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Originally Posted by iRyan

Damn, I only started watching a year ago and now it's ripped out of my hands. At least you all had 10 years to cherish it!

Yes, I think you may try to see where your first sentence 'explains a lot' and even answers some of your own 'questions' about it ending.

Most have been through 11 seasons and more counting the CBB (or TBB or whatever),
and,
So for most viewers its been plenty to be as fully saturated and see all the possible twists and turns before it lost its novelty and became less intriguing.

Now there are a lot of hardcore fans on this forum so not quite the same but even I admit it may be time.

Yes, for you its a new thing, a new discovery and that is awesome,
but,
there aren't so many first-time or new viewers to make up for the 'seen-it-all' regular viewers turning it off or actually just 'less intrigued'

It's really a shame C4 was so intent of getting rid of Big Brother as they really could have made it work if they tried. I hope one day they will realize they made a mistake by letting go of this amazing show.

No, I don't think they were intent on getting rid of it in any dismissive or 'negative' way.
They spend a lot of time studying the trends and ratings and projections etc and they just realized that they would be better spending their time and money on something new.

Really, this was obvious in BB9's season. BB9 was absolutely brilliant, extremely well produced.
I think it was their 'masterpiece' and it had many unique, clever, novel tasks, ideas, combination of characters, etc
YET
....to my surprise ratings were still rapidly declining on that season!

They did try to blow up into crazy Jeremy Kyle (or Jerry Springer) with BB10, blew away all kinds of rules,
threw in whatever gimmicks they could think of and not only was it an ugly season but ratings again... down and down.

So this isn't really in doubt. It's not a real question so much as simply what happens.
They do need to make money. Its business.

All of you that claim you are glad the show is ending will be taking it back 4 months from now.

I'm not sure who is 'glad' but some here do understand when something has gone as far as possible.
It's better to go out now than let it wither and die a slow ugly death.

At least I still have 5 series to watch + more celebrity series! Yay for me~

Well see.. that's what DVD box sets are for. So you aren't cheated out of anything.
The strange thing is you seem well aware of the seasons, which seasons did what, how the series progressed throughout the years,
yet,
just started at this season?