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Game over man, game over

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Next year will be the last series of Big Brother.

One more celebrity version, one more regular, then its gone for good.
 
Hopefully next year they'll plan some good twists, secret rooms and tasks so it can go out with a bang. This year's relied entirely on having a few good characters, with a dismal performance by the production team.
 
It's gone from Channel 4, you mean. Sky will probably buy it and have Justin Lee Collins host or something.

It's been pretty obvious that they don't care this year with the lack of live feed and allowing so much outside info in and scrapping nomination rules. It's only been good because of the good housemates, but most of them have been evicted (and Marcus looks like he's going on Friday) and we're destined for a shit final week and shit winner.
 
Channel Five, BSkyB and ITV2 have ruled out bidding for Big Brother when it becomes available in 2011, despite media buying agency executives arguing that the reality format's appeal to the key youth audience still makes it a valuable show for advertisers.

Richard Woolfe, the channel controller at Five, said the show did not fit with the "new direction" that the broadcaster was looking to take.

"Big Brother has been an amazing phenomenon but, in terms of the new direction Five is taking, we are looking for big original ideas," Woolfe added. "Big Brother now needs to be off our screens for a few years before anyone can consider reinventing it and bringing it back."

BSkyB and ITV are also understood not to have any interest in acquiring the series after Big Brother 11 is broadcast by Channel 4 next summer – when producer Endemol will be free to take the format to other networks.

"We talk to Endemol all the time but aren't discussing Big Brother with them," said Stuart Murphy, the controller of Sky1.

Media buying agency executives believe that the decline in Big Brother's audience has been overplayed because viewing figures in the low millions with a strong youth base still make it an extremely valuable programme for broadcasters other than Channel 4 to consider.

In addition, Channel 4 was forced into paying a high price in a £180m three-year deal in 2006 because ITV emerged as a rival bidder when the show was still performing strongly.

"Any channel that is aspiring for a younger profile should currently be thinking about Big Brother, although there are factors and baggage to consider such as airtime space and image," said Adam Turner, broadcast director at media agency PHD.

"There is a hang-up about its historically large audiences but in reality, for satellite channels, the show still does good valuable numbers."

Turner suggested that cable and satellite channel Living, which has reality TV shows such as America's Next Top Model, could also provide a good fit for the show.

An equally key question for media buying agencies is how Channel 4 now fills the void in its schedule with programming of value to advertisers.

Big Brother's historically large and valuable audience has been a disproportionately critical element in Channel 4's negotiations with media agencies to secure advertising budgets across all the broadcaster's programming throughout the year.

The show's big audience in the summer, particularly the 16- to 34-year-old demographic, significantly boosts the amount of valuable airtime Channel 4 has to sell to advertisers. This increase in the supply of ad inventory brings down the price for advertisers over summer and makes up for often relatively higher priced ads in shows at other times of the year that do not have such large audiences.

"Big Brother hides a multitude of sins. Big Brother has provided fantastic media value for advertisers. The question going forward from an [ad] selling point of view how Channel 4 makes the pricing attractive to advertisers over the course of a year," said Chris Locke, trading director at media agency Starcom.

"This will be the big question for September and October next year," Locke added, referring to the beginning of the annual trading season between TV sales houses and media agencies which determine the lion's share of ad spend by advertisers for the following calendar year.
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From the Gaurdian.
 
Ironically, after several seasons in decline, ratings for the US version have risen noticeably this season. In fact, for the first time, they've decided to add an extra hour to the finale episode. It will go up against Jay Leno's new show.
 
They just need to be harsher on the Housemates.

It seems most of the housemates this year were expecting BB to be like Butlins except they get a deal with Heat afterwards.
 
They need to bring in Ron Moore as executive producer next year and start the show by telling the housemates all their families have died in a nuclear holocaust...
 
Yesterday's highlights were quite amusing, but showed yet again how much the producers have lost the plot. Housemates getting into the camera runs was bad enough, but having them driven round London was just taking a dump on the BB rules.
 
They're lucky it wasn't Marcus selected for the London task. He would have taken the suit off and ran for the nearest comic book shop.
 
The Slickman (Rapper/Hitman) comments on the end of BB.

Big Brother 5's Victor Ebuwa has suggested that producers have a "final blowout" in the 11th series.

The reality TV contestant argued that Endemol's Phil Edgar-Jones and Sharon Powers had rested on their laurels with the show and argued that the format was tired and needed someone to "mix it up".

"I reckon I could do a better job that Phil Edgar-Jones and Sharon Powers, to be honest," he told DS. "Phil got it right on the third series and series five, but since then I think he's been having a laugh. He's been sat back, collecting his bonus every year and letting everyone doing the same thing each year."

Speaking about next year's final summer series on Channel 4, he said: "I would like them to mix up some celebrities, some ex-housemates, some normal people, let people talk about nominations, have a veto and Head of House.

"Have a Head of House nomination competition, have a veto competition. No more of the shopping challenges, they are s**t. Just give them food depending on how good they are in the previous week. Just mix it all up and have people properly gunning for each other."

He continued: "They should make it more of a game with teams. Have them actively competing against other and going at each other. It works best as a competition with people going for a prize, I don't want to see people just giving me their personality manifesto. Let's have some real dog eat dog, backstabbing and b***hing... The last series should be a proper blowout."

Speaking about Channel 4's decision to stop airing the show, he said: "I don't know how the producers feel, but they've only got themselves to blame really. It's like running the same episode of Friends every day for ten years. Eventually people will say, 'Have you not got anything else to show us?'

"Or perhaps it's even more like the same show over and over again, except the actors keeps getting worse. Every year Matt Le Blanc comes in a little more drunk and David Schwimmer is cross-dressing. It just gets worse and worse every year. That's my analogy for it."
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He's right on the money, except about nominations. I like that they can't discuss who they'll vote for. But I also liked it a lot more back in the day when they'd hear the "get ____ out!" chants when Davina was on the stage talking to the house.
 
If these past few weeks have taught us anything, it's that them talking about nominations makes the show worse. The annoying manipulative people just get all the interesting people out in the first few weeks and then you've killed the show.
 
The characters always get voted off first anyway, it's an unwritten rule of BB. Bonner was one exception, but BB7 rocked all over. Oh and I suppose last year's winner is another debatable exception to the rule.
 
At least scary Grace Dent fancies him.

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