Big Brother rates 825,000 in slow Thursday night’s TV

Tim Burrowes

August 9, 2013 11:39

Big Brother had another tough night on Thursday as the second season of the reality show’s switch to Nine continued to bob well below the 1m mark.

According to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM, the show had a metro audience of 825,000.

However, all of the networks had a typically slow Thursday. And last year saw Big Brother’s ratings fade in its first couple of weeks before they rose again as the contest developed.

Ten’s Masterchef masterclass rated 764,000, up on previous weeks. Seven’s Please Marry My Boy rated a disappointing 619,000 while Formal Wars was on 495,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.