I think you must be the only person to rewatch BBLB in full. I wouldn't even contemplate watching the spin-offs when rewatching a series.
Interesting though you clearly find value in it which says something about the quality of the spin-offs in the early years compared to the later years. I much preferred them when they heavily involved the friends and family alongside the behind the scenes content rather than just became about celebs opinions.
Yeah Still watchng them but there is a fair bit I do just skim through, whethers its Dermot basically just doing a rehash of Davina's eviction show interview (down to showing another montage of Bubble and Brian / Brian and Narinder's friendship moments) or the Diary Room Chair Tour segment that gets repeated in full the day after;
or sometimes the callers start to repeat themselves (lets talk about Elizabeth's wooly cardigans again shall we?) That Ill listen to the start just to get the gist of some public opinion then buffer through the rest.
Similar with the weekly recap show - I skim through it for any new scenes and it becomes about a 10-15 min out of 48min show of added footage.
One bizarre out of context scene in the one just gone however reminded me of the one of Darren from 2000 (where he checked the coast is clear, did a half nude run to the bedroom and had a bit of a head clipper in the mirror, next scene). This one was played just after some bit of Paul outside tending to the Chicken Coop at night, Then we get this short bit of him standing in front of the bathroom mirror holding something to his eye, then its next scene. Got No Idea whatever it was about.
I Do think at least the initial BBLB after the eviction serves similar to what we had with the Live Nominations show with the Evictee returning to chat. On the other side of the coin with BBLB they do give away the end result of the nominations and the task result ahead of time (if youre just watching the show as it is and not the extra material, so it just depends how spoiler averse you wanna be in terms of finding that out/how we got to that point and watch order.
But also im in two minds about the delayed noms annoucement and the eviction, some areas it does things well, other times I do like the way we did it with nommed and told on the same night, and that mad dash of being told theyre evicted and the scramble out the door straightaway, also having the interview in a slightly more secluded studio environment vs a (short) crowd walkway and having it all on stage in that environment. Theres some pros and cons to each approach, but still miles better than nothing at all, wham bam, You're Fired Apprentice style clapbacks in the car ride home thing of the current format.