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Earlier I read the newspaper and then I looked at Yahoo news and I copied it so you can read it.
Big Brother black out after brawl
LONDON (Reuters) - "Big Brother" was taken off air for 90 minutes early today after screaming housemates threatened to kill each other and had to be dragged apart by security guards.
Producers of the reality TV show said they pulled the plug when contestants pushed one another, hurled trays and unleashed a torrent of swearing.
Police said on Thursday they were examining the brawl.
"We've obtained a copy of the tape of last night's footage and we're looking at it with a view to seeing whether there's anything to take forward," said a spokeswoman for Hertfordshire police.
One contestant was physically sick from the shock after a food fight spiralled out of control.
Bodybuilder Jason Cowen, 30, screamed at 21-year-old student Marco Sabba: "I'll knock you out. I'll take your head off, end of story."
Legal administrator Emma Greenwood, 20, hurled insults at student Victor Ebuwa, 23, who replied: "Don't ever f*** with me Emma -- one warning, that's all. Get out of my face."
Student Vanessa Nimmo, 26, accused bank clerk Nadia Almada, 27, of calling her a **** and the pair traded insults.
The live feed on Channel 4 and digital channel E4 was cut from 1:20 a.m. (0020 GMT) to 3 a.m. on Thursday.
Viewers were shown an outside shot of the house as guards were called in for the first time in five series of the show.
"We are monitoring the situation closely," a Channel 4 spokeswoman said. "We are more concerned about their health and welfare than ratings."
Television watchdogs said the chaos marked a new low for reality TV shows desperate to attract viewers with ever more shocking scenes.
"They are really scraping the barrel by creating controversy," said John Beyer, director of Mediawatch, a TV standards campaign group. "I wish they'd take it off permanently."
There has already been nudity, the suggestion of sex and frequent argument on the show.
In a bid to attract audiences and counter accusations the formula has grown tired, its producers have deliberately tried to create a tense environment.
The slogan for the fifth series is "Big Brother Gets Evil" and among the original housemates were an aspiring glamour model, a political activist and a former asylum seeker.
They are made to perform a variety of tasks and contestants are evicted from the house each week in a public vote. The last one standing in seven weeks will win a prize of up to 100,000 pounds.
Any comments?
Is it on for TV shows to put people through this when they knew this kind of thing was gonna happen. I mean putting different personalities I mean very different personalities together is bound to cause this.
I THINK BIG BROTHER HAS GONE TOO FAR.HAVE YOU?
Big Brother black out after brawl
LONDON (Reuters) - "Big Brother" was taken off air for 90 minutes early today after screaming housemates threatened to kill each other and had to be dragged apart by security guards.
Producers of the reality TV show said they pulled the plug when contestants pushed one another, hurled trays and unleashed a torrent of swearing.
Police said on Thursday they were examining the brawl.
"We've obtained a copy of the tape of last night's footage and we're looking at it with a view to seeing whether there's anything to take forward," said a spokeswoman for Hertfordshire police.
One contestant was physically sick from the shock after a food fight spiralled out of control.
Bodybuilder Jason Cowen, 30, screamed at 21-year-old student Marco Sabba: "I'll knock you out. I'll take your head off, end of story."
Legal administrator Emma Greenwood, 20, hurled insults at student Victor Ebuwa, 23, who replied: "Don't ever f*** with me Emma -- one warning, that's all. Get out of my face."
Student Vanessa Nimmo, 26, accused bank clerk Nadia Almada, 27, of calling her a **** and the pair traded insults.
The live feed on Channel 4 and digital channel E4 was cut from 1:20 a.m. (0020 GMT) to 3 a.m. on Thursday.
Viewers were shown an outside shot of the house as guards were called in for the first time in five series of the show.
"We are monitoring the situation closely," a Channel 4 spokeswoman said. "We are more concerned about their health and welfare than ratings."
Television watchdogs said the chaos marked a new low for reality TV shows desperate to attract viewers with ever more shocking scenes.
"They are really scraping the barrel by creating controversy," said John Beyer, director of Mediawatch, a TV standards campaign group. "I wish they'd take it off permanently."
There has already been nudity, the suggestion of sex and frequent argument on the show.
In a bid to attract audiences and counter accusations the formula has grown tired, its producers have deliberately tried to create a tense environment.
The slogan for the fifth series is "Big Brother Gets Evil" and among the original housemates were an aspiring glamour model, a political activist and a former asylum seeker.
They are made to perform a variety of tasks and contestants are evicted from the house each week in a public vote. The last one standing in seven weeks will win a prize of up to 100,000 pounds.
Any comments?
Is it on for TV shows to put people through this when they knew this kind of thing was gonna happen. I mean putting different personalities I mean very different personalities together is bound to cause this.
I THINK BIG BROTHER HAS GONE TOO FAR.HAVE YOU?
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I reckon Becky will be up for nominations this week and maybe Ahmed because of his talk about wanting to leave the house.
OMGG!!!1
Well it was no shock that marco will go. I personally feel as though the jungle cats. Jay and Victor will be up for eviction, As apparantly they are going to be banned from voting.. As they were discussing nominations..
Bookies are give Jay 6-4 Odd to leave the house this week.
Prediction:- Jay And Becki up for eviction
Bookies are give Jay 6-4 Odd to leave the house this week.
Prediction:- Jay And Becki up for eviction
I wasnt surprised to see Marco go. Although he was a strong entertaining character he was also very annoying.
Nadia and Michelle are just a bit more bearable.
The three people i really hate are Victor, Jason and Becki!
Nadia and Michelle are just a bit more bearable.
The three people i really hate are Victor, Jason and Becki!
I surprised to see Marco get evicted I thought it would of been Michelle.
Light wrote:
> Of course, I'd still prefer to see the housemates worshipping fire
> and making human sacrifices by the end of the series, but...
I'd prefer it if Dubya declared war on the house fearing that they are hiding weapons of mass destruction then blow the hell out of it .......... after taking out most of London with errant fire :-D
> Of course, I'd still prefer to see the housemates worshipping fire
> and making human sacrifices by the end of the series, but...
I'd prefer it if Dubya declared war on the house fearing that they are hiding weapons of mass destruction then blow the hell out of it .......... after taking out most of London with errant fire :-D
lalakersrule wrote:
> Yes i agree about them having to go out to investigate but what is
> annoying me and is what my point is about is why are they STILL
> investigating it apparently wanting to interview each one of the
> housemates as they come out? Do they not have actual proper crimes to
> be investigating instead of wasting their time with this pathetic
> rubbish?
Well, they know where the housemates are gonna be each Friday, so it's not like it's going to be a drain on resources to track them down. It's just a half hour or an hour of a policemans time.
And for this minimal amount of police time, the producers of BB know that they can't just dick around and keep creating situations which threaten to boil over into violence, because the police are taking the one incident that has happened seriously enough to keep tabs on them. Thus for this tiny investment of police time, we can be sure that the producers won't be quite so keen to incite the housemates to violence, because if they do then the producers themselves stand to be charged.
Of course, I'd still prefer to see the housemates worshipping fire and making human sacrifices by the end of the series, but...
> Yes i agree about them having to go out to investigate but what is
> annoying me and is what my point is about is why are they STILL
> investigating it apparently wanting to interview each one of the
> housemates as they come out? Do they not have actual proper crimes to
> be investigating instead of wasting their time with this pathetic
> rubbish?
Well, they know where the housemates are gonna be each Friday, so it's not like it's going to be a drain on resources to track them down. It's just a half hour or an hour of a policemans time.
And for this minimal amount of police time, the producers of BB know that they can't just dick around and keep creating situations which threaten to boil over into violence, because the police are taking the one incident that has happened seriously enough to keep tabs on them. Thus for this tiny investment of police time, we can be sure that the producers won't be quite so keen to incite the housemates to violence, because if they do then the producers themselves stand to be charged.
Of course, I'd still prefer to see the housemates worshipping fire and making human sacrifices by the end of the series, but...
I think michelle will go as the viewers might want to keep Marco in the house to see what happens with Jason and Victor reactions.
Cong_Woman wrote:
> I think Marco will go.
I hope so
> I think Marco will go.
I hope so
Light wrote:
> The Bigg Market in sunny Newcastle has CCTV camera's everywhere,
> bouncers on pretty much every door (so there are about 40 bouncers in
> an area the size of 2 football pitches), and yet the police are
> frequently there, getting involved in incidents that are in some
> cases rather more pathetic than the BB 'brawl'. But if they didn't
> intervene, would some of them develop into something worse?
> Well...possibly, possibly not.
Different where i am then, even though we have lots of bouncers not one of them ever gets involved and just lets the people get on with it.
>
> My point is that the whole "the police have other things to
> do" argument is always, but ALWAYS given with the benefit of
> hindsight. The police are obligated to deal with whatever gets put in
> front of them, and it's rare indeed that they have the luxury of
> being able to decide whether a matter is sufficiently inconsequential
> to ignore.
Yes i agree about them having to go out to investigate but what is annoying me and is what my point is about is why are they STILL investigating it apparently wanting to interview each one of the housemates as they come out? Do they not have actual proper crimes to be investigating instead of wasting their time with this pathetic rubbish?
> If we kept calling the police every time we saw some violence on the
> tv, they'd have no time to be out with their speed guns :-D
>
> Every time? Maybe my memory is shot to hell, but I don't recall there
> being any other incidences of simmering tension boiling over into
> handbags and slaps on live reality tv.
It was actually a vision for the future point asking are we going to start calling the police out every time there's some violence on tv, which if so, means the police will be doing nothing else but investigating matters like this
> The Bigg Market in sunny Newcastle has CCTV camera's everywhere,
> bouncers on pretty much every door (so there are about 40 bouncers in
> an area the size of 2 football pitches), and yet the police are
> frequently there, getting involved in incidents that are in some
> cases rather more pathetic than the BB 'brawl'. But if they didn't
> intervene, would some of them develop into something worse?
> Well...possibly, possibly not.
Different where i am then, even though we have lots of bouncers not one of them ever gets involved and just lets the people get on with it.
>
> My point is that the whole "the police have other things to
> do" argument is always, but ALWAYS given with the benefit of
> hindsight. The police are obligated to deal with whatever gets put in
> front of them, and it's rare indeed that they have the luxury of
> being able to decide whether a matter is sufficiently inconsequential
> to ignore.
Yes i agree about them having to go out to investigate but what is annoying me and is what my point is about is why are they STILL investigating it apparently wanting to interview each one of the housemates as they come out? Do they not have actual proper crimes to be investigating instead of wasting their time with this pathetic rubbish?
> If we kept calling the police every time we saw some violence on the
> tv, they'd have no time to be out with their speed guns :-D
>
> Every time? Maybe my memory is shot to hell, but I don't recall there
> being any other incidences of simmering tension boiling over into
> handbags and slaps on live reality tv.
It was actually a vision for the future point asking are we going to start calling the police out every time there's some violence on tv, which if so, means the police will be doing nothing else but investigating matters like this
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