[Jamesy]

Live feed gives us more of a chance to get to know the housemates, gives us a greater understanding of them and also creates talking points with friends, family and on forums like this.

It's a joke really that C5 don't air live feed nightly on 5* or C5 for at least 60mins (should be a few hours really). If countries across the world can run 24/7 live feed then surely we can run 2 hours a night live feed. I doubt it costs that much to run at all, you need, what, a director, two or three live editors and someone to oversee they're not airing anything that breaks regulations. Scrap some of the crap they waste money on BOTS and shift that money to live feed.

I don't buy the 'not enough people watch it' argument either. I highly doubt during the C4 days they had millions of people watching live feed on E4's red button at 3am...

There is only one reason they don't air live feed, and that's because it stops them from manipulating the main highlights show, and that's why Big Brother is slowly being run into the ground. Fans, and even casual viewers have lost one of the fundamentals of Big Brother and they know they're being force fed a fake storyline each episode. Big Brother was never meant to be aired like that, it's meant to be natural and basic, with no heavy editing. I accept they need this fancy editing to keep up with the times although they need to realise that the public aren't thick enough to enjoy these fabricated storylines. The producers treat Big Brother like TOWIE, but the Big Brother audience is too intelligent for stuff like that.

Live feed isn't the be-all and end-all, although it is a fundamental of the show and something we should at least be getting a few hours of a night. Like I've said various times on this forum. C5 and 5* moreso hardly have massive viewing figures at night and simply 2-5 hours of live feed a night would not cost much, not affect 5*/C5 viewing figures (might even improve them very slightly) and create more of a talking point. Fans will engage more with the show on forums, casual viewers will talk to their friends more about highlights of the live feed, word will spread and while it won't give the main show millions more viewers, I think it would help the figures far more as people will feel more engaged with the show. As opposed to now where we're being pushed away and given very little content.