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Originally Posted by warrenhill

C5 Frow unhappy with Big Brother 2014 casting


Channel 5′s director of programmes Ben Frow has revealed that he was unhappy with the cast of housemates on Big Brother 2014: Power Trip.

Show viewers were unsure about the casting right from the start of the series, claiming the line-up was too business-minded and more suited to a show like The Apprentice.

Throughout the run many also complained about there being too many arguments and a lack of fun in the house – mainly thanks to the presence of divisive salon owner Helen Wood, who was excluded from all evictions after being handed a pass to the final.

Now C5 boss Frow – the man responsible for hiring Emma Willis as Big Brother’s main presenter – has admitted that this year’s cast could have been better, but did not elaborate on what he thought was wrong with it.

Speaking at the recent Edinburgh International Television Festival, he said: “It was a challenging year, I’m not sure we got the casting right this year in many ways.”

Wood was crowned winner of Big Brother 2014 last month in one of the show’s closest results ever, with just 1.2% of the public vote separating her from runner-up Ashleigh Coyle.

The result was so controversial that it provoked 400 complaints to media regulator Ofcom, with Channel 5 releasing a lengthy statement insisting the outcome was above board.

However, fans questioned the credibility of C5′s account of events after noticing that it contained at least two factual errors, forcing the broadcaster to issue an amendment.

Elsewhere at the Festival, Frow defended the dip in ratings for Big Brother 2014, insisting he doesn’t want the fifteen-year-old show to be the “number one programme”.



Think he is right...the house mates on the whole this year were fairly boring.....

Thats a really old article now.

[James]

Viacom boss said: “Maybe we continue with Big Brother, maybe if for some reason that didn’t work out we have the ability to put out other great programming,”

They do have access to a lot of programming, the only trouble is that most of it is American, and if you look at the UK ratings all the top-rated shows are British.

As far as I can see just about the only homegrown shows they make are a few scripted reality shows like Geordie Shore on MTV - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_(UK...omegrown_shows