A few points from an interview with Peter Bazalgette of Endemol UK -
- Last year BB in the UK made Endemol £5million from text messaging alone.
- Total votes cast for BB3 was 25 million compared to BB2's 16 million.
- BB3 final scored C4's best ever ratings with 9.9 million viewers.
- Bazelgette rejects suggestion that Reality TV has run out of steam.........''When a new idea is added to the canon of television genres .... you can't disinvent it. You spend the next decade reinventing it.''
- Among future variations of BB being considered are versions in which would be contestants are all of different religions or all politicos or all gay.
- Bazelgate insists that BB is not exploitative but 'Temptation Island ' is.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news ... teid=50082
( Sorry Christine, despite trying still cannot get my script to appear in the link, but I am still trying.)