The same voices who have dismissed Big Brother for a decade as simply a celebration of the banal, the crass and the buxom will no doubt be popping the champagne at the show’s demise.
Most will probably still have never watched an episode.
But what many miss is that Big Brother is a major player in not only a fundamental change in our TV landscape - but of our attitude to entertainment in general.
It was part of a wider phenomenon where young people stopped being consumers of media and became producers.
Big Brother and its reality TV cousins taught kids... click HERE to read on, and to LOOK at my video and picture tributes to eight years of Big Brother.
15 July 2008
Vale, Big Brother
Big Brother’s Cherry: ‘I’m not boring’
Big Brother evictee Cherry has hit out at those who accuse him of being boring, saying people should be careful to judge him based on what they’ve seen on TV.
“Maybe some people find me boring but I’m sure if they got to know me as a person and they didn’t just see this carbon copy then they might actually like who I was,” he told LIVENEWS.com.au.
The bronzed Gold Coast surfer also denied accusations he broke Alice’s heart, and apologised... click HERE to read on - and to LISTEN to my interview.
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