in the 10.35pm slot and pulled a million or so viewers away from C4.

But you're just assuming everyone who watched BB watched 8 out of 10 Cats which I doubt is true

[Gavin]

BB needs to improve their editorial content if they want to reach acceptable levels again. I believe this is still their least watched CBB series ever.

They need to dedicate more time to the interesting housemates like Stephen, and stop showing all the showmance rubbish. Also they need to inject energy into the production by having better tasks.

Live feed, of course, is sorely missed as well.

[*mazedsalv**]

BB needs to improve their editorial content if they want to reach acceptable levels again. I believe this is still their least watched CBB series ever.

They need to dedicate more time to the interesting housemates like Stephen, and stop showing all the showmance rubbish. Also they need to inject energy into the production by having better tasks.

Live feed, of course, is sorely missed as well.

Nope its not, judging by CBB6 one week on at the same time of now, the series was averaging 3.3m, this series is averaging 3.6m so far, a 300,000 increase.

Its well above the BB10, which is great... :) its the first time since BB7 we havnt seen a decline, but an increase from one series to another.

[Gavin]

^ Well, that's interesting to hear. Is it not possible that the snow is contributing to CBB7's higher ratings rather than the actual content of the show attracting more viewers?

[Tom]

Nope its not, judging by CBB6 one week on at the same time of now, the series was averaging 3.3m, this series is averaging 3.6m so far, a 300,000 increase.

Its well above the BB10, which is great... :) its the first time since BB7 we havnt seen a decline, but an increase from one series to another.

BB7 was down on CBB4, CBB4 is the last time we saw an increase

^ Well, that's interesting to hear. Is it not possible that the snow is contributing to CBB7's higher ratings rather than the actual content of the show attracting more viewers?

Is it not possible that the show is getting better ratings on its own merit? The snow probably isn't affecting TV anymore.

[*mazedsalv**]

^ Well, that's interesting to hear. Is it not possible that the snow is contributing to CBB7's higher ratings rather than the actual content of the show attracting more viewers?

Not sure. I generally think its actually the housemates. There is a mix in there, we were saying, me included that the lineup was bad before they went in, however their are people that people are interested in. Eg. My age group, Sov, Jonas and Vinnie. Older age groups, Stephanie, Ivana and Vinnie.

We will see what happens when the snow dissapears... if that is to happen before CBB7 ends that is.

I was on facebook tonight and was quite suprised by the amount of people putting BB related stuff on their status, when during BB9, CBB6 and BB10, never happened.

My sister is enjoying it this year too, she didnt like BB10 or CBB6.

[Gavin]

Is it not possible that the show is getting better ratings on its own merit? The snow probably isn't affecting TV anymore.
Clearly there's more people watching TV and nearly all programmes are getting boosts. I read that Coronation Street got 11 million the other day, even though a year ago it was getting 10 million.

So that's why I think it's not on merit.

[Tom]

Last night got 3.2m against 7.6m for Dancing on Ice ... bodes very well for this and next week with all the changing!

Davina's other show got 0.8m

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night got 3.2m against 7.6m for Dancing on Ice ... bodes very well for this and next week with all the changing!

Davina's other show got 0.8m

Thats very good, is it with +1? Because DS says 3.2m, but they normally only do it excluding +1.

[*mazedsalv**]

Also were Frisays ratings wrong?
According to this both shows got 3.4m, much higher than the 2.6m recorded

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a195569/34-million-watch-trump-enter-house.html

[Tom]

Also were Frisays ratings wrong?
According to this both shows got 3.4m, much higher than the 2.6m recorded

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a195569/34-million-watch-trump-enter-house.html

It doesn't mention the second show so I'm just assuming thats the 9pm show

Just something to mention here, at the same point in CBB6, the official rating for the Sunday highlights was 2.9m so already well ahead of last year

[*mazedsalv**]

It doesn't mention the second show so I'm just assuming thats the 9pm show

Just something to mention here, at the same point in CBB6, the official rating for the Sunday highlights was 2.9m so already well ahead of last year

It does, it says Ivana Trump entrance seen by 3.4m... and then says, "the eralier show was seen by 3.4m (conbined together), indicating both we seen as 3.4m. But according to other sites, Ivana Trumps entrance was seen by 2.6m.

And yep its already 300,000 ahead of the Sunday episode, and its only the overnights!! we could be about 600,000 over when the officials come up.

[biglover]

This series is doing quite well for BB and great for C4, I hope it continues and grows in viewers, it deserves it. x

[*mazedsalv**]

RATINGS ERROR.
Fridays ratings:

1st show- 3.4m
2nd show- 3.6m

[Jords]

Very nice!

[*mazedsalv**]

That is incredible. The officials could even push that to 4m as the show finished 5 mins early on Friday.

[Tom]

thats brilliant- it pushes the week 1 overnight average to 3.7m. The week 1 official average for CBB6 was 3.7m so this year is already ahead. I think even with the upcoming schedule changes this year will probably beat CBB6 as well as BB10!

[Patrick]

BB in trouble tonight?

It clashes with that new American Drama on E4 'Glee'

And they have advertised it like **** over the past few weeks, I want to watch but it clashes with BB.

Dont know why C4 Would do that?
Put BB head to head with another E4 Drama?

Stupid move, so Glee will probley get alot of ratings as E4 and C4 have shut up about it for weeks.

[*mazedsalv**]

BB in trouble tonight?

It clashes with that new American Drama on E4 'Glee'

And they have advertised it like **** over the past few weeks, I want to watch but it clashes with BB.

Dont know why C4 Would do that?
Put BB head to head with another E4 Drama?

Stupid move, so Glee will probley get alot of ratings as E4 and C4 have shut up about it for weeks.

Isnt Glee only on for an hour? BB starts at 10pm right?
Also Glee wont harm it that much, its on E4, it will get about 1.2m viewers i reckon.

[Patrick]

Isnt Glee only on for an hour? BB starts at 10pm right?
Also Glee wont harm it that much, its on E4, it will get about 1.2m viewers i reckon.

Glee is on a double bill so the second episode clashes with BB.

Alright :)
Is E4 Not that watched then?

BB CH didnt get that much ratings because it was on E4 I heard.

[BGT-FAN!]

This is gunna sound stupid, but how do they find out how many people watch each prgramme

[Spike]

Fantastic figures for the weekend episodes, it will be interesting how ratings go once it starts getting messed around with
I think Glee is a good bit of competition for Big Brother tonight, I imagine the cross over in audience will be quite large. Silly decision to put these shows against eachother

[President]

I think Glee's going to put a major dent into CBB tonight. My prediction for tonight is 2.7m.

[Big Brother Fan]

A good amount of people have Sky plus now, my sister recorded Glee and watched BB

[Tom]

Glee won't affect BB that much, Celeb BB has many more older people watching (hence higher Saturday ratings) than summer BB. Although we all watch both summer and Celeb BB, the average viewer will watch one or the other. Its why this years CBB launched with a massive audience almost unscathed by the failure of BB10.

[Patrick]

A good amount of people have Sky plus now, my sister recorded Glee and watched BB

I forgot all about that lol I could of recorded :(

Hopefully its repeated in the morning and i`ll record it then.

[tmx]

3m (21.2%)

1.3m watched Glee on E4

[President]

3m (21.2%)
Where do you get these ratings from? It didn't have 21%. It had a 15.5% share on Channel 4 according to most sources.

[tmx]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=37806271&postcount=2985

[Tom]

Told you Glee would have almost zero impact

[President]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=37806271&postcount=2985
Yeah, but wasn't he the same guy that said that the second Friday show got 2.6m instead of 3.6m?

You can tell anyway that the rating and share don't match up. 3.0m and 21% means 14m watching TV at that time, which is too small. There's at least 16m usually. Various proper sources have now reported the share as 15.5% for C4 edition, so it certainly wasn't 21% overall :).

[Tom]

Yeah, but wasn't he the same guy that said that the second Friday show got 2.6m instead of 3.6m?

You can tell anyway that the rating and share don't match up. 3.0m and 21% means 14m watching TV at that time, which is too small. There's at least 16m usually. Various proper sources have now reported the share as 15.5% for C4 edition, so it certainly wasn't 21% overall :).

Maybe it had 15.5% on C4 and it got 5.5% on +1?

[President]

Maybe it had 15.5% on C4 and it got 5.5% on +1?
According to DS, CBB had 2.9m on C4: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s57/glee/news/a195803/glee-makes-impressive-uk-premiere.html

That means about 100,000 watched on +1. I'm pretty sure 100,000 doesn't equate to 5.5% as that would mean 1.8m total people watching TV at that time. +1's shares must be around 1-2% usually.

Sorry if I sounded rude tmx, but as much as I want CBB to do well, some of the shares that have been posted recently look too high! :o

[*mazedsalv**]

3m is great!!!

Its getting 3m+ for every show so far!

[Spike]

According to DS, CBB had 2.9m on C4: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s57/glee/news/a195803/glee-makes-impressive-uk-premiere.html

That means about 100,000 watched on +1. I'm pretty sure 100,000 doesn't equate to 5.5% as that would mean 1.8m total people watching TV at that time. +1's shares must be around 1-2% usually.

Sorry if I sounded rude tmx, but as much as I want CBB to do well, some of the shares that have been posted recently look too high! :o


I'm guessing the 5% would be the share of people watching the digital channels not of the total people watching TV

[Jords]

Its going good so far!

[Tom]

Another error for last night, it turned out to be 3.1m according to IBB. Not a massive difference like the last mistake, but still slightly better than we were told

[*mazedsalv**]

Another error for last night, it turned out to be 3.1m according to IBB. Not a massive difference like the last mistake, but still slightly better than we were told

Ahh thanks... great :D

[Gavin]

I'm surprised the ratings have been so consistent. Can't wait for next week though. If CBB is actually good, then it should do well next week with 3m+. I doubt it will ;).

[Tom]

I'm surprised the ratings have been so consistent. Can't wait for next week though. If CBB is actually good, then it should do well next week with 3m+. I doubt it will ;).

Yeah but even if it goes to 2.9m you'll probably be calling it a massive failure

[Gavin]

Yeah but even if it goes to 2.9m you'll probably be calling it a massive failure
2.9m is bad. Forget about BB10, that was a massive disaster. CBB6 (the previous least watched series ever) had 3.3m on average per night. 2.9m would be a poor rating for CBB7 in these arctic conditions.

[Tom]

2.9m is bad. Forget about BB10, that was a massive disaster. CBB6 (the previous least watched series ever) had 3.3m on average per night. 2.9m would be a poor rating for CBB7 in these arctic conditions.

If you're going to make comparisons like that then at least use overnight v overnight rather than overnight v official. A 2.9m figure would make a 0.1m difference, its hardly a disaster. And I wouldn't say its arctic conditions anymore either, most of the snow is either clearing up or ready to.

[*mazedsalv**]

If you're going to make comparisons like that then at least use overnight v overnight rather than overnight v official. A 2.9m figure would make a 0.1m difference, its hardly a disaster. And I wouldn't say its arctic conditions anymore either, most of the snow is either clearing up or ready to.

CBB6's overnight average was 3m. The officials pushed it to 3.3m.
So far we have an OVERNIGHT of 3.5m... if the series was to finish now, we would have a 3.8m average officially.

[Gavin]

If you're going to make comparisons like that then at least use overnight v overnight rather than overnight v official. A 2.9m figure would make a 0.1m difference, its hardly a disaster. And I wouldn't say its arctic conditions anymore either, most of the snow is either clearing up or ready to.
I did take the overnight v overnight situation into account.

BB usually timeshifts 0.3m to make the official rating. So a 3m overnight rating would mean roughly 3.3m official rating = same as CBB6. So, that's why I think 3m overnight would be ok as it'd be on par with last year. 2.9m would not timeshift enough to reach 3.3m.

Anyway, I'm being too lenient on BB. It should be getting closer to 4m anyway with it being the last series and poor weather.

THe snow might be clearing up, but the weather is still much worse than what any previous CBB ahs seen and loads more people than normal are watching TV (3m more at some points). So CBB needs to be doing better!

[Gavin]

CBB6's overnight average was 3m. The officials pushed it to 3.3m.
So far we have an OVERNIGHT of 3.5m... if the series was to finish now, we would have a 3.8m average officially.
What did CBB5 average?

[*mazedsalv**]

What did CBB5 average?

4.7m officially.
Without the 3/4 days of the race row... the average would be around 4.2m. The 4 days really made a huge difference to the average as Jade's interview got 8.8m.

[President]

3.3m apparently.

Brilliant rating! :D

[Tom]

It looks like people are following it around the schedules and the amount watching it on +1 instead of giving it a miss is promising. I'm not expecting a meltdown anymore. I think at the very lowest tonight will get 2.8m.

[Tom]

By the way, its getting the 9pm slot for some of its final week

[*mazedsalv**]

3.3m is great!! Judging by that rating, Fridays eviction show should get 3.6m+.

And Tom, thats great. 9pm is a great slot for BB, its the right time. If there is strong competition then people can watch on +1.

Tonight we can maybe the see the first non Saturday sub 3m show. Its on at 8pm!! and strong competition. I reckon probably 2.7m.

Slumdog Millionaire in my opinion will defenitley be the top C4 show, its been promoted to the death! I reckon 5m+.

[biglover]

3.3 million is a very good BB rating these days and is extremely good for C4 in any programme

[Brekkie]

2.9m is bad. Forget about BB10, that was a massive disaster. CBB6 (the previous least watched series ever) had 3.3m on average per night. 2.9m would be a poor rating for CBB7 in these arctic conditions.
Why are you still here when you clearly have no interest in the show, and certainly have no respect for the views of others?

Nobody minds criticism, but you're not constructive in anyway and don't seem to want to see improvement - you just want to dampen any small glimpses of positivity that are coming from the series.

We all know the show isn't the beast it once was and much has been done to damage it in recent years, and we all know the improvements this series are too little, too late - but none of us can fathom out the reason you still post here day in, day out if you hate the show (and it's fans) so much!

[Tom]

Why are you still here when you clearly have no interest in the show, and certainly have no respect for the views of others?

Nobody minds criticism, but you're not constructive in anyway and don't seem to want to see improvement - you just want to dampen any small glimpses of positivity that are coming from the series.

We all know the show isn't the beast it once was and much has been done to damage it in recent years, and we all know the improvements this series are too little, too late - but none of us can fathom out the reason you still post here day in, day out if you hate the show (and it's fans) so much!

He's a troll. But I'm still to decide if its someone who is trying to be someone else, or someone with a brilliant sense of humour.

Last night got 2.8m without +1 so looks like yet another show over 3m and Channel 4's attempt at a sabotage isn't working

[Brekkie]

That's great for 8pm - probably get a higher than usual +1 figure too with it being so early.

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night got 3.2m with +1.

Brilliant when taking into account:

1. The 8pm start.
2. Being up against the match.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

awesome :)

[*mazedsalv**]

Yepp. Its doing good!

[biglover]

good x

[Gavin]

Nearly 2 weeks gone, and this series is actually not that bad.

Tonight's exchange between Stephen and Alex was the greatest moment in Big Brother history. I hope it does well in the ratings. :)

[Tom]

Last night got 3.1m

Dunno if its with +1 or not

[DigitalSid]

Last night got 3.1m

Dunno if its with +1 or not

It's not.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

its official. CBB 2010 is a hit :)

[*mazedsalv**]

3.1m WITHOUT +1... to be exact 3.11m, and almost a 17% share which is brilliant!!!

Whenever the +1 comes, it will be about 3.3m (18%) in my opinion.

[*mazedsalv**]

Last night got 3.4m!!! 300,000 up on last weeks Thursday episode. Meaning about 250,000+ watched on +1, a lot for the 11pm slot!!

It was the second highest 10pm show rating, only behind the 1st HL show which got recieved 3.5m in the 10pm slot.

[Tom]

I reckon tonights first show will be close to 4m

[biglover]

3.4 million is very impressive for BB, that was the ratings for last years finale! I hope the eviction reaches near 4 million!

[biglover]

I reckon tonights first show will be close to 4m

I hope so x

[*mazedsalv**]

3.4 million is very impressive for BB, that was the ratings for last years finale! I hope the eviction reaches near 4 million!

Last years final officially for BB10 got 3.3m i think, so it was already above on that :)

And on par with the overnight of CBB6 final.

[biglover]

what were the ratings for last night?

[biglover]

Ratings......?

[DigitalSid]

We don't have them yet b.l.

[*mazedsalv**]

We dont have them, but apparently Popstar to OperaStar got 4m for its first show, quite low... so maybe it was very good for the first show yesterday!

[tmx]

3.31m (12.3%)
3.24m (16.5%)

not inc +1

[Billy]

Not baaad!

[*mazedsalv**]

very good!!!
With +1 it will be around 3.6m and 3.5m.... brilliant :)

Inside BB are saying its the most watched eviction show since Jennifers eviction in BB9.

[DigitalSid]

Decent, probably down a little on last week for the second show once plus 1 is added but that was to be expected with the improved weather.

[President]

Last night got 2.7m including +1.

[*mazedsalv**]

Great for a Saturday!!
Lets not forget that BB10 saturdays were in between 1.3-1.8m most of the time.