Ratings drop for Big Brother eviction show

by Daniel Farey-Jones, Brand Republic 22-Jun-09, 11:00

LONDON - 'Big Brother' has suffered another drop in ratings with its key Friday night eviction programme down to 2.2m from 2.7m last week, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Cairon became the second housemate this series to be evicted. The 9pm-10pm show leading up to the result of the public vote drew a 10.1% share of viewing.

The share of viewing for last week's show, when Sophia was kicked out, was 13%.

This Friday's show was watched by another 199,000 viewers on Channel 4+1.

Both BBC One and ITV1 scored above 4m viewers in the 9pm-10pm slot, with 'Hotel Babylon' shading it for the former with 4.3m viewers and a 20% share.

ITV1's 'Doc Martin' managed 4.1m viewers giving the channel a 19.6% share.

'Big Brother' got the slot's third best ratings, ahead of Five's 1.5m viewers and 7.1% for 'NCIS'. BBC two trailed with an audience of just 603,000 for 'My Life In Verse: Malorie Blackman', a 2.7% share.