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Episode Day 9 Daily Show and Nominations - 17/11/2025
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freddy
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Agree. It looks cheap and it feels cheap.
dasnico
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Fair enough, but they're leaving so much out of the highlights. They used to be 30 minutes and easily covered the drama from the previous day. These are ~60 minute episodes and we're getting extended coverage of Holly and Colin and not seeing other things happen, like hm's getting told off.
freddy
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True.
It's always interesting for me to read the many, many comments in forums from the (lots of) people who dislike a particular HM. The sheer fact that there are so many comments ... and they keep on coming ... means that this HM is getting a lot of air-time. Viewers can't help themselves and keep on watching to see what this HM will do next, just so they can comment again on their dislike for them. Holly is a good example of this.
Personally, I don't like her personality, but it is fascinating to watch to see what she does and says next and how other HMs (and the viewing public) react to that.
(That said, I do agree that it is annoying that a particular HM seems to hog all the air-time. Holly (and Colin) is/are certainly doing that at the moment, seemingly at the expense of us seeing other important HM interactions in the house.)
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Melore
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It's quite an odd thing for her to do to her reputation, coming on Big Brother. One moment she's with internationally high profile wealthy guys, breaking up sporting stars' marriages and whatnot, and next she's in the BB house having a showmance with the resident court jester whose main joke is farting a lot and whose name she can't remember.
TheOneGHOST
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As I have stated before, I suspect this year is the testing grounds, to see if the show can hold down good ratings. Shorter season, smaller budget. I think we should begin to see more money spent on the show if it gets renewed (especially on an indoor stage).
I have to admit, I'm watching the live stream more than I am watching the edited episodes, because quite frankly, there's so much that you miss out on and you see less of what the housemates are really like. Production could easily decide to cut things, splice a few clips together to depict a housemate saying something when they actually said something else, and they could put more focus on the "storylines" they want you to see (such as the whole Holly-Colin romance angle).
In any case, back to the budget, and with a longer season possible next year and possibly having more to spend on an upgraded house, dedicated companion shows like a Friday Night Live/Games equivalent, would be another step in the right direction. They're going to take small steps each year, see how it impacts the ratings, and go from there. Worst possible case is ratings crash by the third season of the Network 10 deal (2027) and the show gets put on the shelf again for the next 4-5 years afterwards.
I have to admit, I'm watching the live stream more than I am watching the edited episodes, because quite frankly, there's so much that you miss out on and you see less of what the housemates are really like. Production could easily decide to cut things, splice a few clips together to depict a housemate saying something when they actually said something else, and they could put more focus on the "storylines" they want you to see (such as the whole Holly-Colin romance angle).
In any case, back to the budget, and with a longer season possible next year and possibly having more to spend on an upgraded house, dedicated companion shows like a Friday Night Live/Games equivalent, would be another step in the right direction. They're going to take small steps each year, see how it impacts the ratings, and go from there. Worst possible case is ratings crash by the third season of the Network 10 deal (2027) and the show gets put on the shelf again for the next 4-5 years afterwards.
freddy
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My thoughts exatly. I completely agree.
This does feel like a "testing the waters" season. It's kind of got a "let's see how it goes and how it rates with this particular budget, and see what does and doesn't work; then we'll use this knowledge and possibly do it bigger and better next year with perhaps a bigger budget" vibe about it.
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We're all hoping it is a testing the waters.
Milan
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Mia is a lovely person, no doubt, but she does just babble on and on. Talks for the sake of talking.
Afflllate
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Caught up on the first half of Friday Night's and first bit of The eviction show I came in midpart through on, so ill just drop a few thoughts here since the dailies are closed;
Noticing/interacting with the visible/swivel cameras has invariably been a thing on BBUK, I think its just here we are not as used to it (The only vible camera they played around with used to be in the garden in like BB01/02 iirc) and theres a ceretain line where it becomes too much and wholly performative like it was with that bit with Colin.
Speaking of, now Jane's nominated again, I thought the bit with her getting upset over the PDA was perhaps a little OTT, then again small things can seem like/blow up into huge drama inside the house. but also could there have been perhaps a small chance she might've been amping it up a bit to get a bit of the sympathy vote off Holly onto herself for the Eviction? hmm.
What Holly maybe should have clarified instead of Edward and everyone jumping on the OMG she LIEEDDD. Is not that they havent been kissing at all but that its not like they've been having full on audiable make outs like Jane was saying perhaps. Again with the everyone calling out 'fake showmances' On the other hand, we see this time and time again, It could be simply a situationship for the house, as long as everyone involved knows whats up kinda thing, which is also what Jane was getting at by giving Colin a talking to that he could get is fragile little heart broken as he seems way more invested in it catching feelings than Holly seems to be. YMMV.
Anyways, BTW what IS the 'Macaroni' and where did it come from?
A few more out of touch/tone deaf comments from Bruce; although tbf when he said 'all women should be fit' I think he could've also maybe been muddling it up a little bit with his spiel about 'his' type, and it being taken by Allana as casting aspersions on everybody IYKWIM, and then of course the bit about dental being cheap. I might have to go back and see his opening VT again what is his job its sounding a bit like cashed up bogan/tradie kinda vibes with a slice of what was it living on his parents property or something which may also influence some of these skewed perceptions of things he seems to have perhaps.
As for hogging the airtime its a bit of a give and take, Sometimes keeping more background characters a bit longer to see if they emerge once a few big players go can be interesting, sometimes taking out a more louder housemate when we think we mightve seen enough or their storyline has started to become a bit stale can change the dynamics as well.
Sometimes its giving the right housemates something to do as seen with this episode with Emily getting the secret task and enlisting Abiola as her offsider with setting up the party in secret task. Compared to if they gave production favourite Colin the task, giving him even more airtime inaddition to the Holly stuff and he ended up picking Vinnie or someone.
Eviction show; first bit with the flirting argument; thats a thing that causes many an insecurity, it seems to be the girls that usually cop it for being 'too friendly' misconstrued for flirting, or being used to flirting or using their looks so much that they start to be a lot more less aware of if they are doing it or if its coming across that way and starting to second guess sometimes idk. As long as they aren't going overboard with being overtly touchy in a sexual manner or anything like that I suppose where its hard NOT to mistake that for flirting, its one of those grey areas about how its perceived by others and onlookers IYKWIM.
Noticing/interacting with the visible/swivel cameras has invariably been a thing on BBUK, I think its just here we are not as used to it (The only vible camera they played around with used to be in the garden in like BB01/02 iirc) and theres a ceretain line where it becomes too much and wholly performative like it was with that bit with Colin.
Speaking of, now Jane's nominated again, I thought the bit with her getting upset over the PDA was perhaps a little OTT, then again small things can seem like/blow up into huge drama inside the house. but also could there have been perhaps a small chance she might've been amping it up a bit to get a bit of the sympathy vote off Holly onto herself for the Eviction? hmm.
What Holly maybe should have clarified instead of Edward and everyone jumping on the OMG she LIEEDDD. Is not that they havent been kissing at all but that its not like they've been having full on audiable make outs like Jane was saying perhaps. Again with the everyone calling out 'fake showmances' On the other hand, we see this time and time again, It could be simply a situationship for the house, as long as everyone involved knows whats up kinda thing, which is also what Jane was getting at by giving Colin a talking to that he could get is fragile little heart broken as he seems way more invested in it catching feelings than Holly seems to be. YMMV.
Anyways, BTW what IS the 'Macaroni' and where did it come from?
A few more out of touch/tone deaf comments from Bruce; although tbf when he said 'all women should be fit' I think he could've also maybe been muddling it up a little bit with his spiel about 'his' type, and it being taken by Allana as casting aspersions on everybody IYKWIM, and then of course the bit about dental being cheap. I might have to go back and see his opening VT again what is his job its sounding a bit like cashed up bogan/tradie kinda vibes with a slice of what was it living on his parents property or something which may also influence some of these skewed perceptions of things he seems to have perhaps.
As for hogging the airtime its a bit of a give and take, Sometimes keeping more background characters a bit longer to see if they emerge once a few big players go can be interesting, sometimes taking out a more louder housemate when we think we mightve seen enough or their storyline has started to become a bit stale can change the dynamics as well.
Sometimes its giving the right housemates something to do as seen with this episode with Emily getting the secret task and enlisting Abiola as her offsider with setting up the party in secret task. Compared to if they gave production favourite Colin the task, giving him even more airtime inaddition to the Holly stuff and he ended up picking Vinnie or someone.
Eviction show; first bit with the flirting argument; thats a thing that causes many an insecurity, it seems to be the girls that usually cop it for being 'too friendly' misconstrued for flirting, or being used to flirting or using their looks so much that they start to be a lot more less aware of if they are doing it or if its coming across that way and starting to second guess sometimes idk. As long as they aren't going overboard with being overtly touchy in a sexual manner or anything like that I suppose where its hard NOT to mistake that for flirting, its one of those grey areas about how its perceived by others and onlookers IYKWIM.
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sav0001
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Tbh I’m kind of relieved this series is short, I’m not really vibing this cast the more I see of them. I wouldn’t be mad if evictions start ramping up soon.
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Lightning McQueen
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That's not really a Big Brother first. The housemates were left completely alone one year when there was a COVID outbreak...
That sums me up to a key
Agree. I'm finding myself needing to take breaks from the live stream now because the behaviour in there is just so consistently awful.
It's reminding me of 2005 when Dean's pack of boys made the house super toxic for about a month - complete with similar fart and poo jokes, if anyone remembers them deliberately doing "reverse kangas" in the toilets.
20 years later Ten still wants to put awful people on pedestals. I'm growing tired.