Big Brother winner announced 2004 2,860,000
And what was Masterchefâs over 3 million? Or am I off?
MC in 2010 winner announced 4,030,000
Edit: Not sure that âwinnerâs announcementsâ werenât around for all of the Big Brother years on 10.
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Am I right in saying that season 2 and season 1 are the two highest rating entertainment shows since OzTam commenced?
The highest rated non-winner / non-final episode of MC had 2.51 million.
Highest BB episode was a final eviction in 2002 with 2,301,461.
Some 2002 numbers for BB:
BIG BROTHER FINAL EVICTION 2,301,461
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER FOR CHARITY OPENING NIGHT 2,249,851
BIG BROTHER DAY ONE 2,045,851
BIG BROTHER HOUSEMATES - WHO WILL THEY BE? 1,953,547
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To be fair, that was 7 day consolidated wasnât it?
Whereas (for comparison) the 2005 Aus Open final and 2003 Rugby World Cup final (both on Seven) had over 4m in overnight?
Was that in 2010, when nearly every epsiode in the final month was close to or above 2m?
2009/2010 is when the show completely owned the labdscape.
I donât think they had 7 day consolidated then did they?
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They did, consolidated started in 2010, in fact I think it started in that month or only a couple before it?
(IIRC overnight for 2010 MC winner was actually 3.9m something?)
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Didnât realise. Well if current trend is anything to go by I am sure both the Rugby Final and Australian Open wouldnât have seen too much an increase.
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MasterChef promoted on LED billboard at the corner of Elizabeth and Flinders Streets in Melbourne city today.
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Twenty and a half hours to go!
Iâm just a bit excited 
A great first audition episode, how good is it having the former winners there to chat to them.
Social mediaâs gone off too!
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The latest issue of Who magazine has a feature on staff who work behind the scenes of the show. There is a guy who waters the driveway outside the MC kitchen before each episode (he says the driveway looks better if it is dark and wet when the cars carrying contestants come in). There is another guy who spends 10 hours to wash all the dishes and utensils after each cooking challenge.
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I still like the show, donât get me wrong. I just find the judges unlikeable. They went from extremely likeable to unlikeable in my opinion. I find some arogance comes across.
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for decades weâve been trying to get people to stop hosing down driveways and footpaths because itâs a stupid waste of water. But if it looks good on camera well donât worry about it⌠
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Real estate agents do it too. Drives me mad seeing it.
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New MC sponsors Holden and A2 used tonightâs season opener to launch their new ads. The Holden ad promoting the Equinox SUV features season 7 contestant Sara Oteri (who married her boyfriend Damian in late March) and chef Adam DâSylva. Sara was one of many former contestants who were at the season launch last week.
It was also revealed that contestants would have a cooking challenge at the Jacobâs Creek winery at the Barossa Valley during the showâs South Australia Week, as part of the wine labelâs sponsorship.
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Soemtimes I think any of that works in the showâs favour though.
And tonight when they tricked the audience, by making it seem as though they didnât like the dish, but actually did. Love and hate it!
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Yeah maybe. I think what worked well in the first few seasons though was the fact the judges were so likeable. I think a permanent female judge is needed.
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Well, Tenâs former long-time chief programmer David Mott ditched S1 host Sarah Wilson.
So donât think thatâs ever been a directionâŚ