[arista]

It will a better Show on the Watch Channel.

[Gavin]

Channel 4 won't save the show. Ironically, Big Brother is still one of the most watched programmes on Channel 4. Channel 4 overpaid for the rights for the 2008-2010 contract, but the show is still profitable if an appropriate amount of money is given to Endemol which is definitely possible.

The problem with Channel 4 is that they have no desire to keep Big Brother as they're seeking public money from the license fee. In order to do that, they need to get rid of "controversial" programmes like BB so that they have a better chance of getting the cash.

Unfortunately it looks extremely likely that Channel 4 deliberately made poor decisions in the last 2 years to ensure BB gets terrible ratings. Angela Jain's decision to remove Live Feed from E4 daytime was a travesty. By all means, continue showing Friends around 8pm, but Live Feed did well in the afternoon in previous series. Removing the live feed was a huge mistake. It's like taking away a life support machine from someone who is in critical care at hospital. The show is dead in its current form.

I hope it does return one day to Pay TV such as Sky 1. Sky1 would treat the show well./

[arista]

Originally Posted by Gavin

Channel 4 won't save the show. Ironically, Big Brother is still one of the most watched programmes on Channel 4. Channel 4 overpaid for the rights for the 2008-2010 contract, but the show is still profitable if an appropriate amount of money is given to Endemol which is definitely possible.

The problem with Channel 4 is that they have no desire to keep Big Brother as they're seeking public money from the license fee. In order to do that, they need to get rid of "controversial" programmes like BB so that they have a better chance of getting the cash.

Unfortunately it looks extremely likely that Channel 4 deliberately made poor decisions in the last 2 years to ensure BB gets terrible ratings. Angela Jain's decision to remove Live Feed from E4 daytime was a travesty. By all means, continue showing Friends around 8pm, but Live Feed did well in the afternoon in previous series. Removing the live feed was a huge mistake. It's like taking away a life support machine from someone who is in critical care at hospital. The show is dead in its current form.

I hope it does return one day to Pay TV such as Sky 1. Sky1 would treat the show well./

No Sky can not Fit it in.

'Watch ' Channel has taken it.

[Gavin]

Originally Posted by arista

No Sky can nort Fit it in.

'Watch ' Channel has taken it.

Sky can most definitely fit it in if they want to. They have a big budget.

The Watch channel would not be able to afford the show. It's a very unpopular channel as well and would not serve Big Brother well. I'd even prefer Living TV to have Big Brother than Watch.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by arista

No Sky can not Fit it in.

'Watch ' Channel has taken it.

On Watch it will be about as successful as Richard and Judy

[Rob]

Channel4 definately won't be bringing it back, the show unfortunately is past its sell by date and they will want to re develop the channel for the new decade. Big Brother has done very well to last as long as it has over the past decade and is one of the longest running in the world.

Let's all just enjoy the final series' and let it go out with a bang, we've got a brilliant CBB ahead of us by the looks of thing and hopefully an excellent BB11.

[Gavin]

You see: loads of people said that BB9 would be brilliant due to the glass shattering campaign. Loads of people also said BB10 would be good due to the fingerprint rumours etc.

Both ended up as average series, especially BB10 which was poor IMO. I have to say that the campaign for CBB7 so far has been excellent. But an excellent campaign does not = an excellent series. I think based on previous experience, we shouldn't expect a good series. If you go into a series with expectations low, you can only be impressed. That's what I'm doing anyway.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Gavin

I hope it does return one day to Pay TV such as Sky 1. Sky1 would treat the show well./

As I said earlier in the thread this is it for BB for me. I don't like remakes so I wont watch it if it returns. But if it does it has to be on Pay TV, I don't think it can be sustained on terrestrial TV anymore.

They'd have to axe the celeb version and slash the summer version to about 9 or 10 weeks to make up for budget cuts, and if they brought back the live feed via red button (subscription) and brought back red button voting etc they could make a bomb off it. Bringing it back at the right time is the key.

[Rob]

In all fairness this series hasn't had a brilliant campaign, weve had a few teaser trailers and one advert. No signs of any countdown adverts or house adverts, its been a fairly repetitive campaign this year with the same advert over and over.

[anto42]

richard and judy was a compleate failure on watch i think one show only got 150000 viewers

[Spike]

C4 wont save it because they have already started spending the money saved from axing it. If Big Brother some how survives after BB11 it will be on another channel
Its not about money and ratings to why C4 axed it, they knew they wanted rid of the show after the race row to keep a public service image, the huge downturn in ratings just made the decision easier.

[Marc]

It'll never be as good as it used to be