[*mazedsalv**]

I completely understand that some people are a bit "meh" about the rating, yes, it;s lowest CBB winter launch, but l think people are forgetting how big a hill BB has had to climb since last summer. They were in a diabolical state in the summer. The civ series was under 700k few times. It ended with 900k. 2 days later, ratings doubled for CBB launch to 1.8m. The series averaged around 1.4m nightly. It ended with 1.6m. Now last night started half a million up on that final.

I get it's low for winter CBB but it's climbed a massive amount from 700k to 2.1m. Anyone expecting it to be in the higher 2s are deluded. It's like expecting X Factor to launch with 10m after it's sub 5m ratings this series orEE to miraculously reach 10m again.

With CBB it's a 'compare to last year' sort of thing. Not a 'but it got 5m s few years ago!' thing.

Speaking of launch to 1st show, last winter's series went from 2.32m to 1.92m in the one night. I wonder how much tonight will retain, i think it will drop a lot, to around 1.4m, but get around 1.7m for the men's entrance on Friday.