Does anyone actually care?

[Joel]

Maybe it's just me, but this series hasn't gripped me remotely.

Normally you've got the first night where they all go in and you're in rapt adoration of the freaks.
Then you get bored for a while because there's about fifty of them looking in the mirror and flashing their tits and they're all so loud.
Then it gets interesting again towards the end, either leading to a glorious champion like Nadia or a little wet fart of an ending like Anthony.

But this year, I just don't care. I've barely watched for weeks. I watched Aisleyne and the new people go in and was promptly bored. Nikki's forsaken wailing can only entertain me so far and much as I love Pete he's too nice to be that interesting. There's been fights and snogs and dancing and, well, Nikki, but I just don't care.

I think the fact that they keep flooding the house with more and more housemates doesn't help. I've got Big Brother Fatigue.

[somethingbiblical]

I've still only missed one episode. I watch, but I'm not fussed if I miss bits. I've taken to running through to keep checking lowculture in the break and getting carried away and missing parts, but I still look forward to Big Brother every night.

The new housemates are shit though.

[adamski]

That reminds me, what happened to Dawn's hunger strike?

[I Hate Lana Lang]

I like the new series. I love how the new housemates have great intellectual discussions whilst the other housemates just bitch and scream.

[Steven]

I haven't cared for years now. Series 5 put me off for good and I've not been back since.

[SweatShop]

I've not watched the show for a few nights now because I can't be arsed. I've missed it quite a bit before as well.

I might tonight though.

[Rooneyboy]

Its a very average BB this year I think, good at some times and very boring at other times.

[Adrian]

I've not yet watched a full episode, just bits and pieces here and there. And yet I read every thread on here.

Here's to having a social life in the evening, and being bored at work during the day.

A

[smellslikesomeghost]

adrian said:

Here's to having a social life in the evening, and being bored at work during the day.

A

Gosh, you show off! I have no social life and so it is a bit of a highlight of the day for me. I have a nice little something (tea, coco pops, or some such) and settle down to watch. BUT, I don't care. It really is crap. The format seems so over now. The various twists seem over blown and unnecessarily tangled. None of them have worked either have they? The golden ticket (boo, hiss, fix) and the separate house that everyone kind of guessed about. Plus the nominations to evict to the main house that ash**** picked straight away. I'd prefer a more simple old school version I think, where nominations meant public votes and eviction. Plus of course apart from Pete the housemates are cunts.

[LoveMusic]

I've gone off it, haven't seen much of it.

I just think its lost the whole point of BB

[jem]

It feels like this series has been on for months on end. We all know that pete is going to win so i suggest the just get rid of everyone else and crown him winner on Friday. No mess, no fuss.

[Tracy-Ann Oberman]

It really does feel as though it's been on for years. Shahbaz, Dawn and George seem like a different lifetime now!

I wish they would do an old skool Big Brother next year ie not have every contestant already knowing other, not having agents and topless photoshoots all ready before entering the house, and most of all stop all these excruciatingly badly executed "twists".

The Golden Ticket winner was a fantastic idea in theory that should have led to an average Joe being in amongst the freaks. Instead we got yet another glamour model with a bad boob job who clearly doesn't want to be in there, but is labouring under the misguided notion that this will lead to her being a TV presenter. Similarly, the whole secret house should have been great (the bedsit from BB5 remains one of my all time televisual highlights!) Instead the housemates hear them hammering through the night to build the thing (couldn't they have had it ready before the housemates entered?!), and can then hear each other in the different houses if they talk above a whisper. The "twist" of Aisleyne evicting people also badly backfired as she knew after the first one what was really going on. Add to this the number of walkouts and replacement contestsants and it really has become a farce this year.

I'm still watching though...

[Joel]

I'm convinced that the secret house was a last-minute idea - I can't believe they'd build it halfway through otherwise. It hasn't worked at all, whereas the bedsit was amazing. Bras made of icing! Emma's head on a platter scaring the shit out of everyone! Victor having cold showers! 'No naked jacuzzi-NESS!' All awesome.

In an attempt to keep it interesting they've made it boring. My only request for next year is that no-one enters the house after the first night. Late-entrants will never win and it' s just dumb. Unless the late entrant is like an angry mother bear and the contestants all have one of her babies tied to them in their sleep. That I'd watch.

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[I Hate Lana Lang]

I'm still really enjoying it. I know it sounds awful but the sheer pleasure I get from evicting cretins I hate makes it all good.

[Mike]

pandarama said:

I haven't cared for years now. Series 5 put me off for good and I've not been back since.

Word (to your mother).

I can't see it actually getting the axe, but we can always hope...

[Andrew*]

I'm starting to care considerably less.

Isn't it still on for 6 more weeks yet they've already used nearly all the things to do in the Big Brother Book of 'Mind Screwing Twists.' If it were on for the normal amount of time this year and it was coming to a close I'd deem it a quite successful series. Watching these people for another 6 weeks though sounds way too long, I don't even like any of them.

[Golden Meg]

Six weeks? OK that really does make me pine for the first few series.

Thinking back, the first series feels like it was beamed in from the 1950's or something. It was so sedate, and yet for me it was probably the most successful. Nice and short; ten relatively ordinary people who weren't even sure if anyone was watching; no ugly "Fight Night" hangovers; the "who will shag first" obsession was still a bit of a thrill; chickens...

I think the rot set in with series 2 (although I loved that one too). They shouldn't try and have it every year. It should be every four years like the World Cup. Or they should do it celebrity-style. Bang em in and evict them one day after another. Two weeks tops.

What with 6 more weeks of this and non-event dramas like Lost I have to wonder who Channel 4 thinks its audience is. This has to be the most inert telly ever! Nothing ever happens.

[ruthie]

andrew said:

I'm starting to care considerably less.

I don't even like any of them.

I think that's the problem. Evicting people I hate just isn't enough when there's no one in there I like at all. Even last year I became quite fond of Craig and Eugene, but this year the only divide in my feelings is between the ones I truly hate, the ones I don't really like and the ones I'm completely bored with.

[David Hunter]

It's true. I'm a big fan of Big Brother, but this year there's no one to like. If any of them came on your bus you'd hope they wouldn't sit next to you.

I found last night's breakdown of Aisleyne very uncomfortable. Everything seems to be backfiring this year. So much the 'let's see the housemate's faces when Aisleyne triumphantly returns.' Instead the glamorous girl who left on Friday, comes back drained, emotional and wrecked from a secret place they've locked her up in.

Years ago, a game show was someones uncle in a beige suit, doing something hilarious with a potters wheel. Nowadays we're not happy unless we're seeing some sort of mental or emotional torture.