Scheduling News (Alleged)
 

From DS, who got it from Digiguide:

BB Final: Tuesday 26th July (1hr 45mins)
CBB Launch: Thursday 28th July (2hrs)

So a 50 day series.

Not the Monday/Tuesday finals returning

18 days longer than CBB :fan:

Tbh midweek launches/finals don't actually bother me too much.

Ridiculous, right?

A 1 hr and 45 minute final is pathetic. Should be an extra half hour added to that. Looks like it's going to be rushed again yayy

I said those dates for the BB17 final and CBB18 launch a few weeks ago. Dont know why I expected it but I just did, always had the feeling BB17 would be a 50 day series.

How long was BB15/BB16's? I'm thinking there might only be 5 finalists.

Mess every Week 8 boot has lasted longer than the duration of this series :facepalm:

50 days :joker:

CBB18 is obviously going to be like 6 weeks or something

It's actually such a weird thought there were still 2 months to go at this point in BB7 yet there are 2 weeks for BB17.

don't go there tbh. 3 weeks is quite enough.

Not CBB starting two days after

Given the success of the series (compared to recent past years), I'm surprised it wasn't extended.

Not sure. I suppose if there's only 5 finalists then that's not so bad but if there's 6 you just know they'll chuck 2 of them out at the same time :facepalm:

is this the first year ever where there will be more CBB days than BB days?

It's such a weird thought that if BB7-10 were only one week longer, their durations would've been double this series.

Absolute ****ing laughable trash

Axe it all

A mess.

And me. This series could have been the same length as BB16 and only be half as ****ty

Ugh, why is this series so short?

Because C5 hate civilian BB and suck the proverbial cock of CBB so are desperate to get it on air early!

Rip civilian Big Brother

It's quite clear they're just trying to turn BB into something it is not, or shouldn't be: CBB.

It's things like this which is why LI is getting more viewers than BB.

It's clear even the producers don't have faith in BB anymore, so why should the viewers?

:/
get rid of it all please

How many days did LI last this year?

43 days.

I'm shocked they haven't introduced midweek evictions to BB yet if the series are going to be this short

Ah ok.

We have had new housemates enter later than this entire series :facepalm: it's such a shambles

Now that's a very weird thought actually. Although tbf, BB8's halfway HM's only entered 5 days before the final of many series.

They should extend this season tbh

In all honesty I won't be surprised if they look to Love Island's success next series for inspiration but for all the wrong reasons

So instead of a stellar promotion campaign, less housemates that have ties to the media (as a lot of the Love Island's casts haven't despite criticism), a better format, no votes to evict, better, more rounded editing that develops characters more fully, a nicer balance between fun and drama etc etc, it'll be 'oooh six weeks seems like a length that works, so let's cut it back even more' :rolleyes:

Maybe that's part of the reason why this series is so short anyway?

It is complete horse**** but the only positive I can take from it is that at least things aren't going to go stale

This.

And anyway, if I was going to make this series longer it would only be by 2 or 3 weeks. I thought the 13 week series were stale anyway. It just feels so repetitive and draining - especially when the original cast would get whittled down to a smaller number and then a large group of new housemates would enter and change it all.

Charley the real winner?

Mess not Charlie the 4th evictee going 18 days before the final.

Not Georgina the third evictee lasting exactly halfway.