..too the letter......to the RT..is that still going?....

Yup, and as a BBC employee, the OH gets a staff discount so we get it every week. Still the best listings mag available, but they hate BB!

I remember in the olden days the TV times was the hip one to have......but the BBC has always been unkind to other channels....

I don't see that - they rave about other stuff that isn't on the Beeb. But BB is treated as if only mental defectives watch it.

Great letter, Toid!

Thankoo
I'm just so bloody sick of lazy reviewers having a go at BB.

Well said! I am mocked at work for watching BB but these same people watch all these awful " "OMG look at the suffering people in hospital documentaries" and just about every soap opera going.
That is their perogative - we all have ways of relaxing, I don't insult them for being morbid ambulance chasers so they should kindly do the same to me,

Isadora!

And great letter Toid!

Excellent letter Dem 

i don't know why people think that BB viewers must be lacking in the intelligence department, it's the sort of programme that appeals across the board as can be seen from spending 5 minutes on any forum.

I went to a conference dinner once, full of Doctors, professors and Phds galore and one of the BB psychs was there...and no-one showed any interest in talking about anything else but the BB housemates

you tell them deman, brilliantly written.

Isn't the RT a bit past its sell-by?


I remember when you had to pre-order weeks in advance to get one of the Christmas ones!


Great letter though!

If I could afford the Radio Times each week, I would buy it as I like it, and is a good read - however, the only one I ever buy these days is the Christmas one.
Well said to them, Toid - my thoughts exactly.  Though of course I have not read the digs in the RT, why should we be made to feel ashamed to be fans of BB, though I am often laughed/sneered at /looked at in amazement for liking it.

I once had a colleague get up and came over from his desk just to tell me how he couldn't understand why I would watch Big Brother and how trashy it was.  Of course, he thought nothing of vegetating in front of cricket and football.  Nothing wrong with that of course, but it's certainly not intellectually superior.

I like a good football match but I'm constantly amazed at blokes who sit in front of football night after night after night on Sky Sports, watching little else seems a very narrow viewing experience. 

I don't quite understand the venom that is directed at BB.  The BBC's own celebrity Masterchief features celebrities cooking, hardly intellectual, but wouldn't be so bad if we were spared the ridiculous hyperbole of 'Cooking doesn't come more difficult than this" and the absurdly menacing background synthesizer chords that kick in every ten seconds as if Driller Killer is just around corner (watch it with this in mind you'll see what I mean). 

What's 'strictly' if not a program where we have reality show type scenarios, 'journeys' and we're supposed to be ponder if dancers are shagging or not.

BB could be a hell of a lot more tacky than it is.  For instance, we could have the cynical pulls on the heartstrings that goes with the X Factor, Imagine the kind of melodramatic music that the X Factor uses when a housemate spills their heart in the diary room.  Thank goodness we don't have housemates in tears saying how they're doing BB for the their grandmother who has cancer or because they were bullied at school.

Well said Deman 

hahaha Deman nice one, they might publish it yet 

Oh, I know. And I can't stand the breathy voice of that woman who does the narration. You'd think she was commentating on open heart surgery.

"...and Derek has made boil-in-the-bag cod, with Pot Noodle garnish.."

Excellent letter Toid - I hope they both publish and respond to it 

There were some sneerers on a BBC show this morning but they had a video link with Aisleyne and she at least persuaded them that not all BB contestants were idiots! She came across very well , I thought1

no i won't if you don't mind....someone told me that the Mastermind theme sounded like a one legged pirate coming down the stairs....now i can't get it out of my head 

Well said Deman. Ms. Clever Clogs  Hope they have the decency to respond to you.