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Originally Posted by Captain.Remy
Have you watched BB USA, like a full season ? BB8 and BB11 were by far the best ones yet and pretty much owned the UK versions at the time. BB11 USA and BB10 UK were both amazing, completely different so I can't comment on these 2.
Some people might say it's the length that destroyed the format but look at BB USA. 11 series ? They haven't changed the format since BB3 and yet CBS pulls of awesome ratings. Same thing for Survivor: 20 series and nothing has changed since.
So what is it about BB UK that didn't work out well ? It is one of the few versions in the world that went badly, ratings wise from one series to another to another to another....
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I think there is a simple reason why Big Brother is failing in the UK. It's in the UK. Over here the show was a tabloid event and is the bane of the PC, Daily Mail reading populace. When the racism row occured, the show faced riddiculous censorship and was left in a creative slump that destroyed the summer series in 2007, which in turn destroyed any chance of the 2008 series ever having a fair chance.
Then instead of changing things in a big way and fast like they should have done in the post racism row, they toned it down and tried to stick it out and, well, here we are today, with about a third or it's original audience.
Books will be written about this someday. The racism row and Big Brother 8 are what killed Big Brother in this country. Big Brother 8 for it's part was a three month lesson in how to destroy a TV franchise. It was a textbook exmaple of how not to pull off a TV show.