Goodbye for now, Big Brother. It was a pleasure watching you

After 20 years, the show is a shadow of its former self – and it’s easy to forget just how formative it once was as TV’s original reality programmeAlmost 20 years since the show first aired, it appears Big Brother is switching off the cameras. After the latest celebrity series limped in with just 2 million viewers, Channel 5’s controller, Ben Frow, said he is planning “for a year without Big Brother” – the TV equivalent of your parents taking the family