With a “pull” sign BAHAHAHAHA.I do think it's 7 day ratings will save it but Seven should give producers a taste of their own medicine and call them into tge office to tell them the show is axed, only to drop a banner on their way out to tell them it's a fake axing.
#bbturdNo BB is better than BB being shit on.
I don't think they could relaunch it in it's classic (and true) format immediately off the back of a Seven shit show of a series - it probably needs another break and another network switch to give that a chance of working, especially as Seven aren't going to promote the show in a way that says their last series were shit.I either want it to be axed so that we no longer have to watch it be destroyed. Or, have channel 7 put extreme pressure on changes. It’s not gonna work 6 days a week on the network’s it’s one right now, so live streaming is the only way to fix that.
I won’t miss it if it goes though. I’d prefer literally any other network to take it.
Forgive me, this is going to be a bit of an incoherent ramble but... I have thoughts about this I've been holding in for too long.I don't think they could relaunch it in it's classic (and true) format immediately off the back of a Seven shit show of a series - it probably needs another break and another network switch to give that a chance of working, especially as Seven aren't going to promote the show in a way that says their last series were shit.
If someone was willing to give the show the “full treatment” I believe it could find an audience.Forgive me, this is going to be a bit of an incoherent ramble but... I have thoughts about this I've been holding in for too long.
I genuinely think the days of Big Brother being a cultural phenomenon ended pretty much when the show last did, in the early 2010s with the rise of on demand content/Netflix. There's a million things competing for our attention now. Scrolling through TikTok is a series of constant dopamine hits. The old Big Brother was allowed to be a little bit boring at times, giving it a chance to show more mundane but humanising sides of the housemates. Now it feels like there's a constant (and probably valid) fear that people will just stop watching if the show isn't constantly exciting.
and streamersWith a “pull” sign BAHAHAHAHA.
I laughed out loud!
I'd actually say the streamers prove that people will watch a slower and more "mundane" Big Brother. Just look at the popularity of crime documentaries which take a story that could be told in half an hour and make a 10 hour series out of it.Forgive me, this is going to be a bit of an incoherent ramble but... I have thoughts about this I've been holding in for too long.
I genuinely think the days of Big Brother being a cultural phenomenon ended pretty much when the show last did, in the early 2010s with the rise of on demand content/Netflix. There's a million things competing for our attention now. Scrolling through TikTok is a series of constant dopamine hits. The old Big Brother was allowed to be a little bit boring at times, giving it a chance to show more mundane but humanising sides of the housemates. Now it feels like there's a constant (and probably valid) fear that people will just stop watching if the show isn't constantly exciting.
I'd actually say the streamers prove that people will watch a slower and more "mundane" Big Brother. Just look at the popularity of crime documentaries which take a story that could be told in half an hour and make a 10 hour series out of it.
I’m still a bit shocked at how much they’ve tried to make BB in to Survivor 2.0. BBUS at its core is essentially Survivor in a house but you can tell how they’ve tried to avoid unnecessary overlaps and direct comparisons. Even BBCAN avoided falling in to the trap of simply being a rehash of BBUS despite following the same format. I don’t understand why they chose Survivor rather than using BBUS/CAN as a blueprint for this era of BBAU.Seven's format is such a drag. 90 minute episodes, dominated by challenges and strat chat. Would be so much palatable if they scaled it back. If it was live I'd even be fine with 30-min eps stripped 6-7 nights a week again. Just make it light and fun again. AND LIVE.
Someone mentioned the HMs look miserable. Which is also my expression a lot of the time while watching. Instead of the eternal brutal challenges, bring back funny tasks. BBUK used to do it well on Channel 4, with the being-in-boxes task, and making the HMs lather themselves with a bar of soap until it was completely gone, that kind of thing.
Shorter eps probably would help ratings I think. Movie length eps, three nights in a row, is a slog for all but the biggest fans. Maybe 30 minutes is too short, but one hour at most. Throw in some companion shows. I know it ultimately comes back to ROI for the network. They spend a lot to make the show, so want to maximise the advertising revenue from it. But they are shooting themselves in the foot by stretching it out as they do, and they don't seem to realise it.
This show used to be fun but Seven has sucked the life out of it with this format.
Survivor has always been a super popular format in Australia (as has TAR) - but I don't think its for the same reasons these producers think.I don’t understand why they chose Survivor rather than using BBUS/CAN as a blueprint for this era of BBAU.
I think you missed the point I was making… Survivor was always more popular than BB in North America, which is why the format changed. That said the BBUS producers didn’t just shoehorn in the Survivor format in to BB the way the Australian producers have.Survivor has always been a super popular format in Australia (as has TAR) - but I don't think its for the same reasons these producers think.
IMO Aussies tune in for the adventure and competition aspect rather than the backstabbing and social politics.
Actually I will dial it back a little. There are undeniably funny bits. It's the episode length and emphasis on challenges that drag it down.This show used to be fun but Seven has sucked the life out of it with this format.
I think you missed the point I was making… Survivor was always more popular than BB in North America, which is why the format changed. That said the BBUS producers didn’t just shoehorn in the Survivor format in to BB the way the Australian producers have.
As for whether audiences watch for social strategy or completion I think that’s debatable. IMO you can’t watch Survivor and not get sucked in to the backstabbing and strategy.