Channel 5 is set to renew contract
 

Showmakers Endemol UK are ready to sign a new *contract with Channel 5 after the reality series proved a hit in its new home.

And the contract will include plans for two Celebrity Big *Brother series a year, starting with another one this summer


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/vie...etting-bigger/

None of that would surprise me at all, I feel Channel 5 are largely ignoring the ratings BB got on Channel 4 and are looking at how they build on the ratings they have had for it so far which for Channel 5 have been good.

If it happens and I believe it will, it's really good news.

Nothing about the normal bb however.

2 celeb versions is overkill, and will damage the celebs they can attract imo. As winning the show won't feel as credible, and the media may even give it less coverage.

Then again it's clear they'll offer huge fee's, which should attract names that people have at least heard of.
I'll safely say an xfactor scandal act will be on at least 1 of them regularly every year, after they've made their headlines etc.

So as it stands

I'd say Jan 2013 CBB

May-July/early Aug BB

End of Aug/Sept CBB

According to the article its going to get bigger. So perhaps more live feed, increased advertising etc. = win :D

Yeah I see them potentially axing Big Brother and just having two Zeleb versions a year, can't be doing with more TOWIE cast-members though :bored:

Was somehow impossibly thinking CH4 would have a uturn and re-sign it :bawling:


in my dreams.

I think i'm ready to bail on it now. I can just about manage one celeb series a year. And I'm gonna give BB13 a go, like I did with BB12 even though I gave up after a couple of weeks but if they're gonna churn it out constantly to kill it even further then I'm just going to stop before I hate it more than I already do.

I really dont want 2 celeb versions a year
Should just have 1 normal and 1 celeb a year

Over-kill.

2 X CBB or 1 x CBB + 1 x BB make up yo mind.

If I had it my way I'd just have the 1 summer show and that's it

Well I think we all saw this coming - two CBB's a year that is.

Disappointing really, but that's C5.

Unfortunately I can only see more of those awful reality show types like TOWIE, Karaoke Factor rejects, ex soap actors/actresses, the latest nobody to have had an affair with a zeleb/sportsman/politician, and the usual glamour model bores.

If lucky I'll get the odd has been witty Brit that stands out from the rest and the odd American big name, these being the reason I would still watch CBB.

The ratings for CBB on C5 may have been good, averaging 2.5m, but the ratings for BB, averaging 1.6m, were decidly nondescript ..... ;)

Yeah, the fees will go up and the celebrity "factor" will go down ..... :laugh2:

Yeah, that about sums it up ..... :(

If they axe regular BB I'm not watching anymore. The only CBBs I've enjoyed have been CBB4 & CBB9.

The fans prefer the main show though and it's us that get it trending worldwide every night, vote hundreds of times and read the interviews (and crash DS more than X Factor's fans, which gets more viewers).

Plus it got 1.6m a *night*, most their other shows don't get that a week.

I won't watch it as much as I used to and I won't talk about it much as much.

CBB4, CBB3 and CBB9 and for me. I've enjoyed every normal BB except BB8 and BB4. I'm rewatching CBB4 at the moment.

I think I'll take this news with a pinch of salt. It is in the Daily Star after all.

So is there no more normal BB?

They should just stick to
Jan -CBB &
July-Early Sept - BB


Best way .

They got loads of stuff wrong about CBB9

Dirty Desmond owns C5 and the Star, so it's unlikely that any "mistakes" were accidental ..... ;)

>Daily Star

Ahahahah!

C5 is well into reality shows, and I think for them they see the Celeb BB's as more profitable than the ordinary BBs, as they can do Celeb spin off shows from the more popular/or percieved as more popular Celebs. C5 love giving us trash TV. The more trashy and/or media ***** the Celeb, the more profitable for them I suppose they hope.

Overkill.