The world view of Big Brother

There are six special pan-regional versions of Big Brother. All these follow the normal Big Brother rules with the exception that contestants must come from each of the different countries in the region where it airs:

• Africa: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania,Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Former Yugoslav Republics: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro.
• Arab States: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia.
• Pacific: Chile, Ecuador and Peru
• Scandinavia: Norway and Sweden.
• United Kingdom and Ireland: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland
• The USA Version is slightly different and did not follow the Endemol format from Series 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(TV_series)

Key points about the format are as as follows: 
A group of volunteers living together under continuous observation are gradually voted out over a period of weeks.  The public choose who to vote out from a subset of that group selected by the group themselves.  The public have a chance to observe the group and decide who they wish to evict based on that observation.
The series is notable for involving the Internet. Although the show typically broadcasts daily updates in the evening (which are sometimes criticized for their heavy editing), viewers can also watch a continuous, 24-hour feed from multiple cameras on the web. These websites were highly successful, even after some national series started charging for access to the video stream.

Nobody has yet given up live streaming (possibly subject to a delay for legal reasons) apart from Jeff Ford and the apologists at Channel 5.  Other countries, notably the USA have added a Social Media interaction as well, but they have used it to increase viewer share for the regular coverage and live streaming (10% increase). 

Everybody is watching Live Feed - except the UK.  But that decision was not made in consultation with the users; it was a unilateral decision by those who seem to know little about what keeps the show in schedules worldwide.  Having decided to make a mistake there seems little to dissuade them from learning and changing.  The world decides (based upon experience) that Live Feed is necessary and Channel 5 decides it is not.  Their reasons for this conversion on the road to Damascus seems to have been the partial information from Channel 4 that viewer numbers were decreasing.  What Channel 4 failed to put into the public domain was that the reasons for that were largely their decision to place less and less information into the Live Streams.  They quoted legal issues but in truth the first reason was that they got burned in the Shilpa Shetty incident and never recovered their nerve.  Their early involvement with controversy with 'PJ and the BJ' and Stuart under the table with Miss Bass faded into inconsequential footnotes once the very righteous GBP and the Press got on their high horses as never before after a British Institution revealed her more unpleasant side.  
Another reason was that they wanted to withhold Live Stream content to provide the main show with story-lines.  They also did not wish the main show version of events to be in conflict with the actual chronology of the action watched, and often recorded, by the Live Feed watchers.  Channel 4 showed less and people watched less.  In the words of the loathsome Meerkat - "schimples".  This was never a sensible reason to remove the main plank of the show's existence all over the world.  But it is the only reason advanced so far by the dogmatic and determined Mr Ford.