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As we may have mentioned once or twice, this year the 24/7 live feed has been axed, meaning you can only watch Big Brother Live when it’s broadcast on E4.

In addition, the daytime hours also scrapped in favour of repeats of shows such as The Hills, Desperate Housewives and even more Friends, meaning the only live coverage on E4 is overnight.

As previously confirmed, over the first couple of nights live streaming will be available on E4 from 11.35pm on Thursday night and 11.05pm on Friday night, with 90-minutes of streaming also on C4 from 2.30am on both nights.

Today, the schedule for the first full week of Big Brother 10 was also confirmed - and most nights streaming will not begin until after midnight.

Big Brother Live begins at 11.05pm on Saturday and then at 11.35pm on Sunday, immediately following the special extended edition of Big Brother on C4.

However, on weeknights the live streaming starts much later, with live action not beginning until 1.15am on Monday night, after the film Never Been Kissed at 11.10pm.   Streaming begins on Tuesday night at 12.15am, on Wednesday at 12.25am and on Thursday at midnight, with post-eviction streaming on Friday nights not beginning until 12.15am, following the weekly edition of Big Mouth.

Live Streaming on E4

Thursday 4th June: 11.35pm-6.20am
Friday: 11.05pm-6.20am
Saturday: 11.05pm-6.10am
Sunday: 11.35pm-6.20am
Monday: 1.15am-6.20am
Tuesday: 12.15am-6.20am
Wednesday: 12.25am-6.20am
Thursday: 12.00am-6.20am
Friday 12th June: 12.15am-6.20am

Live Streaming on C4

Thursday 4th June: 2.30-4.00am (early Friday morning)
Friday: 2.30-4.00am
Saturday: 1.40-4.00am
Sunday: 1.30-4.00am
Monday: 2.00-4.00am
Tuesday: 1.10-4.00am
Wednesday: 1.50-4.00am
Thursday: 2.30-4.00am
Friday 12th June: 1.35-3.10am

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If you’re unhappy about the limited amount of live coverage C4 is offering this year, use their contact page to make your views known.

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21 comments
anna says: May 27, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

Well it means that I won’t beable to watch any of the LF as I will be at work during the day. I am only able to send this email today due to being off work with and injury,

Oh well I might beable to see the launch show or not depending on what time it finishes. No LF no BB,

I have not been watching the other shows for years, especially the HL show for BB.

Scott says: May 27, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

whats the point of the overnight streaming, its boring all you see is housemates sleeping. it is far from entertaining, the day footage was an is so much better as you saw housemates actually doing something !!!!!!

Brekkie says: May 27, 2009 @ 4:04 pm

I fear Scott they’ll be using that as the excuse to scrap it completely next year.

Nobody is happy with the situation, but C4 won’t even consider a fairly reasonable compromise of reallocating some of it’s overnight hours to the day, finishing the overnight streaming around 2-3am and then airing 3-4 hours during the day instead.

It still wouldn’t be 24/7, but it would be something at least.

danny says: May 27, 2009 @ 5:34 pm

i dont understand why they cant compromise. if they scrapped the overnight stream and gave us day coverage when the tasks are it would be better.

debbie says: May 27, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

I can’t believe we won’t have the red button. Or compromise and give us some day time viewing. I didn’t watch all of cbb this year for the same reason, no red button. I don’t fancy watching housemates sleeping. How are we suposed to get to know there characters. What if they go bed early, then what.

Nolivefeed says: May 27, 2009 @ 8:10 pm

Everyone is very annoyed about this. They will pay. Im planning to burn all of the Channel 4 buildings

MOD EDIT: BB Spy can not condone arson. You might burn yourself.

kris says: May 27, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

This coverage is a joke. I refuse to watch any of this year’s BB when all they give us this is crap.

Bring back the live feed, for crying out loud!

stargazer61 says: May 27, 2009 @ 8:22 pm

No decent LF = No BB

We will all be solely at the mercy of the producers and their heavily edited and manipulated H/Ls. C4, in it’s arrogance has just walked all over BB fans.

oathbreaker says: May 27, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

This timings are simply shocking I simply cant belive there are some people who dont see the problem with this.

the first monday of the show it doesnt start till 1:15 am!! ffs..
you all know by that time most of them are going to be in bed and most of the fans will.

you all know my views on this subject after dealing with C4 for some months on this issue.

Its going to be hard watching the one tv show I love so much but sorry Big brother needs to Epic fail this series maybe 2-3 weeks of sub 1 million will make them push that botton and restore the feed (endemol have confirmed the feed will still be produced)its just c4 wont air it till those hours..

JohnnyBrick says: May 27, 2009 @ 8:54 pm

Make sure to contact Channel 4 and Endemol to complain about this lack of coverage.

michelle says: May 27, 2009 @ 9:13 pm

no live feed no viewers i would even be willing to pay to watch it on my computer. i have watched from the beging wont watch this year all they will dois pick who they wwant to win and only show there good bits.

Nolivefeed says: May 27, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
Brekkie says: May 27, 2009 @ 9:14 pm

I reckon the Monday will be 5 hours of sleeping, as after their first few days and whatever happens on Sunday night they’ll probably be ready for an early night.

Lou17 says: May 28, 2009 @ 5:10 am

Live Feeds is what makes big brother….BIG BROTHER. Whithout it its another useless highly editted farce of a ‘reality’ show. CH4 amazes me with their ignorance to the fan base that have made this show what it is, it rakes in 2/3 of their annual profit a year yet they seem to be adament on killing the show off in the worst possible manner. If they nolonger wish to continue with the show, then let a more deserving channel take over…Sky for instance or CH5. At least we will get real Reality show from other people rather than this set up show that BB has now become. They crave things like Drame yet when they get such footage they are too frightened to air it…( i.e the real reason behind cutting the LF) What has happened to CH4/BB??? Its a social experiment it isnt suppose to be highly editted and watered down. Many of us loyal fans can look past your blatant Bias for an individual hm’s, p*ss weak tasks,lack of audio whilst watching LF, Plastic hm’s, weak eviction interviews etc but NO LIVE FEED???? What is the point? They just want to tell us who we SHOULD like rather than decidind for ourselves. But Im fed up with it all now, they have no respect at all for the people that pay their bloody wages! You CANNOT ‘get to know’ a hm’s character from 40 miniutes a night…. And thats even if they DO actually have saturaday night HL’s!!!!!! Ive watched BB since day one, It WAS a great show, and weve had some amazing characters come from it (notice how their not all the celeb obsessed wannabes of late?) but its dead now. I’m finally SWITCHING OFF!

Brekkie says: May 28, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

Not very often I highlight a piece of tabloid journalism as worth reading, but Peter Briffa has written a couple of very good pieces on the live issue on his News of the World blog:

http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb/2009/05/bring-back-the-live-feed.html

http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb/2009/05/the-ten-biggest-bb-moments-that-never-made-the-highlights.html

alison haddican says: June 5, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

BIG BROTHER IS DEAD NOW THAT THE LIVE STREAMING HAS BEEN AXED. THIS IS WHAT LOYAL FANS ENJOYED AND HOW WE GOT TO KNOW THE HOUSEMATES. THE WHOLE IDEA OF BB AT THE START WAS TO WATCH PEOPLE 24.7 HENCE THE TAKE ON BIG BROTHER. HAS NO ONE READ GEORGE ORWELL!!!

CLAIRE64 says: June 5, 2009 @ 4:52 pm

I agree with Alison. The whole reason it is called Big Brother is so we can watch them 24/7. I don`t think i will be watching much of it. Channel 4 will lose loads of viewers by doing this. I was really looking forward to it. What is the point of live feed thru the nite when u r too tired to watch it?

di says: June 16, 2009 @ 12:18 am

what the hell are they thinking axing LF!!!! How the hell are we supposed to get any REAL idea of these peoples personalities.. al we will see the edited stuff which in all fairness could easilly sway you towards BB’s way of seeing people and then people will predictably vote out who BB shows negativly in theyre edited time!!!! pathetic channel 4 youve ruined it for BB fans

BB10RIP says: June 16, 2009 @ 12:35 am

Totally agree di. IMHO CH4/Endemol seem determined to alienate as many viewers as they can one way or another.

Richie says: June 16, 2009 @ 1:41 am

And tonight they have gone to bed early for the 3rd night in a row

Thanks a lot Channel 4 for even more moronic scheduling

sharon says: June 16, 2009 @ 8:45 am

what is the point !!!!! Live streaming is a complete flop, as by the time we get to watch it(1am) they are all asleep!!!!! BORING!!!!! BB check your ratings, listen to your fans and give the public what they want…daytime viewing or at least earlier live feed!!!!!!!

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