BB9 USA Ratings Thread

[Matt]

We have a ratings thread for most other BBs, so why not have one for BBUS? :spin:

Post all the ratings for both American and UK broadcasts in this thread :thumbs:

[KKBL]

oh i was going to make one of these.i dont think BBUSA will get anymore then 500,000 over here infact i think wed be lucky if it we got 300,000.whats the ratings history for BB ratings in the US?

[Redmond]

It usually gets around 8-9 million in the US.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by Redmond
It usually gets around 8-9 million in the US.

thats more then i expected.but its not nearly as popular is BBUK with ratings

[Billy]

Yeah over in America its not really that popular its like any other programme over there, but in Britain its like a big event.

[Redmond]

Originally posted by *Cathal*
Originally posted by Redmond
It usually gets around 8-9 million in the US.

thats more then i expected.but its not nearly as popular is BBUK with ratings

Well BBUK only gets around 3-4 million viewers, but obviously the UK isn't as big as America. But BBUSA is still pretty popular show and does fairly well in the ratings, for example Lost gets around 10-11 million viewers, so that kind of puts things in contrast.

It's only the really big shows like American Idol that get around 30 million viewers.

[Wasted]

I wonder if the ratings will be different to what they're normally like since it's on earlier this year.

[KKBL]

excluding BB8 and BB3 BBUK gets 4.5 - 5.0 on average out of 60 million and BBUSA gets 9 million out of 300 million so im just saying its not as popular.and yeah i know most shows in the US never pass 20 million

[geoking66]

Well every show pales in comparison to the not-so-mighty Super Bowl. It got 140m viewers this year.

[Matt]

"Preliminary ratings have been posted for Big Brother 9 and they aren’t pretty. American Idol dominated the night and easily winning it. In the second hour of Idol, the Biggest Loser came in second at 4.9/7 share (compared to Idol’s 17.7/26 share). Big Brother 9 was third for the 9PM slot at 4.6/7.

Don’t understand what that means? Me either. But we should be getting a press release soon detailing how great Big Brother 9 did when in fact it lost hard to American Idol.

Who’s decision was it to put it up against the juggernaut that is Idol? And on two nights! We’ll see how this plays out in the long run. Note to producers: Stick with Summer editions of BB."

BigBrotherAccess.com (http://www.bigbrotheraccess.com/index.php/archives/366)

[KKBL]

i think it mean it got 4.9 million

[Redmond]

Those ratings on BBAccess are wrong, those a shares not ratings.


Ratings are now in:

“Although this first winter edition of Big Brother (Viewers: #3: 7.33 million; A18-49: #3, 2.7/ 6) dipped by 4.39 million viewers from the NCIS encore, it did manage to build by 17 percent among adults 18-49. So, there is still interest in the normally summer guilty pleasure.”

That is just 0.7 down on last years premier and seeing as it was going up against American Idol this year those ratings are great. It increased as well in the 18-49 bracket. Good stuff, hopefully this keeps up and CBS make sure it's a 3 month series.

[MarkWaldorf]

4.6/7 is about 7 Million, yeah.

[Wasted]

Didn't know it was up against AI, that is tough competition. Thanks for posting them.

[Matt]

UK (E4) ratings for Thursday 14th
21:00 - Big Brother USA - 328,600
22:00 - Big Brother USA - 302,200

[Spike]

Good ratings, I was expecting alot lower than that

[Sam!]

I watched all of the first one and like half of the second :)

[Redmond]

Better ratings than I expected for E4. Seeing as it was hardly advertised and not many people knew about it, I was expecting less than 100,000. So yeah 300,000 odd is very good.

[Tom]

I've just finished watching both of these on Sky+ and I liked it but it was very OTT and sensationalised. I don't think I'm too keen on the gameplayer format and I don't think I want it to come over to Britain.

I did expect the ratings to be about 150,000.

[dtd2]

Just to put ratings in perspective with comparison for the rest of the programs on the night.

For premiere night.

Overall for the night the top 5.

#1 American Idol 29.9 million Fox
#2 NCIS (encore) 11.7 million CBS
#3 Law & Order SVU (encore) 8.3 million NBC
#4 Biggest Loser 7.5 million NBC
#5 Big Brother 7.3 million CBS

Top 5 in demos for the night.

#1 American Idol 12.2 Fox
#2 Biggest Loser 3.0 NBC
#3 Big Brother 2.7 CBS
#4 Law & Order: SVU 2.6 NBC
#5 Jericho 2.5 CBS

Wednesday was bad though. It had to air head to against American Idol (FOX), Deal or No Deal (NBC), & America's Next Top Model (CW) & all of them are the most watched show on each of their networks.

Top 10 for the night.

1) American Idol 24.59m FOX
2) Moment of Truth 14.47m FOX
3) Deal or No Deal 10.99m NBC
4) Law & Order 10.74m NBC
5) Law & Order: Criminal Intent 9.07m NBC
6) Supernanny 8.80m ABC
7) Criminal Minds 7.75m CBS Repeat
8) CSI: NY 7.66m CBS Repeat
9) Big Brother 5.81m CBS
10) Wife Swap 5.38m ABC

For the demos
1. American Idol 9.8 Fox
2. Moment of Truth 6.2 Fox
3. Supernanny 3.6 ABC
4. Law & Order 3.0 NBC
5. Deal or No Deal 2.7 NBC
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2.5 NBC
7. CSI: NY & Big Brother 2.1 CBS

[Billy]

You guys get Deal or No Deal ! :D

[dtd2]

Yes & it's huge here. Howie Mandel hosts it. They still haven't given out the million, but until someone find its they keep adding more cases with $1 million in it & I think they're up to like half of them being million dollar cases.

[Captain.Remy]

Wow I'm quite surprised it get good ratings !!!

[dtd2]

What Big Brother or Deal or No Deal?

[Ruth*Star]

I'm Surprised DOND gets like 10million over there, it would never get that much here.

[dtd2]

DOND currently airs for 90 minutes on Mondays & an hour on Wednesdays. In the past, it has aired on Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays for an hour. Then this fall, I believe a daily version will air with Arsenio Hall hosting that & Howie Mandel remaining host of the primetime version.

[*mazedsalv**]

For E4 I predict 303,000-306,000 viewers.

[*mazedsalv**]

Oh dear!!

E4-
137,100

[Spike]

I'm not surprised at the low ratings.

[Matt]

That's higher than I expected actually. I was expecting less than 100,000.

[Redmond]

Well around 100,000 is what I was expecting. I was shocked that last weeks was 300,000! So it's still pretty decent.

[Captain.Remy]

How did last night's episode in the US ?

[Matt]

Originally posted by Captain.Remy
How did last night's episode in the US ?

It's only about midday in the US, so we should know later on tonight.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : Matt
Originally posted by Captain.Remy
How did last night's episode in the US ?

It's only about midday in the US, so we should know later on tonight.

And they don't know them before ?
Well I'm surprised because we know them quite early but against American Idol, I doubt it did very well.

[Matt]

Ah, here we are.

Big Brother got 5.42 million viewers last night in the US.

[*mazedsalv**]

Is that a drop?

[Matt]

Yes.

The ratings for last night's eviction were 5.24 million

[Matt]

E4's BBUSA ratings rose slightly last night:

21:00 - Big Brother USA - 181,900
22:00 - Big Brother USA - 150,300

[dtd2]

TUESDAY'S RATINGS

1. American Idol 28.84 million 8-10pm FOX
2. NCIS 10.85 million (encore) 8pm CBS
3. Law & Order: SVU 9.30 million (encore) 10pm NBC
4. Biggest Loser 8.15 million 8-10pm NBC
5. Boston Legal 7.43 million 10pm ABC
6. Jericho 5.94 million 10pm CBS
7. Big Brother: ‘Til Death Do You Part 5.42 million 9pm CBS
8. According to Jim 4.83 9pm ABC
9. Just for Laughs 4.58 million 8pm ABC
10. Carpoolers 3.95 million 9:30pm ABC
11. One Tree Hill 2.90 million 9pm CW
12. Reaper 1.79 million (encore) 8pm CW

Demos

1. American Idol 11.2 Fox
2. Law & Order: SVU 3.4 NBC
3. Biggest Loser 3.4 NBC
4. NCIS 2.2 CBS
5. Big Brother: ‘Til Death Do You Part 2.0 CBS
6. Jericho 2.0 CBS
7. Boston Legal 1.9 ABC
8. According to Jim 1.6 ABC
9. Carpoolers 1.4 ABC
10. Just For Laughs 1.3 ABC
11. One Tree Hill 1.3 CW
12. Reaper 0.8 CW

WEDNESDAY'S RATINGS

1) American Idol (8pm, 2 hours, FOX) = 28.67m
2) Law & Order (10pm, NBC) = 10.85m
3) Deal or No Deal (8pm, NBC) = 8.93m
4) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (9pm, NBC) = 7.70m
5) CSI: NY (10pm, CBS, Repeat) = 7.42m
6) Criminal Minds (9pm, CBS, Repeat) = 7.31m
7) Supernanny (9pm, ABC) = 5.96m
8) Wife Swap (8pm, ABC) = 5.62m
9) Big Brother (8pm, CBS) = 5.24m
10) Cashmere Mafia (10pm, ABC) = 4.77m
11) Americas Next Top Model (8pm, CW) = 3.80m
12) Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (9pm, CW, Repeat) = 1.87m

Demos

1. American Idol 11.1 Fox
2. Law & Order 3.1 NBC
3. Supernanny 2.3 ABC
4. Deal Or No Deal 2.1 NBC
5. Wife Swap 2.1 ABC
6. CSI: NY 2.0 CBS
7. Big Brother: 1.9 CBS
8. Criminal Minds 1.9 CBS
9. America's Next Top Model: Season Premiere 1.9 CW
10. Law & Order: Criminal Intent 1.9 NBC
11. Cashmere Mafia 1.6 ABC
12. Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious .8 CW


According to Variety Tuesday's & Wednesday's episode were the lowest weekday episodes of Big Brother ever in total viewers.

[Captain.Remy]

Wow it's so not good for BB this year, but that was expected, American Idol is aired at the same time.

[*mazedsalv**]

On the Channel 4 website apparently it got 116,000 viewers.That is quite bad.

[Spike]

I think 116,000 is good for the show.

[*mazedsalv**]

Yeah I guess its okay.

[*mazedsalv**]

Yesterday:
9pm: BBUSA- 195,000
10PM:BBUSA- 161,000

Very good, they are rising.

[dtd2]

More CBS ratings.

Sunday Feb 24th

1) 80th Annual Academy Awards (ABC, 8.30pm) = 29.16m
2) Oscar's Red Carpet (ABC, 8pm) = 26.93m
3) Barbara Walters Special (ABC, 7pm) = 16.49m
4) NASCAR (FOX, 7pm) = 10.70m
5) 60 Minutes (CBS, 7pm) = 10.51m
6) The Simpsons (FOX, 9pm, Repeat) = 7.33m
7) Cold Case (CBS, 9pm, Repeat) = 6.90m
8) Dexter (CBS, 10pm, Repeat) = 6.47m
9) Big Brother 9 (CBS, 8pm) = 5.72m
10) Law & Order: CI (NBC, 7pm-11pm, Repeat) = 4.73m
11) Aliens in America (CW, 8.30pm, Repeat) = 1.12m
12) Everybody Hates Chris (CW, 7.30pm, Repeat) = 1.10m
13) Girlfriends (CW, 9pm, Repeat) = 0.98m
14) The Game (CW, 9.30pm, Repeat) = 0.96m
15) CW Now(CW, 7pm) = 0.63m

Demos

1. 80th Annual Academy Awards 9.8 ABC
2. Oscar’s Red Carpet 8.3 ABC
3. Barbara Walters Special 4.8 ABC
4. NASCAR 4.0 FOX
5. The Simpsons 3.1 FOX
6. Big Brother 2.2 CBS
7. Dexter 2.0 CBS
8. Cold Case 1.9 CBS
9. 60 Minutes 1.8 CBS
10. Law & Order: Criminal Intent 1.3 NBC
11. Aliens in America .4 CW
12. Everybody Hates Chris .4 CW
13. The Game .4 CW
14. Girlfriends .3 CW
15. CW Now .3 CW



Tuesday Feb 26th

1) American Idol (8pm-9:30pm, FOX) = 28.45m
2) Back to You (9:30pm, FOX) = 12.33m
3) NCIS (Repeat, 8pm, CBS) = 11.20m
4) The Biggest Loser (8pm-10pm) = 8.07m
5) Primetime: What Would You Do Now? (10pm, ABC) = 7.64m
6) Jericho (10pm, CBS) = 6.90m
7) Big Brother (9pm, CBS) = 6.74m
8) Just for Laughs (2 episodes, 1 new, 1 repeat, 8pm, ABC) = 4.68m
9) According to Jim (9pm-9:30pm, ABC) = 4.63m
10) Quarterlife (10pm, NBC) = 3.86m
11) Carpoolers (9:30pm-10pm, ABC) = 3.48m
12) One Tree Hill (9pm, CW) = 3.17m
13) Reaper (Repeat, 8pm, CW) = 1.81m

Demos

1. American Idol 11.0 Fox
2. Back to You 4.5 Fox
3. The Biggest Loser 3.1 NBC
4. Primetime: What Would You Do Now? 2.9 ABC
5. Big Brother 2.6 CBS
6. Jericho 2.2 CBS
7. NCIS 2.1 CBS
8. Quarterlife 1.6 NBC
9. According to Jim 1.4 ABC
10. One Tree Hill 1.4 CW
11. Just for Laughs 1.3 ABC
12. Carpoolers 1.2 ABC
13. Reaper .7 CW


Wednesday Feb 27th

1) American Idol (8pm-9:30pm, FOX) = 27.36m
2) Back to You (9:30pm, FOX) = 12.30m
3) Law & Order (10pm, NBC) = 11.45m
4) Deal or No Deal (8pm, NBC) = 9.39m
5) Criminal Minds (Repeat, 9pm, CBS) = 8.37m
6) Supernanny (9pm, ABC) = 8.36m
7) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (9pm, NBC) = 8.34m
8) CSI: NY (Repeat, 10pm, CBS) = 7.96m
9) Men in Trees (10pm, ABC) = 5.66m
10) Wife Swap (8pm, ABC) = 5.63m
11) Big Brother (8pm, CBS) = 5.56m
12) Americas Next Top Model (8pm, CW) = 3.86m
13) Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (Repeat, 9pm, CW) = 2.02m


Demos

1. American Idol 10.4 Fox
2. Back to You 4.4 Fox
3. Law & Order 3.4 NBC
4. Supernanny 3.3 ABC
5. Criminal Minds 2.3 CBS
6. CSI: NY 2.3 CBS
7. Deal or No Deal 2.2 NBC
8. Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2.2 NBC
9. Big Brother 2.1 CBS
10. Wife Swap 2.1 ABC
11. America’s Next Top Model 2.0 CW
12. Men in Trees 1.7 ABC
13. Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious 1.0 CW

[Conzors]

Wow..

Longest Post Ever ^^^

[dtd2]

Possibly :laugh2:

Based on the first 8 eps of Big Brother 8 & Big Brother 9, Big Brother 9 is holding onto 90% of Big Brother 8's viewers.

[bbcanada]

What does Demos mean? lol Well if they moved Big Brother to nights so they dont overlap American Idol, they would do a lot better and get far better raitings no doubt.

It use to be on Thursdays but they moved it to Wednesdays because of Survivor, so they had to change it which really sucks.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : bbcanada

It use to be on Thursdays but they moved it to Wednesdays because of Survivor, so they had to change it which really sucks.

But the issue remains the same...one of these 2 shows will get bad ratings because of American Idol, which makes incredible ratings, almost the best in its history.

[dtd2]

Demos, are those between 18-49. The number means that percent of all 18-49 year olds watched it. They are the age group that are most likely to buy products. So that age group is most important to companies when they decide to buy ad space.

Here are the household numbers for the season (the first number means that out of all households, that percent watch it on average. The second one is of all households currently watching TV what percent is watching it.)


CBS 06.6/11
FOX 06.3/10
ABC 05.9/10
NBC 05.2/09
CW 01.6/03

As for the demos

FOX 4.0
ABC 3.0
NBC 2.9
CBS 2.8
CW 1.0


As you can see CBS has a lot of problems with the 18-49 year old age group. Excluding Sunday (because the ratings haven't come in yet) here is how the CBS shows ranked in the demo. (out of 52 programs)

9 Survivor 4.2 CBS Thursday
10 Two and a Half Men 3.9 CBS Monday
15 Without a Trace 3.3 CBS Thursday
18 New Adventures of Old Christine 3.0 CBS Monday
19 CSI 3.0 CBS Thursday
24 Big Brother 2.6 CBS Tuesday
26 CSI: Miami 2.5 CBS Monday
28 Criminal Minds 2.3 CBS Wednesday
29 CSI: NY 2.3 CBS Wednesday
30 Jericho 2.2 CBS Tuesday
33 How I Met Your Mother 2.1 CBS Monday
34 NCIS 2.1 CBS Tuesday
35 Big Brother 2.1 CBS Wednesday
38 Welcome to the Captain 1.8 CBS Monday

The Big Brother that did bad was the eviction, but the entire thing had to air against Idol.

[*mazedsalv**]

If they moved it away from AI I will guarantee that it will get higher ratings
eg.BB8 went up aggainst Britains Got talent in the UK, BB averages around 2.1-2.5 million, but then when BGT finished it went back up to 3.7-3.9 million so if they change BB's slot in the US, It would proabbaly get a million more viewers or more.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : *mazedsalv**
If they moved it away from AI I will guarantee that it will get higher ratings
eg.BB8 went up aggainst Britains Got talent in the UK, BB averages around 2.1-2.5 million, but then when BGT finished it went back up to 3.7-3.9 million so if they change BB's slot in the US, It would proabbaly get a million more viewers or more.

I completely agree, it's bad luck for the producers but they should have known American Idol is a huge success in USA so I'm just wondering why they did this. But at the same time, Survivor is and always be more popular than Big Brother so they couldn't take the risk to put Survivor on wednesday against American Idol.

[dtd2]

Sunday March 2nd ratings

1) Oprah's Big Give (New, 9pm, ABC) = 15.55m
2) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (New, 8pm, ABC) = 14.78m
3) NASCAR (New, 7pm, FOX) = 12.54m
4) 60 Minutes (New, 7pm, CBS) = 12.17m
5) Here Come the Newlyweds (New, 10pm, ABC) = 10.34m
6) Deal or No Deal (New, 9pm, NBC) = 8.65m
7) America’s Funniest Home Videos (New, 7pm, ABC) = 8.15m
8) Law & Order SVU (Repeat, 10pm, NBC) = 8.08m
9) The Simpsons (New, 8pm-8.30pm, FOX) = 7.86m
10) King of the Hill (New, 8.30pm-9pm, FOX) = 7.74m
11) Dateline (New, 7pm-9pm, NBC) = 7.46m
12) Cold Case (Repeat, 9pm, CBS) = 7.37m
13) Family Guy (New, 9pm, FOX) = 7.11m
14) Dexter (New, 10pm, CBS) = 6.90m
15) Big Brother 9 (New, 8pm, CBS) = 6.17m
16) Unhitched (New, 9.30pm-10pm, FOX) = 6.02m
17) Everybody Hates Chris (New, 8pm-8.30pm, CW) = 1.45m
18) America's Top Model (Repeat, 7pm, CW) = 1.34m
19) The Game (Repeat, 9.30pm-10pm, CW) = 1.30m
20) Girlfriends (Repeat, 9pm-9.30pm, CW) = 1.23m
21) Aliens in America (New, 8.30pm-9pm, CW) = 1.09m


Demos


1. Oprah’s Big Give: Series Premiere 5.3 ABC
2. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 5.1 ABC
3. NASCAR 4.7 Fox
4. Here Come the Newlyweds: Series Premiere 4.1 ABC
5. King of the Hill 4.1 Fox
6. The Simpsons 3.8 Fox
7. Family Guy 3.7 Fox
8. America’s Funniest Home Videos 2.7 ABC
9. Unhitched: Series Premiere 2.5 Fox
10. Big Brother 9 2.3 CBS
11. Deal or No Deal 2.3 NBC
12. 60 Minutes 2.1 CBS
13. Law & Order: SVU 2.1 (R) NBC
14. Dexter 2.0 CBS
15. Cold Case 1.9 (R) CBS
16. Dateline 1.9 NBC
17. America’s Next Top Model 0.6 (R) CW
18. Everybody Hates Chris 0.5 CW
19. Girlfriends 0.5 (R) CW
20. Aliens in America 0.4 CW
21. The Game 0.5 (R) CW


Big Brother 9 is now averaging 6.09 million. After 9 episodes Big Brother 8 was averaging 6.9 million. Big Brother is holding onto 88% of Big Brother 8's viewers. After the first 8 episodes Big Brother 9 was holding onto 90% of Big Brother 8's viewers.

[dtd2]

Ok I've waited to officially make up my mind about Big Brother was doing in terms of ratings until the DVR ratings came out. In the summer based on recollection Big Brother usually had all 3 editions rank in the top 10. Well the numbers are out for the first week. All 3 editions ranked in the top 20. The eviction of Joshuah/Sharon which disastrously aired against Idol was the 7th most DVRed program of the week, with a 31% increase in viewership thanks to it. That was the biggest raise of all programs. The premiere was the 9th most DVRed program of the week. It saw a 25% increase thanks to DVR. The first nomination ceremony was the 16th most DVRed program of the week. That saw a 23% ratings increase thanks to that.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/03/03...ary-11-17/2820

Big Brother is doing much much much stronger now with those numbers.

[Matt]

E4's BBUSA ratings hit a new low on Thursday:

21:00 - Big Brother USA - 87,500
22:00 - Big Brother USA - 93,100

[Spike]

Not surprised at the poor ratings, I think they will go alot lower.

[Chri$]

Originally posted by Matt
E4's BBUSA ratings hit a new low on Thursday:

21:00 - Big Brother USA - 87,500
22:00 - Big Brother USA - 93,100

:shocked: is that it

I am suprised I think BBUSA is 100% better than BBUK

If BBUSA was on C4 I would say over 5 million would watch it

[*mazedsalv**]

137,500 for yesterday.Its rising, but I want to know why Thursdays was really low.

I got the figure from Channel 4 Sales.

[Matt]

Originally posted by ©hris

If BBUSA was on C4 I would say over 5 million would watch it

I highly doubt it. If there was more interest in BBUSA, then E4 would have kept more of the 300,000 viewers that the series launched with.

[Spike]

137,500 is better than I expected it to do

There is no way it would get 5m if it was on C4.

[*mazedsalv**]

Yesterday:
Part 1: 154,700
Part 2: 144,400

[Spike]

Doing alot better than last Thursday. I think around 150,000 is really good for the show.

[*mazedsalv**]

Yesterday- 150,000

[*mazedsalv**]

Thursday:
Part 1: 166,400
Part 2: 124,600

[Matt]

Thought I should bump this with some good news.

Sunday's episode was overrun due to the golf - however this benefited it and as a result the show recieved an average of around 9million viewers. This is Big Brother 9's highest rating to date.

[*mazedsalv**]

OMGG Are you serious? If thats true, thats amazing!