[Matt]

We have a ratings thread for most other BBs, so why not have one for BBUS?

Post all the ratings for both American and UK broadcasts in this thread

[KKBL]

oh i was going to make one of these.i dont think BBUSA will get anymore then 500,000 over here infact i think wed be lucky if it we got 300,000.whats the ratings history for BB ratings in the US?

[Redmond]

It usually gets around 8-9 million in the US.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by Redmond
It usually gets around 8-9 million in the US.

thats more then i expected.but its not nearly as popular is BBUK with ratings

[Billy]

Yeah over in America its not really that popular its like any other programme over there, but in Britain its like a big event.

[Redmond]

Originally posted by *Cathal*

thats more then i expected.but its not nearly as popular is BBUK with ratings

Well BBUK only gets around 3-4 million viewers, but obviously the UK isn't as big as America. But BBUSA is still pretty popular show and does fairly well in the ratings, for example Lost gets around 10-11 million viewers, so that kind of puts things in contrast.

It's only the really big shows like American Idol that get around 30 million viewers.

[Wasted]

I wonder if the ratings will be different to what they're normally like since it's on earlier this year.

[KKBL]

excluding BB8 and BB3 BBUK gets 4.5 - 5.0 on average out of 60 million and BBUSA gets 9 million out of 300 million so im just saying its not as popular.and yeah i know most shows in the US never pass 20 million

[geoking66]

Well every show pales in comparison to the not-so-mighty Super Bowl. It got 140m viewers this year.

[Matt]

"Preliminary ratings have been posted for Big Brother 9 and they aren’t pretty. American Idol dominated the night and easily winning it. In the second hour of Idol, the Biggest Loser came in second at 4.9/7 share (compared to Idol’s 17.7/26 share). Big Brother 9 was third for the 9PM slot at 4.6/7.

Don’t understand what that means? Me either. But we should be getting a press release soon detailing how great Big Brother 9 did when in fact it lost hard to American Idol.

Who’s decision was it to put it up against the juggernaut that is Idol? And on two nights! We’ll see how this plays out in the long run. Note to producers: Stick with Summer editions of BB."

BigBrotherAccess.com

[KKBL]

i think it mean it got 4.9 million

[Redmond]

Those ratings on BBAccess are wrong, those a shares not ratings.


Ratings are now in:

“Although this first winter edition of Big Brother (Viewers: #3: 7.33 million; A18-49: #3, 2.7/ 6) dipped by 4.39 million viewers from the NCIS encore, it did manage to build by 17 percent among adults 18-49. So, there is still interest in the normally summer guilty pleasure.”

That is just 0.7 down on last years premier and seeing as it was going up against American Idol this year those ratings are great. It increased as well in the 18-49 bracket. Good stuff, hopefully this keeps up and CBS make sure it's a 3 month series.

[MarkWaldorf]

4.6/7 is about 7 Million, yeah.

[Wasted]

Didn't know it was up against AI, that is tough competition. Thanks for posting them.

[Matt]

UK (E4) ratings for Thursday 14th
21:00 - Big Brother USA - 328,600
22:00 - Big Brother USA - 302,200

[Spike]

Good ratings, I was expecting alot lower than that

[Sam!]

I watched all of the first one and like half of the second

[Redmond]

Better ratings than I expected for E4. Seeing as it was hardly advertised and not many people knew about it, I was expecting less than 100,000. So yeah 300,000 odd is very good.

[Tom]

I've just finished watching both of these on Sky+ and I liked it but it was very OTT and sensationalised. I don't think I'm too keen on the gameplayer format and I don't think I want it to come over to Britain.

I did expect the ratings to be about 150,000.

[dtd2]

Just to put ratings in perspective with comparison for the rest of the programs on the night.

For premiere night.

Overall for the night the top 5.

#1 American Idol 29.9 million Fox
#2 NCIS (encore) 11.7 million CBS
#3 Law & Order SVU (encore) 8.3 million NBC
#4 Biggest Loser 7.5 million NBC
#5 Big Brother 7.3 million CBS

Top 5 in demos for the night.

#1 American Idol 12.2 Fox
#2 Biggest Loser 3.0 NBC
#3 Big Brother 2.7 CBS
#4 Law & Order: SVU 2.6 NBC
#5 Jericho 2.5 CBS

Wednesday was bad though. It had to air head to against American Idol (FOX), Deal or No Deal (NBC), & America's Next Top Model (CW) & all of them are the most watched show on each of their networks.

Top 10 for the night.

1) American Idol 24.59m FOX
2) Moment of Truth 14.47m FOX
3) Deal or No Deal 10.99m NBC
4) Law & Order 10.74m NBC
5) Law & Order: Criminal Intent 9.07m NBC
6) Supernanny 8.80m ABC
7) Criminal Minds 7.75m CBS Repeat
8) CSI: NY 7.66m CBS Repeat
9) Big Brother 5.81m CBS
10) Wife Swap 5.38m ABC

For the demos
1. American Idol 9.8 Fox
2. Moment of Truth 6.2 Fox
3. Supernanny 3.6 ABC
4. Law & Order 3.0 NBC
5. Deal or No Deal 2.7 NBC
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2.5 NBC
7. CSI: NY & Big Brother 2.1 CBS

[Billy]

You guys get Deal or No Deal !

[dtd2]

Yes & it's huge here. Howie Mandel hosts it. They still haven't given out the million, but until someone find its they keep adding more cases with $1 million in it & I think they're up to like half of them being million dollar cases.

[Captain.Remy]

Wow I'm quite surprised it get good ratings !!!

[dtd2]

What Big Brother or Deal or No Deal?

[Ruth*Star]

I'm Surprised DOND gets like 10million over there, it would never get that much here.