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Originally Posted by eye sea
* No sending housemates back in after they've been voted out
* No producer favourites kept in, even though they're hated on the outside.
* No messages or news from the outside world
* Face to face nominations
* If you ask to leave, you will be booted out straight away.
* Bans on fake romances
* No save and replace
* Allow the viewing public to nominate as well.  |
Strongly agree with a lot of what you listed. The problem seems to be that bending, changing or disregarding these can earn a BB series the fast and easy views/votes.
As we have seen it looks like simply dropping all pretenses and making a 'Summer Teenage Rotating Snog Party' is what gets them the instant ratings,
but,
What I wish C5 considers is investing in long-term core-audience loyalty and builds back respect for this socio-psychological 'experiment', the Orwellian idea behind it,
and,
where it once again 'means something' to enter and compete and play and audiences can be said to 'trust' what they are seeing and consequently invest deeper for longer.
New HMs coming and going may score big thrills but then what the hell is the point of calling it Big Brother at some point?
It may score instant highlight ratings to see how housemates react to the pop star death but then why call it Big Brother at this point?
I guess producers look at it this way:
- if they create 'summer pool party showmance' they DO get many teens and Jeremy Kyle types quick to look that night,
but,
My warning is that these people also need more and more 'cheap thrills' to keep watching,
and,
now the type who is watching FOR the very point of seeing the deeper intrigue of 'no outside contact' or seeing how they 'gel' with no new people.. this type STOPS viewing steadily over the seasons.
I dunno what the solution is. BB11 did seem to want it 'both ways' but that ended up hurting it.
But my advice to C5 is consider alternating (like CBB and BB do) but have a sort of CBB Teen orientated loose-rules showmance 18-24 year old orientated crapfest in winter,
then,
put together something really closer to the original serious, even frightening, more sophisticated subtle psychological 'thriller' during the Summer.