Should have given us 6 weeks this season! I get they had the holdback and Xmas is fast approaching but still!
6 weeks would be perfect.
Why would they keep BB as short when its given them so much success yet they can run shows like Masterchef for months on end and that is not doing anywhere near as well with younger audiences right now.
Simple. Ratings. But the number of days should go up incrementally per season as long as the ratings are holding up. Ratings are more important for television now than the opinions of the general public. We could give a season an absolute roasting, but as long as those ratings remain good, they'll keep pumping out more seasons. As stated in my previous comment, I don't expect whoever the current crop of producers are to be willing to make many of the changes that myself and many others have requested for. I'm still preferring what they are giving us over the pre-recorded Channel 7 run, but this season feels more like three steps forward, two steps back. A lot of work to do, and I'm not confident they'll get to anywhere near the heydays of 03-07 BB. Can future seasons improve upon this year? Yes. Will it? Probably. But will it truly be fully OG? No, absolutely not.
Won't be as short, but there won't be an extreme jump back to OG era season lengths, at least not in just one year. 2 weeks more is possible, as it goes from 30 to about 45 days, but the ideal number would be closer to 50 or 60 (then again, that may be the number in '27). The primary thing people need to be concerned about is the fact that the network will be very pleased at the ratings number, and if it holds up over these last two weeks, the network may be more inclined to extend the next season. Even they would know that 30 days is way too short - it's the length of a typical CBB UK season on Channel 5, but they had a promise to viewers that we would get Big Brother this year, and we did. If they had said that they were going to do it, then didn't, and made us wait until '26, those ratings would not have been as high.
That’s because today is the weekend and it’s the production’s “day off” - they won’t turn the lights on (re: the HMs are not allowed to be out of bed) until they want them to be. Another flaw in this whole thing. It’s just a manufactured TV show now, not a group of strangers living and interacting their own daily lives in a house.
We had a a livestream back in the day too and longer seasons were not a problem. The livestream should be a supplement to the main show not a replacement. And other versions around the world also have 24/7 live streaming and still manage to produce much longer more compelling seasons.tbh I think with the live stream 30 days is enough, they could've stretched to 5 or 6 weeks, but what for? the housemates seem to sleep alot. It's after 10 am over there and they're all still in bed...where's a rooster when you need one?
Heck, in Germany, they've had 365-day seasons. That had live feeds on TV, didn't it?
What's the point when none of it will be aired on TV?
They allegedly don’t record the show on the weekend, only supervise the HMs from a safety and well-being perspective (and live stream some of it). They don’t care what you’re seeing on the stream if they don’t have an incentive or aren’t being paid to do anything. This is exactly part of our concern as fans and viewers - this is not BB, it’s a contrived reality show.
Maybe they'll jazz it up a bit more next year then, but I don't reckon they will
Get ready for declining ratings and another cancellation then if nothing improves
