(12-12-2012 20:46 )Smooga Wrote: Highs:
Babestation brought Kelly Carter back into action.
Adele Taylor and Clare Richards have been fantastic this year on Studio 66, showing a willingness to use varying sets and outfits to suit the viewers/callers.
Tori Lee left RLC and has seemed much happier in her new surroundings.
Good to see Emily Dean back and looking happier and healthier.
Lows:
Babestation brought back Lynsey Atkinson and Kelly Carter and we've barely seen them. Kelly made another appearance last night, but still, too little.
Way too much Lolly Badcock (worst offender), Lori Buckby, the twins and Geri on Babestation. I know the girls have their fans, but they take up so much time that they hog channels and it means we get more tame 2-4-1's from the other girls just to put them on screen.
RLC have lost their creativeness. It's boring to watch them now.
Babestation using mic girls. Last night we had Geri on the beds AND doing the mic work. So Geri takes delight in interrupting the girls sessions (while Megan looks embarrassed), and then takes up a spot on the bed. Just go away.
Storm channel looks like somebody has smeared vaseline on the lens, and then you have the crappy text messages.
Are the girls not even allowed to touch each other now? They now look at the producers whenever they get near somebody as if they are terrified they are violating some ofcom law. I don't like 2 for 1s, but it makes for weird viewing when you see two girls trying desperately to stay an arm's length from each other.
Irregular time of sessions. Red Light are good at giving an hour or so to one girl, but on Babestation and Studio 66, the girls will switch channels (Studio 66) or leave after 10 minutes (BS). Lolly and Lori can have their hour long sessions of gesturing to the camera, why can't the other girls?
OSG's. Babestation's are the worse, because they fill up the screen and promise you stuff you'll never get. Studio 66's and RLC's are also getting bigger and more prominent.
Hopes:
The channels to provide good looking women who are happy to do the job and to have fun doing so whilst making it enjoyable for us viewers.
A little more respect towards the viewers and callers. See us as a willing audience and not just idiots to steal money from.
(Sorry for the length of this)
Smooga, you have totally hit the nail on the head. I genuinely agree with your pros and cons for the babe channels in 2012. Especially about Lori and the twins. All three girls are amazing and have large fanbases like you say for very good reasons. They all deliver fantastic shows on a regular basis but hogging the majority of the air time like you said leaves the other girls feeding for scraps. It generally doesn't do Lori and the twins any justice either as constantly seeing them for hours at a time, night after night after night, they then become stale and to a certain extent bore and infuriate some viewers which obviously isn't their fault but it's true.
So without trying to copy/repeat what Smooga and others have said, I'll try to give my answers that maybe aren't included in what others have said. I haven't seen as many of the shows as much in 2012 as I may have done in the past few years as I work long days and nights quite often these days.
Highs:
The emergence of Georgie Serino (what a girl!) on BS night time. She has injected some life into a stagnating show (except for Lori and the twins). Although overused sometimes, the major difference in Preeti's on screen performances. Tiffany Chambers performing like her old self in the last couple of months. A good patch of form for the babe channel day shows. Kandi Kay finding somewhere she could truly shine at (in RLC). Kandi Kay getting her knickers off and actually getting naked at last.
Lows:
The fantastic Paige Tyler retiring. Paige is sorely missed. Losing old favourites and extremely popular girls like Ella Jolie, Leah Jaye, Stevie-Louise, Kandi Kay, Lilly Roma etc to other companies in 2011 has made BS an enviroment that just doesn't feel like the same anymore. It's sort of like BS have lost their identity with the roster of girls they have continued to lose in last twelve to eighteen months and haven't had an answer to it. It's hard to explain to be honest. The loss of RLC on freeview as there is no alternative to BS on freeview anymore. Georgie Darby losing her 'mojo'. People may disagree. But she is not the same girl she was from 2009-11, who could carry a single show on her shoulders.
Hopes for 2013:
The biggest wish would be to see the return the 'First Lady' Donna Duke to BS and of course Ella Jolie too. More, much more of Daryl Morgan! It would be nice to see some quality 2-4-1's sometimes, instead of just throwing the girls together on screen at times. That goes for most channels not just BS. The emergence of new channels on freeview to challenge BS. New ideas and new concepts for the babe channels if possible.