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The Saturday 'rest day'
- Thread starter Petarkco
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I don't think there was ever Saturday content.
There was never a Saturday show, and the Sunday show was always extremely truncated by the Eviction live show.
Weekends have always been more chill, they were just less blatant about it.
Not true.
In 2001, the show aired 7 nights a week. Unpopular opinion but the Saturday show was one of the best companion shows BBAU ever had, in my opinion. The only reason it stopped was because Ten acquired the AFL from 2002. They absolutely always made time for sufficient enough Daily Show recaps in both the Saturday and Sunday episodes.
It was recently mentioned in another thread, but the OG series was always a lot more focussed on the original premise, which is to showcase “the good, the bad and the ugly” of all HMs as much as possible. The broadcast episodes - including the weekend - always gave a full insight and scope of personalities and what happened in the house, regardless of what day it was.
It’s also not entirely true that they completely truncated events from the weekend in later years. Most of the OG series on Ten had a separate Daily Show that aired either immediately before, or over an hour prior to, the live Eviction episode. Typically the Sunday Daily Shows were an hour long, with half an hour each dedicated to Friday and Saturday respectively (depending what happened in the house, as sometimes big fights or events on either day took up more time). Then anything from Sunday was obviously aired on the Monday episode. (It wasn’t until the Nine seasons that they started to completely skip days.)
To say there was never content from Saturdays on BBAU is wild. Some of the most iconic moments of the show happened on the weekend. This enforced “rest day” where they currently are not permitted to talk about things, nor act natural or do things organically, is completely against the way Big Brother was run for many, many years.
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Ah ok, I wasn't a regular viewer until season 2, so that first season was always a bit of a blurr. My older sister watched it and I just kind of watched some.
Fair. in my defence I was 5.
Yeah the broadcast episodes were much better. Now they're so afraid of not having enough unique content we get crap like begging for clothes.
This is the first eviction of s2. They cover 48 hours, plus the Eviction in an 90 minutes. There might be about 10-15 minutes of coverage of new stuff in these.
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they have a dedicated 30 minute block for the 48 hours of Friday and Saturday, and then an Hr for the Eviction.
once FNL came in alot of the Sunday show got chewed up by showing bits of what was going on in there.
I agree. They showed anything Interesting from the weekend, and didn't force rest days.
Yeah, there is far too much producer interference that’s stopping the natural flow of the house and interactions.
As discussed in the live stream thread, despite what we were sold, this show is clearly no different to every other reality show of today - from MAFS to Love Island and Real Housewives - in that the producers are not allowing things to happen organically and are manipulating events for the benefit of their own narrative. It was even insinuated on the live stream that the producers want Coco and Bruce to start a showmance.
The “rest day” is still in effect as of Sunday morning, with some HMs told to “hold the chat” when having a conversation with each other, even though Pete!BB is back. It’s almost like they’re directing the HMs in the Diary Room to do and say things to people later on.
The main difference with this, compared to the aforementioned reality shows, is we’re actually being given a “peek behind the curtain” and seeing how some of it is all orchestrated. Again, not very OG Big Brother at all.
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UnderTheRadar
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I'm beginning to think their definition of "OG" is "Not pre-recorded months in advance like the Seven era was". Nothing to do with how the show was actually run back in 01-08.
Oh yeah, totally - we already came to the conclusion the only thing “OG” that was being marketed was the show going back to it being a live turnaround format. Still a level of deception when they spent 3 months replaying the old seasons with the insinuation of going back to something akin to that era. It’s not.
Welp we've reached the point already where some housemates are avoiding conversations because they're sick of being told by Big Brother to stop talking because it's the rest time.
Live stream Post in thread 'Day 8 Live Stream - 16/11/2025'
2:16pm - Various conversations happening all over the house.
Conor is cooking lunch to try and avoid certain conversations in the house. He alludes to the fact that he's sick of being told by BB to stop talking about certain things: he'd rather just not have the conversation than keep doing the stop and start of conversations.
Moments earlier, he told Ed that the best thing you can do for climate change is to eat less meat. Ed says his mum was very pro vegetarian. Alana notes that Bruce eats meat "26 times a week".
Conor is cooking lunch to try and avoid certain conversations in the house. He alludes to the fact that he's sick of being told by BB to stop talking about certain things: he'd rather just not have the conversation than keep doing the stop and start of conversations.
Moments earlier, he told Ed that the best thing you can do for climate change is to eat less meat. Ed says his mum was very pro vegetarian. Alana notes that Bruce eats meat "26 times a week".
I cringe every time I see some gimmick being put up on the stream by producers. There is SO MUCH amazing organic content they could use but instead they're suppressing conversations and wasting half the daily episode on Play School childish games. At risk of sounding pretentious, I feel like anyone on this forum could run this show so much better.
What's the point of the months long audition process to find the perfect housemates (Which IMO they nailed), but then just have over half the TV content be silly games that basically anyone would react the same to?
Just you wait for the clown convention in tonight’s episode from Friday…
When I was on a reality tv show, there were soooo many rest days. More often than not. We wouldn’t find out until 9pm the previous night whether we were doing anything the next morning. It seems that this Big Brother season is being run in the same manner as all other reality tv programs except the housemates know about the rest days. The “diary room” acts the same as IVs and Voxies do in other reality programs. As an avid Big Brother fan since day 1, I thought Big Brother was always more organic. But having gone through a similar experience, it seems all reality tv is the same now.
Can't remember who but someone from Seven's BB said it was so boring, and that they spent a lot of their time just waiting around.
Yeah it was very much like that on the show I was on too. We had successive days of not being able to do anything except watch Netflix, eat, read and sleep as we couldn’t have our phones/internet nor access to any live tv or radio. Got so boring at times! At least Big Brother doesn’t seem THAT bad.
I think it's fair to give the housemates rest days. I know this is different from the original Ten days, but also back then reality TV constants were treated quite badly and didn't have the protections they do now.
It's another thing though to say it's a rest day and you're not allowed to talk about anything that is potentially show worthy. It's just a big cop out from production who could do rolling rosters for their staff to still film things on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
It's another thing though to say it's a rest day and you're not allowed to talk about anything that is potentially show worthy. It's just a big cop out from production who could do rolling rosters for their staff to still film things on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
UnderTheRadar
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But when the livestream is boring as batshit because they're not allowed to talk about anything of substance, viewers are going to get bored fast and tune out again.