Big Brother

I dont see how any of you can complain about the scenes in big brother. Thats to violent but fear factor where they shove needles of differnt thickness's through there arms is ok....? and i havent seen one post about the dangerous material on that show. So please save it cause big brother isnt doing anything new!.

what is fear factor ? Most of England presumably arent watching it.

Dawn

Its reality tv on sky one. Basically it gets these desperados (that make bb contestance modest) and they do stupid things like get in a bed of scorpions put posinous spiders in there mouths jump from speed boat to speed boat while they are moving (which may i add went wrong and the guy took a hard hit to the head it cut off before his state was shown tho). Things along those lines and this is entertainment so this is what annoys me because big brother is bigger makes it more dangerous? nope fear factor should be the one people are trying to end first before they move onto lesser evils (that at least are surrounded in security). I remember watching the running man as a kid thinking thatll never happen but fear factors not far off it.

WTF??

http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/arti...px?news=161705

Police Investigate Big Brother House Brawl

Big Brother wanted conflict, Big Brother got conflict. And how.

Several early morning viewers of the reality TV show phoned the police this week when insults, threats and the odd kitchen implement started flying in a boozy brawl that left the set a shambles.

Hertfordshire Police reviewed tapes of the incident with an eye for criminal charges and a university criminologist severed his ties with the show Friday as behavioral experts blamed the production company's pursuit of ratings for the fracas.

Faced with flagging popularity for a tired format, producer Endemol came up with the slogan "Big Brother Gets Evil" for this fifth series.


The house was made smaller to encourage discomfort and the 12 contestants chosen had little in common, including a political activist, an aspiring topless model, a former asylum seeker from Somalia and transsexual.

The volatile combination of different personalities and dirty tricks proved explosive and security guards were sent into the house early Thursday morning for the first time in the history of the show to break up the fighting.

Channel 4, which broadcasts the show, cut the live TV feed but several horrified viewers saw enough to contact police. OFCOM, the government's media watchdog, is also investigating after receiving complaints from viewers.

Behavior experts said the brawling was an inevitable — and possibly planned — result of a fake eviction last week.

The contestants left in the house believed that legal administrator Emma Greenwood, 20, and aspiring model Michelle Bass, 23, had been thrown out after a public vote.

They were in fact placed in a studio apartment on the same site and allowed to observe the others for a week, hearing several negative comments about themselves.

The pair were also encouraged to play tricks on the other contestants. They took revenge on their greatest critics by giving one a series of cold showers, placing eggs in the bed of another and cooking a chili chocolate cake for a third.

They were returned to the house late Wednesday evening, triggering a confrontation.

Greenwood hurled insults at student Victor Ebuwa, 23, whom she had seen accusing her of being stupid, boring and racist. She launched a serving tray at him and he retaliated by pouring a glass of wine over her and shouting threats.

Bodybuilder Jason Cowen, 30, screamed at 21-year-old student Marco Sabba who had instigated a food fight with Greenwood: "I'll knock you out! I'll take your head off, end of story."

Greenwood was isolated on the set in solitary confinement on Friday.

"Putting a group of strangers together in a tiny house is bad enough," said Professor Cary Cooper, professor of psychology at Lancaster University. "Take some of them into isolation and show them what people say about them when they're not there, and things are likely to explode."

But it paid off in ratings. Seven million viewers tuned in to watch the fracas on a highlights show Thursday evening, representing a huge surge in ratings after a big drop-off following similar figures for the launch show on May 28. The show's Web site slowed to a crawl Friday as it tried to cope with thousands of hits.

The incident prompted Professor David Wilson, a criminologist at the University of Central England in Birmingham who was a consultant with the show, to quit. Wilson said it was now "inappropriate" for him to be associated the program.

Cooper warned that the producers were playing a dangerous game.

"They have to be quite careful because someone could get hurt," he said.

Yup instead of investigating drugs robbery etc the police have found a new way to waste tax payer money - investigating a show which is completely safe as its got about 15 security men on call. But hey we can never be too carefull so i say put some of the police force in there too best be safe eh.

Nothing serious could have happened with the security there, and I don't understand the fuss anyway. They where all drunk and all that happened was a few things being thrown at people and a slap or something, aswell as shouting etc, but I don't see any reason for police to bother investigating it.

If they had been really fighting or perhaps using weapons or something then a police intervention would be expected, but not after what did happen.


...and was there any need to quote that whole article? lol

Yes, there was.

Yes exactly. This is a complete waste of police time! and why so many complained i have no idea - why were prudes were up at 1am? do they have shifts now . To me its tv there fame hunters and why shouldnt they get 'evil' big brother considering what the end results are as i said before its a game show just like fear factor and theres no uproar for that.

Did i need to quote the whole article? yes i quoted your whole post too is that a problem?

Sorry it's just something that bugs me a bit seeing huge quotes or quotes within quotes. I always edit them down, as I have for this post.

Sorry mate but i just dont bother with that i just scroll down till the quote ends if ive read it...