Which Channel did Big Brother better?
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Which Channel did Big Brother better? 154 votes
Channel 4 (2000-2010)
88%
136 votes
Channel 5 (2011-Present)
11%
18 votes
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I would say that Celeb BB has been better on channel 5, we have had some great series whereas the later channel 4 series were just woeful.
Not so sure about civilian though
More humour, better tasks that involved all HM's , more humorous BB voices,not so much outside information, what was said in the diary room stayed in the diary room, most of the time.
I really dislike C5's trend of replaying gossip to the HM's purely to cause friction and nastiness.One task shows how much better it could be when, the nastiness stopped for the duration and people, were more natural in their responses - ' that was my f****** fish, it was torn from my grasp'.- that was the one and only time I laughed during the last BB.
Whereas for CBB, I think Channel 5 has been better. Not because of the line ups, but I have found them more entertaining. CBB9, CBB10, CBB13 and even CBB14 up until Frenchy's eviction was up there with the great of CBB4. The other CH4 CBB's haven't been all that, CBB1, CBB2, CBB5 for known reasons, CBB6 and CBB7 at times, have all been worse than CBB9, CBB10 and CBB13 in my opinion.
Overall they have a frustratingly single-minded approach when it comes to BB.
Better tasks (particularly the overnights), more LF, less manipulation of 'storylines' and showmances, less outside contact and information passed to hms.
I think it's all to easy to look back fondly on how things used to be but I remember some of the absolutely diabolical liberties Channel 4 took with the viewers and back then, they STILL pretended it was some kind of 'social experiment'
Whatever people don't like about what C5 do - C4 did it first.
At least Channel 5 tout it as a game/entertainment show and don't pretend that it's anything else.
I like most of the C5 lineups and think if there was less of the meddling, reinstatement of proper LF and better tasks then they'd have a cracking great show on their hands - all very easily done.
Oh and they get additional kudos from me for SAVING a show that Channel 4 had decided to dump unceremoniously.
More live feed, eviction interviews (bar finale ones) away from the outside crowd, Big Brother (and not Marcus) doing the eviction announcement, much better and more nostalgic end-of-series best bits at the finale, no added music / tacky effects ... just some of the things I preferred about C4's Big Brother.
Of course, some of these were changed with BB11. During C4's final series, the editing style was much more in keeping with what we have now (like the superhero effects during the Uber Cougar task), so I don't think that things would have been much different in terms of that had C4 kept the show.
However Channel 5 do Celeb BB better, however barring BB14, the BB's haven't been the best, with 15 and 13 being the two worst series of the show for me.
C4 did better normal BB from 2002 -2006.
It is not fair to compare 4 normal BBs against 12 normal ch4 BBs.
Thats why I have chosen c5.
BB12 was a mess
BB13 was good and had some memorable hms.
BB14 was brilliant.
BB15 was poor.
If I pick the first 4 CH4 BBs
BB1 was dull and boring
BB2 was ok
BB3 was brilliant
BB4 was poor and dull.
Not much in them,but after BB7 CH4 made some of the wost series ever so as there was no choice to say both had good and bad I opted for 5 which has the potential to do more good series.
My two favourite series are the ones with Shilpa Shetty and Brigitte Nielson.
However Channel 4 were much better at the civillain series. BB14 has been the only classic series from channel 5's era so far
Celebrity BB: Channel 5.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to argue against this.
We had 7 CBBs on Channel 4 and 7 CBBs on Channel 5; there's only been two hugely weak C5 CBBs (8 and 11) but most of the Channel 4 ones were weak (apart from the CBB3-4 golden era classics)
C5 - I dunno it just feels much cheaper/trashier, BBOTs is horrendous sometimes, housemates are all the same, twists are extremely poor.. They may as well have a laptop in the house with all the outside info they get. BB is much, much softer - pretty much no rules and punishments (if there's any) are complete rubbish.
I've enjoyed CBB on both channels. Lastly C5 have a chance to change my mind and I hope they do!
C5 on the other hand I switched off BB13 and BB15, I watched most of BB12 but not ever episode like I did on C4, only BB14 held my interest through out its run.
Unlike most posters so far I also prefer CBB on C4. If C5 had left CBB in January and only January I might have agreed that C5 have done CBB better but overall most late summer CBB on C5 have been poor but most CBB in January have been good, overall because of CBB overkill on C5 I prefer C4 CBB.
The other big plus for C4 is the fact that for 10 series of BB they had 24/7 live feed something C5 has never done.