No messing - straight back to oblivion 

Totally agree

It happened during BB9 I think, when Luke and co were allowed to talk about noms. And then what did BB do when Luke was up for eviction?

Why oh why oh why do they keep trying to add twist upon twist.
In my view it should be "no discussion of nominations - punishment if this ruls is broken."
That's gppd enough for me.
Being allowed to discuss nominations is just another way of setting them against each other.
But they'll do that anyway; it's group dynamics. I would have thought trhe production team would have been bright enough to realise that. They are trying to be too smart for their own good.

Over the years, I've suspected that a big gap has been opening between how the viewers perceive the show and how the producers see it. Recent stuff re the build-up to the final series has rather confirmed that, IMO.
Basically, once we got beyond the "social experiment" notion of the early series, fans tended to see the show as a competition or gameshow, while the producers saw it more as a straight "light entertainment" show. The difference is that the fans are more interested in what the HMs do, whereas the producers believe the success of the show depends on what they do. Lesley (BB8) said on her web chat here that she felt that the producers looked upon the HMs with contempt, and certainly I've got the impression that they see them as a nuisance. From BB5 onwards, I've got the impression that the producers are a bunch of young, ambitious media types who have a "we-know-best" attitude and see BB as primarily an industry calling-card to show how brilliant they are. The BB5 bedsit, where the producers actually ignored the advice of their own experts, thus causing "Fight Night", is a perfect example of this.


The excuse often given for more twists is that they need to keep the show fresh, but I would suggest that shows a worrying lack of confidence in, and even (that word again) contempt of the format. Of course there should always be opportunities to liven things up from time-to-time, but if you mess around with basics of a competition, you're going to annoy the viewers, and the producers seem to have forgotten that and fallen into the trap of thinking viewers tune in primarily to see their carefully-designed twists. Nikki's return to the house in BB7 is the classic example here, but you could name any number of twists which the producers thought would be popular, show-changing events, but in reality fell flat (e.g. apparently awarding the BB8 prize fund to Liam).

The production team either lost control... or simply didn't care during BB10 - and i think the housemates picked up on this. Also, the knowledge halfway through that nobody was watching and there was hardly any live footage being broadcast perhaps didn't help either.

The rules, as ever, were applied randomly and with little consistency, at best!

How often did Sophie correctly (as in offering 2 names) nominate over the final few weeks? BB threw that pathetic no fake romance rule at her early on, punished her for discussing nominations - but let her get away with committing a fundamental rule break on several occasions.

BB made a mockery of their own rules last year.

......and onwards.

Very good post Eugene's