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How Low Do The Ratings Have To Go Before C5 Pull the Plug?
FusionFury
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It would be bad practise for a company not to set a target, and just accept whatever happens.
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After this series, C5 is due to either renew BB or not. I have a feeling this is the last series of normal BB, but C5 will want to keep CBB as that is still a hit for them.
I doubt if Channel 5 will have BB full stop! I would envisage that BB & CBB are sold as a package & cannot be split. Channel 5 will not want BB, it goes against their plans for the 'new' look channel. Will they pull the plug? I doubt it.....viewing would have to be down considerably but it's not as easy as it sounds. They would make a huge loss by having to purchase content... two hours of content per night for the remainder of the series & reschedule it all. It is rare for a show to be axed mid season....they usually just don't renew & that is what I would expect to happen.
I'm puzzled by your comment, please explain.
Haven't watched for well over a week, tuned in last night for a (WOW) whole 14 minutes of H/Ls !
Well if they took away Mark's daily diary room visits then there would have been more time for highlights. They show Mark in the diary room every night without fail & think we don't notice that they hardly show others in there unless something significant happens involving them!
The production cobbled together around 12 minutes out of the last 24 hours and tried to pass that off as the highlights show.
Did something significant happen in the house in that 24 hours, something that could change the way we feel about certain housemates or situations? We'll never know.
And we still only have their word for it that the three people who received the most nominations actually did receive the most nominations. Without having seen them take place, the result could've been anything. We'll never know.
Well actually yes something did happen.....the most important part of the week!!
Yep nominations happened & as I said on a post last night if they stopped kissing Mark's ass they could & should have shown nominations! We see nominations EVERY Monday night so why didn't we last night? That tells me last night was fixed!!
Virgin don't own any tv channeld and i'd hate to see BB end up on sky1 averaging less than 500k. I still have faith viacom will renew the civilian version. The ratings are consistent and as last year and last night showed can improve. The 16-34 demo is high too compated to other c5 shows, this is a demo viacom focuses on with it's channels
Hopefully it stays on terrestrial. Some of us (probably just me) never got around to getting satellite....
Thing is, we don't know how much profit they are making - they don't have any other shows that will get over 1 million viewers every night for 3 months. If they can negotiate a better price for renewing the contract, they'll probably do it.
Not sure but obviously a lot more people are away in late July and throughout August so there must be some bearing
Virgin actually own a few channels!
Ratings would plummet on a subscription based service.
ITV2 would be a decent option with evictions shown on ITV1 if the figures warrant the slot.
They sold them to Sky a few years ago
This is a critical time for the show as C5 will be entering into negotiations for a new contract and one would assume that the value of the show would be directly related to the number of viewers watching.
Somewhere along the line is a point in which the show just cannot be justified.
For example if C5 can get 1.1m viewers a night for a repeat of NCIS which doesn't cost the fortune that BB does,is BB still a financially viable product for C5 to buy?