Big Brother
 

Unfortunetly this crappy show starts tonight.

Going to be worse than ever!

Which is pretty bad.

Does anyone here like the show?

No, But i am a big Krystal fan :D:D:D:D

Give it a BIG miss thanx

i did actually watch a bit last year, more friday night games than anything, and we turned it on tonight at 830, its going to be awful, they will have turned off alot of the non obsessive watchers with the way they picked i think. Nobody wants to listen to that guys (speculation) voice

i love it for some reason, centrebet are going to give live odds each week, i think its got a better concept this year

yeah i looked at who was in it and laughed. i wont be watching this year.

its about as exciting as two ants having sex:)

least there'd be some sex lol

watched it tonight umm zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz is all I can say I actually fell asleep so dam boring cant believe its been going for this long

hmm Friday Night Games is on tonite, should be interesting. I must say one thing tho that guy I think his name is Travis, his voice is really starting to annoy me, god help us if we have to put up with it any longer *cries*

simple answer gianna 'dont watch it ;)

im sure chris will be happier with that resolution aswell, its gone on too long its predictable

people go in, theres a tool, an attention seeker, some boobs with bodies attached, and some oddities but still the same conversations as the year before and no more interesting, only redeeming factor might be FNL hopefully they do some really painful stuff to this lot hahaha.

lol myanimall. i've watched a couple of episodes and so far surprisingly its not that bad YET!! have to wait and see.

hmmmm nah I think its really clasping at straws this year, putting in Corey which I plain refuse to even have the tv on while he is in there, I think that its horrid giving this little prick more infamy than he deserves.

and btw when i said painful stuff on FNL i didnt mean break thier bloody legs :O

The first one was ok......OVER IT

i kinda felt sorry for corey when we was on stage right b4 going into the house, but hey it kind of deserves it too

corey - who did he kill? as thats how every treats him, the kid had a party that went out of hand, blame the media not corey.

Courtesy of Daily Telegraph Sydney
Budget betters Big Brother
May 18, 2008 12:00am

THE new series of Big Brother will be its last, according to former contestants, as viewers turn off the once popular reality TV show.

Ratings for this year's series on Network Ten are so dire that last Tuesday night's program was beaten by Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivering the Rudd government's Budget on ABC TV.

These results follow Big Brother's disastrous launch two weeks ago, which drew a meagre national audience of 1.51 million.

It was the worst launch in the program's eight-year history.

The daily shows have fallen to as few as 852,000 viewers, with last Sunday's first eviction - which ousted UFO fanatic Saxon Pepper - just reaching the million mark.

In its heyday, Big Brother evictions would attract up to two million people. The 2004 winner, Trevor Butler, said the obvious public animosity towards the program could spell its end.

"This is their last shot. If they don't get the ratings they need this year - and, so far, they're not showing up - I don't think you'll see Big Brother again,'' Butler told The Sunday Telegraph.

Reality television expert and Queensland University of Technology's Associate Professor of Film and Television Alan McKee said the departure of former host Gretel Killeen had damaged the show.

"What made it outstanding was that you always had Gretel Killeen there, who was the show's moral centre,'' he said.

"If you were watching it and somebody was behaving obnoxiously when they came out, you knew that Gretel would tear strips off them.

"Kyle and Jackie O just don't serve the same purpose. Jackie is quite limp and Kyle prides himself on being wrong - he will always say the wrong, obnoxious thing and hurt people.''

Butler pointed to the program's extreme casting as the key toits problems.

"They have got some far-out choices. It's clear they went for shock (value),'' he said.

This year's housemates include Travis, a self-declared young virgin with a high-pitched voice; David, a former cult member; Terri, a 52-year-old outmoded grandmother; party boy Corey Worthington, and Rima, a 1m-tall belly-dancer.

Rima has since left the house, after Brother in ratingsbreaking her leg during a game.

Big Brother 2006 contestant Claire Madden agreed producers had gone too far with this year's casting.

"A quarter of the people in there you are unlikely to meet in a normal situation,'' she said.

"The consensus from the public - who still feel they need to tell me their opinion on everything to do with Big Brother - is that they want to see it stripped back to its natural form and the way it was in series one and two, when it was brilliant.''

Last week, selected housemates were taken to a secluded area, dubbed ``Bali''.

A Big Brother source said this allowed producers to serve alcohol - which they can't, in the presence of 17-year-old Worthington - in the hope that it would lead to sexual activity between housemates and boost ratings.

Stephen Tate, Network Ten executive producer for Big Brother, laughed off suggestions that this would be the program's final season.

"In a fragmenting (TV) market, I think it's been a stellar performance,'' he said.

"Every series tends to J-curve - they start high, fall away a little bit, then climb again towards the end.''

Mr Tate said he was pleased with the casting.

"We wanted a house of extremes. The philosophy this year was about throwing a group of people together into the house who would not normally socialise with each other - so that they all faced challenges,'' he said.

"What we didn't want this year was a clique developing, which we've seen in previous years."

Finally :)

Not sure about anyone else but i very much dislike the show.

I sometimes watch the Friday night games but I'm a Home & Away (sad I know!) fan so no Big Brother for me.....It's getting a bit boring anyway? Was fun to watch in it's first year but the show is just tiresome now.

Pamela Anderson to bust into BB house
 

26 June 2008

Former Baywatch babe and Playboy bunny Pamela Anderson will bust into the Big Brother house next month.

The Canadian-born actress and sex symbol, who turns 41 next week, will take a break from filming her own reality series to appear on the Network Ten program.

Anderson will enter the Big Brother house on July 9, to teach the housemates "the tricks of her trade".

"Pamela has been in my sights for quite some months and I'm delighted to announce her involvement in my show," Big Brother said in a statement from Network Ten.

"The reaction from the housemates will be worth watching."

This Sunday's show will see the return of midget belly dancer Rima, who was forced to leave the show in May when she broke her leg.

Bye bye Big Brother
 

July 14, 2008

AFTER eight series, 162 housemates and guests, and a viewer slide of almost 1.8 million, Channel 10 has admitted that not even Kyle Sandilands and Pamela Anderson could save Big Brother.

Last night the network announced that next Monday's show - during which the series winner will be announced at the Gold Coast compound - will be the ground-breaking reality show's last.

Revealed: Why it's time to go, Big Brother

The series which attracted up to 2.8 million viewers back in 2001 is now averaging little more than one million viewers per episode.

Ten chose to forge ahead this year with the ageing format, spiced up with appearances by party boy Corey Worthington, gay style guru Carson Kressley and Pamela Anderson, a former Baywatch babe.

But falling 2008 ratings and the need for new fresh programs this year saw Ten programmers make the decision late last week - with the backing of Ten's board.

Producers Endemol Southern Star were then informed, but the news was kept secret over the weekend before the final seven episodes roll out from tonight. It follows last week's appearance by a skimpily-clad Anderson, who was reportedly paid $500,000 to appear on the flagging show.

The decision backfired when Anderson publicly voiced her protest at Big Brother major sponsor KFC's treatment of chickens.

The show's axing will free up what is estimated to be an annual $30 million in production funds which will be spent on a range of new, as yet unannounced, programs.

Most will be local shows, Ten's programming chief David Mott said last night.

"This decision has been going back and forth for sometime and we have been having a very close look at it," he said. "But it has still been a tough call, and while the numbers are still working it is now time for us to move forward."

Nationally, the 2008 series has had the lowest ratings ever. For the most part it failed to reach the one million mark and slipped in the 7pm weeknight time slot to run fourth behind the ABC news.

The recruitment of new hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O did help save the Sydney-based pair's hometown audience.

The series attracted more than 40 per cent of such viewers when it aired last year, but has dropped to 30.8 per cent in 2008.

"The 18-49s are now a broader target for us than when we launched Big Brother in 2001 (when the target was 16-39-year-olds)," Mott said.

Thank some higher power for finally getting rid of that rubbish off the television!!

Channel 10 its about time!!

apparently another station is going to pick up the show oh! oh! unless of course they make it good like when it started then its more like YAY!

I hope it is gone for good but surely there will be some other crappy reality show to replace it, possible worse than BB!
Has anyone seen Wipeout? Its hilarious!

Wipeout is a great show. Lots of laughs and smash ups. :D

if you like wipeout check out Takeshis Castle on youtube, original Japanese version its friggin awesome

Even though I do not like Big Brother, I am glad Terri won!