Published on: Oct 18, 2025 02:19 pm IST
TVR measures the percentage of a target audience watching a program at a given time, indicating its popularity and advertising value.
Bigg Boss remains one of India’s most-watched television shows, topping TVR charts across major regional languages. The show is hosted by multiple superstars in multiple languages, that air on different channels.
What are ratings for different versions?
Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 7 leads with a 12.1 rating. It is hosted by superstar Mohanlal.
Bigg Boss Kannada Season 12 follows with 7.4 on weekdays and 10.9 on weekends. It is hosted by Kiccha Sudeep.
Bigg Boss Telugu Season 9 maintains a strong performance with an 11.1 rating. Actor Nagarjuna hosts it.
Bigg Boss Tamil Season 9 reached 3.4 crore viewers on TV and got a 5.61 TVR, as per TamilTVHouse. The Tamil version is hosted by Vijay Sethupathi.
Bigg Boss Hindi Season 19 recorded a rise in ratings from 1.1 to 1.3 this week, with weekend ratings at 1.8. Superstar Salman Khan hosts the show.
| Version | Rating |
|---|---|
| Bigg Boss Malayalam | 12.1 |
| Bigg Boss Kannada | 7.4 |
| Bigg Boss Telugu | 11.1 |
| Bigg Boss Hindi | 1.3 |
| Bigg Boss Tamil | 5.6 |
What is TVR?
A TVR stands for Television Rating or Television Viewership Rating. It measures the percentage of a target audience that watched a particular program or channel at a given time.
In simple terms, it shows how many people (out of the total potential viewers) were tuned in to a specific show.
For example, a TVR of 5 means 5% of the total TV-owning audience watched that program.
TVR is one of the key metrics used in the TV industry to gauge a show’s popularity and advertising value. It’s now often replaced or supplemented by TVT (Television Viewership in Thousands) or AMA (Average Minute Audience) in India’s updated rating systems from BARC.
On Weekend Ka Vaar this Saturday, Salman will pull up contestants who exhibited bad behaviour on the show. These include Amaal Malik, Shehbaaz Badeshah and Malti Chahar.
