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Originally Posted by Jarrod
Realistically, if the show was ever to return it would be more live Love Island than Big Brother now, down to the fact that's what reality looks like now. The traditional forms of Big Brother won't work and 24/7 live feed wouldn't capture attention now, compared to the early days.
It'd be competing with streaming services and on demand, so if it ever comes back it'll have to be drastically different.
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Personally Reality TV has niched it's audience ever since it's gone more like Love Island imo.
Big Brother in it's peak could get about 8 million viewers, and at it's very peak even reached 10 million viewers on Channel 4.
The Reality Show that pulls in the biggest audience is Strictly, and the Show that's growing the most in it's audience numbers is The Masked Singer, both are nothing like Love Island.
MasterChef & Great British Bakeoff also have respectable fanbases too and again they're nothing like Love Island.
I get that there is an audience for people pretending to fall in love with each other, but I do think that it's a myth that most Reality TV fans want that kinda product because the ratings and critical response does say otherwise and I think that TV Channels need to start tapping into that audience more often.