[Scarlett.]

BIG Brother is to be scrapped by Channel 4 after this year's ratings disaster, The Sun can reveal.

The axe comes as barely two million tune into the tenth series of the reality show - compared to eight million only a few years ago.

A telly insider last night confirmed an official announcement will be made as early as Friday, saying: "The reality is people are BORED with it. Even at Channel 4 the vibe among staff is that if you like Big Brother you're not cool.

Dull ... Marcus in current show

Dull ... Marcus in current show

CHANNEL 4 / REX

"If the people commissioning the show don't think it's cool, what hope is there?"

The "bold experiment" that was launched in 2000 went on to make stars of housemates such as Jade Goody, Chantelle Houghton and the original Mr "Nasty" Nick Bateman.

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But this year's dull crop - including mutton-chopped Wolverine lookalike Marcus - have proved the death knell.

One final series - the 11th - will be screened on C4 next year because of the channel's £180million deal with the show's makers Endemol.

But after that it will only go ahead if the production house can flog it to a rival channel.

At its peak Big Brother was a huge money-spinner - generating profits of £70million a year.

But insiders now say it is only just "washing its face" - industry speak for covering its costs.

They accuse the show of failing to win over the "Facebook generation" after being watered down to avoid controversy following the Shilpa Shetty race row on the celebrity version.

The source said: "The truth is nobody's talking about Big Brother any more."

Fans of Celebrity Big Brother are likely to still get their fix of it in January - since that is also part of C4's current deal.

The Sun

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-boring.html

[Brad.]

good. i wanted BB to end after BB11.

[Furbylol]

If anyone's its the producers faults, were are all the great twists? tbh block voting killed it off very early on..

[Rob!]

Oh.......balls.

[dudeMAN]

Is this for real?

This is so sh*t.

[Scarlett.]

BB should have eneded a few seires' ago, now its gonna be remembered as being the last of the boring reality shows

[merv]

Now I am Not sure if the post is a genuine report.
But I do agree it is watered down, I doubt any of the current housemates would have walked in the same shoes as past housemates for behaviour or entertainment value.
But, BB would be unwise to axe it, a cable channel with less constraints behaviour wise would snap it up and we'd be back to the glory days.

[King Gizzard]

good.

[Jayson]

So BB10 is the last series?

[luminoussun]

I hope channel 5 take it on and go back to its roots and put real people and not wannabe idiots in the house

[ILoveTRW]

The Sun's stories are usually right

[Scarlett.]

Originally posted by merv
Now I am Not sure if the post is a genuine report.
But I do agree it is watered down, I doubt any of the current housemates would have walked in the same shoes as past housemates for behaviour or entertainment value.
But, BB would be unwise to axe it, a cable channel with less constraints behaviour wise would snap it up and we'd be back to the glory days.

Reality TV is dying a slow death, Talent shows are the new big thing

[Brad.]

Originally posted by Jayson
So BB10 is the last series?

BB11 is.

[King Gizzard]

The only thing is theyve ended on a **** series. They should just pull out all the stops for a final series - live feed, total BBLB rebranding, etc.

End the show on a high.

[Tom4784]

A few years ago i'd have been bothered but now I'm pretty apathetic when it comes to BB.

[flemin]

Eight million a few years ago? For the launch and final maybe but no highlights show has ever got anywhere near that figure.

[Scarlett.]

Originally posted by flemin
Eight million a few years ago? For the launch and final maybe but no highlights show has ever got anywhere near that figure.

it did at least get 3-4m

[merv]

"Reality TV is dying a slow death, Talent shows are the new big thing "

To be Picky, Talent shows are reality TV, when you take people out of there normal lifestyles.
Some of the biggest show are reality or feature the public.
Come dine with me, Coach Trip,Castaway, I'm a celebrity etc Peter and Katie etc. and most occupy the media pages.

[BBfan46]

BIG Brother is to be scrapped by Channel 4 after this year's ratings disaster, The Sun can reveal.

The axe comes as barely two million tune into the tenth series of the reality show - compared to eight million only a few years ago.

A telly insider last night confirmed an official announcement will be made as early as Friday, saying: "The reality is people are BORED with it. Even at Channel 4 the vibe among staff is that if you like Big Brother you're not cool.

Dull ... Marcus in current show

Dull ... Marcus in current show

CHANNEL 4 / REX

"If the people commissioning the show don't think it's cool, what hope is there?"

The "bold experiment" that was launched in 2000 went on to make stars of housemates such as Jade Goody, Chantelle Houghton and the original Mr "Nasty" Nick Bateman.

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Deal

But this year's dull crop - including mutton-chopped Wolverine lookalike Marcus - have proved the death knell.

One final series - the 11th - will be screened on C4 next year because of the channel's £180million deal with the show's makers Endemol.

But after that it will only go ahead if the production house can flog it to a rival channel.

At its peak Big Brother was a huge money-spinner - generating profits of £70million a year.

But insiders now say it is only just "washing its face" - industry speak for covering its costs.

They accuse the show of failing to win over the "Facebook generation" after being watered down to avoid controversy following the Shilpa Shetty race row on the celebrity version.

The source said: "The truth is nobody's talking about Big Brother any more."

Fans of Celebrity Big Brother are likely to still get their fix of it in January - since that is also part of C4's current deal.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-boring.html

[Brad.]

already been posted.

[Tom4784]

It's been posted, The Sun isn't the most reliable source but anyone could have told you this from the start of BB10. It's been obvious that'd end sooner rather then later.

[Scarlett.]

Originally posted by merv
"Reality TV is dying a slow death, Talent shows are the new big thing "

To be Picky, Talent shows are reality TV, when you take people out of there normal lifestyles.
Some of the biggest show are reality or feature the public.
Come dine with me, Coach Trip,Castaway, I'm a celebrity etc Peter and Katie etc. and most occupy the media pages.

X Factor/BGT are the BIG things

the ones you listed arent really the big shows

[Jayson]

Originally posted by Bradley.

BB11 is.

I expected that anyway, lol.

[Furbylol]

Lol, they called Marcus Dull.
The irony.

[Sir_Diary_of_Roomus]

If no rival channel is interested in buying the rights, then I wouldn't rule out a new contract for new series' to go on E4. Didn't Celeb Hijack attract more viewers to E4 than anything else before? They'd probably be a lot shorter though.