[Brekkie]

Any news yet on how much BB raised for charity this year, and therefore a guess of how many votes were taken over the series.


I know last year it was pathetically low - around £250,000 for charity which equated to just 2.5m votes over the entire series, well down on previous years where at least 10m votes could be expected over the run of the series.

[*mazedsalv**]

And the BB3 finale got 9 million votes on that night alone!!! Thats amazing.

Im curious how many people voted this year, it must of beat last years total.

[Brekkie]

Doesn't help that this year for most of the final lines were closed.

Due to the delayed broadcast (why it takes 10 mins to edit out potential bad language I don't know, especially when the more sensitive/prudish US media manage with a 7-second delay!) the lines close around 10 mins before Darnell was evicted, then only reopened for a minute after Darnell's and Rex's eviction, which was hardly worth it, before being open for just over an hour to vote for the final two.

The voting was so close and the numbers so low it's not unreasonable to suggest that the final five might have exited in a different order if the show had been 100% live and the lines only closed for a couple of minutes at a time. Back in the early days they never actually closed the lines - just the line of the person in last place. They'd never get away with that now though considering for a couple of minutes at a time people could be voting for someone who was already out of the running.

[ange7]

hmm .... Rachel said she would give 10000 to charity....did that ever happen?... or was she pressured into that by the evil Davina hehe

[Brekkie]

Anyone heard any news about this yet?

[Tom]

Originally posted by Brekkie
Doesn't help that this year for most of the final lines were closed.

Due to the delayed broadcast (why it takes 10 mins to edit out potential bad language I don't know, especially when the more sensitive/prudish US media manage with a 7-second delay!) the lines close around 10 mins before Darnell was evicted, then only reopened for a minute after Darnell's and Rex's eviction, which was hardly worth it, before being open for just over an hour to vote for the final two.

The voting was so close and the numbers so low it's not unreasonable to suggest that the final five might have exited in a different order if the show had been 100% live and the lines only closed for a couple of minutes at a time. Back in the early days they never actually closed the lines - just the line of the person in last place. They'd never get away with that now though considering for a couple of minutes at a time people could be voting for someone who was already out of the running.

This year they've had to do it on a delay because of silly scheduling on Channel 4's part. If It was scheduled for 9pm-10.30pm instead of two separate shows they could get away with a 1-5 minute delay but the compound has to be cleared of the public by 11pm.