[zakman440]

And a shake up of the voting system has been discussed:

He said the format requires “creative renewal” and Endemol Shine UK chief executive Richard Johnston told Broadcast this is already under way.

“We are totally committed to working with Ben and his team and making Big Brother as brilliant and relevant as it can possibly be. We have some of the best creative brains in the business looking at not only next year but the next 10 years, in terms of creative direction. There are some really exciting ideas being discussed,” he said.

One former Big Brother exec producer suggested the producers need to overhaul the “outdated” voting system to bring fans closer to the show. Insiders believe that Frow’s public comments may bring forward negotiations about the show’s future.

For all Frow’s tough talk, cancelling Big Brother would leave C5 with a vast hole in its schedule. Last year, the Viacom-owned broadcaster aired 69 episodes of Celebrity Big Brother and 51 episodes of the ‘civilian’ show, as well as 87 hours of the Bit On The Side spinoff, totalling 211 hours. Celebrity Big Brother accounted for 39 of the channel’s top 50 highest-rating programmes of 2016.

One entertainment indie exec mused: “I can’t imagine what he thinks will play for 100 hours at 9pm. Maybe he’ll show 60 series of Rich House, Poor House?”

Broadcast

[JayGreen]

This is good news. I hope they dont change it too much though as i want classic big brother back not love island 2.0

[RichardG]

one year or ten years, i'll give up kpop if anything changes for the better. it's not going to happen.

[RileyH]

The voting system is fine when it's VTS

[Jack_]

my actual reaction reading this sentence

One former Big Brother exec producer suggested the producers need to overhaul the “outdated” voting system

sldkgld

to bring fans closer to the show.

[BBUK-Fan]

If it means VTS for both celeb and civilian, it's a good idea and as long as BB continues

[T*]

WHAT A sHaKe uP

[Jordan.]

[Wizard.]

Bring fans closer to the show? Don't tell me people will be evicted based on crowd reactions

[RileyH]

I can’t imagine what he thinks will play for 100 hours at 9pm. Maybe he’ll show 60 series of Rich House, Poor House?

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Riley.

Bring fans closer to the show? Don't tell me people will be evicted based on crowd reactions

The outside contact rule being completely ripped apart? Eviction shows hosted live from the garden? The mob booing from behind the camera runs? The house to be made entirely of glass like a zoo? Fans get to meet the housemates during the series for a date in Nando's?

[Jodie.]

After reading this idk I feel like Ben’s comments about him wanting it to be axed was a front & he was giving Endemol a KICK UP THE ASS x

[Jodie.]

Pre-BB17 vibes anyone x

[smudgie]

Maybe they should come on here and find out what would work for the show.
Just saying, some real good diehard fans here.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Jordi.

Pre-BB17 vibes anyone x

Ah I can't wait for us to get excited about something for five months only for them to drop whatever they have planned (in that case an entirely new house) a week in only to return to the same old tacky twists

but then again BB17 was good

[T*]

Originally Posted by Jordi.

After reading this idk I feel like Ben’s comments about him wanting it to be axed was a front & he was giving Endemol a KICK UP THE ASS x

Originally Posted by Jordi.

Pre-BB17 vibes anyone x

No?
It wasn't endemols fault in the first place?

[T*]

They're going to pull the same 'THE GAME IS CHANGING' thing and some people are gonna be all 'OOH THEy"RE ACTUALLY DOING IT!' and they wont.
it will be trash.
Channel 5. Doesn't. Deserve. It.

[Jodie.]

Originally Posted by T*

No?
It wasn't endemols fault in the first place?

They make the show, not C5 x

[thisisdanny]

Originally Posted by RileyHollyoaks

The voting system is fine when it's VTS

Except you've got the facebook chavs claiming it's fixed when they don't agree with the result oops

[Littlegreen]

How are the public meant to get "closer"??

You watch the housemates have access to Twitter and instagram next series.

[RileyH]

Originally Posted by thisisdanny

Except you've got the facebook chavs claiming it's fixed when they don't agree with the result oops

Do people actually listen to them?

[BBUK-Fan]

I'm glad they are even thinking of a future for the show especially after Ben Frow's comments

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by RileyHollyoaks

The voting system is fine when it's VTS

I never vote on save , i wanna vote who i want out.

[Greg!]

Maybe they'll introduce VTS and VTE at the same time, I think they did that in the Australian BB

[MB.]

Personally I thought that pretty clearly meant doing a Love Island and switching to free app voting (though they're trying to conserve money so *shrug*)