Everything, Everything

During Big Brother 8, I subscribed to several RSS feeds to keep up with what was going on in the house. After Big Brother 8 had finished, I spotted a few new posts on them. One of them was the Digital Spy feed, which pointed me in the direction of an article published by The Mirror. It claimed that Big Brother faced the axe, saying that the "ailing show would be relaunched in 2009", despite Channel 4's advertisement for BB9 contestants. So I was unsurprised to see a few hours later that Big Brother is NOT being axed - despite struggling to get viewers, because "it's still popular with teens and those in their 20s - main targets for advertisers". You do have to wonder why they bother publishing rubbish like that. The second article exists purely because of their first made up one. No one else appeared to think it'd be postponed for a year, especially after it was announced on the official Channel 4 Big Brother website that "Big Brother auditions are coming to a city near to you and earlier than ever before. If you want to be a Housemate throughout the summer of 2008, you need to go to an open audition". This was published over 24 hours before Brian won BB8, well before The Mirror's first article was published.