Now imagine what it could have done with proper promotion, even more impressive given the decent competition.

Really good :D

Didn't expect anywhere near that! Especially given the lack of promotion.

Ahhhhh theress still life left in the old dogg.

Twitter is a strong promotional tool. Especially when a few of the HMs are popular to the demographic on there. Good stuff.

January 2012
Saturday #1: 1.94m (7.9%)
Saturday #2: 1.71m (7.2%)
Saturday #3: 1.59m (6.8%)

January 2013
Saturday #1: 1.89m (8.5%)
Saturday #2: 1.91m (8.7%)
Saturday #3: 1.57m (7.2%)

If tonight managed to top 2m, it would be higher than any Saturday rating on Ch5! (Maybe apart from the first Sat of CBB8). And weirdly, I think it actually potentially could! Twitter was buzzing still despite being a Saturday, it seemed a lot were watching on +1.

Going down to below 2m would be a pretty massive drop from 3.4 wouldn't it?

Gutted if it doesn't get 2 million for such a good episode.

Plus isn't it on at 9pm tomorrow so most of the Previously stuff will be blocked out with all the nudity and finger bang talk haha.

I usually hate the previously bit but I feel people need to see what happened to get them hooked as so much happened in 1 night!

Well, if they're smart, they'll do some previously clips in the episode after about ten past 9. Plus, I think they can blur her boobs or something.

Tonights episode was easily the best 1st episode of any CBB series on C5, i loved it. I hope a vast majority of the viewers that watched the launch stuck around. It deservers 2.5/3m at least imo lol

@TVRatingsUK: Episode 2 of #CelebrityBigBrother averaged 1.86m/8.8% at 10pm, 1.5m down on Friday's launch show.

It is a Saturday it will most likely go up on Sunday and Monday

Does that include +1

It's annoying but a nice share. It's around the same as the other Jan Saturdays.

January 2012
Saturday #1: 1.94m (7.9%)
Saturday #2: 1.71m (7.2%)
Saturday #3: 1.59m (6.8%)

January 2013
Saturday #1: 1.89m (8.5%)
Saturday #2: 1.91m (8.7%)
Saturday #3: 1.57m (7.2%)

Jan 2014
Saturday #1: 1.86m (8.8%)

Btw,does not have anything to do with ratings when is the next BB contract.

A better share than the other two past Saturdays, can't complain, just means that less were in watching tv

Up against Sherlock and Bad Teacher tonight. Sherlock got like 9m+ last week didn't it? And BT being in BB demo. It has to surpass 2m tonight!

[QUOTE=Sam current deal ends this year but fully expecting c5 to sign a new 2-3 year deal very soon around april we should hear something:)

Yeah, DS has Sherlock as 9.18m (33.8%).

1.68 million (8.1%) ex. +1, which added 166.9k, 1.2%.

Big drop.

Bad luck with the scheduling.

Tonight clashing with Sherlock is a complete joke! What were they thinking?

Nothing unusual the same what it usually is on c5 for a Saturday:)

Marcus said on Twitter another great day today and it's going to be hard to fit everything in...so people will speak about it more on Twitter if it's more of Jasmine's antics and people will be intrigued. I genuinely think we're heading for some high c5 ratings.

Tonight I can see there being low figures due to Sherlock on BBC One. Although from Monday hopefully some big ratings will start coming thick and fast.

Why the hell did they go up against Sherlock? lol

#CelebrityBigBrother continued with 2.33m/8.5%, 190k up on last January's equivalent Sunday night episode.

Nice rise despite being up against Sherlock (which got 8.8m) and Bad Teacher which has the same demo audience as BB.

Also great to see it 190k up on CBB11 first Sunday. Hopefully with less competition, it will climb throughout the week.

Yeah, a good rise.. what did Bad Teacher get, if you know?

The surprise rating of the night I think. It got 2.46m incl +1. Pretty sure that is one of the highest premiers in quite a long time! I expected it to be around 1.5m. Probably means without BT and Sherlock tonight, the CBB ratings should increase.

Not bad but with such a good series I would love to see it hitting over 2.5 nightly.

so 2.0 without plus 1 imo was probably down to Sherlock which got 8.8 million.

Bad teacher got 2.45 (massive +1 figure of 546,000)

You forget that people hardley watch channel 5 or wouldint give it the time of day, i only ever watch 5 when bb's on channel 5 is still that ****ty channel, for me its improved alot with big brother but i dont think the channel deservs the show.

3.4 million still watched on launch.

Channel 5 has more viewers than people think.

You would be surprised with how many people watch C5. They show some good American dramas, the odd good documentary and a lot of decent films from time to time. They are a bit like a younger C4 (maybe even C4 in its current form), they have the main leading show (Big Brother) and the odd decent show now and again, with films and documentaries in the middle.

Big Brother and Wentworth Prison are the only shows on watch on Channel 5 but it has some one off stuff I have liked such as on Benefits and Proud and Obsessive and Compulisve Collectors. I dont understand the hate even if it isn't on par with Channel 4 although over 2013 there was less on C4 I liked.

I would predict around 2.50m for tonight. Which would get to around 2.8m-2.9m officially which would either match or beat CBB8/CBB11 2.8m official! So we should hope for overnights of 2.5m for CBB13 to be the highest series to date on Channel 5 (BB and CBB).

UK TV Ratings ‏@TVRatingsUK 24s
#CelebrityBigBrother averaged 2.43m/9.7% last night, 100,000 up on Sunday night's episode. #CBB

C4 smashed BB with 4.3m watching Benefit Street.

Confident with less competition we will see it at 2.5m

That's a great share too! Channel 4 did incredibly well last night.Tonight could we see 2.5m?

What is it up against tonight?

2nd episode of The 739 on BBC1
Stargazing Live on BBC2
The Lying Game Crimes that Fooled Britain on ITV (Tuesdays are seen as flop night on ITV)
The Taste on Ch4

Ah to be fair, The Taste could do very well as well as obviously the second ep of The 739

The Taste could skew older though