It's nothing to worry about, Saturdays are a tough night in television since BBC1 and ITV pretty much totally dominate which is why the Saturday BB shows always rank pretty low since everyone's either out or watching the main channels. I'm guessing that the ratings will pick up again now and stick to the millions range and then dip again on saturdays. Low ratings only mean trouble when they are consistent and generally BB has been C5's best rated show currently on the air.

tonight bb up against spooks and downton abbey 9pm

I'm guessing that less than 1m will be the norm for BB from this week onwards ..... mainly because it's no longer "fashionable" to watch ..... ;)

Last night: 1.2m (4.6%)

Decent... Downtown Abbey was the focal point for many last night, myself included.

It wll be 1.4 plus this week i think. It had alot of competition last night.

Yeah I think it will stick at 1.3/4 for the rest of the week, especially tomorrow as I think it's only competition is Shameless?

I am surprised at that,was expecting 0.8 or something around that.

Wish they were higher but not really bad for a Sunday.

4.6% is the lowest share ever?

Proving once again that Big Brother loves the 9:00pm slot,but as usual Channel 5 want it cancelled by keep changing its time slots all the ****ing time.

Big Brother: 1.4m (8.0%) for what was a weaker more kiddie aimed type highlight show.

Hmm ratings haven't been great then, if it stays around 1.4/5m then I think they would be happy, I know that basically any ratings above a couple of hundred thousand are better than C5 normally get but BB was such a big investment I'd imagine they'd be dissapointed if it starts to drag in less than a million viewers on a regular basis

The producers know their demographics, then ..... :joker:

Slight improvement over the past couple of nights, I thought it was a great highlights show... and it deserved a slight ratings boost.

Should get around 1.44 tonight with the new series of Later Live and Shameless.

So about 50% of the audience for CBB8 then?

Not good!

At least it's improvement from the ****ty ratings from the days before.

1.46m for BB last night.

Slowly improving... I think it will stick at this during the week... get a decent ratings for the eviction shows... 1.7-1.9

and be abysmal on Saturday's

So when are we getting the officials?

Apparently Tuesday got 1.6 not 1.4

Wednesday 21st September Ratings
22:00- Big Brother: 1.3m (7.7%)

Last nights episode deserved alot more.

Oooh and it takes a slight dip again... I do think it'll be back around 1.4-1.5 tonight and the eviction should get a fair deal of people watching.

This series deserves ratings 3 million plus in my opinion.

If this was on straight after BB5 it would have averaged about 4.9 i reckon.

Its awesome

Shame it dipped, last night was a really good episode

Channel 4 are slaying Channel 5 in the ratings.

Channel 4

Channel 4's Location, Location, Location leapt to 2.63m (11.4%) at 8pm (+1: 200k). Grand Designs continued with 2.61m (10.9%) at 9pm (+1: 308k

Channel 5

Emergency Bikers dipped to 1.03m (4.5%) for Channel 5 at 8pm, before Law & Order: Criminal Intent lured 818k (3.4%).

Big Brother fetched 1.36m (7.8%) in the 10pm hour, before Big Brother's Bit on the Side notched up 170k (1.8%) for 5*.



Overall, ITV1 led primetime with 21.9% (+1: 1%), ahead of BBC One's 17.6%, Channel 4's 8.7% (+1: 0.9%), BBC Two's 5.6%, and Channel 5's 4.2%.