Although they've said this on previous years , I'm not really surprised . Just looking at the number of comments on each of their FB posts you can see it declining year after year. But no doubt it will be the cue for some sort of scripted argument /outrage in order to pull in viewers  

For ages, fans of the show have been asking for a back to basics BB with 24/7 live feed and the producers give us a contrived and scripted reality show instead, so they have nobody to blame but themselves for the falling viewing figures.

Yogi19 posted:

For ages, fans of the show have been asking for a back to basics BB with 24/7 live feed and the producers give us a contrived and scripted reality show instead, so they have nobody to blame but themselves for the falling viewing figures.

100% correct. Give us those thing back and the viewing figures would surely rise.

While C5 has the show it can only go further down the drain

Kaytee posted:

While C5 has the show it can only go further down the drain

By what I see and hear It really can't get any further 

Well, it's wouldn't be the first time that BB producers have held "emergency meetings" in the first couple of weeks after their carefully laid plans fell flat. I rather doubt though that there's any intention to scrap the show - not after they spent so much money on the new "double house", which was intended not just for this series but as an investment for future series (up to 2018, apparently). What probably will happen is that they'll reconsider their plans for future weeks (pretty much essential now, from what I've heard) and they'll reconsider the series length (not new either, which is why they never state exactly how long the series will be at the start).

One potential proviso though is the persistent rumour that C5/Endemol want to drop the "civilian" series and concentrate on CBB, so who knows...

Speaking personally: FMs on the BB threads will know that although I'm still lurking around, I haven't actually been watching this series (so far) other than launch night. This was actually a decision I made before the series start, and was influenced as much by personal matters as it was by a general fatigue induced by the last couple of horror shows and a gut feeling that this year would be more of the same. However, that "gut feeling" was rather confirmed for me by the launch show: BB17 isn't a move back to "old school" BB (perhaps unrealistic anyway, but it's still what many viewers want), but neither is it the true "game changer" that the trailers implied (e.g. the "two competing houses" series that many thought we were getting - and may actually have been a welcome change - already appears to have degenerated into a rehash of the appallingly badly handled "Halfway House" of BB8).

What we're getting instead is yet more meddling and manufactured drama: I can't be bothered anymore, and I'm clearly not the only one. I'm not saying I won't be watching at all - I enjoy the live threads, and I was intending to watch on Friday only for other things to come up - but I'm not going to be more than a casual viewer of BB17 unless there are some major changes PDQ...

"Launch night brought in record low viewing figures and fans are calling for the series to be cancelled."

This line does not compute!

But imagine how funny it would be if they axed it, BUT left the contestants in there.

They can only leave when they ask to leave in the diary room. Realistically, some of them might be in there for years. 

Nice idea, Cinds... perhaps they can have the odd show though where the public get to vote on which ex contestants can go back in.  Maybe that will stop that lunatic Stephanie clogging up the papers with her latest fantasy drama...

Sprout posted:

Kaytee posted:

While C5 has the show it can only go further down the drain

By what I see and hear It really can't get any further 

I think it did last night

Kaffs posted:

Nice idea, Cinds... perhaps they can have the odd show though where the public get to vote on which ex contestants can go back in.  Maybe that will stop that lunatic Stephanie clogging up the papers with her latest fantasy drama...

Kaytee posted:

Sprout posted:

Kaytee posted:

While C5 has the show it can only go further down the drain

By what I see and hear It really can't get any further 

I think it did last night

Yep, would agree!