TV Producer's Dilemma
current location: Bath, UK
Gah! The team behind Big Brother are seriously running out of ideas. I'm not even talking about last week's 'recreate the dance moves from a music video' task which -- to my eyes at least -- was a little bit like the 'recreate the dance moves from a music video' task they had earlier in the series. You know, the one on treadmills.
This evening though, they did at least manage to avoid copying something they'd already done. Instead they copied something that somebody else had already done. They copied the Prisoner's Dilemma endgame from Golden Balls. Of course, Golden Balls had already copied it from Shafted, who had in turn copied it from Trust Me, a show hosted by Nick Bateman who had previously been a contestant on -- you've guessed it -- Big Brother. How, er, coincidental.
Anyway, to have two of the current Big Brother housemates playing the Prisoner's Dilemma game this evening wasn't just unoriginal, it simply didn't work, at least from an entertainment point of view. The two players have lived with each other for months and would still have to live with each other for a while after tonight's exercise in game theory was over. Of course, under those circumstances, they're not going to do each other over! Especially since the £25,000 they'd each get from sharing the pot is a fairly chunky sum in itself. Maybe if each person had to choose between getting just £10,000 each or stealing £50,000 for themselves, that might have given them more of a decision.
Of course, these poor ideas probably wouldn't happen at all if Big Brother was on for a reasonable length of time each year instead of being dragged out for months and months...
Meanwhile, the third game in the new series of Deal or No Deal also happened to be the third disasterous game in the new series too. Val didn't do too badly to salvage £1500 from it.![]()




