Debs
09-05-2006, 14:59
This years Big Brother press pack has been released featuring all the info you need to know on this years Big Brother. And for all you widescreen fanatics out there, this year's Big Brother will be filmed in Widescreen.
To read the FULL Press pack - click here
BIG BROTHER IS BACK!
Countdown begins to new summer series starting May 2006 on Channel 4 and E4
This summer, Big Brother returns to Channel 4 with an even bigger seventh series. A brand new set of housemates will move into a transformed Big Brother house and viewers will be able to watch their every move on both Channel 4 and E4. For the first time ever, the series will be filmed in widescreen.
As always, however, the unsuspecting group have no idea what Big Brother has in store for them. From the second the famous doors shut behind them, the housemates will have to live together abiding by Big Brother’s strict rules, take part in elaborate tasks and nominate each other for eviction. All this without any contact with the outside world.
This year the house is the smallest yet. The famous Hertfordshire house has been transformed with the Big Brother designers swapping inside for outside. The garden comes complete with interior furnishings, while the inside of the house is clad in outdoor textures such as grass and concrete.
Secrecy surrounds the show until launch night, but one thing is certain: housemates will face eviction every week. The decision as to who stays and who goes is, as always, controlled by the viewers who will be able to vote via telephone and text message. All eviction votes cost 50p per vote and this year a percentage of each vote (10p) will be divided between three charities, Shelter, Teenage Cancer Trust and a third chosen by the series winner.
This year sees the return of hit spin-off shows Big Brother’s Little Brother and Big Brother’s Big Mouth on E4, and a brand new Channel 4 live psychology show for Monday nights, Big Brother’s Big Brain, hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
The Big Brother website’s newsroom will be working round the clock to keep fans up-to-date on all events in the house, as well as offering email updates and chat forums. In addition, website users will be able to follow all the house action by subscribing to the live streaming. And for the first year ever, video clips will be FREE to view.
Big Brother is sponsored by The Carphone Warehouse.
PROGRAMMING INFORMATION
CHANNEL 4 PROGRAMMES
Channel 4 viewers can keep up with events in the Big Brother house throughout the summer in a variety of ways. In brief, Channel 4 viewers will be able to watch:
A live launch show hosted by Davina McCall, which sees the housemates entering the house.
A nightly hour-long show with action from the previous 24 hours in the house.
Live eviction programmes presented by Davina McCall.
A new psychology-based show, Big Brother’s Big Brain, for Monday nights hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
An hour-long Big Brother’s Little Brother on T4 each Sunday, hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
Late-night streaming live from the house.
Big Brother Live Launch Show
Davina McCall presents live from the Big Brother studios where a new group of housemates will enter the Big Brother house for the very first time, live on Channel 4. Viewers will see the new housemates as they share their very first moments together and settle in for what could be the most uncompromising and unpredictable few of weeks of their lives.
Big Brother
The nightly hour-long programmes will feature all the action from the previous 24 hours in the house, including tasks and nominations.
Live Eviction Shows
Davina McCall will announce the result of the viewers’ vote and the evicted housemate will exit the house live on the show. The evicted housemate will then give their first interview, revealing all to Davina about their Big Brother experience.
Big Brother’s Big Brain
A new live show for Monday nights presented by Dermot O’Leary, Big Brother’s Big Brain puts the housemates on the couch for intensive analysis. Psychologists provide up-to-the minute dissection on their behaviour along with lively discussion and probing VTs which delve into the innermost reaches of the housemates’ psyches, giving viewers the psychological explanation behind all the latest Big Brother stories, the relationships in the house and the group dynamics. Never seen before on Big Brother, each week the psychologists will set an ‘experiment’ to go into the house and explain what they expect to see from it, with exclusive analysis in the following week’s show.
Big Brother’s Little Brother
Dermot O’Leary hosts an extended edition of the fanzine show on T4 every Sunday.
Big Brother Live
Channel 4 viewers will have a chance to watch late-night streaming broadcast live and direct from the house every night.
E4 PROGRAMMES
E4 continues to be the number one destination for all die-hard Big Brother devotees, who want to catch all the action as it happens. This year, viewers will also be able to use their red buttons to watch extended footage live from the house.
Big Brother’s Little Brother
Big Brother’s Big Mouth
Big Brother: Diary Room Uncut
Big Brother Live
Big Brother’s Little Brother
BBLB gets an E4 premiere as Dermot O’Leary presents the essential half-hour fanzine show live from Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm, delivering all the latest news, views and access to all areas of the house. Dermot delivers his own unique insight into the latest goings-on live from the Big Brother nerve centre, and fans can catch insider scoops on upcoming twists and the very first in-depth interviews with evicted housemates on their return to the outside world.
Dermot will be regularly joined by the housemates’ relatives, friends and workmates, who will reveal what their loved ones are really like in the outside world. In addition to all this, celebrities, journalists, psychologists and other experts will also be dropping in to discuss the latest happenings in the house.
Big Brother’s Big Mouth
Presented by Russell Brand and broadcast live in the shadow of the Big Brother house straight after the nightly Channel 4 show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth is a fast-paced vibrant arena for all Big Brother fans to air their views and ask the questions on everybody’s lips. In front of a live studio audience, a panel of experts, including journalists, celebrities, obsessive fans and friends and relatives of the housemates, will dissect all the latest news and gossip in the house. Plus viewers can get involved by calling and ranting into the Big Brother’s Big Mouth mouthpiece, emailing or texting their thoughts and becoming a member of the studio audience. This year, Big Brother’s Big Mouth will transmit nightly from Tuesday to Friday.
Big Brother Diary Room Uncut
On Saturday and Monday nights, E4 viewers get an exclusive insight into exactly what's been said in the most secret and revealing room in the house. In the infamous diary room chair the housemates can grumble, gossip, cry and connive without anyone else in the house hearing or seeing them. These are the shows where viewers get an extended look at what the housemates disclose about each other and life in the house, and also where they reveal the names of the housemates they’d like to nominate for eviction.
The Saturday night shows are an hour long, and Monday night shows will play for half an hour.
Big Brother Live
Once again, viewers will be able to keep track of all the Big Brother housemates’ activities by tuning into daily live streaming on E4.
House Design
The Big Brother house is, as always, fully equipped with state-of-the-art audio and visual recording equipment to document every movement made and every word said in the house and garden, 24 hours a day.
Each room is surrounded by glass walls. There will be one bedroom for all the housemates to share, and one communal bathroom with two urinals, a bath and a shower. There will also be a larder just off the kitchen area.
In terms of décor, the house will have a disorientating feel to it, swapping inside for outside. The garden comes with interior furnishings such as wallpaper, carpet, a dining table and even a chandelier, while the inside has outdoor elements to it, including faux grass in the kitchen and contemporary garden furniture in the living room. Half of the kitchen itself is outside with a barbeque area for hot summer evenings. More than ever before, the Big Brother house will be a difficult place to live in.
To read the FULL Press pack - click here
BIG BROTHER IS BACK!
Countdown begins to new summer series starting May 2006 on Channel 4 and E4
This summer, Big Brother returns to Channel 4 with an even bigger seventh series. A brand new set of housemates will move into a transformed Big Brother house and viewers will be able to watch their every move on both Channel 4 and E4. For the first time ever, the series will be filmed in widescreen.
As always, however, the unsuspecting group have no idea what Big Brother has in store for them. From the second the famous doors shut behind them, the housemates will have to live together abiding by Big Brother’s strict rules, take part in elaborate tasks and nominate each other for eviction. All this without any contact with the outside world.
This year the house is the smallest yet. The famous Hertfordshire house has been transformed with the Big Brother designers swapping inside for outside. The garden comes complete with interior furnishings, while the inside of the house is clad in outdoor textures such as grass and concrete.
Secrecy surrounds the show until launch night, but one thing is certain: housemates will face eviction every week. The decision as to who stays and who goes is, as always, controlled by the viewers who will be able to vote via telephone and text message. All eviction votes cost 50p per vote and this year a percentage of each vote (10p) will be divided between three charities, Shelter, Teenage Cancer Trust and a third chosen by the series winner.
This year sees the return of hit spin-off shows Big Brother’s Little Brother and Big Brother’s Big Mouth on E4, and a brand new Channel 4 live psychology show for Monday nights, Big Brother’s Big Brain, hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
The Big Brother website’s newsroom will be working round the clock to keep fans up-to-date on all events in the house, as well as offering email updates and chat forums. In addition, website users will be able to follow all the house action by subscribing to the live streaming. And for the first year ever, video clips will be FREE to view.
Big Brother is sponsored by The Carphone Warehouse.
PROGRAMMING INFORMATION
CHANNEL 4 PROGRAMMES
Channel 4 viewers can keep up with events in the Big Brother house throughout the summer in a variety of ways. In brief, Channel 4 viewers will be able to watch:
A live launch show hosted by Davina McCall, which sees the housemates entering the house.
A nightly hour-long show with action from the previous 24 hours in the house.
Live eviction programmes presented by Davina McCall.
A new psychology-based show, Big Brother’s Big Brain, for Monday nights hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
An hour-long Big Brother’s Little Brother on T4 each Sunday, hosted by Dermot O’Leary.
Late-night streaming live from the house.
Big Brother Live Launch Show
Davina McCall presents live from the Big Brother studios where a new group of housemates will enter the Big Brother house for the very first time, live on Channel 4. Viewers will see the new housemates as they share their very first moments together and settle in for what could be the most uncompromising and unpredictable few of weeks of their lives.
Big Brother
The nightly hour-long programmes will feature all the action from the previous 24 hours in the house, including tasks and nominations.
Live Eviction Shows
Davina McCall will announce the result of the viewers’ vote and the evicted housemate will exit the house live on the show. The evicted housemate will then give their first interview, revealing all to Davina about their Big Brother experience.
Big Brother’s Big Brain
A new live show for Monday nights presented by Dermot O’Leary, Big Brother’s Big Brain puts the housemates on the couch for intensive analysis. Psychologists provide up-to-the minute dissection on their behaviour along with lively discussion and probing VTs which delve into the innermost reaches of the housemates’ psyches, giving viewers the psychological explanation behind all the latest Big Brother stories, the relationships in the house and the group dynamics. Never seen before on Big Brother, each week the psychologists will set an ‘experiment’ to go into the house and explain what they expect to see from it, with exclusive analysis in the following week’s show.
Big Brother’s Little Brother
Dermot O’Leary hosts an extended edition of the fanzine show on T4 every Sunday.
Big Brother Live
Channel 4 viewers will have a chance to watch late-night streaming broadcast live and direct from the house every night.
E4 PROGRAMMES
E4 continues to be the number one destination for all die-hard Big Brother devotees, who want to catch all the action as it happens. This year, viewers will also be able to use their red buttons to watch extended footage live from the house.
Big Brother’s Little Brother
Big Brother’s Big Mouth
Big Brother: Diary Room Uncut
Big Brother Live
Big Brother’s Little Brother
BBLB gets an E4 premiere as Dermot O’Leary presents the essential half-hour fanzine show live from Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm, delivering all the latest news, views and access to all areas of the house. Dermot delivers his own unique insight into the latest goings-on live from the Big Brother nerve centre, and fans can catch insider scoops on upcoming twists and the very first in-depth interviews with evicted housemates on their return to the outside world.
Dermot will be regularly joined by the housemates’ relatives, friends and workmates, who will reveal what their loved ones are really like in the outside world. In addition to all this, celebrities, journalists, psychologists and other experts will also be dropping in to discuss the latest happenings in the house.
Big Brother’s Big Mouth
Presented by Russell Brand and broadcast live in the shadow of the Big Brother house straight after the nightly Channel 4 show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth is a fast-paced vibrant arena for all Big Brother fans to air their views and ask the questions on everybody’s lips. In front of a live studio audience, a panel of experts, including journalists, celebrities, obsessive fans and friends and relatives of the housemates, will dissect all the latest news and gossip in the house. Plus viewers can get involved by calling and ranting into the Big Brother’s Big Mouth mouthpiece, emailing or texting their thoughts and becoming a member of the studio audience. This year, Big Brother’s Big Mouth will transmit nightly from Tuesday to Friday.
Big Brother Diary Room Uncut
On Saturday and Monday nights, E4 viewers get an exclusive insight into exactly what's been said in the most secret and revealing room in the house. In the infamous diary room chair the housemates can grumble, gossip, cry and connive without anyone else in the house hearing or seeing them. These are the shows where viewers get an extended look at what the housemates disclose about each other and life in the house, and also where they reveal the names of the housemates they’d like to nominate for eviction.
The Saturday night shows are an hour long, and Monday night shows will play for half an hour.
Big Brother Live
Once again, viewers will be able to keep track of all the Big Brother housemates’ activities by tuning into daily live streaming on E4.
House Design
The Big Brother house is, as always, fully equipped with state-of-the-art audio and visual recording equipment to document every movement made and every word said in the house and garden, 24 hours a day.
Each room is surrounded by glass walls. There will be one bedroom for all the housemates to share, and one communal bathroom with two urinals, a bath and a shower. There will also be a larder just off the kitchen area.
In terms of décor, the house will have a disorientating feel to it, swapping inside for outside. The garden comes with interior furnishings such as wallpaper, carpet, a dining table and even a chandelier, while the inside has outdoor elements to it, including faux grass in the kitchen and contemporary garden furniture in the living room. Half of the kitchen itself is outside with a barbeque area for hot summer evenings. More than ever before, the Big Brother house will be a difficult place to live in.