Lazy journalism - there's no news in it.

BB will be back, I know that much, but more likely in 10 or 20 years, at the moment, its not exactly must see viewing

call me an uninformed idiot but this years had the best drama and entertainment. imo

It's been different - I've said loads of times that BB has left the housemates to create their own drama and throwing the odd minor twist in to add a bit of fuel, but the producers seem to have taken a back seat this year. Unfortuantly the likes of Marcus and Siavash have taken advantage of this and made Big Brother look like a tit.

This only means BB is over for channel 4. I'm sure some other channel will buy the rights to it, even if it does change the format a little, Big Brother will live!

The problem is they aren't getting the viewers in they need to keep it going year in year out and many people are bored of it. I ain't even the biggest of fan's of BB. Why am i still watching it? For Marcus, if he wasn't in anymore, i'd stop watching and most likely woulnd't be on here posting about BB.

The house needs big charcters and we have people hating Marcus who is by FAR the biggest one in the house and people wonder why people aren't watching? That's one of the big reasons, along with shabby producing and some other thing's like the LF of course who people did like.

But the whole thing is way too PC. They proved that when they called Marcus to the diary room to try and grill him and ended up looking stupid.

What Channel will one to take a programme which is failing to attract viewers? ITV? Forget about it, they have other show's, BBC? NO CHANCE.

We have to face it, the show is coming to an end.

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.

It's all bullcrap

Anyone who believes Big Brother can be saved by a 'break' is dillusional. The format is dead. The general public don't care anymore. If you think them building a brand new house, adding some transvestite Russian or making up some amazing twist in 2012 will bring back 7 million viewers, you're wrong.

If people want a good reality show these days, they'll find it in X Factor or Britains Got Talent. Big Brother, as good as it was, is just....blah now. The only people who believe it can be saved by a break or new network are, unsurprisingly, the few remaining Big Brother fans.

Thats all I do

The lack of live feed and very little media interest since the Shilpa Shetty incident have contributed to the low viewing figures. Plus it's on for too long. 7 days a week, for 13 whole weeks is just too much for a casual viewer. That's the reason why X-factor and Britains got talent get so many viewers, it's only on once a week or only on for a short amount of time with HUGE media interest and hype from the production team. Channel 4 did not hype this years big brother at all. What happened to the sneak preview adverts that ran on channel 4 weeks before the show even began? The show taking a break would be the best thing for it. When it returns in a few year, the media will be interested again as talent shows like X-factor would have gone down the same road as big brother and will be looking for the next hot topic. With awesome twists and some major advertising, BB could be revitalised, if only for a short while, in a few years time.

Sky1 do a pretty good job of taking channel 4's failing shows :shrug: E4, Living TV, channel 5... to name a few

No one is going to subscribe to Sky to watch Big Brother. Let's not kid ourselves, like some one has said above, taking a break won't do much good either.


The show has simply ran it's course. Some of the biggest dick head's in british society have came from the show and made well over a million from it and have very little talent. Just look at Jade goody, how the hell did she make the amount she did? She was as thick as a brick, no disrespect and all given that she has passed away now.

so what is there going to be bb11

Who said anything about subscribing to sky specifically for BB? Sky already has millions of subcribers.

the only way they have a chance of getting ratings up is bb all stars...and i mean hardly any bb7 - bb10 characters

bb1 - bb6 that will get the old fans back

Yeah but Big Brother is hardly going to be a big pull in for them is it? They have Skysports, Sky movies etc. Big Brother for me would just FAIL on sky.

- No live feed.
- Evictions talk allowed.
- Housemates given outside information (the magazines).
- Housemates given day trips out in the real world.
- Allowing block voting to go unpunished.
- A house full of assholes.

What did they expect?

You'd be suprised. Anything that gets 1million viewrs on sky is classed as a hit. LOST is the best example of this - a failing channel 4 show, took over by sky and now - even though it has lower fugures than what it did on channel 4 - it is a sky1 hit. Big brother has a larger following than LOST.

Maybe I'm over analysing this too much, but it's certainly a possibility.

The flaw in the Sky Theory is that Sky only poach successful shows. They'd kill for 2 million viewers a night yes BUT it wouldn't get that on a sky channel since it's a digital channel and not accessible to everyone, Hence why Celeb Hijack failed in the ratings.

I'd be very surprised if it gets picked up by another channel, people need to face facts really. The bubble's burst and BB has been dying since BB8 (although BB9 was a dose of adrenalin if we're to keep up the medical metaphors).

HAHAHA! I'm sorry but Lost wasn't a failing show, it was one of C4's crown diamonds and they fought Sky hard for it. What you got to remember is that imports are cheaper then producing a homegrown television series. So getting 2 million viewers for an import is just as good as getting 3 million on a homegrown program because it will have cost less to get those figures.

I think people would be interested in Big Brother again if it wasn't on every year. They could just put it on every 3 years instead of 1 year. I would love to see Big Brother on every year, but i could deal with it if it was on every few years.

Yep, simple as that for me. It's ran its course.

...did someone just say BB has a bigger following than Lost.

hold me dean...

i didnt think diary room uncut was axed

I think one of the main reasons it hasn't had the ratings is because they've axed the live feed during the day. It's made a huge difference to me. Even if I didn't sit and watch it all day, I always tuned in at some point to see what was happening.

OK, you make a good point there. Maybe BB on sky isn't such a great business idea afterall :bawling:

i knew this months ago.

BB - No More
 

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.





Deal

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.

WTF marcus dull????

It's all a matter of opinion but Marcus in my eyes is as dull as dishwater!

There will be a BB11 anyway. Compare to ALL other C4 shows, BB comes 1st, and 2nd only to Location, Location. To still get the highest C4 ratings compared to everything else after 10 yrs is a good achievement,

What people dont see is the general C4 decline.
When Friends was on air, it was hitting 6-7m weekly, with the final peaking at a huge 10m, these were the years when the huge Friday night lineup would be advertised non stop and acchieve big numbers (explains the BB2-BB5 ratings) .The Simpsons 2 years ago was reaching 3.4m and now manages only 1.7m, and Hollyaoks which was reaching 3m 2 years ago is now hitting 1.3m. Everything is going down, why just rule out BB?

It is C4's fault for their own failure. Where has there Must see Friday night lineup gone ? The Friday nights changed since 2005, everything was getting cancelled(Fraiser, Friends, Trigger Happy TV ect...)

Its clear that people are still ionterested by the show by these numbers:

CBB6 launch watched by 6.1m, after a terrible year and bad ratings dropping to 2m. BB10 launch was watched by 5.5m. That implies that people still are interested.

I think it would be amazing to take BB away from C4 and put it on ITV, and they will advertise it properly, think of new plans, bring the LF back and we can be sure it will be back to 4m levels again. It would be great satisfaction to see C4 staff's faces if BB will be a success on other channels :bigsmile:

And this is it - by dissolving the core rules and abandoning the fundamental concepts for what might have been 'cheap thrills' it cost the program all integrity.

I catch up yesterday and see them handed magazines articles about themselves,
Two more just leave the house and go to London,
the rest are running around the studio which really blows the whole psychological 'fish bowl' concepts,
no nomination rules followed,
HM do whatever,
Who cares,
People coming and going giving them stats on the popularity so why do anything anymore?
What is this now?
Just film 20 people in a hotel with access for anyone to come and go for a Summer for all its worth.

Not surprised its no longer BB,they screwed up too many times this year.

Posted 2 times already ....

I've stopped watching

They will go ahead with BB11 but I hope and WISH someone else picks it up. C4 are muppets.

The "axe" is one of the most talked about topic on the general TV forum on Digital Spy. If you go over there on the Ratings Thread, most of the recent posst have been about BB's "axe". C4 shouldnt get BB, they dont deserve it.

They literally sh!t their selves when all the legal stuff was threatened and with GB getting involved in the Shilpa incident.

A whole lot of other stuff happened in around the same time, the Johnathan Ross and Russel Brand incident, all has lead to a shift in emphasis to more family orientated, 'cleaner' programmes. whiter than white and holier than thou presenters etc.

When the reverberations of all this clean up went straight to the very top, then there was nowhere to hide, nowhere to blame the buck stopped at the executives- and they buckled, what we are seeing is a watered down version of what used to be a good social experiment.

It has totally lost its way, and needs a good shaking up, the concept of putting twelve strangers in a house is still good its the razzmatazz that surrounds it all that needs changing.