I started watching BB (Germany) since the first season in feb. 2000
It was a big hype, and it was all over the news, and I first thought "nah, not interested" but my boyfriend at that time loved to watch it, so, after he pestered me to give it a chance, I started to watch it from week 2. And because I really liked some of the housemates, I simply got stuck with it.
I watched the season 1/2/3 but for some reason lost interest in 4, but got back for season 5 (1 year long the best ever) because I had a broken leg at that time, and lot's of free time to watch.
Because that one was so good, I continued watching 6 (another one that went for a whole year)/7/8/9 and 10.
What always fascinated me, was how different the highlight shows where compared to the LF (which I had in all seasons), especially how much more Endemol started to influence the viewers in the highlight shows over the past years...
They have become a farce (The German "story line"-editing is much worse than anything they do here in the UK).
The whole concept and idea of the show has sadly changed a lot in Germany, to many special stereotype-casted-housemates (they got keen on having lot's of porn actors/actresses, z-class celebs, singer, models etc. in the house) Funny thing is, that the few "normal" people where most of the time much more interesting than those other "I don't care about the show but I want airtime" housemates
During the past years, I already watched BBUK now and then, but never regularly.
At launch night of BB11, a friend told me that the season starts.
I got curious and watched the show.... and because I really liked Moley from the day he entered the house I got myself the LF and loved it!
Lot's of people in the UK where moaning about how much BB has changed during the years, but for me, watching the British BB was almost a trip back to the good old days of Big Brother, because in our country the show has become something that has not much to do with the original idea of watching a bunch of people isolated from the outside world
