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I didn't watch it until about a week and a half ago but now I can't get enough of it - tuning in every flipping night. I'm not an avid soap type person and I don't really find the people on it much more interesting than static but I can't help myself - is this the TV equivalent of crack cocaine?

(For info: "Big brother" is the UK game show where the contestants have to live under the camera 24/7 and each week nominate out one of their number - akin to "Survivor" in the US)

My idea is that some of us are sado-masochistic nosey buggers at heart, and can't help ourselves watching other peoples trials and tribulations, and the daily struggle to survive, whatever 'life' (Big Brother) can throw at us to screw up our plans.......


(No, I don't watch it. Too boring!! )

'G'

I used to watch it alot but just can't be bothered anymore.

Sorry owuld love to answer but I'm at an Internet Cafe at presennt and www.chanel4.co.uk/bigbrother has just loaded in the other window.

We now have our own Big Brother in the US now. It's not a big hit like Survivor but I am a closet watcher. It might just be because of a voyeuristic nature in me.
The show is very boring and the characters are lame (no pun intended, refering to Eddy - the guy with one leg). But I still watch it hoping that something exciting will happen.
It also could be that there is nothing else on.

Possibly the thrill of knowing something that the others don't know - hence the "diary room" bits where the characters bitch about each other to camera.
Like Craig doesn't like Darren at all, but Darren doesn't know and...oops, I'm off again

Who do you think will win? My bet is it will come down to Anna (Innoffessive, sweet, guarded) and Craig (confident, funny, extrovert.) I reckon that this week Claire goes, then Darren (PLEASE!!! - those nomination excuses, good grief!) and finally Melanie (who is looking a bit forlorne with out Andrew or Tom fawning over her.

It's starts in 5 minutes. Bye for now.

Clive

Damn so it is.

*hurries to log out*

*gives thanks to GOD for having a TV right next to her computer...*
Why is Anna lunging?

The German version is due to start its second session in a couple of weeks. It had the whole country in uproar. Half the population said it was perverse and voyeuristic and who could be interested in that? And the other half (the ones who had actually seen it, probably) just watched it and loved it. Nearly all the contestants are now TV personalities in their own right and have done the rounds of the talk shows twice each and are now presenting their own shows,

I didn't watch it regularly, but I found it neither peeping-Tommish nor boring when I did watch. Mind you, the first series took place in the summer and they had lots of fun outside with the chickens and the cat and chopping wood and stuff. It might be less interesting in the winter, but we shall have to wait and see. I don't think it will be so successful second time around.

So there ARE people who actually turn on their TV just to watch this stuff? I thought it was just silly season newspapers writing about the show for lack of anything else going on. Honest, I have tried to get interested. I've turned it on a couple of times but got bored and drifted off after only a few minutes. Not the least bit compulsive. Sorry.

*raises hand*
Entirely compulsive
Makes TV so much more of a commitment...

Obviously the compulsion is due to the fact that the characters are real people who we can all either relate to or are at least like someone we know.

I wasn't addicted, but I didn't turn it off when it happened to be on. Partly because I was annoyed with all these people protesting about it, who had clearly never watched it.

At least things happen at a leisurely pace, we are talking real life after all. In soap operas for example, there's always someone dying, falling in love, getting divorced, a scandal an episode. It makes you dizzy.

BTW in the German Big Brother, a couple did actually sleep together, which was avidly followed by the whole nation. You couldn't see much, as it was that funny green light and they were under the covers.

There was a bit which made newspaper headlines where two of the contestants were "in bed" together but it turned out that they were only in the same bed - nothing elkse going on.

I quite like the cod psychologists bit but haven't seen their qualifications liosted anywhere - are they real, do you think?

I can't verify whether they are 'real' or not - although I studied psychology at university I did little study. The fact that I have never heard of any of them is neither here not there . However, from what knowledge I do have, they seem to be passable 'experts' and certainly better than the so called psychologists that I've seen wheeled out on American (and English for that matter but mainly American) talk shows.

I don't think it would be so succesful the second time round. A show like big brother surfs its own hype. Everyone talks about it so it interest the people who don't watch it, so they watch it and talk about it and it grows......like a snowball................Second time round it will have lost its shock factor (although I would probably watch it!!!)..............Stay lucky..

I'm probably the saddest Big Brother junkie of us all. I've got tickets to the Big Brother house tomorrow night to watch the eviction. (It's going to be Claire, which is a bit dull as for those who don't know, she only joined the house the other week as a replacement for Nick who was disqualified)

Is it definitely Claire?

I don't know for sure but I'm assuming it's Claire. I can't see Craig getting the boot. It'll certainly be more fun there tomorrow if it is Craig (I think he's quite sweet)

Classic - pure comedy scouseness