If you were a producer, what would you change?
 

People keep having a go at the production team on c5 saying they need the sack. But I can imagine it's pretty hard. If YOU were a producer, what changes would you make to the show that you genuinely think would improve ratings and/or the critical reception of the show. & with CBB, who would you grt for the same reasons?

Change my team.
:hehe:

Stop overusing Marcus (get rid of his unneccesary contributions to the live shows) and have him reign his narration back.
Bring back live feed.
Let normal nominations go ahead each week.
Actually exercise crowd control with the mob outside or move the interview studio away from the outdoor crowd again.
Have less finalists (more than 4 isn't really necessary, and more than 5 certainly isn't).

I wouldn't change much.
I like BBUK better than US version. Love the unscripted diary room sessions with BB. Maybe in terms of twists they could make some changes but the format is pretty good.

Still have twists but make less of them about nominations because it's defating the purpose of the show. More like money twists or more impact secret missions.
Don't mke every task start with "we asked the public..." or "who do you think is the most..."" have classic fun ones
More weird and unique cast. Eileen was the weirdest this year and in BB standards she was very sane

- Bring back BB14 style live feed
- Take Marcus off the hyper pills
- Isolate the staircase
- Make the Diary Room less OTT
- Produce tasks that are BB6 good
- Stop the constant twist a day mentality
- Create clear transparent rules for the viewer and housemates + create a weekly schedule like we had in Channel 4
- Make normal nominations a thing
- Burn the eye to the ground and build a studio seperate from the crowd
- Actually cast good housemates
- Improve the live show and make it more professional/less cheesy
- Ban sirens and music on eviction nights
- Start the highlights show with housemates waking up in normal time rather than a montage of them waking up, making breakfast, lying in bed etc.

- Try my best to get live streaming re-introduced
- A vastly improved website/app similar to BBCAN's
- Drop series themes/sub titles with immediate affect
- Be as transparent with viewers as possible/listen and act upon viewer opinion
- No more tacky editing and a fair representation for all housemates in the highlights show
- Stick to the fundamental rules of the format (outside contact being abolished in all forms)
- The (re)introduction of consistent nominations in the form of the BBAU format.
- No more messy launch shows (pre-recorded house tours, Emma interviewing the housemates on launch, Marcus shouting the facts as a housemate enters the house etc)
- No more messy eviction shows (OTT Marcus shouting at the housemates/acting as Emma's co-host, weird camera angles, clichéd eviction scripts, sirens etc)
- No more rushed finals - they will take on a format similar to BBAU's as they feel more like an event.
- A new outdoor set, with an eviction studio built away from the house and the crowd. Also no more curved stairs.
- More diverse casting with as few recruits as possible
- No more re-hashed twists (prize fund, bedsit etc)
- More C4 style houses (isolated staircase, glass walls etc)

and many, many more ideas.

If I was one of the current producers I'd resign.

Stop wheeling Nikki out every season. Gurning dwarf.

Scrap summer CBB. It's actually the most pointless thing on television. I seriously fail to understand why we have two series of CBB per year.

CBB is a January show. Not to mention summer CBB doesn't bring in as much media attention, hype, voting revenue, and ratings as January CBB. So why waste a few million pounds paying celebrities for something that will only get you an extra 0.5m from the flop Civilian Big Brother, which is still over a million less compared to what it rates in the winter.

I seriously can't comprehend it.

she wasn't in Big Brother 12
or Big Brother 13
or Big Brother 14
come to think of it, she wasn't in Big Brother 15 either
:shocked:

1. Bring back Live Feed.

2. Get rid of VTE and bring back VTS.

3. Scrap nominations and have it that one person can fight for imnunity for the week instead with everybody else going up on a VTS.

4. With that format, I would make it that the two with the least votes go straight to the Housemates to decide who leaves until we reach the final (which would be the top 4)

5. Allow for anyone to audition again which would hopefully mean a more diverse cast.

- live feed
- have a door between the steps and the entrance to the house, I used to like seeing housemate console themselves before walking in.
- get rid of the eye stage and bring back the cars dropping them off at the start of the walk way.
- no contact with outside world!! none of these tweets about housemates in tasks.
- open auditions, nobody with an agent or that has been on tv before.
- diary room nominations.
- ban the crowd from bloody going "oooh ooh... oooh ooh" at the start of live shows before Emma walks out...its such a cringe haha

Oh and change the vt's for the housemates, don't have them sitting in a studio, show their original audition from the first rounds of auditions, show them doing stuff outside. Think back to bb7 vt's.

Vote to Save and more real people is all I want.

Oh I also would have cruel tasks.

And they're going to waste Janice on a summer CBB. :inamood:

She's on BOTS mate.

Nobody's forcing you to watch it.

* I'd stop putting those evicted back in. I don't care if it's now, or if ewe were a housemate 40 years ago, once you're out, you're out!

* No more letters from home.

* No more family visits when time is stopped.

* No more lying in bed all day doing nothing.

* Massive penalties for showmances. You'll receive an extra nomination if you're seen to be tarting to excess.

Pretty much everything that needs to be changed has been mentioned.

I'm well aware of that mate. I could watch it the whole time if she wasn't constantly wheeled out though, which is the point I was making.

Simple, change it back to VTS. When it is VTE, the voting public gets rid of the most entertaining characters leaving the most boring ones in there at the end. This year was a text book example of why VTE doesn't work with this voting public.

Nothing really wrong with vote to evict. Had it been Marc vs. Sam for eviction, as it should have been, Marc's supporters could have saved him. I'm open to vote to save though. But it has to be the 3 or more housemates with the most noms are up.

What they need is a house full of good housemates. That way it doesn't matter who goes and every eviction is a big one. And no one housemate dominates the show like the obnoxious Marc did when he came in.

All the show needs are the following...

A return of the live coverage
A good website, built around the live coverage
12 - 14 really good housemates
Normal noms and evictions
Only 2 or 3 twists at most

It really is that simple. The show doesn't work without the live coverage as you can't get to know the housemates. We used to get 24/7 coverage for 10 weeks, in the last series we got about 64 hours worth of coverage. Less than 3 days worth. That's how pathetic it has become.

That's one hell of a lot of footage binned.:shocked::shocked:

They still profit from it. Yes, they might profit January CBB slightly more if they only did it once a year but it wouldn't nearly be twice as much. This is the reason why they have 2 cbb's.

:clap1::clap1::clap1: I love these ideas. Exactly what's needed.

!Producers take note!

I think over the past year or so, my projects have given so many different ideas that I think could be effective. They're over in the fan made section if anyone is interested.

I would scrap the public having direct control over who is evicted first and foremost, they know nothing and nearly always ruin series after series.

Then I would incorporate the US/Canada formats but with slight tweaks to allow the public to have some influence on the game. It would play out as follows:

Head of Household:

Each week all housemates would take part in an endurance/physical/mental (alternating every time) competition to crown an HoH.

This person would nominate three other housemates for eviction.

Power of Veto/Save & Replace:

All housemates (different to the US/Canadian versions) would then compete for the Power of Veto (or S&R if they wanted to keep a UK name). The person who wins this competition has the power to save one of the nominees, or keep the nominations the same. If they choose to save a nominee, they name the replacement (again, different from the standard US format).

Vote to Save:

The public then votes to save one of the three nominees. Emma announces who has the most votes on eviction night, and they are removed from the block.

House Vote:

The remaining housemates, excluding the two nominees and the HoH then vote to evict one of the two nominees. In the event of a tie, the HoH breaks it.

Jury Vote:

When ten people remain, every housemate evicted moves into the jury house which is located somewhere within the UK free from outside contact.

On finale night, the final two are questioned by the eight jurors before each of them votes for a winner. The UK public are the ninth juror.

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The prize fund would be increased to £250k (ideally it'd be £1m but lol at BBUK ever affording that), and all of this would make the show more interesting, more fair and more ~pure~ and offers a different spin on the standard US/Canada game by adding the different elements I named above, most notably the public vote which would mean the HoH would run the risk of nominating a big threat only to have them saved by the public.

24/7 live feed would also return online with different camera options at a reasonable price.

That's about it!

It's called a "BBUS format" for a reason. Let's keep it that way.

No, that's a name that foreigners have given it to separate it from the UK show.

'A different way of doing things' has the same meaning and doesn't mean it shouldn't be implemented.

Just because something has been one way for a long time, doesn't mean it's the right way.

Also you obviously didn't read my post or else you'd have realised what I just described is in fact not the 'US format' but is instead a new format that takes inspiration from it.

My first and most important change would be not to evict anyone for the first two weeks. 7 days before first eviction is to short for both housemates and most importantly the viewers do not have long enough to judge the housemates.

I would get rid of those immature stupid ridiculous warnings about intense arguments adult themes etc etc etc. If viewers don't know by now that BB is adult viewing they never will. Just give it an X certificate rating and that's enough warning for anyone.

I would get rid of the beginning part of the highlight show repeating what happened previously and what is about to come trailer. Waste of viewing time and only needed for those with a memory of a goldfish.

I would stop public votes that only those with gadgets can take part in (android devices) Smart phones etc. If a vote is needed then all viewers should be able to take part.

Live channel streaming is a must to return. Relying on CH5 editing to judge housemates is just not on.

I would return to the practice of no contact with the outside world

The shopping list to be once again be done on a blackboard

Remove all clocks from the house.

Letters from home all housemates would receive them when appropriate

The prize fund I would divide into 1st 2nd and 3rd with no other interference allowing unworthy housemates to grab cash.

I would stop two people being interviewed at the same time. Housemates deserve there own individual interviews from Emma.

I would evict rowdy members of the public chanting during Emmas interview with a life ban from attending an eviction show again.

I would select more housemates like "Harry" who are not afraid of being natural in front of viewers. If only to upset as many prudish nuts amongst the public as possible.

I would always ensure gender balance. If females keep getting evicted I would make sure all new housemates added were female

What ever housemates say in the diary room in private should stay private and not be used by BB to deliberately cause arguments

No more than two people evicted at any one time.

Any twins selected to go in should always be treated as separate housemates

The format worked for thirteen years without getting tired, therefore it's not the format that is the problem.

I would like to see them bring back the panel to interview the evictee. I thought it was really good during the series they did that. Housemates would come out and get some hard questions from a proper panel including psychologists.

Yas

But I'd get rid of letters from home for the entire duration of the series. They sign up for ten weeks of no contact with the outside world, and that's what they shall get. :hmph:

This. All of this.

:laugh: Cruel. I like the letters because of the emotional reactions they produce. That's why I want all housemates to get a letter.

However I understand the point of no outside contact in the sense of not giving the housemates any clues as to how they are perceived on the outside. The letters should not be allowed to do that.

I can't remember that ! What series did that happen ?

Don't mind a panel as long as there are no psychologists on the panel. I just cannot stand those jerks. A squashed insect in a vat of cider would show more intelligence than a psycho babble merchant.

It was BB10.