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07 Oct 2023, 7:25 am

Anyone enjoy the Big Brother or Love Island type programs ?



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07 Oct 2023, 7:34 am

I used to love Big Brother when it was on (especially when they had the 24 hour feed), the earlier BB's were much better and there was classic TV moments (Alison Hammond breaking the table, Alex hiding behind the door, Jade Goody, Nadia having a fight with Jason 'fight night BB5' and the feed getting cut and security getting involved) .

Love Island was not for me.


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07 Oct 2023, 7:37 am

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I used to love Big Brother when it was on (especially when they had the 24 hour feed), the earlier BB's were much better and there was classic TV moments (Alison Hammond breaking the table, Alex hiding behind the door, Jade Goody, Nadia having a fight with Jason 'fight night BB5' and the feed getting cut and security getting involved) .

Love Island was not for me.

Presumably you know that Big Brother returns to our (uk) screens tomorrow night !?



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07 Oct 2023, 7:41 am

ImagineDragons wrote:
Recidivist wrote:
I used to love Big Brother when it was on (especially when they had the 24 hour feed), the earlier BB's were much better and there was classic TV moments (Alison Hammond breaking the table, Alex hiding behind the door, Jade Goody, Nadia having a fight with Jason 'fight night BB5' and the feed getting cut and security getting involved) .

Love Island was not for me.

Presumably you know that Big Brother returns to our (uk) screens tomorrow night !?


Noooooooooo! Really?

I'm stoked, I just read about it. :D


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07 Oct 2023, 7:52 am

I should have added that BB5 had the first and only transgender winner of Big Brother UK - Nadia Almada - result.


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07 Oct 2023, 8:08 am

Now reminiscing about 2004. I was running a successful online business. Playing the s**t out of Burnout 2 then 3 online crash junctions. BB5. Life was good back then.


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07 Oct 2023, 8:22 am

I have never liked either of them. Though I would rank Love Island as worse than Big Brother.



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07 Oct 2023, 8:34 am

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I have never liked either of them. Though I would rank Love Island as worse than Big Brother.


I didn't like BB at first and every new series seemed rubbish but after a while it sucks me in.


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07 Oct 2023, 8:55 am

Like Recidivist, I found the early seasons of UK Big Brother were good watching.

I understand the reboot is a back to basics approach so I'm looking forward to it.

Never really got into any other 'reality' shows. From what I've seen it seems like producers don't understand that just watching people interact is interesting (maybe only to me?) so they manufacture situations and create conflict. It always rings false to me and I can't suspend disbelief.


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07 Oct 2023, 9:08 am

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watching people interact is interesting (maybe only to me?)


Not just you.


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08 Oct 2023, 3:39 pm

I used to like big brother when it was on channel 4 but there's no way I would watch it now it's gone to it. I have a feeling it will be too much about the presenters and I don't really like itv presenters. Also I've never watched love island. It just doesn't appeal to me.


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09 Oct 2023, 2:00 am

^ I watched the launch show last night. Presenters weren't too bad, if a little early 2000s E4. Mainly they just got on with getting housemates in and watching them.


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09 Oct 2023, 3:10 am

I think these shows and The Bachelor make a mockery out of the process of finding love

They are the WORST shows on TV and I think they should be cancelled!! !



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15 Oct 2023, 4:15 pm

Mikurotoro92 wrote:
I think these shows and The Bachelor make a mockery out of the process of finding love

They are the WORST shows on TV and I think they should be cancelled!! !

I completely agree! I don’t understand how anything close to love could possibly happen on any of those shows. I did watch the first season of BB in Australia, but had had enough by the end of the show.



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15 Oct 2023, 4:20 pm

No, they don't hold any appeal to me.


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20 Oct 2023, 5:13 am

Not a fan of watching them for entertainment, but I do enjoy analysing them and how they work. The only show of this type that I watch for both fun and analysis is Strictly Come Dancing, where celebrities learn to dance with professional partners.


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