The Big Brother Performance Review

Rate Big Brother's performance out of 10.

  • 10

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 8

    Votes: 15 11.4%

  • 7

    Votes: 27 20.5%

  • 6

    Votes: 31 23.5%

  • 5

    Votes: 16 12.1%

  • 4

    Votes: 15 11.4%

  • 3

    Votes: 12 9.1%

  • 2

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • 1

    Votes: 6 4.5%
  • Total voters
    132
I'm not on TikTok, but the IG countdown very clearly says "BBAU Snap Eviction", not "Voting Closes In..."

Either they're being wilfully ignorant or plain fucking stupid. Whichever it is, they're treading a very fine line with misleading conduct. People can and should complain.

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It's being 1 of the worst seasons in BB history.
The only reason why people rate it higher is because they are just happy its back.

The live shows are beyond putrid, no atmosphere, no hard hitting questions from Mel, channel 9 produced better quality live shows and they didn't even want to do big brother by the end 😂

The live stream is pointless when they constantly cut all the interesting stuff out

The housemate choices where terrible

The editing and style of episodes as terrible.

The production team should hang there heads in shame. Fire them all
 
BBman said:
It's being 1 of the worst seasons in BB history.
The only reason why people rate it higher is because they are just happy its back.

The live shows are beyond putrid, no atmosphere, no hard hitting questions from Mel, channel 9 produced better quality live shows and they didn't even want to do big brother by the end 😂

The live stream is pointless when they constantly cut all the interesting stuff out

The housemate choices where terrible

The editing and style of episodes as terrible.

The production team should hang there heads in shame. Fire them all
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Agree. I just downgraded my vote to 1 as well. Easily the messiest season we’ve had. Even 2014 was better than this.

I’d argue this is the most poorly planned and produced season of BBAU, run by clearly incompetent people who beggar belief how they were hired in the first place. I’m embarrassed for them that this is what they delivered after all that PR and pre-season hype over the last year.
 
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Melore said:
It's been confirmed by David Knox from TV Tonight that it is returning next year.

I sincerely hope they get new producers (and a live location with a roof, for starters).
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Yes they need a bigger budget as they couldnt do the live games & this was a short run for the show
 
Zao Yang said:
Other than the over-focus on them showcasing romantic relationships. I think my main issue this year is with the lack of transparency in voting, and the way Head Housemate is handled.

The fact that they don't show evictee voting percentages from the public like they used to is a big red flag for one.

That whole phone twist with a random caller having the power to evict someone out of the blue when people potentially spent money to save another housemate, not knowing that one rando (who coulda even been production) was able to revert the entire process.. leaves a pretty foul taste. - We don't know whether Allana or Mia had more votes to save. Hopefully production learnt their lesson to never bring back this 'twist' again

Mia being able to nominate housemates after being evicted was also something that should never ever happen in Big Brother. Once you've evicted, you're evicted. An evictee shouldn't be able to nominate anybody once they're out.

This is why the "Hand Grenade" in 2008 was fair, because evicted housemates could still punish other housemates in a way that didn't actually affect the game. But this year, this whole "evictee chooses to keep a housemate safe for a week" is way too overpowered, and can easily be abused by production to favour certain people. Not to mention the power for a Head Housemate to choose to save someone from being nominated. So now Allana is coasting through because of 1. a random phone call twist. & 2. being saved from nomination by HH.

And because of all these massive advantages and lack of transparency it can feel like there is manipulation from production to save certain people for entertainment value or other factors. They can still do simple twists with nominating as they did in 2005-2008 for Head of House, but not ones that dramatically put into question the sincerity of this game.

I just want normal evictions without all these gimmicks and insane twists next year.
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What money, voting is free
 
the Theorist said:
Agree. I just downgraded my vote to 1 as well. Easily the messiest season we’ve had. Even 2014 was better than this.

I’d argue this is the most poorly planned and produced season of BBAU, run by clearly incompetent people who beggar belief how they were hired in the first place. I’m embarrassed for them that this is what they delivered after all that PR and pre-season hype over the last year.
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1000% agree.
I'd love to meet them and say after all the hype and promise of a original return this is the trash you give us. How they got jobs on bb is beyond me because clearly they are not competent.
It's embarrassing and shameful, any fan on here would be able to do a better job.
Just listen to the fans and give us want we want. Not this rubbish
 
Affable said:
I actually preferred Channel 7's season one and that was terrible.

9 is definitely the best of the modern iterations.
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I was once proud to say I never watched any of channel 7 but I did watch the first episode of the all stars one, but I can’t accurately compare.

Nine was so much better! There was still a lot of hype and excitement and it did go some way towards marching those expectations. It had its huge drawbacks but absolutely much better than this current season. And thankfully they failed with some of their attempts at manipulation with Ben not winning in 2013. Hopefully 2025 doesn’t have a shitty winner to wind up a shitty season.
 
One of the major things I have noticed, is that the cast is not very playful. Other casts were doing all sorts of things to keep themselves entertained, this house will only do things when they are prompted. I am not sure if it is the result of a generation raised on social media and tv, or something else.

The young blokes did yell out viral tends, talk about movies, imitated podcasts - all parroting media they had consumed in their lives. Nothing playful or original. There was no cheekiness, or much fun at all. Only farts and toilet humor. The bathroom boys were the only thing close, and that was only because of Vinnie (who was probably prompted because he changed his attitude quick smart after a diary room trip that night). The one time Holly asked the housemates to dress up fancy for dinner, Conor cracked the shits because Holly had asked and it wasn't a direct order from Big Brother. Coco and Bruce might as well be at the beach. Em, Ed and Allana seem nice enough, but they are not good viewing for reality tv. If I wanted to see that, I would hang out with my married mates and their mother.

The cast are rigid, cardboard and literally, full of hot air.

Still, I'm happy its back, I've had a lot of fun watching the live stream at the start. I love love love Mel and want to see her succeed. It just didnt give me the feeling I was chasing. I don't want to diss it too much because I'd want to see it go on rather than cancelled. Casting is vital if they do get another season. And a better pool. I'm glad it was a short season and I loved the colours of the set.
 
I honestly don't think this season has been too bad. I don't like the editing and all the soundtracks at all, the live shows could be way better. But I think for a modern series it works well and I can tolerate this one a lot more than the ones on 7. Just wish the livestream didn't cut away all the time or become muted and was just pure 247 streaming
 
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