[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Plenty of people tuned in at the beginning hoping that it would manage to recapture the magic that made the C4 series so great. It (very) quickly became evident that it absolutely had not and a lot of people just don't have the time or energy for a half-baked attempt.

And y'all know it.

Rose-tinted glasses firmly glued to faces because you really want it to work...

...and I'm not saying you shouldn't have enjoyed it, obviously each to their own, I'm sure there were things to enjoy in it but any one of you oldschool fans who would dare try to tell me that this is "proper" Big Brother, and not just some other reality show wearing Big Brother's flayed and decaying corpse as a skinsuit... ... ... all I can say is how dare you besmirch the golden era in such a way.

You know it isn't true. You know it isn't what you hoped for. You know why the ratings took a nosedive .

Ratings really didn't take a nosedive though, it's pretty common for the launch to rate far higher than the series average. For this series to beat every C5 series given how much TV viewership has dropped off in the last decade and given its on ITV2 (whose next highest rated show after BB gets like 250k viewers) - that's pretty objectively a success.

And this BB had pretty much every element of what makes a classic BB series imo. The only thing that really let it down at times was the production