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News
We have 9 nominations this week!!! It would be easier to say who's not up for the vote - Lisa, Mikey and Sara.
The housemates voted for Dale and Luke, but as a result of several housemates discussing nominations using a specially-invented code, they will also be up for the public vote. They are - Darnell, Kathreya, Maysoon, Mohamed, Rachel, Rex and Stuart
Check out our new Davina McCall fan site!!!
Nominations
29th July 2008
Due to the high number of nominees, voting will begin on Wednesday 30th.
Dale
Darnell
Kathreya
Luke
Maysoon
Mohamed
Rachel
Rex
Stuart
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Videos
| Taking it well | Nomination Reaction | Kara-no-key | Learning Japanese | Karate Chop |
| Alarming Moves | T-ok-go | Musical Maestro | Work it Girl! | Stocking Filler |
Forum
With a new series just started, we have a new forum to discuss all aspects of Big Brother!! What rumours have you heard, who would you like to be on it, what do you think Big Brother should do to fool around with this year's intake?
For those that don't know .... where have you been .....
Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Channel 4 and E4. It is also broadcast on channel S4C in Wales. The premise of the gameshow is for contestants to live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built house. The winner is the last contestant remaining in the house at the end of the series as housemates are evicted by a weekly public phone vote. The prize is a large sum of cash. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing, omnipotent leader of Oceania. The main shows are hosted by Davina McCall and narrated by Marcus Bentley. The show premiered on Channel 4 on 14th July 2000. It is produced by Brighter Pictures, a company of Endemol. Big Brother returns for a 9th series, most likely in June 2008.
Main series
Davina McCall is the host of the main show and the Live Eviction shows and Dermot O'Leary is the presenter of the companion show Big Brother's Little Brother, however, on 27 November 2007, it was revealed that he will not return for the future Big brother series' but he will host Celebrity Hijack.Although the ethics of the show, and of some of its contestants, have sometimes been questioned, its continued popularity has ensured its survival.
The eighth series launched on Wednesday, May 30th 2007. It has also been confirmed a 9th, 10th and 11th series of Big Brother UK, which include the celebrity version, all of it's subsidiary shows and E4 streaming.
However, it was announced on August 28th 2007 that Celebrity Big Brother 2008 will be removed from the usual Big Brother lineup. The ITV director of television, Simon Shaps, is believed to have talked to Endemol about the contract, but it is understood the network did not make a formal offer for Big Brother.
Each daily show is repeated the following morning in Channel 4's breakfast schedule, and is censored to allow younger viewers to watch. The same show is repeated on E4 later in the afternoon. Live shows on Fridays are repeated on late Saturday mornings on Channel 4's teen strand T4 and repeated in the evenings on E4.
In T4 and E4 repeats, any entrance or exit of a housemate are usually edited darker to lower the brightness of camera flashes, although this causes severe ghosting in the television picture. This is possibly to lower the risk of flashing cameras to sufferers of photosensitive epilepsy, even though Channel 4 does not broadcast with lower brightness (although continuity warnings are usually announced).
Logo
The iconic logo is in the shape of an eye. Since Big Brother 2, every UK series has featured a new ‘eye’ design designed by Daniel Eatock. The first series had a human eye as the logo (revealed, during her exit interview, to be that belonging to contestant Melanie Hill). The eye is chosen to signify the fact that Big Brother is ‘always watching’ and has become an iconic piece of art. Most series around the world have adopted the eye in their logo.
Auditions
Big Brother open auditions have been held around the UK and Republic of Ireland since Big Brother 2004 and online via video since Big Brother 2006. Before this, housemates had to send audition tapes to the studios.
Format
Each week, the housemates individually go to the Diary Room and nominate two fellow housemates for eviction. The two or more housemates with the most nominations are then revealed to the House, and the public are invited to vote for who they wish to evict by calling a housemates' premium rate telephone number. The housemate who receives the greatest percentage of the public vote is evicted. Until Series 8, viewers were able to vote by text messagingSeries 7 housemate, Sezer Yurtseven, holds the record for highest eviction percentage. Sezer was evicted in early June 2006 (week two) of Big Brother 7 with 91.6% of the vote, reportedly due to his televised antics. Initially ranked in May 2006 as the fourth most likely to win (behind Pete Bennett, Imogen Thomas and Richard Newman), the then 26-year-old stockbroker was the fifth to leave the house but only the second evicted. Model Lea Walker and waiter Richard Newman survived the vote.
The closest eviction vote so far was between Alison Hammond and Alex Sibley of Big Brother 3, who received 38.52% and 38.44% respectively, a difference of just 1,027 votes. This also happened with Series 8 housemates Kara-Louise Horne (30.8%) and Jonty Stern (30.7%).
Mark Owen won Celebrity Big Brother 2 with 77%, the highest winning percentage in Big Brother UK history across both the celebrity and regular series. Nadia Almada's 71% win in 2004 was the largest of the regular series.
House
For the first two series, the house was located in Bow, London near to the Three Mills Studios. After planning permission expired in 2002, Newham Council ordered the complex to be returned to a natural habitat.Subsequent series have taken place at Elstree Studios. The house is built on top of the studios old underwater tank, and it is believed that after the last series of Big Brother ends in 2010, it will be restored to an underwater tank again. For the 9th series of the show, it was originally thought that the house could be moving to a new location rumoured to be in Hammersmith; however it has recently been confirmed that the show will still be broadcast from Elstree Studios for at least a further two years.
The interior design of the house changes each year to suit the theme of the series. For example, the Big Brother 5 house was claustrophobic, with harsh colour schemes, while series 7 had an "Inside Out" theme with mood lighting that could be changed by the producers to reflect the mood of the housemates. Exclusive pictures of the reportedly new Big Brother 9 house were published in heat magazine, although it has been confirmed that Big Brother will remain at its current location in Elstree Studios until the last series in 2010.
The house is situated just meters from The George Lucas Stage in which the Big Brother spin-off Big Brother's Little Brother is filmed.
Tasks
Housemates are regularly set tasks by Big Brother. These vary from a short job for one housemate (often conducted without the other housemates' knowledge) to tasks over several days involving the whole house. Shorter tasks are generally rewarded with "treats" such as cigarettes or alcohol. There is a main weekly task to determine whether the housemates receive a luxury shopping budget or basic rations only. Tasks often involve an element of performance, dressing up, or artistic endeavour. In more recent series, some tasks have also rewarded or punished housemates with regard to nominations.Series 3 of Big Brother introduced the Saturday night "Big Brother: Live Task", which would determine on which side of the rich/poor divide individual housemates would live for the forthcoming week. The live tasks were continued throughout Big Brother 4, with winners treated to a hidden "reward room" for the evening. Live Saturday evening tasks were discontinued during Big Brother 5.
Live streaming
Channel 4 has made available live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house. However, approximately a 20 minute delay is in place so that audio and/or pictures can be censored to comply with TV regulations.The action from within the house is streamed live over the Internet for a one-off fee subscription that lasts until the end of a series, and for free to broadband customers of sponsors Virgin Media.
Since the second series, Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother House. An interactive service available to digital viewers allows 24/7 access to the stream, even when E4 is carrying normal programming.
Theme tune
The theme tune was written and produced by Paul Oakenfold and Andy Gray. It was released as a single in September 2000 under the name "Element Four" and peaked at number four in the UK Singles Chart. It is also used for the Bulgarian series.
Reality TV
The next big TV reality programme on Channel 4 is Vanity Lair.
Sites
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