The northlondonhippy

This is just a quick one for those of you who have been drop­ping by look­ing for the “northlon­don­hippy BB column”.

And how do I know you were look­ing? I know because I am sad and I occa­sion­ally look at my user logs. Don’t worry, I’m not spy­ing on you and I wouldn’t know how to spy on you, online, anyway!

What I do glance at (and I have men­tioned this before) are the search terms used to locate my site. Run­ning quite high at present is “northlon­don­hippy BB col­umn” and its really nice that so many of you remember…but haven’t you all heard of book­mark­ing! Trust me, I’m worth it.

I’m sorry to dis­ap­point my fel­low BB fans, but I haven’t watched any of the cur­rent series, not a sin­gle moment. The for­mat just didn’t grab me.

BB is about the peo­ple in the house, not the voice of Big Brother. The fact that for the most part, we usu­ally don’t get to see the occu­pant of the “voice of god booth” is a good thing.

Mak­ing a fea­ture out of the voice of BB by cast­ing var­i­ous celebri­ties is a lame idea. Chang­ing the for­mat was an ill con­ceived idea, exe­cuted by peo­ple who were too quick to give in to the slight­est whiff of con­tro­versy and pres­sure. It lacks back­bone and con­vic­tion and is a total cop-out. It also cheap­ens the BB brand.

Look at how it has been rel­e­gated to E4, which many peo­ple with­out dig­i­tal tele­vi­sion still don’t receive. And where’s Davina? Even her greedy man­age­ment could smell the rot­ten stink on this one and gave her the win­ter off.

And how about that Der­mot O’Leary? Sure they are let­ting him front this series, which is his last on the pro­gramme, because Der­mie thinks the X-Factor is a bet­ter bet. I believe I read in the news­pa­per that even he has been crit­i­cal of this series and I had to read it twice to make sure my mind wasn’t play­ing tricks on me. Talk about bit­ing the hand that feeds you! Even I don’t pub­licly crit­i­cise my employ­ers like that (though pri­vately is another story).

I’m sure I would be watch­ing if it was just plain ol’ c-list celebrity BB, I’d even be watch­ing if it was a reg­u­lar BB, minus any celebrity com­po­nent, but this cur­rent rub­bish has no appeal to me.

If they’ve lost me as a viewer, they have really fucked it up this time. If I was to guess, I would expect the final deci­sion to shift the for­mat rests with Chan­nel 4 and not Ende­mol, but I have no evi­dence to back up this sup­po­si­tion. C4 han­dled the whole Shilpa Shetty thing badly and I reckon the same suits hijacked this series of BB.

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