[Beetlejuice]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

And the feeds throughout 8 and 9 which dropped just as the main shows did. Then the online coverage for BB14 which was dropped after the series ended because.... you guessed it, lack of viewers.

I don't believe anyone has ever given that reason actually. I suspect the Daley incident didn't help in the minds of the people making these decisions. The issue with the live coverage during the Channel 4 one certainly had something to do with the increase in regulations for television.

Did it rise significantly or was it hovering around the same marks as before and floating up and down? Wiki tells me the latter.

You'd have to define a significant rise. The fact is week 2 and 3 were lower than the weeks that followed. That's quite unusual.

Did the live feed attract viewers other than the hardcore, forum browsing variety? The producer's response and subsequent axing of it tells me no.

Who can answer that question. The fact is though that even if only hardcore fans are watching, that means they are talking about it much more on forums and social networking sites and word of mouth always helps.

So did the viewing figures rise and stay at 1.8 in the last couple of weeks because of live feed or because of the Hazel/Daley drama and the subsequent bitchfests with Gina?

Daley was ejected in week 5. It maintained a 1.8+ rating all the way to week 9.

Who needs that when they can simply nominate in front of one another or not nominate at all and let the producers do the choosing?

The reason for it is that it would get the viewers onto the website to watch things unfold live.