Celebrity Big Brother - Hijack

[maldwyn]

John’s reward, a place in the final, seemed a bit generous for what appeared to be little effort.

I’m feel a bit too old to be watching this. I hope it moves on from celebrities getting housemates to ‘zany’ things.

Lets hope they let Jade back in with a baseball bat.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I don't even know how long the series is, or how many evictions there will be, so I don't know how big a prize John got.

The fact that Davina wasn't there, that only half the launch show was on Channel 4, and nothing else will be, makes me think that they are about to ditch the whole Big Brother notion, which could be the right thing to do.

 

[poster342002]

Oh, christ, just how many more inane variants of this moronic show are they going to scrape the barrel for before they finally put the sodding thing out of our misery?

 

[poster342002]

The fact that Davina wasn't there, that only half the launch show was on Channel 4, and nothing else will be, makes me think that they are about to ditch the whole Big Brother notion

We can but hope ...

 

[Guineveretoo]

Oh, christ, just how many more inane variants of this moronic show are they going to scrape the barrel for before they finally put the sodding thing out of our misery?

I reckon Endemol, or whoever it is, have got the contract for producing it for another year, but Channel 4 don't really want it, hence hiving it off to E4 and without Davina, who is probably more expensive than Dermot.

I would be very surprised if there is one next year.

 

[poster342002]

I would be very surprised if there is one next year.

I would be very dismayed if there is one next year.

This crappy show looks more and more like an inane and embarrasingly vacuous relic leftover from an inane and embarrassingly vacuous decade.

Enough, already! I can only hope people eventually look back and laugh at this drivel on future "worst of ..." or "TV hell" type-shows.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I think they should have done it once, and then left it.

Perhaps once and then, a couple of years later, a celebrity one, and that's all.

Then we would all have fond memories of it

 

[poster342002]

I think they should have done it once, and then left it.

Perhaps once and then, a couple of years later, a celebrity one, and that's all.

Then we would all have fond memories of it

I don't like all the scheming, bitchy-backstabbiness that became popular in it's wake.

 

[zoooo]

I think a good few years of BB have been commissioned yet. Don't know about celeb version though.

And Dermot has already 'left', this is his last BB job.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Oh really? So he won't be doing the one in the summer, to which he referred last night?

 

[beeboo]

I've not seen any of this, can anyone summarise what the 'concept' is?

 

[Guineveretoo]

12 young people (18-21) with a "special talent" of one kind or another go in to the Big Brother House.

The role of "Big Brother" is taken by guest celebrities who run the house however they like, including changing the rules at whim.

 

[Pavlik]

Lets hope they let Jade back in with a baseball bat.

I just saw on the front of a paper while waiting to buy my milk (the only time i read the papers) that jade is going in.
they didnt mention a baseball bat.
why oh why do we have to keep seeing that hideous woman on the telly?

i suppose i could turn over or even off but i do like a bit of BB.

they were asking people to apply for this summers BB at the end of the show.

and.... there were some disturbing adverts in the middle of it all, one by the twins, 'samanda' selling their fitness cd

 

[5t3IIa]

I've not seen any of this, can anyone summarise what the 'concept' is?

A celbrity *is* Big Brother for a day (in the diary room etc) and gives out tasks and stuff,with the power to, for example, arrange it so someone is immune from eviction or up for eviction every time.

The housemates are all ostensibly talented (musicians, boxer, circus performer, leader of Scotlands Youth Parliament.)

 

[Guineveretoo]

Last night's launch programme had Matt Lucas as the celebrity Big Brother, but he set a task for the first housemate in, a guy called John who is the Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, whereby said John had to do whatever Lucas told him to, as the housemates entered the house.

Lucas had him massaging the shoulders of a guy, and telling one guy that John had had a snog from one of the female housemates, and had him making personal remarks about people's hair and beards and clothes. It was all fairly peurile, even if I did laugh at the time!

 

[zoooo]

Oh really? So he won't be doing the one in the summer, to which he referred last night?

Don't fink so.

I dread to think which moron they'll get in to replace him.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I just saw on the front of a paper while waiting to buy my milk (the only time i read the papers) that jade is going in.
they didnt mention a baseball bat.
why oh why do we have to keep seeing that hideous woman on the telly?

i suppose i could turn over or even off but i do like a bit of BB.

they were asking people to apply for this summers BB at the end of the show.

and.... there were some disturbing adverts in the middle of it all, one by the twins, 'samanda' selling their fitness cd

I seriously hope this it not true.

 

[poster342002]

12 young people (18-21) with a "special talent" of one kind or another go in to the Big Brother House.

The role of "Big Brother" is taken by guest celebrities who run the house however they like, including changing the rules at whim.

Another social-tool glorifying and "normalising" the notion of impune, bullying management, then?

 

[zoooo]

I severely doubt the Jade rumour is true.
Since the whole point of them changing the concept this year was to make people forget racegate last year.

 

[wtfftw]

I severely doubt the Jade rumour is true.
Since the whole point of them changing the concept this year was to make people forget racegate last year.

Yup.

I actually really enjoyed this. I think there's potential.

 

[zoooo]

I still think they should get Avid Merrion involved.
Or at least Leigh Francis in some other guise.

 

[5t3IIa]

I still think they should get Avid Merrion involved.
Or at least Leigh Francis in some other guise.

He is, isn't he? In his Keith Knob the gap year knob guise, the knob. God, he makes me queasy.

 

[5t3IIa]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7171506.stm

The launch of the new Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack attracted less than half the audience of last year's regular star name format.
Overnight estimates showed 3.5m viewers watched the reality programme, compared with 7.3m who tuned into the first in for the first night in 2007.

Nearly two million people switched off when the show ended on Channel 4 and continued on digital station E4.

 

[zoooo]

Is it not likely though, that those two million don't actually have E4 to switch over to?

 

[5t3IIa]

Is it not likely though, that those two million don't actually have E4 to switch over to?

Could be, but you'd imagine the BB demographic are switched over to digi, innit fudge ( )

I have E4 but by the time it ended on 4 at 10pm I was thinking 'Life's too short' and I bet I wasn't the only one.

 

[zoooo]

Both very good points.

 

[poster342002]

I have E4 but by the time it ended on 4 at 10pm I was thinking 'Life's too short' and I bet I wasn't the only one.

Hooray! The tide begins to turn!

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

If you think its so shite why spend so much time repeatedly derriding it on here.. surely lifes too short??

 

[poster342002]

If you think its so shite why spend so much time repeatedly derriding it on here.. surely lifes too short??

Fair point. Though I think it's also fair to point out I rarely mention it on here.

 

[Guineveretoo]

These boards would be deadly dull if we were only permitted to post about things we liked