Hmm, its still ok.

The target for the series should be to beat BB10 and CBB6. So to get 3.3m+.

Looks good for now, as 2.4m was the OFFICIAL average for BB10 and 3.3m was th OFFICIAL average for CBB6.
Basically the officials of last nights show will be about 3.5m which is good!

Basically the show will be considered a hit if it beats last years summer and celeb series.
Officials normally add around 300,000 onto overnights.

So if every show gets 3m WITH +1, we can beat the CBB6's offical of 3.3m.

I was expecting it to be low because of the snow, so I'm not surprised. It's still not awful, though.

3.0 isn't too bad, esp with +1 etc.

OK, any good work done this week will be hampered by the scheduling for the next two weeks.

We begin this week with a later but consistent 10pm slot, until Friday when as expected the eviction show is 9pm and 10.35pm.

And then it goes all over the place. Saturday and Sunday is 9pm (fair enough, the usual weekend slots), Monday it's back to 10pm, Tuesday 9pm, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 10pm, then 9pm and 10.35pm on Friday.

Then the next week it's Saturday 9pm, Sunday 8pm, Monday 8pm and 10.20pm (60 and 30 minute shows, presumably an eviction), Tuesday 10pm, Wednesday 10.20pm, Thursday 10pm and Friday back to 9pm and 10.35pm.


So even if it gets off to a good start, like last year C4 are then sacrificing viewers by not giving it any kind of consistency.

Next week with Tuesday at 9pm they can just get away with, everyone knows BB is on at 9pm or 10pm. Wednesday at 8pm is daft but unavoidable due to Slumdog Millionaire but they should have put it at 10.20pm and ran the film an hour earlier, at least with a 10.20pm slot theres some degree of consistency. But the daft thing is, they're repeating the film on Sunday 17th and BB gets bumped out the way for it!! They should have just had the one premiere on the Sunday and could've got pretty high figures for it. Plus now the BB episode that night is up against the tail end of Dancing on Ice.

The following Monday [eviction] is probably a bit unavoidable, although ideally they should have one long show but they like to prop shows up using Big Brother even though it has no effect anymore.

I hate Big Brother at 8pm, I try to watch it at 9pm on +1 but its always too censored.

They just revealed the Week 3 schedule, and that is horrible...
Theres like 8pm's going round everywhere!

also theres a show that finished at around 11:50pm... a bit late.

Only positives is that Sunday could do quite well at 9pm... if DOI isnt the competition, doesnt it end before 9? And Tuesday's 9pm for next week will be good as well.

I just hope it can maintain an overnight average of 3m.

Channel 4 now know theres a fair bit of interest left in the show even with their best attempts to sabotage it in the past couple of years. So now reverting to dirty tactics and giving it the Brookside treatment (which was ironically shoved out the way for Big Brother). I can see another ratings meltdown coming on now after a fairly good start.

exactly!!
they should stick to 9pm all the time IMO!! except for the second friday show of course.

For the days when they physically can't put it on at 9pm or 10pm due to films or whatever, they should just skip a day like I'm a Celeb does. Or better still just stick it on at 8pm every day if they want rid that badly.

Okay tonight is another night like yesterday.

BB up against the news which last night got 7m+ on BBC1 an 5m+ on ITV because of people wanting to know whats happening with the snow.

Could be the same tonight. Ratings should be higher than yesterday in general for all shows... but will it be for CBB? Or will it drop further?

Generally, tonight there should be even more people watching TV than yesterday as the conditions have got worse and people unable to drive.

What do you think?

Dancing on Ice performance shows end at 8.30pm, with Wild at Heart on before the results show at 9.30pm. Really BB would be best off either out of the way at 10pm, or at 8.30pm directly against Wild at Heart (and clear of DoI).

I think some people who tuned into the news last night may be put off tonight with actual political news now dominating the programme, and not being quite as viewer friendly as lovely snow everywhere!

Do you think politics will be featured heavily in the news?
I fear that CBB will drop again, while all the others see boosts.

Theres only so many times people can sit through clips of snow falling and cars unable to move etc. I doubt it will have as big an impact tonight. I know on ITV, Mary wasn't in Manchester anymore so thats pretty much saying it isn't as important today as it was yesterday.

Hmm maybe.
As long as it stays above 3m, all is good :)

It probably will or be around there providing it starts on time. I think it started at about 5 past last night which probably dragged it down

By the way Tuesday night INCLUDING +1 got 3.2m

Last night got 3.02m NOT INCLUDING +1.... will be about 3.2-3.3m when +1 is added.
There was a 50,000 rise from the night before.

4 shows in a row getting 3m+ EXCLUDING +1 is very impressive :D, only 3 shows in BB10 got 3m+ (Launch, Finale, Karly's eviction). so we have already beaten it.

but this is a celeb series, silly comparing it to BB10. Compared to last year's series it's about the same

As expected really, the real test comes tomorrow night when up against DOI then again in the next 2 weeks with the daft schedule changes. it will probably go down to about 2.5m then

Its higher than CBB6 slightly.
On Inside BB they have put the official ratings for the first 4 days of CBB6, and the episodes of CBB7 have beaten them (and will beat them in the officials).

Yeah thats ridiculous but i reckon +1 will get quite a lot at 10pm tomorrow night as on C4 its on the 9pm slot.

Whats on BBC1 tomorrow? If theres not much competition, then all we have to worry about is DOI (which should get lower than the performances as its just an introduction).

If Pamela or someone very famous DOES go in, then the second show will get quite high ratings even though its on 10:35pm-11:05pm. But theres no eviction tomorrow though i dont think, so someone must be going in.

Or they automatically vote someone out (the housemates)

Inside BB saying that CBB7 is so far averaging 4.0m... 700,000 up on what CBB6 was averaging by their first Wednesday show.

Last night including +1 got 3.2m.

Ratings so far of the overnights:

Launch Sunday: 6.2m (22%)
Monday: 3.5m (19%)
Tueaday: 3.2m (15%)
Wednesday: 3.2m (16%)

Wednesday was up about 50,000 on Tuesday, as it was so nearly to be 3.3m. Also the share % was up 1% from the night before. So a little rise is good :)

If Pamela does go in then they would be better off telling the public.. that was news can spread and they could easily get 4m+

I'm still a little dissapointed at the ratings after the good launch figures and snow
but still after BB10 these figures are very impressive, hopefully it will continue to do well because its not a bad series

So far I think its the best series since CBB4 (inc summer BB)