Channel 4 have finally put the long running crap fest known as Big Brother to bed today. The Reality Tv Series fronted by Davina Mccall which first started on our Tv screens 10 years ago has been failing in popularity for some time now, and it finally looks as though the format is dead in the water.

Big Brother has made household names out of nobody’s such as Jade Goodie and Brian Dowling but its also turned people in to the public enemy number one. Who could possibly forget the whole Jade Goody Vs Shilpa Shetty affair. if that wasn’t bad enough, Channel 4 has seen a decline in people actually watching the show. Big Brother is currently watched by around 2 million viewers, which is down more than 30% year on year. At its peak Big Brother had audiences of up to 8 million in 2002, the year Jade Goody was a contestant and the show was won by Kate Lawler.

Speaking at the Channel 4 press conference today, “Big Brother has been our most influential and popular programme over the last decade. Big Brother will leave a huge hole and filling it will involve the most fundamental creative overhaul in our history. We have 18 months to transform the schedule,” said Julian Bellamy, head of Channel 4.

Channel 4 spends about 50 Million pounds a year on Big Brother, now it intends to use just 20 million pounds of this money on new programming along the lines of Skins and Shameless. Although Big Brother has now been axed by Channel 4, it wont be until next year that we finally see the end. We have to suffer with the remaining contestants in this current series (Series 10), 1 more Celebrity Big Brother and then the Final Series being Series 11.

Over the years Big Brother has been used as the butt of jokes on many Channel 4 shows including the Friday and Sunday Night Projects and also Charlie Brookers fantastic Drama Dead Set. However, Big Brother is unlikely to disappear from UK TV screens, with another broadcaster expected to step in to pick up the rights from the producers Endemol, so maybe its not the end of the jokes at least.