[Jon]

Big Brother tends to be referred to as the original reality behemoth of them all. However, I tend to remember Castaway being the pioneer of this genre of television - and more authentic with genuine interactions and relationships forming/crumbling. Big Brother came later on that year. I too feel yesterday's show was overproduced & too slick. I hope there are different voices to Big Brother as in the original series - whoever was sitting in the production suite at the time, would speak to the housemates. I fear there will be just one bloke's voice this time around.

If it’s one voice I wonder if it’s AI generated?

On Castaway being before Big Brother that may well be the case (in the UK at least) but difficult to argue that it had anywhere near the same kind of cultural impact.