[Jack_]

It's quite simple. Channel 5 have deliberately and systematically run this show into the ground from day one.

They never had any interest in the civilian version, and that has been proven time and time again. Launching with CBB in 2011, then getting greedy and deciding to run two series a year even when it became clear it wasn't paying off. Wasting time, wasting money, overexposing the show. Cutting the length of the civilian run to accommodate it, then cutting it to its shortest ever length when viewers were finally tiring of the whole thing. The constant interference from broadcaster to production team. Pressing the panic button on series that start off naturally (BB16) with desperate rating-grabbings stunts that flop and ruin everything. The refusal to budge on live feed. The lack of transparency. The tacky, inconsistent, desperate production that has plagued this show for much of its life on C5. Never listening to viewers except when it's too late. The head of programmes talking it down at conferences. The lack of respect. It goes on, and on, and on, and on...

The reason people prefer Celebrity Big Brother is because C5 made a concerted effort to ensure that was the case. The reason the whole show is now tired is because they've overexposed it to **** over the last seven years. They are a diabolical broadcaster that have got their money's worth from this format, and then trampled on it over and over again, before kicking it to the curb.

It's too little, too late. The series launched on the wrong day, at the wrong time of year, and the format is tired. It was never going to recover. Re: the gameplay debate, it makes no difference - the ratings are heading south and were anyway regardless of the format. If anything, the dreadful eviction order is not helping.

So that's where we're at. The show is over. It either needs a long break, or a total revamp and format change preferably on an online platform. You choose.