NastyNickers wrote:Guest wrote:Fletch wrote:Guest wrote:The axing of Big Brother will be a big blow to digital spy forums as its one of their mad busiest forums when the show is running.
Another nail in their coffin?
Not so much these days. In days of old when they had 24 hour coverage available it was super busy. So much so that eviction nights were likely to crash the forum servers. It's not been like that for years. Doubt it will make much difference, channel 4 forum closing was the last big rush to DS, now there's all sorts of platforms for it.
Yes, as general interest in BB has declined, so has its prominence on DS. Many, many posters have lost interest in it, have been banned or don't want to post anymore because its just a rather nasty place nowadays, OK, it's always had an unpleasant aspect to it, but that's pretty much the defining factor now. There's very little actual discussion, what there is tends to be the same posters (and their new guises!) posting the same old stuff year in, year out. I think half of them must have their responses prepared long in advance, they wheel them out year after year with the HM names updated to the current series, but you can be guaranteed what certain posters are going to say before the programme starts.
As far as Reality TV shows go, I think X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are much more popular than BB, the end of BB won't have the effect on DS it might have done a few years ago.
I think you’ve summed it up quite well. The ‘in shows’ seem to be the likes of the Geordie Shores and Love Islands, and they have their audience on Twitter, where fans actually can interact with the ‘stars’. Big brother became some kind of half way monstrosity, it moved too close to the sex and filth of the shores and islands and lost a lot of its watchers, but it wasn’t good enough to attract a lot of the love island fan base. DS missed out on the fan base too.
Thanks, NN.
That's an interesting point you make about the "in shows". They do seem to promote a greater sense of immediacy and intimacy between participants and fans - although I'm not convinced it's genuine, I'd say it's designed to make the fans think it's the case. BB totally lost its way, it couldn't decide just what kind of programme it wanted to be, and like you infer, ended
up stuck in No Man's Land. It's always had an interest in relationships, you'll probably remember Helen and Stuart from BB2; I did find the fawning over it a bit distasteful, Helen had a boyfriend back home, yet she was being encouraged(from outwith the house) to get it on with Stuart. (That's one of the things that I didn't like about Davina - someone in their mid40s having such a prurient interest in any possible "under the cover antics" of folk half her age. I can't imagine her being too happy about her children being asked if they'd shagged on TV).
Once it moved to Channel 5 and became part of Richard Desmond's Daily Star set-up, i'd say the sexification of the show really took off, in fact it often seemed to be the main focus. Add the deliberate introduction of TOWIE, Geordie Shore, and
then later Love Island, Ex-on the Beach contestants and their friends/families as well as the blurring of boundaries between the normal and CBB versions, and to top it off, the merry-go-round of participants between these various programmes, then it's clear BB has lost its uniqueness and become just another "which nonentity's maybe screwing another nonentity?"** type show. It's not something which appeals to me, but if you have the choice between such a programme set in a rather nondescript part of SE England, or in a sunshine, blue sea tropical island pardise, it's not the former which is going to come out on top.
I don't see why people are so interested in whether or not the contestants are having sex, it won't be shown even if they are - it's hardly going to be justifiable on educational grounds.Anyway, the internet's far better for watching stuff like that
** perhaps I should propose that to a TV company, it might be a ratings winner and make me very rich.
only person I see getting wound up is you! 
