John wrote:
dclarke wrote:
Hopefully BB get in new producers for next year and it becomes a competition rather than talent contest or for those looking to live in the Zleb magazines.
Some have been saying this for a while now.
Nick Bateman once wrote that those who were making the tea during the first series were later producing the show. Kinda highlights where its going wrong doesn't it?
I think, gradually, each new crop of HMs are beginning to realise that the golden road to fame and fortune is becoming less golden with each series. And that's a good thing.
But this year it wasn't so much the housemates that were wrong... it was the mismanaged and meddling team producing the show. I say fire the lot of them!
Just to reiterate some of the problems: What about that target on the floor? The promise that whoever went into the Half Way House would not go back? The inconsistent rules on whether it was or wasn't okay to say the N word? Nomination talk? Saving of Charley? I could go on... and in time I intend to do that.
Big Brother still has masses of potential... it can again be great but it needs to grow organically, naturally. It not a format that the fans want to see manufactured... there is already a plethora of programming that fulfils that description.
Ratings down; producers trying to fix it for the likes of Charley to stay in the house because she was 'entertaining'; Big Brother's close relationship with the z-list media - it was a watchable but irritating show this year.
What capped it all apart from the 'saving' of Charley was Davina's behaviour on the eviction night when David was up. The producers knew he would become a totally unaware comedy villain & tried to keep him in. To see Davina forget subtlety & blatantly almost plead that he be kept in was bordering on desperation, if not corruption.
I mean, who would have thought 8 years ago when BB was promoted as a social experiment broadcast on Channel 4 that only a few years later, & especially this year, the hype & obsession would come from The Daily Star, its sister magazines, Heat, etc. - & not the so-called 'intelligent' papers such as The Guardian & The independent.
Some of the chronological milestones of z-list hype being: the fuss about idiotic & neurotic Nick writing a few names on a piece of paper, the promotion of Helen because she's thick, the saving of Alex against Alison because he was a thick belligerent moron, the 'saving' of hideous Jade, putting evicted housemates like Jon Tickle & Nikki back in the house because they had made an 'ironic' impact, putting in housemates who would touch the heart-strings like Nadia & Pete, putting in housemates who had been on dry-runs, putting in housemates with experience of the z-list media like Ziggy & Jonathan, etc.
