Big Brother 5: Do We Love It or Loathe It? ; Some Say That Reality Tv Is Dying As the Shows Become More Ridiculous. But Bb5 May yet Prove Compulsive Viewing

Evening Standard - London › June 01, 2004

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LADEEZANGENNELMEN, please check your brains at the door and put your hands over your eyes for this year's tabloid-saving funny farm: it's Big Brother 5. And this time it really is funny: both peculiar and ha ha.

Yes, after the tedium that was last year's BB, Channel 4 has flipped to the other extreme, bringing us a Victorian freak show, a point-and-laughatthe-weirdos special that turns us viewers into love/ hate voyeurs. Talk about guilty pleasure. Watching this year's Big Brother reminds me of those Pot Noodle adverts: you know it's wrong, but you just can't stop yourself.

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Big Brother 5: Do We Love It or Loathe It? ; Some Say That Reality Tv Is Dying As the Shows Become More Ridiculous. But Bb5 May yet Prove Compulsive Viewing

Channel 4 have worked hard to save their flagship show, changing the rules around (too few beds, showers that show everything, refusing to deliver one contestant's suitcase of clothes) and, most importantly, spicing up the character mix. Reality shows, like dramas, are all in the personalities: put...

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