is anyone watching big brother this year?

[Alan Dale]

Good to not worry about offending people intent on emigrating. Once people emigrate they are rarely worth keeping in touch with.

New Zealand is like Wales. If you wanted to live in Wales then I would understand and it's a lot closer to London but no one carps on about it to the same extent.

That's because a move to Wales isn't quite so hard to reverse. Faced with the option of traipsing back from New Zealand with your tail between your legs or just mounting a full scale pro NZ propaganda campaign most ?migr?s opt for the latter.

That's why you shouldn't speak to British ex pats. They'll either annoy the crap out of you or convince you to emigrate and join the campaign.

[*Bob*]

If it's not New Zealand it's Brighton, where you get woken-up at the crack of dawn by seagulls, run-over by someone on a skateboard wearing baggy trousers on your way out and every other person looks like they were in 'Busted'.

[Alan Dale]

Agreed. It's not London-on-Sea. It's shit.

People who try to 'escape' from London really get my goat. By all means move, go and live somewhere else but don't call it escaping.

Think of it as quitting or failing.

[*Bob*]

When I lived in Sheffield, there was always some 'London Escapee' who had sold-up, moved north, bought the biggest house on the street and couldn't stop banging-on about how cheap everything was.

A great way to make new friends.

[mockney piers]

My god, so many Brighton haters in one place *wipes tear from eye*.

I'd always felt so alone!

[SeanMacGabhann]

To paraphrase Jeremy Hardy "People who move to Brighton are always banging on about how it's only an hour to London - well if London is the point go and live there then"

To go back to the TV debate I always have to challenge the wisdom of TV being poor now compared to a previous generation(s)

My Family is always paraded (rightly) of what's wrong - but against that (and just from this year alone) I would forward (off the top of my head - there are many more)

Gavin & Stacey

Saxondale

Life on Mars Series 2

[Jah Lush]

Good call on those three Sean but there could still be so much more. Saxondale was once again absolutely hilarious last night.

[*Bob*]

There has been a definite dilution of TV budgets in the last 30 years, which is easily explainable. There are now more channels and most of them are on 24/7. But with only (roughly) the same amount of people watching them, the source of income is still the same.

I write a lot of TV themes, and people often drone on about the old classics of the seventies and eighties blah blah and how it's all electronic rubbish these days. They tend to forget that in the seventies it wasn't unusual to record TV themes with a full orchestra packed with top-notch players. These days you're lucky if someone coughs-up for the odd trumpet from time to time. What do you they expect? You pay peanuts, you get monk.. er.. I mean.. you get me.

[Keef]

mamafeelgood Wrote:

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channel 4 seem to be creating new +1

> channels left right and centre, they should just

> dedicate 2 months of c4+1

Yeah the gits!!! We had Film4 +1, which was handy, as it worked, and for some reason Film4 won't at my gaff. However, that seems to have now transformed in to Big Brother +1 :X

[Alan Dale]

Jonty for a top 4 finish is 13.5. He only needs to beat Ziggy and Carole. Surely to goodness....

[Keef]

Just seen THIS. The graph at the bottom shows that whilst veiwing figures are down, they're not exactly drastically down, so I guess they're happy enough.

[Brendan]

So the amount of people watching it is still roughly equal to the population of New Zealand.

[*Bob*]

An amusing article from The Beeb, who - despite being all too keen to point-out that the BB audience is down - would piss their pants at the prospect of having a show of their own, in its 8th year, which runs for three months every day of the week and still averages over 4 million viewers.

[mamafeelgood]

the state of british telly is awful but to anyone who has emigrated they will remind you that it's still excellent plus we get to see the good american stuff for free, albeit a year later.

BB is BB and seems to attract that radical hatred normally reserved for religion, smoking and politics. so everyone can sigh a sigh of relief as it disappears from our lives for another 10 months.

everyone should get back into the clangers, my kids love it and it is truely great ...

[giggirl]

I don't own a TV (I get weekly threats from the BBC to send a detector van round but it hasn't happened yet). I would happily vote for any political party that made an election promise to ban reality television.

[Asset]

but if you don't own one it should make no difference to you.

[giggirl]

Yes but the reason I don't own one is because there's so much rubbish on the box. I might reconsider if there was something worth watching on.

[Asset]

too true. although to be fair there are the odd gems, wish I had more time to watch it myself. All the progs that I would watch are on after my bedtime.

[giggirl]

Bring back expensive costume drama for Sunday tea time - that would make me happy. Men in tight trousers and women in pretty frocks. I'm easy to please really.