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Remember how BIG Big Brother once was...
SweetSyrup
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The show is just a shadow of what it once was and now has a tiny, cult audience. What are your memories of how BIG BB once was with the public?
- 6 million viewers for REGULAR series evictions (CBB was the 'smaller' side series)
- Johnny Depp leaving Jade an eviction message
- Housemates coming out to £million newspaper deals. (Kind of flabbergasting to imagine these days - hm's are lucky to get a few thousand twitter followers!!)
- BB discussion on just about EVERY popular medium - bbc radio, papers, magazines, hm's endlessly featured on covers.
Different times!! What do you remember?
- 6 million viewers for REGULAR series evictions (CBB was the 'smaller' side series)
- Johnny Depp leaving Jade an eviction message
- Housemates coming out to £million newspaper deals. (Kind of flabbergasting to imagine these days - hm's are lucky to get a few thousand twitter followers!!)
- BB discussion on just about EVERY popular medium - bbc radio, papers, magazines, hm's endlessly featured on covers.
Different times!! What do you remember?
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No music montages/music in episodes.
Housemates who hadn't any or much media exposure.
Live Feed
Live Feed
Marcus not shouting
Davina
Normal evictions and nominations
Greats tasks
Live Feed
Logo that looked like it had been thought out.
Proper spin off shows
Proper online clips
Better website
Live Feed
Better twists
Likeable housemates
I could go on...
Not to mention the fact that in BB's case there has been numerous scandals that inflicted damage to its popularity and the small matter of a move to a smaller channel.
That's how big BB was in those days.
Evolved my arse.
The show is f****d because they felt the need to change it. I suppose you're the type of person who thinks it doesn't need Live Feed.
I think you've missed the point. It's not to say there haven't been general audience related issues which have resulted in viewership and decline in interest - there clearly have. Was merely a thread to reflect on the period where BB was a massive show and memories from that time.
For instance, I don't think tensions in BB5 would have escalated to the extent which they did if there hadn't potentially been so much at stake in the outside world (major paper deals, a couple years of actual fame and celebrity etc for the few that reached the end).
Do you work for Channel 5 or something? You're always defending this crap.
I remember the forum going in to absolute meltdown on eviction nights! Sometimes it would just completely crash and you had to keep refreshing in the hope that you would be able to steal another 5 mins of reading before it crashed again
Haha! Yes. This forum used to move quicker than show editors now do to promote a whiff of showmance...
Wrong. I would love to see live feed---at least a few hours a day. But I also appreciate how expensive it is these days to run a television series. I tuned in to a lot of "live feed" where everyone was sitting around not saying anything, picking their teeth or sleeping.
Yes I have watched it from the start too it has evolved, but sadly as much as I want to do I cannot evolve with the show as it is now, even so I keep watching it as for some reason I just cannot let go
In the old days the shopping tasks were very important and we got to see who put the shopping list together who was panicking because they wanted chocolate biscuits, ciggies etc, who couldn't care less etc. those simple weekly chalk-board moments taught me a lot about the HM's, how they interacted, who was dominant, who was selfish etc
Also a biggie for me was no contact from the outside!, no F and F nominations !
For the first few series we even used to hold BB parties
I originally posted on the CH4 forum and was distraught when they shut it down.....until I found DS that was!
Same here, thank gawd for digispy.
I understand what you're saying. But why aren't you still holding BB parties with friends? I am. We love it. And F and F nominations and other new twists IMO also allow us to see a lot about how a housemate interacts with the others. Were we not delightfully 'shocked' at how insulted some of the 'entitled' housemates were when they were put up for nomination in this series? They are just different events---but same results.
Same here. Do you remember when the channel 4 forums used to from time to time say how the Digital Spy forum were so vicious? I used to come over here from time to time to check out the 'viciousness' for myself. For me, the forums are a really big part of BB.
Who had £million newspaper deals?
In Dean's book, written after bb2, it was already being said that BB closed more doors than it opened.
And BB was endlessly featured on covers only at the trashy and celeb gossip end.
These days, no one I know wants to watch BB or even to hear anything at all about BB.
My friends have given up on BB so it would be a party for one
I can see what you mean about seeing how the HM's interact with the added twists but I really am a stubborn old-schooler and prefer just to watch the HM's interact with each other on a daily basis, just normal interactions, regular conversations although I can understand that BB viewers would probably find this boring these days.
I do admit to being gleeful at seeing certain HM's up for eviction due to twists so maybe I have evolved very slightly
"I'm a Celebrity" is still doing pretty well. The most recent one had the second highest series average ever.