Should this be moved to the BB9 section?

Wow lol, can you email ideas to BB?

I don't believe in an increased amount of older people...
I think Big Brother having Carole/Jonty/Lesley, as well as Tracey/Ziggy was an appropriate amount of slightly/very older housemates.

There's a decreased chance for a love story, or physical activity and fun, dancing and songs etc if older people are there. It would detract from the house overall in my opinion.

My only recommendations are that they come up with new and exciting ideas/twists, and entertaining tasks.

As well as keeping the length as long as possible, 13 weeks was amazing in my opinion..even though their are rumours of them bringing it down to as little as 6 weeks.

Honestly...I say don't try to make the show something explosive and major because that is when people/shows fail the most.

Stop putting so many housemates into the house and then having six in the finale.

Go down to four...that way on their exit their interviews can be nice and more time can be spent with them. They've been in that house all summer...its the least BB can do :P

I'd almost change the way nominations are done: 2 points for one housemate, 1 point for another housemate. That way it does spice some things up and it might give a good variation on who could/would be nominated.

I enjoyed the rich/poor divide. When things like that are introduced, psychological decompression begins to set in and the people start to think differently and can completely affect the game!

Bring in people who are entertaining but have some substance as well...

Raise the prize money...have punishments that could be entertaining to watch as well...do an elevator (like others have mentioned) instead of doing the stairs for evictions!!

Fewer tasks - stuff like the time machine and Big Brother's birthday bored me to tears. I watch BB for the interaction between the housemates not this carry-on nonsense.

Under no-circumstances make a half way house!!

Cast three-dimesional, rounded (and slightly extraordinary) people rather than one trick ponies like Tracy that get tiresome after opening night.

Anyone who goes on about how 'eccentric' or 'weird' they are in their audition should be immediately ejected. they usually turn out to be total duds.

I still can't work out what Nicky or Laura could possibly have said in their auditions to get selected.

I think they chose Nicky because she appeared miserable, and hated men (a good quality for an all-female house), and Laura because she seemed kind, funny, and a bit ditzy...

These are all really good ideas!

Use BBUSA rules that will be all that is needed to make BB9 fresh, exciting and to create public interest like never before.

Obviously I don't mean copy exactly, but stuff like allowing nomination discussion, have a Head of House task every Saturday night live with the HOH then having the power to replace one of the nominees. Nominations still take place as normal, except the HOH doesn't have to nominate and can't be nominated but as I said has to then replace one of the nominees. This will ensure that things aren't always predictable, it ensures that groups will continually change depending on who is HOH and who is nominated, this way you don't just have one strong group picking off the weaker housemates. It will encourage game play, make people admit that they want to win, attract a different set of housemates people who are in it to play and not just for fame and also adapting those rules around the public vote will get people more involved in the show than they have been for years.

HOH could be like the USA one where they get special priviledges for the week, like a kingsize bed, letter from home and a luxury food budget.

Oh and once these rules are in place STICK WITH THEM FOR THE FULL 13 WEEKS. Don't change them on a weekly basis in order to get the results that BB want, just set up the new rules and run with it, that way everyone would have a fair chance of winning.

I think that's a great idea, BBLP!

10 week run.

No latecomers except to replace walkers.

No fiddling with nominations, except that 3 or more should face the vote each week.

No more Dermot plugging his favourites.

No more Big Mouth at all.

Weekly tasks to affect the prize fund, not the food budget. Food arguments are so tiresome.

No more SE London It girls, or It girls and boys from anywhere else.

8: Be harsher with punishments. Have a strike system – if they discuss nominations once, Big Brother can give them an embarrassing punishment that they see fit – find a weakness in the housemate and use it against them. If they discuss it again, they are banned from nominating. If they discuss it a third time, they face the public vote that week. Every time they discuss it afterwards, is another week they face eviction.

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The first eviction shouldn't be until at least 3 or 4 weeks as this would allow bigger characters to stay longer, give some people more time to come out of their shells(we'll never know what Mary or Bonnie may have been like if they'd lasted longer), avoid the need to bring in so many latecomers and if there is really annoying housemates the other housemates will be stuck with them and won't be able to nominate them for ages. What's the point of evicting someone after only a week anyway?

My recommendations

Weed out the wannabes. Put people in there who want the experience and not people who are looking to advance their media careers

No housemates with professional representation, ie promo girls, models, failed pop stars, etc.

Keep twists fresh and unexpected so we don't get any mouth almighty Carole types who will second guess BB and ruin everything

More difficult and challenging tasks

No bringing back ex housemates for any amount of time, once they are gone whether they walked or evicted they are gone

No last minute manipulation to keep the producers favourites in with some silly little twist, if they are up for the vote they are up for the vote

Fair editing of all housemates not just the ones who the producers think we want to see evicted or win

Tougher implementation of the rules even for the minor rule breaks such as not getting to the sofas when called the first time of asking

No contact with the outside world, chuck out the newbies who talk about the outside world no matter how long they have been there

Midweek double eviction in the final week so there are only 4 left for the Friday finale and the interviews on final night are not rushed through

10-15 minutes for each housemates nominations, also gather them back on the sofa instead of letting them loaf around and sleep

3 strike rule for those who ask to leave and then change their mind

And a new one for next year - If you walk, you DON'T get rewarded with any media exposure and only get invited back for the final night

Unfortunately, the producers cannot influence how the media cover the show. Big Brother himself is also guilty, by asking these housemates back onto BBLB and BBBM. The public are intrested in hearing what the walkers have to say for themselves.

How about the fact that evictions are just things added onto the highlights on Friday?

Evictions suck nowadays, as does the final. I think on eviction nights there should be a two part highlight show and then stuff like they used to do, like interviewing the housemates' families etc.

I like a lot of these suggestions and feel that if taken on board could really enhance the next BB.

I particularly like the idea of using a similar style to that used in BBUSA. The rules are great and should be stuck with and not chopped about with to suit certain people. This year was really poor in that they allowed certain members to get away with far to much, like Charley and her constant talk about nominations, last year she would have been out of there.

I think it needs some genuine peeps - not ones who are dying for fame !!

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Not a lot actually needs to be done, its more undoing the mess that BB8 created.

1) Scale the show back to 10-11 weeks. People lose interest after about 8 or 9 and it gets a bit boring. Having it on for 13 weeks is way too long, and people actually entered the HWH around 60 days in ... almost the whole series of the first 4.

2) 14 housemates maximum to enter on launch night. Any other housemates must either come in on their own or as a replacement, preferably none entering after day 40. In other words, no second house where housemates have to earn their place. It was good in BB6 but the novelty worn off.

3) Twists that affect the whole series, and no twists interferring with nominations. If they are going to bother doing a twist, there is no point in it only affecting the following 3 days otherwise it is just pointless. Interferring with nominations causes the wrong people to go which is unfair.

4) Vote to save. Until BB8, I hugely opposed the vote to save as vote to evict is iconic of Big Brother but by doing a vote to save, all of the boring characters go and the Grace/Charley types have greater chance of survival to make more entertainment.

5) Make eviction nights special again. BBLB has stolen the eviction features such as pleas from f&f, so now all evictions are is Davina stood on the stage reading numbers out every 10 minutes, and giving a little overview of what has happened. It doesn't feel like an event anymore. Also, double evictions. I would limit them to 1 a series and they come out seperately to their own response and get their own interview unlike the Tracey/Kara Louise fiasco.

6) Good mix of housemates. BB8 played it a little safe whereas looking back to BB5-BB7, most of the characters were extremely clashing, very big and great entertainment. They were also risky and controversial which is what Big Brother is all about.

7) Big Brother needs his authority back. He has lost it in the past couple of years whereas years ago Big Brother was a respected figure. Now the housemates go into the diary room calling him and get away with it.

Things to add:

1) £500,000 prize for the winner. It will make winning more worthwhile and make people want to win

2) Personal banks. Reward housemates for participation in tasks giving them their own fund which could go up to £50,000. For rule breaks, take money away.

3) Tweak the format. Not radically overhaul it but bring in elements from Big Brother's around the world such as Head of Household from BB USA/BB Brazil. It will put the game playing back into Big Brother.

they need to think ORIGIANALY with the planning of tasks... bring back live tasks.... let davina tour the house and the studios like previous big brothers.. no twists with the prise fund or new housemates.. it would be great to see a housemate go to bbau for real !!! bigger house... better housemates...
They also need to FIRE the whole team including whoever barfed bb8's house design up.. they need to employ a team of young and creative people who are soley responsible for thinking up tasks and setting them... there needs to be more bb adverts on a bigger scale like billboards.. taxis, busses and other tv channels... or even cinema IN FACT ANYTHING WILL MAKE THE SHOW BETTER THAN BB8 !!!!i really hope a c4 worker is reading this !!!!

BB is in need of a serious revamp but it would be difficult
i think the house needs to get bigger, but not loads like the US house because that is too big. and i agree we need to get away from the bedroom, kitchen, main area, bathroom, diaryroom and garden typical design.
Big brother needs to get tougher on those housemates they r walking all over big brother with breaking the rules we need them to be scared of breaking the rules again.
if they insit on 2 houses use them at the start let the 2 houses not know about eachother both thinking they are in the real house, with 8 in one and 8 in the other, then evict 4 and combine the houses this should create tension between the 2 groups as one is going to invade another groups space. i dont want to see the 2 house thing again it has been done too many times.
keep it to 4 housemates on the final i think it was better that way
no newcomers unless there are walkers and BB needs to stick to the rules of BB unless they are going to get worse

i really dont know what to do to BB but it needs to be changed somehow and like the patterns say BB4- naff BB5-good! so BB8 naff BB9 good!
a big shake up on the show should re invent it and bring its rating back up

That sounds good maybe they could add past housemates along with normal housemates to get the house going lol (but ones that got evicted e.g Grace, Charley, Latoya) x

Oh yea, Latoya would really get the house moving.:rolleyes:

Yeah. To the pool. In an attempt to drown themselves.

11 or 12 weeks is good.I would love it for longer but then other people watching will get bored.But for me, if its a good series, I would never get bored.

eg.I could of watched 3 months of BBCH because I loved lots of the Hms.