I am up late, was looking at DS and found a thread linked to this article....
Hmmmmm, an admission that they hoped BB would attract more viewers to other Ch5 programmes. Not in my case it won't - I haven't watched Ch5 - except for CBB - since I don't know when, mainly because their programmes are crap.
So, the fans have moved on and no longer want LF? I consider the people on here to be big BB fans. Were any of you asked (rhetorical question)?
C5 boss defends live feed decision
Channel 5’s director of programming Jeff Ford has defended his decision not to have live feed for Big Brother this year.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Ford insisted that the live feed service was no longer important as the show had evolved and fans had moved on.
Ford said: ‘We could have done live feed if we wanted to. But we’ve all moved on from watching people sleeping in bed.’
He argued that live feed was a big deal in Big Brother’s early years on Channel 4 but pointed out that there had been a significant drop in numbers and interest in recent years. Ford said that Channel 5 instead chose to spend money saved from having no live feed on the house and social media services.
Talking about the viewing figures for Celebrity Big Brother thus far, he pointed out that the series had been rating similarly to how the final series did on Channel 4 last year. He acknowledged, however, that ratings would most likely fall for the normal series as ‘history has told us ratings will go down slightly’.
Ford said he hoped Big Brother’s popularity on Channel 5 would encourage viewers to discover other programmes on the network. He explained that had BB11 winner Josie Gibson’s reality show aired now instead of four months ago, he believes it would’ve rated 50% higher due to the Big Brother inheritance.
Speaking about the show itself, Ford said the current series had the ‘best lineup ever’ and that more celebrities would be going into the house over the next two weeks, as well as some ‘surprises’.
http://www.insidebigbrother.ne...ve-feed-decision.ibb
Some good comments from fans beneath that article