[Blubatt]

If you ask me, Big Brother 3.0 could go one of 2 major routes:

1. A Love Island clone with the powerful Big Brother name.
2. A Rehash of the Channel 4 series, circa Series 5-8

In my opinion, it does need to go in a new direction, one that is an evolution of the format. I know if I were running it, I would go for a smaller house, maybe 8-12 people in at most. I wouldn't have it be a luxury house either, like the villas of Love Island. The appliances need to be white, plastic, and value branded (save for the odd sponsored product). The Housemates need to be working together for things like the shopping budget (just like the old show), and working separately to get preferential treatment or 'treats'. You can't have Z-List celebrities, influencers, or tiktokers on the show either. You can have younger people, but you need to make them all unique: they all need their own story, and background.

The show needs to be smaller scale, at first, to prove to the weary audience that the new producers will do it justice. The Channel 5 series' tested viewers faith in the show, and a lot of people are not going to be as willing to watch it on a channel that has Love Island, TOWIE, and Celebrity Juice, because that's the stereotype of what an ITV 2 programme is. Brash, low-brow, cheap entertainment, when a lot of it isn't. I give it enough bashing, but Love Island is good junk food telly.

But I digress. The show needs to be smaller scale. The main daily recap show, a live eviction show every Saturday or Sunday, and maybe a sister show, like Bit on the Side or BBLB, that could air on ITVx. A Live Feed could be good, but I wouldn't pay for it. I wouldn't bring back Davina, Dermot, Rylan, or Emma though. I think the show needs a new host, though I cannot say I know who. I think the only original BB thing that should come back is Marcus Bentley, but that's it.

Ultimately, the new show will live and die on its first series. If it can't be the groundbreaking reality beheamouth it was in 2000, then I would ask the producters to keep the spirit of this show alive. Cut them off from social media, cut them off from the news, media. Put these Housemates in a new, alien situation (to them). Simplicity will make the show. Gimmicks will break it.