[Ray.]

Watching the early days of BB really crystalises and puts into perspective just how tiresomely padded out the modern incarnation is, and how an average episode moves at a snail's pace in comparison to an episode of, say, BB2. No prolonged music montages, no endless shots of random items in the foreground, no wasting time with showing the HMs getting up and getting dressed even when nothing interesting is occurring during it all, etc. I'm currently watching a nominations episode and it's so refreshing how no-nonsense and rapid paced it is. Every HM is in and out with quick cuts and no dragged out scenes of the HMs walking over to the DR. They're just in, they give their reasons (invariably uncomplicated and quick), and get outta there. Last series of ITV BB, the nominations took up basically the whole episode. In this, it lasted barely 5 minutes, I think.