Television: While Big Brother has been off the air for five year, it’s remarkable how little it has changed
It would appear that Big Brother is the new Eurovision Song Contest. Irish people used to win it all the time – now we’re nowhere to be seen. Perhaps that’s why the return of the original reality series after a five-year absence makes for such strange viewing on Virgin Media. Presenters AJ Odudu and Will Best bang on about how BB has taken over the entire ITV network – presumably unaware it’s also beaming across the Irish Sea.
A lot of reality television has passed under the bridge since Big Brother originally aired in 2000. Back then, the series was regarded as a serious inquiry into human behaviour. Two decades on, having passed from Channel 4 to Channel 5 and to ITV , the franchise has entered what can only be described as the Great Dumbdown.
So it’s as cynical and airheaded as 20 years ago. In fact, it’s remarkable how little has changed. The new hosts are chipper rather than bug-eyed enthusiastic in the style of original presenter Davina McCall. Oh, and tonight’s live season opener isn’t all that live: it was recorded on Saturday night, thus allowing ITV pad out the 90-minute broadcast with wee-hours footage from inside the house.
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