Personally I haven't watched Big Brother for years, it was interesting the first couple of times I'm on but the whole thing has become more and more about trying to capture certain moments over the years rather than the basics of the original, so if they go back to basics then I think that can only be a good thing.
I wouldn't surprised if the money they save from axing Big Brother goes into original drama as the channel is making a push into that.
You’re assuming they’re be money to spend.
Yes exactly, it's not like when the BBC cancels something and there's a big pot of cash still there to channel into something else.
Interestingly the summer series is being trailed as "The original social experiment is back". So perhaps they're going back to basics.
Let's hope so.
Going back to basics should mean no face to face noms or twists. I think they should do a gogglebox and do their casting in a different way..... rather than open auditions. Open auditions attract the sort that we're bored of watching.
Going back to basics should mean no face to face noms or twists. I think they should do a gogglebox and do their casting in a different way..... rather than open auditions. Open auditions attract the sort that we're bored of watching.
They haven't done open auditions since 2012, all housemates have been cast directly, although I've heard they'll be bringing them back this year in the hope of getting some decent people through the doors again.
Going back to basics should mean no face to face noms or twists. I think they should do a gogglebox and do their casting in a different way..... rather than open auditions. Open auditions attract the sort that we're bored of watching.
They haven't done open auditions since 2012, all housemates have been cast directly, although I've heard they'll be bringing them back this year in the hope of getting some decent people through the doors again.
Oh really? Well it explains a lot. They've got it so wrong.
Bringing it back to the topic of this forum, I'd say Big Brother was where my interest in presentation stemmed from as a child. No other show on TV completely reinvents in on-screen look series after series (sometimes multiple times per year), and I still consider the eye unveil and on-screen package one of the most exciting parts of the show.
The "civilian" series will go but I still think they'll stick with the Celeb series.
I think so too. I have a feeling Love Island will wipe the floor with it this year.
Love Island. A show that is many magnitudes worse than Big Brother, appealing to the absolute lowest of the lowest common denomination of viewer. Made primarily to appeal to thick as pigs**t morons that struggle to share the family brain cell.
Brain dead reality TV at its knuckle dragging worst.
I do wonder if reality TV as we know it today will ever start to decline. It was a little more tolerable in the early 00s in my opinion, partly because of its novelty and it was also more "insightful" in a way (what it's like having a bunch of strangers in a house together, what the Osbournes are like in real life etc) rather than the staged, glamorous, "look at how much better life is for us compared to yours" trend that's dominating nowadays.
