It was like Kilroy on drugs. Not that I'm suggesting any of the participants were on illegal substances of course...
An absolute mess, and the sort of thing The Sun would have devoted outraged front pages to a decade ago. However, nowadays it's so everyday and unshocking it really doesn't have any impact. And once you get beyond that you're left with the content - which there isn't much of.
I enjoy Russell, and this show has potential, but the audience is just too big - the reason BBBM is so good in my eyes is because he it feels intimate (maybe a bad choice of words with Russ!) like you would talk with a few mates about Big Brother down the pub or whatever - if Big Mouth had been done in the "issues" style of audience it wouldnt work, too many opinions not being listened to. Downgrade the audience size and it'll work
Failed on multiple levels and it was a shame considering how well BB's Big Mouth had gone.
Studio sound was awful and as for the size and layout of the studio it was lacked anything resembling imagination.
Russell, for his sins, did his best to save the show but gimmicks such as the 'Russell at May-Day' video was totally lost on me; the audience seemingly to.
Like others have said, it would be better moved to a smaller studio with a more defined idea of it's focus, is it a forum for discussion or a chat show?
Russell Brand has never been funny on the television from what I have seen - he was absolutely appalling when I watched him present the NME Awards, and while he was better on Big Mouth, he is so irritating on screen, his whole style and personality just annoyed the hell out of me and even when he nearly was funny or interesting, something about him just overrrided it and made me throw old phones at my TV.
I rarely put people down before they have totally taken off, and I'm cautious about doing it, but I can't see Russell Brand ever improving.
According to BBC News online the programme was heavily trailed and had a large poster campaign. I can honestly say I hadn't seen a sniff of it except for the immediate post-BB trails. Did everyone else see the publicity?
As it was, I stumbled across the last 5 minutes of the show when the naked people ran around - and I have to agree that there were too many people in the audience, and it didn't seem to have much focus or direction. I was expecting to see a clone of BBBM (small audience and a couple of guests), which I think would have been better.
I can only conclude that the target of their marketing £s was the yoof of the south. Shame; Russell did a roaring trade at his Edinburgh show in August. He's certainly got a fanbase north of the border.
I (and many others, no doubt) would have watched the show all the way through had we known; then perhaps those opening ratings wouldn't have been so embarrassing.