Big Brother falls to record low while Scorpion debuts at 597,000 for Ten
The Nine Network won the night on the back of strong audiences for renovation show The Block: Glasshouse but its reality show Big Brother continues to struggle pulling just 597,000, down from 667,000 last week.
Excluding late night and confidential episodes, the result is a record low metropolitan audience for the Big Brother franchise in Australia, which the Nine Network has own for the last three years and prior to that screened on Ten for eight seasons.
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Meanwhile on Ten the debut of American drama television series Scorpion, which is loosely based on the life of self-proclaimed genius and computer expert Walter O’Brien, drew 597,000 at 6.30pm, giving the network a rare top ten placing on Sunday night and boosting its main channel audience share from 9.8 per cent last week to 10.9 per cent last night. A new episode of Modern Family at 7.30pm drew 434,000 while a repeat at 8.00pm saw the audience fall marginally to 430,000.
Do you think nine programmers might finally get the message that BB last year was as boring as batshit and this year is a few orders of magnitude worse. My partner asked me if she could paint the loungeroom so she could watch it dry, instead of BB.
Since it’s been sanitised for earlier timeslots, it’s lost all of its spark. If showing it early on Go or whatever is a problem, simple – don’t show it. Regardless of what the holier than thous who get on social media or BB website and complain, we all know what the public watch BB for, don’t we? So give it to them, and stop the audience slide.
The Code is absolutely brilliant. Glad to see it rated above BB!
i honestly think big brother has had its day and why it is still on just boggles my mind completely!
BB was a lost cause when Nine got it and made it “family friendly”. No Big Brother Uncut? Zzzzz …