[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Clootie Dumpling

The earlier, longer series were engrossing because they were longer.

Eight weeks is not long enough for relationships to grow, factions to form, game players to get into their stride.

I dunno if I agree, by the 8 week I think all of those things had already formed if I remember correctly, it's normally the point at which it winds down imo

[ebandit]

good idea........end the delusion of some HMs quicker.....

Mark L

[delta]

It's been cr@p Ch5- Endemol, Ryan and Emma don't understand the concept of Big Brother.

They aren't the stars, the star of the programs are the players, unknown to us and to each other to see how they cope in a confined space.

To dredge up a series with every knowing each other, ( even now they are bringing past connections of the current housemates in) they are so clearly off the right track and now desperate for viewing figures they are flailing out in any direction- the wrong direction. It's akin to going down a road that you know that is a dead end but you persist with it anyway, at some point you have to admit defeat and turn around.

This series is an insult to our intelligence, a group of wannabee local z- listers all with connections ( nearly all) and the rest hand picked knowing full well what the participants would want in a housemate eg: Georgina with Jackson

And what the flip is going on with the two most contrived story lines of Chelsea and Jayne, ( which has fizzled out) and then Charlie and Jason- the latter has to be the worst acting job ever, They clearly have planned this and are cahoots with each other. He said that he'd never heard of Big Brother or didn't know how it operated as he'd never heard or seen of it before this year. Yet he also said that Charlie has always wanted to go on the program and has watched every series.

Now you are not telling me that these two have never discussed BB, I don't believe that Jason didn't know that she was in the house ( just go back and look at the moment they were revealed in the other garden) and vice-versa.

From start to finish it's been a hash of a pre-produced - pre planned, poor reality show, where the production team have tried to establish the story lines and control what we were going to see way before it went to air.

This latest so called 'twist' is just an extension of this car crash of a series, the sooner it's put to bed the better.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by delta

It's been cr@p Ch5- Endemol, Ryan and Emma don't understand the concept of Big Brother.

They aren't the stars, the star of the programs are the players, unknown to us and to each other to see how they cope in a confined space.

To dredge up a series with every knowing each other, ( even now they are bringing past connections of the current housemates in) they are so clearly off the right track and now desperate for viewing figures they are flailing out in any direction- the wrong direction. It's akin to going down a road that you know that is a dead end but you persist with it anyway, at some point you have to admit defeat and turn around.

This series is an insult to our intelligence, a group of wannabee local z- listers all with connections ( nearly all) and the rest hand picked knowing full well what the participants would want in a housemate eg: Georgina with Jackson

And what the flip is going on with the two most contrived story lines of Chelsea and Jayne, ( which has fizzled out) and then Charlie and Jason- the latter has to be the worst acting job ever, They clearly have planned this and are cahoots with each other. He said that he'd never heard of Big Brother or didn't know how it operated as he'd never heard or seen of it before this year. Yet he also said that Charlie has always wanted to go on the program and has watched every series.

Now you are not telling me that these two have never discussed BB, I don't believe that Jason didn't know that she was in the house ( just go back and look at the moment they were revealed in the other garden) and vice-versa.

From start to finish it's been a hash of a pre-produced - pre planned, poor reality show, where the production team have tried to establish the story lines and control what we were going to see way before it went to air.

This latest so called 'twist' is just an extension of this car crash of a series, the sooner it's put to bed the better.

I agree with every word