General : Big Brother returns on Channel 5

[Digital Fanatic]

Not long now... I hope it's better than it's sounding

Originally Posted by iFrankie

We won't be able to watch live until the Friday?! this can't be right :/.

We won't be able to watch The Mentalist or Castle for months?! This can't be right. This is against humanity.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Not long now... I hope it's better than it's sounding

Now that surely must be a joke.............................................. .................................................. .........................as you cannot be serious.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

We won't be able to watch The Mentalist or Castle for months?! This can't be right. This is against humanity.

Castle first airs on 'Alibi' in the UK

[iFrankie]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

We won't be able to watch The Mentalist or Castle for months?! This can't be right. This is against humanity.

Take it up with the European Court of Human Rights .

Joke, isn't it on at a different time?

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Masque

Now that surely must be a joke.............................................. .................................................. .........................as you cannot be serious.

[wwe]

any news with clebs are going in? I'm getting so exciting now not long 2 go

[Sasha222]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Not long now... I hope it's better than it's sounding

I'm not even looking forward to it with Jedward going in. Think I will avoid this one until the ordinary one starts and if there is no live feed I will completly avoid it. It's not bb without the live feed

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.

[wwe]

i car't wait. Any news about the 24/7 live feed?

[Sasha222]

Originally Posted by Chris

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.

It would be nice if Channel 5 brought it back to basics and as you said normal interactions with people. Was there live feed for the first one as I didn't watch that one but did watch from the second one up?

The programme wasn't even on 7 days a week in the original series. IIRC there was a 30 minute highlights show Tuesday-Friday, a weekly round up on Sunday night and the extended highlights with commentary by behavioural experts on the Monday.

I think it was much the same for BB2, although there may also have been some live coverage on e4 as well that year. When they began doing 24-hour live feeds it was available to purchase through Real Player.

It's an interesting question though - I can't remember if that was BB 1, 2 or 3 when live internet feeding began. I don't think it was BB1, but on the other hand the news about Nasty Nick was all over the place very quickly the day it happened.

I think the live feed is what slowly choked the format though, more so than anything else. After everyone realised that, for most of the time, there was nothing worth seeing, it became more and more imperative to ramp up the conflict and the antics in the house to try to ensure there was normally something going on.

[wwe]

im so excited is bblb coming back or has that been axed?

[Sasha222]

Originally Posted by Chris

The programme wasn't even on 7 days a week in the original series. IIRC there was a 30 minute highlights show Tuesday-Friday, a weekly round up on Sunday night and the extended highlights with commentary by behavioural experts on the Monday.

I think it was much the same for BB2, although there may also have been some live coverage on e4 as well that year. When they began doing 24-hour live feeds it was available to purchase through Real Player.

It's an interesting question though - I can't remember if that was BB 1, 2 or 3 when live internet feeding began. I don't think it was BB1, but on the other hand the news about Nasty Nick was all over the place very quickly the day it happened.

I think the live feed is what slowly choked the format though, more so than anything else. After everyone realised that, for most of the time, there was nothing worth seeing, it became more and more imperative to ramp up the conflict and the antics in the house to try to ensure there was normally something going on.

The live feeds that I watched gave a better view on what went on say arguments and how they happened and also who started them and then when you looked at the highlights they put what they wanted into it to make someone look bad or good and if they wanted to get rid of someone in the hightlights that would be the persons demise. Looking at live feed and looking at the highlight was like looking at two different shows.

For instance a lot of people thought on the highlights that Mo was the most boring housemate and was always asleep but on the live feed he was the one cleaning and helping around the house and Becky was really nasty to him but it was never shown and also he was saying one day how he ran the house for his mum when he was of work and helped out with the younger kids and so they wouldn't get in trouble he would take them out to do stuff with them.

Also on the live feed Rachel was made out to be another bore but she took on Alex verbally while the others stood by and also confronted Becky can her cronnies in the bedroom and Darnell was there and she spoke up to them and Darnell told them they were owned. That was never shown on the highlights. So for me the live feed is what I want to see happen and not what the show wants me to see of there cut versions of really goes on in the house

I have absolutely no idea who any of those people are.