BB host Davina McCall has claimed that the show has suffered with restrictions brought in after the infamous ‘race row’.
Speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, she stated that Big Brother has become harder to make following the controversy in the fifth Celebrity series in 2007.
“Don’t get me started on compliance. We were the programme where the naughty things happened and we are not allowed naughty things anymore,” she said.
“But even now when we are complicanced to an inch of our lives. It is one of the best series ever. We are so restricted but it is the tasks that provide the comedy and humour.
“I do feel compliance has been an issue and it has made the programme harder to make but we have still provided one of the best.”
She revealed that she thinks compliance issues were the real reason that daytime live streaming was dropped, despite Channel 4’s claims that it was down to low viewing figures.
“I think streaming is harder. There has been a lot of complaints about streaming not being on during the day, and I think that is harder because of the compliance.”
McCall also discussed Channel 4’s decision to axe Big Brother after next year’s eleventh series. She said: “It didn’t overstay its welcome. If you hate it, you will be glad it will be off the screens. I will be grieving a lot.
“I have already started my greiving process, but I am trying to stay chipper because we have got another year.
“I thought it would go on forever. I seriously did. I thought it could run forever with amazing casting and great housemates.”
She added that she had not thought about fronting the show on another channel, saying: “I feel like I need to finish it on Channel 4.”
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