Nat's Soapbox

The result of this is that the average age of viewers and voters is now much lower than it was in 2000.  Additionally, the contestants rarely go on to do anything else useful in the public eye.  Some contestants from the original series have gone on to have successful careers in the media whereas now, current contestants can enjoy being ridiculed by the tabloids whilst still in the houes as stories about how they were fat as children or bullies or how they slept with everyone in their office prior to joining the show appear in the print media and, as each of them get evicted they can then make a quick few bucks selling "their story" back to one of the newspapers that slagged them off for the previous couple of weeks.

Big Brother was named after the all-seeing character in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.  This was appropriate at first but the "social laboratory" aspect of the show has long since vanished.  Maybe the show should be renamed "Rubbish live footage of soon-to-be Y-list celebs" or better yet stop making it and just show re-runs of Friends.  Hang on, C4 have done the second part of that already - its called E4!  Ok, just switch it all off then...