[Daniel.]

Because of the race row, the all female launch and the poor cast. BB8 has a hanful of fans here because of some good housemates, but at the time and until recently it was seen as BB4 level bad (something I personally don't agree with, I found it a good deal better than 9).

I think another thing that is rarely mentioned and something I probably won't explain well, is that a lot of the time it felt stagnant. With BB7/6/5 for example if you missed a week you would miss a whole load of dynamic changes, storyline and the house could be a completely different place to the week before. BB8 felt as if it had no story movement so if you missed a week, who cares? All you would have missed is another Charley row and another Chiggy break up/make up, so people probably just got bored of it and gave up.