Sam222 | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 06:14 pm     Since she has been back Amy has often talked about what a huge hit the show is. While I love Big Brother and know that among us here it is a hit, it is not a breakout success. The ratings have been good for the show, I know they are better than last year, yet I do not know anyone else that watches the show. It is not the water cooler hit of the summer, that honor goes to American Idol.(Wed and Thurs I think my office spends half the day talking about Idol I have never heard even one mention of Big Brother.) There has also not been a tremendous amount of press. So i'm wondering where Amy got her info and why they would of misled her. |
Battlestar | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 06:17 pm     --she assumed it from the people who recognized her in Mexico |
Litafreak | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 06:56 pm     It's a water cooler hit where I work! During smoke breaks we talk about the HGS like they are family. After BB we meet our new family on Survivor! |
Bmh | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:10 pm     Ya I guess it is different all over..where I work part time..most of my friends watch BB3 and we discuss it alot..it is fun..they all love it..and none of them like American Idol..including me..so it is different everywhere..but I am very pleased by the ratings for this years BB it is doing very well and never really slips out of the top ten which is great! |
Alaginger | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:27 pm     I think the ratings could have even been higher if the show had not been bumped so many times for football. It's very hard at my age to stay up til 2:30 a.m. to watch a show I'm used to watching at 7 p.m. |
Bailey | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:45 pm     Whether or not the show is popular with our inner circles or workplace, it definitely isn't popular with the media. It's never covered by ET or Access Hollywood. The media has shunned it since season one.. and I don't understand why. |
Bailey | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:48 pm     Also, I meant to add.. I think the place that Amy stayed in Mexico was probably filled with crew members from the show. I think she may have been given a false impression of the shows popularity, intentionally or not.. who knows!. |
Costacat | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:57 pm     Actually Bailey, ET has had weekly segments on Friday nights... |
Niceguy | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:04 pm     If any of you read the mini-reviews in the USA TODAY by Robert Bianco he trashes the show and us whenever he gets the opportunity. Its as if watching the show makes you a sub-literate. There are people at the NY Times that like the show. |
Kyline | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:11 pm     Yes, but Entertainment Weekly LOVES this show. They have at least a min-feature (1/2 page) on it every week, and there have been several full-length articles on either BB3 or reality television in general, with an emphasis on BB3. And they always have little humorous blurbs about it in the "what to watch" section. |
Bailey | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:11 pm     Costacat, I didn't know that. Okay.. I take that back. But even with that, the media doesn't give it the focus as it does most other reality shows. On the most part, I think it's pretty much ignored. I think Amy led the other hg's to believe that once they leave the house they would be hounded by papparazi.. they're planning on selling stuff on ebay, etc. I think they're gonna be a bit disappointed. |
Bastable | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 09:23 pm     It's a water cooler hit here in NYC, too. People make FUN of American Idol, but BB finally has some respect as a good old-fashioned entertainment. Anna Nicole Smith's show is a conversationpiece, too, but still, no one is watching it much anymore. Ratings crashed. |
Sunrise | Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 09:42 pm     Bastable, wish I worked in the environment that you work in. NO ONE watches it where I earn my living here in NYC. One man did say that his wife watched it last year, but the content this year was too sexually orientated. Luckily my girl friend is a BB fiend. Oh, there is one guy at the car port who watches. We have talked briefly and we like/dislike the same people. I have mentioned it to a few or my collegues and they have looked at me like I had lost my mind. Amy got the feeling that the show was a BIG succeess because of the American tourist at the resort BB housed her in Mexico. She has mentioned many times that people were walking up to her constantly telling her they loved this person and that person. Once someone told her not to trust Gerry and also another lady told her that Chiara was a looser. |
Wcv63 | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 10:10 am     Sunrise...I think the woman said that Chiara was loose....not a loser. But I guess it's an easy mistake to make! |