[Spike]

After watching some evictions from BB5 and BB3 I have heard Davina say many times that over 1 million people voted and that was just for a regular eviction. I was looking at some stats earlier and one eviction in BB5, I think it was the Victor eviction, had over 2million votes cast.

I doubt we get that many votes cast now and just shows how the Big Brother has declined since then.

Do you think we could ever get this amount of votes cast again?

[Captain.Remy]

If we have an amazing final 4/6 then yes. Something we didn't have in ages.

[*mazedsalv**]

Probably, but BB8 had really bad vote figures. I think it was about 100,000-200,000 for eviction.
Ahmed's eviction was the first eviction of BB5 to get over 1 million votes. For the BB2 finale, 7 million voted and for the BB3 finale over 8 million voted. BB4 finale got 4.5 million votes and BB5 finale got almost 7 million votes.

Thats all I remember.

[Spike]

I am amazed at how high the voting figures used to be and how much they have declined. I think why BB3 and BB5 in particular had such high voting figures is because most people felt something about each housemate there was no eviction where we weren't bothered who went unlike more recent series.

To get these high voting figures back we need every housemate in a series to make us feel something and for us to actually care who gets evicted.

[CallumJoshuaSturt]

YES! coures they can

[BigOz]

1. I think it's harder to pick a new housemates are the series gets older (you know, BB8, BB9, BB10, BB11,etc.)

2. To be honest, the only thing I blame if BB8 had low ratings was the infamous "Racist Row" from cBB5

[Spike]

Originally posted by BigOz

2. To be honest, the only thing I blame if BB8 had low ratings was the infamous "Racist Row" from cBB5

Well enough people tuned in for launch night so I don't think the race row was the main cause for the low BB8 ratings. It was the all woman launch night which was the main cause of the low ratings.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Spike

Well enough people tuned in for launch night so I don't think the race row was the main cause for the low BB8 ratings. It was the all woman launch night which was the main cause of the low ratings.

So, i dont think they should do a launch night twist because whatever they do can lose viewers. Its best to keep twists until later when you know that people wont give up on the show.