[Will.]

Since there's only around two weeks left until it launches, thought we could discuss.

[Will.]

Last year CBB launched with 2.22M.

[Maxxie.]

I think maybe a little more?? Regular BB's had good promotion and has had good things said about it, like BB14 and the launch a few days after that got 3.2m, even in the summer.

[Maxxie.]

And since this series is 300k behind that but has been getting similar reception, I'd say the launch could optimistically be around 2.9m maybe late 2.8s

[Jack_]

delete it

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

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Shut it!

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by Will.

Shut it!

[Will.]

Yeah I think it will launch well.

[Cal.]

Launch will be 1.9/2 million I think.

[jackc1806]

Might scrape a twoey

[jackc1806]

Which is ridiculous considering they're spending millions for an extra 500-600k viewers

[*mazedsalv**]

Bump! Sorry Will, didn't see this!

[*mazedsalv**]

From CBB8 onwards, this is the OFFICIAL averages of their series:

CBB8- 2.8m
CBB9- 2.6m
CBB10- 2.2m
CBB11- 2.8m
CBB12- 2.3m
CBB13- 3.1m
CBB14- 2.1m
CBB15- 3.1m
CBB16- 1.9m
CBB17- 2.8m

I've highlighted the SUMMER series as that is what it is best to compare this series to.

And here are the LAUNCH overnights and officials from CBB12 onwards (i ill put the officials in brackets)

CBB12- 2.83m (3.18m)
CBB13- 3.40m (3.69m)
CBB14- 2.36m (2.75m)
CBB15- 3.27m (3.64m)
CBB16- 2.22m (2.66m)
CBB17- 2.80m (3.30m)

Yet again, I have highlighted the SUMMER series as those are the series we will be comparing this series to. I personally don't think we will even go anywhere near even the summer series bar CBB16. I think the only comparable here would be CBB16 because the summer series have run out of steam, whereas the winter ones haven't.

I predict 1.8m overnight for tonight (2.2m official).

If we are to dissect further, CBB16 launched with almost 1m more than BB16 final finished, so if we do that, then this series will launch at 2.5m, which to me looks way too high.

[Will.]

I think it will do well

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally Posted by Will.

I think it will do well

You reckon? Hmm, I'm not sure whether a 2 day break is better or the longer break is better? They both have pros and cons.

A positive is that BB17 ended 220k up on BB16, so the reveal of CBB starting would have been seen by more people, and another positive is that people are probably less exhausted with a shorter BB17 and a better received BB17 compared to a longer, badly received BB16.

[BB-Germany]

Last year was a different situation. There was a 5 week break between BB16 and CBB16. They basically had to restart the whole campaign whereas this year with that little gap between the series, it should be easier to hold BB's figures with adding some extra for CBB.

[Jake.]

Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch: 2.24m (12.9%) excluding +1

[Jake.]

Now, this has really surprised me given the lower launch figure for BB17. I believe the figure is higher than CBB16's and could be higher than CBB14's (which got 2.2 and 2.35 respectively I believe)

[Will.]

Wow that's really good! I think thats a lot higher than last year

[Will.]

CBB16 got 2.22M including +1.

[Jake.]

The share is also very impressive

[Will.]

Oh yeah didn't look at the share, really good.

[*mazedsalv**]

Very good. Looks to be around 2.4m with +1

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by *mazedsalv**

Very good. Looks to be around 2.4m with +1

That would beat CBB14's overnight as well, wouldn't it?

[Will.]

Impressive that it's beat the last 2 years of Summer CBB launches.