Back to Our Roots! After weeks of rumour and speculation we can finally confirm that the fourth series of Big Brother will start at the end of May. Twelve new contestants will enter the most famous house in Britain, with one triumphant winner emerging £70,000 richer nine weeks later. This year, Big Brother is going back to its roots. There will be no rich/poor divide, just 12 people living together and getting voted out as the weeks progress. As usual, they will be cut off from the outside world - but with their every move observed by a host of cameras and recording equipment. The weekly task is also coming back - with a vengeance. The housemates will have to work together as a team on a task that will determine their weekly food budget, and this year there's no playing safe. The stakes - if not the steaks - will be high. Each week, the housemates will be required to place a minimum 50% bet on the outcome, rather than the 10% of previous years. If they fail, they’ll have to live on an unappetising sounding diet of chickpeas and cauliflowers. Which could have some unwelcome repercussions… In addition, the housemates will still take part in a live challenge each Saturday night. And, of course, Big Brother will also have plenty of surprises up its sleeve. As the rules state "Big Brother reserves the right to change the rules at any time." There are, however, no changes proposed for the eviction process. Every Monday, each participant will enter the Diary Room and nominate two fellow housemates for eviction. The two or more housemates receiving the most votes are then put up for the public eviction vote. So forget the frills, forget the gimmicks. This year, it's back to basics. As executive producer Gigi Eligoloff says "The absolute essence of the show is the people and their existence, cutting individuals off from society and getting them to live together as a community. "Big Brother is all about character and personality and this year's focus should allow people the scope to reveal who they really are. "All this and an all-important game to play - just what will people do for £70,000 and what tactics, if any, will they employ to stay?" But will the tactics - or even the tictacs - work? In the end, as ever, you decide. It's coming soon. Keep an eye out for it... www.channel4.com/bigbrother Yes Rosh, I am a Big Brother Shuper-Fan...
Ah feck, just kill it off already. I especially hate those weekly taks (never seen one but hate the idea of it). Yay, let's all play nicely as a deem because that's the way psychologists have deemed people should interact.
It was psychologists who deemed that human beings should interact with each other, combine talents, pool ideas and work together. Never knew that.
It's not that I'm on about, it's the whole "lab rats" thing, oh look at them interacting. Oh dear that one didn't fit into it's predefined role in the group, let's punish it by denying it of food.
When has a British Big Brother contestant ever been deprived of food for not fulfilling a predefined role?
If you don't succeed at a team task, you lose some of the food budget. There is no punsihemnt for not "fulfilling a predetermined" role. Teamwaork is a necessary in all walks of life... the group task gives the contestants something to focus on and prepare for, often influences the group dynamics and personal relationships and makes for some damn entertaining television. If you want to criticise the weekly trask, you'll have to watch one first
Season 1 had its Nasty nick, season 2 had its Brian Dowling. Season 3 had nothing. They should have killed it off after Season 4. Actually Nasty Nick was exactly what the doctor ordered. However "bastard" wasn't one of the pre-defined roles so he was evicted, even though bastards are an everyday part of real life.
That's funny, most commentators at the time and fans of the show suspect Nick might have been a Channel 4/Endemol plant and everybody realised that the production team waived the disqualification rules for weeks because the "ba**ard* as you refer to him was creating such good television... Oh and Season 3 gave us Jade Goody, the most frightening thing since fear was first measured in the British Isles on April 27th 9,866 BC.
Just having a bit of fun. I still think that people should quit while they're ahead. 4 seasons is just too much for the big brother format. (Look what happened to the simpsons).
The BB format is low cost, massively popular with advertisers, the viewing audiences and the Red Tops (boo!) alike. Even last year the show generated much column inches in the broadsheets and as you and I have proved always polarises opinion and causes debate and controversy. If Channel 4 didn't have Big brother to fall back on they would be in serious financial difficulties. They've already massively trimmed their workforce and virtually shut down FilmFour in an attmept to stem losses. The advertising revenue generated by Big Brother, the interactive streams with BT, the increased e4 signup, the revenues from voting is phenomenol... Big brother alsdo gives our own Graham Norton his biggest audiences ) And it even pulled in a few viwers to RiSe last year!
so the only reason to keep it going is for the revenue. Hmmm, sounds a little like Fox and the simpsons.
Well RBJ, revenue is what they're there for. Its cheap Television and it gets an audience. Christ sake, just look at the salon, now if thats not a fly on the wall look at paint drying I don't know what is. When you think of the cost of a show like friends and the revenue generated from it and thena show like BB or the Salon and its revenue you'll see that it makes sense. BB is shite though. They should make a real life version of the jap movie Battle Royale, that I'd watch.
yeah true. God now you've left me disillusioned and bitter at the world. It's like they said on the Simpsons "tv companies are in love with reality shows because they don't have to pay actors or writers".
Going into convulsions big brother i've been talking about it for almost a month. Amnesiac we could talk for hours about that show and you said everything above i would have. Since it's a friday start date and usually around the 25th i'm guessing it's the 23rd of this month (the day before eurovision i'll be in gay overload) Do you think they'll introduce head of the household as a tempory thing this year? It's been around for a while now?
