Big Brother 2008

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Well I have to say I ve hardly watched it this year.... in past years i was glued every day.....

Ohhh well ..... at least Cherry is gone.

[titanstattman]

Well I have to say I ve hardly watched it this year.... in past years i was glued every day.....

Ohhh well ..... at least Cherry is gone.

Yeah not wrong Daveyk and wade know him and paul said to bring him to the legion for a game maybe that wouldnt be a good idea......

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Yeah not wrong Daveyk and wade know him and paul said to bring him to the legion for a game maybe that wouldnt be a good idea......

Put him in the away bay...

[Darren Lockyer]

BIG BROTHER, the controversial, youth-friendly reality TV franchise, has become a casualty of television's cruellest cut - at eight years old it is too old for the Ten Network.

Ten's chief programmer, David Mott, told the Herald the series, which has struggled with "audience erosion", and media criticism of its new hosts, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O'Neil, would be the last because it was no longer able to surprise. "The audience know how it works, the housemates know how it works," he said.

This was despite a spike in ratings last week when the former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson was brought in as an intruder.

The show, which costs Ten about $25 million a year, will be put on the market by the production company Southern Star Endemol after it wraps up on July 21. Potential buyers include Seven and Nine, who are waging their bloodiest ratings war yet, or the pay TV operator Foxtel.

Southern Star's managing director, Rory Callaghan, described Big Brother as a "viable" franchise, particularly with free-to-air networks launching new channels next year. "As a format in a digital environment, it is one of the only ones which can deliver the amount of hours for a network."

Mr Mott said Ten's decision followed continuing analysis and rising concern with the falling ratings. "It's very hard to create a series, the production values are solid and the housemates are giving us content, but we're still seeing further [audience] erosion."

Mr Mott dismissed media criticism of Sandilands and O'Neil. "That's all quite subjective," he said, pointing out that the pair appear only in the Sunday eviction program, not in the weekday program or the weekly Big Mouth.

Of the three Big Brother program strands, Big Mouth, hosted by Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson, is the weakest performer. Its audience slipped to the half-a-million mark, and Ten has already shifted it into a late-night timeslot.

Mr Mott said Ten's decision had not been made at any single point, saying "there are no set rules as to when it happened. There is a whole range of factors." But he did confirm Ten had been renewing the series annually for several years.

"Last year we signed a one-year deal, and got into the series with a lot of positive aspects in terms of wanting it to work. We put a lot of resources behind it, a lot of emotion behind it. We think it's now time to move on, and to create some new opportunities."

Mr Mott said Ten stood by its decision to replace Gretel Killeen after seven series. "Kyle and Jackie have done an outstanding job."

[goldcoastitans]

FINALLY THE GODS HAVE SPOKEN AND THIS SHOW IS GETTING AXED .....only 7 yrs to late

[SuperCliffy#01]

Salutation All

About bloody time, what a self indulgeant waste of air space dedicated to Generation Y, i have often seen bit's a pieces of the show and everytime it make me whince, if that is the representation of the young folks of today, then this scares the hell out of me, there is no hope for the country.

It also about time, what a waste of money, imagine all that money that Ch 10and the advertisers could have done as regards to quality programming.

Regards

Cliffy

[Paul]

It's only channel 10 who are ditching it. Some other channel will pick it up and reformat it completely I'm guessing.

This was the first season I've watched for about 5 years.I've enjoyed it tbh but the show has definately run it's course.

[Steel Dragon]

And stay out...

Jason

[Nathalie]

I'm using this one.

Don't like it, don't watch it. There's a thing called the remote. Or better yet, get up off the couch and use the buttons on the tv set

You don't have to watch it. No-one is making you watch it. And if you're gonna talk about the ads and complain about them too - they are only a small proportion compared to all the other ads for the thousands of other products/services/tv shows out there.

That said, I do understand how annoying it must be that it takes up airtime that a show that you actually like could be using. But there's not one show that everyone likes, there never will be. There will always be at least one person who doesn't like a show.

Also, Cheery seems like a bit of a wanker. Don't you put him in the Home section. PLEASE!

[W.I.L.T]

Who won it in the end?

[Nathalie]

Terri. Only because she was the 52 year old grannie, methinks.