Noting your comments re threads other than football which I feel are more prevalent in the close season anyway I agree with you to a degree as long as we remain focussed that what brings us together on this forum is our feelings for Newcastle and our football team. The problem at times and this is easy addressed is that types of postings could reach saturation point, for instance the "what are you reading now", 10 fav films etc etc, this could be forwarded by a new contributor who is unaware that the subject was covered a couple of months earlier. Even tho it may seem regimented it could be feasible for our esteemed adminstrator to flag this up on say a six months basis. Okay Galaxy, now for today`s topical discussion, (hopefully), I could not and will never get to grips with "Big Brother", since it ended the bliddy front page coverage in the press has been over the top, I know you enjoyed it, so fair play no arguments there, it takes all kinds and I understand that. Survivor was ok , except the good guys were voted off. I have never missed an episode of "The Heat is On", Lofty Wiseman training the 14 hopefuls in Scotland , picking the 7 who would eventually finish up in Peru ,no cash prizes, just proving to their own folk that they could handle the challenge . The glamour element was obviously there with Mickey but after three days and nights in the jungle , bitten to hell , dose of the dengi, the poor lass is away with it. Sheila a 46yr old housewife casevaced out with suspected head fracture , Andre the squaddie who finds it difficult to work with civilians , I find it good tele , no character is bigger than the ulu (jungle) . anyone else watching?

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

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Amazing Peru

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

No fanfare, no trumpets, missed the start, didn't I, so I'm waiting for the repeats on BBC Knowledge, UK Gold, UK Horizon etc etc etc etc. I've avoided watching it because I started on Castaways a bit late and judged some folk on what they had turned into rather than on how they had started out....I take it you avoided "Boot Camp" like the plague :-)

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

Enjoying it immensely Buff. Have seen that lofty character on that show where they pit a team of chartered surveyors against a team of firemen. Can't remember the name of the show but it was great.

This lot don't seem a bad bunch although the management consultant with the ex-wife watching his every move seems to be cracking up and Andre can become a bit tedious. My personal fave is joleene or whatever her name is, the lass who was in care. She seems to be a cracking lass with a really good attitude to the whole adventure

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

Like Softie I missed the beginning - but I`m watching it now. I agree, great television. I also enjoyed the series a while back with a group of `ordinary` women doing a similar thing in Burma(?). I was hugely impressed by them. Basically I just find `people` interesting - be it watching them on Big Brother, or hacking their way through the jungle. On an everyday level, I love people watching too, airports, restaurants, kids playing together on the beach - mundane yet fascinating.(:o)

(BTW, does anyone watch the EcoChallenge series on Sky? Now they are seriously daunting!)

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001