In My Opinion
19/08/00
Are Channel 4 capable of manipulating the viewers?
Whats going on in the house?
Does anyone else think that C4 aren't playing the game by the rules? This week saw Nick being evicted by the back door for vote rigging, which is not allowed under the BB rules. It seems strange to me, that they were quite happy to take a back seat while all of the colluding was going on. Watching their ratings increase day by day, and the press and media launching a hate campaign against Nick. Night after night and sometimes during the day, chats could be easily heard. Chats with Andy, Mel, Tom and Craig. They only stepped in finally when Darren came across the evidence in his bag and Craig and Nichola threatened to walk.
C4 have said that they had no idea what was going on. Come on. The cameras and audio feeds were running 24 hours a day for the majority of the time. Housemates were warned on numerous occasions about vote rigging, block voting, tactical voting, even talking nominations but, they left it far too late. By now, everything had got way out of hand and the press were whooped up into a frenzy. All C4 had to do was take note of e-mails, bulletin boards, the press and footage and, they would've seen that something was going on.
Another thing I can't understand is, why oh why did they go ahead with the nominations this week? It seemed so unfair after they had discovered what had been going on. Those nominations this week should have been cancelled. I think this may have been motivated by money. Remember, they had 500,000 calls on the night of the eviction.
One other little thing that bothered me was the did Tom say Nichola or Nicholas? On last nights eviction show, they didn't show Nichola who had voted her out this week. Why? I was looking forward to seeing what he said, as I didn't catch it properly the first time.
There again, I could be totally wrong. What do you think?