10 weeks. 14 HMs max. Standby HMs only for walkers.

Same as this year but without the new HM's coming in, it really is getting boring now

Same as BB6.

^^ Agreed. 11 weeks, 15-16 quality housemates (like BB5, with everyone being a big character). No more than 1 or 2 latecomers unless somebody walks or is kicked out.

3 weeks is just a bit too short!

4-5 weeks

2 separate houses (House2 smaller than the other) - each thinking they're the only house.

Day 1. 16 Housemates enter on the launch night. 8 in one, 8 in the other.
Day 3. House2 must nominate infront of each other for an instant eviction. Housemate chosen goes into House1 but must not tell H1 about H2.
Day 6. H1 think they're all facing eviction but instead the public have been voting for which hm from H2 they want to go in H1. The hm chosen must not tell H1 about H2.
Day 7. The two hms that were originally in H2 must decide which remaining hm from H2 to evict.
Day 8. H2 are told about H1 and are instructed to pack up their belongings and move to H1.
Now that the 2 houses have become one, it returns to one eviction every week like normal. Although I'd like to see the first triple eviction this series (maybe two evicted through the public votes as a double eviction, and then Davina surprises the house and tells them they must nominate one more person to leave the house?)

Then in week 3 they could add 4 new housemates to the house and make it 17hms (20 hms that series).

What do you think?

This idea is good, however, its quite similar to BBUS (but the public have no involvement). It ends up being that the bigger clique slowly get rid of the smaller clique, and they become quite predictable (like how it was obvious that Sara and Lisa were going to be nominated when they had to vote infront of each other because the rest were in their own little group).

Plus, if they nominate infront of each other they end up feeling intimidated and voting for people their friends are voting for rather than who they really want (look at Rachel when they had to nominate infront of each other. She ended up looking at everyone elses and basing her decision on theirs).

Let's face it, Sara and Lisa were going to be up either way, and Rachel didn't base her decision on other people's nominations, she was one of the B-Block people who didn't vote Sara and Lisa.

12 on the first day with 3/4 latecomers

13 weeks (93 day) 16 housemates (12 launch night), first eviction week 2

13 weeks is good i agree, perfect length if you start with 16 or so HMs....add in 2 more throughout the 13 weeks and you have your 18 (when you get to 20-22 HMs that is too much). Maybe 1 double eviction, no more. Then a finale of 4 or 5 people. Would be perfect IMO