[*mazedsalv**]

For me:

-14 Hms enter on Launch(7 Girls, 7 Boys)
-Launch shoud be about as longa s its always been
-No New HMs unless someone has walked or has been ejected(If 1 walks, bring 1 in!)
-No Confusing Twists every single week
-Bring Back the Saturday Live Tasks
-Only do a double eviction ONCE in the series(Hms evicted must leave seperatley and NOT together)
-Lasts 11-12 weeks
-4 for the finale
-Extend the final so there are no rushed interviews(Probably 2h30 mins for 4 people in finale instead of 1h30 for 6 people).

[andybigbro]

For Me:

--> 16 Housemates enter on launch night (8 boys & 8 Girls)
--> Lots of twists
--> New housemates entering
--> Longer Series Duration
--> If double eviction, leave seperately not together
--> Five for Final

[Conor]

K, heres how I would make Big Brother 9 better if I was the head producer of the show:

Big Brother in general.

- Take a 2 year break at least, although a few hardcore fans may disagree, it could do the show good, for example: It'll earn the show extra publicity and anticipation for the series, aswell as giving extra time to plan the show. When you think about it, the team only ever has about 3 - 4 months usually, to prepare a new series

- Make the show start in mid June and let it run for about 13 weeks max. Alot of us do want BB-free TV for a few weeks of the year lol

- Come back with a knock out theme. Something even better than Big Brother 5's 'Evil' theme. 'Don't bring back Evil. Create something better!'

- Get rid of the no discussing nomination rules. Whats the point. Discussing nominations could add extra tension and rowing to the house. Thats what we all want, isn't it?

- Hold back all press release info until way near the launch date. Slowly seep it in over the last week, starting with the press pack and ending the night before the launch with Housemate clues. Also, keep the official website from being launched until Day 1. Keep the insider blog currently on the E4 website.

- Get the Big Brother 3,5 and 7 producers t work as a team. The three are regarded as the best in the shows UK show's history.


Housemates.

- No OTT celeb wannabes, but chuck in a few that are down to earth, but still interested in media careers.

- Try not to have to many obvious favs from the start. It ruins the final.

- Have all housemates unpredictable during the first few days and even weeks.

- Have interesting characters. Half bubbly and energetic, half always arguing and fighting.

- Have no more than 17 housmeates over the whole series. During the opening night, 13 will enter.


The house.

- Keep Patrick Watson. Since he joined for BB4 he has pulled of no less than 7 amazing designs. Most noticably (in my opinion ) BB6 and CBB5.

- Have it average size. Not as big as BB3, but not as small as BB5/8 by far. The first time it was great, but now, the housemates are expecting cramped uncomfortable houses.

- No stupid twists like Big Brother 8's impracticality theme. Big Brother 6 was perfect with 'No Privacy' and as was CBB5 with the mix of old and new blended for a stunning effect.

- Try not cramming the house with hundreds of secret rooms. Prehaps 1 off the Diary room and another elsewhere in the house.


Graphics and advertising.

- I have to admit I really like the glossy house ads and countdown teasers, but try to mix that with origional styles like the BB6 'Boxes' ads and the BB:CH, well crazy ads! lol

- Make another origional eye template like the BB5/6 eyes. They strayed of the main template theme and pulled off great graphics wise and just good looking great! Sticking in a few extra eye lashes is Not! a template adaption. It just looks stupid...

- Include the usuals, in this order. Eye teasers, Countdown ads, Whats on ads, House ads and then Launch night ads. Also, chuck in a few BB:CH format style ads, but not identical.


Presenters.

- Either Davina gets back on track with the job or she gets sacked. Frankly her skills were quite messy during BB8. She needs the give Housemates time to talk and not appear bais.

- Get a co-host for Davina. No one new, but hire Russel. He would be something new and fresh to eviction and lauch nights.

- Pursuade Dermot to get back to BBLB in anyway possible. Keep the crazy fun side to BBLB that was evident furing BB8.

- As Russel would be co-hosting the main highlight show, get Justin Lee Colins and Alan Carr to present BBBM. The job was made almost as much for them as it was for Russel! They'd be perfect at it!

New spin offs, presenters


Spin offs.

Firstly, as mentioned above, pusuade Dermnot any way possible to get back to BBLB. Keep it fresh and crazy like BB8 and also keep the live audience. Dermot performs better with live audience, but dont turn it into BBBM 2, becuase a show has already been invented for that lol Have it daily at 6.00pm on C4 and repeated next day on E4 at the same time. Have an omnibus every Sunday.

- Also, as mentioned before, get Justin Lee Colins and Alan Carr to do BBBM. Add a few more features and lenghen the show as well as getting a larger audience, such as the BB5 days. Mon, Tue and Sat on E4 and Fri after the Evictions on C4.

- Have a BBNews, with stories from Big Brother around the world, presented by Dermot O'leary. Include eviction news, launch news and finally news, as well as skeak peeks into new houses and graphics ect. Have it on 3 times a week on E4.

- BB: Through the Ages. (BBTA) Explore the highlights from each series, on once a week, ending with the highlights from BB9 and Starting with BB1. Have guest HMs from each series on to talk about their experience and dig deep into the show. To work once a week every week. include CBB's TBB and BB:CH. Have Davina presenting it on E4 every Friday 4.00pm.

- Axe BB:OTC for good and keep BBLive and BB Diary Room uncut as usual.


Tasks and twists.

- The prize fund should be altered so it must be earned by live tasks. This has been done before and has proved to be quite popular.

- Housemates all have a private fund which they make take out with them that they will have earned over their stay. For eg: a quater of the voting funds go into their seperate account, which will be mounted on th wall, showing each HM's personal fund. This could be used in tasks such as: 'You may have Ł10 000 added to your personal account or a new HM/Week of luxurys/party/choose who gets evicted.'

- Have a specially built arena, as like BBAU's. It gives room for much more enduring and elabourate tasks.

- Have tasks to win more than luxury items, but actual Housemates. Also give the chance for the housemates to choose a HM back into the house after winning a special task.

- Get rid of the millions of pointless 'Mini - Tasks.'

- Have 2 tasks a week max, with one for adding too the prize fund and one for winning food. Also make room for an occasional 'Special task.'

- Make taks longer, more enduring and difficult than rating other HMs in the house. How is that entertaining or worthwhile?

- Have a twist where all of the first 7 evicted Housemates of the series will be brought back into a special house. The public will be warned about this twist before spending money on voting.

- From then on, the housemates in each house will battle it out to the final. In the end, three housemates from the loosing team will be ejected. The winners will live together with the rest of the house for the final two weeks.


Prize fund.

- As mentioned, have seperate tasks for money and food. Housemates will once again have to earn their prize.

- Housemates all have a private fund which they make take out with them that they will have earned over their stay. For eg: a quater of the voting funds go into their seperate account, which will be mounted on th wall, showing each HM's personal fund. This could be used in tasks such as: 'You may have Ł10 000 added to your personal account or a new HM/Week of luxurys/party/choose who gets evicted.'

- ANY rule breaking will result in prize money being taken of each individual HM's account and also out of the main fund. Extra punishment may be used.

[KKBL]

....15 HM's enter on Launch night(7 female,7 male,1 ******)
....Big enough house with loads of secret rooms/things
....Double Eviction:never two weeks in a row and leave seperatly
....5 HM's in the final
....12 weeks
....A few amazing twists instead of 5 **** and 5 ok twists
....no walks
....do something like BBBM on after the highlights on Monday tio Fridays and no other spin-offs besides OTC
.....50 mins highlights

[Captain.Remy]

-2 floors house
-House bigger than ever.
-2 secret rooms and 1 task room.
-14 housemates at launch.
-4 housemates entering later.
-12 weeks.
-5 housemates for the final week and 4 for the finale.
-BBBM axed.
-New spin-off focussed on the psychologic side (On the Couch or Big Brain)

[Jake!]

- Big House
- Advertising likethe previous years (Sometimes The Best Part)
- 15 Brand new housemates
- If We Have To, 5 New Entres Week 3 NO LATER
- Excellent Truthfull Coverage (No Favourites)
- 1 or 2 Twists
- A Clash Of Housemates Not BB Relieying On JustOne HouseMateTo Provide Entertainment
- No Format We've Ever Seen Before Even FromOther Countries
- Fair Game
- Prize Fund Ł250,000 (Just Enough For Now)
- Proper FunShopping Tasks (The Job's One From BB7 And Fast Food One From BB5 Were Great Example's Of This)
- Proper Punishments
- A Great Series

[bridge7too7far]

A nice house with sum vareid housemates, good twists plent of arguments some good luvin umm I'll have to thik more on that qustion

[Freddy111]

Hi guys, this is my first post since September. Here is what I'd like for BB9:

10 weeks
June not May (more time to plan aswell as warmer weather for pool antics)
14 housemates (7 men, 7 women)
Highlight shows everday including Saturday
Live task on wednesday
Vote to save rather than evict
No wannabes only game players and experience seekers
No one too old (Carole), no one to young (Jennie)
Good and challenging tasks
Good infrequent twists
the furnature go when housemates leave
Eforum bought back but with the humour of big mouth and shown weekly as to get better celeb guests
Little Brother scrapped and replaced by a weekday breakfast show that's more audience orientated
On the couch scrapped, it's crap.
and last but not least..

advertise it!

BB will have been off the air for non-E4 viewers for over 10 months when it returns this year, this gives it a perfect opportunity to run a cross platform, cross channel, multimedia, in your face, long lasting ad campaign.

Make sure there's not a telly viewer in the land that doesn't know big brother's back.

[Freddy111]

Originally posted by *Cathal*
....15 HM's enter on Launch night(7 female,7 male,1 ******)
....Big enough house with loads of secret rooms/things
....Double Eviction:never two weeks in a row and leave seperatly
....5 HM's in the final
....12 weeks
....A few amazing twists instead of 5 **** and 5 ok twists
....no walks
....do something like BBBM on after the highlights on Monday tio Fridays and no other spin-offs besides OTC
.....50 mins highlights

50 minutes highlights wouldn't work with 15 housemates, there'd be little room for nominations to be shown and also it would mess up channel 4's schedule.

Unless they bought back nominations uncut, but I think they should just stick to diary room uncut and a weekly omnibus show.

If they put in decent enough housemates and give them decent enough tasks, they should be able to fill the hour.

If they can't, then they need to put in less housemates.

[Freddy111]

Originally posted by Captain.Remy
-2 floors house
-House bigger than ever.
-2 secret rooms and 1 task room.
-14 housemates at launch.
-4 housemates entering later.
-12 weeks.
-5 housemates for the final week and 4 for the finale.
-BBBM axed.
-New spin-off focussed on the psychologic side (On the Couch or Big Brain)

Would they have room for 2 floors without major structural work and low ceilings?

Plus OTC and Big Brain were really boring, they should move psychology to a periodical segement the other spin offs (BBLB and BBBM or whatever replaces them).

The psychologists are always rent-a-quaks though who knew nowt about what they were saying.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : Freddy111
Would they have room for 2 floors without major structural work and low ceilings?

Plus OTC and Big Brain were really boring, they should move psychology to a periodical segement the other spin offs (BBLB and BBBM or whatever replaces them).

The psychologists are always rent-a-quaks though who knew nowt about what they were saying.

I really want to see a house with an upstairs level, it would be a nice change for the house.

That's what you think, I didn't find them boring because I like the psychologic side of the show, it's all about that: see how strangers live in a house 24/7 and no contact with the outside world. These 2 shows may won't come back but a spin-off focussed on that side should be interesting.

[Bigbrotherin]

I want an 11 week series, with 14 housemates, Takeshi's castle style tasks and massive twists (but not all the time). Oh and no first week eviction !