D Space
Well-Known Member
Not with the huge viewer erosion the show has. They will have to change something to keep the show alive in the US in the next 5 years. Perhaps after so many seasons people just become bored with it.
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sav0001
Well-Known Member
In the Ten and Nine versions of BB, we were never shown housemates explaining tasks to us via the diary room like we were children. The diary room was never intended to be used for that purpose but to reveal to us stuff the housemates wouldn't say in front of another housemate and for the audience to get to know the housemates on a deeper level.
Columbo
Never again
Still, it's quite a long time and something they should be proud of I think.
Rison
The Nomination Pillow has spoken!
I struggle to understand how it's lasted so long. I gave up on it after watching it for four years as I got so bored of it. Every season just felt the same and it's just seems to drag out for soooo long.
Columbo
Never again
I guess it fill a schedule?
troynuncdicit
Active Member
"Huge viewer erosion" is pretty misleading because that's happening across the board with all shows due to streaming becoming more of a means for people to watch TV rather than catching shows live as they air on a television. And even with this "huge viewer erosion" the show still wins its timeslot pretty regularly and is a safe choice for CBS to air and draw in viewers. It has enough of a following that it's not going anywhere anytime soon, they don't need to change much and they won't.
beardymac
john might've been the walrus, but paul was a cat
No. They had an average of 4.4
BBUS is a summer show, so it's offpeak. To draw those numbers over the summer in the US is a big deal.
beeb-jr
traumactised
That's down to the edit. Narration did exist in the Ten and Nine eras, it's just been transferred from a third party (Goldman) to the HMs themselves.
The diary room serves the exact same function - HM commentary.
Missing a few million off your figure there. Big Brother has been a consistently strong summer show for CBS for nearly two decades now - indeed I think it's got relatively stronger in recent years ratings wise.
D Space
Well-Known Member
I would much rather hear Mike Goldman do voice over to be honest.
Though I just thought about the Kieran narration and so on and Sav’s comment about it being explained like we are kids. Perhaps they are trying to attract more of a family crowd & Kieran would most certainly appeal to kids out there.
Still I will say it again: bring back the Mic!!!
Sonia’s the worst - I hate how every time she opens her mouth it sounds like she’s explaining something to a child. This hasn’t changed, from Nine’s era through to press interviews and Seven’s iteration. It’s awful.
D Space
Well-Known Member
My apologies to you and the others that pointed this out. I was on Wikipedia looking this up the other day and could swear Wikipedia had 1 million viewers for the last season. I am currently on phone and went back to look and it has the last season at 4.38 mil
So I don’t know what I saw!
Wiki Link here
What's the bet they'll end up pre-recording (or dramatically altering plans) for the Finale now that Sydney may get locked down again and Stage 4 restrictions are rumoured to occur in Victoria?
Melore
Tiny Member
And a very small, and possibly slow child, too. It's really bad.
Gayspie
Well-Known Member
Juicy BB voice goss straight from Sarah's socials! Check out her responses to one of the comments!
D Space
Well-Known Member
TL;DR - BB voiceover is heard like we hear it (at least one confirmed) and the show “definitely isn’t scripted “
Sure, Jan.
sav0001
Well-Known Member
Sounds like the plan is still to have a live finale with all the housemates being allowed to bring one person to join them at the finale. But the planned after party has been cancelled due to COVID.
www.dailymail.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Channel Seven's Big Brother after party has been CANCELLED
They've been incubating the coronavirus in their home states for the past few weeks since filming Big Brother earlier this year.
kali4
Active Member
this season they seem to constantly do this thing with the editing where everyone is always overhearing conversations.
as a viewer, it's confusing af
eg. 2 housemates will be plotting against housemate A. Without fail, they will cut to a shot of housemate A looking focused/upset nearby, and play suspenseful music. after the convo they will show a clip of housemate A saying something to vaguely imply that they heard what was said about them.
as a viewer, it's confusing af
eg. 2 housemates will be plotting against housemate A. Without fail, they will cut to a shot of housemate A looking focused/upset nearby, and play suspenseful music. after the convo they will show a clip of housemate A saying something to vaguely imply that they heard what was said about them.