Big Brother 2011 on Channel 5

Not sure if that happened on all platforms. The person doing the subtitles didn't seem to suffer any freezing, they subtitled what was being said while we lost picture and sound.

It has been announced that Big Brother will be returning to Australian screens on Nine next year.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/09/a-buzz-about-big-brother.html

They are using the Channel 5 eye at the moment, but it could be just temporary. The website also links to Channel 5's:

http://www.bigbrother.com.au/

Badger was watching on HD, I was too, guess it was HD only.

Quite enjoyed the launch show... VERY 'interesting' mix of housemates, I'm predicting another BB5 (fingers crossed)!

Hope it plays out well over the next 9 weeks...!

I was watching on SD and had a few problems too!

It'll be interesting to see if that materialises. The house is still at Dreamworld but its used for something else now so will be interesting to see how it goes on that front.

I can't help but think Channel 5 should have gone for the Secret Story format too. When Nadia had her secret it was one of the biggest talking points of the series yet didn't interrupt the natural flow.

And so the collapse of audience begins, 1.37m last night.

I expect it's going to end up sub-1m before long, and fully justify Channel 4 getting rid : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/14/big-brother-ratings

I think they've played this wrong, they should have done more to merge the end of Celeb BB and the proper show and Pam Anderson should have gone in playing a lookalike.

I suspect a longer Celeb BB will take place from next year, possibly six weeks long? I have full confidence in Channel 5's ability of making this pay.

Pamela Anderson as a launch twist to a regular BB didn't work at all - but it did remind me how good Celebrity Hijack was and C5 could probably get some of the names they print in the Daily Star to guest in that.

I've always felt C5 rushing into it meant it was likely to be axed again next year anyway - only being 10% up on C5's ratings last year (so what - 1.37m instead of 1.25m) is certainly not worth the price tag.

I'm sure the celeb and regular series will go ahead next year - but did wonder if this series flopping might see them postpone CBB until the summer - but then again they're not going to want to repeat the same strategy again this year, so likely stick with CBB in January and then I reckon BB13 from May to July (they have planning permission until Aug 14th, so saves renewing it).

So it looks like it's fizzled out within 1 week. 1.16m last night, beaten by Celebrity Juice on ITV2.

Terrible figures so early in the series. They'll be hoping for an eviction bounce tonight.

There own fault both for rushing into it and launching with the celeb version. Had they launched with the regular version they'd have likely got 4-5m for the launch show of the regular BB and hence more viewers carrying over into the highlight shows.

I think Big Brother has kind of lost it's way (if that makes sense)!

What is Big Brother now? In the US it's a gameshow - what is it here? I can't see any 'agenda' for it...

I'd like to see the UK show introduce the US elements for next year, then again I'm biased because I adore BBUS.