03-10-2023, 02:39 AM
(02-10-2023, 04:36 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Will see but it feels more C5 than C4. Keeping Marcus is a huge mistake and will probably have lapsed fans like myself tuning out within minutes of the first highlights.Exactly this - with the theming and vibe they have going on it feels a lot more Channel 5. Their hopes for it all seem to be promising and I’m impressed with them going for putting it on ITV1 as well as 2… but I don’t see why they made the initial impressions of it all quite so tacky and garish. With it seeming quite stripped back while they ease themselves back into it all; I think something a lot more minimal would’ve worked much better, just like what they were doing with the early C4 era.
The daily spin off is so unnecessary too - would have been fat better to invest in a 24/7 live feed which would have been such an easy win and put them on the front foot from the beginning.
Also hope the short run comes with a suitable number of housemates - 10 is plenty for a 6 week show with 5 scheduled evictions, but the show has a history (back to the C4 days in fact) of casting a short series as if it were running for 3 months.
They’re also promoting it very very well which I’m pleasantly surprised with. I thought it might not do well because I was hardly seeing anything about it anywhere - but over the past week or so I’ve not been able to get away from it. It’s just a shame that it’s this level of marketing isn’t also combined with something that doesn’t look like a pile of neon Gill Sans vomit.