Big Brother
Friday, September 8, 2000 by Ian Jones · Comments Off
Big Brother is shutting down, the carpets are being rolled up, the beds stripped, the caretaker is standing by the back door jangling his keys. Read more
Big Brother
Friday, September 1, 2000 by Graham Kibble-White · Comments Off
“Anna and Mel turn into two loud-mouth fat slobs who spend their days in bed smoking and eating.” Read more
Big Brother
Friday, August 25, 2000 by Ian Jones · Comments Off
When Peter Bazalgette and Michael Jackson arrived at this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival, a week or so after Big Brother delivered Channel 4 its second highest audience ever, it must have been an occasion on a par with the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday pageant: a gross spectacle, somewhat tasteless, with the subjects parading serenely in the glow of attention and adoration while thousands thronged about them seeking to pay homage at the court of the summer’s hit-makers. Read more
Big Brother
Friday, August 18, 2000 by Jack Kibble-White · Comments Off
The programme makers may well fear that Big Brother has peaked a little too early. It is difficult to fathom a more compelling storyline than the one that concluded this week.
Big Brother
Friday, August 11, 2000 by Ian Jones · Comments Off
“It’s only a game show” they trilled to each other, as one by one the contestants trooped before the camera to reveal who they wanted out this week. Read more
Big Brother
Friday, August 4, 2000 by Graham Kibble-White · Comments Off
When Big Brother finishes, one of the legacies it will leave (besides provoking or truncating extended debates on issues of privacy, representation and exploitation) will be much discussion on the use of the web in conjunction with television. Doubtless Victoria Real (the design team behind the Big Brother website) will fire out a flurry of press releases boasting that they have changed the TV experience forever. Read more
Big Brother
Monday, July 31, 2000 by Ian Jones · Comments Off
Who did you vote for? Was it Sada, with her tarot cards, crystals and droning mantras about being “one with the Goddess”? Or was it Caroline, with the machine-gun laugh, enormous teeth and pineapple hair? The first two weeks of Big Brother climaxed with us the viewers getting the chance to pass judgment on the fate of this irksome pair of contestants, and then seeing how the remaining occupants in the house coped with their former comrade’s dramatic departure. Read more
