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[rquote=2507793&tid=144854&author=Ghostinthehouse]Because the audience is older. Also, because the BB audience has got to know the way the whole thing is made etc. BB have to keep coming up with more interesting/complex ideas and they have a problem with that.

Long gone are the days when a BB audience would be satisfied with a load of teen - 20 something celebrity wannabees getting their pants off. No longer are BB fans impressed with endless sing songs and tasks that relate to sing songs and singing... "OOOhhh whos in the shower now..." and "Who are they with?...."

As HMs average age (and IQ) has risen BB has failed to change the show with it! BB puts people in the BB house with a brain and expects them to behave the same as 20 years olds who just want to get p****d and do singing tasks in the vain attempted to get a recording contract. Note that Sophie is the 'classic' HM, drunken slag basically.

CH4 choose people who can think for themselves, Marcus, Siavash, Freddie etc. and then constantly stifle their efforts to entertain.

The massive rule breaking this year is a reflection of how out of touch CH4 BB is from the HM and the BB fans.

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Yes, some very bang-on calls and definitely that is the real underlying problem.
It is true that Big Brother does get 'new generations' of viewers as it goes along. The 18-22 year olds who just started watching,
however,
There is something essential about keeping that original core supporting audience the programme was built on.
and,
That 'founding audience' were a lot of people 25+.
Remember:
The season(s) were NOT 'teen party' orientated. Big Brother was had a more adult drama theme. It was even considered a very serious social experiment. Can you remember that respectable journalists would discuss the implications and meanings of the Big Brother experiment.
It was more serious venture and not targeted at teenagers.
Okay.
As each season went on that core 'founding audience' was getting older and needed to see more complex social situations, more intriguing dynamics, more psychological dilemmas.
But those are hard to do.
A tit-monster taking a shower is easy. It probably did grab a lotof insta-ratings.
Any viewers who left for lack of sophistication could be easily replaced with 18 year olds and then some when gay guys run naked or some models have sex,
anyways.
It seems to me there had to be some point in the middle where everyone was happy,
but,
at this point it has to be impossible for someone who was (at the time) 30 and appreciated BB1 to now be 40 and watching people (who could be their kids) having outrageous naked pillow fights or trying to engage with the most childish 'relationships'.

The problem with bubblegum is that the thrill doesn't last long.