Originally Posted by
tudor rose:
“It was BBC4 last night as part of the romantic fiction special they had been featuring throughout the week. Unfortunately I have looked at the schedules for this week and it seems that the BBC have now moved on to focus on the Great War coming up to Remembrance Sunday. I shall keep an eye open and let you know if it is repeated. I cannot remember the exact title but I will recognise it when I see it. It was about famous love stories and the importance of romantic love. They focused on Pride and Prejudice, Heathcliff, Romeo and Juliet, Casablanca, Brief Encounter, and so on, and all the way through I kept thinking none of them hold a candle to the Jeremy/Emilia love story. If those two were just friends I'll eat my hat.
Day16 to 20 clips reveal so much. 
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Hi rose, I watched it as well, it followed the excellent Mills and Boon drama, BBC4 once again providing great entertainment, and without commercial breaks every few minutes.
Imagine...A Love Story was about fictional romance and as such could never begin to compete with the real thing.
The appeal of Big Brother for me lies in its unique power to capture emotional interplay between individuals, Each housemate enters alone, in their own skin, and the fascination is in how they interact physically, mentally, intellectually, but most importantly,
emotionally. Unlike the characters in a book, film or play, the housemates do not have a script and cannot return home at the end of each day. We see them 24/7 and follow their ups and downs as the BB producers use every trick in the book to extract as much emotional juice as they can.
The real power of BB though is not in its obvious manipulation but in its almost subliminal capability to reveal the more subtle, underlying feelings of the housemates. This is why livestream viewing is essential. The highlight shows are almost like cartoons, the housemates represented as caricatures. The far more interesting emotional hues and shades are way too complex to be edited into a few moments of story-driven entertainment for the masses. Livestream coverage is in real time, with real long silences and real long glances and real long periods when nothing appears to happen. And yet, for the discerning viewer, this is when you really start to understand, relate and empathise with the housemates.
E4 must be congratulated for BB Hijack - the highlight shows were entertaining and the celebs' involvement made each show different and exciting. C4 really missed out on this one. But the livestream coverage was something else, exceptional, mainly because of the highly charged, undeniable chemistry between Jeremy and Emilia. For those of us who 'got it' the screen simply sizzled.
Imagine...A Love Story is on BBC iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._A_Love_Story/