Big Brother was once worth watching - Telegraph article
 

As unlikely as this now sounds, there was a time when Big Brother was worth watching. No, really, there was. This is easy to forget when the latest series, which only started last week, has already attracted hundreds of complaints from viewers, appalled by the wanton behaviour of the housemates.

Marco Pierre White Jr (the odious son of a stock cube salesman) seems intent on fornicating and groping his way through series 17 of the show. Laura Carter and Evelyn Ellis, meanwhile, have taken permanent leave of their clothes and last night cosied up together in the hot tub. Alas, two pairs of boobs and one massive tit look set to dominate Channel 5 this summer...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/0...really-it-was/

It was?

Can garuantee this TV snob hasn't even watched BB this year or any series since about 2001

I'm sure he has. Given that he's reflecting the views of most people posting on forums like these or Digital Spy.

oh just read the article. BB1 was so boring but he's entitled to his opinion

Good idea to read the article before posting on it. BB1 was exciting for its time and had one of the best BB scenes ever when they confronted Nick.

BB3 and BB5 remain, by some distance the two best series imo.

And it has nothing to do with being a TV snob. A TV snob would never say BB was worth watching in the first place. It's about recognizing a serious decline in quality, and if people can't acknowledge this has happened, I don't know what to say.

I think some people are still in denial about this series...

For me, launch night was so promising but between Marco and Laura's trash and the splitting of production between two houses, it's been very difficult to get to know the HM's and feels overproduced. I have to put a lot of effort to catch up because I am overseas.

His opinion is automatically bad as he ignored the peak of BB, BB6!

This series > BB1

But that had vile nudity and attention seekers so it's bad tv!!1!1!

There's drama that gives people something to talk/complain about. But how anyone can look at the production staff and their repeated failures and say, objectively, that this show is good is beyond me. You might enjoy the car crash nature of it all, but the show has been wrecked.

My own view is that they should drop the celebrity series they do in the Summer, which never does as well as the one in Jan, and use the money to make the two series left as good as they can be. Clearly there are budget issues, but why destroy the programme altogether because you want to milk it for everything it's worth, instead of making one celeb series and one main series as good as they can be, which begins with giving fans what they've been asking for for years. That can only begin once you find a way to save money and you do that by not spending a ridiculous amount of it on celebrities 2 times a year.

Nope. BB1 had a very clear and basic format that did not leave everyone totally baffled by it like this series has done.

Any series where the production team become over-reliant on endless twists which they seem incapable of pulling off and never fully explain cannot be anything other than a failure, regardless of how much enjoyment you might get out of watching a tit of a man suck on the tit of a woman.

Great article and so right. :clap1:

I'm no BB1 fan, but I would take it over what we get now.

No he didn't. He clearly mentions it, along with Kinga, in the article.

It was boring. It's only remembered fondly because it was the first series and seemed exciting and unique at the time it aired

I forgot Channel 5 were aiming for a telegraph reading audience

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Or because they had housemates with, what's it called again.... oh yeah, personalities.

Well that's the whole point... That's the reason it was worth watching at the time.

I don't agree that BB1's HMs had 'personalities' though to any extent greater than the HMs we get now. They were quite basic and held back a lot.

I don't know how old you are, but if you watched it when it aired originally, it was the most discussed show on television.

And you can excuse it for getting a little dull after Nick left, because it was the first ever show. It had to be tweaked a little and it was and you got BB3 and then BB5 as a result.

But anyone who thinks any effort on Channel 5 with the lack of live coverage, the meddling with nominations, the crap website, the endless twists which never work and on and on, has surpassed what it became on Channel 4 from about BB2 - BB7 is watching a different show to me and should frankly be held as partly responsible for the sorry state it is now in.

lmao the "villain" of the series had the personality of a door. The only good housemates were Caroline, Anna and Sada. Some of the males had no personality whatsoever

I watched like the fist 12 episodes oh YouTube because I was about 2 when it first aired. I had to stop because it was boring. Maybe it's a generational thing but I prefer series with lots of drama and comedic moments like BB17

Haters can stop watching and watch BB2 on YouTube or something. The show is what it is and has evolved, for good or bad, and this series has been great so far so I don't see the issue