So I was surfing along, came across this video, read the comments and wanted to add my thoughts on the topic.

So wrote a rant, and then clicked submit, my message was too long. How could they not have set a max character in the form field, this is something available since HTML.1 (don’t quote me). The BBC even have a little box telling you how many characters you have left as you type.

Stoopid You Tube.

Anyway, I thought I would rant here as I have very little to chat about since BB ended (such a sad sentence)

It’s a dog eat dog world, be thankful we are not yet at the level of commercials they have in the states, where after opening credits they run some more ads. Granted there are 3 sets of long ads with the major shows like desperate housewives, and lost. But we haven’t got it too bad.

Many people do not watch the adverts in shows thanks to Sky+ or similar HD (hard disk, not hi def) recorders. I nearly watch everything after it is broadcast for this ad skipping alone and really resent having to sit through ads when i am watching something live. Broadcasters now have to make announcements and promote shows during shows for any chance of them being seen. In the states product placement is also on the rise due to Tivo etc. The Apprentice is a big hour long advert for a particular product or store each week. Again be thankful our loverly BBC doesn’t allow for this sort of thing, so the contestants and task are the feature of the show, not Shania Twains new perfume.

But what does bother me about this ticker promo thing, is the distortion of the playing show, the ticker could just as easily slide up over the picture rather than squash it.

Rant over

…. oh and while i was surfing I came across this, the intro to the new season of the Simpsons, that follows on from the movie. I guess it has spoilers to some degree, but they are more suggestions to things that happened in the movie. Anyway, it’s work viewing.

This is pretty neat

Zygote Interactive Ball at BIP, Italy from Alex Beim on Vimeo.

Always wondered if it was wires or seomthing like this. At last I know.

I dread to think of the cost of this “experiment” (slash viral video)

(also the guy sounds like the pharmacist (Goldman) from Family Guy)

via videosift.com

It’s all over. Another year, and finally I can get an hour of each day back. Always mixed feelings about the end, glad that its over as three months of any show when you watch each episode is a bit of a struggle. But I will also miss the show, miss talking about it, deciding who I like and who I hate.

A good finale. Interviews always tend to be a bit rushed with a crowd distracted interviewee. And they were, but somehow they are so excited it’s tricky to do a serious interview bringing up various topics. Carole would have had a lot more questions about her intense desire to control given the time and a quieter setting.

Oh well. The twins and Brian’s interviews were better, they didn’t really have any serious bits to talk about and the whole Brimanda thing was very cute. I thought that BB would not have never put such a fan into the house. He didn’t come across as being a anorak about it, when they went back in time to BB3 with Alex and Adele and they played the music, he was jumping about and singing along. He was also watching the AU BB so I’m guessing he download it from somewhere which is pretty hardcore.

A deserved win, a nice guy who was a bit stupid. This made us laugh but he also had some very tender nice moments, the time when he was upset in the diary room with his one man back thing on, and BB was trying to cheer him was really nice. His comment about making love to Amanda, where angels would come down and play harps and monkeys feed you grapes was also very genuine. But you can beat his little face when he won, smiling for all the right reasons. The best winner since Nadia, Anthony’s “cringe posing and dancing” and Pete’s “ooo I’m falling down the stairs – how whacky am I” wins were naff and so forced.

Lets just remind ourselves of Nadia:

Anyway, its over, no end show with my fave bit of them showing the empty house, turning of the lights one by one with all the echoy voices. Which is my closure. My Sky+ has picked up next saturday’s BB just about what happens to the housemates in the winners week. Will watch that and the BBLB BBQ in the house tomorrow.

Till next year, they have started promoting the auditions already, does this mean an earlier start, or a longer show, different format. Who can say. Perhaps I will audition this year