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Originally Posted by Axarsys
I'm european and have never heard someone say they liked Big Brother. As a matter of fact I've never watched a single episode. But perhaps you are right as I keep being surprised every day at how many idiots with too much spare time there are in this world...
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Maybe you haven't and I also succesfully avoided that, but I can remember once I got out in to the common public social contact (that I ussually try to avoid) - I heard EVERYONE talking about reality show contestants (well here we had two contestors where Big Brother was the runner up in popularity), people were constatnly speaking about people I never heard of (and never even wanted to bother by brain with knowing them) all the time.
It is one of the most brilliantly monetized ideas as far as the founder guy keeps a fat share / license fee from every national mutilation.
It's also nothing too surprising that the concept works, the most primitive need is that people love to talk other people (well just take a look at some of the drama's in here every day).
And what is even more attractive is that with a Big Brother type of a show they can talk the people with anyone, because EVERYONE knows the contestants, it's like their virtual neighbours and seems also like many from the common audience can identify with the preciously picked mix of contestants that have to be attractive to the widest target audience (most of us won't fit in the consumer profile).
What I would do though would be an Extreme version of Big Brother (and not meaning sex) Just imagine putting in for example a black dude, a gay, a
muslim, a jew, a gypsy, a racist and a mormon or an orthodox christian - now that would be certainly more interesting.