One of Dubbo’s own Big Brother housemates, Renee Black yesterday said she doesn’t really care about the pioneer of reality television series being axed.
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It was announced on Sunday that the long-running show would be cancelled after falling popularity with fans and a sharp decrease in ratings this year.
“Its been on eight years,” Renee said.
“They’ve had a good run, even with the housemates there’s a hype and this year was the same, I’m sure there was a Renee in there before.
Renee said she realised after she came out that there wasn’t as much hype about the show as in previous years.
“This year we’re not getting as much, and you could see it was going downhill,” Renee said.
Although she has never watched the show, and hasn’t since being on the outside, Renee said her mum would be devastated.
“Mum’s still watching it, even though I’m not on it anymore. She’s mad on it,” Renee said.
“She’ll be gutted,” Renee laughed.
The controversial fly-on-the-wall show was a pioneer in Australia’s reality genre from its beginning in 2000.
Attempts by Network Ten to resurrect the show included new hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, who replaced the original Gretal Killeen, but they didn’t seem to do the intended. Some viewers commented that the duo is to ‘Sydney-centric’.
Ten’s chief programming officer David Mott said despite the cancelling of the show the Big Brother brand could be thanked for Australia’s love of reality TV.
“Big Brother is the undisputed grand-daddy of modern, commercial reality television in Australia. Today’s reality dramas have all, on some level, been inspired by Big Brother,” Mr Mott said.
