[Pronshi]

Celebrity Big Brother shed 500,000 viewers for a second consecutive episode yesterday, rating with 2.2 million viewers.

Yesterday’s highlights show pulled in 2.2m (12%) at 10pm over one hour on Channel 5.

This was the smallest audience for a Sunday episode in Celebrity Big Brother’s history, with the previous lowest rating for a Sunday show being 2.6m (10%) for the final Sunday highlights show of CBB6 in 2009. Yesterday’s overnight rating was also lower than all but one Sunday rating from last year’s summer series

Im really getting worried.... this is the fourth night in a row, and it was a sunday too.

[Brad.]

Probably because of the later start time of 10pm?

[Ryan.]

Awww. Hopefully it stays around that then or rises a wee bit.

[Red Moon]

Early days yet. It still might have a little bit more of a way to fall before it settles down but the later start wouldn't have helped nor all the chopping and changing of the times it is on. Hopefully with the show getting more interesting and the press coverage that might generate we might even see a little rise soon and that fall won't occur. All I know is that the people I talk to that are viewers rather than big fans are loving the show.

[ElProximo]

It's not going to get better unless they can gamble big money on a few more big names (like a Sheen) and get some physical violence in there.

This is even worse for the regular season since (in this case) one is just kind of rolling into the other.

Possibly wrap-up CBB asap and delay launch of the regular season for a few weeks or even months?
'relaunch the relaunch' and maybe at the most opportune time (least competition) and hope it grabs (and keeps) traction?

[happybbfan]

CBB has only just started and should be creating a buzz for viewers no matter what time the highlights are on.If viewers really wanted to watch they would have

[Smithy]

It was a sunday and at 10pm

[MTVN]

Bit of a shame, will probably end up dropping a bit more and the series will average about 1.5m or something like that

[Saph]

is CBB usually less viewed than BB or the other way around?

[joeysteele]

It will slip and rise for eviction night as with previous BBs, over 2 million is still a success, many people believed that wouldn't be reached even on opening night, let alone midway through the first week.

[Pronshi]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

is CBB usually less viewed than BB or the other way around?

CBB always has more ratings than regular BB
it used to have the same or less before 2007

I hope its because channel 5 where idiots and stuck it on at 10pm

[Saph]

Originally Posted by Pronshi

CBB always has more ratings than regular BB
it used to have the same or less before 2007

I hope its because channel 5 where idiots and stuck it on at 10pm

Okay I hope so to, id be embarressed if it didnt do well

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by Smithy

It was a sunday and at 10pm

Probably. Plus SATC.

[Ryan.]

I think the series average will be around 2.5 million which is very respectable.

[Marc]

That's because it's pretty bad.

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Ryan.

I think the series average will be around 2.5 million which is very respectable.

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[Black Dagger]

I still think they are respectable figures, did they beat C4 in that timeslot last night?

[Red Moon]

I was looking a bit deeper into this and looking at the percentage share rather than the numbers and although the rating are falling the drop is not as much as the pure figures suggest. It is more to do with less people watching TV on Sunday than on Saturday.

Here are the percentage audience share figures for the show so far:

22.13% Thursday (launch night)
14.75% Friday
12.10% Saturday
11.80% Sunday

Notice the percentage drop between Saturday and Sunday isn't that big, just 0.30%, but to put this all in context the normal percentage audience share for the same slot on Channel 5 is just 6.00%. The Show has effectiveness doubled their normal audience share.

[CaudleHalbard]

In Channel 5 terms it looks like a big success, so far.

[Red Moon]

Originally Posted by Pronshi

CBB always has more ratings than regular BB
it used to have the same or less before 2007

That is partly due to the fact because more people watch TV over the winter than they do over the summer. It is one of the reasons why looking at the numbers doesn't give you the whole picture. Looking at the percentage share give you a idea to what is really going on.

[bananarama]

Ratings slipping. Not surprising. Sundays episode was the worst BB episode I have ever seen in all its years.

Mainly due to the maniac editing which has changed BB from a fly on the wall perception to a gimmicky documentry about a boring bunch of gits in an overly posh house.

The new editing of flashing brief images still pictures dreadful music background has reduced it to a documentry rather than a reality show. Bloody idiots is the only way to describe the policy makers that decided to crap on the original working format of editing.

Add to that the images of twins with freak hair styles behaving with the mental age of 2 year olds that can only attract viewers of a similar mental age then BB rating will plummet in to oblivion.......

CHANNEL FIVE GET A BLOODY REALITY CHECK before the main series begins........

[karl100589]

It could get worse as well going against the news on two Channels and Shooting Stars on BBC2

[daniel-lewis-1985]

I think Saturdays episode really put people off. It was soooooo boring and the editing would have been a shock to people.

I stuck with it but alot of people wont.

It has been quite boring so far but i am still enjoying it.

Fingers crossed it will pick up

[Sophiee]

it's not terrible, but it does need to pick up.

[Saph]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

I think Saturdays episode really put people off. It was soooooo boring and the editing would have been a shock to people.

I defended it at the time but yeah, Saturdays was terrible. Yesterdays was MUCH better!