*Breaking News*: Big brother 24-Hour Live Feed 'Axed' By Channel 5
 

Big Brother on Channel 5 will not have a 24-hour live feed, according to digital director James Tatam.

Channel 5 and producer Endemol are instead working closely with mobile agency Mobile Interactive Group on a Facebook app that will have real-time news, extra video content and the ability to vote out housemates online.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s149/...ebook-app.html

Why is it so unfathomable to just give people a live feed? Surely they must know the huge backlash they will get if this is true. The 'but video updates lol!' spiel didn't do Channel 4 much good two years ago. People want a feed, not twelve second video updates blanketed by thirty seconds of advertising showing stuff that will make it to the highlights show anyway.

He said there won't be a live feed on the website. Hopefully there will be a YouTube one:

"It’s also in talks with YouTube to extend the use of the platform beyond video content for Big Brother."

Seriously not as interested now.

Will be more a soap opera than a reality tv show

Goshh BB10 repeat = fail
Oh dear C5, cheap move :nono:

Losing the will to care now.Channel 5 a statement needed now before this gets out of control.@peterdyke daily star

An app can go away, I hate real time update crap things.

This is crap if there no LF.:devil:

can't say im bothered

Probably wouldn't have watched it anyway, but they should still have it. Isn't really the same show without it.

Sad to hear, the LF last year made for addictive viewing.

really dont get the fussabout LF, no-one is around 24/7 to watch every single minute so why is a constant update of highlights not good enough? It is nothing to do with channel 5 not caring about live feed or the viewers but from a business view it might be not workable to do it or cost efficient so why should they. They dont have to break their baks trying to find a replacement for it with youtube, facebook updates and mobile apps but they are, so it is clear they do care. Live feed is not the be all and end all of Big Brother and never has been it is just a gimmick, the highlights show covers the main stories going on in the house and with extra updates on the website/twitter/facebook/mobile apps/youtube i cant see what everyone is moaning about we will have a good clear view of what is going on in the house and with the housemates. And for those who say it will just be edited to favour some more than others, i strongly disagree BB has to root through 24hrs of feed each day to pick out the stories that are potentially going to run a course and that are funny/intresting. If a housemate does not add to these then ofcourse they will get less air time and the ones involved in the current stories will be more heavy on the airtime. rant over :)

That will be very **** :/

You're wrong, though.

I'd have thought they'd have done the most they possibly could to get ratings back up and start the new series successfully. Looks like this could be a disappointment.

have to agree, i have never watched live feed but still find the highlights show highly enjoyable, something nice to chill and watch after college/work

Posts like this are the reason we might not be getting a feed, they read them and think that it's not important to have one, it is though, BB10 flopped completely without one.

I agree.

Without a feed there won't be a highlights show though, the show needs a feed for the press to write about it and to give fans something to talk about on here and DS it will be canceled next summer without one, I bet my account on it.

I only ever watched the live feed on BB11 anyway and loved all the other series' just as much, so i'm not that bothered.
Not gonna lie though, it was fun having the live feed available to watch whenever I wanted to watch it.

You will be bothered when we don't have a show because of it.

I never expected the show to last long on channel 5 anyway, live feed or no live feed.

With a live feed it has a chance of being renewed for another 3 series after BB13, without a live feed, it will be axed next summer.

BB10 still got around 1.5m - 2m viewers if I remember correctly. If they can get similar ratings on Channel 5 this year then while it's not perfect i'm sure they would be happy with that.

Weather they would be able to keep those viewers watching in any future series after this though, who knows, but for now i'm sure they'll be satisfied with what they're getting.

If it fails miserably though then i'm sure it won't be solely down to the lack of live feed. While i'm sure it might be a factor, it wouldn't be the only factor. There must be something else in there which is bad as well.

They say BB has so much more life in it to go on for years but they are squeezing all the life out of it.

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EVERYONE SIGN !!

I'm not gonna deny that with the lack of live feed, the whole 'golden ticket' scenario and so on, it does seem like they don't know what they're doing and almost as if they are trying to make it fail.

Who knows though, it might end up great. Stay positive! :elephant:

Without a live feed it won't be great.

The live feed is not a mere gimmick but in fact the big marketable touchstone the show was originally designed around. Without it Big Brother is just another television show. With it it's something that sets the format apart from the cesspit of other reality shows clamouring for press and public attention.

From a business standpoint it is incredibly easy to maintain a live stream and I seriously doubt it is that expensive. It's certainly far less costly than the irreparable damage it's omission could cause to the show. The fans want live feed and by not giving it to them Channel 5 are like it or not - regardless of whatever pissant compromises they conjure up - kind of sticking up the middle finger at the most important people to the show.

You simply don't piss off your hardcore fanbase. You don't do it with TV shows, video games, film or any other form of modern entertainment. It's a dangerous thing to wade into and usually spells disaster.

I don't see the show as being entirely worthless without the feed - 2009 was my favourite series of it ever - but the simple fact is railing against it or dismissing it isin't cool or smart. It would be a major loss to the show and would set a very bad precedent for what's to come.

As if fans had not already been highly paranoid of what Channel 5 would do with the format this lame ass decision just vindicates those endless 'Channel 5 will fuck it up' arguments.

Breaking News: Big brother 24-Hour Live Feed 'Axed' By Channel5
 

No BB for me, then ..... :nono:

The lowest ratings since the first week of BB1, which was on at 11pm.

And Neighbours was still getting 3 or 4 million on BBC1 but it didn't get 3 or 4 on Channel 5.

Same.

Totally disagree with you.

Channel 5 have not confirmed or denied anything yet lets not forget this.

Well said DS:hugesmile:

Done:xyxwave:

:cheer: gdgd x

Without the live feed its very mantipulate but ive had doubts about having a live feed on ch5 anyway its not like ch4 who had e4. The only way would have been a red button type or even you tube would work maybe.

When we had live feed the Papers could literally grab any story from the house with a screen shot and give readers exclusives.

How are they now supposed to break stories that we have already seen on the highlights.

No live feed loses bb's coverage and therefor lowers ratings significally.

I dont trust the editing on the show and cannot form a proper opinion of a housemate without live feed which sucks.

Im losing hope in Channel 5 i honestly thought they knew what the fans wanted but obviously they dont give a ****.

Its the publics show so maybe they should ****ing listen to what we want. I thought Channel 5 were going to take BB back to its glory days.

They have failed us.

Done.