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I agree with your last sentence about legitimate criticisms. This alone won’t do it, but compounding it with everything else, it is not a bright future for the show. Look at the week one ratings and how it keeps going down.
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Episode Day 8 Eviction Show - 16/11/2025
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I agree with your last sentence about legitimate criticisms. This alone won’t do it, but compounding it with everything else, it is not a bright future for the show. Look at the week one ratings and how it keeps going down.
imsocold
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For sure.
There's a big difference between constructive criticism and performative outage. Some people just love to have something to complain about. Knowing that this run is a test and learn exercise, and a limited budget, there's only so much we can expect them to do. The show will never fully be what it was in the Ten era (I'm personally glad for that), but we do know they've been responsible and tweaking where they can within reason - and that shows some kind of care, whether people are willing to admit it or not.
Time and patience are our best friend. This show will be back in 2026 and I choose to remain optimistic about its potential.
imsocold
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The demo performance is actually fantastic, and that's what matters most (it determines their ability to drive sponsorships and ad revenue).
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Baffling they went with those screens - just looks shit. Would have been better with three in a row with the middle one used as the TV.
kamui
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While some of the complaints might have been voiced in a dramatic way, they have hardly become ridiculous. Some people care more about the format than having some quick entertainment. I could talk hours about twist, format changes and adjustments made to Big Brother around the world where I feel like people should have criticized production more openly in order to preserve the original format or help with steering the format in a direction closer to the original idea of Big Brother.
You have one influencer on the show and you might excuse it with "oh, it's just one influencer" and "every other person has a social media account and some followers on them". Next thing that will happen is you have a house with half the cast being influencers and people excusing it with "every one doing social media" and "we've always had influencers on the cast". And slowly but surely the nature of the show changes.
There have been many instances where the show and its nature changed by what some people might perceive as a smaller change. People might not realize the first time, but they realize it later. People in Germany love their fifth season despite it established almost all the changes that they're complaining about these days. They just didn't mind back then because it seemed to be something minor.
All the respect from my end to the people that love and respect the format. Those are my people.
(Despite.. when you negotiate a raise at work and expect a 10% raise, you don't go to your boss and ask for 10% either. You ask for something higher so that when they negotiate you down, you'll still end up at 10%. Same here: Why should people lower their expectations and thus giving production a chance to lower them even further?)
Hunter's_Mckay
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Not surprised that Michael went. About the only thing in the house he got right was realising he was toast the second he saw the nomination line up. He's a prick but I do like how he immediately was contradicting the edited shows storylines on stage. I was genuinely surprised that he thinks Alanna is up tonight as well.
Just seen the twist about Holly being safe this week and can't help that feel like the show is being edited like The Bachelor now. Holly is the villain and the villain is always kept around by production for the drama. It won't be nearly as compelling as it felt like with Emma in 2007 whereby she managed to skate by for several weeks through a combo of not being nominated and having the FNL winner save her meanwhile the public were baying for her blood. With this one it's just eye rolling TBH. The show is clearly scared of letting things actually play out.
Just seen the twist about Holly being safe this week and can't help that feel like the show is being edited like The Bachelor now. Holly is the villain and the villain is always kept around by production for the drama. It won't be nearly as compelling as it felt like with Emma in 2007 whereby she managed to skate by for several weeks through a combo of not being nominated and having the FNL winner save her meanwhile the public were baying for her blood. With this one it's just eye rolling TBH. The show is clearly scared of letting things actually play out.
Contrary to much of the commentary here, i actually really enjoyed tonight's eviction episode;
- Crowd seemed much larger and more rowdy.
- Mel's jokes were really funny.
- Sunset over the stage was beautiful.
- "No swearing while we're airing"
- "This is Big Brother, Michael you have been evicted, you have 30 seconds to say your goodbyes and leave the Big Brother house".
AntiGretel
...TRUMP 2020..
If Conor had tried to pull that Gordon Ramsay type shite with Merlin & Paul back in the day, he woulda been bitch slapped a dozen times before he got the chance to say 'crosses th line' the first of 6 occasions in the space of 3 minutes and 4 individual areas of the house.
Did you notice the way he grew in stature when he recounted the story and accepted each pat on the back like he was defending his next MMA world title bout?
For a brief second my total and unapologetic hatred of all things within Gretel* subsided and made room for this specimen of the kitchen
But only for a second
AG
( * Denotes : other than Saxons delicious glans penis )
Much to improve upon but nothing that can't be fixed - main issue is the daily show element dragged on far too long. The first 20 minutes or so being exclusively based around Holly is exactly why Vote to Save is far too open to producer manipulation.
I think having Mel chat to the nominees earlier and perhaps have time to talk to the other HMs too would break up the monotony of the show highlights, which needed to have a much tighter edit.
I think having Mel chat to the nominees earlier and perhaps have time to talk to the other HMs too would break up the monotony of the show highlights, which needed to have a much tighter edit.
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T.R.
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I’m so disappointed there wasn't a couch there for the eviction interview. We didn't even get a Michael highlights package. I'm glad we are going to see him tomorrow, but the magic of Big Brother was celebrating the evicted housemates as soon as they got out of the house and having a reasonable chat about their time in the house and seeing their highlights. I think that's a big thing to miss from the OG series that they really need to recapture. 
Sigh. With some of their decisions, it's like they just don't get what made Big Brother special in the first place.
Sigh. With some of their decisions, it's like they just don't get what made Big Brother special in the first place.
Hmm.... I didn't really enjoy this ep - fast forwarded some conversions
The seemed rather contrived for forced
I don't know maybe it because i saw on stream that the conversation of the weekend were controlled to the point at some times they were told to stop and continue it later - presumably so it can be added to the TV show ?
The seemed rather contrived for forced
I don't know maybe it because i saw on stream that the conversation of the weekend were controlled to the point at some times they were told to stop and continue it later - presumably so it can be added to the TV show ?
dasnico
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I think it’s unfair of you to continually downplay the disappointment MANY members on this board have every right to have about this reboot. 10 heavily advertised OG and they are not delivering aside from the live format. This is a crap attempt at even modernising the OG format.
This eviction episode was an absolute dumpster fire, especially after the improvement we saw Friday night. I’ve already posted my thoughts multiple times about this reboot, and in an effort to not light a fire under members like @SoftKitty who seem to think this series is acceptable, I will not be reposting them as other members, in this thread alone, have posted accurate points of changes that need to be made.
I’m really disappointed a “head of house” twist is returning, and not earned either. Where was the voting graph tonight? Why did everything need a soap opera edit? To name a few things.
I’m tempted to switch off and not give 10 my rating hit or my vote moving forward. This reboot is just disappointing more than it is enjoyable, which is a shame. I just started my watch of the BB7 stream and that’s hitting much more than this garbage. I cannot believe I let myself get amped up for a year with the promos just to get this.
Colin - vile. Holly - vile. Conor - annoying as hell. Where was his punishment for inciting violence towards Michael? Meh.
dasnico
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And to the member several pages back talking about how cameras are exposed in every series. This is incorrect. Starting with BB3 all cameras were hidden behind mirrors. The only visible cameras were in the garden on top of the wall that provided wide shots of the exterior b
Producers take note!!!!!
I do think you have to pick your battles but the more they do wrong it's harder to credit them for what they've done right. Something like no voting graphic wouldn't matter at all if the rest of the eviction show had delivered, but as it didn't it's just another thing to add to the list.
I do think overall I'm more positive about it than negative and we'll see next week if they learn from their mistakes. The 24/7 Live Feed though is the major plus point - that is what Big Brother is all about and it's existence should give them the confidence to make the live shows about the live event and trust that viewers who want house action will get their fix from the feeds, meaning you don't need an hour of footage on a Sunday.
I say this all the time too but a big issue with modern BB, and indeed modern reality TV in general, is somehow longer episodes deliver less content. There were really only 3 or 4 threads to the daily show footage tonight but it felt like it went on forever and hence felt boring. They could have told the same stories with half the footage and it would have made a better show.
One plus though tonight on the shows continual improvement is there were less cutaways mid-scene to the diary room.
I do think overall I'm more positive about it than negative and we'll see next week if they learn from their mistakes. The 24/7 Live Feed though is the major plus point - that is what Big Brother is all about and it's existence should give them the confidence to make the live shows about the live event and trust that viewers who want house action will get their fix from the feeds, meaning you don't need an hour of footage on a Sunday.
I say this all the time too but a big issue with modern BB, and indeed modern reality TV in general, is somehow longer episodes deliver less content. There were really only 3 or 4 threads to the daily show footage tonight but it felt like it went on forever and hence felt boring. They could have told the same stories with half the footage and it would have made a better show.
One plus though tonight on the shows continual improvement is there were less cutaways mid-scene to the diary room.
Melore
Tiny Member
I think a pinned dedicated complaints thread would be a good idea. Gather all the areas to fix in one location, for easy reading by producers, etc.
dasnico
Well-Known Member
Some sort of feedback thread for sure. Calling it a complaints thread might not bode well for the feedback users are wanting to post.
Melore
Tiny Member
Yes, feedback thread. Detailing areas of concern, fixes, and legitimate complaints with production decisions that are baffling, disappointing, and that go against what was presented to us as occurring this season.
Melore
Tiny Member
Please copy this excellent post in the new dedicated feedback thread I am currently manifesting.