ohhhhhhhhhhhh, this is good news!

Hmm...well that could mean that BB will go even more tabloid than ever..

They have Ok mag, and Hot, and The Daily Star. So you can imagine the entire show will be run round fake romances and ridiculous feuds, all contrived just to sell mags or papers, and the housemates will even further up the wannabe scale.

Very this. :D

:joker:

I do think that since BB7 they have at least tried to get some more 'normal' people to participate...if it's run by a company whose sole purpose is to create gossip and money from scandal then who knows who we might end up with:shocked:

I couldnt face another house full of Lea's and shabaz's....Lea literally turned my stomach

was it the whisk?

Big Brother on Five wouldn't be good news in the slightest. They've ruined every show they've taken from other channels - and they'd ruin BB too.


Some people here needs to face facts - C4 have made the right decision both for them and for Big Brother, and the show needs to go away for a few years before any talk of a revival.

Dont remind me about the whisk (altho that was one of the best threads ever:joker: ) but yeah, the whisk, the boobs, the trap on it.....bluk, dutty ol' bird.

good news but i believe it wont be picked up.

How on earth the OP thought this ment BB is saved is beyond me.

of course we would get Davina, shes a main star of BB :)

Have a feeling channel 5 would do it better,go all out bb5 style;arguements,sex,fun,games,comedy.

There are too many blah Dave/Andrew/Josie types clogging up the current c4 BB,
middle age spreading on the sofa,talking about their partners and kids all day,or crying about how nobody wuvs them and 'going on a journey'

It has to be Devina, she is a lynchpin of the show, Dermot O'Leary would be a good presenter though or George Lamb

Hope they bring back Zezi
JOKING,GOD I'M JOKING.

Would be amazing if they could bring Russell Brand back,BBBM with him was amazing;
when he'd always kick Jon Connells diagrams to pieces,Rosebud the posh horse,little Paul Scholes..aah the memories.I would actually get Russell's BBBMs if they released them on dvd,pure comedy.

If it goes to Five, I hope they put more effort into that C4 have done for the last few years

can we get 5 in ireland?

Thanks for that Michael.
Looks good.

I hope CH5 look at why the series was failing though rather than just continue with a show that seriously needs updating.

There were a couple of posters here that had the same info yesterday as well.

And? What's your point?

I was adding info to the thread.

The articles and reports here are really telling us this much:

- They have 'acquired the rights'.

- They may or may not produce and air BB and they may or may not do so from another location.


Sure, it is possible they could lease the BB House, hire Davina, return next season with a sort of BB12.
But don't even count on that.

Realistically this is what we are reading:
- They have the 'right' to produce BB and have no intention of doing this any time soon.
- Davina is not coming back.
- It will not take place in the current location/house.

My guess is that they will sit on the rights and nothing is happening for at least 2 seasons.
It may very well be attempted again but look for something radically different and even more 'purist' BB.
Maybe quite surprisingly smaller and understated.
More for adults. I don't mean 'sexual content' but I mean more of an adult socio-psychological experiment.

But the thing to understand here is that we ought to lower expectations that 'BB is saved!' and will be back next year,
and,
still many here have this 'picture' or expectation this means BBLB and Davina and the House and all the usual format and themes and..

..No.
That is done now. Its over. You are never seeing this kind of BB again.

The articles and reports here are really telling us this much:

- They have 'acquired the rights'.

- They may or may not produce and air BB and they may or may not do so from another location.


Sure, it is possible they could lease the BB House, hire Davina, return next season with a sort of BB12.
But don't even count on that.

Realistically this is what we are reading:
- They have the 'right' to produce BB and have no intention of doing this any time soon.
- Davina is not coming back.
- It will not take place in the current location/house.

My guess is that they will sit on the rights and nothing is happening for at least 2 seasons.
It may very well be attempted again but look for something radically different and even more 'purist' BB.
Maybe quite surprisingly smaller and understated.
More for adults. I don't mean 'sexual content' but I mean more of an adult socio-psychological experiment.

But the thing to understand here is that we ought to lower expectations that 'BB is saved!' and will be back next year,
and,
still many here have this 'picture' or expectation this means BBLB and Davina and the House and all the usual format and themes and..

..No.
That is done now. Its over. You are never seeing this kind of BB again.

Acquired the rights means very little.

The car firm BMW has the rights to use the old Riley and Triumph marques - but doesn't bother and probably never will.

I don't see any BB12 (or at least not for another 12 years).

IF they ever do their version it will have to be something like 'Big Brother 1' although by some other name (to make the distinction).
Suggestions have been:
Endemol's Big Brother 20xx (whatever is the year)
Big Brother Returns: Season 1

But from what we are seeing here it's going to be restarted in its own 'first season'.

Here again people need to understand this is not just a case where 'BB continues' as you know it.

People seem to have this idea that it's simply carrying on but the difference is that it's on a different channel now.
No.
BB as you know it is permanently over. Another business bought the 'rights' to make it.
They have no plans.
IF they do remake it they will get together with Endemol and have to create a new type of Big Brother.

Hey.. it could be some terribly cheap looking 'tack' version more Jeremy Kyle than ever before (but with less dignity),
or,
It may well return looking more like a Horizon Documentary with some serious tone, more frightening and 'adult'.

But if you believe that we will just carry on with 'BB12' and somehow the different is just a channel and a new presenter?
Ya no.
Sorry.

well if ch5 take big brother..i will never watch ch4 again in protest and watch ch5 instead

The alcohol was reduced because housemates became violent when they could not take their drink.

So it was housemates not BB that stopped the alcohol.

I think BB should be rested for at least a few years now.