What are the Big Brother 'eras'?

SweetSyrup · 18/05/15 - 18:03

As far as I see them,

BB1-4, the 'Classic' years
Fresh, new - all a bit innocent.

BB5-7, the 'Golden' years
The best years of BB and the gold standard. The height of BB popularity, riskier housemates, front page news and probably never matched.

BB8-11, the 'Decline' years
After the Shilpa racism row, BB mostly played it safe with HM choice, all the ofcom nonsense started. Some pretty dire series and housemates.

B12-Present, the 'Channel 5' years
Each series is virtually indistinguishable, mostly dull attractive people, promo girls etc, no live feed etc. Crazy to think this is now the fifth series since moving to Five.

Scarlett Berry · 18/05/15 - 18:09

SweetSyrup wrote: »

As far as I see them,

BB1-4, the 'Classic' years
Fresh, new - all a bit innocent.

BB5-7, the 'Golden' years
The best years of BB and the gold standard. The height of BB popularity, riskier housemates, front page news and probably never matched.

BB8-11, the 'Decline' years
After the Shilpa racism row, BB mostly played it safe with HM choice, all the ofcom nonsense started. Some pretty dire series and housemates.

B12-Present, the 'Channel 5' years
Each series is virtually indistinguishable, mostly dull attractive people, promo girls etc, no live feed etc. Crazy to think this is now the fifth series since moving to Five.

Couldn't agree more. Excellent SweetieS;-)

erin_p · 18/05/15 - 18:13

BB1 the beginning
BB2 my fav
BB7 cracker
BB9 B Block

Scarlett Berry · 18/05/15 - 18:27

I loved BB5 & 6 and find it hard to pick a favoutire..Both brilliant.

jp761 · 18/05/15 - 18:51

The golden years for me i'd just about put BB8 into that as well , it was quite inventive still and had laugh out loud moments. 5, 6 , 7 an 8 i loved all those.

jp761 · 18/05/15 - 18:56

Actually BB11 onwards that is for me where i'd start to use the words.. it started to get "shitty" from then.

Littlegreen42 · 18/05/15 - 18:56

BB8 was the best time for this forum.

I have never laughed so much at the STFU threads.

jp761 · 18/05/15 - 19:02

Littlegreen42 wrote: »

BB8 was the best time for this forum.

I have never laughed so much at the STFU threads.

BB9 ? Do you mean ole health and safety Mario ?

Those threads.

Dee_110 · 18/05/15 - 19:07

SweetSyrup wrote: »

As far as I see them,

BB1-4, the 'Classic' years
Fresh, new - all a bit innocent.

BB5-7, the 'Golden' years
The best years of BB and the gold standard. The height of BB popularity, riskier housemates, front page news and probably never matched.

BB8-11, the 'Decline' years
After the Shilpa racism row, BB mostly played it safe with HM choice, all the ofcom nonsense started. Some pretty dire series and housemates.

B12-Present, the 'Channel 5' years
Each series is virtually indistinguishable, mostly dull attractive people, promo girls etc, no live feed etc. Crazy to think this is now the fifth series since moving to Five.

Totally agree

Mr. Chips · 18/05/15 - 19:23

Big Brother 3 was a golden year, and it definitely had headline news.

kirbyreed · 18/05/15 - 19:56

i would agree but i wish i could put BB9 in with the golden years as i thought that was a return to form before it went completely to pot.

livefeed24/7now · 18/05/15 - 20:02

bb1 & bb2 - the social experiment years
bb3 -bb9 - the golden age years
bb10 - bb11 - the slippery slope years
bb12 - present day - the 'fell off a cliff' years

edit - bb4 - the 'wtf is this' year

pumpkinlattes33 · 18/05/15 - 20:11

I agree with OP but I thought that BB9 was one of the best series.

I also liked BB11.

dannyboy22 · 18/05/15 - 20:13

SweetSyrup wrote: »

As far as I see them,

BB1-4, the 'Classic' years
Fresh, new - all a bit innocent.

BB5-7, the 'Golden' years
The best years of BB and the gold standard. The height of BB popularity, riskier housemates, front page news and probably never matched.

BB8-11, the 'Decline' years
After the Shilpa racism row, BB mostly played it safe with HM choice, all the ofcom nonsense started. Some pretty dire series and housemates.

B12-Present, the 'Channel 5' years
Each series is virtually indistinguishable, mostly dull attractive people, promo girls etc, no live feed etc. Crazy to think this is now the fifth series since moving to Five.

Littlegreen42 wrote: »

BB8 was the best time for this forum.

I have never laughed so much at the STFU threads.

kirbyreed wrote: »

i would agree but i wish i could put BB9 in with the golden years as i thought that was a return to form before it went completely to pot.

These three posts are exactly how I feel about big brother

jp761 · 18/05/15 - 20:15

Actually thinking about this again BB1 to 10 were all pretty damn good. Even 4 was kinda unique at the time.

BB11 onwards had there good moments too obviously. But there definitely poorer overall than the previous ones imo any way.

performingmonk · 18/05/15 - 20:32

Mostly agree with the OP though I would place BB9 on its own as a shining light between the naff years of 8, 10 & 11.

Also I would place 12 & 13 as the Ch5 infancy era, then 14 onwards as getting into the juniors.

hmeister · 18/05/15 - 20:55

BB1-BB2: Social Experiment years
BB3: Golden Year
BB4: The forgotten year
BB5-BB9: The Golden Years
BB10-BB11: Channel 4's given up years
BB12 to present: Complete and utter shite years

Mirage · 18/05/15 - 21:08

hmeister wrote: »

BB1-BB2: Social Experiment years
BB3: Golden Year
BB4: The forgotten year
BB5-BB9: The Golden Years
BB10-BB11: Channel 4's given up years
BB12 to present: Complete and utter shite years

The best thing about BB4, was that E4 showed us the South Africa episodes whilst Cameron was in their house. I loved watching them.

Barracute · 18/05/15 - 21:41

BB1-BB7 Steady upward curve to the might of BB7
BB8 Sharp drop off a cliff
BB9 Slight recovery
BB10 backward step
BB11 oh dear
BB12-15 strugging to get out of CH4's long shadow

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