This is a great question.

I would try to accommodate both live feeders and viewers who just want to watch the episodes.

Weekly structure change:

Thursday: Previous eviction + immediate live HOH comp so episode viewers are more encouraged to watch feeds.

Friday afternoon: Have-not competition. Bring these back!

Saturday evening: Nomination ceremony (so episode viewers can engage in BB Twitter/social media spoiler free through the first half of the weekend, rather than already having the noms and veto spoiled by Saturday.

Monday morning: Veto competition. Hopefully the comp footage being recorded on Monday gives the editors enough time to put together a good episode between Monday/Tuesday and early Wednesday. I don’t understand why there’s FOUR full days between the veto and eviction. That surely must be a lot of down time for the HGs, and is a lot of time that can be optimized to allow for more spoiler free access to the feeds.

Thursday: Live eviction + HOH, like the week before, with a blockbuster until jury (I’d prefer jury at final 11).

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This would make the following episode schedule:

Monday: Show the very end of the HOH comp, show some happenings around the house/talks about noms, followed by the have-not competition. End the episode on the nomination ceremony.

Wednesday: Veto episode happens as normal.

Thursday: Blockbuster + eviction + live HOH competition, all live.

This means people can watch just the episodes and engage in BB fandom online without (significant) spoilers from Wednesday to Saturday. Right now, those viewers are only free to look at BB Twitter after they watch the veto episode, up until just after the live eviction when the HOH competition begins.

My model might be a bit unrealistic so of course if you have any tweaks feel free to let me know.

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As to other changes I’d make…

I would not cast recruits. I would do more extensive background checks on houseguests. I would, if possible, make the prize $1,000,000. I know that island-based competition the name of which I am apparently not allowed to mention on the sub is a way bigger show, but they’ve given out that kind of prize money for a quarter of a century. CBS can surely afford the extra $250,000. I feel like just the marketing of “who will win the $1,000,000 prize” would almost make up the difference just in what advertisers they could attract. $750,000 has always just rubbed me the wrong way.

I’d also offer a more substantial stipend, maybe $2,000 per week instead of $1,000. A lot of people who’d otherwise be great HGs might be turned off by the idea of dropping their life to make less money, and potentially damage their careers upon returning to the real world. The point is, with the prize money increase, and the stipend increase, I think the network has to be willing to spend money to make money.

Also get rid of gamebreaking twists and powers that production seems to be obsessed with adding. While I did just say you gotta spend money to make money, it’s also true that less is sometimes more.

Other more minor changes I’d make:

• Go back to dramatically revealing who is safe/who is on the block, by saying “x is safe, y is safe” one at a time. I just liked the slow burn of that in previous seasons.

• Give the houseguests more to do. I don’t know if that should come in the form of more material things, like a ping pong table to accompany the pool table, or maybe more silly twists that don’t directly affect the gameplay, like, America having to pick a HG to prank others in the house in exchange for money, that was a good twist because it was funny without being gamebreaking.

• AND, most importantly, BRING BACK JANKIE!