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No Celebrity Big Brother in 2008
Topic Started: Aug 24 2007, 11:59 AM (368 Views)
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a...c4-in-2008.html
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Hooray!!!! Finally, someone has seen sense! :o

"Build anticipation" my arse. More like can't afford another racism row ...
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At last the show will be axed next year but the reason to build anticipation? No, can't they see from the previous years with the racism rows and the ugly chav from the year before?
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At moments like these, you just want to sing "Celebrations" :D . And if the programme does return just get out you packet Hamlet Cigars :( .
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Hooray!
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horrah for next year, but the bad news is they plan to return in 2009, what the hell is the point of that? axe the lot and good riddance.

(on a further point, we should all blame John de Mol, since he developed the show in his native Netherlands)
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Oh no, don't telling me it's simply "taking a break"! :angry:
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Well it's time for the Hamlet Cigars :( , but still a full year(that's great)! :lol:
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Sorry to bump this thread but I was reading the Sunday Mirror and Big Brother (the main programme) might be off next year due to this years low ratings.
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Sep 2 2007, 11:58 AM
Sorry to bump this thread but I was reading the Sunday Mirror and Big Brother (the main programme) might be off next year due to this years low ratings.

We can all hope :D

I just dont get the attraction to big brother at all, why do people find it such good entertainment? All your doing is watching what you are & every other person in the UK is doing, living in a house. If you find that sort of thing intresting then why not spy through your neighbourghs windows. Ok, you'll be regarded as a peeping tom & proberlly be arrested buyt at least you'll be saving on the electric bill by not using the tele :P
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Aug 24 2007, 10:09 PM
horrah for next year, but the bad news is they plan to return in 2009, what the hell is the point of that? axe the lot and good riddance.

(on a further point, we should all blame John de Mol, since he developed the show in his native Netherlands)

Another stinging attack on Endemol comes from this highlight on QI Series D episode 6, hosted by Stephen Fry as always, with a panel of Alan Davies, Phill Juptius, John Sessions and Jimmy Carr:

Stephen
So, what do you know about the "Great Stink"?

John
[presses buzzer, which rings like a small tea bell]

Stephen
Johnny.

John
In 1858--

Stephen
Yes.

John
--Parliament in this country was trying to be held and the smell of crap--

Stephen
Yeah.

John
--coming from the Thames was so appalling that they tried to get 'round it by hanging curtains dipped in lime--

Stephen
[nods] That's right.

John
--but it was still . . . [in deep, storytelling voice] "pretty terrible, as you can imagine".

Jimmy
[looking at John with narrowed brow, darts his eyes uncertainly]

John
And, erm, so then they had to turn to the man whose descendants eventually invented Big Brother, Bazalgette.

Stephen
The "Great Stink" was in 1858.

John
Yeah.

Phill
I'd like to have been in Parliament that day. Wouldn't it have been great?

Stephen
Yes.

Phill
[in posh accent, with pipe in mouth] "And I put it to the Honourable Member that he who smelt it--dealt it."

Stephen
Oh!

[Forfeit: Klaxons sound. Viewscreens flash the words "HE WHO SMELT IT DEALT IT".]

Phill
What? Oh, no.

Stephen
Oh, dear. And of course there was no sewage system in 1858 to speak of.

John
No.

Stephen
They used the underground rivers--the fleets and so on--and the turds built up. There had been three huge cholera epidemics. One percent of all the population of London had been killed in cholera, I mean--

Jimmy
Is cholera a smelly thing?

Stephen
No, but it goes where smell is, and that's the point. At the time, everybody believed, even the most senior doctors believed, that disease was spread by smell.

John
Exactly.

Jimmy
I still think that.

Stephen
Well, indeed, a lot of people do, because so often where there is something terrible like typhoid or cholera, there is also an awful smell, 'cause let's face it, these are faecally-bourn diseases, and it's when shit gets into water and people drink the water that they get typhoid or cholera.

Jimmy
Oh, really.

Stephen
People smell it . . . and of course they had no microscopic evidence of the fact that there were parasites or bacilli or germs of any kind, so they naturally thought, "This is causing a terrible smell. So to get rid of the smell, we will have sewers that take everything away underground," which is the greatest sewage system that had ever been built, in London, miles . . . thousands of miles of drains. The embankment was built: there, in front of us, and next to this studio. Putney Bridge, and many other bridges, and huge pumping stations; vast areas of London. It was the biggest civil engineering job ever undertaken, by this man Joseph Bazalgette, whose great great-grandson, oddly enough, now runs Endemol and is busy pumping shit back into our homes, but, erm, that's another matter.
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Sep 2 2007, 11:58 AM
Sorry to bump this thread but I was reading the Sunday Mirror and Big Brother (the main programme) might be off next year due to this years low ratings.

We can all hope :D

I just dont get the attraction to big brother at all, why do people find it such good entertainment? All your doing is watching what you are & every other person in the UK is doing, living in a house. If you find that sort of thing intresting then why not spy through your neighbourghs windows. Ok, you'll be regarded as a peeping tom & proberlly be arrested buyt at least you'll be saving on the electric bill by not using the tele :P

Yes, but you can't watch the next door neighbours doing Naughty Things like flashing and stripping off and getting totally hammered then falling over.

Well, not all the time, anyway.

I bet your neighbours don't look like "glamour" models either, unless you happen to live next door to Hugh Hefner.

Last I heard was that they wanted Big Brother to continue but be booted over to E4 ...
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Sadly, I doubt very much that C4 will either drop Big Brother or shove it over to E4. The show clearly makes a lot of money for the station despite the damage done to its reputation by this year's celebrity edition plus the Heat-reading hordes will demand its continuing presence on the screens no matter how vacuous and dull the housemates may be.
I'm not a huge fan of the show but I reckon that to boost the ratings, it ought to be taken back to the original format of 10 contestants, no influence from the 'outside world' i.e no actresses coming in pretending to be Australian, shorten the total time that it is aired for, choose a wider selection of contestants (not just pretty young people plus the token older person and token oddball) and change the rules so that nominations can be discussed between housemates.
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