Scheduling News (Alleged)

[TomC]

From DS, who got it from Digiguide:

BB Final: Tuesday 26th July (1hr 45mins)
CBB Launch: Thursday 28th July (2hrs)

So a 50 day series.

[Oaker]

Not the Monday/Tuesday finals returning

[Ashley.]

18 days longer than CBB :fan:

[TomC]

Tbh midweek launches/finals don't actually bother me too much.

[TomC]

18 days longer than CBB :fan:

Ridiculous, right?

[Babayaro.]

A 1 hr and 45 minute final is pathetic. Should be an extra half hour added to that. Looks like it's going to be rushed again yayy

[Jay_Roberts441]

I said those dates for the BB17 final and CBB18 launch a few weeks ago. Dont know why I expected it but I just did, always had the feeling BB17 would be a 50 day series.

[TomC]

A 1 hr and 45 minute final is pathetic. Should be an extra half hour added to that. Looks like it's going to be rushed again yayy

How long was BB15/BB16's? I'm thinking there might only be 5 finalists.

[Jason.]

Mess every Week 8 boot has lasted longer than the duration of this series :facepalm:

[Jake.]

50 days :joker:

[Oaker]

CBB18 is obviously going to be like 6 weeks or something

[TomC]

Mess every Week 8 boot has lasted longer than the duration of this series :facepalm:

It's actually such a weird thought there were still 2 months to go at this point in BB7 yet there are 2 weeks for BB17.

[TomC]

CBB18 is obviously going to be like 6 weeks or something

don't go there tbh. 3 weeks is quite enough.

[reece(:]

Not CBB starting two days after

[Ashley.]

Ridiculous, right?

Given the success of the series (compared to recent past years), I'm surprised it wasn't extended.

[Babayaro.]

How long was BB15/BB16's? I'm thinking there might only be 5 finalists.

Not sure. I suppose if there's only 5 finalists then that's not so bad but if there's 6 you just know they'll chuck 2 of them out at the same time :facepalm:

[Oaker]

is this the first year ever where there will be more CBB days than BB days?

[Jason.]

It's actually such a weird thought there were still 2 months to go at this point in BB7 yet there are 2 weeks for BB17.

It's such a weird thought that if BB7-10 were only one week longer, their durations would've been double this series.

[Jack_]

Absolute ****ing laughable trash

Axe it all

[Cal.]

is this the first year ever where there will be more CBB days than BB days?

A mess.

[TomC]

Given the success of the series (compared to recent past years), I'm surprised it wasn't extended.

And me. This series could have been the same length as BB16 and only be half as ****ty

[Time]

Ugh, why is this series so short?

[Jack_]

Ugh, why is this series so short?

Because C5 hate civilian BB and suck the proverbial cock of CBB so are desperate to get it on air early!

[Ross.]

Rip civilian Big Brother

[TomC]

It's quite clear they're just trying to turn BB into something it is not, or shouldn't be: CBB.

[Jason.]

It's things like this which is why LI is getting more viewers than BB.

It's clear even the producers don't have faith in BB anymore, so why should the viewers?

[Natalie.]

:/
get rid of it all please

[Will.]

How many days did LI last this year?

[Jason.]

How many days did LI last this year?

43 days.

[Oaker]

I'm shocked they haven't introduced midweek evictions to BB yet if the series are going to be this short

[Will.]

43 days.

Ah ok.

[andybigbro]

We have had new housemates enter later than this entire series :facepalm: it's such a shambles

[TomC]

We have had new housemates enter later than this entire series :facepalm: it's such a shambles

Now that's a very weird thought actually. Although tbf, BB8's halfway HM's only entered 5 days before the final of many series.

[LukeB]

They should extend this season tbh

[Jack_]

In all honesty I won't be surprised if they look to Love Island's success next series for inspiration but for all the wrong reasons

So instead of a stellar promotion campaign, less housemates that have ties to the media (as a lot of the Love Island's casts haven't despite criticism), a better format, no votes to evict, better, more rounded editing that develops characters more fully, a nicer balance between fun and drama etc etc, it'll be 'oooh six weeks seems like a length that works, so let's cut it back even more' :rolleyes:

Maybe that's part of the reason why this series is so short anyway?

[Jake.]

It is complete horse**** but the only positive I can take from it is that at least things aren't going to go stale

[Cal.]

It is complete horse**** but the only positive I can take from it is that at least things aren't going to go stale

This.

And anyway, if I was going to make this series longer it would only be by 2 or 3 weeks. I thought the 13 week series were stale anyway. It just feels so repetitive and draining - especially when the original cast would get whittled down to a smaller number and then a large group of new housemates would enter and change it all.

[Headie]

Mess every Week 8 boot has lasted longer than the duration of this series :facepalm:

Charley the real winner?

[Cal.]

Mess not Charlie the 4th evictee going 18 days before the final.

[Cal.]

Not Georgina the third evictee lasting exactly halfway.

[*mazedsalv**]

Can C5 be more obvious in their hatred for civilian BB. Jesus Christ.

[Gstar]

Absolute ****ing laughable trash

Axe it all

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[Macie Lightfoot]

eh, it's on the short side but I don't entirely mind.

[Gstar]

People on this forum can organise a BB series better than them. I bet Emma and Rylan are the only ones in the team that used to watch channel 4 BB

[Pete.]

Trash :(

CBB starting in July is just wrong

[Pete.]

Although the majority of the cast staying until the final 2 weeks is good

[zakman440]

Utterly ridiculous.

[Gstar]

Big brother has did so much for their ****, irrelevant channel. They should be treating it like royalty. Generally crap casting, no live feed, stomach-turning eviction crowd, it's disrespectful to the loyal fans and of course edemol. Channel 4 will always stay winning

[zakman440]

It's not just Big Brother that Channel 5 treat awfully though, they mess around with most of their programmes that have loyal audiences. For example, they've already started to mess around with Wentworth's scheduling - it's now moving to 5STAR just 3 weeks into the new series. They messed with Under The Dome's scheduling by airing the last few episodes at midnight and I'm fairly sure that they missed an episode of Person of Interest out for no particular reason. It's ridiculous that they mess with shows like that yet prioritise underrating show's like It's Not Me, It's You and a 50 millionth repeat of one of their benefits programmes. Channel 5 is literally a joke.

[Lostie!]

and I'm fairly sure that they missed an episode of Person of Interest out for no particular reason.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/917a1547661e813e4079def49b85692b/tumblr_mwua0pZi5F1rqpdk5o1_400.gif

Thankfully I watched that at US pace before C5 could get their mitts on it.

[Samm]

It's not just Big Brother that Channel 5 treat awfully though, they mess around with most of their programmes that have loyal audiences. For example, they've already started to mess around with Wentworth's scheduling - it's now moving to 5STAR just 3 weeks into the new series. They messed with Under The Dome's scheduling by airing the last few episodes midnight and I'm fairly sure that they missed an episode of Person of Interest out for no particular reason. It's ridiculous that they mess with shows like that yet prioritise underrating show's like It's Not Me, It's You and a 50 millionth repeat of one of their benefits programmes. Channel 5 is literally a joke.

welp I was wondering why I was missing so many episodes of under the dome last year

[Daniel.]

Legend Lea Walker was still in the BB house at that point and there was six weeks left

[Jord]

The first good series in years and it's 50 days long. BB15/16 should both been 50 days - not this series.

[Gstar]

Makosi would have still been favourite to win if this was BB6

[BB IS ALIVE]

Tbh 64 days would have been perfect for this series but they would have probably had to chuck some new housemates in and have had a fair amount of double evictions to keep it going. Oh well. Lots of people have enjoyed this series, but 50 days is still a long time to be constantly on air for a 17 year old TV show.