This was such a classic series
 

Tbh it felt like the good old days, only 1 or 2 twists thrown in, excellent cast, :cheer:a step-up in production, less manipulation, the only thing that let this series down was live feed and tasks (although they did create drama.) Definetly up there with the best of all time. :cheer:

It's not even the best C5 series :sorry:

It is imo

It is imo

I'm sorry that you're both wrong!

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:joker::joker::joker::joker:

vastly overrated :(

How?

How?

The entire fecking series is completely manufactured.

You want an example? The existence of the sodding second house with housemates "connected" to the main house. No, not manipulated in the slightest. :whistle:

BB13 and BB14 >>>>

BB17 was good but the whole cast was z-listers or models which was sooo boring

I enjoyed the series but I can't help but feel that the huge love it gets is because it came straight after a rough patch with two dreadful series and it couldn't really get any worse so anything that wasn't BB15/16 looked amazing in comparison.

I do think this season was a one off tbh but i'm do think other seasons won't be as awful as 15/16 (well I hope not anyway)

CBB18 certainly was, imo.

(Ik it's CBB but it's going down the same route)

oh yeah I forgot about that season

that wheel will make a return on civilian

(Ryan's eviction was done on cbb16 - thats why i think that)

Not the case at all with me (and I'd guess the same goes for a lot of the people who enjoyed it). It was a very enjoyable series in it's own right. Sure it was nice to have a good civilian series again for the first time in ages but it wasn't the trash that preceded it that made it enjoyable (but it did probably make me appreciate it all the more).

Couldn't have said it better :clap1:

By shaming the cast your automatically wrong :facepalm:

Hughie, Jayne, or Evelyn not winning kind of ruins it for me

Still traumatised from the win of July 26.

Again, for me it was really the cast that carried it (this may get a bit long). Unfortunately I'd disagree that production was a step-up - there were still a lot of slip-ups and a lack of consistency. For example, they dropped the twist that was supposed to "change the game" two weeks in, basically meaning that they'd forked out thousands of pounds for a task garden with an empty house attached.

The tasks were also terrible - the only good task of the series was BBCorp, and even then they had to ruin it by playing nominations into the house. They still used the same pattern of "gunge!", "viewer survey with mostly negative questions!" (which in itself is an outside contact breach), "dilemma!", "who said what!", "label each-other!" etc, only this time it looked so cheap. They also still tried to created forced drama with said tasks which just isn't as enjoyable as natural drama between the housemates (the housemates have even said themselves that they didn't really care about who was saying what about each other so really it's a wasted effort).

Updates from the house were at an all-time low. There weren't even any live tweets until someone emailed the production team and even then, they weren't available at weekends and there were no weekend press releases. Live Feed was also reverted back to 30 minutes on a Friday despite returning to an hour every weeknight for Celebrity Big Brother (peak Channel 5 favouritism).

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the series for what it was, but there's a lot to be desired from the current production team. This series was supposed to "evolve Big Brother for a new generation", but apart from a stellar cast, a few more DR nominations and a new eviction set/house extension, we basically got more of the same. Not to mention the fact that anything good about this series went out the window with CBB18.

Loved it. Best on 5.

Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it :spin:

Oh **** off it clearly was stupid cow

Zip it you FAT SLAG!

Why is it so overrated omg... Yes it came with gems like Jayne but the season itself was just terrible.