[Cal.]

According to Digital Spy!

[Cal.]

Due to budget cuts btw

[T*]

It's not really big brother now is it. The amount they can now meddle it is scary

[reece(:]

Axe her already!

[RichardG]

i'm not surprised

this summers launch will prob get like 1m lol

[T*]

'We had money to make a new set and give the house an extension we did away with by week 3 but we don't have any money to give you an hour of live feed a night '

[Cal.]

If they still wanna meddle they could do it in the diary room like other BBs with a live feed do (production have blatantly been trying to persuade the house in BBCAN to keep Ika this week in the diary room) and just bird song anything they don't want people knowing They're just STUPID.

[Greg!]

I'm not expecting there to be much live feed but I doubt they'll stop the clips. Didn't they get in trouble with endemol last year for hardly posting any? If they do then they can't blame 'budget cuts' I mean seriously it costs absolutely NOWT to upload a video to YouTube

[Babayaro.]

I'm past caring now tbh

[Will.]

I honestly don't care about LF, it's on far too late anyway.

I enjoyed the LF we got from 7-8PM in BB14.

[RichardG]

i think they're just dismantling the show now so it can be axed next year or whatever

with the state of the ratings surely this isn't a move to manipulate the edit and bring viewers back

i think they're done with it now

[Greg!]

Let's be real what would they gain from axing it. I quick glance on the DS ratings thread shows that channel 5 usually gets about 700k a night. Big Brother is their biggest rating show (apart from CBB)

[Will.]

Last year didn't even rate badly, there were a lot of 1.3/1.4M overnights.

And there were a few 1.8M officials.

[RichardG]

it probably costs a lot more to produce compared to their other shows tho like those silly top 50 youtube cat video compilations or w/e, i wonder whether the income they receive from airing it is really significant on balance

especially when they're wasting their money on a second house that they only use as a task room lol

i can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't even bother uploading many clips to the site, i mean, it costs nothing at all and they can still control what we see by only uploading irrelevant clips, or even edited clips to manipulate a scene if they're really that desperate

it just doesn't make any sense from a business standpoint if their aim was to retain viewers

[RichardG]

i don't mind no live feed because i don't watch it anyway but the lack of clips or even twitter updates last year was so annoying

it doesn't cost them anything to have the guy watching marco and laura shagging in the bedroom give us a quick tweet

[Greg!]

The source for this is some random DS user who has "sources" so I think it should be taken with a gain of salt. If they really do stop the clips then I'll be really disappointed

[Greg!]

Originally Posted by RichardG

it doesn't cost them anything to have the guy watching marco and laura shagging in the bedroom give us a quick tweet

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Greg!

The source for this is some random DS user who has "sources" so I think it should be taken with a gain of salt. If they really do stop the clips then I'll be really disappointed

Are you calling me a liar babes?

[Firewire]

They're hiring social media staff so I don't know how true this is

[Ross.]

Oh wow Cal posting fake news on the forum? Ban her!

[Cal.]

I was set up.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i think this series is gonna be a hot mess

[Jason.]

I'm over LF at this point tbh. Plus I haven't been that invested in BB since 2014 so I wouldn't want to watch more than the highlight shows we do get, even if we had the choice.

[Rob!]

Originally Posted by Cal.

According to Digital Spy!

I love Marsh

[DouglasS]

That means the producers are choosing their winner before launch, and likely choosing their finalists.