Big Brother 7 Live Feeds Not So Revealing
We're not ashamed to admit that we love reality tv.
At the top of our favorites is Big Brother, the show that puts about a dozen people in a "house" and makes them live together for three months while evicting "house guests" along the way.
This was the show where one house guest took the toothbrush of the other house guest and cleaned the toilet with it and then put the toothbrush back into the holder.
For years CBS has had a multi-camera live feed available online for an additional fee. For years we have been curious as to what goes on in the house when the editors are cutting the tape. So when CBS announced a 72-hour free preview of the "live feeds" we decided it was finally in our budget.
Let's just say that the feeds have shown us how heavy-handed the Big Brother producers are, telling people when to go to bed, telling people to get off tables, and cutting the feeds constantly and replacing them with the canned theme song and trivia questions.
Just this afternoon, for example, Mike "Boogie" was talking about simultaneously ejaculating and defecating and all four feeds were all cut, including one of Janelle in a bathroom on the other side of the house.
If we wanted an edited broadcast we would have watched our tv on tv instead of via the interweb.
One good feature, though, is a TiVo-like ability to pause the feed and go backwards for up to 30 minutes previous.
One bad feature is that once you're on one channel you can't see what's going on in the rest of the house. If you choose the four-camera view, you unfortunately have all four audio feeds as well.
Because we're suckers, we will probably pay the $40 for the summer to watch this mess. We can only hope that the producers realize that America has voted-in a house that doesn't want to bone each other and doesn't want to fight.
Therefore, the home needs to be infused with some All-Stars who can stir the pot. Because currently what they have here is about as exciting as watching pixels glow.
And let the feeds flow.