Big Brother 2014 debuts with 1.067m audience, down on last year in later timeslot
The 2014 return of Nine’s reality show Big Brother drew an audience of 1.067m, down from 1.309m last year despite a strong lead in from The Block, as the network promised viewers that this season would be “stormier” than the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
This year’s launch came six weeks later than last year’s show, and was also in a later timeslot of 8.40pm to build from the audience of 1.556m for reality renovation show The Block. The two shows helped Nine win the night with an 26.2 per cent audience share on its main channel.
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Meanwhile on Seven talent show the X Factor drew an audience of 1.174m up against The Block: Glasshouse at 7.30pm, while the Amazing Race drew 634,000 viewers in the 8.30pm slot going head to head with the start of Big Brother.
Over on the ABC the return of Leigh Sales as host of 7.30 saw a significant boost in audience with 874,000 tuning in, compared with 629,000 the week before. Australian Story’s report on Palmer United Senator Jacqui Lambie drew 872,000 viewers.
In the 6pm news battle Seven News narrowly beat its rival with a metro audience of 1.21m compared with 1.206m for Nine News in the 6pm slot, dropping to 1.137m on Seven for the 6.30pm slot and 1.17m Nine. In the 7pm slot A Current Affair drew 1.237m viewers.
Ten’s biggest show for the night was the Eyewitness News at 5pm with 675,00 viewers, followed by the simulcast of Family Feud at 6pm on Ten, One and Eleven with 656,000, while Have you Been Paying Attention at 8.30pm got 465,000, up from last week’s 430,000. Its new nature show Hidden Kingdoms with Stephen Fry could only manage 342,000 at 7.30pm agains the reality franchises, down from 549,000 who last week watched David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities in the timeslot.
Among the breakfast programs The Today Show’s broadcast from the US drew an average of 305,000 viewers while Sunrise had 340,000 viewers.
While the Nine Network won the night Seven had a main channel audience share of 20.1 per cent, the ABC 14.4 per cent and Ten 10.1 per cent.
Top 15 shows
1 THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE Network 9 1,556,000
2 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,237,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,210,000
4 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,206,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,177,000
6 THE X FACTOR LIVE RESULTS Network 7 1,174,000
7 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 1,137,000
8 BIG BROTHER – LAUNCH Network 9 1,067,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 991,000
10 7.30 Network ABC1 874,000
11 AUSTRALIAN STORY Network ABC1 872,000
12 ABC NEWS Network ABC1 828,000
13 ABC NEWS UPDATE Network ABC1 812,000
14 FOUR CORNERS Network ABC1 716,000
15 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 675,000
Audience share
Network 9 26.2%
Network 7 20.1%
Network ABC1 14.4%
Network TEN 10.1%
Network 7TWO 5.3%
Network GO! 4.5%
Network 7mate 3.7%
Network SBS ONE 3.1%
Network ABC2 2.9%
Network ELEVEN 2.8%
Network Gem 2.2%
Network ONE 2.2%
Network SBS 2 0.9%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.6%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total audience share
Network 9 TTL 32.9%
Network 7 TTL 29.1%
Network ABC TTL 18.8%
Network TEN TTL 15.1%
Network SBS TTL 4.0%
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Here’s hoping BB, like the abominable movie Noah, embraces a swift death, never to be seen again.
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@benross – don’t let it bother you then Ben – do something else!
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Hooray for the ability to change channels away from this show…the 1million masses are slaves to bad TV.
I’m glad at least one of the news programs made the Top 3.
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