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by Byron
*Edit* And the anti-Big Brother thread is neck and neck with the fans. Keep up the bitching.

(Edited by Byron 27/05/2005 18:53)

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Byron - now that the near real-time commentary has started in the BB thread we don't stand a chance.

Why oh why is BB back? I hate ENDEMOL!!

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by Byron
It's good for other things. Like Friends repeats and ... erm, yeah, good channel.

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Tom Welling? Michael Rosenbaum? Kristen Kreuk? Allison Mack?

Actually, for a sc-fi site, 'Smallville' doesn't get a lot of press...

Maybe they'll get (even more) desperate for ratings and use the plot in Ben Elton's 'Dead Famous' book which is a must read for all Big Brother haters

Amazon.co.uk Review
Ben Elton's Dead Famous brings together his talents in comedy and crime writing to produce a hilarious and devastating novel on the gruesome world of reality TV. Peeping Tom productions invent the perfect TV programme: House Arrest. Its slogan is: "One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. One survivor." This is all a clever parody of the massive TV hit Big Brother, with its vain, ambitious contestants with their:

tattoos and their nipple rings, their mutual interest in star signs, their endless hugging and touching, and above all their complete lack of genuine intellectual curiosity about one single thing on this planet that was not directly connected with themselves.

However, Elton adds a clever twist to this very funny send-up. On Day 27 of the programme, one of the housemates is killed live on TV. Everyone in the country has a theory about the killer, "indeed the only person who seemed to have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the killer's identity was Inspector Stanley Spencer Coleridge, the police officer in charge of the investigation". Coleridge is an old fogey from the 1950s, who has to learn quickly about lesbians, piercings, blow jobs and the seductions of TV fame before he can crack the case. Elton's wicked parody of the housemates is brilliant, the murder fiendish in its ingenuity, and the ending wonderfully over the top. Dead Famous is great fun, and even has some social comment thrown in for good measure. --Jerry Brotton

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by Funky Monkey
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Byron - now that the near real-time commentary has started in the BB thread we don't stand a chance.

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The words "quality" "over" and "quantity" come racing to the surface.

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by Soupdragon
They should play the Crazyfrog theme 24/7 to the contestants while they're in there See who can last the longest before they're begging to leave!!!!!!! Wicked - Moi? No never!

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Oh I like your style!

Seriously though, if anyone could manage to sit through that "tone" for more than a day would be welcome to any prize money

One thing I can't stand about *all* reality shows is the fact that the producers seem to desperately want people to couple on live television - why else would they pick people who don't stop talking about sex and then spend however many weeks it is getting them drunk?

Add to that the fact that this time around they seem to have put them all in one bedroom and made the shower walls out of glass and they couldn't be more obvious if they started playing 70s funk grooves and subtitling the show in German. I understand we've already been treated to full-on nudity and it's been on less than a week.

I am by no means a prude. What sickens me is not these sad little exhibitionists performing for the cameras. No - it's the fact that this has become a generation's ambition. "Oh I'll get on Big Brother and get my tits out - then I'll be famous" - thus feeding the "Useless Celebrity" dream and creating Heat Magazine articles for another 10 years. Where people used to need to have ability and drive to get on in showbiz, all you need now is to have been on television, and people think you're famous. I believe some woman who appeared on WIfe Swap for about 3 minutes and was held up for public ridicule for being a lazy, sponging slapper later turned up on Celebrity -something-or-other. Celebrity? How?

Shows like Big Brother reward the worst kind of human behaviour. Be loud, abnoxious, rude, self-obsessed and crass and win your dream lifestyle. Become a TV presenter on the strength of having no talent, but having once got your jugs out on National television. Be a thick, trashy slut and spend the next 5 years being photographed at the opening of an envelope and falling rat-arsed out of Funky Bhudda every night. *cringe*

you just exactly summed up the way i feel kate! although a lot more eloquently than i could have put it probably

*Gives Kate a round of applause* Wife Swap Managed to avoid that 'Desperate To be A Celebrity Housewifes Swap' new programme idea especially now Desperate Housewifes has ended.

Aye - well said Kate! It also makes a change for it not to be me spewing vitriol about this stuff

Yep, I would've put it waaaay less eloquently than that... nice going Kate!

Doctor Who tonight had the right idea for big brother...

Disintegration for those who get voted out

Ive just come back from Australia and their big brother is on you just cant get far enough away to avoid it, I think they should do an Antarctic version where the contestants have to make their own way back to civiliztion if evicted.

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by JtB
Ive just come back from Australia and their big brother is on you just cant get far enough away to avoid it, I think they should do an Antarctic version where the contestants have to make their own way back to civiliztion if evicted.

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lmao - now *that* is a good idea

(Edited by Funky Monkey 14/06/2005 23:16)