[Amy]

Originally posted by Di2001
Well, I got it to work!!!

Been watching some girlie doing sit ups and a bloke walking around bare chested!!!

Glad you managed to get it to work Di I only watched a small part yesterday and they all were very loud and a bit tipsy

Anyway, it looks like the show is doing very well in Aus according to this article...

1.5 million watch Big Brother 4

Asked last week to predict the audience for Big Brother 4, Channel Ten's program director, David Mott, said he'd be happy if the weekday episodes averaged 1 million viewers and the Sunday night show averaged 1.5 million.

By setting the bar so low, Mr Mott can now boast he has the most successful reality show of the year so far.

On Sunday, the debut of Big Brother 4 attracted 1.7 million viewers in the mainland capitals - more than half of whom were in Ten's target 16 to 39-year-old age group. This was half a million fewer than the opening episode of 2003, but 300,000 ahead of Nine's The Block, which did better than Big Brother last year.

Despite a sub-plot about a contestant who had been jailed as an accessory to drug dealing, episode three of The Block 2 was 37 per cent down on last year, beaten by an ancient documentary about New Zealand on Seven.

At 7.30pm, Seven was delighted that its reality show My Restaurant Rules, with 1.1 million viewers, survived the disappearance of its Sydney contestants the previous week and the onslaught of Big Brother.

But at 8.30, Seven's night fell apart: its makeover show Ultimate Transformations Live managed only 900,000.

Ten was thrilled that Big Brother 4 exceeded its hopes, which had been diminished by the failure of The HotHouse and The Resort, and by the slump of The Block. Asked why The Block wasn't working, Mr Mott said it lacked the element of surprise. "Nine's promotion just said 'The Block is back'," he said. "They should have come up with another hook, another angle.

"We're saying 'Big Brother is back - plus'. The 'plus' is what's going to get the viewers. You need to have things up your sleeve, secrets, a new house . . ."

As it turned out on Sunday, Big Brother's first big secret was simply that the prizemoney had risen from $250,000 to $1 million - which the contestants inside the house don't know yet.

This may not be enough of a plus to hold the fickle under-40 audience which Ten is seeking.

Sunday night suggested renovation and humiliation don't attract Australians any longer, but there may be some mileage left in claustrophobia - and there's a potential new audience for New Zealand history.

If the weekday episodes of Big Brother fail to reach his minimum expectation of a million viewers, Mr Mott may decide his house needs a pet kiwi.

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