NEWS: Big Brother can't hear you

CULTURE: Big Brother can't hear you

The UK's version of the reality TV show airs again this Friday, no doubt leading to the cultural outcasting of people too intelligent to care.

However, this year a rival broadcaster has offered an equal prize to any contestant who keeps their mouth shut for all 10 weeks.

Channel 4 has yet to comment.

christ

I'd watch Big Brother if they gave some of them cattle prods.

A series of Big Brother like the German Prison experiment, where some of the become warders and some of them become prisoners would be awesome.

But otherwise, meh.

That was the Stanford Prison Project. That's all California right there. The Germans just were the ones to make a movie about it, and they exaggerated the events. The whole thing was stopped relatively early on.

What's funny about what you said, though, is that my friend who was a psychology major said all her professors were really excited about the reality TV movement, since some of what they were doing in reality TV was very much like a psychology experiment, except they could actually get away with much more. There's a ton of legal tape with psychology experiments these days, due in large part to experiments like the Standford Prison Project.

Honestly, these days, I don't know how happy they'd be. One of the ones that the psych people were most excited about was the Jamie Kennedy Experiment, which placed an unsuspecting person or persons in an outrageous situation to see how they reacted. That show was cancelled, and most of it isn't like that these days, at least in America. It's all just stunts.

[Edited on May 26, 2005 by TedKoppel]

hahahahahahhahaha I LOVE UKTV, those guys RULE!!!!!

*sobs*

A whole summer of this shite again...

I have to cover what happens on big brother as part of my work...

*sobs*

They did that on an episode of Fear Factor....

Am I the only one who live for the inane comments? Jade was the only reason to watch that season 3 (or was it 4) years ago. God, do I miss UK Big Brother

The issue I hope UKTV has pondered is what they should do in the case that all of the contestants remain silent the whole time.

if they got Dom Joly in on this, it'd rule
every once in a while, he'd pull out a big phone
"HELLO!!. . . .WOT!!!!. . . ..WOT!!!. . . . "

[Edited on May 26, 2005 by KMFCM]

Wow, a totally original (Candid Camera) idea (Candid Camera)!

comments like this are why i read the news here.

this reminds me of a twilight zone episode.

too... many... eddie... izzard... jokes.

heh... wonder will anybody....

well today begins a period of nat watching channel 4 or E4...

Candid Camera didn't make people think that they'd just seen a man die.

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