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Originally Posted by HD

You can't be serious?
They're so overrated it's unreal, it's like they're doing SMTV jokes... 15 years too late. Never understood their popularity, humour for the brain dead.

And the format needs touching up. Same old, same old.
How this show thrives and BB dives (I liked that ) I'll never know!

No, I'm absolutely serious. If they weren't at the helm this show would have started failing years ago, like literally not as many people would be watching as they are now. That's just a fact, this show without Ant and Dec would be like how Big Brother on C4 without Davina wouldn't have been the same. There's barely any other reasons for this repetitive tripe of a show to be popular. They make it so, and you only have to look online every day to see that.

The self deprecation, the references to other shows, the involvement of the crew, the running jokes they end up with each year regarding a campmate ('vehy vehy sexist'/'warm salad' etc), the cameos from other crew members, Bob or other random celebrities, the involvement of props to take the piss out of something shown in the previous segment. Yeah, all much better than the bog standard 'so that was what happened this morning, here's what happened when dinner arrived' style of links. They also deliver them well and can ad lib without faltering, to deny that they're talented presenters, whether you like them or not, is just moronic.

Also, 'humour for the brain dead'? Are you ****ing for real? Has it ever crossed your mind that it's possible to have a varied sense of humour, and also have varied interests concurrently? I may enjoy Ant and Dec's presenting on a light entertainment reality TV show (hey, you're clearly watching it too), but I also enjoy Tim Minchin, Russell Brand, Ricky Gervais, watch political programmes, space documentaries and have a keen interest in sociology. But no, I'm 'brain dead' because I happen to enjoy two presenters style on some overdone TV show where their links really are the best part of the show, this is a fact. This idea that you can only like one type of comedy or one genre of TV is bizarre and if anyone lives their life like that well then you're very narrow minded