I turned down several requests to be on the celebrity show.

Rubbish.

I'm glad they are ditching this show full of puerile and idiotic mainly young wannabes.

This is a repeated thread see "Good news - Big Brother ...." thread that I started.

I watched it a handfulof times and quickly figured it was a whole load of b*ll*cks.

good riddance.

Good ridance to bad rubbish.

When it first started I only heard a few comments about some show called Big Brother. I found when it was on and tuned in to see what they were talking about. Aftre a few minutes of seeing some people wandering about in a room I thought "Is this it?"

Never bothered again.

I didn't know the current series was still running. Used to be the case that it was thrust in your face all the time by various media, but the interest seems to have faded all round and people are not even talking about it now (apart from in this thread).

Surprised it lasted this long really.

Have watched it since the first series 10 years ago. What once was a study on human behaviour has now become a cheap ticket to being "famous". I swear every year i'm never going to watch it but you do tend to get sucked in. Its easy to be negative about a programme that you never give chance. But once you get familliar with the housemates it becomes a habit. Albeit a bad one.

This sketch just about sums the crap up

Say what you want about UK BG - but it made our silly production company a gross £34m in 38 countries.

Bound to be picked up by SKY or one of the other lower channels.

Angel wrote:
it becomes a habit. Albeit a bad one.

Sort of like smoking?

if one show outstayed it's welcome-BB was it.

But it was pretty fascinating when it started, very unique.

Or can anyone remember the one that started all the reality shows in the world-Sylvania Waters !

Revolutionary and an idea conceived by a BBC producer-to follow the lives of an horrendous Aussie family for a year. Compelling.

I vaguely remember sylvania waters, however I think that there was a reality show much earlier than this called "The Family", which was a fly on the wall documentary about a family called the Wilkins from Reading. It's not exactly the same genre as Big Brother because it wasn't a competition or game show.

I suppose the '7 Up' etc shows were really reality shows at their most amazing..the idea of following a bunch of kids their entire lives !!

Emma Bee wrote:
Angel wrote:
it becomes a habit. Albeit a bad one.

Sort of like smoking?

More like crystal meth.

veritas wrote:
if one show outstayed it's welcome-BB was it.

But it was pretty fascinating when it started, very unique.

Or can anyone remember the one that started all the reality shows in the world-Sylvania Waters !

Revolutionary and an idea conceived by a BBC producer-to follow the lives of an horrendous Aussie family for a year. Compelling.

Reality TV's first success was actually MTV's "The Real World." You could go even further back to the 70's with BBC's The Family. Not reality TV more "fly on the wall."