Could Big Brother be due a break?

Big Brother could be ‘facing the axe’ amid complaints and poor viewing figures

Reality TV show Big Brother could be ‘facing the axe’ amid complaints and poor viewing figures, despite 8 long weeks on our screens.

Clashing with ITV2 Love Island on the TV schedules which has seen a high of 1.7 million viewers on Monday night as Big Brother entertained less than a million.

Kayleigh Morris and Lotan Carter were both booted from the show separately last week after coming to blows with housemates.

The petition claims: ‘Every year this prime time TV show is fronted by unacceptable violence, language, sexual exploitation, and scenes of unacceptable behaviour suitable for television viewing.’

It continued: ‘Year upon year there are scenes of violence, past episodes of racial harassment, unacceptable behaviour and this is condoned by TV producers all in effort to gain viewing figures.

‘I am calling for Ofcom to immediately ban this from TV and prevent any further series from being produced.

A spokesman for Ofcom said 10 complaints about threatening behaviour were made to the regulator over the weekend, which were currently being assessed following an oinline peition to axe the show.

Channel 5’s contract with programme makers Endemol covers one more next next summer.

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