As the television event of summer 2000, the first Big Brother both set and broke records. Below are some of the facts and figures charting its successful first outing. Now statos, enjoy!


A RECORD ONSCREEN

38m viewers watched Big Brother at least once (69% of population).

210 minutes was the average time each viewer watched Big Brother.

79% of all 16 to 34-year-olds watched Big Brother at least once.


A RECORD OFFSCREEN

20m calls were made to the Big Brother eviction line.

7.4m voted in the final phone poll, making it the biggest ever UK televote at that time.

200m page impressions were received by the Big Brother website in 9 weeks.

Up to 3,500,000 page impressions a day made it Europe's No1 website.

7 days was all it took for Big Brother to become UK's most popular site

7.5m page impressions (on the day of Nick's eviction) was a world record jump for an individual website.

200,000 copies of the Big Brother single were sold - the highest charting TV theme since 'Teletubbies Say Eh Oh'. The Paul Oakenfold track went in at number 4 in its first week of release and spent three weeks in the Top Ten.

295,000 copies of the book 'Big Brother - The Official Unseen Story' were sold in the run-up to Xmas 2000.

20,000 called the Big Brother auction on T4 to raise money for Childline, Centrepoint and Focus E15.


RATINGS DATA - Source: BARB, Network, Individuals. Figures for BB1 & BB2 are consolidated, all others Live+VOSDAL



SERIES AVERAGE LAUNCH NIGHT FINAL NIGHT
Big Brother 1 - 4.6m
Big Brother 1 - 3.7m
Big Brother 1 - 7.9m (31%) 9.5m (49%)

Big Brother 2 - 4.6m
Big Brother 2 - 3.5m
Big Brother 2 - 5.8m (30%) 8m (47%)

Big Brother 3 - 5.3m
Big Brother 3 - 5.7m
Big Brother 3 - 8.2m (38%) 9.2m (49%)

Big Brother 4 - 4.2m
Big Brother 4 - 6.8m
Big Brother 4 - 6m (28%) 6.5m (33%)

Big Brother 5 - 4.7m
Big Brother 5 - 6.6m
Big Brother 5 - 5.9m (28%) 8.2m (41%)

Big Brother 6 - 4.2m
Big Brother 6 - 5.8m
Big Brother 6 - 6.3m (29%) 6.6m (34%)

Big Brother 7 - 4.4m
Big Brother 7 - 6.9m
Big Brother 7 - 7.6m (39%) 6.2m (28%)

Big Brother 8 - 3.6m
Big Brother 8 - 6.2m
Big Brother 8 - 5.2m (24%) 5.2m (28%)

Big Brother 9 - 3.3m
Big Brother 9 - 5.3m
Big Brother 9 - 4.2m (17%) 4.9m (23%)

Big Brother 10 - 2.2m
Big Brother 10 - 5.1m
Big Brother 10 - 2.8m (13%) 2.8M (17%)



SERIES AVERAGE LAUNCH NIGHT FINAL NIGHT
Celebrity Big Brother 1 - 5.1m
Celebrity Big Brother 1 - 4.6m
Celebrity Big Brother 1 - 5.7m (22%) 5.7m (33%)

Celebrity Big Brother 2 - 4.3m

Celebrity Big Brother 2 - 7.2m
Celebrity Big Brother 2 - 2.6m (12%) 4.9m (29%)

Celebrity Big Brother 3 - 4m

Celebrity Big Brother 3 - 5.2m
Celebrity Big Brother 3 - 5.3m (20%)

Celebrity Big Brother 4 - 4.7m

Celebrity Big Brother 4 - 6.5m
Celebrity Big Brother 4 - 5.8m (25%)

Celebrity Big Brother 5 - 4.3m

Celebrity Big Brother 5 - 7.1m
Celebrity Big Brother 5 - 5.8m (21%)

Celebrity Big Brother 6 - 3.1m

Celebrity Big Brother 6 - 5.6m
Celebrity Big Brother 6 - 3.1m (13%) 3.5m (17%)

Celebrity Big Brother 7 - 3.3m
Celebrity Big Brother 7 - 6.2m
Celebrity Big Brother 7 - 3.8m (15%) 4.1m (20%)