[NiallMcCarthy]

what made it lose its viewers?

jade goody, more contact with the outside world, the move to ch5, tackiness?

[King Gizzard]

People just generally getting bored of the concept, and the Jade thing was the final nail in the coffin of it getting mainstream appeal

Shame, cause I really liked Hijack

[Drew.]

i dont personally think its ruined.. lack of promotion lost its viewers

[Rob!]

It's an unpopular opinion and RIP and all that, but I believe it was Jade.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Jade
Channel 5, since there's clearly less viewers compared to C4

[King Gizzard]

^ and that

[Jack_]

The gross exaggeration and moral panic of the 'race row' (that was actually class based bullying, not race) created by the media and commented on unnecessarily by politicians. Sadly it could have been prevented had Big Brother done the right thing and stepped in earlier.

[thesheriff443]

bigbrother is only as good as the people they put in! add to that a production team that where lazy and uncreative, then jade and others brought racism then shelf life and here we are!

[Novo]

I would have loved another Hijack series, every episode was just fresh with a new famous face coming in each day and making them do tasks rather then the housemates sitting around doing nothing, probably wouldn't be a bad idea to think about doing another hijack next year

[zakman440]

2 words. Brian Dowling.

[Jack_]

After Jade, Ofcom drove the show into the ground by ensuring it had to be toned down and I think C4 just gave up. I'd also put a lot of the blame on so-called 'fans' who also saw fit to consistently complain about irrelevant issues which supposedly 'offended' them.

And also...vote to evict and moronic voting patterns that destroyed series after series early definitely played a small part too.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by zakman440

2 words. Brian Dowling.

channel four dropped bb before brian!

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Novo

I would have loved another Hijack series, every episode was just fresh with a new famous face coming in each day and making them do tasks rather then the housemates sitting around doing nothing, probably wouldn't be a bad idea to think about doing another hijack next year

and because it was just youngsters and they all had a different profession there were loads of different personalities and it just worked, wish they had put it on CH4

[Me. I Am Salman]

I don't get the love for hijack on here. It was SO boring, more or less a C4 version of BB12

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Novo

I would have loved another Hijack series, every episode was just fresh with a new famous face coming in each day and making them do tasks rather then the housemates sitting around doing nothing, probably wouldn't be a bad idea to think about doing another hijack next year

I'd like another Hijack, in all honesty if they're going to continue with a summer CBB I'd prefer it to become a Hijack series.

January - CBB
Summer - BB
Autumn - Hijack (you'd have to move it 6 weeks or so later I reckon cause otherwise you'd have two bunches of civilian housemates one after the other)

[Novo]

Originally Posted by Nathan

and because it was just youngsters and they all had a different profession there were loads of different personalities and it just worked, wish they had put it on CH4

the celebrities were all actually pretty well known and talented as well.. i suppose nowadays they'd probably just put half the cast of towie/MIC in to be the Hijackers

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Originally Posted by Salman!

I don't get the love for hijack on here. It was SO boring, more or less a C4 version of BB12

.

[Ramsay]

It's just been on for a long time. After 14 years it's not surprising that people have moved on to other things

[Novo]

Salman you were probably in Nappies when BBCH was on, i don't expect you to remember it's greatness

[BringItOn]

Jade didn't affect how good BB9 was but the rest of the options all made BB as classy as it is to this day... if I still call it Big Brother? I loved hijack

[Moviefan]

I would have add BB Fight night to list as well,

I do think it was Jade bullying , which did hurt the show a lot!

[smeagol]

i dont think its ruined but it became a joke amongst most people cause of the live feed of watching people sleep , it became a joke when people turned in to see people sleeping all the time.
and the endless amount of freaks.
i was hoping they were returning to normal people but alas we got more models twins and freaks

[Dash Darington]

The wild overreaction to two women fighting, and Britain's bizarre love of censorship in general. Bad casting as well.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Drew.

i dont personally think its ruined.. lack of promotion lost its viewers

This person ^ ruined BB

[Lostie!]

For me, the revamp that C5 did to it lessened my enjoyment. Didn't ruin it exactly, otherwise I wouldn't watch altogether, but I don't particularly like elements such as music accompanying the housemates arriving, Marcus being overused and over-the-top, montages, etc. I also want the nostalgic look back at the series during the finale to return, C5's take on those have been crap.