Having just (11:20pm) heard Davina tell the housemates "please do not swear, you are LIVE on Channel 4", I'm now wondering how LIVE the house really is. The current programme, according to the Sky EPG has been on since 10:35 and BB isn't due back on til 00:10.
What's going on?

On the LIVE (Task & Eviction) C4 shows there is a 5-15second delay. On the Big Brother Live shows there is a 12-15 minute delay.

It seems to vary but I've noticed that it's usually 14 minutes and 30 seconds behind on E4.

Is there a time delay at night?

Are you sure you weren't watching the hightlights feeds from yeaterday - or it could it have been one of Alison's very good impressions?! I don't think Davina works on a saturday night and she wouldn't tell them not to swear at 11:20pm would she?

Anyway the E4 feed is, according to the housemates clock - which could be a few minutes out, about 15 mins behind.

Yes. The only properly LIVE shows seem to be the eviction show, Fridays at 10pm and the task show, Saturdays at 10pm. All the rest have 15 minutes delays inc the E4 stuff and the net feed

I think it probably WAS one of the housemate's impressions - they are surprisingly good at it

Unfortunately this would appear to be the case.

I remember seeing a bit at just before 10:30pm live at the end of CH4's Friday night show and then seeing the same bit again "live" on E4 at 10:45pm!

A 15 *second* delay would be acceptable. 15 *minutes* is not (IMO).

Why ?

Would you rather have the show pulled off the air due to mistakes being made and complaints being made to the ITC?

They need the 15 minute delay to censor out anything that could be classed as free advertising or product placement, language or actions that are not acceptable pre-watershed and the like.

Why is 15 minutes not acceptable, you're still going to see what happens, just 15 minutes later.

their is only a 15 second dela after 9pm!!! they said 12:30 @ 12:33 and my clock is fast so their u go!

I am a little confused E4 I know is about 12-15 mins delay, but I was visiting a friend who has subscribed to the video stream from Channel4/RealOne he showed me that the Web Streams are about 30secs - 2mins behind E4 for this reason he is considering cancelling the streaming subscription, but there are very few cuts in the audio

so he has not fully made his mind up yet!,

thats right, the web version IS behind even E4, which is why i cancelled my day old subscription!!

I'm confused by the above. The web feed is live, but was a 15 minute delay at Lynn leaving the house, and the housemates task tonight. You hear them mention the time and it matches the clocks here....

Hmm someone unconfuse me

Maybe Big Brother has adjusted the clocks (forward by 15 min) so it looks live on E4?

im pretty sure that e4 is delayed by about 15 mins, and the web feeds are delyed a couple minutes more than that. as far as i know they werent allowed any clocks in the house. although there was a clock on the cooker which they had to set themselves.

No of course I wouldn't want it pulled off air.

I guess the novelty value of being able to tune in (almost) any time of day or night to see live coverage from the house is dampened slightly when you realise it's not really live at all.

But yes I agree you still see what happens - well except when they censor it.

(Campbell scores for England!!! )