About time too ! An article by Caspar Llewellyn Smith in one of the heavy weight Sunday papers praising Big Brother !
''.....Big Brother remains the greatest thing we've ever seen on TV, the programme that saw TV find its own voice as a medium.
Every generation since the war has had its great pop cultural moment, thanks to teddy boys, hippies, punks and onwards to those of us who called it 'acieeeeed'. But as my friend Ben said to me the other day, my generation has struck lucky again. 'In years to come, people will look back, and say to us, "I can't believe you watched every minute of all first four series of Big Brother!"' And these would be words spoken enviously.
There has always been a lovely buzz about Big Brother, with eviction nights, for instance, seeing scenes of crowd hysteria. It's an excitement reported in the pages of Heat magazine, which has made Jade Goody a cover star more often than Beyonce Knowles.......''
Link To Article & Discussion Can Be Found Here. Eejay 13/07/03