Big Brother

[chimpydoodle]

Why is it starting on a Thursday night instead of Friday this year!!????

[sheffwed39]

more to the question chimpey. why is it starting at all.

[Dav3]

I believe Channel 4 decided to put it on a Thursday as the target audience will often got out on Fridays and thus it was decided to put it on a day earlier to try and get all us young 'uns to watch it. Though that was reported in one of the papers, so you can read into that what you want...

In all seriousness it simply boils down to ratings. Shortly after the start of Big Brother 7 ITV1 will be putting on Celebrity X Factor, and Channel 4 want to get people hooked on BB7 before they can get hooked on ITV's offereing by getting it in earlier.

[Lou Knee]

I'm with Sheffwed on this one!

[sp1814]

FYI - CH4's contract with Endemol only extends to seven series of Big Brother.

For those of you who hate the show, this may be the last year.

Unless of course, ratings are so high that they sign up for another seven.