BB started years ago as a social experiment and that's why I started watching, is today's version really needed or should we go back to the roots of BB when it was all about the experiment.
I love BB but not as it is now, where is the learning aspect and going for a world record.

Now it's all about getting your tits out, yeah that's clever.... come on, take it back to its roots.......

This is not Big Brother. It is a tacky "game show" which is heavily manipulated to try to keep the viewing figures up and as such has no integrity.
I would love to see the old one return, boring it could be but at least the people were trying to win by being themselves not deliberately being unpleasant just to get air time, but for that to happen another channel would need to take up the idea, call it something else, bring back LF etc, and I don't see it happening, unfortunately.

Well said, Johnan. I certainly won't be watching this series. I do have my standards.....

I dont think it stopped happening because of show manipulation - it happened because HMs became clued in to the game. They did try to revisit the original format in the series Cameron won and that one is apparently considered the worst BB series.

At least C5 recognised that and adapted the format to fit.

It's often said. I don't know if ever was a *social experiment* though was it? Not really.

I know the term got chucked around by the channel when it started, but none of us were that thick to buy it were we? I mean, "Lets see what happens if you put a load of strangers in an enclosed space for several weeks" - come on! They knew full well what was going to happen, they'll argue a lot, some of them will snog each other and we'll all sit in entertaining judgment of them.

It was a game-show!! It had a huge cash prize!! They had to secretly vote each other out every week! It was hosted by Davina Mcall!! It had a live whooping audience!! It was hitting the tabloids every day!!

"Social Experiment" my lazy eye!

Admittedly it wasn't outrageous, but that's only because the contestants (sorry, 'experimental subjects') didn't realise then that'd make them more likely to win - and the showmakers hadn't yet worked out what type of participants the public were clambering to see. If there was ever an 'experiment' aspect to all this, then it involved a production company live-testing what a viewing public wanted to watch.,. And they found their answer... which was why just a couple of series later we were watching someone shove a wine-bottle up their bilabong!

In all seriousness, what would you do to 'take it back to its roots'? Be like trying to put a genie back in its bottle. The only conceivable way I could see it being achieved would be to somehow find a load of contestants who had never ever seen or heard of big brother before.

Yes it should but it wont cos it would be impossible

I'm sure you are right but contestants could have been selected better, it's really down to weeding out the wannabes which only the management could do. So while there have always been people that could have been closer to the original idea they deliberately took the show in this direction.