Hopefully they see sense and whatever twists and plans they have only last a few weeks like the secrets and lies series.

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Can anybody find someone who really likes the sound of this? Honestly, they're making out like people are clamouring for it, "MORE CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD, I WANT THE HM'S TO SEE MY INSTAGRAMS AND READ MY TWEETS!", yet all they're actually doing is pissing off the one group of people that actually give a damn about the show.

People need to chill out until the show starts. These interactions with the public could end up monitored to keep things in line. Who knows.

I'm trying to think positive, I really am.

But FFS they make it hard throwing crap like this at us!

Hopefully it just sounds worse than it is.. I don't mind a bit of outside interference. I'v always liked friends and family noms for instance. But I'v never like them being able to hear crowd reaction. They know too much already. So with this new thing.. I just don't know. I really can't see the point!

Who cares though interactions with the public or anyone else outwith the house are a no no.

I wish they would just leave them alone. I always find it much more entertaining when it's just the housemates and the stuff that happens when they're bored.

Nothing can be as bad as it was in BB12 when they had a premier for Paranormal Activity and they left to watch the film and all those celebs entered the house lol.

I agree I hate outside contact but I think people are getting ahead of themselves here, it has calmed down a lot since BB12.

I think the whole tablet thing is where a housemate or housemates may be able to win a tablet to watch what the other housemates are saying about them? Better than some ****ty house next door.

It would be fun if housemates were secretly given tablets to see whats going on in the house as a way of communicating with each other and spying but no access to social media of any sort!

That would be genius in my opinion, never had anything like it on BB before.

I have faith.

Maybe they will be able to text/tweet each other.

What else could it mean because I really don't want to believe this social media bulls*it!? :( Could it mean winning the right to discovering knowledge using technology in other forms like in the toilet of BB6 where Saskia got access to a small TV that came out of the wall. Or even better a task like Caprice in CBB3 getting access to video tapes of her fellow housemates. I know those housemates didn't win the access to those things but hopefully you get my point :laugh:

Exactly this is the impression I have been getting but obviously times have moved on so instead of having to go to secret rooms ect they can literally walk around with a tablet and watch whats going on in the house or see bitchy conversations about them.

I would much prefer that to a house next door or it being shown on the plasma and the housemates wont be expecting it as its never been done before.

But the whole showing housemates conversation thing has bee done to death and hasn't worked a majority of the time. It doesn't cause any friction anymore.

Also if they want them to scheme and play the game it won't work with housemates knowing that at anytime one housemate could be given the opertunity to watch their game play potentially ruining it for them.

Classic BB is pretty much dead.

The nooks and crannies sound interesting; I like the idea of secret rooms/passageways and other surprises... as long as they don't give someone a ridiculously unfair advantage.

This.

Monitored or not, it is still contact with the outside world.

This is one of the basic rules. You can faff about with a whole host of other things within the format.

But, to me, contact with the outside world is one of the integral rules that must be kept otherwise it ceases being BB.

I hope the house looks comfortable. I wouldn't like it to look to clinical and depressing.

Except it says it will be giving the housemates and viewers certain power that "in the past only Big Brother has had."

Plus Big Brother should really always have power and control anyway lol. Just shows the housemates aren't as respectful of BB anymore and they no longer see BB as authority like back in the day if a housemate was given a punishment they shat themselves lol

When viacom own it are they still gonna have the same producers? I hope they fire a lot of them who come up with this ****!

Why do they think Ipads and phones are some novelty that has to be integrated into the show? It's like they just discovered the internet.

I'm agreeing with Glenn :worry:

It really is no different to if they do it correctly to showing some HMs some of the others audition clips like Jackie viewing Callum's last year, how good was that.

Housemates will be able to post on the Tibb forum for advice from smeagol during their stay in the house. the women will be able to have one to one webcam chats where clothing will be optional for the housemate while smeagol wears his shlong

Sounds like a win win for you Smeag.

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