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Bastable

Friday, November 01, 2002 - 08:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (the one with Eminem's little pink nipples on the cover) is reporting the following:

"First, the good news: After posting decent gains in the key demographics (up 6 percent among 18- to 34-year-olds) and total viewers (up nearly 5 percent), this season, CBS' "Big Brother" will likely return for a fourth season next July, says CEO Leslie Moonves. The Eye has already received hundreds of inquiries from fans wanting to become housemates. As for the bad news: Julie Chen will probably continue as host."

To me, that's two bits of good news! EW just has to have some snarky to say, otherwise they'd leave Julie alone.

To read it yourself, turn to Lynette Rice's "On the Air" column on page 94.

Misslibra

Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 05:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
YAY!! Big Brother 4 eight months away.

Lurknomore

Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry guys I think you all have the bad new wrong...Arnie is likely to continue as producer. This means we will have B O R I N G casting, even more boring eye candy HG's, uninspired challenges and none of the interesting personal interactions that could really make this show special. What just slays me is there is no reason dear Arnie couldn't add some of these factors and still cater to his demographics. Why oh why can't they do this?????? sigh

Seamonkey

Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 11:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Julie Chen :)

Bastable

Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 05:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dunno, Lurknomore, Arnie took a really bad hit over that VH1 rockers-in-prison controversy. No one in Hollywood wants to be perceived badly...I don't know if it hurt his reputaion in industry circles, but it certainly couldn't have helped. CBS is now risking being openly associated with a guy vilified on all the cable news channels as a scumbag.

Lurknomore

Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ah but Bastable, LaLa land is built on doing business with scumbags. What differenciates the successful ones from the failures is their ratings.

I do agree with your "pereception" issue, which is why Arnie will hire some spin doctors (aka people who do what I do but with less ethics and a stronger stomach) and do something that will make his public persona seem golden prior to next summer. Didn't you see the youth awards he won for some bildge. Spin spin spin. (kinda like turn, turn, turn, but the Hollywood rendition) hehehehe

Misslibra

Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to admit I'm starting to like Julie. Either that or I'm just use to her now.:) Arnold will do just fine, and I'm going to think positive that BB4 will be even better then the last two. They did a good job of picking some pretty good eye candy this time. I also think we had quite a bit of drama in this years BB. And from what I hear the ratings were better then last years BB.

Turgon

Monday, November 04, 2002 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well im driving to dallas for the open call so hopefully ill get in and ill represent us well.

Keiffer

Monday, November 04, 2002 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To begin each addition of BB has gotten better than the previous one. For sure this years BB was by far the better of the bunch. We had a diverse enough group that there were a number of strategies used by different people. We had the guy that though being a jerk would get him to the final two, one that thought that trying not to lie would win it for him, one that thought pulluing heart strings because of family needs would do it, and another that just tried to stay under the radar and not make people dislike her too much (an won that way). We had three young attractive females, a couple of young attractive guys, and even a few parents.

There is no way to make the people who long for the BB1 days happy again with BB. Whether it is right or wrong the American public does not want to watch only plain everyday people on TV. They want to see good looking people being put into uncomfortable situations. They want some backstabbing, some sexual tension, and that just wasnt there in BB1.

If CBS wants BB to be a large enough a ratings grabber to a be summer thing each year then they should keep up that casting like last year.... or maybe even get wilder better looking people if they can. After Lisa though that good looking part might be hard to get.

Misslibra

Monday, November 04, 2002 - 03:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Turgon good luck, and please let us know how things went for you. And maybe you shouldn't let them know you know to much about BB. For some reason I get the impression they want people who don't know a whole lot about the show. Even though we had Jason who knew quite a bit about the show, the other HG's seem clueless.

Keiffer I have to agree with you. I think BB is getting better and better. I like the first BB because it was the first. But I enjoyed BB3 the most out of all of them. The first BB there wasn't a whole lot of strategies going on in the house since the public was doing the voting. And who ever cast for this years BB did a good job IMO. I hope those same people cast next years show.

Therlin

Friday, November 08, 2002 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I couldn't get into BB3. All they talked about all-day-long was strategy. I almost gave up on the feeds a few times. It was so frustrating to watch. At least BB1 and BB2 had non-strategy talk.

I think Julie keeps getting better. I think she is given more and more freedom in the HG interviews.