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Pattie444
Member
07-03-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:09 pm
Lot's of shows are shot "live" to tape. Lot's of shows are taped and edited and you think they are live. I'm just glad this show isn't going 62 mins because I hate that on ABC shows. My DVR does not understand 62 min. shows and you miss last 2 min.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:10 pm
Rebel, I believe the phrase Chima used was that she would ruin the live show. Its a bit more than a fit.
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Jeffm1986
Member
08-07-2009
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:11 pm
Exactly where is the BB house located?
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Jushvnfn
Member
07-29-2006
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:12 pm
Thanks Justin42...funny I was just saying to Pajenster last night, I wonder what happened to Justin42. I haven't seen your posts since you said you were going to the show. I thought they kidnapped you....lol IMO CBS would have had even higher ratings tonight if we had gotten to some of the things happening right now on the feeds!
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Rebelmomx2
Member
08-16-2006
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:13 pm
Mummy: Aren't production giving her too much credit.... They could just slap her with a violation of her contract or something inline with that or a huge fee... Chima seems to appear that she has done this in her past and gotten away with it... BB should have know better before they casted her, IMO... OR like others have stated above: keep her in the HOH or better yet, cut her mic completely in the event she starts going off...
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:13 pm
If they are having to do all this because of Chima's threats, she really should be removed from the house. Granted, it might be a time frame problem, but rather than be afraid of her threats, just show her the door. Who does she think she is? In RL, she'd be shot by now if BB was really in charge.
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Justin42
Member
08-05-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:13 pm
Real life has been kinda busy and I've been dealing with computer issues.. which has also been why my writeup of 7/30 isn't posted.. ugh. 
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Lillian
Member
07-29-2009
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:13 pm
All this anger that Chima has pulled one over on BB and fans are suffering for it - all based on speculation! Do any of us really know why they're taping early today? No. In fact no one has brought up another possibility - Julie. This show is outside of anything they've had to do before, and maybe she just hasn't had time to rehearse the new sequence of events, new scripting etc. Maybe they're doing it for her. Maybe they are also doing it for other members of the show crew. Maybe they tried to block out the timing and found that it just made more sense to tape it a few hours early, and then make it fit. And maybe it is about Chima, but isn't the show's fault - maybe AG et al were fully prepared to do it live, and the network or key sponsors insisted that they control the swearing or disruptions, so they had no choice. Before we lay blame all over the place, it would be good to know the truth, no?
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Loppes
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:13 pm
(checking in from work) Why is everyone assuming that BB is taping the show earlier because they are scared of Chima outbursts? There is a delay before anything hits the airwaves. I don't think it has anything to do with Chima, but the fact that whoever is evicted will have to do interview then be taken to the Jury House (the location we do not yet know of). Let alone they may have a pretty big HOH comp scheduled to begin also (remember the volcano and how much set up time it took)? I for one for now am not gonna give Chima the power and credit for the reason being the show is being taped earlier.
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Chere
Member
08-10-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:16 pm
I wonder if it has even occurred to Chima that if someone from her alliance won the secret power and overturned Russell's nominations to save Ronnie last week would there be any outrage on her part.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:17 pm
Lillian, I agree. The rumor being acted as fact just because of a HG being disliked is crazy, imo. This is the first time the CDT is being played. I still think it is because of time until I hear otherwise. After what Marcellas said about AG and DW, I really don't think it has anything to do with Chima.
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Justin42
Member
08-05-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:18 pm
If they were worried about prep time, etc, it doesn't make sense to tape the show earlier... Again, I absolutely think this has everything to do with Chima simply because we've never had this sort of situation before. And I think it's great we FINALLY have a BB where the constestants are riled up enough to threaten to rebel! I mean, this isn't supposed to be a spa getaway for 3 months where you work on your tan, play some silly games, and someone walks out winning money at the end. BB is supposed to be in control, and that's supposed to drive everyone nuts. US BB has been taken over by the contestants' own paranoia and BB is entirely passive. Chima making this personal is exactly what the show should be about but BB is blowing their response. After watching BB for all these years, any time you can blame problems on production's ineptness, you're usually right on.
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C1mag
Member
07-12-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:18 pm
Yeah I'm not handing over Chima control of this tape delay situation. I think it's more based on time and all they are doing today and this evening. I think alone without all the other stuff they would have went live with a plan to deal with her behavior. In fact the way AG operates I'd think she'd love it to have some girl yelling in the background and singing while Julie cuts back to studio and the studio is laughing LOL. I mean it makes for good TV. Can you imagine hearing "It's a small world being sung real loud?" hahaha or her just saying lalalalalalalala real loud? Delay gives you enough time to mute the cuss words. You can work around a ranting person. Shoot thats the drama they want.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:18 pm
Justin saw a post of yours I missed while typing lol...so I kind of had a clue, but makes sense. BOY I wish you were there this week too. I want someone I know and trust to tell us what actually went on!!! BTW, the fact that Chima COULD have this much power over a network TV show screams to me that AG is truly done as lousy a job as EP as I've given her "credit" for. Why didn't she just call Chima in and say "We have heard your threats, spoken to our legal dept and let me inform you what will happen if you foolishly pursue ANY of them. We will immediately mute you, go to commercial and you will be removed from the house by security. Then the CBS legal team will sue you for all expenses and damages for violating your contract and interrupting a live show. The LA police will be on hand to arrest you for this disturbance, we will be filing variety of charges which you can of course legally dispute from the LA county JAIL. I'd remind her of the one phone call. Additonally, we will make it our mission to make sure you NEVER see the light of day on any major production in this industry, as clearly you will have proved you have a destructive agenda and cannot be worked with." If I was EP that is how I would have dealt with it, not changed the time and let the school bully win! Someone tell me again how in the world AG is EP for a major network??? Seriously!
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Rosem4243
Member
06-27-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:20 pm
"Before we lay blame all over the place, it would be good to know the truth, no?" NO! I want my live feeds or I'm going to make them pay!!! (channeling Chima)

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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:21 pm
Ok other than Jeff standing up and naming the replacement noms, and them allowing more time for it (which is why they had time for audience questions LAST week), if it isn't Chima, why didn't they do it this way last week as well, when Jeff might have used the power. Sorry this IMHO is ALL Chima and her endless threats. If not last week would have been handled this way as well logically.
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C1mag
Member
07-12-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:22 pm
Lurk don't get me started on AG. the one area I'd disagree with you as far as threatening her is suggesting they'd ruin her future. I'd sway away from ever saying that. The other stuff I suppose would be ok. Marcellus seemed to think she was told pretty much the same thing in regard to her contract.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:23 pm
LOL and very well done Rose!!!! Unless and until someone can intelligently explain my post of 1:21, I refuse to consider this change is anything BUT the Chima factor!!! I wish BB would at last tape the HG live and let us watch via FB, but don't think they care all that much about us sadly.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:23 pm
Lurk, they knew Jeff wasn't going to use the power last week. They know he is this week.
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Joyceellaine
Member
07-30-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:23 pm
They have done this before. I remember everything being blacked out and all of us who paid for the feeds were so mad. then when we saw the feeds accidently and saw a couple of people there, we were speculating about who got kicked out, and then it went black again, until after the thurs. night show aired.not a first.
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Lillian
Member
07-29-2009
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:24 pm
lol Rosem
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Rosem4243
Member
06-27-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:24 pm
As far as 'time' being a reason for taping the show: Are you kidding me?? They waste half the show with 'previouslies' and 'description of comp' and then show it all again in black and white. The show is so repetitive that I can watch it in about 20 minutes when it's DVR'd, so I don't buy the 'time' issue. They have an entire 42 minutes, they could do it if they wanted to, just eliminate the 'filler'.
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Nala63
Member
09-20-2005
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:24 pm
Justin, how do they make sure no one in the audence uses there phone to text about the show while its going on??
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:24 pm
I don't think it has anything to do with Chima threatening to have an outburst. They are BB, they control the show, they control her paycheck. Sure, she can say something on live TV, but they have at least a 7 second delay, which they could up for tonight. They could silence a tantrum and would get HUGE ratings if they had to cut a few seconds of a live show. Oh, the blogs and message boards, alerting everyone that it's "must see tv". My opinion only, but it's all about getting the show done and spending some time editing it if necessary. They've never played out a CDE on a live show. Lots of unknowns in the timing issue. Just my two cents. :-)
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 1:25 pm
Lillian, I think everyone is just speculating more than bashing. JMHO
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