[RichardG]

I think this season is the culmination of the producers totally ignoring the fans for the past few years now. They have continued to increase producer manipulation, throw silly twists at us every week, and just generally haven't treated us very well, and so people are turning off. They only really have themselves to blame for the desperate mess they've found themselves in now. Regular BB was never going to be getting 2m+ a night these days anyway, especially since moving channels, but I don't believe they would have fell as low as they are now as quickly as they have done if they didn't seem hell bent on driving away all the core fans and appealing purely to the casuals.