[erinp5]

In three nights, Big Brother 2014 has lost over half of its audience with now fewer than a million viewers tuning.

2.1 million viewers switched onto Channel 5 for the first launch show on Thursday night as the new series kicked off but that was down to 1.6 million for Friday evening’s second live show, which saw six more housemates and a big twist.

Last night saw the figures fall again as just 950,000 watched the first full highlights of the series.

It was despite the show being scheduled straight after the BGT final, which had a peak audience of more than 12 million viewers watching.

And even though the show had originally faced the football, the match was suspended due to a thunderstorm.

The show was down some 300,000 viewers on last year’s equivalent first Saturday nights highlights, all despite a series of twists as part of this year’s Power Trip theme.

The show continues nightly on Channel 5 and will air another special live show on Monday night from 10PM where another twist will be revealed.

A spokesman for Channel 5 said today: “We are pleased with the very strong performance of the show across the two launch nights.”

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[Raph]

Unfortunately I think it's down to the lack of diversity in housemates, and the abundance of models and people who have had exposure to celebrity life-style.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by Barker

Unfortunately I think it's down to the lack of diversity in housemates, and the abundance of models and people who have had exposure to celebrity life-style.

No, it was because it clashed with the Football last night

[Pete.]

We are pleased with the very strong performance of the show across the two launch nights.

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by ~Sam~

No, it was because it clashed with the Football last night

exactly this. This article is bashing BB without taking this into consideration. Most of the Great British public will watch the football over BB

[Marcus.]

it not the people in the street on bb
but on the other side could be football

[Rob!]

Day 3 people. Let's remember we were ****ting ourselves over last years ratings - hell, we were ****ting ourselves over BB12's.

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

exactly this. This article is bashing BB without taking this into consideration. Most of the Great British public will watch the football over BB

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[Locke.]

Time to cancel it

[Rob!]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Time to cancel it

Reported.

[Glenn.]

Wasn't the football postponed last night?

[Locke.]

Originally Posted by RobInnes

Reported.

[Rob!]

Originally Posted by Locke.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by Glenn

Wasn't the football postponed last night?

It was cancelled at 9:30 and then started at 10:00, that is what the article says so it still clashed with Big brother

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by ~Sam~

It was cancelled at 9:30 and then started at 10:00, that is what the article says so it still clashed with Big brother

People need to read information.

[erinp5]

It's set to clash with Soccer Aid tonight.

[smeagol]

its the housemates. really im only watching cause im a fan but its not good at mo.
peopl will watch if it picks up i guess but i can imagine a lot turning of

[Crimson Dynamo]

luckily we do not sell tv advertising so we can just watch it and enjoy it.

[Jarrod]

Regardless of the rating, it still came third in the slot.

[thediaryroomchair]

Advertising space needs to be sold if Big Brother is to be profitable for Channel 5 and there needs to be justification from the producers to the advertisers that there is an audience that will watch.

If audiences continue to fall, Channel 5 surely will begin to worry. I fear that the housemates are too fame hungry and that there is not a good selection like there was last year.

For me, this could be the last series of Big Brother.

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Barker

Unfortunately I think it's down to the lack of diversity in housemates, and the abundance of models and people who have had exposure to celebrity life-style.

It definitely is. Most of the Big Brother fans are older women, they're not gonna be interested in this lot. They're awful.

[Withano]

I'm so annoyed at this series, the celebrity ones will hopefully save it for this year but if they don't drastically change the lineup for the next series, Big Brother will die.

[BigSister]

Football warm weather its the weekend Saturday shows don't do as well anyway than the weekday ones so I think time will tell on the ratings

[smeagol]

Originally Posted by Withano

I'm so annoyed at this series, the celebrity ones will hopefully save it for this year but if they don't drastically change the lineup for the next series, Big Brother will die.

i'm sure this one will get better could well turn out the best yet when it gets going . but i can understand why casuals and even die hards wouldn't be impressed with the start of it.

[Ross.]

Ratings are going to generally be down for the next few weeks if it clashes a lot with the World Cup, hopefully after that it will start to pick up a bit.