Personally, I think that TBB is the future. We have all discuused open nominations before. I certainly gives a delicous edge to an otherwise tired format.

It would have turned out a damn sight better!

At the time, all called for BB to get tougher but they were limp all the way and that messed up an already crap show!

....Jon woulda been evicted out first. Or defo one of the earliest.

Cameron prob still wins.

I agree.

I think it's still crcuial to choose the best housemates at the start.

If like in BB4,.you have so many HMs that conform to each others behaviour and views,..they will still evict the most individual characters first.

I saw "The Games" and believed that the lack of a public vote may be the way forward then.
But only if they have a decent mix of characters at the start.

Why Jon? Surely Ray was the biggest rule breaker in there!?

But Ray didn't break the rules of the group's behaviour,..he conformed as much as he could to them.

Several times he mentioned that it's beter not to have opinions,..that they have to remember that viweres are watching,..didn't like to get involved with controversial discussions with Fed.

Do we want housemates to stay in that mirror our views or people who will take opinions to the limits to get us thinking and talking ?

we are quite fond of booting out the mouthy ones very quickly but at the end of the day will it be good for viewing and discussing if everyone fits into our sense of *normal*?

They needed to pick a theme other than cooperation and shy Scot comes alive (not) for BB4 and pick other people than Gos, Scott or Cameron.

They can't do away with the public vote and make money. You would also make the game far more tactical and the result would be potentially popular winners being evicted leaving the unpopular to clean until the final week.

They could use the FA format and allow the HM to vote out the bottom two in a weekly public vote for the most popular - that would make them even more money as you have to vote each week. An alternative would be to let the public vote for the one they wanted to go and the HM pick one of a bottom two (BB3 eviction1).
You would get very different results though. In BB years where there were distinct characters they could go earlier - Jade would never make it to the final of BB3 under either system. You would also lose the tension of the nominations and the doubt about who had the largest number of fans which is what you want. To take the most competitive and unclear final, BB3, you had no way of knowing Kate was more popular than Jonny or Alex until the end and if you read the tabloid papers Jade was winning. A public vote for the most or least popular would have given the game away weeks before.. In the year of no real characters (BB4) Cameron would win under any system with a public vote unless the other characters actually were replaced by more popular people.