{"id":2544,"date":"2009-09-07T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/07\/2544\/celebrity-bb-viewers-drop-by-half\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T00:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:00:36","slug":"celebrity-bb-viewers-drop-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/2544\/celebrity-bb-viewers-drop-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity BB viewers drop by half"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7171506.stm\">The launch of the new Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack attracted less than half the audience of last year&#8217;s regular star name format.<br \/>\nOvernight estimates showed 3.5m viewers watched the reality programme, compared with 7.3m who tuned into the first in the series of 2007&#8217;s celebrity version. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly two million people switched off when the show ended on Channel 4 and continued on digital station E4. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Hijack sees stars act as Big Brother to a house of &#8220;unknowns&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and somehow people are surprised that there are fewer viewers?<\/p>\n<p>Having to change channel to watch the rest of a programme is probably enough to do it. Then there&#8217;s the relatively little publicity it&#8217;s gained &#8211; the prospect of celebrities just &#8220;dropping in&#8221; rather than staying and slowly going crazy isn&#8217;t quite as attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that, that it&#8217;s all getting a bit old and tired?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moretomorrow.co.uk\/feed\/\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the new Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack attracted less than half the audience of last year&#8217;s regular star name format. Overnight estimates showed 3.5m viewers watched the reality programme, compared with 7.3m who tuned into the first in the series of 2007&#8217;s celebrity version. Nearly two million people switched off when the show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/2544\/celebrity-bb-viewers-drop-by-half\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrity BB viewers drop by half<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}