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Old 27-08-2016, 23:08
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Don't think I've seen this posted, Brian Dowling thinks things have changed too...

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Old 27-08-2016, 23:51
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Yeah he knows it's a different ball game on C5.

No 24/7 Live Feed to keep the show honest and when they do bother to put a feed on look what happens.
Utterly incompetent the lot of em.
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Old 28-08-2016, 00:21
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was all "produced". Remember the whatsit (??) app comment Chloe made about Renee.

I was looking for info on the after-party and came across the following link where Bear and Aubrey seem to be getting on fine (with Pauly D looking on):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...smokes-8716117
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Old 28-08-2016, 00:29
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was all "produced". Remember the whatsit (??) app comment Chloe made about Renee.

I was looking for info on the after-party and came across the following link where Bear and Aubrey seem to be getting on fine (with Pauly D looking on):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...smokes-8716117
I think it's probably more produced and steered than most casual viewers think but less than the conspiracy theorists think

I think the producers have a good idea of storylines soon after the casting stage and give helpful 'nudges' along the way which some HMs are aware of and others aren't. I don't think it's actually scripted though, not yet.

It's probably on the cards though eventually.
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Old 28-08-2016, 00:35
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Don't think I've seen this posted, Brian Dowling thinks things have changed too...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...ed-reality-tv/

Letting it be known that he'll defend his trophy. He'll probably be in next year's BB All Stars. Unfortunately Bear will probably be there too.
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Old 28-08-2016, 00:46
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I think it's probably more produced and steered than most casual viewers think but less than the conspiracy theorists think

I think the producers have a good idea of storylines soon after the casting stage and give helpful 'nudges' along the way which some HMs are aware of and others aren't. I don't think it's actually scripted though, not yet.

It's probably on the cards though eventually.
I think you are right. It is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes (scripted vs reality). I would not be surprised if the Bear vs Renee bit was fake yet the ADHD-like behavior of Bear was likely real as was it's effects on some of the HMs. However I do think the HMs may have embellished their reactions a bit. Yes, it is a "pressure cooker" but I still think some of it was embellished. I also question if all of them were in on it--I don't think so. I don't think Sam or Ricky were in on anything.

IDK in truth. I think some of them had an "outline" of parts they previously talked about playing. Maybe they improvised a bit....not sure. I don't think it is scripted but I think it is more staged than just the bit we saw on LF. I also think some of the HM stage themselves or work together (even if working against each other). Most of them know there have to be "sides" (remember the 4 in and 4 out from that civilian series when they tried not to have sides).
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Old 28-08-2016, 00:49
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BB has always been "produced reality".
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Old 28-08-2016, 01:00
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BB has always been "produced reality".
No, not like it is now. Things have changed a lot.
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Old 28-08-2016, 01:02
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I think you are right. It is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes (scripted vs reality). I would not be surprised if the Bear vs Renee bit was fake yet the ADHD-like behavior of Bear was likely real as was it's effects on some of the HMs. However I do think the HMs may have embellished their reactions a bit. Yes, it is a "pressure cooker" but I still think some of it was embellished. I also question if all of them were in on it--I don't think so. I don't think Sam or Ricky were in on anything.

IDK in truth. I think some of them had an "outline" of parts they previously talked about playing. Maybe they improvised a bit....not sure. I don't think it is scripted but I think it is more staged than just the bit we saw on LF. I also think some of the HM stage themselves or work together (even if working against each other). Most of them know there have to be "sides" (remember the 4 in and 4 out from that civilian series when they tried not to have sides).
These are some of my thoughts on the process and the business side of things:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...php?p=83761664
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Old 28-08-2016, 07:29
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Letting it be known that he'll defend his trophy. He'll probably be in next year's BB All Stars. Unfortunately Bear will probably be there too.
It's the producer's phone-melting dream, isn't it? Brian vs Bear; the old fans vs the new fans. Watch the money roll in!
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Old 28-08-2016, 08:13
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BB has always been "produced reality".
Yes, it's not a spycam show. The housemates are given things to do for the cameras.
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Old 28-08-2016, 08:56
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It must hurt the aficionados, but the majority of it is scripted. This likely includes the 'controversies' that lead to individuals getting thrown out.

"We'll give you £50k if you say this. You aren't going to win it anyway and your career is non existent as it is."

It moved from a loose nudging to outright script with Helen Wood. That whole series was written in advance. Tyson was a plant to get her immunity - that was blatantly obvious at the time.

But then some still believe everything they see on the television and read in the papers. It's a defence mechanism against reality, which in BB's case is the ultimate irony.
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Old 28-08-2016, 10:56
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was all "produced". Remember the whatsit (??) app comment Chloe made about Renee.

I was looking for info on the after-party and came across the following link where Bear and Aubrey seem to be getting on fine (with Pauly D looking on):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...smokes-8716117
He's only greeting her. They're not best friends but they don't hate each other either. I think it's a bit paranoid to think everything is fake or they are being fed lines. Maybe the people that think that haven't watched Big Brother very long. Yeah, it's changed since Big Brother 1 and they have their own agendas and stories they want to tell, but that doesn't mean everything is fake. Not that I needed them to convince me but I also believe the words of people who have actually been in there who have been defending the show on twitter since the controversy started. Chris (from Helen's series) said they did the getting into bed thing too at the request of Big Brother but defended it saying it's the only thing they did and said the programme wasn't fake. Joel defended it aswell and said Big Brother is the most real reality show on tv (I agree with him). I also remember reading a question and answer thread for an ex-housemate on here once and one of the questions was if he had ever been told what to say while in the diary room. His answer was 'Never'.

Continuity errors like Ricky's cigarette doesn't mean it's fake either. They just show the parts of the conversation they find interesting enough to show. They're not going to keep in the boring bits. If that means Ricky saying something to Bear while holding a half smoked cigarette and then cutting to Bear and then back to Ricky who is now holding a full size cigarette then that's what's gonna happen. This is a bit dodgy though because it's like they're restructuring a conversation. They're making it seem like Ricky replied to Bear with something he said 5 minutes ago. In that scenario it didn't really make a difference but that's something they could use to twist things.
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Old 28-08-2016, 11:02
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It must hurt the aficionados, but the majority of it is scripted. This likely includes the 'controversies' that lead to individuals getting thrown out.

"We'll give you £50k if you say this. You aren't going to win it anyway and your career is non existent as it is."

It moved from a loose nudging to outright script with Helen Wood. That whole series was written in advance. Tyson was a plant to get her immunity - that was blatantly obvious at the time.

But then some still believe everything they see on the television and read in the papers. It's a defence mechanism against reality, which in BB's case is the ultimate irony.

I'm inclined to agree. I've seen it as a 'soap' for a few years. The only ones being manipulated is the viewing public. Particularly those daft sods who spend their hard-earned money on voting.
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Old 28-08-2016, 16:20
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It must hurt the aficionados, but the majority of it is scripted. This likely includes the 'controversies' that lead to individuals getting thrown out.

"We'll give you £50k if you say this. You aren't going to win it anyway and your career is non existent as it is."

It moved from a loose nudging to outright script with Helen Wood. That whole series was written in advance. Tyson was a plant to get her immunity - that was blatantly obvious at the time.

But then some still believe everything they see on the television and read in the papers. It's a defence mechanism against reality, which in BB's case is the ultimate irony.
Agreed
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Old 28-08-2016, 16:52
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I think "produced" reality is the best description. I think a lot of people (including some on these forums) seem to think the term "scripted" means everyone has been given words to say for the whole time they are there (which is not the case).
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Old 28-08-2016, 17:33
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Brian, my all time favourite BB winner an housemate!

Does he mean all BBs, or just Celebrity versions? Have any of the recent HMs mentioned whether it was scripted or not? I suppose they would not be allowed to say if it was, I am assuming they are legally gagged. But, who knows!
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Old 28-08-2016, 17:34
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I think they will manipulate certain tasks for certain winners etc. But I think the interactions between the HMs are real. Well as real as they are being. But the production team definitely splice it all up into something completely different than what actually happened.
I'm sure most of us have seen the 'Screenwipe' episode where Charlie shows how misleading reality editing can be made.
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Old 28-08-2016, 17:35
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Brian, my all time favourite BB winner an housemate!

I think "produced" reality is the best description. I think a lot of people (including some on these forums) seem to think the term "scripted" means everyone has been given words to say for the whole time they are there (which is not the case).
Yes, I see it as being like Towie and other shows like it - where situations are created to produce drama.
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Old 28-08-2016, 18:15
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Yes, I see it as being like Towie and other shows like it - where situations are created to produce drama.
This is it, and some shows have very light producing of situations and some very heavy. What annoys me is when shows push for heavy and the cast/housmates cannot handle it well or do not look very convincing. Americans seem to handle it better on American reality show compared to Brits on UK versions.
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Old 28-08-2016, 18:20
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I think "produced" reality is the best description. I think a lot of people (including some on these forums) seem to think the term "scripted" means everyone has been given words to say for the whole time they are there (which is not the case).
Do they not just create a situation and the 'actors' construct their own dialogue?
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Old 28-08-2016, 22:29
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Do they not just create a situation and the 'actors' construct their own dialogue?
They do. BB is nothing like Towie.
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Old 28-08-2016, 23:24
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Lots of people on here are now absolutely convinced that all reality participants are given scripts to learn. I've seen talk about scripts being 'delivered' and 'written in advance.' This betrays a genuine lack of knowledge about how structured reality works.
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Old 28-08-2016, 23:30
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Lots of people on here are now absolutely convinced that all reality participants are given scripts to learn. I've seen talk about scripts being 'delivered' and 'written in advance.' This betrays a genuine lack of knowledge about how structured reality works.
I think that's a bit overboard. I haven't seen lots of people on here saying anything like that.

Lots of people on here, myself included, don't like that it's been switched to "structured reality"( which is a seriously wanky term in my opinion ). But I've not read anybody saying it's totally scripted or that the HMs had to learn their lines except when they're being sarcastic. I think maybe you're taking a lot of posts at face value.

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I just realised that you might not be talking about BB in particular but more about TOWIE/GS shows. In which case I misunderstood your post.
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Old 28-08-2016, 23:32
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I think that's a bit overboard. I haven't seen lots of people on here saying anything like that.

Lots of people on here, myself included, don't like that it's been switched to "structured reality"( which is a seriously wanky term in my opinion ). But I've not read anybody saying it's totally scripted or that the HMs had to learn their lines except when they're being sarcastic. I think maybe you're taking a lot of posts at face value.
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