the Big Brother thread !!

[Russ]

She's done it now......

http://bigbrother.channel4.com/bigbr...ry.jsp?id=5558

[Shaun]

I hope the lynch (sp??) her.

[punky]

I should watch it more. It would be wierd if someone else gets evicted because of Kitten's bad behavior, but it isn't without precedent though. I'll go mad if it is Emma though. I hope it is one the non-players getting evicted.

As they are making fun of us in the other thread, can we go beat them up or something? Who's with me?

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by Russ D

She's done it now......

http://bigbrother.channel4.com/bigbr...ry.jsp?id=5558

this is becoming the best big brother ever! I was watching it live last night and the sheer patheticness of their conversation and arguing is brilliant.

[Russ]

http://bigbrother.channel4.com/bigbr...ry.jsp?id=5561

Anyone else find it amusing to watch Emma try and fail miserably to get anything out of Stuart!!

[etccarmageddon]

I think you mean michelle?

[Russ]

Yes.....I just woke up.....

[gmn2k]

BB5 would be more enjoyable if cable viewers got the same viewing rights as Sky viewers.

This year cable viewers don't get 24/7 live streaming so miss out on much of the best viewing like the arguments that took place yesterday, this was an editorial decision taken by channel 4 which has resulted in many of their own forum members campaigning to get Interactive restored for all cable viewers these include Telewest/NTL/TopupTV

Many members are refusing to vote and a petition has been set up http://www.petitiononline.com/BB5

I love my BB and don't want to be one of those that miss out on all the best bits

Originally Posted by gmn2k

BB5 would be more enjoyable if cable viewers got the same viewing rights as Sky viewers.

This year cable viewers don't get 24/7 live streaming so miss out on much of the best viewing like the arguments that took place yesterday, this was an editorial decision taken by channel 4 which has resulted in many of their own forum members campaigning to get Interactive restored for all cable viewers these include Telewest/NTL/TopupTV

Many members are refusing to vote and a petition has been set up http://www.petitiononline.com/BB5

I love my BB and don't want to be one of those that miss out on all the best bits

Surely the 'best bits' is exactly what the nightly highlights show is for? You don't get the 'best bits' live, you get 23 hours of nothing with, if you're lucky, a few minutes of embarrassing but useful footage sprinkled throughout.

If you have nothing better to do than to sit and actually watch the live footage on e4, in the hope that something is going to happen ... well, I don't want to be rude, especially to a new member.

to Cable Forum by the way!

You might have guessed I spend more of my time in this thread:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=12728

[gmn2k]

To correct you the `nightly daily highlight show' is not the `Best Bits' how can it be when many scenes are cut, it is exactly what it says `Highlights'

This show also shows highlights from the previous day, NOT from the day it is being broadcast, which results in many viewers missing out on the action as it happens, and on many occasions not getting to see parts of the show at all, while sky viewers get to watch 24/7.

Channel 4 could have got better ratings and recieved many more revenues if they gave cable viewers the same viewing rights as sky

Originally Posted by gmn2k

To correct you the `nightly daily highlight show' is not the `Best Bits' how can it be when many scenes are cut, it is exactly what it says `Highlights'

This show also shows highlights from the previous day, NOT from the day it is being broadcast, which results in many viewers missing out on the action as it happens, and on many occasions not getting to see parts of the show at all, while sky viewers get to watch 24/7.

Channel 4 could have got better ratings and recieved many more revenues if they gave cable viewers the same viewing rights as sky

Of course 'highlights' and 'best bits' means the same thing! What you're arguing about is whether any of the best bits/highlights are actually never broadcast at all due to the restrictions of limited live bradcasts on e4 and a daily half-hour programme on c4.

Having actually watched a little of the e4 live feed, I can say with certainty that what is cut is not 'best bits' at all. And as further proof, I offer the fact that in just about all previous years, Marcus Bentley has on more than one occasion been forced to narrate the words: "two fourteen pee em. Aul the hawwsmehhts have gun back ta bed." Why on earth would they choose to cut a juicy conversation and slot in footage of people sleeping instead? Answer: They have no choice. What they show in that half-hour nightly slot on C4 is the pick of the action (and yes, I know it's 24 hours out of date). It's precisely because 24 hours in the house provides barely 24 minutes of interesting footage that they have tried to make the programme edgier this year.

As for ratings and reviews - well, the c4 show is getting 3 or 4 million a night and that's a free-to-air channel on analogue and digital. I can't imagine that e4 is ever getting more than a couple of hundred thousand (and I suspect that's a generous estimate). In terms of additional ratings and revenue, I don't expect Channel Four is losing anything at all by not providing the continuous stream to the barely 3 million homes (out of 30 million in the UK) that actually have cable TV.

[punky]

How dare Kitten raise her voice to my Emma! She'll pay, oh ho, she'll pay..

[etccarmageddon]

last nights "special" extended 10pm edition was fantastic!

I was close to tears at one point.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

last nights "special" extended 10pm edition was fantastic!

I was close to tears at one point.

Yeah, although I was hoping for a live eviction as it was extended quite suddenly during the day.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Apparently Stuart and Michelle got it on last night! I saw them talking before I went to bed, but apparently things got a bit heated:

http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds6269.html