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Ronjon
Member
07-08-2004
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 9:09 am
The best BB was Season 1 with the chickens and Karen, Britney, Josh and others. It was low budget but I enjoyed it A LOT. It was very real. Endemol produced that. Since Arnold Shapiro Productions took over BB it hasn't been the same. I watched some of the Big Brother UK, where the show originated, and it seemed like it was a way better production. I think Arnold Shapiro strayed way too far away from the original concept.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 9:10 am
While I wouldn't describe the ratings as "high" the show is getting respectable ratings. Not as good as I would hope, but I really enjoy the show and hope to see it do very well.
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Ronjon
Member
07-08-2004
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 9:21 am
Last week's episode wasn't even in the top 20 viewed shows on the Nielson Ratings.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 1:56 pm
I read somewhere that someone on the inside has stated NO HOH this week. Maybe the Public will be voting on the Nominees??
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Northwestblonde
Member
09-01-2005
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 2:44 pm
What I'd love to see is a surprise competition thrown in where the winner would immediately evict a houseguest on the spot during the season. In the same season, I'd also love to have an evicted houseguest get to make either surprise nominations or a surprise eviction rather than the houseguests. I just would like to shake things up to the point where the players are much more cautious about who they evict because of how it will play out later rather than just trying to get people out so they can stay in til the end.
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 2:45 pm
Nope, not bored at all. I'm thoroughly enjoying this season. Now only hoping I can go back to watching "unknowns" next year again! 
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Stopjustwatchin
Member
08-19-2005
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 2:52 pm
His excuse this year is that we voted for those people to go in, especially season 6. If we don't like it, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. But, we didn't vote to put all 14 in the house. We only voted for six, which became eight. Even though we really have to question if those are actually the way we voted. But, correct me if I'm wrong...but I don't believe all four of the S6 members in the house were "put in by America". Plus, BB gave us more S6ers to choose from than any other season in the first place.
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Callasin
Member
06-21-2005
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 3:07 pm
"His excuse this year is that we voted for those people to go in, especially season 6. If we don't like it, we have nobody to blame but ourselves." It isnt the people who bore me it is the tv show. I prefer to see more of the actual day by day events in the house and strategising and less cute segments and diary rooms that are nothing more than coached narration.
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Beruthiel
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 3:16 pm
I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this all stars version, knowing all of the guests already, but I'm finding it quite intriguing as time goes on, watching them and their gameplay, and seeing who has changed and who hasn't, plus, I haven't had to invest as much time trying to figure out strangers, which is a BIG plus to me. So far, I'm happy, as long as my favourites don't get evicted, then I'll think again.
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Avrey258
Member
06-23-2002
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 3:43 pm
Those stupid phone calls between Boogie and Will are one of the things I hate the most! You can just see the wheels turning in the producers head..."Come on Will/Boogie, time for the PHONE CALL". Sort of like Dani's famous countdown. Pathetic.
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Myla
Member
06-21-2006
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 3:55 pm
Is the public bored? Well shit yeah, people. Watching the floaters be taken out and the dangerous hg's not be put up every week. It's like the "stupid" season. lol- HEY! HG"S- ya might want to notice that Danielle's still in the house. That ain't no floater.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 3:55 pm
All Shapiro has to do is look at the people who got voted in to know that this cast wasn't the work of the millions of TV viewers. Making it an online vote was his big mistake. I think the internet forum fans, who are probably...what...maybe a few thousand or even less, are mainly responsible for the votes. Had they made it a phone-in vote and limited it to just one vote per phone line they might've gotten a better idea of what the general viewing public wanted, thus perhaps increasing their ratings. I'm sure there were plenty of viewers out there who watched that first episode and scratched their heads saying things like "Erika? When was she on this show?"
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Caycaye
Member
09-14-2001
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 4:10 pm
I keep saying this...and I'll say it again....(in case Arnold and Allison are reading this) I AM NOT BORED!!!! I LOVE this season!!! THANKS CBS!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
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Beruthiel
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 1:00 pm
I knew I should have kept my big gob shut, as soon as I say I'm happy, everything flips, so forget it. I hate the flipping show, and I'm fed up with the way the producers edit the guests, making the villains saints, and the innocents the sacrificial lambs. It's been my special bugbear every year and this year it's worse than ever. The lying and misrepresentation from all quarters, both houseguests and producers, ruins the whole thing. Ya hear that, Arnie????
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Poppy
Member
07-21-2006
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 1:45 pm
Ber - it's okay - don't fret! Anyway, Arnie's not listening to us - never has, never will.
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Bastable
Member
07-09-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 1:51 pm
I don't really think there are villains in this show. It's a game and the point is to win it. The fact that there have ever been players we would classify as "villains" is already proof of the hand of the editors in the past. So for us to complain that Shapiro's crew is editing the villains to be heroes is sort of ludicrous. It's a game, and they're all playing it in different way. There is no evil or villainy here.
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Cori1592
Member
07-26-2005
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:01 pm
to me, this season is one of the best, I love will and got the live feeds just to watch him. I was one of the few who didn't like kaysar and janie last year and thought this year was just an excuse to bring them in again. But it seems people are finally seeing the truth about them this year and it is so fun to watch.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:04 pm
It was a big problem having an unshakeable alliance from the first show. That's just boring.
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Northwestblonde
Member
09-01-2005
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:09 pm
Bastable, I have to disagree to a point. It may be a game, but so many of the individuals they choose for these reality shows are just a heartbeat away from being arrested. Just look at this show, Survivor, American Idol, etc. I think there are a many individuals who appear on these shows that could be labeled evil, or at the very least dislikable.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:31 pm
Yep, Cori, the truth is that a lot of us still love Kaysar and Janelle.
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Beruthiel
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:44 pm
Sorry Bastable, I think you took my nouns a little too literally, I used them in the fictional sense, as in novels or films, the "good guys and the bad guys", and probably should have used quotation marks. As I've said several times in prior posts this year, I believe that they're all doing what they have to do to win, just that some are a little more sneaky and willing to go further than others. My point is how badly THE VIEWERS are misled by the very biased and selective editing, which gives them quite the wrong impression about many of the Houseguests and the real dynamics in the house. My aim was to criticise the producers not the Houseguests. I just hate how the entertainment industry manipulates us!
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 4:32 pm
I don't think it's just the producers who should be blamed for the perception of good guys and bad guys in the house. The creation of "showmances" to get more airtime and the fact that so many of them turn out to have Hollywood aspirations tells me that most of these people are just trying to make good TV, and every TV show has good guys and bad guys. We've seen enough behind the scenes specials on these reality shows (not to mention comments made on the feeds) to know that the players go into them with a role in mind, and it's often not the role the fans perceive. They do their best to portray "America's sweetheart," "evil puppetmaster", or "girl you love to hate." Sometimes they succeed, like Will. Sometimes they fail, like when Jase went into season 5 thinking he'd be seen as the ex-soldier/firefighter hero. And sometimes they play the part fairly well but the fans decide to throw them into a totally different role, which is what I believe happened to Janelle. She seemed a lot happier last year when she was trying to play the role of the mean, snobby girl. Now that she's been forced to take the role of sweetheart by the fans, she has to worry about how her every move will affect that angelic image. It must feel like a straitjacket. I think that's the real reason this season's game feels more difficult to her than last summer's. I was bored with this show for a while simply because it looked like most of the cast were content to let one alliance run the game, but it's starting to get more interesting now that they're realizing they can't just fade into the background. I'm no fan of Kaysar, but I have to admit that striking at the floaters did put a fire under them to get off their butts and work.
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Ronjon
Member
07-08-2004
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 4:42 pm
It's fun to lay around in your mansion and take things for granted, until the earthquake hits.
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Bastable
Member
07-09-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 5:42 pm
I getcha, Beruthiel! 
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Caramella
Member
07-20-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 5:59 pm
Not really bored, per se...but expect more to be going on since this is All-Stars. I want to see more twists going on to keep the HGs on their toes, and to bring in more viewers. This season is turning out to be a duplicate of all the regular seasons featuring people new to the game. You'd expect with the house being full of all these people who have played the game before the producers would really be coming up with some good stuff to keep the show exciting. I also agree with those that don't care for the Sunday night airing. I always wonder about hte show being delayed because of sporting events that often air on Sundays. Anyway, I still like that the show still airs 3 nights a week, but felt Saturday evenings were better for a show like BB. JMO.
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