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Originally Posted by KADENACY

Big Brother UK 15 and World Cup 2014 Brazil.

The World Cup Football Tournment 2014 Brazil has been wreaking havoc
with Big Brother 15 transmissions - it was the same with World Cup 2006
and World Cup 2010,and vice versa.
Many people,who watch Big Brother do not want to miss the World Cup football matches,and at the same time they do not want to miss Big Brother UK,so this conflict splits the audience.I watched the first half of the semi final between Brazil v Germany - Germany won 7-1 !,but at 10 pm I watched
Big Brother and caught up with the second half during advertisement breaks,then watched Big Brother's Bit On The Side.......
No wonder that Big Brother 15 viewing figures are relatively down compared to last year's Big Brother UK ratings.
For me,Big Brother UK is just as interesting in 2014 as it was in 2006 when I first became a Big Brother Fan

KADENACY

I disagree about The World Cup having a huge effect on BB viewing figures!
Viewing figures are down, in my opinion, because they picked a very sub-par (and that's being generous!) bunch of housemates, put very little thought or imagination into the tasks and 'twists' and the manipulation through editing and tampering with the course of events in the house has been worse than ever!
I haven't gone to the C5 BB page even once this year where in previous years i'd usually have a look at least once a day. I've also missed some of the nightly episodes for no other reason than i haven't remembered or even cared that it's on a lot of the time!

Back in the day i was pretty much in a constant state of arousal and utter excitement from the second the first launch night episode aired until the second the winner left the house (and i'd still be super excited afterwards waiting for the following Sunday afternoon's 'BB Reunion Episode'!!!!.........and sometimes even the following week's "Winner's Story" special...if i liked the winner that year!).

This year's 'thing' doesn't even deserve to carry the 'Big Brother' name in its title because it's just a very pale (verging on transparent!) imitation of the real thing. If this was the 1970's the current BB series would be made in Hong Kong, have dangerous sharp bits of wire inside it, eyes that fall off when chewed and be painted with pure lead paint!!!! It's a bloody knock-off, a shoddy bootleg and someone needs to put it through a shredder!