The issue is that stupid Elstree planning laws prevent them having a crowd on site after 10pm, except on Fridays when they're permitted up until 11pm, but as the eviction shows have now been pushed back to 10.35pm, that's going to be delayed 5-10 minutes too.
Therefore with the launch show finishing at 10.40pm they had to air it on a 45 minute delay.
Live TV doesn't seem to exist anymore - even if they'd gone for the option of finishing up by 10pm and starting around 8.30pm, the first half hour would have had to be delayed in case of any censoring, with probably lengthy sound dips everytime there was a threat of a swear word.
Instead of airing it on a time delay, couldn't they have just not aired it at all? And come up with original programming for 9 weeks? Or is it too hard?
I can't believe there are braindead idiots who still watch this car crash scum. Almost as crap as Jeremy Kyle.
Instead of airing it on a time delay, couldn't they have just not aired it at all? And come up with original programming for 9 weeks? Or is it too hard?
I can't believe there are braindead idiots who still watch this car crash scum. Almost as crap as Jeremy Kyle.
Whoah whoah, some of those 'braindead idiots' are members of this forum... everyone's entitled to their own likes and dislikes, let's not be forcing opinion onto others.
I agree it's not what it used to be, but if people find it entertaining then that's up to them. I can't stand Jeremy Kyle either but I know plenty of people who do, and they aren't braindead idiots, they're just nosy or like car crash telly!
I am perfectly aware that they may be members of this forum. That doesn't change my opinion.
Anyone who calls sitting in front of a television watching 13 social ******* argue with each other about who's f*cking who or how much pasta they got in the weekly food budget needs disembowling with rusty spears. This is NOT television, and it's gone past the point that they wanted to achieve of the social experiment.
It also amazes me how it's still on the air after the furore and the sheep all flocking off to complain to OfCom about that vacuous Jade Goody and her racist dribble. Hasn't the time now come to think up original programmes which don't make overnight celebrities out of nobodies, who have done frankly nothing (and sometimes it really is NOTHING) to become a celebrity?
I mean, that fishwife Charlie from the last series who every celeb magazine picked up after the show, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAD SHE DONE??!?!? She hasn't added to the development of humankind, she hasn't won a Nobel prize, she isn't even talented enough to be musical or sporty. She just sat in a house, opened her mouth and p*ssed a lot of people off. This is NOT good television.
I do hope there are people who agree with me and who aren't taken in by this every year. Surely it is now time to stop this craze before they make it year-round?
I am perfectly aware that they may be members of this forum. That doesn't change my opinion.
Anyone who calls sitting in front of a television watching 13 social ******* argue with each other about who's f*cking who or how much pasta they got in the weekly food budget needs disembowling with rusty spears. This is NOT television, and it's gone past the point that they wanted to achieve of the social experiment.
It also amazes me how it's still on the air after the furore and the sheep all flocking off to complain to OfCom about that vacuous Jade Goody and her racist dribble. Hasn't the time now come to think up original programmes which don't make overnight celebrities out of nobodies, who have done frankly nothing (and sometimes it really is NOTHING) to become a celebrity?
I mean, that fishwife Charlie from the last series who every celeb magazine picked up after the show, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAD SHE DONE??!?!? She hasn't added to the development of humankind, she hasn't won a Nobel prize, she isn't even talented enough to be musical or sporty. She just sat in a house, opened her mouth and p*ssed a lot of people off. This is NOT good television.
I do hope there are people who agree with me and who aren't taken in by this every year. Surely it is now time to stop this craze before they make it year-round?
This, "how can people watch this rubbish!?" stuff is a little tired after 8 years. Sure you can say, "these people are talentless idiots", but its clear that as a piece of television it performs its function.
I don't feel strongly either way about it. That allows me to dip in to it from time to time without either investing my summer slavishly to it, or waste my energy hating it with a passion.
None of them are guaranteed any kind of success from appearing - most slip away into obscurity. Charlie decided to get her dumplings out in a male magazine. Doing so doesn't make her a celebrity it just makes men look at her to see her tits. Lets get it into perspective.
I think you're investing too much onto "hating" it. Let it wash over you or ignore it. That's the best way.
Its unlikely that they will "stop this craze" for the sake of the greater good - so you shouldn't waste time imagining such a thing.
I am perfectly aware that they may be members of this forum. That doesn't change my opinion.
Anyone who calls sitting in front of a television watching 13 social ******* argue with each other about who's f*cking who or how much pasta they got in the weekly food budget needs disembowling with rusty spears. This is NOT television, and it's gone past the point that they wanted to achieve of the social experiment.
It also amazes me how it's still on the air after the furore and the sheep all flocking off to complain to OfCom about that vacuous Jade Goody and her racist dribble. Hasn't the time now come to think up original programmes which don't make overnight celebrities out of nobodies, who have done frankly nothing (and sometimes it really is NOTHING) to become a celebrity?
I mean, that fishwife Charlie from the last series who every celeb magazine picked up after the show, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAD SHE DONE??!?!? She hasn't added to the development of humankind, she hasn't won a Nobel prize, she isn't even talented enough to be musical or sporty. She just sat in a house, opened her mouth and p*ssed a lot of people off. This is NOT good television.
I do hope there are people who agree with me and who aren't taken in by this every year. Surely it is now time to stop this craze before they make it year-round?
I don't believe it was ever billed as a "social experiment". It is just a game show.
No-one is pretending that Big Brother pushes the intellectual and creative boundaries of television, and I don't think every show being commissioned needs to. Personally, I don't need to invest much intellectual energy to enjoy it, but it's perfectly fine for collapsing in front of at the end of the day. I don't really understand the motivation behind watching endless live feeds, but each to their own.
Ultimately, good television can only really be defined (in the commercial space) as TV which lots of people will watch. It's cynical and it's not perfect, but if TV is there to make you watch the adverts, then for as long as BB gives C4 higher ratings than its slot average, it's "successful".
I saw BBLB today - biggest load of tripe spawned from the show itself, nothing seemed to flow and every item had to introduced from cue cards. I say give the show to Keith Lemon (Leigh Francis).
George Lamb isn't too bad - but at the moment he's just hampered by Zezi, The bits where he hosts alone are fine, but when she joins him there is just no chemistry there - mainly as she's so bad.
Jack Whitehall on Big Mouth though was pretty impressive this week and it's a shame they didn't take the plunge and give him the gig full time, rather than having guest hosts again. At the very least I hope he's invited back to do a full week or more later in the series.
She's unspeakably bad. A real cringe-inducing turn off.
There's something about the way she speaks which I find irritating, I dare say chav like. George seems fine though, or at least for the first 10-15 minutes of Friday's BBLB when I tuned in.
I must admit i've been put off this series, and I've been watching the show since the series were Anthony won. I just find these contestants annoying... I was always cringing on the launch night. Even though it'll now be a case of me missing out on the features of the Friday/Sunday Night Project about BB, I'm willing to take that sacrafise. I just find it annoying this year...
She's unspeakably bad. A real cringe-inducing turn off.
There's something about the way she speaks which I find irritating, I dare say chav like. George seems fine though, or at least for the first 10-15 minutes of Friday's BBLB when I tuned in.
I don't understand why they chose George though, he has a terrible reputation!
