Actually, you're wrong.

I've bailed on several series but still come on the forum.

Watching BB's not a compulsory factor of forum membership/participation, is it?

Yes, it is.

Yes but your opinion is irrelevant.

No, yours is.

I'm not a fan of alling people chavs, but I must admit this love island meets towie hybrid is not my ideal viewing for what most want from BB.

People may tell others to naff off, but this right here is the place to discuss our disappointment being avid fans of the series in General....no?

It's just really scraping the barrel.

This is common with a lot of fans, as th eye a fan of the brand overall and don't have to watch every series if it is indeed terrible viewing. BB dips from them me to time.

I just hope they can change their new direction as its dire, and worrying for the future of BB.

Too many shows are poor scripted reality, based on a young cast entirely, trying to produce sexual relationships, they're a pound a dozen. It's too short lived and BB need to streetcars from that pitfall. Their is a reason bb has survived for this long over many others.

Same here. Sometimes I'm too bored, or frustrated, with a current series to watch the highlights each evening but I'll keep abreast of things on here and maybe BOTS too.

Some years I'll only watch the nominations and eviction shows. On the evidence of the live feed tonight I shan't be watching again until Friday.

Faced with watching either Sex On The Beach / Geordie Shore / TOWIE or the Olympic Games every night, there can only be one winner. First time I've ever abandoned a CBB but this one is completely unwatchable.....not one of those people is a celebrity or a famous person by any stretch of the imagination.

Why are people still here and posting they're disappointed after January's CBB, which was exactly the same - reality show people snogging and kicking off? That show was all about chavs and youths - the GC, Danielle, Stephanie and Jeremy, Scotty T and Megan McKenna.

More reality stars in fact than this one, yet you all came back for more?

That's interesting. I hadn't made the link between the two series but both times, ive been half-arsed watching. As in, having it on in background and looking up when voices are raised, then phasing out again.

I read the forum for updates on episodes I've missed rather than watching catch-up. But I'm not much inclined to post nowadays and didn't at all in 2015, such is my apathy.

I don't hate it. I don't bemoan anymore that it's not the BB I love (it took a turn to the cruel and changed all the outside interference rules in the Gina/Dexter series BB14 and has gone downhill since). It's just not compulsive viewing anymore.

I 100% agree about mourning the loss of a credible civilian BB - but for me the celeb BB is ok as i have less expectation of it , its just a celeb mash-up and personally i find the contrast between uncouth youngsters and the older luvies quite entertaining.

But why is nastiness classed as "entertainment" . Someone could entertain without being an absolute a hole.

Nope. Most of us older members have no time for him at all!

It's more that those who don't like him are splitting their vote...mainly between Sam, James, Frankie and Ricky.

Agreed.

If people who didn't like the show didn't mention that there was a problem here on DS, all that would be left is support and arse kissing for the current format, which from someone who is monitoring the effect of the show would deem a success. OK, top professionals don't legitamately come here to scour it's impact but it's certainly a place that reflects the viewers mind be it positive or negative. You can't make changes to a show just from falling figures, it would help an intelligent mind to figure out why - Coming here would EXPLAIN A LOT of it.

But, I feel all that producers are doing is taking an out of control vehicle that is on course at 125mph to hit a brick wall (one they're responsible for). They are happy for it to do that because they don't have the ismarts to ressurrect it. How to sell the product before it hits that brock wall? As much sex, aggression, and blatant attention seekers who'll happily whore themselves for 50 quid an hour. Their reputation won't go down the sodding plughole because that is their reputation!

Good Post....Maybe those who complain and continue to watch are hoping that those who're currently putting this utter Sh!t together will maybe, just maybe take note of what a lot of people here on DS are saying !! These people are the people who've probably watched and enjoyed BB and CBB for years and are entitled to voice their opinion !!!!

Because we WANT entertainment!!! We don't want mild, gentle fence-sitters and we don't want adult babies screaming for their 5 seconds worth of attention and getting aggressive about it! This is the only place we can vent our frustration of it all. These days, most people are waking up to the fact they can blatantly notice a housemate deliberately playing up to the camera as a desperate bid for limelight - Deliberately winding the shit up out of housemates for an effect, is one of those ploys. In fact, these morons always say after the show, I'm not really like that but I was making sure I was earning my pay packet rather than be a boring fart who are just coasting it out for their paycheck. Sorry, but that is as much fake behaviour of those they accuse it of!

Why is it so hard for people to grasp what the problem is? If we don't like these famewhores then we automatically get placed in the camp of fuddy-duddies. That's not true either. We need to see all sides of the camp. If somebody is just sitting around and doing SFA then have them removed. If someone is going way over the top with their grasping behaviour, have them removed.

Once upon a time, it was Big Brother who would put a nasty spanner in the works, sit back and watch peoples reactions. Now, those lazy bastards just sit back and put in immature imbeciles to do their dirty work and those are the people they focus on ALL THE TIME. We rarely see the aspects of the other people in the house unless they are talking about how a certain housemates behaviour is affecting THEM. What, do we need a full house of Bears, Marnies, Chloe's, Lewis, Charlotte's, Jeremy's and Stephanie's before we class it as being entertained, and being entertained in a deliberately false and manipulated manner? Are we really that clueless and dumbdown as a viewer that we're lost without those antics and emotions on display?

Certain people have been complaining about BB on here for years, stating they'll never watch again. Yet every new series, they're back.

Me personally, I'm not a fan of this summer's CBB. But I loved the one back in January and really liked this year's civilian series.

seeing as Jason won civilian who definitely wasn't a "chav" winner I fail to see posters points.I don't know how many times down the years ive seen dummies being spat out on these forums because it isnt going the way people want.who are all these 'chav" voters being spoken of ? I bet they dont even post on DS.

You can feel the panic from production as the ratings drop so they scrabble to do something about it by interfering with the nom process. they frantically try to fix it so certain people stay as they believe if they go the ratings will drop even lower but they just make it even worse. There was a time that CBB was on the up but they have completely and utterly ruined it by trying to make Celebrity Ex on the Towie Shore, and how can they call it Celebrity when the majority of them are far from that.

Yes, I'm close to packing in now. I'm sick of having to watch the four chavs constantly trying to swallow each other. Yuk!

But it was a totally "chav" show, even tho Jason won. He was only really shown in the last few days, when it was apparent he wasn't going to be evicted as easily as the producers wanted. The rest of the time it was 100percent the Ryan and Hughie show.

Excellent post. 100 per cent agree.

Is there many mature posters voting on here or are they just reading and not even posting. I'm mature and cannot stand Bear like many have said!