Like late October I think.

I agree Novo, with all the other things on that is okay for a saturday night.

Nice for a Saturday.. glad it didn't dip under 1M.

I think the timeslot helped, being on straight after the x factor, last week's showing at 10:15 was crazy, whoever at channel 5 took the decision to put their biggest show on so late really need's a talking to!

21:00 Big Brother: 1.34m (4.9%)
No real difference for the 9pm start.

No major difference... looking like it's going to stick with 1.3m

Although I did turn off last night. (Not like it's relevent).

Aint watched any of BB this weekend as have been away so need to catch up. These ratings are shocking

They are not good figures but they are a strong number to build the next series on next year.

The doomwatchers who said BB could be down to 700,000 to 800,000 at weekends haven't seen that materialise as yet.
Around I.4 million is a good base to build on and if that becomes the sort of hardcore figure for the series the likely verdict will be adequate but can, (not must), do much better.

So much missing from this series that can be addressed and added to the next one and then those figures could likely rise very strongly too.

Yeah definitely.

As I've said before, it directly following 3 weeks of a fairly poor CBB didn't do any good for this series, and the fact it's a Autumn/Winter BB doesn't help either. Some of the airing times have been questionable, too.

If Five really commit and put a bigger focus on BB13, I believe they can get closer viewing figures to what CBB8 got.

I think once X Factor Live Shows start then it will hit around that. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I agree with that.
Hopefully they will make sure the main X Factor show doesnt ever clash,take it's chance with Xtra Factor, (which I usually record anyway to watch later).Hopefully Jonathon Ross may be gone then too.

well JR is on a 13 week run.... thinks its been on for 2-3 weeks now, I reckon it will clash :sad:

I agree take the chance against the xtra Factor.

Xtra Factor doesn't tend to do amazing in the ratings anyway. It might knock off 100/200,000 off Big Brother's ratings but probably not much more than that. It hasn't affected BB's ratings the past few weekends too much.

I predict that will happen Saturday 1st October ..... ;)

Big Brother 1.44m (8.2%) Big Brother's Bit On The Side 615k (6.9%) from 11pm.

They ruined their chances with CBB

Isn't 1.5 decent? Granted i don;t know much about ratings and what channel 5 were hoping for, but im guessing it was something round abouts 2m a ep? Lets also take into account when Big Bro launched, which was right when schools started across the country, so i'm guessing a large chunk of the big bro audience are going to bed early too. Channel 4 had theirs in the summer. What was the average for channel 4 last year?

I think they are fair figures, definately. They can do much better next year I am sure too.

I think BB11's average was around 2.8m.
I think next year when it's aired in the summer and there's not much else on tv its ratings will be a bit better. Hopefully anyway :D

Last years average was 2.9 million.

1.44 is not decent even for Channel 5. They hoped for 2 million and other shows on Channel 5 are getting better ratings some nights.

Its steady at 1.3/1.4 now though and it will be interesting to see the officials when they are released.

getting an 8% share at 10 and a 7% share at 11 is not something they could lay claim to before big brother. They are lucky to get 6% on most nights

If they bring back live feed, have it in the summer, and take it back to basics, it will do better.

Do all the quoted figures include the mid-afternoon re-run ??

I usually Watch that one as the evening slot has program clashes .

Big Brother: 1.39m (8%)

Officials on wikipedia now (not sure if true but have a look)