Has BB's Audience Type Changed?

[echo cafe]

Just wondering, i think yes. It doesnt seem to attracting the old 'obsessive' types like before. The audience now seems to be just a casual TOWIE type. Sad really. :conf:
(pat on back for not mentioning the lack of live feed is the reason for this. Damn!) :blush:

[fingers]

Just wondering, i think yes. It doesnt seem to attracting the old 'obsessive' types like before. The audience now seems to be just a casual TOWIE type. Sad really. :conf:
(pat on back for not mentioning the lack of live feed is the reason for this. Damn!) :blush:

Think they are just getting younger, even 3 year olds now demand the Remote!:dance:

[billy123]

Its certainly dumbed down a lot i wish i could be content with what it is now but its too trashy and shallow i will try and carry on watching but it is sad to see whats become of it. its like childrens tv now.

[CharlieO]

I am not addicted :( and I have been addicted to every series. I am only watching out of habit and hope at the moment. 12 more weeks of it seems a little long though.

[Omah]

Think they are just getting younger, even 3 year olds now demand the Remote!:dance:

Eh-oh! Again-again!

:colour:

[slow&steady]

I still watch, but in no way like i did before. if i miss it when its on, i ain't that fussed & make no effort really to catch up with it. unthinkable in previous years.

[Beso]

the real bb will be better than this crap.

[Harry!]

I am liking this series but I am sort of watching it out of habit. I would much rather listen to some music etc. But sill enjoying it though. I missed BB Bits the other day and normally I would be like I must catch up but now I am like idk.

[fingers]

the real bb will be better than this crap.

Erm. yes, if you say so.

[Zippy]

It definitely doesnt have the emotional pull it once had.

You actually invested in the HMs at one time and couldnt wait for the next ep. Now it's just trashy TV that you don't care too much about missing episodes occasionally.

I'd say it definitely shed many intelligent viewers years ago.

[Beso]

Erm. yes, if you say so.

don't poopoo it before it starts...:sleep:

[fingers]

don't poopoo it before it starts...:sleep:

One has to bow to superior wisdom.

[Beso]

One has to bow to superior wisdom.

:sleep:

[joeysteele]

Hard to say at this stage if its audience has changed.

I like this series and I am sure I will enjoy the main BB too.I don't know if the audience has changed as to the make up of it but it would be a positive thing if a new audience was also watching it too.

I think some have left it but it's also gained a fair few as a new audience,I now know people who are watching it who haven't really watched BB before.

[Roy Mars III]

It's very lightweight television at the moment. It lost all the emotional power it once had. It's basically filler television, that I only watch because of years of allegiance to the show.

[Jordan.]

Anyone else bored of non-viewers slagging off people who are actually enjoying this series?

[Zippy]

Anyone else bored of non-viewers slagging off people who are actually enjoying this series?

I think everyone on this thread does watch it.

[Omah]

I think everyone on this thread does watch it.

I don't ..... :nono:

[Zippy]

I don't ..... :nono:

well Jordan must be on about you then

[starry]

Hard to say at this stage if its audeience has changed.

I like this series and I am sure I will enjoy the main BB too.I don't know if the audience has changed as to the make up of it but it would be a positive thing if a new audience was also watching it too.

I think some have left it but it's also gained a fair few as a new audience,I now know people who are watching it who haven't really watched BB before.

I haven't seen new viewers flooding this forum.

[Omah]

well Jordan must be on about you then

I'll live with it ..... :cool:

[Omah]

I haven't seen new viewers flooding this forum.

Well, there's been a few while school's out for summer ..... :laugh2:

[Valdora]

I'm starting to look forward to it because now the editing has calmed we really have an idea of the characters in there.

That said I wonder if I will still watch as religiously once I am back at Uni and have better things to do.

[Mac Hiavellian]

It's always been targeted at a youngish audience because once upon a time it strongly encouraged you to vote via text and recieve instant text updates and the HMs were generally in their 20s and 30s. But the audience type has changed because:

1) The original audience aren't as young as they once were and over the years more younger viewers come along so it appeals more so to newer teen viewers
2) The emergance of new media technology e.g. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have replaced the text alerts which were the 'now' back in the day
3) the emergance of fresher and edited reality shows such as TOWIE has influenced the style, editing and appeal of BB so it's had to follow this trend to keep fresh

EDIT: It's worth noting that while regular BB tries to appeal largely to a young audience to stay 'cool', Celeb BB still appeals to the slightly older fans because you notice most of the time the celebs are older than the bunch in the regular series although this year's perhaps got the yougnest group of celebs to date and also CBB gets more media interest becaus eof the lineup speculation

[starry]

Fresher? :D I don't think so, all they have tried to do is copy some aspects of the American series over the last two years and generally they have done a very poor job of it. Big Brother is way bigger than this Essex program so they only want to follow that if they want to make it a much smaller program (audience and budget).

And as for the 'now' medium that is the internet, and that includes forums, a decent BB website and live stream (the things that CH5 ignores). And as for the apps I still don't think some of them are ready, they have been completely amateur and really just lied to the public in overhyping the series and what they would do for it.

[starry]

Fresher? :D I don't think so, all they have tried to do is copy some aspects of the American series over the last two years and generally they have done a very poor job of it. Big Brother is way bigger than this Essex program so they only want to follow that if they want to make it a much smaller program (audience and budget).

And as for the 'now' medium that is the internet, and that includes forums, a decent BB website and live stream (the things that CH5 ignores). And as for the apps I still don't think some of them are ready, they have been completely amateur and really just lied to the public in overhyping the series and what they would do for it.

[joeysteele]

I haven't seen new viewers flooding this forum.

I think you have slightly misread my post, I said it would be a positive thing if it was attracting new audiences, I ended with I know people (who I know personally,not on here),who haven't watched BB before who are now.

I would hope though that it does pull in new viewers and hold onto them too.That would be really good.

[Niamh.]

well Jordan must be on about you then

:laugh2: I don't know why I found that so funny

And yeah, not to sound like a broken record but without LF, it's a different show altogether imo. We have nothing to discuss really bar the HLs show and we all know, what they choose to show and what actually goes on can be alot different, so It's hard not to feel like we're being conned in some way.

[Omah]

:laugh2: I don't know why I found that so funny

And yeah, not to sound like a broken record but without LF, it's a different show altogether imo. We have nothing to discuss really bar the HLs show and we all know, what they choose to show and what actually goes on can be alot different, so It's hard not to feel like we're being conned in some way.

Exactly ..... ;)

The HLs, the video clips and the newspaper all seem to cover the same 45 mins in the house ..... :bored:

Eh-oh! Again-again! ..... :colour:

[Stu]

People seem to be judging this series based on the channel it's on and nothing more. It's rating great on Channel 5. These numbers are great for Channel 5. Channel 5 normally does not rate this well.

Taking the discussion back to Big Brother though and it's merely at it's base audience once again. I highly doubt two and a half million core fans left the formula overnight because they hated the nametags and found it too hard to switch to Channel 5 all the time which then led to two and a half million new fans coming in to replace them.

These people watching now are just the exact same people who watched Big Brother 10. And that's for a celebrity series. All that hype and this 'new and improved' Big Brother has just delivered the audience who were always going to check it out anyway. And again that's for the celebrity series. It's going to absoloutely tank in a few weeks.

It's not getting new fans. The formula is tired. For my money they will never attract a sizeable blip of new fans ever again. Just temporary rating spikes when something big happens.

[starry]

Channel 5 bought the Big Brother brand because they knew they were also buying the pre-existing audience as well (which being from bigger channel was bigger than they would be used to), but then they've shown they don't care less what that audience think.

And it's pointless comparing CBB to BB10, because this isn't even a main series. And anyway BB10 has some great nights of live action as well as a good cast without all the over the top editing we get now.

[Patrick]

It's obviously all down to Live Feed, point blank.

[Patrick]

I haven't seen new viewers flooding this forum.

It's because of the state of the forum.

[fingers]

I haven't seen new viewers flooding this forum.

That is patently obvious! You only have to look at Page 1 of this Forum - quite unbelievable! There are STILL 3 Threads there which are almost 22 hours old!:hugesmile:

[Zippy]

Channel 5 bought the Big Brother brand because they knew they were also buying the pre-existing audience as well (which being from bigger channel was bigger than they would be used to), but then they've shown they don't care less what that audience think.

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and they've made a big mistake doing CBB first. It's probably giving a false representation of what the proper series will be like. Theyre clearly just basing it around favoured celeb HMs. And pissing BB fans off.

[AJ.]

I haven't watched an ep or hardly been here since launch. It's not even about livefeed anymore, it just sucks.

[Mac Hiavellian]

Fresher? :D I don't think so, all they have tried to do is copy some aspects of the American series over the last two years and generally they have done a very poor job of it. Big Brother is way bigger than this Essex program so they only want to follow that if they want to make it a much smaller program (audience and budget).

And as for the 'now' medium that is the internet, and that includes forums, a decent BB website and live stream (the things that CH5 ignores). And as for the apps I still don't think some of them are ready, they have been completely amateur and really just lied to the public in overhyping the series and what they would do for it.

The majority of the UK haven't seen the US version though and shows like TOWIE are popular atm so BB UK has had to adapt to be more like these in order to stay in the game i.e freshen up.

Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are still easy and current ways of following the show. Yeah the Ch5 site might not be great and LF's been an issue this year but again for the majority of the UK Facebook, Twitter and YouTube suffice for any news and tidbits.

Both its editing style and extra news features have changed to relate to a younger audience than it did 10 years ago