[Jon]

Barely any queens are auditioning anymore because of a lack of actual monetary prizes and they’ve only just seemingly introduced some to the VS The World spin off because of that.

That seems a bit odd considering anyone making a living out of performing Drag, would get a massive profile boost for their act. And it seems probably more than any other reality shows these days, people end up with semi successful media careers. Surely there just becomes a point where the talent pool runs dry, the UK isn’t as a big the US and their aren’t going to be that many people performing drag regularly outside of a handful in select big cities.

I’m not sure what you mean by the last point. You mean they’ve introduced new drag queens to that show, instead of running a full series?

As for Big Brother it gave Channel lots of content across its channels and something to anchor the programming around. Apart from Gogglebox, Bake Off and Taskmaster, which are all weekly shows and in the case of the latter two can only really run for a few weeks of the year, there aren’t any big primetime TV brands that you can associate with the channel. And that’s been the case since Big Brother left the channel.