said by wildblood
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 11:35am

Well I'm guessing by the lack of response that Big Brother is leaving us cold.

A bitchfest of a programme already - with enough stereotypes to infuriate, yes... but as for entertaining? Where's the comedy? Where are the real characters? Never has the hair straightner been so boring!

Are more boys the answer? x

said by Timmy
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 12:16pm

It just hasn't hooked me in like it did in previous series. They all seem the same to me, with the odd misfit hanging around the sides looking on with screwed up faces. But I am glad. I have a summer to myself. No matter how much I protested to the other series, I still had a morbid fascination to see if it had got any better.

Here's to summer evenings drinking beer down by the sea not giving a damn about a house on the telly in Bow.

said by jimmegee
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 12:32pm

I've been hooked to every single series previously, despite the nutters that populated all but series one. This time, however, I just can't be doing with all the screaming and showing off. These aren't real people, these are Big Brother fans who got on Big Brother.

TV has actually eaten itself and it's a waste of a life to watch it!

said by James
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 1:11pm

Tried to get into this series, but as with all others, I tend to pick it up a few more weeks into it, when the guards are down a bit more and the editing team can get a little more creative with it.

I can't bear the 'live' broadcasts - all those tweeting birdies and aircraft zooming past drives me completely barmy!

As with all reality TV shows, I do question why anyone would want to be on it - I guess it takes a certain type of person...

said by ian23
on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 10:23pm

Channel 4 makes 15% of its revenues from Big Brother hence we are stuck with it every summer for the forseeable future...

In the good old days of Nasty Nick and earlier series there was real tension and something worth watching, and we even occassionally had interesting intelligent debates between the contestants.

Nowadays it has decended into dull contestants discussing trivial and banal things, but the viewing figures prove that this is what people want.

Next time lets have a gay big brother with 12 guys. At least then we'd be guaranteed some real characters and real drama - especially if Big Brother took away all their hair products!

said by wildblood
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 10:29am

Well there maybe hope. BB made me laugh for the first time last night. "10.30am and BB has thrown a mini rave for Tracey in the diary room". Genius! Can we all have one? x

said by Maximillian
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:07pm

I tuned into Big Brother years ago to see the psychological games get played and how people's inhibitions and fences were to be torn up, re-routed or just plain abandoned.

Possibly even, some stereotypes would be broken and in a 'hands across the ocean' kinda way some social barriers would be blasted into rubble - and yes, to see the aftermath of other peoples' learning curves once they're taken out of their comfort zones.

But as the series have progressed I've lost interest beause I've got more interesting things to entertain myself with - how did it get from an interesting social/psychological/entertaining thing into a 'Look at me, aint I great? Oh, and can I have some money now plase? cos I got drunk on telly...''

Very disaffected, disappointed and it's a shame the whoie focus has changed from the original intent.

said by JustinK
on Thursday, 7 June 2007, 3:26pm

Unless the men going into the house in the future are outstanding, this show has had its day.

Watch America's Next Top Model - that's the new thing, trust me!

said anonymously
on Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 11:27pm

Ok, I feel I have to correct myself, having made the above comment. Having fallen into this show through friends tonight and while decorating and stuff, I think that tonight's episode (the one where Tracey and Charley are nominated) and the BBTV tasks was amazing. A brilliant episode, and now the game is getitng more interesting, now that we know THAT girl is FINALLY going. Chanelle won the entire room over out here, she said what everyone was dying to say... LOVED HER. LOL.

This is turning into the BB show I remember it to be, and once Friday's out, the show is going to get interesting!!! I have found myself sitting through a whole episode tonight..

Chanelle or Brian to win! If the rain persists, I think I know where we all are going to be, well some of us.......