BB2 was my favourite.

I remember watching LF for hours, just for Helen and Paul. Especially in their last week together.

I'm still here, still watching!

Narinder's just been booted out, watching her eviction interview. The eviction crowds have been amazing, so full of positivity.

'I've lived my life like an international pop star'

He hasn't said that yet. I think he saves the mega-cringe stuff for later on in the series

Yes it was later best not to peak too early.

that was during the candle lit dinner date he had with Helen all that stuff came out!

Yes! In the den, if I remember rightly? I think I have a few more to plough through before I get there though...although the shrink guy is talking about them being flirty on the one I'm watching right now, and that's only day 32.

Wait, did I imagine them having a dog at some point in this series?

*adopts geordie accent*

Day 37.....

Haha, thank you Couple more hours and I'll be there, I have world record attempts to watch first!

oooo the sugar cubes!!!! exciting!

Oh god, I remember that gorgeous little white dog!

It's kinda sad how much the show has changed.

It is! And the sweetcorn! They've just been pretending that Josh and Bubble were hypnotised. All good clean fun. That's actually another thing I've noticed, this series is a whole lot more innocent than those that followed. Less swearing, barely any nudity...I'd watch this with my Mum.

Dean wasn't that interesting to watch from a viewers perspective, but he is the greatest example of an alpha male in BB history, as far as I'm concerned.

They all looked up to him; so much so, that in the latter stages, Brian even voted for one of his friends rather than vote for Dean.

I love bb 2001. Brian is my favourite housemate ever

He's SO good. Demons!!

Plus the stevie wonder comment to narinder

Now here you have fu***** fantastic taste!

I can't believe Amma was 23 and Elizabeth was 26. They seemed far older than that.

Elizabeth especially. She's like a middle aged woman!

"Hold me Bubble!"

Didn't the Daily Star or one of the rags hire a plane to fly over with a banner telling Helen that Big G had dumped her, as she grew ever closer to Paul?

Those were the days of people caring enough to get messages in to the house from outside ......

Hold me Bubble was hilarious! As I'm watching, Bubble has just been evicted. I've just welled up, all over again, WTF is happening to me?!

I think I remember scandal about Bubble's eviction?

HELP !!!

I thought I would just have a little peep at the launch night of 2001, that was 10pm, its now 4.44am and I am still watching

Ah the early BB years, based on the classic format. It was all so innocent back then. Even in it's 2nd series the show was very much an experiment. Relationships, good or bad, seemed to happen quite naturally with the odd nudge from Big Brother via tasks. The housemates were more themselves really.

Of course, we did have the wannabe media personality, but only Narinder to my mind sticks out as being one of them. Brian Dowling love or loathe him had the personality already, whilst Helen was just unknowingly hilarious. Remember Penny? the one who drove everyone mad, the first example of a big character being the first out and continuing long tradition of a woman being the first out.

It was a much more gentle approach to Big Brother compared to the beast we have today. It was the following year, Big Brother 3 that I remember "the twist" becoming a thing. The rich/poor house divide was brilliant to watch, and there were some really big characters like Alison, Johnny, Kate (winner) Adele, the real winner of course being Jade Goody. This was also the first year that Big Brother took place in Elstree, the house it occupies now.

Unfortunately, Big Brother 4 or Big Brother Snore is when the Producers tried to bring Big Brother "back to basics" much in the fashion of Big Brother 1 and 2, after the often pantomime goings on of Big Brother 3. However, it didn't work. It was dull, even Davina herself said much later, it was very dull. And it is remembered today as being the most boring series.

Hence! we got Big Brother 5. Evil Big Brother! This is the year that Big Brother in itself became ruthless, out to cause mayhem. The smallest house ever, with lots of weird angles, one small bedroom for all the housemates and packed with just bonkers personalities like Jason, Victor, Marco, Kitten, Nadia, Michelle, Emma. This was the series that had the infamous fight night. And it seems that most years since, has had their own version. Indeed, on Channel 5 this year, every week had a fight night. In Big Brother 5 though, Fight night was shocking. This is the year Big Brother truly lost it's innocence.....but I loved it!

Big Brother would get more heated as the years went on, but I think it was Jade vs Shilpa where Channel 4 got cold feet and said ok enough. The viewers began to turn off in the following years and to me, Channel 4 gave up. They saw out their contract and said goodbye.

Channel 5 have revived Big Brother and it's really a gameshow. It's reliant on big personalities, twists, rivalries and fighting all engineered by Big Brother. And it seems to be working. It's very entertaining but compared to the early years of Big Brother 2001, it is a monster!

[quote=Keibro;79051876]Ah the early BB years, based on the classic format...[quote]

This is a great post, thank you so much for taking the time to do that




I'm the same!! My fella made me take a break to watch a movie last night but I'm back at it today