[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Beetlejuice

No one denies less people watch it now. The point is can you keep the viewers you still have without it... And they are now losing them each year.

Uh....

1) I provided those links because you said Jeff Ford said cost WASN'T the issue. Those articles quite clearly state it was the issue. It wasn't worth the money with no one watching it.

2) Of course they can keep hold of viewers without it, they've done it before. The entire show being bollocks is pushing the viewers away, not simply a lack of live feed, which when provided has shown doesn't attract many viewers at all.

And there is no reason it cannot be put on the website. FFS they give housemates in secret rooms a chance to watch it every bloody year. It's not as if there isn't a 24/7 feed going all the time.

Well unless you actually work for them at Elstree or are involved in commissioning at channel 5 then this doesn't really add much.
The housemates watching a screen in a secret room is not the same as broadcasting live footage over television or the internet.

Not to mention the feed for the housemates in a secret room does not require all of the filtering/monitoring/costs that a public feed would require. They don't just click a button and that's it forever.