[*mazedsalv**]

Yeah tonight will be tricky, its up against EE (which has been easily getting 11m) and Corrie getting 10m+.

Maybe the 10:20-10:50 can do ok. But i will say this week will be quite a low average, the schedule is terrible this week.

Weds 10:20-11:35 is absoloutley ridiculous... it will drop to about 2.5m i reckon, however the share % will be quite high.

[Brekkie]

It shows how good this series has been though compared to last year as viewers are actually following it around the schedules (and to +1 if necessary!) and it has remained pretty consistent at around 3m.

I suspect like last night tonights show will pick up a lot of viewers on +1.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by biglover

I hope tonights eviction gets around 3.5 million

Nope its on far too early, especially for an eviction what were they thinking!

It wont get 3.5

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

It shows how good this series has been though compared to last year as viewers are actually following it around the schedules (and to +1 if necessary!) and it has remained pretty consistent at around 3m.

I suspect like last night tonights show will pick up a lot of viewers on +1.

I think it will be the lowest rated C4-only show so far (about 2.4m) but I can see a massive time shift, maybe not far off 1m wouldn't be a bad guess. Either way I still think it'll crack 3m. The second show will probably get about 3.3m because its on at normal time

[DigitalSid]

2.6 and 3.1 last night, the former being this series worst rating to date. Current series average now stands at 3.4.

[Tom]

2.6m is quite good for show 1, eviction at the same time last year got 2.2m and last years second show got 3.2m so no difference there really

This week will murder the series average- especially Wednesday but as long as the overall overnight average stays above 3.3m it should be alright.

[*mazedsalv**]

This week will defenitley murder the average... well C4 seems more intersted on doing 13 different Slumdog programmes in BBs slot!!! Dickheads!

2.6m and 3.1m.... at least the actual eviction recieved 3m+.

Tonight im hoping for about 3.3m.... tomorrow will be BAD.

[biglover]

Bit disapointed with the ratings from last night, but it was to be expected, the second show was good though! x

[Brekkie]

Might be saved by a pretty consistent 9pm slot for the final week - but just goes to show really BB could comfortably have been scheduled at 9pm for every night of the season - the "Indian Winter" stuff especially could have waited until BB was over, as C4's drama output has done (well, launching in the final week).

I do think on Wednesday they should have cut the show down to at most an hour - an 11.20pm finish isn't drastically different to 11.10pm.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

Might be saved by a pretty consistent 9pm slot for the final week - but just goes to show really BB could comfortably have been scheduled at 9pm for every night of the season - the "Indian Winter" stuff especially could have waited until BB was over, as C4's drama output has done (well, launching in the final week).

I do think on Wednesday they should have cut the show down to at most an hour - an 11.20pm finish isn't drastically different to 11.10pm.

Its 10:20pm-11:35pm tomorrow isnt it? And that WILL make a difference.

I agree that all this Indian Season stuff could have waited, its ruining BB bu shifting it everywhere... why would C4 think that everyone would prefer the Indian programmes on in the 9pm slot... they could of easily put it in the 10pm slot.

I reckon, this week will get quite a poor average, 2.7m overnight (3m official), but I agree that the last week should save BB as its almost on at 9pm every night.

[*mazedsalv**]

It must be noted that, last nights 2nd show was only on for 30 minutes but finished a whole 6 minutes early.

From 10:20-10:45pm, the show probably got about 3.3m. The early finish will be taken into account when the officials come out.

The first week OFFICIALS will come in tomorrow, with the overnight average being 3.7m for the first week... it is likely to be 4m for the officials.... the first time thats happened since around 2-3 years ago.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

Might be saved by a pretty consistent 9pm slot for the final week - but just goes to show really BB could comfortably have been scheduled at 9pm for every night of the season - the "Indian Winter" stuff especially could have waited until BB was over, as C4's drama output has done (well, launching in the final week).

I do think on Wednesday they should have cut the show down to at most an hour - an 11.20pm finish isn't drastically different to 11.10pm.

Most people switch off at 11 though, and if they couldn't win anyway because if they did shorten it no doubt certain people would say C4 don't care because we're seeing less that day.

[DigitalSid]

2.82m (not including +1)

[Tom]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

2.82m (not including +1)

Not that bad esp with the early finish

[Tom]

0.3m on +1 making it 3.1m.

Tonight is the test of how loyal the CBB7 viewers are.

[*mazedsalv**]

The 3.1m is very good because the show started at 10:05pm and finished at 11:07pm, so basically for 13 minutes BB was not on air.

Between the actual time it aired 10:05pm-11:07pm, the average is about 3.3m.

The series is averaging unofficially 3.4m (100,000 up on BB9)... so if it continues like this, we could see a 3.7m official figure, which will have beaten BB9, CBB6 and BB10.

[Jords]

Things are going good!

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally Posted by Tom

0.3m on +1 making it 3.1m.

Tonight is the test of how loyal the CBB7 viewers are.

I think even loyal fans will forget. Most people wont stay up until 11:35pm on a weekday, and its not like anyone really can watch on +1 as it would finish at 12:35am.

[Brekkie]

2.5m last night watched on C4 - not bad at all for the slot. Just 150,000 watched on C4+1 though, making 2.65m, which I'm guessing is the least watched edition so far - but relatively speaking a good result really.

Official ratings may be delayed a few days - there seems to be problems with BARB at the moment since they changed their ratings system after Christmas.

[biglover]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

2.5m last night watched on C4 - not bad at all for the slot. Just 150,000 watched on C4+1 though, making 2.65m, which I'm guessing is the least watched edition so far - but relatively speaking a good result really.

Official ratings may be delayed a few days - there seems to be problems with BARB at the moment since they changed their ratings system after Christmas.

Thats an ok rating for BB, it was expected to be considerably lower than usual becuase of the late start and finish

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Channel 4 are killing it with the time slots

Realyl Really pathetic!

Thye need to get over it

PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH BIG BROTHER!

[*mazedsalv**]

2.7m is VERY good. And you can tell with that 18% share... the highest share behind the launch (22%) and another show (the first HL show i think). That 18% shows us that there arew still so many dedicated fans. 2.7m to stay up until 11:35pm is very good... not to mention it finished 7 minutes early again.

Think about it, last night was the last of the awful scheduling, tonight its on at 10pm, tomorrow is the normal eviction show and then in the final week almost all shows are at 9pm.

Last night was a big test, i thought it would have been about 2.3m.

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Channel 4 are killing it with the time slots

Realyl Really pathetic!

Thye need to get over it

PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH BIG BROTHER!

Luckily, it's standing up pretty well to what they're throwing at it. Last night could have done a heck of a lot worse, the +1 figures are above the expected and the share it managed was the highest for a regular episode this series meaning those still up made the effort to tune in.

[*mazedsalv**]

Predictions for tonight?

Im going to say 3.2m because its from 10pm-11:10pm, so there isnt that pointless 5 minute extra, and its in 10pm slot where it was for most of the first week.

[Patrick]

Indian Winter is pointless, annoying and is simply messing up the ratings for CBB.

Its not fair and couldnt C4 Of done this Indian Winter, sometime during Spring or somthing when CBB isnt on?

There purposley trying to make BB fail, people keep missing the show because they dont know if its on at 8, 9 , 10 , or 20 past 10.

For BB11 they should pick 9 O Clock, and STAY at 9 O Clock, and maybe on Saturdays it should be 8 O Clock.