Ban anyone who's on the reality TV show circuit or who makes a living via self-promotion on social media.

By using these self-centred [by definition] individuals it simply becomes a battle of egos, a competition for screen time. Which gets old very quickly.

The reality show genie may be well out of the bottle and half way to the moon by now, but this would at least go some way in making for a much more interesting dynamic.

It would be great if they started fresh.

Nobody who has applied before.

A good variation of ages (Jayne has been great this year)

Cut the prize fund to half what it currently is.

Make it less attractive.

Real tasks / Real punishments,

And let's have all asexuals!

Has it been confirmed there will be a civilian BB next year? The powers that be have cut this series short, they seem to have run out of ideas, just look at the piss poor tasks.
I wouldn't be surprised if they announced they were only going to carry on with CBB, even though this year's ratings haven't been bad. It just seems like C5 can't be arsed with it and have hung it out to dry.

To tell you the truth I would rather they just put an all stars series together of both normal and celeb BB. Another Ultimate BB series. The celeb and civilian series is full of reality TV contestants anyway! Could even have an international BB with HM's around the world compete.

Their only hope is to look at why they keep failing - it's a combination of picking HMs who are already on the circuit and media savvy; as you say poor tasks; constantly dressing up old twists as 'new'; letting HMs know what's going on outside and who's popular or not.

Back to basics would be an interesting way of presenting the original idea as something new.

I would love them to try a 'Back to basics' series. Choose people with real interests who can entertain us and hold our attention. With original tasks. And no contact with the outside world. And give everyone their own bed!

Bring back the chickens

Yeah I agree they should go back to how they used to do it, with the auditions instead of going through agents and hand picking them.

Also make the diary room private again, it used to be a place housemates could speak freely and honest without fear of any HMs knowing, but now it's used to cause drama.

Back to basics would be so good- plenty of tasks and proper punishments. If you want to leave then there is there door-no pandering to housemates like there is now!

Given that the cashed-up years peak of C4's BB are long gone, it seems C5 doesn't have a huge budget to work with anymore, so expenses like open audition sessions, elaborate tasks and the live feed are a thing of the past.

So the question is, what cost-conscious things could C5 do to improve the series?

They could cut the prize fund too £50,000 to make budget for open auditions.

Yeah good old BB1-Darren had a favourite called Marjorie. Ah the good old days!! 😢

It would cost nothing to keep the HMs in the dark, guarantee DR privacy [good one!], not reveal others' noms, have single beds [another good one!] and let walkers walk.

Other savings, yes, cut the prize fund. Most of the applicants would still apply if all that was on offer was a trophy.

If they continue casting desperadoes who are already active on the reality TV circuit, they won't need to offer a cash prize as those types of HMs want attention first and foremost.

Get rid of the public crowd each week.

It only tells HMs who to attach on to and who to avoid.

This

And the week-long tasks that they actually had to put some effort into.