[mizzmee]

Originally Posted by Beastie

I want more "funny" "witty" people who take the piss. I quite liked Matthew to be honest. We evict the wrong ones too early.

This 100 percent! This is exactly BB's problem they keep trying to force drama and believe that all the public want to see is 'explosive' characters having arguments. They believe it's the only thing that earns headlines. Truth is, if they gave us fun and entertaining we would lap it up and enjoy it. If they gave us real average normal people who had ups and downs and tried have a laugh, I'd rather that show than this weird borderline scripted reality.
I honestly think if they could all relax in there and not have to walk on egg shells, Winston, Ash, Chris and probably few others would actually be funny.

[Denver]

There playing it very clever by having the world cup and the commonwealth games with the hot weather they knew the ratings would be down so my best guess is dont try as hard with this series wait till CBB when everything is finished

[andybigbro]

I don't think it's failed. It's still being talked about in magazines etc and with the new app, it's getting a lot of buzz on social media etc.

I think in terms of ratings, it's not fair to compare it to other years on channel 5 as this year we had the World Cup which hugely would have affected the ratings and now we have the commonwealth games. Both these sporting events are very popular. So it's not surprising the ratings have dropped.

The series is ok, it's not the best it is has no way failed.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by andybigbro

I don't think it's failed. It's still being talked about in magazines etc and with the new app, it's getting a lot of buzz on social media etc.

This it's only failed in the fans point of view

[LukeB]

they should of made new idea's for power not just nominations

[nim136]

My personal reason 4 switching off was the likes of Helen and Ash being safe week after week. Yet brilliant HMs like Toya and Matthew evicted early on.
Although this happened in BB13 we still had leading protagonists in Deana and the insiders. There is no one really likeable in there. Ashleigh and Chris are probably the most tolearble but even they seem 2 b crawling up Helens arse now.

[chuff me dizzy]

I dont think its failed its been a good series

[Bluerang1]

Vote to Evict

[MojoNixon]

Originally Posted by Who Is She?

Well ratings have sunk again and its being regarded as worse than Big Brother 4.

Can we have official proof of that?

[Alf]

It's failed to a lot of Big Brother fans because even though it calls itself Big Brother, it's not Big Brother at all.

[chuff me dizzy]

Originally Posted by Bluerang1

Vote to Evict

Best way to vote, without it Pauline would still be there ,as would some of the other awful ones

[Samm]

Vote to Save is wayyy better

[Pincho Paxton]

Vote to evict and gunge is best!

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by ~Sam~

Vote to Save is wayyy better

we could of had queen toya for much longer if it was VTS

[kelty]

Originally Posted by Achilles

Big Brother: Secrets and Lies
Big Brother: Power Trip

How about for next year, we have

Big Brother: Old School

Normal people, live feed and all the rest.

There is more chance of BB ratings increasing by returning to a proven format that appeals to the general public. The reason the ratings have steadily declined over the past decade is because the housemates have become more and more outrageous and cartoon like. The majority of viewers were hooked on the Old School BBs because NORMAL PEOPLE ARE MORE INTERESTING, they are 3-D human beings and not 2-D cartoon characters.

They can try another gimmick next season, but with no live feed and cartoon characters instead of normal people, they will just get the same old flat ratings. No amount of twists and turns and showmance bollocks can change that. The only thing to improve ratings is by changing the format back to the original format, the successful format.

how i would love to see a return of the old BB with normal people

[jegmeister]

Well I have now given up watching the highlights shows during the week and only read this Forum and watch the eviction show. And that is a first for me in about 6 years.

The biggest problem has been the messing with nominations and lack of consistency. Even if there were friends and family or other methods of nomination (face to face), the actual final vote to evict has always rested with the public - until this series. Being given a free pass to the final is unquestionably the worst decision that the producers made. Even if it hadn't been someone as horrible as Helen that was chosen, the principle is just plain wrong.

And then twice in row the rule was broken again - the vote that the newbies had to vote out any housemate was beyond ridiculous. If they had chosen a fan's favourite, there would have been forum and twitter meltdown. We should always have the final power to vote out, no exceptions.

And then there is the lack of consistency. If you are going to show private diary room convos (and I have a lot of misgivings about it), you MUST be even handed. But this year BB has been anything but. Helen has got off incredibly lightly whereas Ashleigh has been constantly targeted. Very unfair.

And one other thing that pi**es me off. We always hear the likes of Rylan sneering "BB can change the rules at any time" - let's see how he would have liked it if in his series he was chosen to go by newbies and not the public. There have to be some basic rules - otherwise, why not just choose the winner on the first day.

If next year's BB is the same as this year, I won't watch it again either - it's simply too annoying and frustrating.

[uniquedude]

The housemates

The producers can mess up a lot as long as the housemates are good but this years the housemates have been incredibly uninspiring, to have two iconic housemates as we had last year was quite lucky I guess this times just didn't work doesn't mean they've done anything wrong so to speak. It's not about drama, if we ain't connecting with the housemates they can have sex and arguments 24/7 and we'd still not be interested

[BigSister]

I do think its because maybe they have tried to make it too serious and not showed the hmates having any fun or having a laugh and the tasks haven't been that good this year really. I do think the housemates haven't been as bad as people are saying but maybe next year they need to pick less not celebrities but on the cusp maybe of being celebrities

[Razor]

The main issue BB has these days is most of the housemates are wannabes and aren't what you would call normal. Models, people that have already been on tv or press, entertainers etc... BB really needs to get back to its roots and pick normal people with a broad age group. Do this and I think BB will attract more viewers.

[LukeB]

i love them to go back to 13 weeks of big brother

[Crimson Dynamo]

It has not failed unless someone can show me the ad revenue powerpoint. It will fail in the fans eyes due to live feed, that is a basic no brainer. I have enjoyed it, watching the 2 shows at night with tibbers is great fun and then discussing it the next day.

Im just glad its on, i think you get out of it what you stick in in many ways. Roll on CBB.

[LukeB]

they need to find normal people tbh

[Babschap]

I think it's failed simply because BB mucked around with the format too much. We don't watch to see HMs given free passes etc. (well I don't) also the whole power thing has misfired, look how Pauline abused it.

[ruiphillips]

Helen. And lack of Gina.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by iiamlukee

i love them to go back to 13 weeks of big brother

Absolutely not that is wayyyyyyyyyy too long