Ive just e-mailed Ben Frow regarding live feed

[daniel-lewis-1985]

The guy is great at getting back to fans and I would like to hear his opinion.

So hears what I emailed.

I know you must hate these e-mails regarding BBUK live feed but as a fan of the show I cannot understand why we are not given more live from the house episodes especially when last night it achieved over 800k and almost 10% share?

What other show rates that well on Channel 5 in the graveyard slot?

This was not a one off either with most Live From The House episodes beating the usual amount of people watching in that timeslot with regular programming.

Fans would be over the moon for a nightly show its obvious more and more people want it and with the current CBB being the most watched in the history of the Channel I cannot understand why the channel wouldn't want to take advantage of that?

I know live feed must be a head wreck to run for all those involved due to censorship and making it harder to edit the show the way the producers want (which we understand is sometimes needed to make the show more entertaining) but its literally 1 hour a night.

Please please find it in your heart to help us BB nerds and we will be eternally grateful.

Dan

PS: Congrats on the success of CBB15 it seems the producers have listened to the fans and stopped outside contact and stripped it back to the dynamics between housemates and its paid off. Thanks for a brilliant show and heres hoping the ratings continue to grow :)

Now to play the waiting game lol.

[LukeB]

Where is his email address :laugh:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Where is his email address :laugh:

Ben.Frow@channel5.com

[Cal.]

Bless him, he gets about 3 of these a night from the DS crew!:laugh:

[Jason.]

I'm surprised how they put more effort in CBB, yet they don't give much live feed.

I can understand why for Civvy BB, but they tend to usually put 100% more effort in the celebrity version these days.

[zakman440]

I emailed him once about the possibility of airing an international BB on 5*. He said that he wasn't interested, but in a very nice and polite manor. He seems like a nice guy.

[LukeB]

I emailed him saying that nominations should go back to basics and not have more then 5 up and that

[Gusto Brunt]

I emailed Ben last week and told him to put Katie Price in. Thing is, I was joking.

Yes, he does take notice of fans. Regrettably. :(

[emmetmcl]

One thing to note about the high live feed ratings is that it's probably so high because its a novelty.

However, an hour a night should still see at least 300-400k during celebrity anyway - civillian would be another thing totally.

But in saying that: Bring back 24 hour live feed!!!

[daniel-lewis-1985]

So Ben Frow got back to me.

I'm afraid it's a contract thing - we can't go above 20 hours without extra costs.
Sorry

So its down to cost surely opening phone lines for evictions sooner seeing as they aren't taking advantage of that by leaving it till the day before and selling passes to BB fans for online streaming would easily resolve this?

[Jarrod]

So Ben Frow got back to me.

I'm afraid it's a contract thing - we can't go above 20 hours without extra costs.
Sorry

So its down to cost surely opening phone lines for evictions sooner seeing as they aren't taking advantage of that by leaving it till the day before and selling passes to BB fans for online streaming would easily resolve this?

Why didn't they tell us this years ago? Instead of all this "fans don't need the feed".

[Samm]

lmao "costs" then axe the ****ing summer CBB that none cares about

[Denver]

Live feed cant be that expensive

[Jason.]

Agree with the poster above.

BOYCOTT SUMMER CBB!

How much does it actually cost to run live feed?
Surely scrapping summer CBB would the best thing financially. Save a few £M on the line-up as well as money which goes towards changing the house ever so slightly and tasks, etc.

Not surprised though, didn't BB15 get about 385,000 votes cast in the final?
God knows how much an ordinary eviction gets.

[jackc1806]

What do they mean by 20 hours?

[Jason.]

What do they mean by 20 hours?

Was going to ask that.
Do they mean 20 hours for the whole series or 20 hours a day?

[jackc1806]

If it was 20 hours for the series they could put one hour a weeknight on? Instead of 45 mins on Fridays?

[Denver]

Was going to ask that.
Do they mean 20 hours for the whole series or 20 hours a day?

20hours aday would give fams a orgasm haha most likely means each year

[daniel-lewis-1985]

lmao "costs" then axe the ****ing summer CBB that none cares about

I emailed back saying about axing summer CBB but I don't think I will get a response to that tbh.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

I also asked if they're allowed 20 hours per series why cant we have an hour of "Live From The House" every weeknight?

[Miranda123]

So Ben Frow got back to me.

I'm afraid it's a contract thing - we can't go above 20 hours without extra costs.
Sorry

So its down to cost surely opening phone lines for evictions sooner seeing as they aren't taking advantage of that by leaving it till the day before and selling passes to BB fans for online streaming would easily resolve this?

never mind all that, where are the youtube vids that we normally have on here??

[daniel-lewis-1985]

There are 17 weeks of BB a year.

It's funny, all I ever get is complaints...

I got this e-mail after actually praising him and the production team on a brilliant series. A fair point though I guess he must get a **** load of crazed fans who blame him for no live feed.

I apologised and said I will tell the forum to shut up and enjoy the series for now lol.

[LukeB]

why hasn't he emailed me about my nominations email :think:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

why hasn't he emailed me about my nominations email :think:

Hes probably pissed off with all these emails tbh lol.

Hes sending the emails to me off his iphone so I have an image of him in my head sat in Harvester trying to eat his Sunday lunch and getting pestered by us lot lol.

[jaxie]

Hes probably pissed off with all these emails tbh lol.

Hes sending the emails to me off his iphone so I have an image of him in my head sat in Harvester trying to eat his Sunday lunch and getting pestered by us lot lol.
Poor man let him eat his batter pud in piece!

[Josy]

There are 17 weeks of BB a year.

It's funny, all I ever get is complaints...

I got this e-mail after actually praising him and the production team on a brilliant series. A fair point though I guess he must get a **** load of crazed fans who blame him for no live feed.

I apologised and said I will tell the forum to shut up and enjoy the series for now lol.

I don't know how serious you are but don't speak for the forum, we have our own contacts with channel 5 and BB, our members moaning are nothing to do with us :inamood:

[LukeB]

Hes probably pissed off with all these emails tbh lol.

Hes sending the emails to me off his iphone so I have an image of him in my head sat in Harvester trying to eat his Sunday lunch and getting pestered by us lot lol.

us fans want back to basics noms :fist:
he better listen, unless it's already happened, we will find out today

[Liam-]

I don't understand the need to pester him, we should really be thankful that it's even still on air in the first place, just enjoy what we've got :shrug:

[Jamesy]

It doesn't help that his email address has been shared around on several forums. He probably gets loads of emails daily from fans.

He shouldn't be surprised at negative emails lol. But I think fans need to realise that Big Brother isn't the show it once was.

Would be nice if they could manage an hour of live feed a night Monday to Friday for every series. Channel 5 has extremely low ratings anyway so live feed would actually improve the channels viewing figures on the late night slot prior to Super Casino.

[LukeB]

I don't understand the need to pester him, we should really be thankful that it's even still on air in the first place, just enjoy what we've got :shrug:

it's called taking the time and listen to fans suggestions, no one is pestering him otherwise he would tell us to stop :idc:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

I don't know how serious you are but don't speak for the forum, we have our own contacts with channel 5 and BB, our members moaning are nothing to do with us :inamood:

I was obviously joking :rolleyes:

I didn't mention TIBB either so he probably thinks im from DS.

So yes like you said im a member and my moaning has NOTHING to do with you.

[Josy]

I was obviously joking :rolleyes:

I didn't mention TIBB either so he probably thinks im from DS.

So yes like you said im a member and my moaning has NOTHING to do with you.

Well I was joking seeing I even used a smiley but yeah...it is something to do with us if you are posting on here about pestering the guy...

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Well I was joking seeing I even used a smiley but yeah...it is something to do with us if you are posting on here about pestering the guy...

C'mon you were partly serious lol.

Anyway im an individual I can email him if I want I am not bound by some TIBB code of honour.

Shall we all not talk about him and maybe all posts and threads regarding him be deleted?

I was clearly joking when I told him I would tell the fans to stop pestering him.

[Josy]

C'mon you were partly serious lol.

Anyway im an individual I can email him if I want I am not bound by some TIBB code of honour.

Shall we all not talk about him and maybe all posts and threads regarding him be deleted?

No one said you couldn't email him, YOU were the one that said you would mention 'the forum' to him now forgive me for assuming it was TiBB you were referring to since it's on here you are posting about it.

I could be wrong but something similar happened with Marcus's twitter when members were trolling him and posting on here about it.

We want no part in things like that.

[bots]

C'mon you were partly serious lol.

Anyway im an individual I can email him if I want I am not bound by some TIBB code of honour.

Shall we all not talk about him and maybe all posts and threads regarding him be deleted?

I was clearly joking when I told him I would tell the fans to stop pestering him.

So then was any of your posts genuine on this thread? :shrug:

[Headie]

C'mon you were partly serious lol.

Anyway im an individual I can email him if I want I am not bound by some TIBB code of honour.

Shall we all not talk about him and maybe all posts and threads regarding him be deleted?

I was clearly joking when I told him I would tell the fans to stop pestering him.

I agree :worship:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

So then was any of your posts genuine on this thread? :shrug:

You have misinterpreted my post and I cannot be arsed to explain.

Apologies Josy I get where you're coming from but be sure I never mentioned TIBB :)

Now lets hug it out.

[Josy]

You have misinterpreted my post and I cannot be arsed to explain.

Apologies Josy I get where you're coming from but be sure I never mentioned TIBB :)

Now lets hug it out.

:hug:

[oathbreaker]

Its oathy here (that pain in the arse over the live feed for number of years)
Glad you got some feedback the last I heard was about the biggest load of hotair ever
the relationship changed when Channel 5 knew the producers of the show finally made contact.

A whole set of ideas were mentioned which actually turned out repeats being on MTV not a feed.

Endemol wanted a feed Channel 5 wanted a feed yes budgets were mentioned a lot on the channel 5 side but given that Viacom aren't exactly struggling to find money the entire thing is a mess.

[Cal.]

I do feel sorry for Ben Frow - there's a specific thread on DS for live feed where they constantly post emails they've sent him regarding live feed.

[mrmattybeck1]

Its oathy here (that pain in the arse over the live feed for number of years)
Glad you got some feedback the last I heard was about the biggest load of hotair ever
the relationship changed when Channel 5 knew the producers of the show finally made contact.

A whole set of ideas were mentioned which actually turned out repeats being on MTV not a feed.

Endemol wanted a feed Channel 5 wanted a feed yes budgets were mentioned a lot on the channel 5 side but given that Viacom aren't exactly struggling to find money the entire thing is a mess.
What a farce just 1 hour a night would be better than nothing