Something very strange is going on with BB. You may have noticed that each episode now starts with a recap of what happened the night before. I like this...it's good. It lets me rewatch favourite bits of the former episode like when Mario destroyed John James' pizzas with a broom handle.
Episodes now also end with a preview of what's to come in the next highlights show. This seems a bit weird and polished somehow. And the producers can't know that tomorrow's highlights won't be dominated by whatever happens later that night...
But strangest of all, is the use of music and 'fast-forward' style editing to speed up the representation of an event. So, last night, we were shown the housemates playing a 'truth' type game. Music was overlaid and there was quick editing between the questions and the answers so that the overall effect was of a montage.
It seems very odd to institute these changes after ten years of keeping the same format. I'm not saying that I'm anti these modifications. In fact, it lets you get to the best parts of an interaction quicker, whereas before we might have just been shown a few of the housemates' responses and therefore be biased towards. or against, particular housemates. But it does have a strange knock-on effect on the whole feel of the programme. I wasn't aware of quite how ad-hoc, home-made and uncontaminated by snazzy production English BB has been heretofore. And now it feels a bit...well... a bit...American?
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