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Big Brother 2017 is facing fresh ratings embarrassment after last night’s episode was beaten not just by Love Island, but the ITV2 show’s spin-off, Aftersun.

A last-minute schedule change saw Big Brother’s latest instalment moved to 10.00pm, after a major argument led to Lotan being removed from the house.

It was watched by an overnight average of 897,000 viewers (5,6%, including +1).

However, discussion show Love Island: Aftersun narrowly managed to top it, with 903,000 viewers (5.7%) at the same time.

The spin-off had a healthy lead-in from Love Island‘s main show, which achieved a series high of 1.61million viewers (7.6%) between 9pm and 10pm.

Big Brother’s overnight ratings have now been stuck below the million viewer mark for almost two weeks straight.

Even worse, the series average has also slipped to six figures, currently standing at just 929,000 viewers – 200,000 down on last year’s series at the same point.

However, the Channel 5 show is saving some face in consolidated or ‘official’ ratings, which account for 7 days worth of catch-up viewing.

After figures for the second week of the series were released today, the official series average is 1.39million – up 414,000 on the overnights.



Read more: http://www.bbspy.co.uk/bb18/news/062...#ixzz4lC7Uu4UW

That's like BOTS having more figures than the main show.