Year or longer for this series?

[_Seth]

Why not? Basically as HMs get evicted, new ones are put in.

Didn't something like this happen to someone where they stayed in a BB house for a year?

[Stu]

The ratings would nosedive.

It would be overexposed.

The creative team would be at a loss for ideas.

No channel would ever accomodate it's schedule.

But apart from that yeah, it's a super idea.

[BB11UK]

Why not? Basically as HMs get evicted, new ones are put in.

Didn't something like this happen to someone where they stayed in a BB house for a year?

Big Brother Germany ran a series for a whole year.

[Matt]

Absolutely not. If there's anything that would kill Big Brother's chances of surviving in the UK, it would be making it longer - especially that long.

[Alf]

2 houses would be better

[ILoveTRW]

it needs to be shorter, if anything

[ButterflyGirl]

A few months is enough imo.

[Jack_]

24 years would be perfect.

[Stephanie]

24 years would be perfect.
:joker:

nah, i think they need to make it shorter.

[Patrick]

101 Days would be great, A Year would be amazing but only the hardcore fans would stay with it.

[Tom]

11 weeks maximum.

13 weeks is just too long

[anto42]

Germany did that its the one they built the village for it was supposed to run for a few years but ratings were terrible

[Brekkie]

LOL - that's one way to get around the axe without C4 backtracking!

In Germany the fifth series did OK actually, which lasted a year - but the sixth which also lasted a year, but was supposed to be indefinite, suffered - mainly as BB needs a beginning, middle and end - and after the first month you then have about ten months of the middle!

BBUK would defo need to leave Elstree too to run for so long - and need a major revamp. In it's current state it couldn't sustain it even if the producers, network and viewers wanted it too.


As for replacing evictees with new HMs that's something I think could be done in a 13-week series too - begin with 10-12 HMs and for the first 6 weeks or so replace each evictee - that IMO is better than sending in five contestants half way through. Indeed for the final series would be a neat twist to begin with 12 brand new HMs and then replace each evictee with a former housemate.

[Novo]

LOL!

Think people would get bored after several months

[\PJ/]

It would kill the show i mean come on a year! the people in there would surley go crazy.

[BBDodge]

It's too long as it is. Viewer fatigue sets in. That's why the winter show has better ratings.

And Elstree has to be vacated by 30/09/2010 unless Endemol get new planning permission.

[cheetahfur]

They could have something, where there are 2 houses... But dont know about each other at the time... say 8 people on each side of the divide...

After the first week... They are told 4 people are being evicted... Those 4 people (off each side, dont get evicted, but move to the other house)...

Then in the following weeks, they remain seperate, until challenges occur... The losing house, looses a housemate... When there are say 10 players left, they put them together in the house... And then they get the chance to vote back 2 players, that have been evicted.

[BBDodge]

They could have something, where there are 2 houses... But dont know about each other at the time... say 8 people on each side of the divide...

After the first week... They are told 4 people are being evicted... Those 4 people (off each side, dont get evicted, but move to the other house)...

Then in the following weeks, they remain seperate, until challenges occur... The losing house, looses a housemate... When there are say 10 players left, they put them together in the house... And then they get the chance to vote back 2 players, that have been evicted.

If both Houses are next to each other at the Elstree site it would take about a minute for them to realise that there's another House next door. As happened in BB7.