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I agree with you, I want to see the evictees arrive at the sequester house. I always look forward to seeing the reaction of people in sequester when a new houseguest is about to join them and hear what they'll have to say when they watch HoH comp footage.

This season has not been the best since, even if there is the AP feature, it seems they are forgetting about us. We want to see ppl in sequester, we want to see houseguests have fun and not be bored to death, etc.

And they need to explain why they chose "Alice in Wonderland" as a decorating theme. Yes, it was used as a theme in a few competitions but they could have done the same comp even if the house was not decorated that way. I expected more to tie in the decor to the game.

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I have always looked forward to the Jury House footage. It's good to see the houseguests outside of the game.

Do you remember hearing Amber say she was cut from the show and then she received another call saying she was still in the running?

After this crazy year I don't know if I will watch again if it is back next summer. The producers seem to really sway the houseguests to do what they want.

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My comment is not so much about the sequester footage, but more about your comment regarding activities. I recently opted for a trial of Showtime and was soooo excited to see the Showtime after dark hours. ZZZZZZZZZZZ It was awful! Awful boring! I would have much rather watched the houseguests play Twister or Trivial Pursuit or even make a paper mache elephant (since you mention crafts) than watch them play quarters night after night. Don't the producers realize that they would have more people willing to pay for the feed and for showtime and all the other extra crap they try to sell us if they gave the houseguests something interesting to do? I know they want them to sit around and talk game, but there's only so much of that that can be done. No wonder I watched Daniele yawn about 40 times in the 30 min that I watched it before I had to just give up and turn it off. I could have more fun playing quarters with my kids and Koolaid than watching this!

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there are a lot of rumors, but one rumor is that Jen refused to go into sequester and Dustin was accidentally asked by a reporter about America's Player Eric (another possible reason the stopped allowing reporters to talk to evictee's) and so they had to double sequester Dustin from the other evicted guests.

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This season has pretty much been the last nail in the coffin for me. After watching 70% of past seasons this season had me on snore alarm after a few shows. What a lame set of houseguests. And I am tired of the attempted manipulation by the show. Is anyone going to write a media article about the comment from houseguests that they were told how to vote so that Eric would not be evicted? This seems to have not been much a blip in the reality show radar, although to me it just proves we are all fools for watching. Reality TV? Nah... just cheaper trash really.

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Although I don't think this year has been very differnet than other years and I will probably always continue to watch, I think there are a lot of things they could do to liven up the show and give it new life. I watched BB UK this year on Youtube and they do a good job of giving HG's varied activities to keep them and us interested. BB has fallen into a trap of being very repetitive with the competitions, etc to the point where HG's know to well what to expect from the game. The UK version also has live audiences at the eviction shows and has viewers vote players out.

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I'd rather watch houseplants than this group of houseguests! BB fan since its' inception, but now, I just watch because old habits die hard not because of a new production managers' ideas. She has taken a one time luxery liner and is heading straight for an iceberg!!

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They have already announced that Real Player is going to be re-broadcasting the Live Feeds for 3 months after Big Brother 8 ends. Could Big Brother 8 have something else up their sleeves? Could it be possible that we will be able to access even more Big Brother 8 content via Real Player or Showtime?

taken from another site.

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i would rather watch flies fuck than the showtime nightly show. I TOTALLY agree with the idea of giving them something to do. Give them yarn, give them pottery, give them lincoln logs, give them SOMETHING that in their sheer boredom they will attempt to do.

I can only imagine a pottery wheel , Dick, Zach, and Eric attempting to kill time making something. Of course, Zach makes his own drinking glasses and plates at home, so of course, he will be a pro at it. At least, I am sure that is what we would be told by him if given the opportunity.

Dan
Southern California

President of the "'GIVE them something to do" club....someone..go to a craft shop, toys r us, anything.........

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This season of BB is pretty lame in terms of casting and keeping my interest. #1 - I don't have to watch 3 nights a week to know what's going on or what the strategies are, and #2 - The mute button got a lot of use during all the Weeping Willow and Holly Holy sessions, and #3 - I was more excited than Dick to see Janelle show up, and I'm a straight female. Expect the unexpected? With the exception of a few lively moments, I certainly didn't expect boredom this season! I can only hope BB gives us diehard fans something to look forward to next summer.

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I've watched Big Brother since Day One, but this season is it for me. The producers have went incredibly over the edge in casting the most disgusting, awful people they could possibly find. Eric is an annoying weasel, and Dick is one of the most vile people to ever appear on the show. What the producers fail to see is that you need good, normal people to cancel out the bad ones.

Besides the casting, their control of the game just makes it pointless. Actually telling people how to vote is going way too far. I know reality shows aren't all real, but you still don't expect the actual game to be controlled. Kinda defeats the purpose.

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I agree with you Jackie. This season has been shaky in many instances and Allison Grodner is the most likely suspect to blame. Give the people in the house something to do. And who in heaven's name thought Amber would be a good contestant on Big Brother? She was crying 75% of the time.

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I also think a lot of the blame rests with the producer and her crew. They especially need to get a new casting director,cause this one really missed the boat with this bunch.

I hope to never see another person such as dick in the house or at least,not be allowed to use the kind of tactics he used. It was over the top and bordered on sexual and mental abuse. Enough! And anybody in Amber's fragile state of mind(just out of rehab) should have never been selected to be on that show. Not that there have not been other miscues in casting before(i.e....Mike Boogie)but the leeway this group gave to some in the house was out of bounds. And for my part,Ms. Grodner,AP was a colossal stinker. Hated it,with it's inane tasks and the boob you pick to represent US.

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My thinking is that BB is hoping for the "out of sight out of mind" theory to work. There were same statements made by Amber that enraged a lot of viewers. So BB is trying to distance themselves from her. I agree, watching BBAD is like watching paint dry..what a snoozefest that is. At this point I am not really rooting for anyone to win. Eveyone is walking around on eggshells with ED and Dani. They all saw the writing on the wall and should have evicted them when they had the chance, now they have to live with their decisions. For me the best part of BB8 continues to be this blog. Thanks Jackie.!!

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I have to say I have enjoyed watching some of the BB After Dark on Showtime because it shows the houseguests acting more normal. I actually laughed out loud during some of the quarters games they have played, especially the one where the Donatos had to get up every time Eric played and say "There's a line in the sand...don't trust the Donatos." Would make a great promo for upcoming episodes.

Next year at least give them cards or something so they have something to do other than stare at each other. It's pretty sad that they had to ask BB for another quarter just so they could play chandeliers. The boredom would have killed me weeks ago!

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Well they turned me off so badly I dont watch but i still have enough interst to read blogs I guess sponsers wont like that too much if enough viewers do the same

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BB has been a drag this season. I don't know who to blame more, the producers who are showing the perverts they have hired for this season by having the female contestents remove their clothes to spell out words or the contestents themselves, Amber for example who shows she still needs rehabilitation, some good doses of prozac, and a visit from children & youth to check on the security of her daughter. Then there is Jamacka, the hypocrite evangelist, and let us not forget Evel, WOW!!!

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This season of BB has been pretty awful and only the tvsquad and Jackie's have kept me watching. I don't care who wins. I don't care who is voted out.
I would say one thing about BB interferring behind the scenes. In many ways they have missed opportunities to be the manipulative Big Brothers that they take their name from. But, they interfer in such clumsey ways. Idiots. And I completely agree that probably they are not having a sequester house scene because there is no sequester house and they think that we won't find out. Are we that stupid?. Maybe they think that if we are watching the show them probably we are that stupid. But we are Jackie's Posse and smart and funny...unlike the show this season. Leigh in Santa Cruz

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I've said from the beginning that they need to give these HG's something to do other than beer pong and quarters. Why can't they have them grow a garden to donate to the food pantries, or learn to sew or knit to make things for the women's shelters or homeless. I know LA has huge homeless problems, why can't they have them do something constructive with their time. They can even bash each other and talk strategy while doing it.

Not to mention that I would LOVE to see Dick trying to knit a sweater for a baby!!! :-)

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