[Rob!]

Like....that's the launch.

Daniel and Jack are going to have strokes when they see this

[Rob!]

The debate got 4.1m. I dunno how much that would have eaten into BB...it's hardly the same type of audience.

[LukeB]

The ratings are bad

But they didn't promote it enough, i had messages from people saying wtf big brother is on etc

So it was obvious it was going to be low

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by LukeB

The ratings are bad

But they didn't promote it enough, i had messages from people saying wtf big brother is on etc

So it was obvious it was going to be low

i mean people have been saying "huh it's back?" for years and the launches still did *ok*. even with a better ad campaign you can't let everyone in the country know it's on, i think people just don't care anymore.

[MB.]

Hopefully that's just the casual viewers who stop watching after the launch anyway who've given up on it this year... because otherwise, so long BB18

[Rob!]

I mean I know this doesn't help us but apparently Eastenders was the highest rating of the day yesterday and that only got 5.93m which really isn't that high.
Still, there's no spinning that figure.

[MB.]

How does the share compare to previous launches?

[Rob!]

I would imagine not well

[MB.]

Well bugger

[Oaker]

Let's hope this series does a BB14 and brings in more viewers as it goes

(Even though this is really unlikely)

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Oaker

Let's hope this series does a BB14 and brings in more viewers as it goes

(Even though this is really unlikely)

Isn't that what BB16 did?

[RichardG]

c5 to bring back helen again?

[Oaker]

BB16 actually did get a boost in viewers after 4in4out, I just checked

[Oaker]

Let's just hope this a good series and not worry too much about the ratings tbh

[Samm]

Could of been better if they promoted it more, but meh you see overnight figures for shows dropping more and more every year, it's the officials that matter the most

[MB.]

-asks why people even watch BB if they dare to criticise it or acknowledge that it isn't doing brilliantly well-

-goes on to immediately criticise BOTS-

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Originally Posted by MB.

-asks why people even watch BB if they dare to criticise it or acknowledge that it isn't doing brilliantly well-

-goes on to immediately criticise BOTS-

No I wonder why people LAUGH at it doing bad and BOTS is a different show.

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

No I wonder why people LAUGH at it doing bad and BOTS is a different show.

i'm not laughing? i'm not happy that the ratings are poor? do you want me to post a crying emoji instead, would that make you feel better?

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Originally Posted by RichardG

i'm not laughing? i'm not happy that the ratings are poor? do you want me to post a crying emoji instead, would that make you feel better?

Oh sorry I was confused by you posting LOL!

"lol how long before they axe it?"

[RichardG]

perhaps you shouldn't take everything so seriously, i wouldn't still be watching the show after so many years and posting about it on a dedicated forum if i didn't care about it would i?

[Rob!]

I saw the last ten minutes or so of BOTS last night before the live feed and it was absolutely awful. Poor Debbie McGee having to deal with the death of her husband and Tiffany in the space of a few months

[crazycolaist]

Official will get it to 2m we hope

[crazycolaist]

does overnights incl recordings or is that officials?

[Rob!]

+1 apparently took it up to 1.6m. It looks better but it's still dire. God knows where it's going to go from here.

[*mazedsalv**]

According to Broadcast:

BB launched with 1.6m (8.4%) including +1, down on last year's 1.8m (10%), but was up on the channel's 980k (5.5%) slot average.

It's poor but not as bad now the +1 is in there.