[Stu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah definitely.

Remember the days when the nastiest thing we'd ever known was Nick writing down names on a piece of paper and saying he had been in the army.....................those were simpler times

It essentially spawned a much nastier strain of reality TV, and then itself started to emulate this.

Look, I know the whole "But it's a social experiment!" thing was a bit of a broadsheet absolution, but looking back on it Big Brother was actually crazy wholesome by today's standards. Look at the best bits packages of any of the early years. Warts and all, but it really was a show about a bunch of people getting together and figuring stuff out.

Kids don't realise what back to basics, classic Big Brother actually is