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**Chris** · 08-08-2011, 11:42

On the contrary, the best Big Brothers (and the most widely watched) were the early ones, before C4 started wall-to-wall coverage and multiple hanger-on spin off programmes.

The fact that "Nasty" Nick Bateman had been caught cheating made radio and TV news all day and gained the main evening programme a hefty extra chunk of viewers precisely because that was the only place it was possible to see what had happened.

Channel 4 brought about the franchise's slow demise by filling its schedules with Big Brother and Big Brother spin offs and then frantically trying to get the contestants to perform ever more outrageous stunts simply to justify all that airtime.

If channel 5 was able to wind it back to the point where there is some semblance of normal human interaction within the house, and then gives sufficient airtime to cover it, I might - just possibly - be interested in watching it again.

However, given that the UK's pornographer-in-chief is now effectively calling the shots, I'm not holding out much hope.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,141	Re: Big Brother returns on Channel 5 On the contrary, the best Big Brothers (and the most widely watched) were the early ones, before C4 started wall-to-wall coverage and multiple hanger-on spin off programmes. The fact that "Nasty" Nick Bateman had been caught cheating made radio and TV news all day and gained the main evening programme a hefty extra chunk of viewers precisely because that was the only place it was possible to see what had happened. Channel 4 brought about the franchise's slow demise by filling its schedules with Big Brother and Big Brother spin offs and then frantically trying to get the contestants to perform ever more outrageous stunts simply to justify all that airtime. If channel 5 was able to wind it back to the point where there is some semblance of normal human interaction within the house, and then gives sufficient airtime to cover it, I might - just possibly - be interested in watching it again. However, given that the UK's pornographer-in-chief is now effectively calling the shots, I'm not holding out much hope.