Big Brother UK, 2000 to 2010: Which was YOUR favourite series?

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BB5: Nadia, Jason, Dan, Shell, Stuart, Michelle, Victor, Ahmed, Becki, Marco, vanessa, Emma, Kitten.

Too easy.

We did poll this before, obviously without the latter few. Will be interesting to see how the results have altered.

BB5 & CBB4

its a toss up between bb5, bb7, bb hijack (much underrated!) and cbb7. really enjoyed this year's proper BB, but more for the way the producers threw everything in the pot (taking housemates out to perform on the stage outside, the tree, the amazing ignore the obvious task). UBB also great but i need a bit of distance before i can compare to the rest.

i'm going for bb7 because glyn and nikki are my alltime favourites. sad to leave out brian belou though. special award for bb5 for having the biggest wows and mental lols (ahmed's plate smashing, 'no naked jacuzzi', fight night, the bizarreness of the most hateful contestant of alltime curling up into a lonely wounded beastlike ball and coming SECOND).

I know I watched Celebrity Hijack but I can't remember a single thing about it. Apart from the winner I can't for the life of me remember what any of them looked like.

Celebrity Hijack is indeed much underrated. Best of all, it featured Calista, who sang "I love to play my bongos in the morning" on Crazy Cousinz "Bongo Jam"!!!

BB11 came close to being my all time favourite - a mostly happy house, which I tend to prefer, and definitely the best tasks of any series - but it drifted a bit towards the end. So I've gone with the never-less-than-riveting BB5, even if it ultimately ushered in the "painful show-offs" era.

the one with makosi

it astonishes me that anyone watched the last couple - i was barely even aware of this year's happening

I look back fondly on all of them up until BB8/CBB5, when I fell right into casual viewing territory.

5, just ahead of 2 then 3 then 1, I think. 4 was basically too nice, but that set the way for 5 to be batshit - and yes, ushered in the painful show-off era. Did we really have them (apart from Nicola BB1) before Michelle Bass?

BB7 probably plays the smoothest from start to finish. Pete obviously not exactly distinguishing himself after leaving the house, but fairly solid while in it. Great panto style supporting cast to boo and hiss, especially Sezer. The producers did screw up by getting Aisleyne to decide who would be evicted from the other house, when they should have put everyone in the main house, including Michael, one of the great 'lost' potential housemates. Also the supporting programmes were top class - Russell Brand and Dermot both clearly watching the show unlike George Lamb later on. Also a proper psychological analysis show.

CBB5 started off OK, was looking like it might be an interesting series, and then the producers spoiled it by sticking in Jade and her family, totally derailing anything that might have otherwise happened in a shitstorm of bullying boarishness. As much as Donny Tourette is a clown and "about as punk as Enya", he was OTM when he scrambled over the wall while saying "I'm not waiting on that moron and her fucking family!"

BB8 - my least favourite set of housemates, but possibly the best winner: Brian the ultimate BB fan.

I liked BB10, despite several hateful people (Lisa, Bea, Isaac, Noirin) overshadowing some very underrated housemates (Beinazir, Hira) who we didn't get to see nearly enough of.

I probably don't follow the profile of most BB viewers. I only say bits of BB1. Didn't see any of CBB1/BB2/BB3/CBB2, as then I didn't even own a TV. Saw bits of BB4/BB5. I watched the opening night of CBB3, got bored after a couple of days, and then properly got hooked halfway through.

I'm looking over a BB7 thread right now, actually. I thought Nikki was sweet and that Sezer was hott.

OTM about CBB5, would really have liked to seen more of Dirk and Jermaine and even H etc. Instead it was all the fucking Jade show. I think the success of Chantelle the year before must have made them think that it needed twists, rather than just having interesting people interacting, um, interestingly. CBB4 was pretty good entertainment for the most part, forgot how much I liked Maggot until he turned up on BBBM the other day.

Also OTM about Brand and O'Leary, who have absolutely not been replaced. George Lamb and Davina McCall are not good replacements, and this is key to the whole BB experience, for me at least.

BB4 probably my least favourite - I remember the increasingly desperate attempts to hype up the non-romances between Scott/Nush and Cameron/Steph - but BB6 made me queasy, as all the original housemates were just - so - VILE.

And of the CBBs, I'd go with the most recent (CBB7). Again, a largely happy house, and I adored watching La Beacham and La Trump.

BB10 is severely underrated, and might go down as my second or third favourite. CBB7 was also amazing, but it feels wrong voting for anything but the o.g.

It really has to be 5 though.

BB7, no contest. Nikki greatest housemate ever.

Maxwell turned up on one of the BBLB shows this year, he is almost unrecogniseable from his housemate days.

I'd put BB6 as second, for

1) having the most number of distinct eras during the run (Maxwell/Saskia, the 'all stare at Orlaith' era, the Ant/Craig endgame)
2) the last one where the 'tasks' had thought and money spent on them. After that it was more 'annoy the housemates, see what happens' until pretty much this year.
3) other.

Also, nowhere else would the "kinga" happen.

So, is nobody sticking to the "it was all downhill from BB1" line? That's how I felt until BB5, at any rate. But on the strength of the archive clips that have been recently screened, perhaps I was casting it in too rosy a retrospective glow.

I ended up with the DVD of BB1, I think I had entered a competition and the DVD was second or third prize (I didn't own a DVD player then, maybe that was top prize)

Still haven't played it.

They did those 'best bits' DVD compilations up until (but not including) BB5.

Although BB5 was: a freebie that came with The Sun, which was a compilation up to but not including 'fight night'. I believe that's a collectable item now.

there was something quite touching about brian belou talking about BB on come dine with me. saying how he was bullied at school and didn't have any friends but BB gave him something to obsess over and take his mind off it. can see how growing up adopted in an all-white family made him feel more of an outsider and BB gave him another family of sorts. amazing really that he became part of it, almost a fairy tale, especially that he actually WON. if he was in this series i'd 100% vote for him, it'd be the ultimate ending to have bb's biggest fan become the ultimate housemate. monumentally stupid decision by the producers to ignore him.

definite parallels with nikki and brian having a damaged lonely upbringing and latching onto bb to learn about grown-up life. bit weird to think about countless kids growing up learning about life & love from the likes of kinga tho.

im with mike t on preferring the happy house ones.

in this current series there's something really sweet about contestants talking happily about having been in there and being glad they decided to do it, particularly when the common snide tabloid description of them is HASBEEN. this is what i liked most about UBB, it seemed like a celebration, no one has really had anything to prove, just happy to be there for the party - victor and nikki are perfect examples of this, brian dowling less so (it just seems to be another part of his career plan).

BB6 deserves a mention too, the anthony/craig thing was fascinating, so many massive characters in that series. series 5 through to 7 was some golden tv

I was quite glad that Brian Belo didn't take part in UBB. He has been over-used on other spin-off programmes, and he fits his assigned lovable-idiot-fanboy/poster-boy role rather too cosily/knowingly/eager-to-pleasingly.

Which I suppose is also the case with Brian Dowling in certain ways - but Brian D's hyper-self-aware shrewdness mostly sits well with him, whereas Brian B often over-plays his hand.

Well, it's more that Belo is a BB pundit, so is where he should be, whereas Dowling is more an entertainer/comedian.

#5 easily. Makosi was terrible.

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true.

Yeah 5 was the best, then 1.