[kaphc]

IMHO what worked on BB4:

- weekly tasks, they were great to do and interesting to watch and hard enough that it meant they had to put some effort in (yes and that meant you too Fed!)
- Saturday night challenges, were interesting to watch and seeing the reward room change every week was great
- selecting Cameron, Ray, Scott, Steph, Nush, Tania, Anouska, Federico and Jon as housemates
- the design of the house was lovely and it looked so much nicer than last year's
- the head of house thing was quite good and made for interesting viewing
- the Christmas party on Thursday was a joy to watch
- bringing Jon back in kept up some interest into the final week
- BBLB - sometimes it was more interesting than the main show!

What didn't work:
- selecting Justine, Sissy and Gos as housemates - what were the point of them??
- introducing Lisa at such a late stage. If she was coming in, it should have been straight after the double eviction, but unfortuanately the BB Africa swap prevented that
- having the double eviction in the first place, what was the point of that?
- having a imbalance of relatively bland but sound boys versus a group of emotional girls full of personality that were easy targets to nominate and vote off
- the Friday night eviction interviews. Sorry Davina, it just isn't working for me now. Too many interruptions and leading questions!
- in the end, one gimmick after another which just became too much to take in

In another respect, I think BB4 was a bit of a hangover from BB3 in the sense that the public ended up seeing Jade do so well from being such a loud, annoying bitchy character. Anyone remotely like that was bound to be voted off early on (i.e. Anouska) which then encouraged the rest of the housemates to keep their heads down a bit.