60 days or longer?

[Amy Jade]

I've seen a lot of people say it should have gone on for longer but is anyone else fine with 60 days?

I mean I was getting a tad bored towards the end of this run and tbh I may have switched off 2 weeks ago without Jayne and Laura

I'm personally more bothered by the needless gimics like 4 in 4 out, Annihilation Week and the twist that evicted Danielle and Sam without a public vote

[Macie Lightfoot]

9-11 weeks is my limit, I didn't find the length of this series to be bad

[Amy Jade]

Also if it had ran another month I'd have been away for the final :worry:

[Oaker]

eh I think 70-72 days is the perfect duration for a series.

11-13 weeks is way too long imo and 50-60 days is just ridiculous

[Maru]

I always think I'm done and I get bored but then they do something that makes it interesting again. I really don't know.

I'm not sure C5 can handle a longer run. They need to be more hands off if it goes on longer. If it's too much meddling, it becomes very predictable far too soon into the series...

[Jack_]

I'll always be annoyed we came so close to 100 days and they never gave it to us (a bit like what BBUS are doing these days) but I draw the line at below ten weeks

They originally cut civilian to make way for CBB8 and everyone hoped and expected it would return to normal the next year. It didn't. We got another summer CBB. People learned to accept it. Fast forward four years and civilian has been cut AGAIN to make way for their overexposed pile of sh*te and it ****ing sucks :bored:

[EspeonBB]

Something like BB13/BB14 is the perfect length imo

[Jason.]

I wouldn't have minded 60 days if they wanted to shorten the series as that's not far off from 64 days (the previous shortest duration)

But ideally 10 weeks (70-72 days) is the perfect length.

[Oaker]

if anything summer CBB cutting the series duration down from 13 weeks was a good thing though. I couldn't imagine watching BB12, BB14, BB15 or BB16 for 13 weeks :worry:

[Drew.]

As a viewer i could easily have watched another few weeks,

Bit off topic but It can get so draining on here trying to stick up for housemates, this series more than usual so i'm kinda glad it's finished for now

[Jason.]

I'd rather they just launched the civilian BB in mid-June and had it run for 10 weeks so it ended in late-August without any summer CBB so then BB would run throughout the majority of the summer.

[Jack_]

if anything summer CBB cutting the series duration down from 13 weeks was a good thing though. I couldn't imagine watching BB12, BB14, BB15 or BB16 for 13 weeks :worry:

I could watch Big Brother all year it doesn't bother me

It's more about the principle of it IMO, shafting the civilian version time and time again (and now to 7 ****ing weeks) to make way for their overexposed crap

What's next year? 3 weeks for civ and the celebs get the ten weeks?

[Amy Jade]

As a viewer i could easily have watched another few weeks,

Bit off topic but It can get so draining on here trying to stick up for housemates, this series more than usual so i'm kinda glad it's finished for now
That's a very good point tbh

[Jason.]

I could watch Big Brother all year it doesn't bother me

It's more about the principle of it IMO, shafting the civilian version time and time again (and now to 7 ****ing weeks) to make way for their overexposed crap

What's next year? 3 weeks for civ and the celebs get the ten weeks?

Not it reversing D:

[reece(:]

It was 50 days, not 60 btw

[Jack_]

Yeah 60 I'd have been annoyed at still but Emma said 8 weeks on launch and 50 days is just over 7 so they ****ed us over again

[Oaker]

As long as CBB rates well they're going to keep extending it. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if CBB19 is almost as long as BB17.

[Jack_]

And the more time, effort and promotion they put into CBB and the less they give to civilian, the more the former is going to rate much better

They know what they're doing

[Lstan]

I've seen a lot of people say it should have gone on for longer but is anyone else fine with 60 days?

I mean I was getting a tad bored towards the end of this run and tbh I may have switched off 2 weeks ago without Jayne and Laura

I'm personally more bothered by the needless gimics like 4 in 4 out, Annihilation Week and the twist that evicted Danielle and Sam without a public vote

It was the perfect length, and agree with everything else you say, had it been longer I think it would have gotten boring. If they keep it short there is no need for gimmicks.

[Jason.]

I don't think I can watch an 8-week CBB. :worry:

Extending it to 4-5 weeks is bad enough. CBB15 and CBB17 both got dull in their second halves.

[Jason.]

I'm just glad LI is renewed so I can enjoy that if BB is **** or if BB18 is 4 weeks.

[Jack_]

They can extend winter CBB as much as they want, I always want them to keep breaking the previous record

Summer CBB which then cuts civilian back though? Nah, they can get to ****

[Cal.]

64 days is fine for me. 71 days is ideal.

[Oaker]

I do think BB17 rating well will make them extend BB18 though. It would be pointless to have another short series when it's done great

[lewis111]

Member when we were fuming when they said it was 8 weeks them we got only 7

[Oaker]

They probably said 8 weeks because they count days 1-4 as week 1

[Jason.]

I want BB18 to be 72 days!

Launch it on 1 June and end it on 11 August.

C5 secure the television spot now!

[lewis111]

They need to drop Summber CBB, it kills the hype at the BB final because they are just like it's over oh well you now have CBB and it wastes a lot of celebs

Winter CBB could run for say 35 days then BB could be 70

[Jack_]

I honestly think it'll be 6 weeks next year

They'll look to Love Island's success for inspiration and instead of better editing, more consistent format etc they'll think 'oooh shorter is better'

[Jason.]

I wouldn't be surprised if next years theme is something to do with Love or something :umm2:

[Oaker]

CBB18 already has a Love Island rip-off as it's trailer so yeah it wouldn't shock me

[lewis111]

I really don't see why they didn't make BB one week longer this year
Then a 2 and a half week break till the Olympics is over
The. Start CBB

[Jack_]

I really don't see why they didn't make BB one week longer this year
Then a 2 and a half week break till the Olympics is over
The. Start CBB

I really hope CBB gets annihilated by the Olympics. It won't have the same effect as London but summer CBB usually does poorly anyway so I'm hoping it flops

It's just dumb scheduling all round, but I honestly would not be surprised if part of the reason is cause Rylan took the Xtra job and will be live at the weekends from the end of August

[Jason.]

CBB18 already has a Love Island rip-off as it's trailer so yeah it wouldn't shock me

It's actually nothing like LI's adverts at all lmao. I don't get the comparison apart from the summer feel thing.

LI's advert was much better and less tackier which is quite embarrassing for C5 really.

[lewis111]

I think BB18 will be about 47 days
Will launch with around 12/13 HMs
Then on week 2 or 3 a few new HMs will go into the other house and they will have some sort of romantic relationship maybe ex with one of the HMs
So basically the others twist this year but love island ex on the beach style

[Oaker]

I just think if I saw that trailer without knowing what show it was for I would expect it to be for Love Island, not CBB.

I haven't ever seen a LI advert so I have no idea what they're like :laugh:

[lewis111]

I really hope CBB gets annihilated by the Olympics. It won't have the same effect as London but summer CBB usually does poorly anyway so I'm hoping it flops

It's just dumb scheduling all round, but I honestly would not be surprised if part of the reason is cause Rylan took the Xtra job and will be live at the weekends from the end of August

He doesn't even work weekends but that's probably the reason

[Jason.]

I just think if I saw that trailer without knowing what show it was for I would expect it to be for Love Island, not CBB.

I haven't ever seen a LI advert so I have no idea what they're like :laugh:

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[Oaker]

The second one was okay but the first one :omgno:

At least they're not really tacky, they're just cheesy.

[Jason.]

The second one is the cast one with the actual Islanders.

[Oaker]

The second one is the cast one with the actual Islanders.

oh that's a cute idea.

But tbh every C5 BB trailer apart from BB14's and BB17's has been crap. Especially now they seem to try and shove Rylan in every advert for no reason :umm2:.