Big Brother 2010 (UK) Thread 1: Unknown Pleasures

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The trailer shows a sombre funeral presided over by voice of Big Brother Marcus Bentley, and attended by former Housemates loved and loathed, as they bid fond farewell to the show that made them household names. But, as the diary room chair is lowered into the ground the scene erupts into a colourful mardi gras as the true nature of the show is celebrated with a joyful explosion of confetti, carnival music and dancing.

OK, breaking with tradition slightly, with the first Joy Division album title instead of a seemingly inappropriate New Order one, one last time around the funfair and then away...

(It Starts in June)

aw, this is the last time I get to have "OPINIONS" on BB personalities based on a blog rather than by watching the series

haha

I believe this thread needs the Jagger.

I believe the Big Brother House needs the Jagger (I might watch this one after a three year hiatus, just because it's there)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1274783/Remember-Fame-hungry-Big-Brother-stars-resurface-bury-diary-chair-mock-funeral.html

I want them to keep the celeb one going. Don't really give a shit for the wannabe version.

after all these years, Makosi is still amazingly hot

I believe (if other BBS are to believed) that the Jagger believed the Big Brother House needed the Jagger as well, but I don't think he can spill until the series starts.

let's all take the obvious masturbation joke as read and move on

There's a reason that the House Rules are covered with wipe clean plastic...

(this isn't the reason though - NSFW)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/big_brother/2983997/The-Big-Brother-bad-girls-take-part-in-Lady-GaGa-esque-photoshoot.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/big_brother/2983997/The-Big-Brother-bad-girls-take-part-in-Lady-GaGa-esque-photoshoot.html

^anyone got that in hi def?

I would have thought that people would have been asking for it in lower res...

Big Brother bosses confirm that there will be between 80 and 90 hopeful housemates on launch night.

Blimey!

"We've got our shortlist of people coming down on launch night," he said. "There will probably be around 80 or 90 people. They are all coming down to join in this last carnival which is Big Brother.

"None of them will know whether or not they have been picked. To be honest, not even we know all of them yet. Some of them we do, some we don't."

He continued: "Big Brother still makes the decision on who goes in the house, like it has always done. You will just see the moment when they find out who enters this wonderful, beautiful house. There will be between 12 to 14 housemates. I'm being truthful, we genuinely don't know at this point how many. We haven't finished selecting yet, we are just trying to get the mix right."

Explaining the physical setup on Wednesday night, he said: "They will still walk in individually and get their own walk into the house. They are just not pulling up in cars, getting booed or cheered. We are doing it in a slightly different way.

"They will be outside. On the big staging outside. Davina will be there. The big crowd will be there. They will all be there in the middle with their name badges on. Big Brother will announce who is going in the house, then you'll see their face as they start screaming, gibbering or running away madly from it. Who knows?"

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bigbrother/news/a223635/full-bb11-launch-night-details-confirmed.html

Two days from now! Two days from now! I'm so eff-ing excited! And I know I'm going to be so annoyed by shit tasks and twists that I'll feel like switching off in disgust after half an hour! And I know that despite that I'll keep watching for three months!

Given this clashes with the start of the World Cup, I don't even expect to go through my usual "watch for a week out of curiosity before getting bored" and I suspect that media coverage will be lower than it's ever been.

The tabloids and celeb magazines pretty much ignored BB last year as well.

Yeah when the only magazines that give a shit about BB are Nuts and Zoo you know it's dead in the water.

Nuts/Zoo coverage was pretty much centred on Sophie, as she had already been in both magazines before BB. Unless there's a housemate this year in a similar situation, the only media coverage outside C4/E4 might a resurgence of interest from the broadsheets and TV arts/critic programmes.

Yeah there's no way in the world they'll pick a female housemate with nice breasts.

Can't imagine they'll have any topless models as housemates this year

Age of austerity, only small breasts allowed

cleavage crunch

Watched the thing on C4 last night while cleaning, did a squee because I didn't realize friend* was duty producer on Fight Night. o_0

*did not meet person until a year later.

i thought this ended last year? who on earth gives a shit any more?

The first (and only) Big Brother to be shown during a Conservative administration.

i've worked w/ one of the potential glaswegian entrants pictured in the (scottish) metro today

This just in:

80 housemates to choose from today, a large number go in.

The show normal runs for 11 weeks, the winer gets the cheque and waits for their final eviction. This never happens..

instead, the show continues with housemates past (celeb and normal) joining the house. Until the end.

Source: Davina, on Chris Moyles' show.

sounds shite

Mark are you honestly actually excited about this?

What's the betting that they cancel the "stick past housemates in with the winner" idea?

I believe the Big Brother House needs the Jagger (I might watch this one after a three year hiatus, just because it's there)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 18:00 (2 weeks ago)

you'll be amazed at how nearly this happened but for a belated vision of common sense

Probably sensible, think what future employers might find when they Google you!

it is always very cheering when you say that

Mark are you honestly actually excited about this?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:12 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Right, here is the mission statement with regard to this thread, and the threads in past years.

There are a great many dedicated "big brother" forums, most are populated by fanaticists.

This is the place for people who are interested, but have a life. Plus, perspective. And, in past years, a few well informed insiders.

Am I 'excited' by this? No, not really. Will I watch? sure. Is Big Brother still important?

Well, that's a big question, but one point of view: You will never know how many sorts of people even exist without watching how they react to each other, to the controlling influence of a 'benign' authority figure and to external events, as you will here.

I think Gigli said it best when he sang "On with the Motley"

ah okay i'm going to watch the launch instead of Office space, coz i know they'll repeat that anyway.

this could be a bad move, and worst is i end up following this dreadful thing on tv. or i just keep reading this thread.

I might watch on +1 because Foetus Apprentice will be fulfilling my reality needs at 9pm.

One of them's from Paisley.

Ailsa, watch bb live and apprentice after. That's what I want.

there's a v. strong possibility I'm on dis ting, at least for now.

'want'? Am going to do, meant to say.

HERE WE GO!

RELEASE THE VERMIN

Welcome now my friends to the show that never ends will end in 13 weeks. Unless ITV decide to bring it back (please no...).

Gukbe, I can't, I don't have sole custody of the remote control :-(

in this brave digital age there shd be a channel which is just a perma-BB house that never stops

god I hope they don't use any of these tossers from the intro

81 people and all of them seem to be white apart from two black guys? WTF?

lol Davina Macaw

25 years of miming booze and drugs and he still doesn't know his own song.

3rd: Chantelle

I think Nikki might actually die of shock if she wins.

She is wearing actual Louboutins. xpost

You know what some of these retrospectives needed? Brand and some vintage BBBM.

Was it really good back in the day? I'm a young'un who wasn't allowed to stay up late so I basically just remember repeated references to Paul Scholes' scrotum or something.

He said ballbag a lot but he was v funny quite often

xxp the BB7 BBBM episode with Dermot and Cheggers was my favourite

Brand also clearly watched and formed his own opinions about the housemates, and was fiercely defensive and often supportive of even the "hated" ones. George Lamb is a fucking insult of a replacement.

Chantelle's best bits = lots of crying

Did Lamb ever actually watch the show? He didn't seem to enthused by it on BBLB did he?

That BB7 BBLB episode was the same day that Nikki went back into the house, and Dermot's analysis of what that meant for her/Pete/the other housemates/the public was just so OTM that it was clear he'd been following the show very closely. Rather than just turning up at the studio and being given a two page summary.

2nd: Nikki
1st: Brian

And it's...

BRIAN!

Well done Brian. Right decision, well done people.

BBBM was awesome when he was on it.

You know that Family Guy episode when Peter becomes obsessed with Surfin' Bird and at one point is reading the paper, and says to Brian "This is curious. I seen no mention of an ornothological phenomena I was convinced all readers were aware of. In fact I was certain the entire population understood the taxonomical nature of the avian relationship. <ridiculously long pause, with knowing looks> Everybody knows about the bird, don't you know that the bird is the word..."?

Every night Brand would do the same joke before the break about pulling down his trousers and pants (with actions), wanking his dinkle to a semi and remonstrating with the celebrity involved in the anecdote. The joke itself was SO WEAK but the journey to the punchline was incredible.

Nikki's hair is all wrong, btw, but I do love her dress. It doesn't suit her, like, but I really like it.

So funny that when she goes for formal it's kind of Mad Men.

xxp I think that a lot of the latter problems with Brand's career can be traced to him not understanding what made that joke funny. As you say, it was the journey to the punchline, but for some reason Brand came to the conclusion that it was him saying "oooooooh my dinkle!". And his career's suffered ever since.

Burger King ad freaks me out, because he looks like at least two people I've worked with.

And I love Nikki's hair - she's so small but somehow it suits her to have this huge teetering beyond-Rod-Stewart explosion.

The brass band is embarrassingly shit.

Release Brian!

I'd have preferred Victor but there was only ever going to be one winner.

Thanks for years of on and off ILX BB waffle guys. Like the LOST threads, a huge part of the fun was reading about it on ILX.

See you all on the shitty Channel 5 version next summer?

It would really take some heavy re-tooling to get me to watch BB on another channel. For a start, whoever takes it on would have to rebuild the show from the ground up to properly integrate social networking and video websites.

onimOTM

^^^ I would have felt like a total saddo watching BB without these ILX threads

I'm glad I came back for the end with you guys.

LOL, am glad Ailsa came back for the end too, ;-)

Yeah, this kind of became UBB thread in the end.

That was a nice wee tribute to Davina, almost makes you forget that's she's just a shit interviewer who got very very lucky.

Haha, tweedledum, tweedledee and tweedleTWAT.

Closing montage was excellent. I feel a bit sad now. In both senses.

WTF are we all going to do now?!?!

Apprentice, Strictly, X Factor. Is not the same though.

aaaaaaaah.

(Lock thread)

bye bb love u forever

thanks for the memories

and by memories i mean this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VS6_3MECLA

I'M NOT. GONNA. SUCK. FUCKIN. ARSE. HOLES.

aw I'm sorry I missed this but my friends are dicks and chose to return to town today. I miss Russell Brand too! Never gonna hear that fucker Lamb ad lib about Derrida or the French Revolution. Poor Victor and Nikki, although I have nothing against Brian so good for him, may he develop a career again.

worst thing about lamb is his bored tone of voice, a disgusted supercilious sneer at the idea anyone listening to him go on about this dross. nothing likeable about him at all, used to love bblb but couldn't watch it once that charmless fuckwit became involved.

pretty gutted about UBB winner tbh, such an obvious boring choice. i always found brian watchable in a dumbed-down mainstream itv chatshow way and it was important for bb to have that, but the best parts always came out of left-wtf-field, cf: previous-but-one clip, brian belou's babe pig in the city ramblings and glyn's egg song. people bounced off brian well (nadia pmt chat) and he's undoubtedly a lovely guy to know but he hasn't had any memorable tv moments of his own making (zero in this thread so far or on all the best of bb shows/articles). i got the most out of bb when it was showing the maddest moments of extreme personalities whereas brian is just a nice normal chap being nice and normal.

I don't think brian was that boring the awkward stuff with josh was brian's choice and making and he said last night that in the ubb he'd consciously decided not to be abrasive and I have no problem with that and he did it well meanwhile the nadia pmt chat was brian bouncing off of nikki not vice versa also his reaction to makosi suggesting lindsay lohan was dead was the same

on george lamb though I could not agree more dermot always seemed to really engage and take things seriously within the show where george lamb always seems to laughing at housemates and viewers and the whole show in an ugly way what a cunt

as great as later bbs still could be and were the experience for me was v definitely impacted by the departure of dermot (I didn't watch bblb the last few years as it became useless and annoying) and bbbm becoming even more crude and inane and crap over the years (was never that great but these last couple of years were just awful) and the disappearance of bbbb (big brain - a wee bit rubbish but did add some small different dimension) and the diary room uncut

this is what I always say though

he hasn't had any memorable tv moments of his own making (zero in this thread so far or on all the best of bb shows/articles).

His 360° vomit was a laugh, rewind and watch again moment.

^ this. I really liked him without him ever having to be event TV though.

His 360° vomit was a laugh, rewind and watch again moment.

― pissky in the jar (onimo), Saturday, 11 September 2010 21:17 (2 days ago)

yeah good point, just watched the davina goodbye show and was reminded of this one.

that goodbye show must have been made on a budget of 50p though, so cheap and shitty. pete burns's godawful rendering of YSMRR topped it off perfectly. it did make me want to see an hour long highlights show of each series though, so many great moments that need rediscovering

Yeah, enjoyed the closedown with the echoey quotes: comprendez? i could kill you with these two fingers, etc. I wish they'd included "there's a new type of music taking over the world and it's called indie" though.

Still, I never have to see Kinga and the bottle or George Galloway's cat thing ever again.

apparently there were dvds released for the first 4 series. think s4 was a giveaway with the sun. can only find the s1 dvd on torrent sites though. the new s1-11 highlights dvd is meant to be rubbish - a 45 min highlight show and 3 full episodes (two from s9 and one from s11, weirdly). but yeah, really need reminding why i hated people like sezer, jason, tim so so much. there could be a great 60-90 min summing up doc of each series, following the basic narrative + all the best chuckles.

Let go.

nice

think they're bringing out a DVD best-of thing

oh I see