No doubt in 2016 they will go back to a June launch

I still prefer it to last years series I found that very hard to watch at times

Lol bb16 nothing like bb4 I've heard it all :)

Hopefully

I find the housemates very similar to the BB4 cast. That's just my opinion.

BB4 actually had more ratings then this series so far.

Big Brother 4 had good ratings. 4.6 million. Only BB3 and BB5 had significantly better ratings.

By the way, the opening night of the first Big Brother series on Channel 5 (CBB 8) drew an audience of 5.27 million

It seems they have managed to alienate 4 million viewers since then. It is worth remembering all the things that were promised with the Channel 5 reboot of the show - in particular the return of the red button live coverage, which never happened and which is all anyone could talk about for years.

There's only so many times you can let the fans of the show down before you drive them away.

More to do with the fact there was heavy promotion and a lot of casual viewers- probably tuning in to see if Charlie Sheen entered (which was promised by the Star) than the prospect of red button coverage (which was inpossible anyway because 5 don't carry a red button service)

BB4 had good ratings. But lost the additional 1.2m that BB3 gained for being a good series.

BB5 gained about 0.5m of that back.

Well they haven't exactly lost 4 million viewers.

The latest CBB in January had 3.1 million viewers on average, and that's up on the first CBB series (CBB8, that you quote above) which only got 2.8 million average.

The first ever episode on C5 was obviously going to be the highest ever on Channel 5 given the hype of Big Brother moving to another channel. The second episode lost 2 million viewers, and from there the episodes were between the 2 million - 3 million mark anyway, which is pretty much how CBB performs now.

Civilian Big Brother on the other hand seems to be doing worse this year in terms of overnight figures. But on the whole Big Brother has stayed steady with viewing figures on Channel 5, even BB15 didn't do that bad with the final series average.

I remember the mass disappointment online when Charlie Sheen didn't enter after all the rumours, and we were promised a 'big baywatch star' or whatever and ended up with Pamela Bach Hasselhoff :laugh:

Any channel can do the red button service. Channel 5 used to do it for The Farm.

It was heavily promoted and it was the return of a show that died on Channel 4. No one is expecting them to keep 5 million viewers, but it shows the potential it had to interest viewers and maintain them if they show had ever been done right, which it never has been.

Last years show earned them such bad will in regards to the normal series, it's hardly surprising.

But what is perhaps even more surprising is the refusal of "fans" to admit how shoddy the production values of this programme are. Do people really look at the website, the twitter updates, the silly twists and stupid tasks and think this is the best they can do?

And the selection of housemates is actually awful. The girls are all more mature than most of the guys and treat them like little brothers. What sort of dynamic was that ever going to create?

I don't think anyone refuses that the production is shoddy. People have complained on here for years about C5's Big Brother production values :laugh:

Sure. But BB3 and BB5 were probably the 2 best ever series. BB2, BB4 and BB6 all got 4.6 million. BB7 was going to do better but went down when Nikki got evicted.

BB7 averaged 4.7

It was up at about 4.8 until week 8 (Nikki's eviction). Then its viewing figures dropped in week 9 to 4.2 and 4.1 in week 10.

The biggest drop off in BB viewers during the show was following the removal of Emily in BB8. The first week had an average of 4.7 million viewers and then the week following Emily's removal had an average of 3.1 million. There may have been other reasons for this (I think the first ever series of Hell's Kitchen was on ITV) but I do remember people thinking Emily had been used to atone for the criticism they received during the CBB with Shilpa.

If they had any sense they'd do any big twists this week (which it looks like they might be doing), what with it being half term and possibly picking up viewers after BGT has finished. The ratings might improve.

They brought back the 2 hour feed from midnight for BB14 in the third or fourth week as well.

780k (4.9%)

Hopefully without +1, awful tho.

Below 1 million for the foreseeable future then by the looks of it

I'm guessing we're due officials today too so hopefully they will be an improvement on the overnights

Dropping faster than Helen's knickers.

:umm2: I dread to think how low they'll be by the end of the series

There appears to be a major ratings crisis will it be pulled

I dont think channel 5 will pull it unless it goes under 500k then were in trouble