[Matt]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Because Channel 5 promote it more than the regular series and flaunt it about like a prize possession?

...it is their prize posession? None of their other shows get such consistently high ratings or as much press coverage.

They don't necessarily promote CBB more than the regular series. There was blanket advertising for the last normal BB - but January's CBB only had one TV advert and it still got far higher ratings than any normal series from the last four years.

I know it's annoying for us Big Brother purists, but it's the fact is that there's now far more public interest in the Celebrity series than the normal series, so if the choice for Channel 5 is to invest money in either the Celebrity series or live feed for the normal series, it's a no-brainer that they'll go with CBB.

The issue is that they've openly admitted in the past that they can do both if they want to - they've just never given live feed a chance.

[Patrick]

The new producer's comments.

[Marcus.]

i just hope we get some
if any

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Patrick

If the ******ing arseholes really think cost is a problem - then stop sh*tting out a dozen Celebrity series a year, and play it the way Channel 4 did.

It's a fact - more people would rather have live feed for an entire summer, than 3 weeks of watching Andrew Stone dancing & Natalie Cassidy rubbing beans over her tits.

They infuriate me so much it's unreal. I don't even care - if they go back on this now and decide it's much more beneficial to shove another Celebrity series down our throats, than give us Live Streaming, then they can go ****** themselves. I'll be watching BB USA instead.

Oh and another thing - in terms of cost, do they really think we're thick?

It costs next to nothing to set up a simple feed on their website that can stream from the cameras in the house. The feed is already there. The producers have it in their studio, we see it in the background on BOTS.

All that fat prick Ian from 'The Sweaty Box' needs to do, is flick a wire in the right place - and there we have it.

Absolute morons, they are. I swear.

I would think the cost would be more to do with having to hire a load of workers to constantly sit and monitor the feed 24hrs per day then dub out anything they don't want broadcast within the 15 minute delay.