★★★★★ 0/5

Narrow timeslot win by Big Brother

Ratings: Big Brother just won its timeslot over Criminal Minds, with both well ahead of Wonderland.

28
Leave a comment

2014-09-11_1018Big Brother narrowly won its timeslot last night at 777,000 ahead of Criminal Minds on 762,000, a drop of 290,000 since its Monday launch. Presumably it will take a while for viewers to get to know the various individuals in the game, and last night the show helped give some backstory to each contestant with a “headline of their lives” conversation, in which the topics ranged from health challenges, to coming out and level of intelligence. The show was still second in the Demos.

Both shows were well ahead of TEN’s Wonderland, still outside the Top 20 and now under 500,000 at 478,000.

Nine Network  just won the night with a 31.2% share then Seven 30.1%, TEN 18.6%, ABC 15.6% and SBS 4.5%.

The Block again topped the night at 1.25m for Nine then Nine News (1.09m / 1.08m), A Current Affair (961,000), Big Brother (777,000) and Hot Seat (606,000). Two and a Half Men was 313,000 / 220,000.

Seven News led for Seven at 1.09m / 995,000 then Border Security (850,000), The Force (841,000), Home and Away (822,000), Criminal Minds (762,000 / 496,000) and Million Dollar Minute (532,000).

The Bachelor was 741,000 for TEN. The Project lifted to 725,000 / 567,000. TEN Eyewitness News was 598,000, Wonderland was 478,000 and Extant was 178,000 (oddly coded as Extant Late despite ad buyers asking for coding consistency from networks).

ABC News (767,000), 7:30 (670,000) and Utopia (614,000) were best for ABC. In a twist a 6:30 repeat of QI (553,000) outranked an 8pm repeat of QI (396,000). Reality Check was 407,000 and a repeat of Head First was 248,000.

On SBS ONE Wild Britain (232,000) led Living With the Enemy (181,000), SBS World News (129,000) and Borgen (126,000).

Neighbours remained best on multichannels at 291,000.

Sunrise: 391,000
Today: 326,000
ABC News Breakfast: 64,000 / 64,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 10 September 2014

28 Responses

  1. The people behind BB are actually pretty smart operators who are generally in tune with what the viewers would want. It seems off mark so far this season. I wonder how much of this is BB producers and how much is 9. Even the Behind Big Brother website, which has the dedicated hard core fans on there every day, has a different vibe. Rather than strong debate, it seems to be more disengagement and frustration.

  2. I’m enjoying BB but agree last night the ep was not great. Nine would be happy that it won its time slot and does great in the demo’s which is probably why they renewed the series last year but if Nine cancel it I just hope Ten jumps on it. Ten really knows how to create BB. I am disappointed no live updates at all.

  3. I’m not enjoying BB at all, it’s been very boring. I’ve stuck with it because my friends & I traditionally watch it together or text during the show but I’m only going to give it til next Friday. I don’t want to waste time on a show that is no longer fun. I much preferred when it was on 10, it was not as contrived or manipulated, we got to see a great deal more & it wasn’t this sanitised ‘family friendly’ version. I wouldn’t let kids under 12 watch it anyway, the BB contestants aren’t exactly role models. During he first few series I had a Truman-style life – the tv would be left on so I went to sleep with BB, first thing in the morning I’d get an update & then again at lunch. IMO, the only good change that 9 made to the show is Sonia, she’s terrific.

  5. Loved the first couple of nights of BB. Last night couldn’t end quickly enough for me – so boring and agree, bad editing.

    Wonderland isn’t connecting with audiences because it’s crap. Badly written series of cliches. There’s talent amongst the cast but even they can’t make shit shine.

  6. BB won its slot and did well in the younger demographics. It’s on later this yearn and it will pick up a bit on Monday. It’s ratings drop off later in the week because young people do stuff other than watch TV.

    Ten’s excessing and misleading promotions for Wonderland didn’t achieve anything. Ten would probably like to bump it to 9:30pm but they have to find something that doesn’t rate worse first.

    The 2nd QI episode isn’t a good one. The seems to be less and less people watching live TV on Wednesday nights.

  7. Loved Monday’s BB but hated last night.

    They are all try-hards and seem to project fake happy personas so the viewers keep them in the house.

    Any tears seem stage managed for maximum affect and I tired of the cutesy “support” hugs.

    Give us real people not Barbies and Kens.

  8. I gave up on this years Big Brother after the first night. Power housemates, first night in isolation and offering cash were all things done in this years (excellent) UK BB. Seems like usually, AU BB will follow the same things that UK BB have already done.

    Might watch it now and then, but definitely not going to watch it every night.

  9. I’m really enjoying Rove on The Project at the moment. I’m finding the show really entertaining and producing genuine laughs whilst still having a good balance of more difficult serious stories. With all the horrible news that there has been lately, it’s good to have this show on everynight.

  11. I briefly watched some of the first episode and instantly did not like it. What happened to the days of everyone being put into the house all at once and start from there. Bringing each contestant on stage, showing carefully edited packages to introduce them to us and give them a persona before we know them is the wrong move. If they want to get people interested, how about going back to season one and two basis? Show it weeknights at 7pm for 30mins, and then a late show on GO! or Nine, as well as the standard nominations\eviction nights.
    I haven’t bothered to watch an entire series of BB since season 4.
    I can say pretty much the same about The Block too. Haven’t watched it fully since the Jamie Durie days, its too painful, and there is no renovation work!

  12. According to Behind Big Brother Jason’s coming out story wasn’t entirely true either. His brother left comments on social media that suggested the story wasn’t entirely true, which were then swiftly deleted by Nine.

  13. I’m a big Big Brother fan and I’ve watched every season. but I have to say I’m really not a fan of the new timeslot. By that time at night I don’t want to be watching BB.
    Since I’m a block watcher too, it really just gets a bit much after 3 solid hours of reality TV.

    I also think it’d be a good idea to go back to a 7pm half hour daily show. Not these long drawn out “live” nights…. Perhaps BB could take a leaf of out the Masterchef book and go back to basics.

  14. Long Term BB fan here. I have watched since season one and participated on forums.

    There is one big thing wrong with this years BB. The online content is all but gone.

    No live updates, no extra videos or content online.

    The live updates and news stories always provided more angles and interest that enhanced the show. They made you more interested to keep on watching. You’re at work and see something and go, ‘oh what’s this.’

    Now you might as well DVR and fast forward through watching on the weekend. Even more so with the late timeslot.

    The extra online videos were also great. Yes we miss uplate (there is no excuse to not have this in some form) and we miss the live stream.

    However the lack of any extra content means they are even more confined in what gets into the daily show. Extended sections which on TV play a bit boring, yet if they edited them down, chucked up…

  15. It’s not the housemates that are going to kill Big Brother, it’s the poor editing, the set up situations like the “Headline” game last night as well as the lack of live updates throughout the day that are going to do that. I mean what’s the point of even having a website if all you are going to have on there is stuff which we already saw on TV.

  16. Big Brother has been underwhelming so far. Too many ad breaks, too many events being replayed or rehashed and there wasn’t nearly enough compelling content to reflect 24 hours in the house. I’m over the silly party games, I want to see more of the natural conversations and house dynamics.

    And to top this all off, Nine have dumped the live feed updates on Facebook and Twitter.

  17. It’s fair to say, Im not a fan of TEN …. but Wonderland is not that bad. I think the problem is, that we are force feeding the current population/audience with nothing but reality television on all channels, that any any scripted drama will find it difficult to rate ….. balance out reality with drama and then you may find a program like Wonderland start to climb in the ratings …..

  18. Agree with @TVTim .
    Last night’s BB was one big yawnfest.
    Was quite looking forward to its return but a disappointment so far.
    Perhaps it is the mainly bland mix of housemates this year.
    Too much of a viewing commitment if it continues to be beige…

  19. Be interested to see if Big Brother goes up on timeshifted figures, as Criminal Minds generally goes up by between 150 and 160 thousand. I know Big Brother is supposed to be a watch and use a second platform at the same time type show, however I wonder if many record to watch later or chase play the show.

  21. Nine might see a decline in ratings of Big Brother. It would be very disappointing for Nine’s ratings on Friday nights when Sydney and Brisbane have NRL Commitments.

  22. Putting my programming expert hat on .. Maybe they should have done the daily show on go at 7 then leave the “event/announcements ” for nine after the block. Also maybe Friday/Saturday night games on go – this would boost the multichannel numbers

  23. That’s actually a shocking decline for Big Brother, from every angle!… night on night -20%… year on year -30%.. and everyone’s favourite… what a shed from the lead in -40%!
    Sometimes a timeslot win does not a good headline make..
    meanwhile, it’s actually very well cast IMO.. love Skye!

  24. Ok so 10 are calling it Extant Late so that when everyone looks back at the ratings summary/averages at the end of the year it can kind of explain away the deflated numbers.

    Fair enough. So in the interests of transparency and full disclosure, what should they call Family Feud across 3 channels? Family Feuds? Family Feud x 3?

  25. Wonderland continues to bomb. So surprised Ten committed to another 22 episode series after this one. Will sit nicely as a 9.30 offering soon, I think.

    Nine would be disappointed with the shed of viewers from Block to Big Brother and also the drop in three days! BB was a novelty social experiment a decade ago but does not cut it now the audience is beginning to tire of reality. At least the format is flexible enough for twists and turns but I think a BB household made up of over 35’s would have been the twist it needed.

Leave a Reply