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Open letter to Big Brother

Written by Tashi from the blog Tashi's TV on 14 May 2012
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Sunday night's first evictees Hilda, Julio and Teclar.

Dear Big Brother

It's been a week since StarGame started so I'm getting in touch to ask you to change very important things that have been problems since the start. Please can you fix these at your earliest convenience i.e. now:

1) In the Daily Show, when you show edited clips of the Downville housemates in their diary sessions, please put their names and relationships as a pop-up on the screen.

There are too many housemates and many uhdikts rely on these shows to stay informed so they're crucial to assisting everyone in knowing who's who as quickly as possible.

2) Please cut the long opening sequence from the Daily Shows because it's unnecessary. It takes ages and steals minutes from what's already a short show. Replace it with a quick flash of the logo or title card at the start and use the extra time for footage.

3) Please, please, please stop the ridiculous Lotto nominations of housemates - it defeats the entire point of the show and saps all tension between housemates. It changes the format so radically the show needs to be called something else if it stays.

4) Pack the Live Show with juicy snippets and interesting moments instead of the endless shots of housemates that don't reveal a thing. It happened for ages on Sunday night and gave the strong sense that the camera crew zoned out and that the production team didn't know what was going on.

Make sure that the action's tight, that things happen on cue and that the producers know what's going to happen next because this isn't happening right now - at all.

5) Ensure that the camera people who are filming the house don't fall asleep or do whatever it is they're doing when they refuse to work the cameras. Insist. Do something that makes them realise how crucial it is to always follow the most dramatic action.

6) Fix the feed to the second house. Pronto.

7) Don't censor what we can and can't see. Don't decide for us. The show's rated 18 so no-one should be judging what we see.

8) Please add the "Record all episodes" function to the Daily Shows on the PVR.

9) Add sub-titles to all conversations that happen in beds. Everything gets muffled and it's impossible to hear.

10) Please can someone confirm that Jesica's definitely spelt with only one "s".  If it is, ask her to change it to two because it's making me uncomfortable every time I see it.

Looking forward to your very swift response.

Yours in uhdiktion
Tashi

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30 Comments

Smart
14 May 2012 10:33

Thanks Tashi, i totally agree.

boogy-babe
14 May 2012 10:41

11) Can IK stop dragging the process please?? I mean if someone is getting evicted they getting evicted qha ke dragging the process is just too old.
12) Some of us did not get to see the Barbs& Prezzo fight the fact that it was not shown Sunday sucked.
13) the lotto nomination thingy is really boring,bt am having the hope that after people have dispessed to the uphill house we will then have the normal nomination procedure not this one.

Mrs Chix
14 May 2012 10:43

LOL, I agree, you forget, that the Upville shld be put up for eviction..But I think the normal nominations will start once everyone is in the Upville

mbulela
14 May 2012 10:44

Dear Big Brother, I have only one request. Please make this the last edition of this silly show. We have had enough of it. What exactly is the aim of this?

Segololo
14 May 2012 10:46

I completely agree.. Viva Tashi Viva!!

Please add

"Evict from both houses" - why are evictions only happening from downville...?
"different days for parties" - why are both houses having a party on the same day? Friday is often a bore, have a party for one of the houses on that day and the other house can have the saturday party...  

I avoid Downville... 

It is so dificcult to follow the 2 houses because as you are following a conversation on the one house, producer swaps to another house with NIKS worthy of watching... and then swaps back to the other house to a different camera... confused? like wtf? 

What happened this weekend almost got me out of BBA write-up retirement... *sigh*

Mrs Chix
14 May 2012 10:49

LOL boogy-babe.. Barbie and Prezzo it was not really a fight. Prezzo was just going on talking rubbish and Barbz was just looking at him like he was psyco. @ mbulela, I do not mean to be rude, but speak for yourself. And remember not to put to channel 198....

mbulela
14 May 2012 10:55

Not to be rude but Mrs Chix, are you Big Brother by any chance?

Mrs Chix
14 May 2012 10:58

Some of us we want the show, if you do not want it do go to channel 198 period...

Mrs Chix
14 May 2012 10:58

Some of us we want the show, if you do not want it do go to channel 198 period...

Minah
14 May 2012 11:03

Only if Sophie Ndaba Harrington aka Queen Moroka was under 30 she was going to be the best rep so SA as for Babalwa I just cannot stand her she looks like an old woman from............ *I am scared to say*

mbulela
14 May 2012 11:06

you don't have to go to channel 198 before you earn the right to write an open letter to Big Brother.

wendysithole
14 May 2012 11:23

WE NEED THE 'OK' BUTTON OPTIONS BACK. WE WANNA READ THE NEWS OF THE DAY, HOUSEMATE PROFILES ETC. THIS YEAR'S BBA IS FULL OF GLITCHES ESPECIALLY LATE NIGHT VIEWING...PLEEZE!

Vesa
14 May 2012 11:43

Eish Tashi, I couldn't have said it better!

The nomination method takes away the drama that comes with the housemates backstabbing each other in that diary room and the the power plays that come with cliques that form in the house. 

Can they please fix the video option asap?

MsKim
14 May 2012 11:57

Thanks Tashi.. 

com'on Biggy we want to read the news. and pliz  Biggy pliz if u changed the camera men/producers pliz change them back yo new stf isn't doing for us.

wats the point of the age restriction vele? is it coz of the word F*ck?? i honestly don't get it wen u sensor or switch focus wen something hot is abt to go down, myt as well be PG13.

gugulethu72
14 May 2012 11:59

How does the VIP thing work anyone??i hear people are bonking each other left right and centre but we miss all the action...

Mathaz
14 May 2012 12:09

The nomination needs to be restored asap.  There is just no fun on Monday evenings.  The ok button, i can't seem to get it right.  I am still to know all housemates coz i cannot view their profiles.

Vesa
14 May 2012 12:22

@Mathaz....@DSTVCare said that they have experienced a technical glitch, that's why the video option is no longer there. They are probably working on restoring it

Diamondthree
14 May 2012 13:01

Totally agree with you Tashi!! And all those requests are Top Priority plz Biggie!!

purhase
14 May 2012 13:03

I am losing interest daily, thanks to the powerball  machine

Tshd21
14 May 2012 13:44

I totally agree, especially with number 17. I was sooooooo annoyed when we got stuck in the old age home when all the drama was happening in Whoreville, I was screaming alone! Nxa!

Tshd21
14 May 2012 13:46

...7...

Segololo
14 May 2012 14:48

Tashi, please add this to the letter

"Explain why there is a HOH"... what are the priveleges of being HOH if you can't save anyone? to boss people around or be Biggie's head mistress/master? what is the motivation for anyone to be HOH?

peaces
14 May 2012 15:10

WE NEED THE OK BUTTON OPTIONS!!! And don't we pay to see everything? Who says we don't have the right to see people bonking? If they bonk on live tv knowing that the whole of Africa is watching then they want us to see it.

dorothy777
14 May 2012 15:30

@Tashi

Thanks for your write-up. I am not fully into BB yet because there are too many housemates so I really get turned off. Too much talking at the same time by the housemates.

I think we should get used to the fact that in countries where  BB is been shown, every season differs. We can't keep having the same format for every season. I may be the odd one out but I like the lotto method of nomination. Now housemates can concentrate on entertaining us instead of ganging up on which housemate or country needs to be eliminated. When the lotto machine nominates for us the viewers then we will objectively select who we want to remain in the house. However I was not too happy that Hilda was eliminated with 6 votes. She ought to have been sent to Upville.

dorothy777
14 May 2012 15:36

@peaces

If you want to see the bonking, shower, etc you have to pay for it. I think it costs R70 (one-off payment) and its equivalent amount in other participating countries. You have to pay using your credit card in paying. Visit the BB website for details.

dorothy777
14 May 2012 15:36

@peaces

If you want to see the bonking, shower, etc you have to pay for it. I think it costs R70 (one-off payment) and its equivalent amount in other participating countries. You have to pay using your credit card in paying. Visit the BB website for details.

Toodecent
14 May 2012 18:18

But we wana see the bonking on tv and not a website...Biggie sucks.We want the OK button back or else?

Segololo
14 May 2012 18:27

Wassup with cutting people's diary sessions? Nxa...

nightschoolteacher
16 May 2012 15:33

You tell them Tashi. The censorship, lack of OK button and the Lotto noms have to be fixed asap. I hope they read this.

Segololo
21 May 2012 14:36

@Tash... Please ask them to get KB back to help IK... there is just "something" missing... IK is good but there is just something nje missing...


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