Broadcasts
Companion shows Big Brother's Big Mouth and Big Brother's Little Brother were broadcast alongside the main show, with the addition of new show Big Brother's Big Brain (a psychology show), hosted by Dermot O'Leary. Live action was available online through the official Channel 4 website; NTL BroadbandPlus; and by pressing the red button on E4 via Sky Digital (UK, not Republic of Ireland subscribers) and cable. At the start of the series live action was also available by pressing the red button on E4 via Freeview, but the service was removed a few days prior to the launch of Film4 on Freeview.
The title sequence contained phrases such as, at the very beginning with a screen resembling an FBI Anti-Piracy Warning: "This is the title sequence for Big Brother", "Not for transmission", and a copyright year of 1903 (written MCMIII), the birth year of George Orwell. Parts of the sequence include CCTV-style footage of the underpass featured at the start of the film version of A Clockwork Orange. The time and date displayed at the bottom keep repeating the digit seven, signifying the seventh series of the show. Other words flashed on screen included "You are being observed", and, in sequence the text "cam 01", "cam 09", "cam 08" and "cam 04" was shown at the top of the screen, making 1984, another reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four.
On the launch night, the programme obtained a peak audience of 7.7 million viewers, 1 million greater than the launch night of the previous series but then dropped to an average of 4.7 million. The series' final broadcast obtained a peak audience of 8.2 million viewers, 500,000 greater than the launch show.
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