On Wikipedia, the Officials (BARB) have the first six days rated above 1m.

The first week, averaged 1.59m. Down on Power Trip's 1.66m.

I hope it will rate well purely because I love the show and would be disappointed to see its demise. However, this twist is a step too far. I was quite enjoying the way this series was going. We are two weeks into the show, BB is always going to take longer to get to know the housemates and build your favourite and most disliked ones. To start mass evictions after 2 weeks on the basis of the ratings being down just smacks of panic without thinking things through. Ratings are bound to be better for CBB as we already know them, well most of them, when they enter. BB is always more of a slow burner particularly now we have such little access to get to know the housemates.

I honestly cannot see the ratings going up as for a start it is bad timing and planning doing it this Friday as people will still probably choose to watch BGT. I am lucky as my favourite is ok but if they had been in the group up for eviction now I would have not been very happy.

Also when these housemates come in they will have been briefed to stir things up amoung the ones left and we will be back to arguments and chaos and a load of false newbies. I hope the originals left stand their ground as I think they are a good set of housemates. Shane that I think this new development will ruin that.

I think people will tune in just because the whole thing is so insane :joker:

if BB gets bad ratings, then the producers will think its time to get more time bombs and more twists to enhance more viewers to watch, which will probably mean more viewers will decide to bypass this series because of all of the meddling, which will mean rock bottom viewer ratings which could mean the end of the show, and that would be worse than watching disappointing and overly frequent twists