No. The first series I watched propoly was BB6-7 (And watched all of BB8)

BB5 was nothing like BBUSA. The tasks are just what we should expect from Big Brother. Yes, there were alliances but there are alliances in every series. If anything, BB6 was more like BBUSA but was still a mile off.

I don't think a complete overhaul of the format to transform it into BBUSA is necessary and wouldn't be welcomed because us British don't like gameplayers as a whole, but a slight tilt towards gameplay would be welcome such as Head of House tasks- Head of House gets 1 nomination which is final with the rest nominating as usual. Head of House gets a secret room and is immune etc. I wouldn't bring the POV over discussion of nominations purely because they should earn their place in the house based on other people and their opinions and some people are fascinating to watch when nominating because of the bitching and backstabbing that goes on in the diary room.

BB5 had all-out game players though, such as Victor and Jason. It had two really strong alliances in the Jungle Cats and the Lip Gloss Bitches, both teams were playing the game, both wanted to win and would do anything to get that. It definitely had more of a game play theme than any other series. I'm not saying it was exactly like BBUSA, but it had similar aspects.

BB5 would have been very interesting with the BBUSA format, as would have BB6 and BB7 which both had strong opposing groups in the house. Wouldn't have worked in BB8 though as the HMs just didn't care - and neither did the viewers.


Scheduling wise cutting back to three shows a week wouldn't work at all now we're used to daily hour long shows, but I think back in BB5 off the back of half-hour daily shows they could perhaps have reworked it so you had hour-long shows on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday covering 48 hours and then the Friday eviction show.