Big Brother

I've just noticed I dont think there is a Big Brother thread, if there is I apologise.
What are your veiws on the show this year? Favourite housemates, most hated housemates and so on. Go wild.
I think the show is better this year then it has been previous years, especially with the bedsit and so on. My favourite member is probably Viktor because he really does think he is so damn great, which he isnt. I hate Marco and Nadia there are too annoying and in your face. I think Stuart will win though as he is just a nice guy and neutral.

edit: perhaps you could make this thread sticky while the show is on?

[ Edited by Unique on 2004/6/20 1:05 ]

Oh boy, I was dreading this one.

Okay, if you ask me Big Brother is the biggest pile of shite to ever hit TV screens. Not only is it worryingly voyeuristic, but it is also tedious, pointless and utterly un-absorbing. The fact that people can actually be fascinated with it amazes me. It shows the weakness of the human psyche that it is such that you can gain a rapport with some of the world's most utterly restarted egotistical people. I mean for crying out loud, it is blown so out of proportion it is untrue.

The whole thing is appalling. This whole idea of watching people with no lives to give you a life if beyond me. Why don't people get out there and DO SOMETHING with their summers, rather than sitting at home glued to a load of tossers sitting about in a house doing very little all day. Once day people will wake up and realise that Big Brother is nothing other than exploitive programming on the easily swayed public. The people out there that like to feel as if they belong, so off they all run like sheep to watch a programme about people who have no lives shut away in a house. It is perverted, perverse and woefully bad for society. That and the fact that Big Brother live has been discovered to be more effective than Nytol...

If I wanted to listen to some annoying man from Middlesborough murder the English language as he falls over the narration whilst a load of transsexuals and over inflated closet homosexuals prance about a house shouting at each over and telling dirty stories, I would go to a Tyneside variety show.

I'll stop there I think. My favourite housemate is none of them, Endemol should be shot for producing this sort of show, Channel 4 should be slapped around the head repeatedly until they realise what a heinous crime they are committing on our TV screens every single say and if this topic gets enough interest I will consider making it 'sticky' for the duration of the *ahem* 'show'...if you could even call it that.

(Nothing personal btw)

*backs away verrrrrry slowly* :alien:

I can understand ya though. I think it is blown out of proportion and at times tedious.
Its apparently supposed to give us an insight into the behaviour of normal people put into a strange envioronment, and understand the psychological reasons behind it, incase ya didnt know, lol, which I think it does to an extent.
I dont like most reality tv show because nowadays theres soo much of it which has no basis and is just there because we 'love to watch it' and makes companies money.
I do like Big Bro tho. Its something consitent to watch and at times can be entertaining. I always forget the housemates names about a week after its finished though.

...worst...show...ever! Thats why it was never a sucess in North America.

I watch about half of the episodes, always watch the evictions, its the only reality show I watch, except for australian idol, which I really got addicted to... They're pretty crap quality television, I'll admit, but they're addictive, and they take you away from the real world, I guess.
I don't know jack about whats going on in the british one, so but anyway... what do you think of your 'housemates'?

It's crap. That's all i can say about it. Utter crap.

Yeah! It took over the O.C! DAMN YOU BIG BROTHER! poo

No, C4 canned the OC because nobody was watching it. They're relaunching it in September.

big bro is great. its ripped by the critics, but its only if you watch it 24/7 its tet I suddenly started watching it again.dious. I was never too kean on it, bu

Lets get Victor out. What a retard. Hope Vanessa goes this week, I like chelly, but vanessa is too stuck up.

Glad to see someone else actually likes the show. I hope vanessa goes this week aswell, because thatll break up her little group.

Well, the australian one's actually OK.

Paul rule!

Stir the pot man!

I won't go into the reasons as Tempo and Random have already done that for me. But no I am not a fan either I'm afraid, I believe I watched most of the first series, and seem to remember enjoying that one for some reason, but from then onwards the whole thing has just gone downhill. I can't even remember what it was that atracted me the show in the first place, but whatever it was, it can't have been very good.

I think that that Big Brother has been hard to justify after the first series. The point is that the first housemates had no idea of the stir they were causing. The episode when 'Nasty'Nick Bateman left, after we had seen him stirring up all sorts of behind-the-scenes aggro, was superb. The look of realisation on the housemates' faces as the penny dropped was compulsive stuff.

The thing is, there has been series after series with the housemates become increasingly aware of their pulling power. I watched a few minutes of the inital BB5 where the housemates are introduced. First up was Marco, squealing like a pig. Stupid fucker! The rest are just as dysfunctional and unpleasant. I can only hope that the 'evil' Big Brother decides to blow them all sky high. That I would watch.

The situation with the bedsit was an explosion waiting to happen. The two girls sit there listening to everything that is being said about them, getting increasingly wound up. They then get reintroduced to the house and all hell breaks losose. I so hope C4 and Endemol get a major kicking for this - it was obviously going to happen and it got out of control. Just trash.

Finally, you can watch the house live on E4. Really? A quick look now has shown me a still of the garden house and muted sound. Frankly, this show is lazy and turgid. Total bullshit.

I'm pretty sure that's the most violent i've ever seen Andy.

Ever.

Whoa, could Big Bro be the mosted hated show ever?

Big Brother is crap but has potential to become a good program. It is just that the people they get on the programme are not convicted criminals, so there isn't enough violence or canabalism to entertain me. Oh and they all have the wrong opinions.

IDEA for the next on:- Film it in a prison

But really everyone likes those programmes where you see the police locking up drunken people after they have been abusive. So why not get lots of them put them in a small house and BAM you have yourself an unethical programme but none the less it would be very entertaining.

Absolution wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's the most violent i've ever seen Andy.

Ever.

Yeah, sorry about that. I've got a really heavy cold at the moment and I do feel particularly shitty. And when I'm ill, I get stroppy. Which possibly explains the fact I am at home on my own as I type this. :peace:

[ Edited by Anordara on 2004/6/20 15:37 ]

i like BB...Victor to win!!!

tempo88 wrote:
No, C4 canned the OC because nobody was watching it. They're relaunching it in September.

No, im pretty sure thats bull. Alot of people have been watching it. Thousands and thounds have made complaints about it.

The first series was okay, thanks to the almost Shakespearean villainy of 'Nasty Nick', but beyond that, the series has grown so desparate in its need to provoke 'previously-unseen' behaviour, that it has become unwatchable and completely irresponsible.
The recent 'riot' should have seen the series canned and an apology issued by the television company for ignoring proffessional warnings and underhandedly engineering an extreme situation. The brainless Scottish thug and the equally clueless wannabe gangsta should be awaiting questioning in a police interview room, not gaining fame on national TV.

The idea that some still try and justify it as a social/psychological experiment is absurd; the people involved do not represent a cross-section of society; they are simply a collection of vaguely-offensive stereotypes, just as the situations involved are too far-fetched to be relevant.
Its lowest-common-denominator TV, and each series is a new 'all-time-low' for television.
George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

(And Ali; the Prison scenario has already been done - twice (the Stanford Prison Experiment, and a fairly recent televised version; both times the plug had to be pulled because things got dangerous. Both were far more illuminating than Big Brother).

Three cheers for Survivor!

tempo88 wrote:
No, C4 canned the OC because nobody was watching it. They're relaunching it in September.

Ben wrote:

No, im pretty sure thats bull. Alot of people have been watching it. Thousands and thounds have made complaints about it.

Not 'bull' my friend. Yes it was watched, but not as much as C4 had hoped. I should think they will give it a better time slot, probably the one left by the lack of new Friends (huzzah, thats over now isn't it!)

NB: C4 like to repeat Friends...a lot...bugger

I have every friends episode on tape im sad