The only twist that would shock the nation and the house would be
 

If on launch night Big Brother sat everyone down on the sofa and told them the public will no longer vote.

From now on its up to the housemates who stays and who goes.

Simple but explosive plus we wouldn't have to sit through endless reminders of the telephone numbers to evict on eviction shows.

Also we can finally be done with the public voting out the bigger characters. Maybe only let the public vote on the winner and that's it.

EDIT: Can I please add a pole to this simply with 2 options saying Good idea? Bad idea?

I'd be happy with this (I never vote anyway).

plz

It's time to adopt the (vastly superior) US format where thankfully the public have little or no say on what happens

Although when I suggested this the other week you said you wouldn't like to see it :suspect:

No I said I wouldn't like nomination talk.

I still think they shouldn't be allowed to discuss nominations until they all have to sit and nominate each other. That way the whole show wont be all about nom talk but it will be bubbling under the surface and cause a lot more tension and paranoia.

The US/CAN live feeds aren't all noms/votes talk though, yes there's a lot of it (and it's very interesting) but there is still downtime where they just chat usual stuff. The main show is mainly strategy stuff yes but there are still little bits that focus around relationships/friendships

I don't think that format would work if they couldn't discuss things

I mean they could always adopt a Survivor-esque format and just do a weekly immunity comp and then have every housemate cast a vote live on eviction night and then if there's a tie give the immunity holder the deciding vote. I'd prefer the US format but at least that'd be a bit more creative

No you're making it to complicated lol.

Keep it simple just take away the public vote and let the housemates get on with it themselves.

Simple.

No I prefer that the public has input. I feel it would keep he show more popular with the media etc and create more of a buzz.

That would just cause the public to have less interest if anything

This would be terrible. Like last year near the start we all loved Gina... but most of the housemates hated her. They would vote her out and we'd be sat disappointed.

Really?

I would say only a small percentage of the actual viewing public bother to vote anyway.

I'm not :suspect: you say 'let them get on with it' but then what's the format? Which housemates vote? How many people do they vote for? Are there separate noms and an eviction vote or just an eviction vote? Are there immunity competitions? Who decides the winner?

The US already have a non-public involvement format in place we could adopt, all I suggested was simplifying it even more by just having every housemate vote and the person with the most votes each week leaves

Use thread tools to add a poll. it's at the top of your post

I'm sure Big Brother is more popular in the US than it is over here when ratings are contextualised, someone might have to verify that for me though

Yes do that for First week only
Then Covert Public Voting is back
with Shock Evictions - No time to do hair etc.

Then we are part of it

I wouldn't like to adopt the US format. Stick to our format.

But I wouldn't mind tweaking little details just to change it up, it's been 15 years after all. So I wouldn't mind abolishing the public votes. But would channel 5 want to give up the money it makes?

Maybe they could let the public vote for a head of house or something else each week so they still get some cash from phone votes.

There's plenty of ways you could still have public involvement but take it to more of a US format, Big Brother Canada is like a hybrid of UK/US tbqh

Here's a couple of ideas for y'all:

It's not just the voting. We'd end up with a house full of bores after all the controversial people get voted out or they'd have to do a series full of bitchy game players which the general public wouldn't be here for.

In all honesty it's surprising how quite a few of the 'controversial' people who would be hated over here do fairly well in the US (and are sometimes supported) and to be honest I'd say they get better bunches of people left at the end of their seasons than BBUK

I don't mind so much if my favourite is evicted via the house in their versions because it's more often than not their own fault that they didn't play a good game, that's more preferable than great housemates in the UK being evicted cause the cat ladies prefer hot male housemates or people that say nothing

No, I'd like the public vote still. I don't vote but the public vote offers surprises and shocks at evictions and in the final, we'd pretty much know who would be getting evicted if the housemates did it themselves by who hated who/liked who.

It should happen but it won't.

I already said the public eventually decides the winner.

Nomination wise everything stays the same its just the housemates decide which of the nominated housemates will leave live on eviction night.

Exactly the same just taking away the publics decision and giving it to the housemates.

You really are thinking far to deep into it, I didn't mention any immunity competitions,how many people will vote ect because as in my first post states EVERYTHING STAYS EXACTLY THE SAME except the housemates decide who leaves on a Friday.

The format is 14 housemates live in a house, everyweek they will each nominate 2 people the housemates with the most votes will face eviction on Friday


Can you just understand that?

That already happens with the public vote.

Well firstly there's no need to be rude but secondly you have um...basically just described a cross between the US format and the straight vote I suggested up there ^ so your confusion at my posts seems a little strange

If there's ten housemates left, after nominations two housemates are up for eviction, so eight people vote...what happens if the vote ties? :umm2:

This

*Gets up and walks out of thread.