Eaglemagic | Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 08:12 am  In the TV Guide interview, Karen says that her agent told her that her 15 minutes of fame was almost up and that she had about 6 minutes left (I think it was 6 minutes). What do you think? Are you at all surprised that NONE of the HGs are appearing on ANY shows whatsoever. And what's up with Karen's daughter wanting to be an actress? I never knew that until the MSNBC show. I realize that Eddie is doing Hollywood Squares, but why ONLY Eddie? I thought a bit more would be happening for the HGs after seeing all the buzz around the Survivor cast. I just expected SOMETHING more - just a bit. |
Doc99 | Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 10:51 am  I'm really not that surprised. BB was never publicized as much as Survivor and I believe that cost it viewers. I think it was only mentioned twice in the Detroit paper and I don't feel that CBS did much to promote it. Those of us that followed it so closely would have liked to see more of the HG's but unfortunately it just wasn't hyped like Survivor. |
Bbfrick | Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 01:43 pm  Maybe it's a good thing that it wasn't hyped like Survivor. I am kinda getting sick of hearing Survivor this, Survivor that, a law firm here has just joined the hype by doing a Survivor based commercial, and 6 of the castaways were on CBS AGAIN today to sell their board game..... arrgh. |
Doc99 | Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 04:09 pm  I think it's overkill. I don't really care about any of the Survivor people anymore. Guess that tells you I won't be buying the board game. |
Katie | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 05:07 pm  Article about the HGs in the Seattle Times yesterday. 10/18 http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=big18&date=20001018 |
Prince | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 05:26 pm  Katie, not to put a damper on your report but this is the same article was syndicated from the L.A. Times that appeared Saturday (same author). I bet this article will be circulated across multiple newspapers and we'll find more instances of it. http://www.latimes.com/business/cotown/20001014/t000097767.html |
Misslibra | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 06:25 pm  I think Karen's 15 minutes been up long ago ! And I also think that CBS was very snobbish when it came to Big Brother. If there is another BB, (and I hope there is real soon) I would think twice before I used CBS. |
Rockey22 | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 06:39 pm  Unfortunely it looks BB2 will be on CBS, i think it belongs on another network, even FOX could had done a better job than CBS did. I not going to waste my time watching BB2, i sicken how CBS has treated us the viewers and the hgs. |
Renee | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 11:18 pm  I agree that CBS certainly didn't promote it the way they did Survivor. Not only that, but their saying publicly, and repeatedly, that it wasn't living up to expectation couldn't have helped any. |
Dina | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 11:50 pm  thats because they didn't have me on the show(hahahahahaahaha) |
John | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 05:58 am  Even Fox would have done better with BB? I know they would have done better. Having the "old folks" network trying to do something with mostly young people just don't work. Why do you think alot of people (including Eddie himself as he has said in some interviews) early on had George and Karen to win? Because the 35 and up crowd would have been pulling for them. |
Ktsezhi | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:34 am  I wish they would come out with a book like survivor did.... I need a BB fix! |
Jana | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 11:01 am  15 minutes of fame up? yes...it's up....i know we hate to hear that....but these guys will fade into the background faster than Curt can eat a blueberry pie |
Prince | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 12:04 pm  I think it is up for most of them. Its probably in the final minutes for some of them. I'm still hoping that at least one of them does make a mark, just out of spite for CBS/mainstream Hollywood. |
Stillme | Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 01:20 am  I fail to see how you all can say that a show that was on CBS 6 times a week for 3 hours of CBS's weekly prime time schedule wasn't promoted as well as Survivor. The show was on so much it promoted itself. It received just as much hype before it aired as Survivor. Actually, it had more since spots during the ever-popular Survivor heralded the coming of the next great reality show. Face it, Big Brother bombed. Big Brother has a cult following and you all are the cult. It is one thing to criticize the show and wish it was better like me and several others and it's another to actually like the show and it's lame characters. CBS chose boring people who made a boring show that no one wants to see in their boring lives. For many of us, Big Brother was a show with promise that took up some time in a boring summer and yielded opportunities to interact with an interesting fanbase. I learned and continue to learn many things about people out there from this show and its internet following and I'm a better person for it. For others, Big Brother was a show that made many of you laugh and cry and enjoy the characters. That is pretty sad. To each his own. |
Madraffa | Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 02:34 pm  I believe there is still a curiosity factor for all of us in knowing what all the houseguests have been up to. I am disappointed that not enough time has been spent on the Big Brother contestants post-house activities. I hope there is some type of update in the future. |