[karl100589]

On another forum I am preparing to do a ranking of what I consider to be BBUK's worst production decisions/ twists and I would like to post my rankings here and see if you agree with them and also for you to post what your rankings would be.

Here are mine, I went from 25 to 1:
25) (9) Mario and Steph's "Marriage"
24) (8) The £100,000 giveaway
23) (7) Susie is allowed to hear the 'Get Grace Out' chants
22) (10) Siavash begins openly breaking the rules yet the producers refuse to punish him
21) (10) Isaac is placed into the house as a contestant
20) (10) The 'non-housemate' launch night
19) (8) The guru twist
18) (9) The producer's treatment of Rachel Rice
17) (11) The producers bend over backwards to keep John-James happy
16) (11) The producer's devote too much time to the Josie/John-James showmance
15) (4) First night nominations
14) (8) Billi's week 3 votes to evict are discounted to save Charley
13) (8) Fake week
12) (CH) John is given a free pass to the final on the first night
11) (9) Nicole is placed into the house as a contestant
10) (7) Shahbaz is allowed to compete in BB7 despite his poor mental health
9) (8) Emily is ejected as a over-reaction following Shilpa-gate
8) (4) The double eviction causes us to lose Jon and Fed on the same night
7) (10) The producers take away 24 hour live feed coverage
6) (8) The all-female launch night
5) (C5) The Goody family are placed as contestants in CBB5
4) (7) Jayne is punished for persistant rulebreaking by having everybody BUT her placed up for eviction
3) (8) The Halfway House
2) (7) Despite previously being evicted Nikki is allowed to return to BB7 with a chance of winning the game
1) (11) The Quadruple eviction

[LemonJam]

(did you get the idea from survivorsucks by any chance? I saw a ranking like this on there while lurking :P)

I'd say Nicole should be lower on the list (she was to be fair, more entertaining than most the housemates still in at the time.)

And anything to save Charley is a good thing so I think 14 should be lower

Otherwise yeah, I think that's good, especially #1

[Marsh.]

23) (7) Susie is allowed to hear the 'Get Grace Out' chants

She was a latecomer, majority of newbies have an idea about how popular other housemates are.
And if i remember correctly, the ENTIRE HOUSE heard the chants from the backyard.

13) (8) Fake week

Despite its lacklustre execution in the end and the fact it was in one of the worst series, I thought Fake Week was a brilliant idea. I liked how they introduced it after the eviction. I was fooled at first until I recognised the girl from Balls of Steel lol.

[karl100589]

Originally Posted by LemonJam

(did you get the idea from survivorsucks by any chance? I saw a ranking like this on there while lurking :P)

I'd say Nicole should be lower on the list (she was to be fair, more entertaining than most the housemates still in at the time.)

And anything to save Charley is a good thing so I think 14 should be lower

Otherwise yeah, I think that's good, especially #1

Yeah, I was the one who created it on Survivor Sucks

[karl100589]

The Billi one was the one that I got the most grief about when I posted it on Sucks. My thinking behind it was that firstly the twist was so blatantly done that any credibility the show had was gone as a result, also whilst Charley did go on to save BB8 and make it watchable we and the producers didn't know that at this point, she was at the time very one dimensional and IMO could have been disposed with, particularly as they had a character in Billi who could have taken the villain role, people dispised Billi after 2 weeks, imagine if he had a longer stay.

I chose to put the Susie and Grace twist on the list because it was as a result of Susie hearing the chants (and Susie being the only nominee) that Grace was nominated for eviction and subsequently evicted, which was a real shame as Grace was not only a fantastic character to the show but was also in a very strong position to get far in the game, had she not of been exposed she probably would have carried on Sezer's work to build a group large enough to take down Pete and make BB7 a lot less predictable.

[Niamh.]

I think Emily being ejected should be higher

[BringItOn]

All of BB10.

[Shaun]

Good call on the BB11 quadruple eviction (just sheer lunacy - should've been a vote to save)

Bringing back Jade. & her delightful family.

Glossing over Darnell's frankly psychotic outbursts - his treatment of Sara was actually sickening. Pathetic little man.

The all-female launch of BB8.

Letting the reigns go to shit in BB10 - trips to London, ex-boyfriends as housemates, letting in gossip magazines!?

picking Mario or JJ at all (bb11) - the boring JLS one, not the angry prettyboy. I can't actually remember Mario without laughing at how pathetically dismal a Housemate he was, rofl

not letting Orlaith (BB6) go sooner - she costed that series Kemal and Science stupid bitch

[Tom.]

The first few weeks of BB8

Jade should have been the only one to go in during CBB5, not with her family in tow. The race row probably wouldn't have happened, Jackiey initiated it imo and left at the right time before it got out of hand. Carole & Cleo were also nasty pieces of work that helped it reach the levels it did, but they got away completely unscathed

The BB10 opening weekend was rubbish too

In BB11 I didn't see much but I saw 1 or 2 things on the eviction shows where the housemates did tasks in front of the crowd, wtf?

[Beastie]

I was proper gutted when Emily Parr was ejected.

The "none housemate" launch night was the only thing I liked about BB10. It had an epic 1st week then went downhill.

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by karl100589

7) (11) The producers bend over backwards to keep John-James happy
16) (11) The producer's devote too much time to the Josie/John-James showmance
7) (10) The producers take away 24 hour live feed coverage
5) (C5) The Goody family are placed as contestants in CBB5 [Good idea, bad consequences]
3) (8) The Halfway House
1) (11) The Quadruple eviction

Definetely these.

Also:

- Housemates leaving the house for tasks
- Showing the potential HM's before launch

BB11 pretty much took the piss.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Hands down having a vote to evict on bb's semi final.

Left is with the boringest housemates of any final.

Including BB4!!!!!

[Vicky.]

Quad eviction would have worked, if it had been vote to save.

Nikki coming back in was ridiculous

[Mac Hiavellian]

Eurgh, pretty much everything BB8 and BB10 related.

BB8's house was nice on first impressions but way too squashed and uncomfrotable even for viewers, the way too long house tour with shaky cam work from Davina, there was the all-female launch, having twins, having twins yet with no twist involved, Emily's ejection, slowly feeding in all the males, giving Liam the money for no reason, Charley's fake eviction, realising all the women were going anyway so income more women to the Halfway House, the HWH itself, guru twist, countless double evictions (including both HMs leaving at the same time as one another), the final nominations, having 7 people in the final (even if it was technically 6 HMs), that ******ing caravan!

BB10's sh!t house, sh!t house tour, Day 4 eviction, crappy interview on the bus, the eviction interview guest panel, lack of interesting tasks, sending Kenneth in, sending Isaac in, providing HMs with the magazine, the London tour bus caper!

BB11, as much as I loved this series it did p!ss all over the format of BB having various guests/intruders, the HMs leaving the house for tasks and BB allowing John James to speak to Nathan. The quadruple eviction could have been amazing.

Also didn't approve of BB6 Makosi having to decide which Secret Garden HMs to bring (why not just have all 3?), the desperate ploy to get Nikki back on BB7 and the injustice she still came 5th and Jenni only 6th, sending Nicole in to BB9.