Day 21, 00.01am. Big Brother confirms live nominations, fans left disappointed. Fast forward to 11.10pm, and I’m pleasantly surprised…
As regular commenters will know, we get some complaints for being too negative towards the show, so it’s incredibly ironic I’m about to praise one element of this year’s series that has left a large number of fans unhappy.
Yes, live nominations. As soon as Channel 4’s press release announcing the twist hit my inbox on Tuesday afternoon, my heart sunk. I am one of the many who thought it was a waste of a live special.
After all, the producers had an extra thirty minutes of airtime to play with yesterday. Was live nominations the best twist they could come up with, especially as they were just regular nominations sped up to fit the time limit?
However, after seeing it play out on last night’s show, I can now say that — for me at least — it was better than the face-to-face nominations twists used in recent series.
Taking it for what it was, I thought it was executed brilliantly. The show’s fast-paced nature made it a joy to watch.
The two lights in the Diary Room, which were illuminated when each housemate had 30 seconds left and when their time ran out, served their purpose well, but the icing on the cake for me was the graphics.
Who needs Marcus Bentley to narrate when you can put up a handy chart at the end of each turn telling us how many votes each housemate has?
If it meant that we’d be able to see them in full, I’d be happy for the producers to do a live nominations show every week, as Big Brother’s Australian sibling did.
But at the very least they need to impose a time limit on normal nominations, as we’ve now seen proof that there’s no need for Big Brother to drag the process out for hours on end.
The Outcome
However, I can’t say I was as happy with the outcome of the twist, as Halfwit and Angel – two of my favourite housemates — are now facing eviction. It pains me that Sree (who is incredibly irritating) was only one nomination away from joining them.
I blame Noirin. If only she’d nominated Sree instead of Halfwit. What a nice thing to do to the person who saved her from drawing glasses and a moustache on her face daily.
Hopefully karma will come back to hit her next week.
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