[Matt]

1: Make launch night/the housemates the best ever. 15 housemates, eight women, seven men; a collection of interesting people, of all ages, and all background. No housemates that fall under the category “Wouldn’t be a housemate if they weren’t attractive”; any attractive housemates must also have a good personality. Make the ages more varied, with less 18 and 19 year old, and more people in their 30s and 40s. No family members/friends/people that know each other entering together (the twins is a nice touch, but not again). No housemate that will obviously win from the get-go. Less wannabes, more normal, but still interesting housemates. Aside from that, have an amazing launch night twist at the end that will effect the house throughout the week, like in Big Brother 6. Nothing predictable like ‘only one housemate is able to nominate’, or anything similar to a previously done twist.

14 housemates: 7 women, 7 men. I don't want to see any majority genders in the house unless it is the result of a public vote (e.g. housemates voting out a man, leaving 7 women, 6 men). A more diverse bunch of housemates is in order. Don't banish the freaks, but don't have too many of them. BB5 is widely regarded as one of the best series ever, but I wouldn't exactly class the BB5 housemates as normal. No obvious winner is fundamental.



2: Make the house the best ever. Make it larger, with more secret rooms with different purposes that can be discovered over the series. Have an amazing design; colourful, cool furniture. Make the garden larger, the beds bigger, and a cool hideout place like the caravan. Go back to having nowhere to hide from the other housemates.

Make it larger, but don't make it obvious on first glance. Smaller houses create more tension. The house needs more soundproofing. ...and a cool hideout place like the caravan. Go back to having nowhere to hide from the other housemates. - don't these two sentences contradict each other?



3: More regular nominations. A twist should happen in week one, week four, week seven, week nine and week eleven, leaving six weeks of uninterrupted nominations.

I agree that nominations should happen normally more often, though I don't think I'll dictate when twists should happen, as long as there's not one after another.



4: Make the twists the best ever. If a housemate can easily guess what is up, it’s not a good twist. If it’s been done before, it’s not a good twist. Twists should be completely original – perhaps let a lucky housemate watch the eviction night from a secret room, and find out how the public feel about their fellow housemates. More secret missions should take place, and there should be four or five major twists of the series, that are exciting, foolproof and mess with the housemates’ heads.

Totally agree. I love a good twist - they make the show exciting - but BB8 saw far too many bad twists. They do need to be foolproof and original. Lots of thought needs to be put in to them. More secret missions is a good idea.



5: Make the tasks the best ever. Once again, if it’s been done before, it’s not good to watch. Once again, secret missions are good to watch. Make tasks challenging, but not too challenging. As well as having themed weekly tasks (ei. Pirates, Hospital, Nerd etc.), have some endurance challenges (ei. Sleep Deprivation task). Make the task run from a certain day, to a certain day every week.

I totally agree.



6: Sort out the new housemates/second house thing. Add three new housemates around two or three weeks in, and no later. Only use a “House Next Door”/”Halfway House” twist if it is original and won’t fall flat on its face. Make sure that the new housemates aren’t just rejects from launch night – decide the full 18 housemates together, and then choose which would be more interesting to throw in as the house is getting calm. Make sure they stand a chance of succeeding and getting involved. Any new housemates must be in hiding until they go in – from launch night to their entrance, they can’t see anything or know anything about the people they’re meeting.

I'm not against new housemates coming in, at least before the mid point of the series. Again though, no majority genders: send in a group of 4 - 2 female, 2 male. A new group within the first half of the series is good: otherwise, new housemates should only be brought in as replacements to old ones should they walk or be ejected. Some very good points were made there, such as keeping potential newbies in hiding.



7: Be fairer with the editing. It’ll never happen, but show things as they happened. Don’t have favourites, and be completely fair. If there is a task everyone is involved in, don’t always show the same person. Have some variety in the people that are shown. BBLB and BBBM must also not be biased – sack Dermot O’Leary and hire somehow who can handle the job efficiently. Hire Alexa Chung or Keith Lemon as the permanent host of BBBM.

I agree with the editing bit. They need to show less favouritism. DON'T sack Dermot O'Leary, or any of the original presenting crew, but tell them that they can't be biased. Keith Lemon would be the perfect new host for BBBM.



8: Be harsher with punishments. Have a strike system – if they discuss nominations once, Big Brother can give them an embarrassing punishment that they see fit – find a weakness in the housemate and use it against them. If they discuss it again, they are banned from nominating. If they discuss it a third time, they face the public vote that week. Every time they discuss it afterwards, is another week they face eviction.

Good idea. They need to be much harsher with punishments. Though I do think they should allow housemates to discuss nominations.



9: Change the deal with the prize money. I want the idea of housemates earning their own prize fund, and only the winner gets their prize fund at the end of it. This way, housemates are competitive in tasks – I would like a Saturday Night Live Task each week where housemates try and earn money towards their own prize fund.

More good ideas. I also think they should up the main prize fund to £250,000 (or possibly more), or at least tell the housemates they are upping it. It has the potential to cause mayhem.



10: Make some carefully decided changes in the format. I can’t say for certain what. Perhaps for one week only, housemates can discuss nominations. Perhaps each week, a housemate is the Head Of Household, and cannot be nominated. After BB4, Big Brother changed the format slightly so that it was more entertaining – now is the time to do that again.

I would like to see some changes in the format, but I don't think we should copy ideas from international Big Brothers.