Going by this, I predict 2.2 million.

When you look at that, BB isn't doing as abd as people make out. Yeah the figures keep going down, but there are so many repeats to watch and people watch online and stuff too.

Excuses excuses.

Britain's Got Talent has so many repeats and still it's doing amazingly this year.

If I remember correctly, there was a stat going round saying that last year Big Brother was the ONLY reality show to lose viewers. Every other show increased.

It just shows what people think of the show. The producers are doing no favours getting rid of the live feed.

I agree brad.x c4 have kind of kicked bb to the curb over the last few years.

Since the race row from cbb5 and all the controversy caused by it, c4 have downplayed the show a lot more ---> BB8. The advertising needs to be beefed up this year especially because of the 10th edition. They need to create that aura and mystery that bb to be surrounded in. Last year they were incredibly stupid in releasing all the house pictures on the website especially the diary room pics. But in fairness to c4, this year they seemed to have kept their mouths shut. And as much as i hate not knowing anything, i know this could ultimately end up saving bb.

Imo, BB is holding up well generally compared to everything else on C4.
But with BGT its a different story. There are many reasons why BGT gets better ratings:

1. Its on ITV
2. Its in its 3rd year (in BB's 3rd year, they hit their peak of an average of 5.8m and a final of over 10m)
3. Its a family show, its watched by kids a sits on before the watershed, BB is aimed at a target group and kids and older parents are less likely to watch with family compared to BGT and is on after 9pm. Families wont watch BB because of the nudity and language.
4. BGT is treated like the King of Reality shows on ITV, C4 just cant be bothered with BB.
3.

3.5? Maybe lower?

Im not making excuses 8-) I dont really care about it but it isn't done thaaaat bad.
Remember BB has been on for 9 years now longer than others and people WILL get fed up, its inevitable.

All im saying is its not as bad as BB fans make out.

im not sure what the ratings will be like! they will be lower than expected if the launch is on 3rd june which i think it might be! if it was on thursday 4th of june then they would get the highest ratings! because on friday 5th june.. people like to go out.... lol

hopefully people can catch up on big brother episodes on 4od! or.. on e4 or channel 4 site which you can instantly watch!! yay!

The ratings will at least be more than collective IQ of the ELSTREE crowd = nil.

Just read on DS that The F Word is being pushed back to later this year and with no real looking 9pm shows in the press pack by C4 it looks that Big Brother will get the 9pm slot
I do think the show suits the 10pm slot better but maybe its best to give it the 9pm slot meaning there is 2 prime time slots (C4 and +1) to watch the show and hopefully increase the amount of viewers.

Really though The X Factor has effectively been going just as long. OK, the show itself didn't start until 2004 but it's predecessors Popstars and Pop Idol were around in 2001.

I'm a Celeb has been around since 2002 too.


I prefer 10pm and in theory it should do better there against the news on BBC1 and ITV1 - and has in the past. However, last year it generally performed better at 9pm than at 10pm.

I think the important thing is whether at 9pm or 10pm it's in the same slot every night (well, Mon-Thu). Consistency is the key, as when it alternates viewers just don't know what time to expect it each night.

Yeah I agree,that consistent slot is the key to consistent ratings
It needs a fixed slot, there were times during BB9 I didn't know when it was on and I come on here and other BB sites!

I reckon around 4million.

Launch or series average?

Launch :bigsmile:

5.6 million

it could have been really good but it was crap cause all entertaining housemates were evicted (bex,steph,luke,jennifer,sylvia) nd all boring ones were kept (mo,mikey,rachel...)

Official Series average of 3.1m... 200,000 less than CBB6's official and 500,000 down BB9's official.

Overnight average of 2.9m.

Annoying TV isn't entertaining.

I'd rather watch an old man pick at his scabs than watch Bex again.

Bumping this so it doesn't get lost.

Will this be the thread we'll be using throughout the series?

Hopefully. This thread has all the previous BB ratings in it so I think we should use this one.

Sounds good. This thread will be massive by the end of the summer. :joker:

Bump.

I previously predicted that the launch would get viewing figures of 4.8 million, that was on the 3rd of May. Now that I have seen the pre-BB hype unfold, I will make another guess. I think that the launch will get 5.1 milliion viewers.