[kingston]

Originally Posted by Brekkie

Strangely had a dream last night about a revived series eviction show. It was fronted by Davina along with two other presenters, but she was in a random garden and you got the feeling it wasn't live as another host (no-one in particular, just a non-Rylan male) did the interview with the evictee on an eye-shaped couch on a huge covered stage outside the house. Also you never saw the evictee leave the house - just after the break they turned up being driven through the crowd in an open top vintage car. It all looked rather interesting, but quite wrong!


For me the essentials are live feed, normal casting, shows not being every night, spin-offs kept to a minimum and the eviction show being a well produced live show in it's own right, not just highlights with an eviction tagged on the end. A new house and axing the outdoor mob in favour of a controlled studio crowd are a must too.


Personally I think it has to be about competition and although personally I wouldn't be against going completely down the US/Canada route and ditching the public vote I think a compromise to keep the public vote would be for the best. I'd have the public choose a third nominee after the HoH chooses their nominees. The Veto would then play out, and then the public would save one of the final three nominees, with the house then voting to evict one of the final two nominees.

I can’t imagine anyone (outside of TV executives) that can argue that live feed for any BB revival around the world isn’t absolutely essential. It’s a moot point really... That said I don’t believe that moving towards a US style format is a direction BBUK should move in. If anything relaunching the format under completely new branding could work but, unlike other worldwide markets the core format in the UK still has legs.

I think continuing the upward trajectory of the final three Channel 5 series could prove successful in the long term. Especially if production can find a broadcast partner committed to a focus on brining BB back core elements that made BB successful in the first place rather than one off gimmicks. While fans may be divided on the final civilian series I think production proved that they can stay true to the core BB format and still push the show forward. I’m disappointed that they weren’t given a shot at a second series as I think they established a strong base for future series much in the same manner series 5, 6, and 7 all seemed to build off the success of the previous series.

If an American style format is the future of BB then I think I have a far superior format with a far better balance of public engagement and in-house game dynamics... If BB-OTT proved anything is that HM’s will always chose the path of least resistance. Allowing the public to outright nominate resulted more often than not in extremely predictable results as the HM’s sided with the public’s target as the easier option.

My format is as follows:

HM’s compete for HOH with the HoH nominating two HM’s for eviction. A public vote will award another HM immunity as well as a secondary power called The Golden Key. This HM will then award a third nomination; this power cannot be awarded in consecutive weeks. The three nominees will then compete in the Battle of the Block for a chance to remove themselves from the nomination block. In this format there is no replacement nominee. In the final vote the HoH is given an additional power to void a fellow HM’s vote which will then be replaced by the majority in a public vote. The remaining HM’s will vote as normal. Should the house vote result in a deadlock the public vote reins supreme.