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Originally Posted by Jack_

Also I'd argue that BBUK is more of a soap opera than BBUS and that's because we have no live feed. Yes there's less episodes in the US and they have music beds all throughout them and they're hyped up etc etc (whatever you want to say), but as I said the fact that live feeds are available means you get to see what is actually happening day in, day out and so you know how accurate and reflective the episode portrayals are and the episodes are just consolidating what you already know

With the UK show we get 48 minutes a night from a day in which we miss 23 hours and 12 minutes. They can literally edit the show in any way they want and portray any housemate in any kind of light, cover anything up and we wouldn't be at all the wiser and since the show moved to C5 there's been a couple of examples of this. That makes BBUK in its current state much more of a soap opera than BBUS to me despite having more episodes that are edited differently

I meant soap opera in its presentation.

Watching BBUS is like watching a daytime soap, it doesn't feel as though I'm watching real people all living together. But I get that from all US reality shows, they're all like that.

Especially that "contestant narrates and states the obvious of what you're seeing on screen" is really grating. They've started doing that with the tasks on BBUK and it's awful. Like Towie or something.