CBB did surprisingly well, Dancc must be over the moon

EastEnders is doing ok, ok the ratings are not excellent, but its not under preforming, even more so when you consider yesterday was Wednesday. Importantly it was the most watched show of the night as well.

Bad rating for England football match. 4million is less than half what Olympics were getting last week.

The fact it's up on Tuesday is something. I expected under 7 million as it was a Wednesday and against the football too.


Yeah i don't know why. The Trailers stating this week is just pointless and surely they could just change them to tonight at 7:30. TBH i think Heathers murder should have been trailed as last night it was excellent and imo it's carried the show more than Sharons return this week.

Experimental reserve and youth side England VS Italy Reserves days before the PL season starts.

Was never going to smash records

I was planning for 4 million for CBB' s launch night, but judging by the total apathy BB has generated this time, 2.6 million is a decent result. I think the series will probably average around 2.3 million, a million ahead of BB.
4 million for the fitba is more or less in line with my expectations. Friendlies are often meaningless, but it was against the team that kicked England out of the Euros, so maybe pulled in a few more than against someone like Denmark.

Ouch - half the figure of 12 months ago. This is the first series where we can really compare like for like, and losing half your audience in a year doesn't scream success to me.

Fair enough. I personally don't see that as like for like since last year was the big revival and the marketing was almost nil this time.

I'd be happy enough and suspect C5 would too if from here on in it rates similar to the levels we saw last August and also back in January. (bearing in mind this extra run was commissioned following the January series, so presumably they were happy with those numbers)

Oh come on Brekkie. You used to be a hardcore Big Brother fan yourself back in the day. It's Celebrity Big Brother - I know what I'm getting, and when I make a deliberate decision to watch it's not because I'm looking for high brow.

The launch figures are a little below my expectations, I was thinking 3m - but still, not bad, and hopefully it will retain a decent chunk.

I do think it's a good figure for CBB, but a major rethink is needed for the civilian show.

See, having, and keeping in, fractious figures works in CBB, because the slebs are in there for a shorter time, and there's a chance some may just want to pick up their cheque.

In real BB you need more of a mixture or else the constant arguing tires, apart from for a small amount of viewers. There will be natural conflicts that arise within 10 weeks anyway, harder to stay out of arguments.

All my opinion of course.

CBB pretty much line with where I thought it would be. Probably be around 2.5m most nights. Why have C5 felt it necessary to have a second run of it in the same year? I thought they wanted to get it back to the January slot which they achieved but now have decided to launch it 2 days after the BB Final. Madness really. Talk about overkill. This is worse than when it was on C4.

EastEnders did very well out of its normal slot and apparently unadvertised too. Maybe the "crisis" has been diverted...

Yeah....

Ratings. It gets them. They need them.

CBB is the one that brings the viewers in now so it's easy to see why they wanted a second series this year. The civilian series just isn't the ratings banker anymore.

In fairness the show isn't increasing its output anymore than when it was on C4. They've just reduced the length of the civilian series to accommodate a second CBB. This summer run (normal BB and CBB combined) is still around about 13 weeks which is how long the summer series was running for on C4 in its later years.

Yeah I guess. But do you feel like its overkill? And could make things worse in the future?

This is one of the first series of CBB (including its Big Brother run) where I can actually recognise some of the people and don't have to google.

Also makes me think...christ, things must be mad for Martin Kemp.

I'd watch it if she was on.

Indeed, so would I, I saw that and checked she hadn't gone in, now that would have been a great booking.

The reveal that was barely promoted?

Anyone expecting EE to get 9-10m in the middle of summer was being unrealistic. The fact Tuesday had a share of 38% and only 7.2m viewers shows that the show is being depressed because of the time of year. These ratings/shares are about comparable with the murder week in March if you take into account the different times of year. The BBC not promoting the timeslots sufficiently hasn't helped - the trailer for Sharon still said coming soon on Monday!

For EE to have 7.4m on a Wednesday a day it is not usually on is very good. We have seen Corrie moved to Sundays and dip below 6m before and that's not been at the height of Summer either.

This....It's the problem i have with the BBC. The slots not being advertised and the reveal not getting advertised either.

I feel the Murder reveal has been more exciting than Sharons return but the BBC felt it to be the other way.

I think tomorrows 9pm ep will be around 6,5m with it going against that Corrie in Kenya show which will have a corrie lead in and Fridays not EastEnders strongiest night

Why doesn't Channel 5 do something radical and cut BB to its original length of 6 weeks, clearly 10 weeks is way too much for what's now a niche show, and then follow it with CBB in July and then have the January one as well? This could work very nicely for Channel 5 next summer when there's no football and another 3 years until the Olympics.

You got your wish - BBC1 just announced the "Friday double bill" tomorrow at 8 and 9pm, on the continuity at the 10.35 junction accompanied by a static Albert Square backboard. Not a trail, but they obviously realised they messed up.

I noticed this at 8 also, before the 999 awards... Speaking of which I wonder how that'll rate?? And will BB drop a million or stay steady, or r-r-r-r-rise??

I really should get some sleep before I go mad and start inventing my own soap in the soap forum...

Setting oneself up for a fall here but Peter Kay and his gags are trending heavily on twitter and facebook this evening, would fancy this to get a solid rating, as long as those miserable sods with BARB boxes remember to watch

Huh? Are you joking?

Were you expecting a bigger drop than 25% compared to January?

The official ratings for CBB10 could be less than 3m.

Oh I don't doubt this. A filler repeat of his Bolton gig managed 3.5m in April, and it was his newest show tonight so I wouldn't be surprised if he topped 4m.