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According to Wikipedia Channel 10 BB ran between 85-100 days
Channel 9 between 80-and 101 days
Channel 7 between 25 and 63 days

Past results would seem to say that the sweet spot was around 86 days - approx 12 weeks
 
I find that 12 weeks is definitely the perfect length, but if theres a small amount of housemates left at that point the daily shows become really dull. Personally, I found the pacing of BB2012 perfect. 87 days, 6 housemates left in the final week the final eviction was a double on Day 85 leaving three finalists on Day 87.
 
Isee said:
According to Wikipedia Channel 10 BB ran between 85-100 days
Channel 9 between 80-and 101 days
Channel 7 between 25 and 63 days

Past results would seem to say that the sweet spot was around 86 days - approx 12 weeks
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yeah no one is gonna watch an 100 (or even 90) plus BB or any reality TV series in this fast paced day and age of short attention spans.
 
It's actually quite easy and obvious where that sweet spot is after 25 years - the gut reaction of reality TV fans usually knows the answer immediately. And to be fair reality TV producers do too - but it's the networks that call the shots.
 
I feel like TEN know what not to do with this tbh. I do not see a world where they commission a show for under 2 months and make this much hype about it. Even if TAR and Survivor AUvTW do not air simultaneously theres still a lot of room left in the year including the first week of December. Masterchef could air a 13 week season as well as the other two shows airing in total of 10 weeks (4 for Survivor + 6 for TAR) and still leave decent room for Big Brother.

And rather than being like others and stating my thoughts as fact... I'll share my working out with you all as I spend my day off work doing nothing else but trying to figure out when BB will air 🤣

Survivor launches February 17th, we know that for a fact. If it repeats last year's schedule then we can presume the finale will air around the time of April 8th/9th. Or the week of April 14th if Ten chooses to drag out the last few weeks to 2 eps a week instead of 3 like they did with Heroes vs Villains.

We have confirmation that Masterchef launches after Easter, for argument's sake lets guess Masterchef launches Easter Monday (which it did previously in 2020 and 2022, both were also All Stars seasons like 2025 will be) and let's just go with worst case scenario and that being a 13 week season. Masterchef in theory could conclude by the week of July 7th.

And again lets work with worst case scenario with Survivor and TAR airing separately over a combined 10 weeks from the week of July 14th-September 15th. That would leave all other flagship reality shows concluded by September 21st. And if Big Brother is to conclude in early December that leaves space of 10 full weeks and the finale being in the beginning of the 11th week.

I've done the math, and even with the other shows being bloated and scattered as long as possible there is absolutely no reason as to why we cannot get a decent length BB series that runs over 70+ days. And there is no apparent reason here as to why Ten would follow ITV's footsteps and deliver a 6 week series to us.
 
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Zcsund1234 said:
We have confirmation that Masterchef launches after Easter, for argument's sake lets guess Masterchef launches Easter Monday (which it did previously in 2020 and 2022, both were also All Stars seasons like 2025 will be) and let's just go with worst case scenario and that being a 13 week season. Masterchef in theory could conclude by the week of July 7th.
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Whoops, I just realised I made an error, if Masterchef airs from Easter for 13 weeks it will conclude the week of July 14th. But regardless, thats absolute worst case scenario. If Masterchef is only 12 weeks then we're left with 10-11 weeks remaining anyway.
 
Along with Masterchef is it just MAFS and The Block now that run on multiple nights for around 3 months?
 
andrew_08 said:
That was the BB07 finale
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And what a whirlwind of Live TV it was, going almost half an hour over schedule, voting computers melting down, rubber chickens being catapulted, a blantantly non-compliant and tacky Mardi Gras inspired float built on a pickup truck with a staircase scotch taped to the back of it, it really had everything.
 
James T said:
And what a whirlwind of Live TV it was, going almost half an hour over schedule, voting computers melting down, rubber chickens being catapulted, a blantantly non-compliant and tacky Mardi Gras inspired float built on a pickup truck with a staircase scotch taped to the back of it, it really had everything.
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And that's the moment gretel had enough
 
I think the Michael incident in BB06 showed she was fed up with it all. She certainly left at the right time though - perhaps should have gone a year earlier, perhaps would have held on an extra year if she'd known BB08 would be the last, but ultimately left at the right time for her and for the show. I don't think the show would have been saved from the axe if Gretel had hosted BB08 rather than Kyle and Jackie O - and I still maintain Ten should have thrown the dice on BB09 with just Jackie O hosting, but ultimately their gamble on Masterchef paid off in a way a ninth series of BBAU wouldn't have done.
 
The Michael incident was the beginning of the end for her but I see it as more her having attitude towards the direction the show had gone in vs actually considering leaving. By the finale of BB7 it was extremely clear she was over it.
 
James T said:
Come over here, I’ll show you how to hit a sweet spot 😚
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to borrow another analogy from the autistic adults social group i ran, it took us trial and error to find the event runtime sweet spot.

we initially ran for 2 hours but members complained that just when the momentum of the night was picking up it was pack up time.
we later ran for 3 hours but members complained that after 2.5 hours they were feeling bored/drained hence half of them left early.
we ended up settling on a 2.5 hour runtime, which is long enough to have some fun but not too long to bore or drain the members.

if this new BBAU series' runtime hits the sweet spot then viewers, just like our members, will never complain about this topic again.
 
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