The premiere of BIG BROTHER 11 won its time period in all key measures and topped last summer's premiere of BIG BROTHER 10 in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 18-34, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Thursday, July 9.BIG BROTHER 11 THURSDAY (P) was first in households (4.4/08), viewers (6.68m), adults 25-54 (2.7/09), adults 18-49 (2.3/08) and adults 18-34 (1.7/08). Compared to the first episode of BIG BROTHER 10 (which premiered on Sunday, July 13 last summer), CBS was up +10% in both households (from 4.0/07) and adults 18-49 (from 2.1/07), +13% in adults 18-34 (from 1.5/05), even in adults 25-54 and added +550,000 viewers (from 6.13m, +9%).
Compared to the Thursday BIG BROTHER 10 time period premiere (which was on July 31, 2008), CBS was up +5% in households (from 4.2/08), even in both adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 and added +280,000 viewers (from 6.40m, +4%).
Compared to the time period live plus same day delivery this summer (rebroadcasts of CBS's crime dramas and sitcoms), CBS was up +42% in adults 25-54 (from 1.9/06), +64% in adults 18-49 (from 1.4/05), +89% in adults 18-34 (from 0.9/03).
For the night, CBS was first in households (5.0/09), viewers (7.53m), adults 25-54 (2.5/07) and second in adults 18-49 (1.9/06, -0.2 behind FOX).
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Big Brother TV Ratings
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Posts: 4384 (07/10/09 12:45 PM) |
BB11 Premiere draws 6.7 million
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Posts: 13380 (07/10/09 12:49 PM) Registered user |
That's good, right?
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Posts: 592 (07/10/09 12:50 PM) |
Yay
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Posts: 2257 (07/10/09 12:50 PM) Registered User |
Good news!
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Posts: 4385 (07/10/09 12:51 PM) |
Yep. Its up from last year's premiere, and above last season's average.
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Posts: 6962 (07/10/09 1:10 PM) |
Great!
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Posts: 32 (07/10/09 1:35 PM) Registered user |
I thought the first competition was lame but the show was OK. Glad they had the ratings. Been looking forward to BB starting up again.
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Posts: 492 (07/10/09 1:37 PM) Registered user |
yayy. :] I'm glad.
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spragenspelt |
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Posts: 2806 (07/10/09 5:15 PM) Registered User |
Nice to see it going up when almost every other show is going down. <3
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Melca |
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Posts: 976 (07/10/09 5:28 PM) Registered user |
Lets see how it drops off the premiere. A show ALWAYS has a drop off. Network execs tend to focus on the audience drop off over anything else.
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Posts: 3351 (07/10/09 5:31 PM) Registered user |
This is pretty much on par with the last couple of years. It premieres 6.5-7 mil... will drop the next month to 6 mil or so, and then in September climbs back
to mid 7 mil. The audience isn't big, but it's pretty loyal.
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The Truth Hurts |
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Posts: 4784 (07/13/09 7:47 PM) |
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/07/ratings-big-brother-continues-its-reign.html
There's no surer sign of summer than Big Brother dominating pretty much every night when people bother to watch TV. This Sunday was as sunny as ever for the 11th-season reality hit, as BB averaged 6.8 million viewers (yes, that's a victory during the warm months) and, along with stalwart 60 Minutes (7.9 million), helped win the night for CBS. The rest of the weekend was more of the same: Reality triumphed with Fox's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (5.7 million) on Friday, while burnoffs like NBC's Kings (1.6 million) and the series finale of CBS' Harper's Island (3.9 million) were buried on Saturday. No drop-off. Impressive. |
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Posts: 1339 (07/13/09 7:49 PM) |
How are almost 8 million people watching 60 Minutes. I watch like the last 5 mins. waiting for BB and its always completely terrible.
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Posts: 7908 (07/13/09 7:52 PM) |
That's because it's Andy Rooney. That's always the most
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Posts: 953 (07/13/09 7:57 PM) Registered user |
Wow, pretty good... and then add all the extraneous sources of income like the feeds, website ad views, the Showtime show and then the America's choice
texts and stuff and you can easily see why they keep getting renewed. BB is $$$ in summer.
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Quiddity |
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Posts: 5863 (07/13/09 8:07 PM) Registered User |
Great news!
Wow, hadn't realized that the season started so late last year. I thought this year was a late start! :P |
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Posts: 5932 (07/13/09 8:14 PM) Registered user |
I want another winter season.
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Teighteen |
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Posts: 1323 (07/13/09 8:19 PM) Registered User |
Wow, awesome news!
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Posts: 4789 (07/13/09 8:24 PM) |
SmalltownBoy wrote:I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but either way, please god no. I already waste 3 months of my life on this shit. Can't waste another 3. Plus, we saw what happened the last time they had a winter season.
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SmalltownBoy |
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Posts: 5934 (07/13/09 8:27 PM) Registered user |
Season 9 was the most entertaining season to date. Yes, I'm serious.
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Posts: 1386 (07/13/09 8:32 PM) |
SmalltownBoy wrote: I don't know about that but it was certainly up there. BB9 feeds...no doubt, the most entertaining. In terms of show...not so much. |
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- Survivor Sucks
- Lions, Tigers, Survivors - Oh My!
- Survivor Spoilers
- MESS Hall Tribal Council
- MESS Hall Archive
- Survivor Speculation
- Survivor 20+
- The Amazing Race
- Big Brother
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- The Apprentice
- American Idol
- American Idol PAST SEASONS
- The Mole
- Lost
- Other Shows That Suck
- Off Topic
- Clubs That Suck. No, Really.
- The Dump
- Monster Island
- Purgatory
- FAQ
- In Memory, 9/11/01
