[daniel-lewis-1985]

Originally Posted by Valdora

Also let's not forget that other than the house costs and the prize money the regular series is rather cheep programming. They don't have to pay the people on it and there will never be a shortage of people wanting to go in, no matter how the ratings are.

BB is not a cheap programme to run.

They have to employ ALOT of staff to run the show and I believe last year they just about broke even on the civilian series when it came to profit.

It takes a lot of man hours to staff a show that runs every single day for 10 weeks.

Channel 5 admitted that BB had underperformed and that was with the launch' getting 2.7 and 2.9 million so the fact this only got 2.2 is not good.