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reggierules wrote:

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I have no hopes for BB10 now and if it doesn't deliver in the first couple of weeks I won't be sticking with it.

But then we'd miss such wonderful insight like: "Then all they have to do is allow nomination discussion."

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That is all they have to do to make the show a bit more interesting though.

Thing is, I'm from the UK...BBUK is the series I grew up with and have watched from the start and year after year it gradually gets worse. That is why the BBUS format still feels fresh to me, yes that show could do with format changes too, but overall I find BBUS much more compelling and engaging than anything BBUK has done for a long time now.

Maybe I'd feel different if it was the other way around and I'd lived in the US and grew up with BBUS, maybe then I'd be bored of that series and find BBUK to feel fresh.

But from my point of view and many others in the UK judging by the ratings, the show is just not interesting anymore and needs a kick up the arse. There's a reason The Apprentice can get 10million viewers and Big Brother 9 was barely reaching 3mil.

I'm not even sure if a semi-decent cast could help it now. The producers and show as a whole has created a lot of ill-will as of a late.

It is easy to pin-point the downfall:

-CBB5 - Putting Jade Goody and her family in the house was never going to be a good move, I don't know any fan that wanted to see that happen but they went ahead and did. Let's not forget Jade was part of the same management team as Davina and co, so it would make lots of nice cash for them if it went well...but it went completely tits up. CBB5's ratings were decreasing until the racism row, which went totally out of control and although it increased the ratings for that series, at what cost? Because Big Brother has always been seen as trashy, but harmless, but after CBB5 it was now trashy and evil and should be "removed from our television screens". It put many people off.

-BB8 - So the team had some work to do, make people forget about CBB5, give them a fun, upbeat, enjoyable series for the summer. Phil Edgar-Jones the executive producer actually said that the theme of BB8 is "fun". Their first mistake was having the All Female launch night twist, it lost a big chunk of its audience after the first night. They somehow forgot that the majority of their audience are female and they have no real interest in watching a bunch of other females on TV. They then drip-fed in male housemates week after week, it was an endless onslaught of new, hopeless wannabes all vying for camera time. This series had the worst tasks and worst twists, fake eviction which changed absoloutely nothing of the house dynamics, the most tedious giving away of £100,000 ever on television and THE worst twist in the history of Big Brother...the Half-Way House, where the rules were constantly being changed until the producers got the right combination of housemates up for eviction. Add on top of this Charley and Carole, two of the most detestable housemates of all time. The rest of the cast was a total non-event.

-Celebrity Hijack - Personally I really enjoyed this series, the housemates were different, not so wannabe-ish and the tasks were great. Amy, Emilia and Jeremy were three of the best housemates of all time. But stupidly they decided to restrict this series to E4 only where it died away and nobody noticed it and it was considered a failure.

-BB9 - Okay, CBB5 was a while ago now, maybe last year was just a glitch, time to get things back on track eh? We were promised unique, diverse housemates and a more competitive format. What we got was more ignorant bullies (Alexandra, Dennis) and thousands more Ofcom complaints rendering the series dead after the first week. BB9 wasn't one of the worst series, it had some decent housemates such as Rex, Mario, Darnell, Lisa etc but again the tasks were seriously lacking and the twists didn't work. The HoH and Noms Pod were half-assed and not thought through properly. The ratings were decreasing week by week and the housemates disappeared quicker than ever after the series finished.

-CBB6 - 2009, Celebrity Big Brother was back, this should have been the show to draw the fans back. The line-up was semi-decent, Verne, Coolio, Ulrika, LaToya and the first week was quite fun. But it had that same problem every series has had since the latter half of BB7, it quickly becomes stale and boring, the housemates run out of things to do and talk about and so do the producers and so do the fans. CBB6 had the worst ratings ever, some nights barely reaching 1.5million. That does not bode well for the future of Big Brother.

BB10 is the anniversary of BBUK, it is the perfect time to give a boost to the franchise and unfortunate as it is, Jade Goody's death, will have put peoples minds back on Big Brother. Maybe this is the year they can find a great cast and really buck their ideas up in the tasks department and hopefully add in some new, exciting format twists. I'd love nothing more than for the ratings to shoot back up to 4/5mil and have people talking about the show again and it may even get renewed if it does well. But I just don't see it, I have tried to have faith in these guys to turn it around for the past however many series and each time they fail. But I'd rather see them try something new to save the show, than just let it rot away in to the gutter.

Sorry for the long post, just wanted to vent.