Nine outbid Ten by a few $$$ in September 2011.
...that's right Lucas... that was kind of my point about when I wrote...
you know what?... it wouldn't even surprise me if they bought it 3 years ago just so that it couldn't be picked up by Channel 10 or whoever just so that it couldn't have had a chance at getting good ratings against their own shows!... (if something is a threat... try to bribe them or buy them out type of thing)...
...Channel 9 would do that... it's just plain business sense on their part as far as I'm concerned... they would've out-bidded... (is that a word even?)... any other Channel showing interest in it just to stop them having it... that's business!... so... because they were 'stuck' with Big Brother they would've just thrown a crap show together and dished it up to us poor suckers that loved the show so much just to show that they didn't buy the rights to it just to shut it down as competition... when the ratings started to slide in the first year they would've just slowly killed it off to what we got served up with in it's third year as far as I'm concerned!...
...maybe I'm just a bitter cynic that is disgruntled with the trashy shit that passed as 'Big brother' for the past 3 years or just maybe I'm onto something?... it could be that I'm a cranky old fart having a total whinge?... who knows?... it felt good saying it all... as I said... I now feel cleansed!... lol!... cheers.