Quote:
Originally posted by BBfan46
BIG Brother is to be scrapped by Channel 4 after this year's ratings disaster, The Sun can reveal.
The axe comes as barely two million tune into the tenth series of the reality show - compared to eight million only a few years ago.
A telly insider last night confirmed an official announcement will be made as early as Friday, saying: "The reality is people are BORED with it. Even at Channel 4 the vibe among staff is that if you like Big Brother you're not cool.
"If the people commissioning the show don't think it's cool, what hope is there?"
The "bold experiment" that was launched in 2000 went on to make stars of housemates such as Jade Goody, Chantelle Houghton and the original Mr "Nasty" Nick Bateman.
But this year's dull crop - including mutton-chopped Wolverine lookalike Marcus - have proved the death knell.
One final series - the 11th - will be screened on C4 next year because of the channel's £180million deal with the show's makers Endemol.
But after that it will only go ahead if the production house can flog it to a rival channel.
At its peak Big Brother was a huge money-spinner - generating profits of £70million a year.
But insiders now say it is only just "washing its face" - industry speak for covering its costs.
They accuse the show of failing to win over the "Facebook generation" after being watered down to avoid controversy following the Shilpa Shetty race row on the celebrity version.
The source said: "The truth is nobody's talking about Big Brother any more."
Fans of Celebrity Big Brother are likely to still get their fix of it in January - since that is also part of C4's current deal.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-boring.html
|
Without a doubt you could see the backend through the frontend this season.
By that I mean it was apparent from the botched 'YouTube Applicants' hoax being abandoned to the 'hurry up and go' Launch night,
to the cast most obviously quickly selected from Agencies or previous employees,
to the House 'design' which was really just unused previously rejected left-overs,
to the lack of enthusiasm,
to the live-feeds being taken away,
and,
really just the sort of 'contempt' production and writing seemed to have for it.
Not an enthusiastic concept but a 'barely bothered to try contempt'.
You just got this feeling BB people (whoever was left) were spending more time on the phone tracking down new job opps and leads and/or retirement deals than bothering with the 'wrap up' obligatory season10.
Watch how fast and what a minimum effort drives to the final (half of them probably left already),
and,
watch how quickly they will just wrap up and forget this season.
5 minutes after the winner is interviewed you will see staff already packed and out the door.
Sounds like there is a BB11 after all this.
The only real possibility?
It will be some sort of 'All-Star' version of previous HMs and previous Celebrity BB HMs.
As short a season as possible.
More of a 'good-bye' and 'look back' and 'wrap it all up' season.