Hi there,
Big Brother has just been launched this evening in the UK. For the next 64 days, a team of 12 unknown people will try to entertain us.
Viewers can be enlightened while the “stars” go to the toilet, cook dinner, sunbathe and sleep – but why?
What are your views on the show? Do you think that Channel 4’s sister channel screening non-stop live footage is a good idea? Do you think the series has ever been a success? Do you think it’s time is up after 4 years in the UK?
By: alex - 3rd June 2003 at 12:08
Don’t watch the show so can u fill me in, if anyone in the UK does that is. 🙂
Heard a rumour that one of the people on “BB” quit a £70k job to be on the show and everyone thinks he is a geek.
To be honest I did catch a quick glimpse where (I think the guy above) someone revealed his idea to modernise toasters by placing a time delay switch so that one piece will pop out which u can butter while the other is kept hot so that it won’t go cold and u’ll get the same buttering effect (no I didn’t understand it either). :rolleyes:
By: Stovepipe - 1st June 2003 at 20:04
Originally posted by sullivan_myers
No, not the yanks this time…. Big Brother was a Dutch idea…Well, everything’s legal so I guess that’s wot they came up with….
Correct. It is an Endemol Production, they also get most of the money the ‘stars’ earn in their career after the house, for example there are many singers here in Germany, which are absolutely bad.
By: sullivan_myers - 1st June 2003 at 19:58
No, not the yanks this time…. Big Brother was a Dutch idea…
Well, everything’s legal so I guess that’s wot they came up with….
By: Digger - 31st May 2003 at 06:19
I gather the format for this drivel is the same the world over (yes it’s even in Australia).
Do we have Channel 4 to thank for this or was it something the yanks thought up?
Not a fan!
By: Stovepipe - 29th May 2003 at 19:16
LOL, same here! We have a girl with colored pink hair, in “real life” she is a stripper and in the BB house she often walks around relatively naked. 😀 But what i heard from the last BB relay, all countries have more “sexual” contacts than here. 🙁 😀
By: mixtec - 29th May 2003 at 17:34
Id be curious how many countrys are running this, I think all the western europeans have one and most of the major latin american countrys. Here in Mexico theres a well built blond who is sort of the draw of the show (shes half german half mexican), the camera always seems to be on her or whats going on around her. At least this is not as bad as that academia talent show where you see teenagers dryhump eachother all the time.
By: Stovepipe - 29th May 2003 at 17:27
In Germany, the Show started 1 month ago IIRC. I watched it a few times and IMHO it is boring (dunno how it is in other countries).
By: dcfly - 29th May 2003 at 16:57
Argh!! I cant stand the “show”
Dave
By: EN830 - 29th May 2003 at 12:42
There’s been a great programme on this week, where they have been secretly watching creatures with intelligence, wit and cunning going about their daily lives with out much hinderance from the outside world, but enough about BBC 1’s nature watch, can anyone explain the point behind Big Brother, I have a big brother and I’d be pretty miffed if I thought he was spying on me and the wife.:p
By: sparky - 29th May 2003 at 12:37
your missing the point think of all the money they make from Mr and Mrs Braindead couchpotato who phone up and vote for their favorite wanabe celeb its exploitation an a massive scale thats why there is a fourth series and why they will try to make it to their silver jubilee series as well!!:D
By: dhfan - 29th May 2003 at 04:44
TV for the brain-dead.
By: T5 - 27th May 2003 at 21:40
Being screened 24/7 on Channel 4 and E4, I’d have to agree there. But it’s been a popular series, 400,000 desperate hopefuls applied to be on the show, obviously without jobs and wanting a shortlived TV experience before being evicted.
By: alex - 27th May 2003 at 16:24
Big Brother – Channel 4’s way of saying “we’re running out of ideas, please help!!!” 🙂
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th May 2003 at 22:16
Erm, very good point. My excuse for watching the first series is that locking ten complete strangers up in a house with no communication from the outside world seemed like a very strange yet novel concept, so I can pretty much blame that on curiosity.
Series two, I saw bits of it when my ex and I were in the same room and thought then that the whole thing had run it’s course and should have been left after the first series finished.
God knows how or why it’s on for a fourth…. :rolleyes:
By: sullivan_myers - 24th May 2003 at 21:11
I’m not sure what’s worse, you remembering the first and second series, or you knowing names!;)
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th May 2003 at 01:10
Pile of pants
The acid test for me is – would I want to have a beer with these people?
Series one – Craig the scouser and Tom the paddy seemed like they’d be good lads to have a pint with. The rest were tossers to a greater or lesser degree.
Series two – all a bunch of freaks dragged out of channel four’s freak store. Have any of us ever met real genuine people who were THAT ridiculous? I doubt it.
Series three – god knows, I refused to watch it.
Series four – oh for christs sake pull the plug on it. The concept was fun to start with, but it’s run it’s course.
Just don’t get me started on I’m a washed up ex-celebrity – revitalise my career quickly please.
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