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More Big Brother rumours

Could Big Brother be the solution to Seven's demographic problem?

It’s the show that is never far away from the rumour mill: Big Brother.

TV journo Colin Vickery set the cat amongst the reality pigeons yesterday with this tweet….

New Seven CEO James Warburton is reportedly keen to lower the average age of Seven viewers and Big Brother would be a big roll of the dice towards that.

The Endemol Shine series last screened in Australia in 2014 on Nine, who had 3 seasons of the show. Andrew Backwell who was Programming boss at Nine during its run is now Director of Production at Seven Studios. Frankly I’d be surprised if Nine still had a show option given the time that has passed, but I guess it’s possible.

10 is understood to have considered the show for last summer but decided it was too expensive.

With the demolition of the house and amphitheatre at Dreamworld the show would come with massive set-up and running costs, but it also provides a great deal of screen time.

Big Brother is always a show that triggers chatter and die-hard fans. A Seven production in 2020?

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  1. CBS have Big Brother in the US and it is very popular with folk I chat with…
    So it seems to be good fit back on 10….. I really cannot see it working on 7….

    1. Despite falling ratings over the years, it is still one of the best rated summer series on CBS. So, barring catastrophe, Big Brother will not be cancelled.
      They range in age from 22 to 53, with one revealing she’s “30ish.” Watch the 24/7 live feeds on CBS All Access….Source: Gooogle

  2. With the right host and a mix of house guests which represents the broader community of Australia, Big Brother might have legs. What I wouldn’t like to see is a reboot that is over-produced and housemates with duck lips and have spent far too much time at the gym.

  3. Do millennials really watch that much live TV each week that they would commit to a show like BB these days?
    A big mistake 9 made with BB was that they made it family friendly which was automatically boring. With such little action stretched out over so many hours a week it was just dull.
    I could see a celebrity BB version working on 7 if they got a really interesting mix of celebs and let them do whatever they wanted. The UK celeb BB is insanely entertaining because the celebs are just nuts.

  4. The only way I would want to see this turd back on TV is if they actually cast people with some substance or depth. I believe the UK version has intentionally housed trans people with homophobes and refugees with people accomodating a stick up their behind, and either fireworks or unlikely friendships have formed. That would be worth watching as opposed to the whitewashed celebration of upper-middle class blandness that the Australian version constantly trotted out.

  5. Yes, please bring back Big Brother. BB is still doing well in its overseas franchises. If they want it to be successful and not flop like the latter seasons on Nine, then they need to maintain additions, such as ‘Big Brother Up Late’ like they had during the Ten seasons, as well as the quality of hosts, such as Gretel Killeen and Mike Goldman, and the casting of diverse characters as housemates that would be interesting to watch and follow.

  6. For Lease: a target-shaped island with a lagoon in the centre stocked with sharks and crocodiles swimming amongst a Wipeout styled obstacle course which itself is surrounded by ring of jungle brimming with deadly wildlife where survival depends on one’s climbing, swinging and leaping abilities. Then another ring for an F1 racetrack encircled by a beach divided into various sectors for naturists, 3rd rate celebrity log cabins, a beach volleyball pitch, lifeguard station, Adam and Eve area and a beached boat called SS Minnow next to a crashed Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 jet airliner. You can choose the BB House location.

    1. Make sure it is run down though as then there can be a few weeks of the House Rules contestants renovating it, while Better Homes And Gardens can come in and do the interior and exterior designs.

    2. That’s rather good,which demographic are we talking about I would have thought the present gen had enough outlet for sexual innuendo soft porn ect
      Depends how long Stokes is running Ch 7 or he sells to Murdoch

  7. Limit the housemates ages to 30 years plus and with the right audition process weed out those looking for fame and get interesting characters in the house (think Luke from survivor) and are just good fun people.

    1. Agreed. And Channel 7 should open their cheque book & give Gretel Killeen whatever $$$ she wants to host it – no one else has ever worked & they never will! Only Gretel will do.

        1. Thats true, but on The project last night when asked why she did TMS, she said it was about the money, so she could use the money for her pet humanatarian projects, so if the money is right and allows her to do what she really wants you never know!

  8. Hard pass. Like someone said, BB is an outdated format these days, everyone knows what to expect and if Channel 7 run it saying they want to capture a younger demo we know exactly the types of housemates they will choose (90% white, a lot of fake tan, lips, boobs, hairless muscled himbos, token bogan, token gay guy, token “outrageous” 40-something, etc. etc.)

  9. Hmm, I would rather Ten took another shot at it. Though I am curious to see if any networks will pick up “The Circle” (The social media based reality show, not the Australian morning show).

    1. Would no be surprised if Netflix already have the rights to it, just that they have are doing The Circle US, The Circle Brazil and The Circle France at this moment, as in they just finished doing the casting for the US version and the other two versions currently have casting calls out there.

      ie: hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-adapt-uk-reality-series-circle-1150330

  10. Big Brother if anything should be on 10 with a decent house who can not only connect with the audience but the housemates. Sonia Kruger was a joke and Kyle & Jackie O had no one laughing.

    7 doesn’t have the time to screen it, with H&A weeknights at 7 and then football commitments. Not to mention the cost. that being said if they do pick it up it will be the second reality to screen new seasons on all three commercial networks.

  11. 7 needs something… i would for one watch this on any channel. But only if it went back to the original concept with everyday people not people wanting instagram fame.

  12. Channel 7 have this inherent ability to take a format that should appeal to a young audience and make it feel like it’s been put together by someones 60 year old daggy uncle who thinks he knows what ‘the kids like these days’.

  13. 10 are crazy, absolutely batshit crazy if they let this go again.

    It would fill so many holes in their schedule. And it couldn’t possibly be rating as badly as the under 200k US imports that fill their schedule.

    Seven and Nine are doing fine. 10 need to lift their share and Big Brother is their ticket to do so, given that they do it right.

    The Australian format is yet to take advantage of the smartphone/social media explosion that occurred after its original run on TEN. A proper revival is long, long overdue.

    1. Channel 9’s entire Big Brother ‘”revival” run in 2012-2014 was done during the ‘smart phone/social media’ explosion and in the end it made for Big Brother to come across to Millenial’s as awkward and disjointed.

      Channel 9 wouldn’t give real time updates on social media within the house [because then their was no need to watch the TV show]; which meant on multiple occasions social media knew what was going on unofficially before Channel 9 announced things.

      Big Brother is an outdated concept IMO that wouldn’t work in 2019 — it will just be a less interesting version of Love Island.

    2. I would disagree that Seven is doing fine. Most of the shows they have tried in the past 2 years have been flops. They are lucky they have sport and the news to prop them up.

      1. Yep and their share price shows that as confidence in Seven West Media is down, it has peaked at 0.38 cents over this week (got as low as 0.36 cents) down from 0.98 cents this time last year.

        Basically by the time Kerry Stokes landed in Washington last Friday as part of the Scott Morrison how good team he’d lost 50 million dollars, one of the reasons he has brought in James Warburton. In contrast Nine Entertainment is at $1.96 and even though still low Ten Network Holdings Ltd has remained steady at 0.16 cents, they still have a lot to do and confidence to get back (but are on the way).

  14. Seven is not the right network for BB in my view. That is the reason it failed on Nine as well. The set up costs would prevent this project especially if it rates poorly plus l feel the younger viewership has changed since Tens heydays but anything is possible. I reckon a singing show where the judges are only able to hear the voice n never see the artist singing has legs. Similar to the Masked Singer but ordinary people. It is judge on singing talent not theatreship or looks.

      1. No the judges get to see the singers once they finished singing their 1st song. I meant they never see the singer til there won. It’s all about the voice and singing ability that wins regardless of their showmanship, looks or dance moves.

  15. After 7 flogs Big Brother to death, no doubt it’ll pop up on the ABC with the more risqué content airing on SBS Friday night in the usual sex timeslot of 10pm…

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