[Keith]

Maybe they were just a bit reticent about it being live for the first one. Perhaps if the series is successful and is renewed they might go with live next time. I hope so. I almost always prefer live stuff...even if their are glitches...just makes it more "real".

One noticeable edit to the intros was the sudden appearance of the massive ramp. Maybe for future series they could try to integrate the ramp into the staging a bit better, so that it could be permanently in place. Also, unless I imagined it they seemed to switch the order of 'showing the contestant intro and them getting out of the car' halfway through to being the other way around.

I guess not showing inside the house before the contestants arrived allowed for parts of it to be revealed towards the end of the programme. Being pre-recorded also allowed them to show what happened later on that evening. Previously from memories of the C4 days the first night's highlights included a lot of what you'd seen during the launch show in terms of them arriving.