Has anyone ben watching BB's Best bits on E4 (Tues, wed, Thurs at 9pm). I like what they have done with the theme tune and its nice to see the stings between clips vary between each of the 4 sets used in the past series. BB1 and BB2 were still the best mind you. I hope its one of those series best bits that comes top.
Almost certain that Nasty Nick will top the best bits!!!
Pretty annoyed with how C4 have scheduled their live coverage next week. Most of it runs from around 1am to 3am, pushed back by annoying things such as a 6-episode run of Friends and unwanted repeats of the Big Brother E-Forum from E4 (The idea is that fills the slot BBLB left as an exclusive E4 show).
Streaming works best generally with around an hour from midnight, and as Graham Norton's gone, I thought they might even have put it on 30-minutes early.
Just one things to note from the TV Guide. The live Saturday task last an hour and according to What's on TV it will be presented by Davina. Also Teletext on 4 as interviews with Davina and Dermot from p444.
I must say looking at the pics of the house, it seems to look quite good. Lets hope this years series will be more hilarious than last years boring one!
Some more news about the live tasks from the info issued by C4 in it's programme guide.
This year the winner of Big Brother will get £100,000 - or perhaps, nothing.
Each Saturday the housemates will compete in their live Saturday challenge. Lose the task, lose £10,000 from the jackpot! After ten weeks the winner of Big Brother is decided and they earn the jackpot - losing a task could cost them dear.
PS: In the Teletext interview Dermot reveals he went to the Friends set in New York to film the idents and junctions which will be used throughout Friday night.
PLAY a pig, digging up truffles with their mouth from a pit of manure and rotting veg.
PRETEND to be a dog for 24 hours - wearing a collar and lead and eating from a pet's bowl.
Life imitating art then.
There was an excellent bit of writing by David Renwick in Jonathan Creek a few months ago where he played on the fascination with all things George Orwell and invented a show called "Animal Farm" in which C-list celebs had to live in a pigsty for a week. (literally in this case, though I appreciate there's plenty of scope for irony there..)
Last year the Sun offered £50k, but this year £100k is on offer for a Big Brother bonk by one of the UK's porn channels (Playboy TV??) reports Teletext.
It won't affect the way housemates behave though, considering they've released the info today and the housemates have been locked away from the outside world for over a week now!
Apparently there is to be more coverage this year than before with BBLB each night, the highlights programme every night, coverage on E4, the E4rum and live coverage most nights.
Is the programme going to be transmitted in 4:3 as usual?
There will also be an hour-long task every Saturday night.
Apparently there is to be more coverage this year than before with BBLB each night, the highlights programme every night, coverage on E4, the E4rum and live coverage most nights.
Is the programme going to be transmitted in 4:3 as usual?
There will also be an hour-long task every Saturday night.
Everything you have said is already common knowledge and has been for sometime now.
BB will be 4:3 again. Whats wrong with that? ITV2 have I'm a celeb and Hells Kitchen in Widescreen and most of the on screen stuff is not 4:3 safe so looks a mess hanging off the screen. BB looks good in 4:3 and I can't see BB changing not even next year, or the year after.
Apparently there is to be more coverage this year than before with BBLB each night, the highlights programme every night, coverage on E4, the E4rum and live coverage most nights.
Is the programme going to be transmitted in 4:3 as usual?
There will also be an hour-long task every Saturday night.
Everything you have said is already common knowledge and has been for sometime now.
BB will be 4:3 again. Whats wrong with that? ITV2 have I'm a celeb and Hells Kitchen in Widescreen and most of the on screen stuff is not 4:3 safe so looks a mess hanging off the screen. BB looks good in 4:3 and I can't see BB changing not even next year, or the year after.
It does raise a point though, why is Big Brother in 4:3? With the majority of Channel 4 content heading into 16:9 I wonder why they want to keep BB 4:3, especially as this years series of the games was 16:9 and also used the same hidden camera tech as in Big Brother.
Here is the downside of Big Brother
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Big Brother veteran warns new stars
Dominic Timms
Friday May 28, 2004
Big Brother: 'not so much as a thank you'
A former Big Brother star has urged the contestants who will join the fifth series of the show tonight not to go ahead because they will live to regret the move for years to come.
Dean O'Loughlin, who says he has had to bear the tag of "the boring one from Big Brother 2" says he deeply regrets joining the series and the pain it has caused his family.
He said he got nothing out of the show and while "Big Brother has earned 16 industry awards to date, and presenters and producers accept plaudits" there had never been "so much as a thank you to the people inside the house".
O'Loughlin said the show's production company deliberately sets out to follow prescriptive storylines in order to maximise ratings, pays "peanuts" to contestants and "coerces" family and friends into appearing on the show.
"I feel for my newest kin, about to sacrifice themselves on the altar of entertainment. I feel like I'm watching kids on a lilo paddling into a tidal wave. If I knew who they were and could give them advice, it would be simple: don't do it unless you have to. And if you have to, ask yourself why."
He said the majority of past Big Brother contestants though the show's producer, Endemol, has portrayed them "inaccurately'" or "unfairly".
He conducted a poll among 51 of the contestants to have taken part since the reality show made its debut four years ago. All but two said they, or another housemate, had been misrepresented by Endemol.
"Quite simply, the success of this multimillion pound TV production has nothing to do with chance. It's not allowed to hinge on incidents that may or may not happen.
"Housemates are carefully chosen to fill roles and directors follow specific story lines to give the show form. If housemates are lucky they might be seen as a likeable, fluffy, laugh-a-minute clowns. But if they are not, then they may well be carrying the mantle of boorish villain around for the rest of their lives."
O'Loughlin is the first former housemate to break the embargo on writing stories not vetted by Endemol about the show, and the first to pen a book. Contestants must sign away all rights in the show in perpetuity before they are allowed into the Big Brother house.
He said while success stories connected with the show did exist, they were few and far between.
"Even a conservative estimate results in 75% of ex-housemates struggling to adapt and get on with their lives," he said.
"Ex-housemates live in a curious no man's land. The frustrating limbo wherein most housemates are forced to reside can be a very disheartening place," he adds in his book, Living in the Box: An Adventure in Reality TV, which he is selling on internet auction site eBay.
Calling for some sort of regulation of reality TV, he said until such programmes offered contestants at least minimal amounts of protection, TV companies would be free to continue to take advantage of contestants.
"Somewhere in the future, when television companies are bound by law to limit their exploitation of the subjects at its centre, reality TV will be able to grow up. However, until there is some sort of body like Ofcom actually regulating Big Brother, most contestants will leave the show with a legacy of misrepresentation and misery."
A spokesman for Endemol said it was well known that O'Loughlin had an axe to grind against the show.
"It's not been a secret that he has been complaining about the show for years. We see no foundation in the allegations but have not see the book."
