Oh no BB :(

[Andy the Don]

Annoying boring & dull, that's just the contestants..

Interestingly, Peter Bazalgette who owns the production company that makes BB is the great-great grandson of Joseph Bazalgette the Victorian engineer who designed & built the London sewerage system. So whilst Bazalgette's great-great grandfather removed the shit from our dwellings Peter Bazalgette pumps it in.

 

[rennie]

I watched season 2 which was alright but my interest has since decreased to zero.

 

[Epico]

So whilst Bazalgette's great-great grandfather removed the shit from our dwellings Peter Bazalgette pumps it in.

Watched QI have we Andy?

 

[electrogirl]

yeah the bits where he has to look at the cards to remember his own name are hilarious.

leave dermy alone

 

[ovaltina]

Bring back the normal (ish) people!

If they could do this I reckon it might be worth watching, to see them interact with each other. That's what I liked about the first series.

But now it's seen as an instant route to z-list celebritydom, so normal people are pushed out of the auditions and you get Zigelle or whatever they were called instead.

 

[skyscraper101]

I watched the first, second and third series but it has become one of the most boring shows ever since then and I haven't bothered watching it any more.

 

[ovaltina]

Brand on BBLB was a great show, I genuinely felt people who didn't watch were missing out

Yeah we used to love this in my old house. We'd sit around drinking wine, smoking weed and watching Russell. Nice end to the day.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's awful awful shite, but I have found myself getting sucked in by it in the past, although not last year.

I hope to avoid it this year also

 

[Andy the Don]

Watched QI have we Andy?

No but I have..

Actually knew the fact before the TV show, Joseph Bazalgette is one of my heros. Bazalgettes father won the VC during WWII. So its 2-1 to the good Bazalgettes..

 

[quimcunx]

I got drawn into the first 2 series then alienated by the 3rd. I don't bother with it now. Or don't bother with it as much as I can considering I never switch the telly off.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

the begining is always good. Then I don't watch it to the end. Nothing will top sleb BB with Dennis Rodman...

 

[Guineveretoo]

Brian won it.

Carole tried to sell me a Socialist Worker at the pro-choice rally yesterday.

I always say I am not going to watch it, and succeeded in not watching the first one, but find myself drawn in despite myself. I didn't really get drawn into that strange, notquitecelebrity BB a few months ago, though, so perhaps there is hope for me yet.

Oh, and I used to fancy Dermot, and he has left, so I won't be bothering with the BBLB equivalent, either....

 

[rob fade]

Utter fucking toss, full of vacuous cunts.

Unfortunately this will infect the already inane shit that flies around my office. You have no idea how much i detest this programme and the pondlife that go on it.
I'll probably end up watching it though.

 

[poster342002]

One can only hope this year's ratings are even more dismal than last - then we might finally be rid of this drivel for good (or at least permanently shunted to E4).

It really looks like dated crap now, anyway - a typical product of it's time; the most vacuous and fashionably-stupid decade I've ever known.

 

[aqua]

I used to be a lover - I used to watch it streaming at work, watch it on E4 the lot

then slowly got bored of it and last year couldn't bring myself to watch it

 

[Andy the Don]

One can only hope this year's ratings are even more dismal than last - then we might finally be rid of this drivel for good (or at least permanently shunted to E4).

It really looks like dated crap now, anyway - a typical product of it's time; the most vacuous and fashionably-stupid decade I've ever known.

Endemol/C4 do not mind all that much about the viewing figures. Its through the premium line call voting rates they get the greater percentage of their revenue for BB. As long as those that watch it are the same demographic as those who phone vote they will be happy (under 27 vacuous & celeb obsessed). We can only hope that the recent TV voting scandals will result in a drop in phone voting revenue.

 

[Meltingpot]

Life's too short to watch BB frankly. I don't mind reality TV a/ in small doses and b/ when someone's actually trying to achieve something (that one where Gordon Ramsay helps turn a burger bar cook into a chef capable of running a kitchen was a classic, as was the cellist who became a club DJ in Manchester), but Big Brother sems to have no point whatsoever except giving a bunch of people the chance to appear on television.

 

[poster342002]

I don't like the whole atmospheare of the thing: a load of people bitching about each other whilst obediantly following the orders of a faceless master. An endorsement of the capitalist workplace.

 

[keybored]

Squalid mind poison for the lowest common denominator

 

[mrs quoad]

The dreaded Big brother theme tune/logo snippet popped up for a second to announce it's due back on our screens soon and my stomach lurched, are you a lover or a hater?
My kids and friends talk of nothing else when its on but i just don't get the appeal!

I've got 3 months with no work coming up, don't own a TV set, and have a king sized bed*














*in another county, obv

 

[stavros]

I watched the first series, viewing it as a semi-interesting social experiment if nothing else. It was reasonably interesting, but by the end I felt I had done it. Now, along with Friends, it personifies what's gone wrong with C4 this decade.

In terms of stuff to watch this summer, at least we get the football starting in a couple of weeks.

 

[becki1701]

HATE it!!! Hate hate hate!!! Unfortunately my housemate loves it and even watches the US version

 

[Orang Utan]

I hate it and I have to watch it nearly every day for my job. It's not unreasonable to ban my flatmate from watching it in the sitting room is it? He has a telly in his room, but no freeview for E4

 

[foo]

haven't you been to some of the BB parties OU (i seem to remember photos of you and that ziggy bloke...)

i can't stand it any more and didn't even bother with the last one. i might be tempted if there was another celeb BB though.

i ended up preferring Russell Brand's BB Big Mouth over the actual show - that was great fun.

i seem to be quite a rare woman in that i don't fancy Dermot in the least.

 

[May Kasahara]

I hate everything about it with a fiery passion: the shitty theme music; the endless SHOUTING; Davina ; the billions of fucking spin-off shows that add layer upon layer of vacuity to the already meaningless drivel streamed across our screens 22 hours a day; the fact that it replaces even the few vaguely watchable shows on C4; the way people will fucking talk about it all day and then go home and watch it all night.

Thankfully I no longer work at the hospital, where my 30-odd workmates did nothing but yak about it all day every day, but even so it still manages to intrude into my life to a degree that I find unacceptable. I wish C4 would kill the fucker off and expend a few brain cells thinking up some new ideas (as long as those ideas weren't of the Rudetube/Friday Night Project variety ).

 

[Orang Utan]

haven't you been to some of the BB parties OU (i seem to remember photos of you and that ziggy bloke...)

Well, I'm not gonna turn down free booze am I?

 

[poster342002]

Now, along with Friends, it personifies what's gone wrong with C4 this decade.

Along with Friends, it personifies what's gone wrong with society this decade.

 

[poster342002]

I hate everything about it with a fiery passion: the shitty theme music; the endless SHOUTING; Davina ; the billions of fucking spin-off shows that add layer upon layer of vacuity to the already meaningless drivel streamed across our screens 22 hours a day; the fact that it replaces even the few vaguely watchable shows on C4; the way people will fucking talk about it all day and then go home and watch it all night.

Thankfully I no longer work at the hospital, where my 30-odd workmates did nothing but yak about it all day every day, but even so it still manages to intrude into my life to a degree that I find unacceptable. I wish C4 would kill the fucker off and expend a few brain cells thinking up some new ideas (as long as those ideas weren't of the Rudetube/Friday Night Project variety ).

*THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE!"

I even knew of some moron who'd videotape the night-time broadcasts of contestants sleeping and then watch it later on. I mean - talk about "get a life"!

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I hate everything about it with a fiery passion: the shitty theme music; the endless SHOUTING; Davina ; the billions of fucking spin-off shows that add layer upon layer of vacuity to the already meaningless drivel streamed across our screens 22 hours a day; the fact that it replaces even the few vaguely watchable shows on C4; the way people will fucking talk about it all day and then go home and watch it all night.

Thankfully I no longer work at the hospital, where my 30-odd workmates did nothing but yak about it all day every day, but even so it still manages to intrude into my life to a degree that I find unacceptable. I wish C4 would kill the fucker off and expend a few brain cells thinking up some new ideas (as long as those ideas weren't of the Rudetube/Friday Night Project variety ).

I agree totally. You will be watching it though, like everyone else. For a bit at least...

 

[Cloo]

I've with May on it. I think it's nasty and dull, dull, dull. Like soap operas, I have no interest in sitting and watching a bunch of people screwing up through their complete lack of emotional intelligence, it's just infuriating and upsetting, not enjoyable.

Plus I think it's a really bad thing that so many young kids watch it, and they watch it because they think it will teach them how adults behave. No wonder so many kids think life is all about anger and negativity if they spend a lot of time watching BB and its ilk.