[zakman440]

I've given it some thought and I'm now not objected to the US format being implemented over here tbh. Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer them to just implement the BBAU points/superpower nominations system then give the public both VTE/VTS, but if they're not going to do that then I wouldn't mind them trailing the US format for a series, seeing if it works and then possibly keeping it in the future.

Sure, they'd lose voting revenue, but as others have said - product placement opportunities are available. Not to mention the fact they could introduce a subscription-based Live Feed on the website (they just need to do this anyway tbh) which could replace the voting revenue + increase visitors to the BB website (again, an advertisement opportunity is there). It honestly wouldn't be as bad as some are making it out to be - the excecutives in charge of Big Brother obviously aren't going anywhere any time soon (apart from Smith's voluntary departure) so they might as well experiment with other formats to see what works and what doesn't. Anything's got to be better than the past two years worth of BBUK.

(Quite how we got to this subject from Rylan's "it's completely different" spiel that he says every year I have no idea)