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Should the civilian series be shorter?
With Channel Fail refusing to provide Live Feed and viewing figures often dipping to below 1million last year for the BB15 should they reduce the amount of weeks?
I'd change it to 6 weeks with 10 housemates. They should be focussing on Celebrity Big Brother now as it gets much more viewers and social buzz. It's obvious that the Civilian series no longer works and stopped being Big Brother the day it moved to Channel Fail. |
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Ever since the days Channel 4 extended it I always found the last 2 weeks tough to get through, I'd often completely miss a whole week before the finale so I'd be open for them cutting it a bit.
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Ever since the days Channel 4 extended it I always found the last 2 weeks tough to get through, I'd often completely miss a whole week before the finale so I'd be open for them cutting it a bit.
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Back in the good old days the weeks were fine for me, probably due to Live Feed. You could get to know the housemates and form a proper opinion without being forced an opinion by a bad edit. These days they have way too many housemates with only a 45 minute highlights show followed by Shit on the Side which is basically the Rylan Show and they don't show anything new meaning you don't get to know the housemates in the space of 10 weeks.
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I agree. i think with Live streaming 10-12 weeks is a fair amount of time. Another problem is that as the series went by they introduced twists where new housemates would join and that sets the dynamic back even further, resulting in existing housemates and viewers wanting to get to know the new entrants.
Also the current production team are awful so by the end of week one they've already run out of ideas so resort to creating twists that will rock the house forever |
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With Channel Fail refusing to provide Live Feed and viewing figures often dipping to below 1million last year for the BB15 should they reduce the amount of weeks?
I'd change it to 6 weeks with 10 housemates. They should be focussing on Celebrity Big Brother now as it gets much more viewers and social buzz. It's obvious that the Civilian series no longer works and stopped being Big Brother the day it moved to Channel Fail. Only 3 months since the last one finished, it retrospect it wasn't very good, now we have to hear again about which lower than z list Americans who might be in the next one |
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I much prefer the civilian BB to the Celeb one so that would annoy me if they cut the time - 6 weeks would not be long enough at all.
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Ever since the days Channel 4 extended it I always found the last 2 weeks tough to get through, I'd often completely miss a whole week before the finale so I'd be open for them cutting it a bit.
I'd like to see the non-celeb series cut back to the original 9 weeks (like BBs 1-4), without a CBB on the end. I think one of the things that's worked against BB over the years is that there's so much of it. To follow BB properly requires a huge commitment of time. It's on for months, an hour a day, plus secondary shows and online clips. I can't think of any other show that expects people to watch that much. And the next BB or CBB comes too soon, I think, for many viewers. They find it hard to be enthusiastic all over again so soon. (I think that may even help account for odd-numbered BBs almost always doing better than the even-numbered ones. Many viewers who become heavily involved in a BB aren't ready to do it again a year later, at least not as much, but by the time of the year after that (the next odd-numbered BB), they're ready again.) Quote:
Back in the good old days the weeks were fine for me, probably due to Live Feed. You could get to know the housemates and form a proper opinion without being forced an opinion by a bad edit. These days they have way too many housemates with only a 45 minute highlights show followed by Shit on the Side which is basically the Rylan Show and they don't show anything new meaning you don't get to know the housemates in the space of 10 weeks.
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*Agrees with Veri*
BB7 (a generally well-liked series) was the first 13 week show. I remember half way throuigh that series we had the same number of housemates that we did at the start. But none of the mid-series newbies were as good as those we had lost. It seemed like we were starting all over again with an inferior product. |
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*Agrees with Veri*
BB7 (a generally well-liked series) was the first 13 week show. I remember half way throuigh that series we had the same number of housemates that we did at the start. But none of the mid-series newbies were as good as those we had lost. It seemed like we were starting all over again with an inferior product. |
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If C5 insist of 3 series a year I'd like:
3/4 Weeks - Celeb BB Winter 8/10 Weeks - Big Brother 3/4 Weeks - Spin-off (Celeb Hijack or a new format) |
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