Big Brother to be axed by C4 (after BB11) [The Sun - threads merged]

[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/showbiz/big_brother/2606816/Big-Brother-is-axed-as-C4-faces-reality-that-it-is-boring.html

[Brad.]

good. i wanted BB to end after BB11. :bigsmile:

[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 :bawling:

[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. :thumbs:

[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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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/showbiz/big_brother/2606816/Big-Brother-is-axed-as-C4-faces-reality-that-it-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.
Originally posted by Jayson
So BB10 is the last series?

BB11 is. :thumbs: 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.

[BBfan46]

I posted the second half actually aka the full version unlike the other post.

[MissKittyFantastico]

I'd rather it finished this year tbh.

If the effort, or rather lack of it, that's gone into BB10 is anything to go by, then next year will be even worse.

Would rather they sold it off now and let someone else have a better go with it. After a break of a year or two.

[Brad.]

Originally posted by BBfan46
I posted the second half actually aka the full version unlike the other post.

No, this is the exact same article

[keithafc]

Originally posted by 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
Reality TV is all about wannbe's. That is what the show is about now. It's not an experiment anymore. Most of them just sleep all day and how do you expect people to stay interested in something for 90+ days? It's a joke.

No one should be in that enviroment for 90+ days, the mind games don't help in that sort of house with people you really don't know that well like you would do in the outside world.

[TurtleSoup]

It's quite funny they reference Marcus when he's one of the most watchable housemates.

[BBfan46]

Originally posted by TurtleSoup
It's quite funny they reference Marcus when he's one of the most watchable housemates.
Actually all he does is sit under a quilt and wank. Not exactly exciting.

[Rob!]

This is ****....
Whoever made the decision to cut LF, Diary Room Uncut, BB on the couch....Damn their hides to Hades. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

[keithafc]

Marcus is BB 10

[Sir_Diary_of_Roomus]

It has been confirmed to be scrapped since BB8. Still hasn't happened. They'll see the contract through, what happens after is the mystery.

[Jords]

Im not surprised, the producers are not making it interesting anymore.

[Scarlett.]

I bet C4 are kicking themselves for signing upto BB11

[Benjamin]

To be fair, BB has run it's course. Every great show has to end at some point. maybe in 20 years BB can make a massive revival for another 10 years.

It is a shame, but they are right, it is not as widely talked about as it used to be and has become more of a 'cult' following rather than a popular and exciting show.


It's has done well though, and will remain the 'Daddy' of all reality shows for some time.

[Jords]

Thats what they should do, have next year the last, then have a 2-3 year break, then bring it back wit loads of twists in mind, and good tasks, and make it the best yet that it attracts 10 million viewers,itspossibly if they try.

[Rob!]

Originally posted by -BB~Jordan-
Thats what they should do, have next year the last, then have a 2-3 year break, then bring it back wit loads of twists in mind, and good tasks, and make it the best yet that it attracts 10 million viewers,itspossibly if they try.


Exactly.
BB10 has had a general feeling of meh from the producers - even the house wasn't that different from last years (The diary room is in EXACTLY the same place with stairs on either side.) A break and then a huge comeback would save it.

[Shaun]

Good. It's ****.

[Nemo123]

Lazy journalism - there's no news in it.

[Scarlett.]

BB will be back, I know that much, but more likely in 10 or 20 years, at the moment, its not exactly must see viewing

[TheDarkHorsey]

call me an uninformed idiot but this years had the best drama and entertainment. imo

[Rob!]

Originally posted by TheDarkHorsey
call me an uninformed idiot but this years had the best drama and entertainment. imo

It's been different - I've said loads of times that BB has left the housemates to create their own drama and throwing the odd minor twist in to add a bit of fuel, but the producers seem to have taken a back seat this year. Unfortuantly the likes of Marcus and Siavash have taken advantage of this and made Big Brother look like a tit.

[IheartBB]

This only means BB is over for channel 4. I'm sure some other channel will buy the rights to it, even if it does change the format a little, Big Brother will live!

[keithafc]

The problem is they aren't getting the viewers in they need to keep it going year in year out and many people are bored of it. I ain't even the biggest of fan's of BB. Why am i still watching it? For Marcus, if he wasn't in anymore, i'd stop watching and most likely woulnd't be on here posting about BB.

The house needs big charcters and we have people hating Marcus who is by FAR the biggest one in the house and people wonder why people aren't watching? That's one of the big reasons, along with shabby producing and some other thing's like the LF of course who people did like.

But the whole thing is way too PC. They proved that when they called Marcus to the diary room to try and grill him and ended up looking stupid.

[keithafc]

Originally posted by IheartBB
This only means BB is over for channel 4. I'm sure some other channel will buy the rights to it, even if it does change the format a little, Big Brother will live!
What Channel will one to take a programme which is failing to attract viewers? ITV? Forget about it, they have other show's, BBC? NO CHANCE.

We have to face it, the show is coming to an end.

[ElProximo]

Originally posted by 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.
"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.
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/showbiz/big_brother/2606816/Big-Brother-is-axed-as-C4-faces-reality-that-it-is-boring.html

Without a doubt you could see the backend through the frontend this season.
By that I mean it was apparent from the botched 'YouTube Applicants' hoax being abandoned to the 'hurry up and go' Launch night,
to the cast most obviously quickly selected from Agencies or previous employees,
to the House 'design' which was really just unused previously rejected left-overs,
to the lack of enthusiasm,
to the live-feeds being taken away,
and,
really just the sort of 'contempt' production and writing seemed to have for it.
Not an enthusiastic concept but a 'barely bothered to try contempt'.
You just got this feeling BB people (whoever was left) were spending more time on the phone tracking down new job opps and leads and/or retirement deals than bothering with the 'wrap up' obligatory season10.
Watch how fast and what a minimum effort drives to the final (half of them probably left already),
and,
watch how quickly they will just wrap up and forget this season.
5 minutes after the winner is interviewed you will see staff already packed and out the door.

Sounds like there is a BB11 after all this.
The only real possibility?
It will be some sort of 'All-Star' version of previous HMs and previous Celebrity BB HMs.
As short a season as possible.
More of a 'good-bye' and 'look back' and 'wrap it all up' season.

[Big_Kahuna]

It's all bullcrap

[MarkWaldorf]

Anyone who believes Big Brother can be saved by a 'break' is dillusional. The format is dead. The general public don't care anymore. If you think them building a brand new house, adding some transvestite Russian or making up some amazing twist in 2012 will bring back 7 million viewers, you're wrong.

If people want a good reality show these days, they'll find it in X Factor or Britains Got Talent. Big Brother, as good as it was, is just....blah now. The only people who believe it can be saved by a break or new network are, unsurprisingly, the few remaining Big Brother fans.

[Appearance_Of_A_Junky]

Originally posted by BBfan46
Originally posted by TurtleSoup
It's quite funny they reference Marcus when he's one of the most watchable housemates.
Actually all he does is sit under a quilt and ***k. Not exactly exciting.

Thats all I do

[IheartBB]

Originally posted by keithafc
The problem is they aren't getting the viewers in they need to keep it going year in year out and many people are bored of it. I ain't even the biggest of fan's of BB. Why am i still watching it? For Marcus, if he wasn't in anymore, i'd stop watching and most likely woulnd't be on here posting about BB.

The house needs big charcters and we have people hating Marcus who is by FAR the biggest one in the house and people wonder why people aren't watching? That's one of the big reasons, along with shabby producing and some other thing's like the LF of course who people did like.

But the whole thing is way too PC. They proved that when they called Marcus to the diary room to try and grill him and ended up looking stupid.

The lack of live feed and very little media interest since the Shilpa Shetty incident have contributed to the low viewing figures. Plus it's on for too long. 7 days a week, for 13 whole weeks is just too much for a casual viewer. That's the reason why X-factor and Britains got talent get so many viewers, it's only on once a week or only on for a short amount of time with HUGE media interest and hype from the production team. Channel 4 did not hype this years big brother at all. What happened to the sneak preview adverts that ran on channel 4 weeks before the show even began? The show taking a break would be the best thing for it. When it returns in a few year, the media will be interested again as talent shows like X-factor would have gone down the same road as big brother and will be looking for the next hot topic. With awesome twists and some major advertising, BB could be revitalised, if only for a short while, in a few years time.

[IheartBB]

Originally posted by keithafc
Originally posted by IheartBB
This only means BB is over for channel 4. I'm sure some other channel will buy the rights to it, even if it does change the format a little, Big Brother will live!
What Channel will one to take a programme which is failing to attract viewers? ITV? Forget about it, they have other show's, BBC? NO CHANCE.

We have to face it, the show is coming to an end.

Sky1 do a pretty good job of taking channel 4's failing shows :shrug: E4, Living TV, channel 5... to name a few

[keithafc]

No one is going to subscribe to Sky to watch Big Brother. Let's not kid ourselves, like some one has said above, taking a break won't do much good either.


The show has simply ran it's course. Some of the biggest dick head's in british society have came from the show and made well over a million from it and have very little talent. Just look at Jade goody, how the hell did she make the amount she did? She was as thick as a brick, no disrespect and all given that she has passed away now.

[tpau21]

so what is there going to be bb11

[IheartBB]

Originally posted by keithafc
No one is going to subscribe to Sky to watch Big Brother. Let's not kid ourselves, like some one has said above, taking a break won't do much good either.

Who said anything about subscribing to sky specifically for BB? Sky already has millions of subcribers.

[tpau21]

the only way they have a chance of getting ratings up is bb all stars...and i mean hardly any bb7 - bb10 characters

bb1 - bb6 that will get the old fans back

[keithafc]

Yeah but Big Brother is hardly going to be a big pull in for them is it? They have Skysports, Sky movies etc. Big Brother for me would just FAIL on sky.

[stickydatepudding]

- No live feed.
- Evictions talk allowed.
- Housemates given outside information (the magazines).
- Housemates given day trips out in the real world.
- Allowing block voting to go unpunished.
- A house full of assholes.

What did they expect?

[IheartBB]

Originally posted by keithafc
Yeah but Big Brother is hardly going to be a big pull in for them is it? They have Skysports, Sky movies etc. Big Brother for me would just FAIL on sky.

You'd be suprised. Anything that gets 1million viewrs on sky is classed as a hit. LOST is the best example of this - a failing channel 4 show, took over by sky and now - even though it has lower fugures than what it did on channel 4 - it is a sky1 hit. Big brother has a larger following than LOST.

Maybe I'm over analysing this too much, but it's certainly a possibility.

[Tom4784]

The flaw in the Sky Theory is that Sky only poach successful shows. They'd kill for 2 million viewers a night yes BUT it wouldn't get that on a sky channel since it's a digital channel and not accessible to everyone, Hence why Celeb Hijack failed in the ratings.

I'd be very surprised if it gets picked up by another channel, people need to face facts really. The bubble's burst and BB has been dying since BB8 (although BB9 was a dose of adrenalin if we're to keep up the medical metaphors).

[Tom4784]

Originally posted by IheartBB
Originally posted by keithafc
Yeah but Big Brother is hardly going to be a big pull in for them is it? They have Skysports, Sky movies etc. Big Brother for me would just FAIL on sky.

You'd be suprised. Anything that gets 1million viewrs on sky is classed as a hit. LOST is the best example of this - a failing channel 4 show, took over by sky and now - even though it has lower fugures than what it did on channel 4 - it is a sky1 hit. Big brother has a larger following than LOST.

Maybe I'm over analysing this too much, but it's certainly a possibility.


HAHAHA! I'm sorry but Lost wasn't a failing show, it was one of C4's crown diamonds and they fought Sky hard for it. What you got to remember is that imports are cheaper then producing a homegrown television series. So getting 2 million viewers for an import is just as good as getting 3 million on a homegrown program because it will have cost less to get those figures.

[mikopale]

I think people would be interested in Big Brother again if it wasn't on every year. They could just put it on every 3 years instead of 1 year. I would love to see Big Brother on every year, but i could deal with it if it was on every few years.

[keithafc]

Yep, simple as that for me. It's ran its course.

[MrGaryy]

...did someone just say BB has a bigger following than Lost.

hold me dean...

[janine_luv_xx]

i didnt think diary room uncut was axed

[Annmarie]

I think one of the main reasons it hasn't had the ratings is because they've axed the live feed during the day. It's made a huge difference to me. Even if I didn't sit and watch it all day, I always tuned in at some point to see what was happening.

[IheartBB]

Originally posted by Dezzy
Originally posted by IheartBB
Originally posted by keithafc
Yeah but Big Brother is hardly going to be a big pull in for them is it? They have Skysports, Sky movies etc. Big Brother for me would just FAIL on sky.

You'd be suprised. Anything that gets 1million viewrs on sky is classed as a hit. LOST is the best example of this - a failing channel 4 show, took over by sky and now - even though it has lower fugures than what it did on channel 4 - it is a sky1 hit. Big brother has a larger following than LOST.

Maybe I'm over analysing this too much, but it's certainly a possibility.


HAHAHA! I'm sorry but Lost wasn't a failing show, it was one of C4's crown diamonds and they fought Sky hard for it. What you got to remember is that imports are cheaper then producing a homegrown television series. So getting 2 million viewers for an import is just as good as getting 3 million on a homegrown program because it will have cost less to get those figures.

OK, you make a good point there. Maybe BB on sky isn't such a great business idea afterall :bawling:

[SurferJay]

i knew this months ago.

[delta]

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.




"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.

[Twilight]

WTF marcus dull????

[Linto99]

Originally posted by TurtleSoup
It's quite funny they reference Marcus when he's one of the most watchable housemates.

It's all a matter of opinion but Marcus in my eyes is as dull as dishwater!

[*mazedsalv**]

There will be a BB11 anyway. Compare to ALL other C4 shows, BB comes 1st, and 2nd only to Location, Location. To still get the highest C4 ratings compared to everything else after 10 yrs is a good achievement,

What people dont see is the general C4 decline.
When Friends was on air, it was hitting 6-7m weekly, with the final peaking at a huge 10m, these were the years when the huge Friday night lineup would be advertised non stop and acchieve big numbers (explains the BB2-BB5 ratings) .The Simpsons 2 years ago was reaching 3.4m and now manages only 1.7m, and Hollyaoks which was reaching 3m 2 years ago is now hitting 1.3m. Everything is going down, why just rule out BB?

It is C4's fault for their own failure. Where has there Must see Friday night lineup gone ? The Friday nights changed since 2005, everything was getting cancelled(Fraiser, Friends, Trigger Happy TV ect...)

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by mikopale
I think people would be interested in Big Brother again if it wasn't on every year. They could just put it on every 3 years instead of 1 year. I would love to see Big Brother on every year, but i could deal with it if it was on every few years.

Its clear that people are still ionterested by the show by these numbers:

CBB6 launch watched by 6.1m, after a terrible year and bad ratings dropping to 2m. BB10 launch was watched by 5.5m. That implies that people still are interested.

I think it would be amazing to take BB away from C4 and put it on ITV, and they will advertise it properly, think of new plans, bring the LF back and we can be sure it will be back to 4m levels again. It would be great satisfaction to see C4 staff's faces if BB will be a success on other channels :bigsmile:

[ElProximo]

Originally posted by stickydatepudding
- No live feed.
- Evictions talk allowed.
- Housemates given outside information (the magazines).
- Housemates given day trips out in the real world.
- Allowing block voting to go unpunished.
- A house full of assholes.

What did they expect?

And this is it - by dissolving the core rules and abandoning the fundamental concepts for what might have been 'cheap thrills' it cost the program all integrity.

I catch up yesterday and see them handed magazines articles about themselves,
Two more just leave the house and go to London,
the rest are running around the studio which really blows the whole psychological 'fish bowl' concepts,
no nomination rules followed,
HM do whatever,
Who cares,
People coming and going giving them stats on the popularity so why do anything anymore?
What is this now?
Just film 20 people in a hotel with access for anyone to come and go for a Summer for all its worth.

[WAYNEEBRUM]

Not surprised its no longer BB,they screwed up too many times this year.

[Harry!]

Posted 2 times already ....

[IsleOfWeather]

I've stopped watching

[*mazedsalv**]

They will go ahead with BB11 but I hope and WISH someone else picks it up. C4 are muppets.

The "axe" is one of the most talked about topic on the general TV forum on Digital Spy. If you go over there on the Ratings Thread, most of the recent posst have been about BB's "axe". C4 shouldnt get BB, they dont deserve it.

[delta]

They literally sh!t their selves when all the legal stuff was threatened and with GB getting involved in the Shilpa incident.

A whole lot of other stuff happened in around the same time, the Johnathan Ross and Russel Brand incident, all has lead to a shift in emphasis to more family orientated, 'cleaner' programmes. whiter than white and holier than thou presenters etc.

When the reverberations of all this clean up went straight to the very top, then there was nowhere to hide, nowhere to blame the buck stopped at the executives- and they buckled, what we are seeing is a watered down version of what used to be a good social experiment.

It has totally lost its way, and needs a good shaking up, the concept of putting twelve strangers in a house is still good its the razzmatazz that surrounds it all that needs changing.

[Jackie]

I think they've ruined it by getting rid of the red button thats part of the problem this year.

[delta]

Why do these topics need to be merged, this is a fast moving forum, just because it has been posted before doesn't make it any less significant?


People don't want to trawl through pages and pages of posts.


Ultimately, if it is a duplicated post and everyone has read it or has had enough to do with it then it will just fall from the front page.


Simples.


Some one wanting to feel important, methinks ( not a traffic warden, by any chance?)

[Combo]

Originally posted by ILoveMoney
The Sun's stories are usually right :bawling:

Are you serious? The sun is the biggest bull **** people since the hills-borough disaster, I never trust that paper as a source really.

[James]

:bored: If there are identical topics about the same subject posters find themselves having to repeat their opinion on different threads.

It is okay to have new threads about a subject if there is a new development in the story.

[CaraRawr]

:bawling:

[markg30]

Channel 5 will have it...but only the celeb BB they won't bother with RTV after that Pig shagger fail some years back. The production values would be so much lower as well...and C5 haven't got the structure in place to pull off a summer long show or a live feed. Maybe sky on a PPV basis? perhaps Setanta will rise from the flames and buy it!

[delta]

Originally posted by James
:bored: If there are identical topics about the same subject posters find themselves having to repeat their opinion on different threads.

It is okay to have new threads about a subject if there is a new development in the story.

I am sorry, what happened to ignoring it?


If you had said your tenpenneth, then why feel the need to repeat it?

What you don't want is pages and pages on one particular topic that people cannot be bothered to trawl through.

[*mazedsalv**]

BBC news saying that there will be ANOTHER CBB in 2011, I dont get it?

So now they are saying we've still got CBB7, BB11 and CBB8?

I just wish it would happen now, so for BB11 BB would be somewhere else, I cant stand C4, i hope they all become poor, including that stupid idiot Sharon Powers who said yestetday "C4 are proud of ratings" hours before the axe was announced. C4 ARE LIARS!