[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by michael21

you could say the same for BB

You really couldn't, channel 5 have confirmed discussions about BB .

Plus Media Guardian is the UK's leading media paper and Broadcast is the UK media's largest industry magazine and both carried the story (only the star carried The Golden Cage one, and their report was dismissed as nonsense by Jonathan Ross)..

[michael21]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

You really couldn't, channel 5 have confirmed discussions about BB .

Plus Media Guardian is the UK's leading media paper and Broadcast is the UK media's largest industry magazine and both carried the story (only the star carried The Golden Cage one, and their report was dismissed as nonsense by Jonathan Ross)..

who the boss of the star

[Elle-Stree]

Channel Five probably really didn't want to use the name "Big Brother" if they could help it, and they can't afford to do too many live shows, definitely not the big live evictions with big crowds C4 did. So Golden Cage was ideal - taking out the viewer vote, all pre-recorded. However they have realised that nobody will watch Five unless they already know the "star" or the show already since most of even their newest stuff has done badly. Hence them going back to the idea of doing "Big Brother" as the name will be guaranteed to pull in the viewers, at the risk of people once they see it thinking this is "no frills big brother" and it will be slated in the press. However while the name might be "Big Brother" the actual show may still end up being like "The Golden Cage" but with a different title - just they have probably found a way to keep some element of viewer participation in.