It’s not really Big Brother then. It’s an entirely new show using the existing brand name. This sounds like the 2019 revamped version of “The Footy Show”, and we all know how well that went.
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Except that Nine’s version was crap and tried to be overly family friendly.
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By pre-recording, they are essentially stuffing it up. No original Big Brother fan will watch that past the first episode.
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The first season still rated well whether you liked it or not.
Finishing production before it even airs is stuffing it up. I’ve struggled to find one comment on various news sites in favour for 7’s pre-recorded Big Brother.
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Unless it’s really good
I’m coming around to the idea. It will allow them time to make sure the storylines are compelling. It’s not the big brother we know and love but I’m going to save my verdict until I see the final result
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I tend to agree, I am going to see what they do to it.
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The other thing to remember is the target audience is likely to have never seen the original 10 version - at least not as an adult.
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Exactly. It’s not organic!
It will be so heavily produced it might as well be called something else. The show isn’t about “storyline’s” it’s about natural human interaction in a confined space with other strangers.
There’s a massive push from certain people about needing to evolve the show. I wholeheartedly agree.
This is NOT the way to do it. Young demos who Seven are wanting to target would rely on social media engagement, live streams and other interaction. With a whole pre recorded series it falls into the other lump of the overproduced reality shows.
They have a massive opportunity to really revolutionise the show and bring it into 2020 embracing the digital age and social media heavily.
If it was done right it could become the behemoth that it once was.
Multi channel use, late night programming, live streams, dedicated app used for for voting, housemate manipulation, “real controlling the game”, selection of tasks. Have a housemate that the app dictates their time in the house as a mole and the audience control them. As well as Spin off shows, TLDR style short videos for social media.
I could write a massive list of how to engage with the audience and not have to destroy the format to turn it into a reality soap opera.
Sure it would cost a bit but if they are serious of this mantra of “content that engages” this is how to do it. And all of the content above could be integrated with sponsorships and advertising.
But alas they are fools IMO to just treat it like another reality show. People won’t watch it let alone the younger demo. It’ll flop and they will wonder what went wrong. What is being rumoured is in no way going to engage with the younger demo. They are sticking with the dinosaur TV only model on one channel like MKR and House rules, and look how well those formats are doing for them now… dying.
It proves the management there are still stuck in the dark ages.
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So we get a scripted manipulated version of BB. That’s what Big Brother 2014 was on Nine and people turned off in droves. You would think that Seven would have learnt from all of their flop pre recorded reality shows this year. Being live and the feel that anything can happen is what sets Big Brother apart from other reality shows.
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That still doesn’t change the fact that it was overly family friendly and wasn’t even 1/2 as good as the Ten version.
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No not at all but that wasn’t what I was discussing. The question was do you think a reboot with Gretel and the original format would be successful. And I said that I think an initial reboot would be successful with viewers interested to see what it is like for nostalgic purposes. Just like how people tuned into 9’s version, which whether you liked it or not, was successful in its first season.
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Good point. I was of course a big brother fan, during the first few years and then it became stale once the novelty for me wore off. Of course I never saw Nine’s version and probably could because all of the seasons are on youtube (someone uploaded them all), but it will be interesting to see how it will change and it may attract a new audience or it will completly bomb.
The Sunday Telegraph says Gretel is hosting.
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I’m told that report is incorrect. No host has been locked in yet.
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Why are they allowed to get away with flat out lying?
It’s so wrong.
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Maybe Johanna Griggs hosts.
Griggs apparently didn’t like the downhill direction of House Rules, so why would she subject herself to Big Brother?
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I just made a mock schedule in the mock schedule thread, and it has convinced me that BB is headed to be stripped at 9:00 and that upfronts graphic is a red herring. 7 has so much 7:30 content in the pipeline. all of which is on the same production timeline as BB. There only are so many days in the week, If BB is stripped at 7:30 where are Mega Mini Golf, Pooch Perfect, Fam Time, Farmer wants a wife, Mates on a mission, Front Bar, Plate of Origin, SAS Who Dares Wins, First Dates, modern family and the factuals going to go? some of those shows are multiple episodes per week and most are family shows that could not go to late night. BB is the one that would move.
MKR/House Rules/AGT and Wife Swap are enough occupy the 7:30 slots pre-olympics.
That would be a good strategy imo, huge gap in the market, there is never anything on at 9:00 and its exactly when i sit down to watch TV. i’m sure there is an audience ripe for the picking.