The "Live Special" on Tuesday drew 1.327m viewers and was the second highest rating show of the night. It was against H&A (1.02m, 9th) and MasterChef Allstars (788,000, 13th).
The "Special" 1 hour Daily Show on Wednesday which saw the final two HMs enter the House late Tuesday night after the crowd had gone home, attracted 1.13m viewers, up against H&A (996,000) and MasterChef Allstars (751,000).
Thursday, August 16, 2012
One More Secret's Out
Ryan let slip pretty quickly after entering the House that he is afraid of birds after being prompted by the girls.
This takes us to two secrets now disclosed for sure, one on the inside of the House and one on the outside. Of course the magazine article about George having millions of dollars in property investments was spread around the internet before he'd even walked into the House.
Of course I have to wonder what if that's just a coincidence? What if several HMs share one or more of the secrets and the girls do guess correctly, but they are not THE secret of that HM? Did BB check that all the secrets chosen are unique to a single male HM?
This takes us to two secrets now disclosed for sure, one on the inside of the House and one on the outside. Of course the magazine article about George having millions of dollars in property investments was spread around the internet before he'd even walked into the House.
Of course I have to wonder what if that's just a coincidence? What if several HMs share one or more of the secrets and the girls do guess correctly, but they are not THE secret of that HM? Did BB check that all the secrets chosen are unique to a single male HM?
BB vs Diversity
We have now met the 14 HMs, but have we been delivered the cast we were promised?
15 years separates the youngest and oldest HMs, aged 18 and 33. That seems very undiverse. But, ignoring for now the rumor some of them were hired from talent agencies, they can only cast from those who audition, and I'm sure it would have been something like 19,000 auditionees between 18 and 33, and 1,000 older. So if they cast solely on personality, it's likely 14 were chosen from the younger age range.
Speaking of personality, while they might all have different jobs, beliefs and lifestyles, they are definitely all loud outgoing personalities. Even Bradley who would appear meek is very loud and bubbly. Charne is already complaining everyone talks over each other. I think it's a battle to be heard at the moment.
As far as diversity goes BB08 probably hit the mark more than any other season, with the grandma, the litte person, the UFO nut, Corey Worthington, and others, but then they were accused of stunt casting, and their band of HMs were labelled "freaks" by the media in the first week.
You just can't win!
15 years separates the youngest and oldest HMs, aged 18 and 33. That seems very undiverse. But, ignoring for now the rumor some of them were hired from talent agencies, they can only cast from those who audition, and I'm sure it would have been something like 19,000 auditionees between 18 and 33, and 1,000 older. So if they cast solely on personality, it's likely 14 were chosen from the younger age range.
Speaking of personality, while they might all have different jobs, beliefs and lifestyles, they are definitely all loud outgoing personalities. Even Bradley who would appear meek is very loud and bubbly. Charne is already complaining everyone talks over each other. I think it's a battle to be heard at the moment.
As far as diversity goes BB08 probably hit the mark more than any other season, with the grandma, the litte person, the UFO nut, Corey Worthington, and others, but then they were accused of stunt casting, and their band of HMs were labelled "freaks" by the media in the first week.
You just can't win!
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Secrets Update
The girls' secret task to avoid nomination this week is to guess the male HMs' secrets. It's a fun play-along-at-home task, so here goes my guesses at this stage:
1. I have the IQ of a genius
Ray - he's a vet, might be smart enough
2. I have ornithophobia as the result of an emu attack
Bradley - he seems pretty easy to frighten
3. I have been fired from every job I have ever had
Josh - seems likely! ;)
4. I haven't had a girlfriend since I was 11
Benjamin - he is gay, so likely
5. I am a juvenile offender
Michael - there are rumours going around about him "entertaining" middle eastern men, who knows what else he's been up to
6. I have dated over 100 women
Ryan - he's a model, and full of himself enough to make this his secret
7. I am a multi-millionaire
George - this has been revealed, proven by a magazine article
Let's see how I go.
1. I have the IQ of a genius
Ray - he's a vet, might be smart enough
2. I have ornithophobia as the result of an emu attack
Bradley - he seems pretty easy to frighten
3. I have been fired from every job I have ever had
Josh - seems likely! ;)
4. I haven't had a girlfriend since I was 11
Benjamin - he is gay, so likely
5. I am a juvenile offender
Michael - there are rumours going around about him "entertaining" middle eastern men, who knows what else he's been up to
6. I have dated over 100 women
Ryan - he's a model, and full of himself enough to make this his secret
7. I am a multi-millionaire
George - this has been revealed, proven by a magazine article
Let's see how I go.
BB Hears Fans' Cries
2 days in and social media has already provided BB with enough outcries to make some fast changes.
Diary entries have gotten more detailed and more frequent now. About every 15 mins today to match their twitter updates.
Hourly video entries, labelled "live video", still run at about the 1 min 10 second mark. From 120 mins of footage (2 streams times 60 minutes) that's not much.
They have also launched a mobile friendly version of their site catered to the smaller touch screen. Excellent work on turning that around within a couple of days. Makes it much easier to do quick catch ups during the day.
Vast improvement in content today BB. How about longer video segments tomorrow? Thanks!
Diary entries have gotten more detailed and more frequent now. About every 15 mins today to match their twitter updates.
Hourly video entries, labelled "live video", still run at about the 1 min 10 second mark. From 120 mins of footage (2 streams times 60 minutes) that's not much.
They have also launched a mobile friendly version of their site catered to the smaller touch screen. Excellent work on turning that around within a couple of days. Makes it much easier to do quick catch ups during the day.
Vast improvement in content today BB. How about longer video segments tomorrow? Thanks!
HMs Get a Dance Task
I was sure after the Launch show we'd never hear of the Big Brother Shuffle again. Unfortunately, Task #1 for the HMs is "Dance like nobody is watching". I guess with a professional dancer as the host what could we expect?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Launch Ratings
Four years ago Big Brother was cancelled (or not renewed) by Network Ten in favour of launching a new cooking show, MasterChef, in its timeslot seven nights a week in 2009. This blogger will admit that he thought the show destined to fail. Who knew it would go on to draw some of the biggest TV audiences of the years, run for at least four more years and spawn spin-offs of the Celebrity, Junior, and Allstars varieties? And who knew that four years later, MasterChef and Big Brother would run against each other in the same timeslot on different networks?
The Big Brother 2012 Launch show peaked at 2.1 million viewers last night-- an excellent figure in today's multi-channel world. The average for the 90 minute show was 1.61 million viewers. How those figures level out across tonight's first live special, regular Daily Shows and Evictions and Nominations is yet to be seen. Given Everybody Dance Now's dismal launch and follow-up show, I'd say BB has jumped the first ratings hurdle-- people are interested. Now to keep them that way.
More interestingly, MasterChef Allstars, which premiered right before the crazy ratings fortnight of The Olympics, only managed 702,000 viewers last night. That was down on Sunday night's figures against the final Olympic events of 779,000.
With MasterChef wrapping up this Sunday night, let's see how things shake out.
The Big Brother 2012 Launch show peaked at 2.1 million viewers last night-- an excellent figure in today's multi-channel world. The average for the 90 minute show was 1.61 million viewers. How those figures level out across tonight's first live special, regular Daily Shows and Evictions and Nominations is yet to be seen. Given Everybody Dance Now's dismal launch and follow-up show, I'd say BB has jumped the first ratings hurdle-- people are interested. Now to keep them that way.
More interestingly, MasterChef Allstars, which premiered right before the crazy ratings fortnight of The Olympics, only managed 702,000 viewers last night. That was down on Sunday night's figures against the final Olympic events of 779,000.
With MasterChef wrapping up this Sunday night, let's see how things shake out.
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