Average = 3.55m (15.9%)
Peak = 4.32m (19.93%)

Second in slot, beat all but CBB8's on Channel 5.

See Dan ;)

Very impressive. Beat CBB9 launch by about 400k and CBB10 launch by about 800k! :)

peak of 4.32m??? pretty darn good

Won the slot with 16-34s, more than doubling BBC1's (500k) with 1.08 million.

If it wasn't for tonight's EastEnders clash, I think we'd be looking at a great retention rate, it's trending now:


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Was above Joe Cole 10-15 minutes ago too.

Hopefully +1 will help it a little at 10pm.

Doubt it, aren't the C5 +1s sub 100k? Then again digital ratings are changing fast so that might change this year.

Yeah that's true, but it sometimes (rarely though) just made it over 100k on +1 if the +1 was on at 10pm (only if it was up against tough competition at 9pm, like tonight will).

I reckon it will get around 2.7million tonight, and hopefully peak higher when eastenders is finished at 9.30

I bet Dan will jizz at those launch ratings ;).

That's fantastic! :amazed:

So hopefully officially it could get 3.9ish

HAHA yeah i did just almlost jizz.

Sid i dont think even you thought it would get that high with the lack of promo.

Thank **** for Jim Davidson.

Chuffed with these ratings :)

Is it sad i opened this thread with only 1 eye open lol im such a dork.

Tbh i think the davidson efect wasn't that great, i didn't see him trending on twitter or social sites at all.

Haha, I do that, I like to react to the original post myself before I see any analysis, and actually I did secretly think it might do this well. I didn't predict high because of DIY SOS, it can rate from 3m to 6.

He was trending for 2 days.

Even if the ratings drop off to CBB10 average now atleast the final series average will be about 2.6 due to the launch bumping up the average which will look brilliant for channel 5.

Great rating. The only problem I ever have with these kind of figures for CBB is that they worry me with regards to C5's attitude, and let's say...obsession...with the celebrity series. I'm still not entirely convinced that there won't come a day when they'll decide to drop the main show and just run two CBB's a year, and CBB regularly performing better than BB itself is only going to add fuel to the fire.

+1 rating was 178,000 (1.1%), BOTS got 1.24million (10.46%).

Indeed.

This is why CBB is so crucial for five, and aslong as normal bb can maintain its current average though i do think it will better last years average this year, then i wouldn't be surprised if bb is around for many years.

No show can touch those figures on the network.

And tbf to normal bb, even that still does better then 95% of shows in ratings for the channel at 1.5million overnights.

And i'm sure endemol are clever, bb is a package, if five wish to keep CBB then BB most be part of the deal.

Thats brilliant for bots.

Cant believe how much viewers it retains from the main show when you think that something like The Xtra Factor can only keep about 700,000 from the main X Factor show which gets 9million.

BB certainly has a certain ammont of dedicated fans.

Im crap with maths so what did CBB launch get with +1 included?

3.55m with +1. It was 3.37m excluding.

Ah ok so it was actually slightly down from CBB9 which got 3.5 overnight and 3.6 officialy right?

CBB9 got 3.2 overnight didn't it?

That was the final.

Ah yes :D last year CBB9 opened with 3.54 million

So its literally the same rating?

It beat CBB9 by 40k.

The first rating includes +1, I posted it anyway to show how well it timeshifted.

Great launch night ratings, but like Jack said above, I worry for the future of normal Big Brother.

Don't, it gets 1.5m every weeknight for 2 months and fills around 150 hours of peaktime with new, twitter popular content, it's going nowhere.

They were talking about the show today on Loose Women (but slating Paula :bored:) so good to see it getting more publicity. Also agree with Jack though..

Will there definitely be another CBB series in summer/autumn?

More stats for you.

It beat C4 9-10pm 2 to 1 and C4 10-11pm , 3 to 1. BOTS also beat C4 in it's slot 3 to 1.

ITV and the digital channels combined had a smaller 16-34 share.

The retention of viewers from BB to BOTS, despite it's midnight finish, was almost 35%.

Woooo! Hopefully it will stay strong!

Carol Vorderman shaded BB hard today which confused me because she acts like she watches it.. she prob does.

Silly old hags. :bored:

No I meant that it's literally the same as CBB9's launch rating.

Very Impressed with the Launch ratings, just show's that a longer break away from the show and a bit of publicity can stop the decline in the ratings. I hope it can cling on to those ratings for the duration of the series and maintain a good average. But to avoid appointment I'm going to predict 2.2 million for tonight.

Flop!

:amazed: I knew it still had it. :worship: Great ratings.

5 mins breakdown of the last 3 launches.... last night is in the first collumn. People thought that viewers will fall throughout, actually quite the opposite. In teh breakdown you can see when the ads were on (as there was a decrease), but excl the ads, in the second hour, CBB was constantly above 4m. When Speidi went in, there were over 4m still watching. BARB takes away the ad breaks and adds the recordings, so I reckon an official of 4m is possible!

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